North Carolina Newspapers

CHILDREN'S CORNER till; Ol KfcVK Ml $ 1 J v Fkank K. .Siockmv. There wan a (Jueen who founded, in lier iiital city, a grand museum. This institution was the pride of her heart, and hhe devoted nearly all her time to oVcreciug the collection of .objects for it, and their arrangement in the spacious hall. TIih ni!iet:m was intended to elcvat- the intelli gence of her people, but the result was piite di-apitointiug to the tjueen. For Borne rea.jn, and what it was gbe could not imagine, the poop! v. re not interested in her museum. She considered it the mont delightful place in the world, and -n t hnre every day in examining and t-.tudt iuj; the thousand of object it contained; hut although here and there tn the city there was a jH-njn who carel to visit the collection, the great body or the jx-oj.le found it imjwis.-ibh' to feel the slightest interest in it. At fl rst thn grieved the Queen, and she tried to make h-r mu.eum better; hut as thi did no good, nhe became wrv an and she HHiicd a decr-e that ill jM-ritirf of maMire age w ho wen 'lot interested in her museum ehould bo sent to prison. This decree produced a great een lation in the city. The people crowded to tin; building, and did their very be.r to be intcrcHted; but, in the majority of canes, the attempt was an utter failure. They could not feel any intercut whatever. The coinjueiic:e wan that hundred and thotihatid.4 of the jM'ople were Kent to prison, and a there was not room enough for them in the ordinary jails, large temporary ptiaoiis were ereeted in various part of the city. Those w ho were actually needed for work or erviee which no one el.se could do wi re allowed to come out in the day-time on parole; but at night they had to return to their prisons. It was during this deplorable state of affair that a stranger entered the city one day. lie wa surprised at seeing ho many J ri. o h, and approach ing the window in one of the pris on, behind the bars of which he saw a very respectable-looking citi zen, he asked what all this meant. The citizen informed him how mat ters stood, and then, with tears mounting to his eyes, he added: "Uh, sir, I have tried my best to be intcu'sted in that museum; but it is ini possible; I can't get up the slightest interest in it. And, what is more, I know I never shall he able to do so; ami 1 shall languish here fo- the rest of my days." Passing on, the stranger met a mother coining out of her house. Her face was pale, and she was weeping bitterly. Filled with pity, he stopped and asked her what was the matter. "Oh, sir," she said, "for a week I have been trying, fr the sake of my dear children, to take an interest in that museum. For a time 1 thought I might do it, but the hopes proved false. It is impos sible. I must leave my little ones, and go to prison." The stranger was deeply affected by these cases and many others of a ouiinai e i la racier, wnicn lie soon met with. "It is too bau! too bad!" he said to himself. I never saw a city in so much trouble. There is scarcely a family, 1 am told, in which there is not some uninterested jKM-son I must see the Queen and talk to her about it." and with this he wended his way to the palace. He met the Queen just starting out on her morning visit to the museum. When he made it known that he was a stranger, and desired a short audience, she stopped and spoke to him. "Have you visited my museum yet?" she said. "There is nothing in the city so well worth your atten tion as that. You should go there before seeing anything els?. You have a high forehead, and an intelligent expression, and I have no doubt that it will in terest you greatly. 1 am going there myself, and I shall be glad to see what effect that line collection lias upon a stranger. This did not suit the stranger at all. From what he had heard he felt qnite sure that if he went to the museum, he would soon be in jail; and so he hurried to propose a plan which had occurred to him while on his way to the palace. "I came to.see your Majesty on the subject of the museum,'" he said, "and to crave permission to contri bute to the collection some objects which shall be interesting to ever? one. I understand that it is highly desirable that every one should be in terested." "Of course it is," said the Queen, "and al1 hough I think that there is not the slightest reason whv everv one should not feel the keenest inter est in what the museum already con tains, i am wuung to add to it what ever may make it of greater value.' -in tnat case," said the stranger. "no time should be lost iii securing what I wish to present." "uo at once," said the Queen. -15 ut now soon can vou return?" "It will take some days, at least," saiu me stranger. "Give me yonr parole to return in a week, said the Queen, "and start immediately." The stranger gave his parole and left the palace. Having filled a leathern bag with provisions from a cook s snop, he went out of the city gates. As he walked into the open country, he said to himself: "I have certainly undertaken a very difficult enterprise. Where I am to find anything that will inter est all the people in that citv, I am sure I do not know; but my heart is so filled with pity for the great num ber of unfortunate persons who are torn from their homes and shut up in prison, that 1 am determine to do something for them, if I possibly -Can. There must be some objects to be found in this vastconntrv that will interest every one," fTO BE COHTIirUEDO Imi Foils' Pest Office. amwn futv. Taylor.-. JW:ir;E, X. C, May3oth lU'.i. .Mr. Fmtok. Your enrre pondut Lillian W. frowi I'hion co'intv a-ked the uetio how many times doe the word Jehovah ap-ar in the Bible. I will answer it. It npj-ar- iu the Bible Z.H'jo time. I will ask a question. How manv times lo the word girl occur in me !',ib!.-? I will close. May The (,'At'r.i?i .v go to everv mans' home in the 1' id t-d State. It i a wel come visitor to our home. W. II. Ill VKN RA RK. J t" x k loth 1 ?!.'. Mil Koitor. : wiil ask a question of those w -ho read the Ilibb. How manv time doe.-; tle word Ird occur In the Bible? Answer it kind little menus. 1 am taking an interest in the Children' Corner. Wishing TllK Caucasian much iitcce.-.", i am Your W. 15. I I EN RA R K. HE SIZES 'Ell BP. TCM A'ATSCN DS1WS A BETWEEN THE VOTER AND THt 0?F:CE $E.R. - rharge. They wouldn't go haek on him. They loved him too vll. They bad suffered too much on hi acount. CONTRAST i So down the furrow the !it- stle brown mule ; and, tw-hind the I UiUon County. .S.UUTOO A, .. C, dune lth "SI .Mr. ho i tor. I have been waiting ome time to see a letter from Wil son couutv, but have not vet seen one, so I will be lirst to ak for ad I may be wel may not prove I 'a pa takes your all are highly miltanee. I 1:ojm- come, although 1 interesiing to all. valuable i:ijMr and phased with it. I'rof. W. li. Smith has just closed his writing Kchool here, and all wish for him to come again I will answer master Walter Owens' question. Texas was ad mitted to the L'nited States iu 1K45. Wishing you and your paper much success, 1 am your I'uknown friend. SAOIK F ELTON. S:iiiih.(hi County. McKov, X. C, June 13th, 180-i. Mr. Kditor. I am a girl thirteen vears of age, my nana takes The ('al'caman and 1 am very much pleased with it. I will answer two questions. First, the University was opened in 17!5 and the faculty was constituted by Kev. David Kerr and Samuel A. Holmes; second, Texas was annexed to the United States in IS 15. I will ask two questions. First, what three ex-I'resideuts died on the fourth of duly? Second, what celebrated philosopher, when a boy, went without meat to buy nooks.' isliing vou and 1 he Oa u casia.v much success, I am your Unknown friend, Nancy Westiikook. little brown rou'e, iroe the confident farmer. Already he fed tbnt th- fi-lvinI"V Hit! iltii rw.t h unit A.MT.n.HAUTuxilf.A.us. j tariff robbery i not .juite o t-rriSe j a it wa during the f.mqai?n. Al loi .jri,f i:i. j ready thiDjr seera brighter. There j i a buret of tuQh:it? above hi. eosy home and the ui-rtirasre eloud, hoverinc, hawk-like, d-w-ut --i quite sso blaek. Thus it is with the farmer, the voter. How go- the maa he eletedf How jroe the Ilemoeratie irtn t .Newton (Jrove, N. C, June 10th lH!i:. Knnou Caucasian. I once more attempt to write to vour most valuable paper. We all read it and prize it most highly iu our home, I now answer Fred Johnson's ones tion. The oldest church is at, Hath. At this time last year, the Demo cratic Campaign orator had the country by the ear. No finch fi.ls of talk, talk, talk ever deluged the hustings The patriotic tffuerings of the Democratic Candidate brought the sweat to hi marble, brow I i copious fragance. "He agonied for his fellow-man. The woes of the oppress ed tax- payer, the pjr, down-troden tax-payer, were almost greater than th" Democratic (,'andidate could le.r. TTiey jrave him no rest day nor night. They planted his pillow with thorn, his daily walk with tlin ty obstructions, and they grijxd hi interiine in a way that made him cry aloud with pain. The liepublicans were the authors of the calamity They had had the Statute Hook in their exclusive lap ever since the w ar, and they had dia bolical laws which were running the people. For this reason the Demo cratic Candh'a'e suffered in his mind. For this reason he was wil ling to leave the luxurious ease of his private business and give himself to th service of his native land. For this reason he wanted the chance, just one chance, to snatch the Stat ute Hook out of the lap of the dia bolical lfepublicans and scratch out those laws which were cruelly rob bing the poor, down-troden tax-payer. nut while the liepublicans had thus broken his rest and forced him to seek office, contrary to his natural appetite, the Populists had much to do with his agonies. Thev were a bad lot. Their leaders w ere men who merely wanted once, not from high mugwump considerations of political morality, but from the base and sor did love of salary attached. Exter mination was too good for such a crowd. The down-trodden, tax-pay er must be saved from these raven ous wolves. It is true they had some good , puncipies. nut, men, those were the very things the Democrats had been trying to do ever since the war, and had got no chance. Now, just at the time when the Democats were about to get a chance to do these things, here came the in fernal Populists, stirring up strife, dividing our people and trying to keep the Democrats from passing laws. Where is the gallant Gordon? Did he not slap himself upon his 'hone eravine an 1 achins to k i u ensnce were o pamlui last Kinn THE SAVORLESS SALT P.EV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., ON CORRUP TION IN THE CHURCH. " : "t wKo 11 the relets. Men coma rttal wr.mnd aot tar. his booI on j TtTSl of rural enthtm. ! try to it el.- ht Uiory tha hUton FTkilo "J ft nu tlms aoth7-;LVw month. nntU the rery Ai4 ycl illed. And iht day Win-re tUMt tney are u.-v-- , -- trip ta tjw .plo in. Ibey 'TWn Ylxa"li ..V' Th.r nuikea derate : . ...1 iriI nntn b ! formaL This f f4ii r - - They vr brethren l vrn on the r!l or in tl. They arecoU : Pnw rek. M and nmab and forouL nm ; - - - mw , wHbwl to daath. UM-rf I 1 m lie nas jjone away. He went t atdiingtoii on the 4th of Mareh He has carried his deeds with him He has been there ever sirK'e. H has made himself a tpcctacle to th dirusted universe. ine UKe was never seen before. The jostling and serouinsr, the pushing and shoving, the seramblinr ami trampling, the snarling aud snap pin, the bitinjr and seratehinr, th trading and intriguing that has cone on at VN ashinirton smee Mareh 4th has not only discouraged the poi cats, but has sickened the buz zards. campaign pieoires; Where arf they! The man who made them ean be. found. financial polities are mt as left them. Even morf- ot money grows day by coinpriri resru- in good condition and is used uirior puonc service. 1 think it is an Episcopal church. I will now ask rred a question. "Who are the lankers. where do they live and what is their occupation? I will now answer the question asked by uie correspondent at l'oe's N. C. Meaufort county, the edifice is still .nul1? chest and mak grandiose dec J ' I l.i ,.fi,... j. i. 1. .. I 1 .1 it jcnnvu nutii, uaiuvon uays snoum flood us with golden effulgence when Cleveland should come to power? Where is the "peerless gentleman," (who talks dry and votes wet), the Hon. J. C. C. Black ? Did he not throw his fat legs into the air and stamp the bottom out of The first printing nress was . u.ie Platform every time he mention in New Bern by James Davis in the , ,t a(J?.r?1 name of Grover Cleve- year 1749, and the firsc book was a idUU r. ltt ne not turn tne the cor conv of the StatP T,awD t ..,;n "ucopia our way, and show us the answer Lillie Watt's question. The g. thng3 which were about to be i' : i - t- j- ni hup i n r x r v i ....... i i niversity oi JN. u., was regularly , i' wi, uown-irou 175. The lev. David KWr uc" """I'ayei Answer me, ye memories of last summer ! Give us a chance ! ! ! From Gulf to Lakes, from New England's rocky shores to Califor nia's sunny slopes, went this frenzied appeal of the Democratic Candidate this appeal which was wruno- trom him, not on account of his tiuuuiiH uiuue. i ensn sucn an No. It Bissell and open 179o. The Iiev. David Kerr and bamuel A. Holmes constituted the fsculty, and now will some one tell who was the first student to ar rive. W ith every good wish for The CAUCASIAN. oALLIE WILLIAMS. ltl NN l'l'KES I P HIS SILVKH VIEWS. We believed that Congressman Bunn, of the Fourth North Carolina district would fail to redeem anv of worthy imputation ! his pledges, but hardly expected it wrung from his i tortured soul tuia cany, ne was in ftp.w YnrL- r. tuae oi une uistress ana sore cently and a reporter of the Daily Press interviewed him. The Press un was be-dis- down-trolden tax- conuort ot the payer ! saya : W hat cared such patriots as the "Congressman B. II. B Democratic Candidate whether thev North Carolina, told me vesterdav at got ofIlce or llot if they could but the Astor House that a sentiment. ;a remonetize silver, abolish National growing in that State in favor of the I5links give the people moie money, repeal of the Sherman silver pur- an(1 rePeal the Mclvinly BUI ? chasing act, "I-"' -, . . , . . . -i A vear atro ' he anhl "ive them but the chance tn ,ln there was a free silver cninao-e emvn' these thinjrs and the offices mio-hf but the outflow of eold to F.nmnl "go to grass and eat mullen." a B O " I Tif financial depression seem tr W-Q Jiafrnificent in its lmnndeneA un changed public opinion. The con- scipulons in its purposes, shameless gressmen of my State may now favor in its methods, this collossal "confi State bank currenev. bnf ,1rtf deuce jrame" snceepdeil So far as the tariff is fnn. The farmer was buncoed : ih ! ! n t . . L , . ' eerueu, i am in tavor of a revision. oor8r DnatoiaeU ; the country mer 1 can't say, though, that I favor the hant bamboozled. repeal or the Mclvinley law. I heard 1 ne suffering Democrat was taken trom the administration vesterdav at hls wora- rbe Statute Book was that the extra session of 'congress Pt into his hands. Thekevsofthe win Degin about September 18th." ynD antl the smoke-house were given -.. ..uiLucy uiii is a'i narnt " AJ1 a1 aeepiuir. xne lovona now. It was simply awful before hosannahs of an expectant people vivvnuu. xjunn savs ne is nnt m oee uw: incense a l a mnt. him favor of its repeal. The "free coin- The down-trodden tax-paver age craze" is no more than we ex- awav off in his mortgaged fields' pected, but how does that iin ale u-Jth clucked cheerfully to th i;tii a speech made in congress bv Bunn browu mule whistled, actually in favor of absolute free "coinage whistled, as he pushed his way down aoout a year ago, and in which he tnnu'iui fl.. 1, . t r ,,y... uiai uc uenevea iree coinage to De tne paramount issue, how does his constituents feel Prog. Farmer. Well, now V JEFFERSON AND JACKSON . . pi-ra io uanks of Issue Both state ami National. 41 T . Aiiurew Jackson it was'who sahl. if cougress has the right under the mind' racked and tortured many the furrow. For mark yon , my brothers, this man remembered the Democratie speeches of last summer, and he be lieved in them as the novice clino-a to the creed ! , " And when the Democrats eleeted everything, got into their hands every department of the eovern- ment, this humble nlowm good times ahead. His troubled Six cent cotton and fifty cent wheat are unimpeachable witnesses for the demands of the Alliance. constitution to issue paper money it fu ,any nlKht by d.read f ears of was g,veu them to be used by ,W d7wh" n'h7 IrtvJ' selves, not to be deleeated to indivi- ean miht . h, t 1.1. Jt , l i IUU UILT auals or banking corporations." road and become wanderers upon Ihos. Jefferson it was who said e,arth upon God's fruitful earth 'Bank paper must be suppressed. n 6 S2"ffe asa home for and the circulating medium must be "ilm and .SKn restored to the nation to whom it be- lY lips had never framed public lines longs. It is the only fund on which tor selfih purposes, and he conld we can rely for loans, it is our only f J area,m that hls superiors, his resource which can never faU us, and Fhen bTea ZSS nottt ,U!saa aounaant one tor every neces- country, the cultured, the collee- sary purpose." bred, the distinguished. mafr dpfi. If you believe in the doctrine of mte PledSes for his relief, he be-! Jefferson and Jackson and have the Heput his honest hand in theirs manhood to back up your belief with trustingly! ' your votes, what will you "be acting Therefore, when the little mule with to-day? tf was oucnea up m January, to begin me twelve montns' race against ltV rt Kr ltla liaarr woo 1 T t, 4- 1 n n l 'j -. v tj uglier mail Caucasian $1.00 before. His friends nom f per year. I Government. He had mit them ,- A . U Harrison so. The volume smaller every son. Hie .vlcKinley liill sits on the toj rail ot the lenee and crows with deli ant self -eon (idenee. And where is Cleveland, whose name the Democratic orator couldn't mention last summer without enthus mic coiuroiion or tne arms and lwgsf Cleveland has gone fishing. .mere is vir. Carlisle, who was t- bring Wall Street to its sen ses? Gone fishing. Where is Herbert, of Alabama f Gone fishing. And Morton, of Nebraska ? Gone fishing! I he other members of the Cabi net have not yet gone because the 'little bottle-shaped annartus'' Cleveland invented, is considered a dangerous implement for the whole Cabinet to tackle at tiie same time: "Kide and tie," you know. Cleve land, Carlisle, Herbert and Morton go tins month. Gresham, Lament, bniith go next month. Then comes the turn of Claude Ben T.. 1 i utm, l uhsumpnai anu tne "groom- let assisted (let us hope) by the man who mauls sentiment and snlits rhyme for the Atlanta Journal, at so muen per cord. Yes, sirree! Fishing is now the or der of the day. Just after the November election it was promised that the new Congress was to be assembled in March to re lieve the poor, down-trodden tax-pay er. Then it was thought wisest to wait till June. Then the postponement leaped down to September. In the mean time where is the Tax pay ? Plowing. Not fishing. Are his burdens just as heavy as they were last summer ? More so. Is the Democratic Candidate, who suffered so much on his account last summer feeling any intestinal de rangement on his own account at this time ? No. Not at this time. When did the Candidate recover from that complaint ? The day following the election. Will that ailment, that inflamma tory sympathy for the poor, down trodden tax-payer ever trouble that candidate again ? Yes When ? icxt summer. And t will o-rw steadily worse as election day ap proaches. His frothiusrs at. th mouth will make him 1 ook il 'i The convulsions which shake his body and cause his legs and arms to whirl about in spasmodic nain. will creat-.universal sympathy and attention. After the election thev will nnnp more disappear, and the littlo u, - - t II V W t 11 mule ean sro to nlowino- n ,ro The Democratic boss will achieved his purpose and can more go hshmg. "tiee-up, Mike !" Hurrah for Pr SS11711 nli o t- the "dear old Democratic' ty: l. iu. W., In Peonl Paper. Ninth Nrnnea vt th Scrie M th "Gatva vt liril la Modent Dab lm Trcbe m hm lal laba ami Cliqara BoatusUa Wit hat !&' I"rr. New York. June 1. Hey. Thocias j tbT srrov stUT. Speed, force, are po tiixon. Jr.. reachel this morning Xhi tulatesc f life. iT5ny of oar chnrches tinth sermon of the ehe on "The j cm msiuf.'nt xaaasoler.m in which late of Hell In Mo-lorn Babylon." The the tlad move with silent tread, eit in tubjwrt of ii morning ermoa was ! tolemn Ml-nc in leiun pew. They The Failure of the Church In the City." j lif. TLey uecl a ention to do Tl e tert chs-n was from Matthew t. th.m to luive any Krt of a sensa- 13: "Ye are the salt of the earth, but if j tiou for a change. Some of them never the Halt have lent it Raver wherewith i f;et it except an accident happen, fiial! it tie wUted? It w thenceforth good j M'.v the other day how that a parson fur oi.thing bnt to le ta5t ont and trod- i i i a certain town Ucg mro luui a habit j t f putting tT till tomomw what ougtit 1 1 3 have 1 -cn done today. Having wme- thin to do wuh a bottle of aiua fortis. vvh:ch he should have used on Saturday, 1 ut which he put off till Sunday, he went into the pulpit with this bottle in 1 i pocket. MOtlKMH v Tw York now ttan there were w jeni and vet a itirnng jiuiiouwfi. y" i l a Nvn lacking a great theater full of f auri:ir ihe tvu.t few month, and j hedearol l iao.ck. are xlamonng for i!- 1...-.1 in a c ii4ri.tr. Tbey y ho n have once ano Par- Party a BE VIGILANT. We learn that a certain man in certain county is putting in his time working to be made delegate to t h Meeting oi tne state Alliance. It is hardly probable that he would spend much time at this business merelv for the honor there is in it. There must be some scheme on foot We ask the brethren everywhere to be oU their guard. Be careful elect as delegates or to . t wno you 0tv.0 ui iu important t' r oi... L' 1 .-. i c. leui iiu mau wno so far forgets himself as to begin a system atic campaign in his own iuteresr In saying this we do not mean that members of only one party should be elected delegates or officers. The Alliance is tar above anv paty and there are enough well meaning t in all parties to have them all repre- ovuieu m me use ot omcials or dele gates. But no members, no maif which party he may be with, shoud be recognized as eligible to any position n. uc uuuis nimseit by campaigning v.v.Ui ttuujuu eiect to repre sent you at your countv m;,, and there will be fewer mistakes in sending delegates to the State meet ings. rrog, iarmer. Subscribe to The DO YOU WANT TWO PAPERS? We will send von fm- a. Caucasian and any of the following Dakota Ruralur I PSltei, People's Party Paper, Iowa Farmers' Tribune, tj' National Watehman, IJ'o-' For the above amounts we will send you two papers one year. Address The Caucasian, .Ooldsboro, N. C. i den nndjr fot of men." One ut the most Mfrions causes for the j.reent cenditiem of the city is to be found m the failure of the church of tlinst to keep pace with its rapid devel opment. The fact is that the failure of Protectant Christianity in the centers cf civic life in America has been one of the niont painful facta in the history of the nation in the last quarter of a century. There are fewer Methodist in New York city today than thre were 20 years ago. There are fewer iJaptista in New York citv todav thnn 'JO years ago. And this m the fa-e of the fact that in the mean time the city has practically doubled its papulation gown to be the metropolis o! the new world. The truth is. while ev ervthin-; else has advanced with marvel on htrid- the church has lost ground. And what is true in New York is true ivallv in many other erreat cities. The essence of Christianity lies in its power to save. The work of Christianity is to save the world. When the Bait is re moved from the earth, it is not to be wondered at the corrnptkra that results. There is a terrible failure today in the work of npplying Christianity to the needs of the people in the city. TJie sad fact is forcing itself on the hearts of many who love the Lord that thousands of the churches in our centers of life are today practically dead. The trouble about it is. too. that they are still above ground. They are dead. and no permit to bury has been issued. The consequence is that there is natural embarrassment. We eee this painful fact- First In the empty pews in the churches of the city. The primary idea of the church of Christ is an assembly. The word church in its original means assembly. The trouble is thev have ceased to assemble. The congregation in the aveetige church in our great cities is conspicuous for the people who are not there. Empty pews are the first thing that strikes the eye of the observer. There are various excuses made for this condition of affairs. It is owing to the point of view from which you look at it as to the answer you would make. A man asked another how he accounted for the small attendance at our churches. lie said he could not account for it. lie said he went one night himself, and he never could under stand what could attract those people tnat were there, lhe language of empty pews is a sad one to the church. They are mocking ghosts. It is a chilling experience to any man to come from a country district into the city and face these solemn evi dences of the decadence of church life. shall never forget the first sermon I preached m a city church. The house seated about 1.500. There were about 80 present. They were scattered over the solemn building. They shivered in the cold, and I ehivered in sympathy. It is needless to say the service was a dismal ilure. SOCIAL CLUBS. Second Many of our churches have become social clubs and cliques. Man's social nature is a mighty lever when it is properly used. It 6hould be utilized for sxiritual ends. But a social club is one thing, and an assembly of people gathered in the name of Jesus Christ to do his work, to follow his teachings and De tne medium through which his spirit shall operate in the wi Id this is anoth er thins Everv nart of man's Rrvinl nature may be and should be utilized, but when the great spiritual fact is over looked and the church degenerates into a mere clique, in which there are parties wun an sorts ot games, in which there are festivals with all sorts of swindling, Kissing Dees ana ail sorts of cheating in ventions, we have here the evidences of dticay. A pastor recently resigned in one of our great churches because some of his people insisted on having a dog show in the church. He said he could stand a good deal, but he drew the line at a dog show. A young man was recently forced to resign his charge because he insisted on wearing a mustache. The congrega tion did not like a preacher with that style of beard. He refused to part with his ornament, and they parted with their pastor. Our churches, many of them, have be come apostles of the gospel of geography. iney believe in moving. One of two things is true. By this fact either the gospel is a lie or the methods they use to propagate it are false. The first of these alternatives need scarcely be discussed. Is the gospel a failure? Hardly. Is it weak? Can it not answer every accusa tion of the enemy of man? Let the ages answer. Let every generation since Calvary answer. Has Jesus Christ, who promised to be with his church always deserted? Ask the church militant, trl day. and you will have the answer. Does not God hear prayer today? Ask those who have faith, who pray. There never was a nine when Christianity was such a power as today. Tliere never was a time when it wielded such resistless in fluence over civilization as a whole as today. It makes and unmakes the poli ties of nations and of parties. Its past triumph have been glorious. Its present power is, practically resistless when brought 13 boar on society. It need not be said that our methods are false. The gospel of geography ap plied to the eitv'a lif io a t, .-... IL ,.hristiamty. UistnecrV Vtne VES fiiat leaves the ground to the enemy rom i whom ne has fled. We we told .hat the churches leave these districts be sause the people are gone, and yet they trere never so crowded in thehktoryof the city. As far as the r an ... the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, rolls the endless tide of hu manity, wave on wave. 10 stories high. The simple fact is tW 1 tirowued in an ocean of humanity bunt- i latr for neonlA A.i n . : . " --- jet luo simple truth la they nave not tHi ! disturbing the omio duat-that ha i -t- tied on their chimin They wy that !i-u.lra-ins away their conMituency, and they tre goin w ".. , r him out of the ayuagogne. A man T.a&ed by a church when there great excitement the other day. asked if a revival wa iu progress. sexton mid no; they were trying a Her etic We have life of a certain sort. It is expended in huntiug out the heretics In the midst of his sermon, End crucifying .them and lettta tae was He The while his hands were uplifted and he y.es a!oiit to chwe a fine (sentence, he I-?and heavily against the pulpit, and in ash went the liottle. With hands un ified, still with his unfinished sermon. l.e rushed down the pulpit stairs, through the center aWe. ont of the church, and all the congregation followed him. Hail the good man gone crazy? On he rushed t il he came to a pond a short distance from the church, iuto which he plunged, while the congregation stood in amaze ment, wondering if their pastor was about to commit suicide. He explained the action of the aqna fortis and in a short time secured some dry clothes and returned to the pulpit and finished his p.ermon. I think myself a little of the aqua fortis would lie good for some of tho brethren, and it would le wholesome perhaps in gome of the pews. We need the old negro's prayer to lie fulfilled here in New York. Ue prayed for the northern brother who came down to preach for him. He said: "Lord biess dis yer white man dat's come down from de north to preach for c s. Fill him with de flame of de spirit, annint him v.-id de kerosene ile of salva tion and set him afire." FIGHT IN TIIE CHURCH. Fifth They 6how that they are dead in the fact that they have no ear to hear, no heart to pity, no arm to save the struggling, suffering thousands that surge about their doors. There is a ceaseless cry about the city that goes to the heart of one that knows its distress. It is like the low moaning of the wind before the storm, and he whose ear is tuned to its weird music can hear it in the noonday rush above the din and roar; can hear it in the silence of the night above the city's groan, for it never sleeps. And yet there are hundreds of churches that hear this cry and hear it unmoved. They are complacent in their j ease, iney have gotten in the old tra ditional jog trot and think it is all right. They jog smoothly along and never hear it thunder, and if anybody suggests that it thundered they are shocked, because they have been disturbed. They are wedded to the mechanics of a tradition al progress that is no progress at ail- that is simply the refuse of small minds and weak personalities Many of these churches have been cor rupted by the forces of our corrupt civ ilization. Fashion and pride and wealth have made tneir inroads and erected their standards around the very altar of the Most High Cod. A pastor was re cently driven out ot one of our exeat churches because of an old fight in the church. Four years atro a minority of the members of the church attempted to torce him out. and on what grounds do you suppose they brought their action? cirst, he was not an orator: second that he paid too much attention to the poor. Amazing fact! And yet Jesus said when John's disciples came to ask if he be the Messiah, "Tell John the poor nave tne gospel preached nnto them." lhe whole truth is that these churches have pushed back the xeople and neg- lectea tnem tor tneir own clique and their own coterie until the spirit of God has in grief departed. They have lost the capacity to convey the spirit to other nearts. Sixth Many of our churches are dead. and we know it. because they have dead preachers. W e exclaim today, with the sacred seer, "Lord, they have killed thy world go to the deviL THE THIRTEEN RBASONS. Some of these men are Beared to death, cot lcau.e they are weak and craven, Lut liecause they are human. They have tho 13 reasons for not doing many things they want to do a wife and 12 children. They are anxious to please tho iiews. and they imitate tho great preacher of the sixteenth century. A fallow wrote to me some time ago to John A. tew ti, ,,f v a a member of the la: ing Curiosities, h.i -letter. As he saw Ti,. j Farmer utim-d' a hi letter this n k. ; to work in the same , ;(j , furitiiRS atiMduttlv .; fact he ha the hnj"; ; f being abb- to wr,;,. " , . article w ill. out n,.ik point in the dim 5i.: ;,. " tlriiing. In hit la..- him-M-li' to the l.iiu;:. State Alliance nv,. fello w ho tied u:!ts , and hen I he tc r ; yelieu " hjiiuUmIv Stevens is in exact now. As every n ad r ingncss in Steven , ? luccstary to eon t nun Mist of it can ! f.i1Mi.; utes of the last Stat,- n never lieen thnicd i v t wi.8 published and (..'; ;, to every Alliance in Stevens tniht i !.-. t ., veiM'S from the Mil,!.- insert d in ietwi-tt, person wot hi lo-e faith , on that account. It will U: noticd ; urines mh ui ior i in charter, lie is nmn than wo thoiiirht v Iv ti: an "I recommend him to a church looking for a nreacher and lagged mo to write him in advance the day the committee would a 1-..W... l.im v.,.kwl, 4Knt lm mirrht I s,.ti.-,f .liw ll... 1. . conic i uini mm j.v- ...... uv , ( miiint n 11 , iini nc .lliiiii be on tne look-out ior strangers m MieakS W ho plotted to pews. JUany oi our prraciu-ia nrc auuiu of the nower of criticism. It is hard to be cursed, to be lied alout, to be misrep resented and slandered by the tradition al forces that maintain things as they are and by a blackguard press that Is ever ready to take up any cry against a Sub, County and Alliance, yet when 1 ne was too great a cm;,;,! for his own work. NoIkmIv has tle'iicd ti,, i i ;paui to Alliance l.rtu Stat ini..-. A::.,,, al,, il! i. v4 voted for it to Ik' do have lecturing done as Alliance exists. As to I.-... 1 1. . . A. A 1 t , mine part or tne 1 ru-tii-i;i mg the funds back t th, ;r, sorry, weak kneed contnhu!,, !i,iv.k fi,,.l . it-ill ...I- f . - jnv uuu niii uiv i or ! I, ...:l, . c nun mc shim- oi a i,M ("4 1 . cuiations matte, post a-.. laud 'all the law on both plied wjth. More than tlut would not lx' business hi pay ( who rusheil forward u it!, n. others, and when Stcv.n. body eles intimates that they have not tried to find people. Lxu.ijin;tM MAUSOLEUMS. Fourth We are convinr r.t practical death from the fart tw ul areeostilL There is 3 Tnent. stir, abont them. Thm L . irrowtb without move-ment. Action is a necessary postulate of life, and growth is a predicate of life. churches have grown cold Ihej never have a sensaHnT, r jile never have sensations of any iTt lhe dying object to aensationa. In prol portion as people are dead they are free from sensations. Christianity ,-a - lT cation. Christ was a sensaHnaH t" epoke on sensational theme. He Bnoke in a sensational way. The great prob lems of religion are in themspl, i stirring. No man can believe them in prophets!" The power of the nuloit is ine power unto lite when properly ap plied. There is no power today in this nation equal to the power of the Chris tian pulpit when it i?, used for all it is worth. Men may say that they desnise it. mat it is uie parson who is prattling, but when the pulpit is united noon a smut ineme us muuence upon any com munity in America is simply resistless. iuen or tne world know this. The edi rs or our great newsnanera imn . nd know it to the bottom. A nit if Hioro Is a failure in our cities to save people we mnst fake upon our own shoulders a large share of faa weight of this fearful responsibility. The present condition of the city can not be stated and waved aside by laying it upon other shoulders. We, the min isters of God, are ia some measure cer tainly responsible for that fact. If the power committed to the ministry had been used in teaching the pews, such would not be today the fact. In an cient times the prophets of God were the leaders of the race. Their authority was the authority of truth, and it was supreme. The prophet spoke to kinm pad princes with his power. The proph et of tha modern Aavhaa .JC. lie has the same commission. H& has the same duty. The prophets of today are men of talent They are magnifi cently endowed. They are the best trained ministry the world has ever eeen. Why this pitiable weakness in our centers of life? Alas, they have ' killed the prophets! There is no doubt ing the fact Some of them have been choiied to death by orthodox collars. STRANGLED TO PEATH. Protestantism has failed l cities dim because it had in it too much Iinamsm without the poweryf Rome. The bretnren have fcee busy keeping the fcitk They have kept a large pack 1iUntQ Chase heretic3 ut ofthe fields. They haye spent their energy In silencing men that do pot follow liter their eect. For the last 20 years the church has been busv maL!! preachers who wear the ariUr k creeds. Some of our smwarieThave advertised that their colt aro . ... a ed to hold, nnd when the yicti "hTve ESm of of thesechurches and hear thlm whee Yon can hear the death rattle in their throats. Their teacher told ththat eermon u a work of art, and they havl f uUy tnat there is cot ft point or a cor- slightest impression upon the hard con science of men and When soma of these poor fellows get minister of Christ And, alas! some or tneso men are worked to death. The work to be done in a modem city church cauuot bo done by one man. Whatever our fathers may have done, the man who stands at the head of a church in a modern city and attempts of himself to muster its work has undertaken the impossible. It can . 1 . . I . 'IV... ....!. v . I. . .n II 'II - - j - -- i i-u mill C1IUC1.C, ior 1 i v..... v'.-.-i, . v... .i v, I . '. . Knm;ni i jit nonr i ii:,r. imvn Tn;n a utiv i . . progress have been the churches in which the numlier of workers in a given parish have b en adequate to the work to be accomplished. There are churches in this city that require 10 men in the capacity of associates und assistants, in certilicates right awav and wnicn a solitary little I'rotestaut preacn er 6tauds up and hammers away until bury his little womout body. 'r else "01..r,oucJr !.PHJ tlu ni tliey takt him to the insane nsyluni or to sju.e sanitarium, where he has the lux ury of an iuvalid's life and povertj and sulrei mg for his jiortion. THE UltOADWAY CABLE. It is time for our churches to wake to the fact of their failure and to adapt themselves to the changed conditions of modern city life. We do not need any more ecclesiastical tombs buildings. The people do not want them. They will not go into them after taey are built, They are useless baggage. We need buildings adapted to catch men. We need sacred secular buildings. We need gosjiel cars to preach to railroad men be neath the sheds. We need to lay our bands on the ways of travel. We need preach through the press and to con cert the modern press to Jesus Christ x preach to the press and through the press. The time lias come for us to be all things to all men, if by all means we may save some, and not be afraid of making a sensation; to be wise as ser pents, to make friends of tha of unrighteousness that is, to use com- I & Jell, two of the moniin, ;' muu oeiise, io oe aiive, to do the work 1 esneaks in Mottin the o.n ytl,; t h ri- ii v t.-i! delilxirate falsehood. A f,'w m, bills remain unpaid. For ints!p l. r. liell owes twentv ., , ,!.." . He was one of the sneak- whou:t ed for the repeal of the char There was a small loss on cotu ,,agggt toi much U-ing hou-huk it will piobably Ijc sold m t Then there is a lots on on.- ki seated back, ordered la-; sunn. from Cincinnati, Ohio. f,,r F. ' Stevcsus, of Wayne count v, ,u.i agent of the tatne Aliian-i- ti. d. A. Stevens we siiiioox- An,!, the way, this same J. A. u, wrote the order for the hark did most of the eon-optm!.-' about the hack for K. A. M. Owinsr to the factorv Mtw i-d. with orders the hack was imt chipi- promtly. Stevens refused t tuk.-: and the State A cent hal to nav k t Hence we find .1. A. Stcvi-iisa ... of the Master in living ways. Whenever the church determines to do its work it will be done. The power is at hand, if we will but utilize it. It is not a question of the loss of power; it is rne reiusai or the Christian to uso the power. A little child exploded the minn under Hell Gate and cleared tha f.hatinol ueuvu uavigaiion ior wuuuer it Stevens and l;- uiilii' centuries, lhe iittlephild simply pressed stay in their holes? iVo.m-s.iw F "ulIUU mat, wouueciea ine cioctrm I m.r- J. lil , . , - . ' "I -T I UK 1 , mieub wun ine maaen batten Th vnnstian has simply to touch the elec tric current or the Spirit of the Most wiivthimiiuu i. ttigh uod, and the hie den mines deep 1MITM w i-V t dovvn in the human soul will be ex- Jt fni8 as tlioii''h I'oimli.d.s a Am . t . or tne Alliance, were the two j. caused two of the losses tli.it an- !. be adjusted before the fund.? arc ju.--to anyone. -No business concern has hud : ter nianagenieut or fewer los tlu; the State Agency fund. Now m- a x . ... ., .uucu ruCKs inatnaveob- not ine only calamity how In. stnicte.1 our progress in society through good many bankers are l,oJi tlZVJ ."ostlustii; just now What Ut ' "-' aaa mi iiiniiiiiL. I A little child with her tinv h. n,,llter' y" howling idiots ed the great cableon Itroadw aA yu know that we are iu 1 li - mi" 1 the cars spinning over their track. The "paralleled prosjieritv? Ai-- child simply openwl the steam valve.and tnere t-'it any scared v of nioii.'. the steam did the work. The Christian for your too) havr- d.-c'lan I fr" has simply to lay his hand-aa a rc- evei v-id-ii thTSSk'J?'.? i8lty of money, and that ourh iTnwtstw uancial system i8 the best,!, -rii vital contact wfth the world " ever saw. hay, what U lh- Mittur, anynowr Mop your liowlin- Iwt The EtIIh of the Installment Sy.tem. I "OUgh to tell US whv Von h'' As a compiler of statiMH.a ot,,i Did .t a. m . T . r diu" I J vvuoviit I J i J 1. 1 I J fti li Z !i"8 .c?7ldlt.,on8? have recently American iH-onle until thev wou LULaim ki mm urnntna -w i . . . a - a made some studies that may bo interes ing," said F. T. Croyden. "It is in refer. encetothe effect that the time or easy payment credit system has upon the peo ple throughout the land. I have studied this phase of the social problem in three cr the largest cities in tha find the system to be an evil influence at work among the poor classes. To do tms 1 have been onmrWoA v , ector and visit daUvn. - i of persons where payments fell due weekly or monthly, The goods on which the payments were made were of de cidedly small value jirt irlna l-w? 1 1 for$.jandtl0and Tbeimr'naM f.oS cents a week or U a month. Now, all these goods were sold in the small homes vvhero the parties could not pay cash but had a craving for fine furnishings' WtUCh their eaticfiol ' blance of luxury. " ap sem- "This was one of the evil mmit, second WW hat this little payment sys tem taught them to shirk their duto? a 11 T-,, " 11 iauont them to put oS the bill week after week until the Z , H ana tnen to aoid pay. in- a 7, UC;e U degrad- ms. A continued period of this kind of ouymg makes of thia twmin HrVi4 4.1 Globe-Democrat. cases. St. Louis Soma nf 11um . , preacners in our cities have been murdered f S.nes have been murdered to deaTh Cconv tionaljty and traditionaliJ T7?: Pews in these solemn mftulenrA! the art of throttling the I?forine ff 0r Tlrw. r cremation. The people of Isham, ft yiJge Utyreen r?UsrwS and WelJingborongh. :orthampton.hire. have lltelybtn ccZ nderably agitated by the refusal of IS. ferry, a promment lo! a.. JV! fcve the par-b my more land to add to their churchyard or n u . V frhwU mrrounJ, the pariah chSS. W St a COflKldp-ral.ta l,,.;i.. - strut , i irom tl fr S f n i middJe of tlw Tillage-is of bones and pieces of half rotten toft! have been disinterred to make room for fresh graves. The reason given ny .the ady, who poaaesses eligible ground close by. Is that she refuses on the ground that cremation is the most latisfactory way to dispose of the . dead tod that she disapproves of burial in the toldst of the Tillage London howl for more "bonds, and your!' get caught in the tpils and "imi' ! General Weaver has for witM '. posed and denounced the moiiStni? injustice of cur much vaunted financial system the world has e sen.' N'one have dared to "Tf him face to face before the pf but a horde of cowardly curs rh,lh. at ufels "demagogue," c'rauU' "Juiwnping Jim," l'a.g thf Jim." ecL, have distracted the atw tion of the mass of the people, iuhI prevented thousands who we r coi"' pelled to acknowledge thp furpe hia arguments from uaLrtin; rfceu lelief throuch fear of abuse and vili fication. The financial ttriicttil j (if it may be dignih'ed by bucI 3 appellation) must tumble ail their ears, before they will wake up to do their own thinking and dare to act .accoi ding to their conviction, it is tumbling and thy are think ing the gain will be vastjv Ztrt thaa the loss let it tumble! I' "i''iU Dispatch. State of Ohio, CiTy of Tot.ki ". Lucas Countv. Frank J. Cheney makes oath 'l'at he is the senior nart nor f the firm of F. J. Chevev & Co.. doing !"'' ness in the Citv of Tniodn. County and State aforesaid, and that 'J ?"nwi,, PaV the sum of ONK Hl'-V' uiitA) DOLLARS for each anl ev ery case of Catarrh that cannot 1 enred by the use of Hall's CatakrU Cube. FK AXK J. c II EN K V. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this Gth day of l,e cember, A. I).; 1880. SEAL A. W. G LEA SON', Notarv Puhhe- Hall's Catarrh Cnre is taken intern ally and acts directly on the blood and mucons surfaces of the system oena ror tes:iraomaIs, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. IKfSold by Druggists, 75c.