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Church,- iia'leigh. ii.jv, lovinjr. righteous Fatlier, - 1'lnm didst planLthis living-vine, l'miic each branch in love and uiercy, Itlcss itf niake it wholly thmei . i rih its root and hope its branches, Nurtured long with anxiottyeare N..f the tmuch of heaven produces 1 'rui.t abundant, sweet and fair. . the corn upon the mountain", Sjiiikes like Ix'banon on high; mk the life-bestowing fountain; . Streams (ipon us from the sky. l. iiii. we thank thee for thy presence, lji.nl, we bless thee fur thy love; ' ' Mike us all that thou would have us, " Vll ttiy ciuiuren imiy prove. rd this house from sinful jerror, -carts and hands and tongues employ; .1 i4 II within it, Loru, loreve 11 it with thy songs of joy; - n th harvest swnp is n' 1 W'h Wi'hcn thou comest onthv thrrmp (-1. it-cive us to thy glory, , J ! : i 11 and crown us as thine own. lU'SIIINC; THE TEMPEST. Dr, Talniajje's Sermon, Preached V Sunday, June 5tli, 1887. r T. ct: Mark iv, 0G-0O, describing ' ii fist stilling the tempestf -He said: j -Tiberias,, Galilee, ' Geifnesaret 1L1! if nnmes for the same lake. No . i tlii iJ gem ever had so bWutiful a nil . It lay in a scerxebf great S !iixuii;mce : the surroundih0:. hills terraced, sloped, groved, so ; -lualiV liangin-; gardens of ibeautv: iiu' waters rumbling; down between ;.f -k.-j of, gray and re J limestone, tLi-htng from the- lulls aiid bound Tnir, into Uie sea. On thelshore were (i:itlts, armed towers,.K6m;an baths, '.; vcrytliing attractive and rautiful ; ;U1 styles of vegetation in shorter iaei than in almost any otherspaee in al the- world, from thepalm free "f the forest to the trees of. rigorous liniate. : '. 1 It seemed as if the Jjortl had launched one wave of beauty on till the seene, and it hung and swung i'nin rock and hill and (oleander. K"tnim gentlemen in pleasure "boats sailing the lake, and .countrymen in iili smacks coming down to drop th ir.m-ts, pass each other with nod jind sliout and laughter, or swinging idly at their moorings. -f "li. WHAT A WONDKRtXLf WHAT A j r BEAUTIFUL LAKEij i : j It fcems as if we shall havea quiet li ight. Not a leaf winked in the air; not :ij ripple disturbed the- face ot , m mvesaret ; but there seeiils to be a Jjttlejexeitement'up the- bjiach, and a c hasten to see what it ?s, and we lind it an embarkation. ; FrOiii the western shore lid flotilla jUishjng out, not a squadron, or d'.adty armament, nor dipper with valuable .merchandise, nor: piratic Vessels ready to destroy, everything they Could seize, but a flotilla bear ingniessengers of life '.-and fKght aiid jx ace. Christ is in the front of the 'boat. His disciples are in a smaller I m at. Jesus, wearywith much speiik ing to large multitudes, i- put into soimi(lence by the . rocking of the waves. If there was any potion at .fill the ship 'was easily righted ; if tTie wind passed from starboard to la rhi ii rd, or from larboard to star board, the boat would "rock, and by the gentleness of the'motion putting the Master asleep. And they ex- ' temporized a pillow lnade out of a fisherman's coat.. I think no sooner -is ( lirist prostrate, ;arid jhis head touched the pillow, than lie i sound a-h ep. The breezes of thejlake run tin lr lingers through . tire , locks of the- worn sleeper, and the -boat rises and falls like a sleeping 'child oil the bosom of a sleeping mother, i Calm night,-starry nigh r,;beautiful night. "Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let the largeH boat -and the small boat glide oyer gentle Gen- i-ijcsaret.; But the sailors Isay there ?H going to be.a change oC?weather. ; And pven the piissengers -fcaa hear f t-jlie hioaning .f the st0rin, j as lit j e,omes oil' with great - stride, and all Uie' ! ,- r Tl"ItU(iliS OF hi.- I:.- -1 1 1 U UK I CAN K AN I) 1A KK NESS. h !' : -" j The large boat trembles like a deer ;at, bay. a.mong the clangor, of the ljounjils ; great patches of .'foam are Uttng; into the air ; the sails of the vessel loosen, and the sharp winds crack; like pistols ; the smaller boats, like petrels, poise on the clill' ox the waves and then plunge! j- . j Overboard go cargo, tackling and. masts, and the drenched 1 disciples rush into the back part of the boat, and lay hold of Christ, and say un to him : "Master carest'rtltou not that we perish?" That great per sonage lilts his head from the pillow of the fisherman's coat, walks to the front: of the vessel, and looks out in to the storm. ' All around;; iiim are the smaller, boats, driven in the tem pest, J and through it comes the cry jof-drowning men. By the flash of the lightning I see the calm bjpw of Christ as the spray tlcopped from his beard. - He has one wortifor the sky and another for the waves:; Looking Upward he cries : '"Peace. 'j. Looking 'jlownward he says : '-'Be still:" ' ! The waves fall flat on their faces, the foam melts, the extinguished stars j relight Jtheir torches.- ! The tempest tails dead, and Christ Stands with his feet on the neck of the storm. And while the sailors are hailing out the boats, and While they are trying to untangle the cordage, tlie disciples stand in amazement, now looking into the calm 'sea,'theri iito thecalm sky, then into; the calm Saviour's countenance, and they cry "it : ;''Vhat manner of man is this, tliat even ; 'II ; .1 1 ' - . --I"- v- 1 'I K WINDS AND TJIE SEA OBjGY HIM?" The subiect, in the first place, i-m- I'lessts ; me with the fact' that if is cry Important to have Christ with liip ; for all those boats would the , uve gone to the bottom of Gennes- rct it Christ had not been present. VOL. XVI. NO. 24. Oh, what a lesson for you and for : We'iust always have Christ in the ship. Whatever voy age w;e undertake, into whatever en terprise we start, let us always have Christ in the ship. Many of you in these days of revived commerce are starting out in new financial enter prises. I bid you good cheer; Do all you can do. Do it on as hi" h a plane as. possible. You have no right to be a stoker in the ship if you can be an admiral of the navy. You have no right to be a colonel of a regiment if you can command a brig ade ; you have no right to be engin eer of a boat on the river banks or near the coast, if you can take the ocean steamer from New York to Liverpool. All you can do with ut most tension of body, mind and soul, you are bound to do ; but, oh ! have Christ in every enterprise, Christ in every , voyage, Christ in every ship. There are men' here who ASK GOD TO HELP THEM at the start of great enterprises. He has been with them in the past ; no trouble can overthrow them; the storms might come down from the top of Mount llernon and lash Gen- nesaret into foam and into-agony,t out it couicl not hurt them. But here is another man who starts out in worldly enterprise, and he depends upon ;the uncertainties of this life. He has no God to help him. After a while the storm comes and tosses off the masts of thehip ; he puts out his ' life-boat and the long boat ; the sheriff and the auc tioneer try to help him off; they can't help him off; he must go down ; no Christ in the ship. Here are young men just starting out in life. Your life will be made up .of sunshine and' shadow. There may be in it arctic blasts or tropical tor nadoes ; I know not what is before you, but I know if you have Christ with you all will be well. You m'ay seem to get along with out; the religion of Christ while every thing goes smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow hovers over the soul, when the waves of trial dash clear over the hurricane deck, and the decks are crowded w ith piratical dis asters oh, what would you do then without Christ in the ship? Young man, take God for your portion, God for your guide, God for your help then all is well; all is well for time; and all shall be well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust. He shall never be con founded. - But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start to follow Christ they must not ex pect smooth sailing. . These disciples got into the small boats, and I have no doubt they'said: "What-a beautiful day, this is 1 JVljat a smooth sea.! .What a brjiglit sky this is!' How delightful -is sailing in this boat !-' and as for" the ates under the knell of the boat, w hy, they only make the motion of our lit tle boat the more delightful'Tiu t when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, -then they found that ; j . . FOLLOWING CHRIST WAS NOT SMOOTH. SAILING. . So you have found it"; so I have found it. Did you ever notice the endof the lifepf "the apostles of Jesus Ch rist ? You would say if ever m en ought to have had a smooth life,, a smooth departure, then those men," the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and such a life. St. James lost his head. St. Philip was hung to death on a pillar. St. Matthew had his life dashed out with a halbert, St. Mark was drag ged to death through the streets. St. James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Thomas was struck thrqugh witli a spear. They did not find following Christ smooth sailing. Oh, how they were all toss ed with the tempest ! John Huss in the fire; Hugh Mclvail in the hour of martyrdom ; the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters did they find it smooth sailing? But why go to history when I can come into this audience to-day aiid find a score of illustrations of the truth of this subject. That young man,' in the store trying to serve God, while his em ploj'er scoffs at Christi anity, the young men in the same store antagonistic to the Christian religion, teasing him,- tormenting him "about his religion, trying to get him rnlkl. They succeed in getting him mad, saying: "You're a pretty Christian." Does this young man find it smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christ? Here is a Christian girl. Her father despises the Christian religion ; her mother despises the Christian reli gion; her brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian religion; she can hardly find a quiet place in which to say her prayers. Did she find it smooth sailing when! she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oh, no! ALL WHQ WOULD LIVE; THE LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN ! : religion must suffer persecution. If you do not find it in one way you will get it in another way. The question was asked: "Who are those nearest the throne ?" and the answer came back: "These are they who came up outiof great trib ulation;" great .flailing, as the origi nal has it; great flailing.'great pound ing, "and had their robes washed and made white in the ' blood of the Jamb." Oh, do not be disheartened ! Oh, child of God ! take courage. You are in glorious companionship.. God will see you through all these trials, and he-will deliver you. My subject also impresses me with the fact that good people sometimes i get very much frightened. . In the tones of these ! disciples as they rushed into the back part of the boat, I find they are frjgntened almost to death. They say : "Mas "HERE SHALL THE MESS ter, carest thou not that we perish ?'' They had no reason to be frightened, for Christ was in the boat. I sup pose if we had been there we would have been just as much affrightened. Perhaps more. In all ages very good people get very much affrightened. It is often so in our day, anld men say : "Why, look at the bad lectures; look at the spiritualistic societies; look at the various errors going over the church of .God; we are going to founder; the church is going to perish; she is go ing down." 0h how many good people are affrightened by iniquity in our day, and think the church of Jesus Christ is j going to be over thrown, and are just as mpch affright ened as were the disciples of my text. DON'T WORRY, DON'T FRET as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with his shaggy mane covering the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a, web across the mouth of the cavern, and say: "We have captured him."j Gossamer thread after gossamer thread is spun until the whole front of the cavern is cov ered with the spiders' web, and the spiders say: "The lion is done; the lion is fast." Alter awhile the lion has got through sleeping ; he rouses himself, he shakes his mane, he walks out into the sunlight ; he does not even know the spiders' web is spun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain, j . . So men come spinning their sophistries and skepticisms about seems to be sleep- Jesus Christ ; he ing. lhev sav f'We have captured the Lord; He will never come forth again upon the captured forever never make an nation ; Christ is His religion will ,T conquest among men. liut alter awhile the laon ot the tribe of Judah will rouse himself and come forth to rshake mightily the nations. What's a spider s web to the aroused lion ? Give truth and error a fair grapple, . AND TRUTH WILlj COME OFF VICTOR. But there are al great many good people who get affrightened in other respects ; they are affrightened in our day about revivals. They say : " )h ! this is a strong religious gale; we are afraid the church of God is going to be upset, and there are going to be a great many people brought into the church that are going to be of no. use to it ;" and! they are affright ened whenever tbley see a revival1 taking hold of thej churches.. As though a ship captain with ",- LKX-t bushels ot wheat lor 1 cargo would sav, some ( av, coming upon deck : "Throw ovt rboard all. cargo ;" and the sailors would say captain,,what do you mean "Why, ? Ihrow over all the cargo?" "Oh," says the captain, "we have a peck of chaff that has got into this oXW. bushels of wheat, and the only way to get' rid of the chaff is to throw all the wheat overboard." Now, that is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great many Christians who want to throw overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who are the subjects of revivals. Throw all ' overboard because they--are brought into the kingdom of God through great revivals ; because there is a peck of chaff! J I say let them stay until the last day ; the Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat. DO NOT 1JE AFRAID j OF A GREAT RE VIVAL. Oh, that these gles fiom heaven might sweep through all our church es! Oh, for such days as Richard Bax ter saw in England! and Robert Mc Cheyne saw in Dundee ! Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton ! I have often heard my father tell of. the fact that in the early part of this century a revival broke out at Sonierville N. J., and some people! we're very much agitated about it. They said : "Oh, you are going to bring too. many people into the church at once ;" and they "sent down to New Bruns wick to get John Livingston to stop the revival. j . Well, there was no better soul in all the world than John Livingston. He went and looked at the revjval ; they wanted him to stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath and looked over the solemn audit ory, and he said : "This, brethren, is in reality the wrork of God ; beware how you try to stop it." And he was an old man, leaning heavily on his staff a very old man. And he lifted that staff, and took hold of the small end of the staff and began to let it fall very slowly through be tween the fingers and the thumb, and he said : "Oh, thou impenitent, thou art falling now falling away from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling jas certainly as that cane is falling through my hand falling certainly, though per haps falling slowly." And the cane kept on falling through John Liv ingston's hand. The religious emo tion in the audience was overpower ing, and men saw a type of their, doom as the cane kept - falling and falling until the knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said : "But the grace of God can j stop you as I stopped that cane;" and then there was gladness all through the house at the fact of pardon, and peace and salvation. "Well," said the people, after the service, " I guess you had better send Livingston home ; he is making the revival worse." Oh, for the gales from heaven and Christ on board the ship ! The danger of the' church of God is not in revivals. Again, my subject iimpresses me with the fact that j JESUS WAS GOD AND MAN - in the sanie being. Here he is in the back part of the biat. Oh, how tired he looks ; what sad dreams he must have 1 Look at j His counte nance: He must be thinking of the THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1887. cross to come. Look at Him; He is a man bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep; He is a man. But then I find Christ at the prow of the boat ; I hear Him say : "Peace, be still ;" and I see the storm kneeling at his feet, and the tempests folding their wings in His presence; He is a God. If I have sorrow, and trouble, and want sympathy I go and kneel down at the back part of the boat, and say: "O Christ, weary one of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my sorrows, man ( f Nazareth, man of the cross." A man, a man. But if I want to conquer my spiritual foes, if I want to get the victory over sin, death and hell, I come to the front of the boat and I kneel down and I say : "O, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost hush the tempest, hush all my grief; hush all my temptation ; hush all mv sin." A man, a man ; a God, a God. i I learn once more from this sub ject that Christ can hush a tempest. ; It did seem as if everything must go tjo ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of managing the ship; theicrew were entirely demoralized; yet Christ rises, and he puts his foot 01 the storm and it crouches at his feet. Oh, yes, Christ can hush the tempest. . YOU HAVE HAD TROUIiLE. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you the sweetest child of the household, the one who asked the most curious questions, and stood around you with the greatest fond ness, and the spade cut down through your bleeding heart. Pdrhaps it was an only son, and your heart has ever since been like a desolated cas tle, the owls of the night hooting among the falling arches and the crumbling stairways. : Perhaps it was an aged mother. Vpu always went to her with your troubles. She was in your home to Welcome your children into life, and when they died she was there to pity you; the old hand will do you no more kindness; that white lock of hair you put away in the casket, or in the locket, (lid n't lo k as it usually did when she brushed it away fcom her wrinkled brow in the home circle or in the country church. Or your property gone, you said: "I have so much bank stock, I have so many houses, I have, so many farms"' ail gone, all gone. j j Why- sir. all the storms that ever trampled their thunders, all the ship wrecks 'have not been worse than this to you.. Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why? ! j CHRIST HUSHED THE TEMPEST. ;! Your little one was taken away. Christ says: "I have that little one in my keeping. I can care for him as well as you can, better than you can, O bereaved mother1.'' Hushing the tempest. When your property went ,.away God said: "There are treasures in heaven, in banks that nevefreak.."- ' Jesus, hushing the. tempest! t . There is one storm into which we will all have to run. -The 'moment When we let go of 'this life, and try to take hold of the next, we will want all the grace possible. Yonder I see a Christian soul rocking on the surges of death; all' the powers of darkness seem let out against that soul the swirling wave, the thun der: of the sky, the shriek of the wind, all seem to unite together; but that soul is not troubled; there is j no sighing, there are no tears; plenty of tears in the room at the departure, but he weeps no tears, calm, satisfied, peaceful; all is well. "By the flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, and you are making, for that harbor. All 'shall bejwell, Jesus hushing the tempest "Into the harbor of heaven now we glide; We're home at last, home at last. Softly we drift on its bright, silv'ry tide, We're home at last. Glory to God,! all our dangers are o'er, Wej stand secure on the glorified shore; Glriry to God ! we will shout evermore, We're home at last." "Woman's Face. . "iWliat furniture can give such fin ish to a room as a- tender woman's face," asks George Elliott. Not any, we are happy to answer, provided the! glow of health tempers ; the ten der' expression. The pale, -anxious, bloodless face of the consumptive, or th vident sufferings of the dyspep tic, induce feelings of sorrow and grief on our part and compel us to tell! them of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," the sovereign remedy for' consumption and other diseases of the respiratory system as well as dyspepsia and other digestive troubles. Sold everywhere. Well, We Will See. Sew York llerald.l Governor Hill has entertained ex- Goyernor Cleveland at Albany. Pres ident Hill may yet entertain ex-President Cleveland at Washington. The Sun. Yes, we hope so. And we have no doubt that the hospitality of the White House on that occasion will be generously extended. Suppose we put the date of the visit well, any time after March 4, 1893.' How will that suit ? Why Substitute Any Democrat ? ; i j Fort Worth Gazette, Dcm. Democracy, through Cleveland, has given peace to the country and a business boom, to the South be cause of that peace and restored confidence. Whyr- then, should the country desire to substitute Republi canism for Democracy, and why should the South desire to substitute any Democrat for Cleveland? ! And About the Only Way. llaeon Telegraph. The best and shortest waj' to abol ish poverty is to go to work. MERIT AGAINST SPOILS. W. II. MeIOXAL,D'S GRADU ATING SPEECH. Reasons Why the Merit System is Better thm the Spoils System It Provides Officers of Character and Capability. The political temple our fathers reared on this side of the ocean would iave no throne erected within its walls. The glory of our form of gov ernment was, and ought forever be, in its political morality and merit, this truth is admitted by alt balanced men. The politician admits it, when in a burst of patriotic fervor he chants: - "Our father's God, to Thee Author of Liberty, f To Thee we sing." 7 But when he contaminates his fingers with base bribes, and puts his honor in pawn for power, he de nies it. And hardly is the bargain closed before this two-faced rrian ap pears again before his constituents and has the unblushing affto'ntery to say: ''these hands are clean." All school-boys ought to know the road to ruin which Rome took as soon as she forsook morality. And unless that spirit for luxury and greed for gain, which is so mani fest, is iii some way checked, the flourishing civilization of our own day will, ere long, travel the same path. Go then and tell the popular leaders, who are corrupting our voters of to-day, that a public office is not the medium of self aggrandize ment, but a public trust; say to that corrupted populace that our govern ment is not a social compact, but a moral covenant. ; In that grand triune principle 01 legislative, judicial and cxt'cutiv departments of government, we find the following cheeks and Ibalances: The two branches of Congress are pitted against one another,' the legis latures against the senate, the peo pie against the representatives, the. president against the senate. Rut there is lacking cne check which is an urgent balance: the concentrated minds of congress against the dis cretion of on man in the appoint ment of executive officers. And the only corrective that will save us is the merit system. It was our pres ent executive, together with the post master of New York city, who after having.tested its workings, advocated this system. And since it has been supported a whole decade by those .-who know its merit, may we not logically infer that its opposition has sprung from ignorance of its laws, which the present discussion engaged in throughout the country will soon eradicate. , ' This merit system provides for the appointment of officers according'to character and capability; and under it boys from this University, boys 'of brains and self reCspect, though not of undue conceit, have stood their ex amination and gone to the seaof government to -serve their country as they are competent to do. They are not doyx of a -leader.Iand will not wear his collar. Merit puts the South on an equal footing with the North, and for the first ; time in our recollection is she represented throughout the whole world and yet maintains her share of jionor at. home. No other president in the United States could have dqlie differ ent from what Cleveland ias done and kept his oath to his party and his pledge to execute faithfully the office of the president of the United States and preserve, protect and de fend her constitution. The, last five presidents have recommended in their messages to congress that' it relieve fliem of the burden of ap pointment. They recognize- that that system of government which renders its officers dependent upon political creed, party service and ex ecutive fvaor is in direct opposition to the spirit of the constitution' to W'hich they pledge loyal obedience. The fact that there are more than one hundred thousand officers who are the creatures of the president's will and who are dependent upon his breath for their tenure in office, ought to startle the people from their repose and awake our voters to this danger to our liberty. "The presi dent holds in the bosom of every of ficer a spear with rankling barbs, which to remain is torture ami to rmiova is death." In such an at mosphere how long can the' spirit of liberty survive ? Does your spoils system cultivate the greatest and best of all virtues love of country? The patriot is bound to sacrifice his office,1 not that he loves his party less, but that he loves his country more. The one hundred thousand officers combine with their friends and followers, and pay assessments to retain the ascen dancy of the party which keepthems in office. When in the history of our government, have the frauds and corruptions of a party been exposed by its officers? Never! Everyman is afraid to indict another for fear of being implicated! himself. Govern ment business is not different from any other, and why employ officers on a different plan? Do the busi ness men of our cities engage ,the services of their employes because of their political views simply ? Not at all; but because they are; capable and honest. Do they entrust their business to incompetent clerks? No, else bankruptcy would rpign su preme. , Phaeton, the misguided jchild of the sun, driving his father'? horses through the blazing sphere; spread ing consternation and ruin is the emblem of the spoils system, while the everliving sun, emittipg light and heat to the earth, and shedding glory over the skies is theJemblem of the merit system. On our left stands Phaeton, on the right-the Sun. Which do you prefer? : AND UN BRIBED BY GAIN" What Cleveland lias Done. Asheville Citizen. We think rather too much stress has been laid upon alleged short comings of the man the Democratic "party placed in power in 1884. No man is . absolutely perfect ; no man can meet all expectations ; but we are satisfied that Mr. Cleveland is less obnoxious to charges of infidel ity to pledges or platforms than any man who has occupied the presi dential chair in our day and genera tion. In truth, it is the extreme rigidity of his construction of duty has aroused censure and provoked opposition. The outcry against him does not come from the people ; but from office-seekers and those who have friends to reward or enemies to punish. The people asked for an honest, economical and national ad ministration, and they have it. It will be an evil day to them if the bickerings among discontented Dem ocrats bring about Democratic dis aster, and restore the party whose principles and practioes had grown into an intolerable curse and burden. Mr. Cleveland found a civil ser vice law, framed by a leading and trusted Democrat, and welcomed as a wise Democratic measure. He has observed the law ; and7 this is the chief head and front of his offence. He has done other things which we do not approve ; but he adhered strictly to his party platform. But on the other hand he has given us an administration pure, honest, able, respected. The reforms under it are momentous in their in fluences upon the welfare of the country. If all has not been done yet that-vas expected, there is time, aiid there is purpose, to accomplish What is 'yet undone. It is certain thai the Republican party, if restored to power, will never niove in the di rection of reform. The Richmond Slate thus refers to something Mr. Cleveland's adminis tration has done : The day that Cleveland took the oath of oflioe stealing in the Government had to stop. Thieves had to flee from the public crib. 8tar Koute frauds were no longer possible ; navy-yard frauds were exposed and stopped. The Treasury department could no longer be used as a syndicate for making millionaires of Government officials. Millions had been stolen annually through the Pension Hureau and other divisions of the Interior Depart ment. All this corruption had to come to an end. A new system of book-keeping be gan in 1SS.", and the millionaires who had been robbing' tjie Government every year through the cnnnnel of land grants found it no longer possible to wine and dine commis sioners of railroad accounts, and they have been stealing ever since. "'Public office is a public trust, is written over Mr. Cleveland's desk, anil this motto has been faithfully lived up to. The Secretary f the Interior has pre sented a scheme, which has been approved by-1 lie President, providing for the oening up of 100,JU,IKXI acres of land. Kich Wes tern lands held by the railroad syndicates, wnd long unoccupied, will be sold at reason able rates to industrious settlers, the rights of the millionaire corporations having expired by limitation. When this scheme is carried out thousands upon thousands of worthy men will be able to acquire small farms on .easy, terms and develop the country, while the (iovernnient at the same time will be able to reap a rich 'benefit by the sale of the Vast stretches of unused territorv. "A Cutting Criticism by Wendell Phillips." New York Oraphie, Dem. She Springfield speech of Senator Sherman reminds us of a cutting criticism of a similar performance by. the same Senator made by Wendell Phillips, the great orator and anti slavery agitator. The Senator-had been making speeches up in Maine against the Garcelon Fusionists, aiid Phillips, speaking of the defeat of that party, said : l' John Sherman's antics at Portland dressing in a bloody shirt and acting the part of a negro-lover, had but little influence in shaping the result." Then he added f I have j no faith in 'John Sherman. You might as well build on quicksand and -expect to guide a locomotive with a weathercock as trust in John Sherman. The only heart he has is a muscle that serves to circulate the blood. I should tremble to see him President." Best Ooods are Put in Smallest Parcels. The old Proverb is certainly true in the case of Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," which are little, sugar-wrapped parcels, scarcely lar ger than mustard seed, containing as much cathartic power as is done up in the biggest, most repulsive-looking pill.. Unlike the big pills, how ever, they ate mild and pleasant in their operation do not produce griping pains, nor render the bowels costive after using. The President and the Papers. Baltimore American. The fact that Mrs. Cleveland threw a kiss to a crowd of newspaper men will probably make the President a worse newspaper hater than ever ; but he should not blame the repor ters. Rather should he find fault with nature, that has made them both, good and beautiful. The Ifeason Given. AlWlene Reflector. ' An observer says a woman can read deception in a man's eye, even in the dark. That explains why he turns his face to the wall upon re tiring after an unusually long session of bis lodge. The Kentucky Idea. ! Nashville I'nion The ancient, time honored, rock ribbed, iron-hooped, moss-back De mocracy of Kentucky has never had but two principles horses and whiskey. "Ah ! good .evening, Mrs. Brown. Is your card full f ' "No, Mr. Smith, hut my escort is, and if you will kindly take me home I would be so much obliged" $1.50 PER ANNUM. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS. THE "PLANT'S LETTER FROM i THE OLT WORLD. The Peenliarties of the Make-Up of German Papers The Long jWei? hty Sentence and the Hid den Verb. I A German newspaper is a curios ity worthy of examination. It is massive in size, and is often not con tent with being complete in itself, butmusthave two orthree addition al sheets, like huge postscripts. As in a young lady's letter, these post scripts often contain the real pith of the whole affair ; though this cannot be adopted as the invariable rule. j The best plan to be followed when ypu find an item of interest in a Ger man paper, is to keep your finger on it; for if you once los it the chances are that you will never find it again. I have seen an amiable old German gentleman search through guires of sheets of the newspaper in search of an innocent item to which he had casually alluded; and when he has at last given up the chase, he has usually been not the same amiable (old gentleman as when he com virtenced. In fact he has sometimes given vent to German expressions niore piquant than elegant. ! The German newspaper consists of the most delightful conglomerated mass of material that ingenuity of man can possibly bring together. The contents may be gencrically classified as advertisements, oracular editorials and news items. Each of these may be again subdivided. The news items usually consist of an cient literature and weather reports. The editorials consist of sentences from three inches to a foot in length. The main use of a German editorial is the sport which may be derived from searhing for its principal verb. On rainy days a German editorial is calculated to afford the children as much innocent enjoyment as a good romp at "blind man's buff," or "hide the thimble," the latter of which it feomewhat resembles the verb tak ing the place of the thimble. If the editor, by accident, leaves out his principal verb, he will have no idea wjliat his editorial means. No one else knows, even when the principal verb is in the right place. The Ger many character is such, however,that he does not feel justified in applaud ing anything except what he can not understand. For this reason, among his countrymen, the German editor, ranks high as a philosopher and sage. lj!ut, after all, the most interesting part of a German newspaper ,is its advertisements. These are bundled together, pell-mell births, deaths," m'arriages, engagements all in the anie column, and in every size of type. Before me lies last Sunday's copy of the. TaffUali, from which I "will make a few literal translations: ."Warning! I hereby warn everylxnly not to give credit in my name to my wife, Krau Augjista Otto, we Schuerer, at present in Gabtenz, since I will pay nothing for her." Ppor Frau Augusta Otto, nee Schur erer I am extremely sorry for you. It is not because your liege-lord will pay nothing for you you have prob ably been supporting him and help ing the dog to pull his wagon for the past; twenty years. No, I am sorry for you because you have had. to take refuge in Gab lenz,i where you have probably al ready died of cholera or the oriental plague. If you haven't it isn't the faultjof Gablenz. But here is another : "Lost was an overcoat from Ilerrenhaide to Wasserschenke. The honorable finder is requested to leave the same at Wassers ehenke.' - A A dishonorable finder would prob-1 ably keep it himself. But what is this? ' i "Wanted to rent an industrials, orderly servant girl by May lo. Wlat a boon it must be to have the privilege of renting a servant girl ! j "Wanted to Marry ! An alone-standing young man, of very good disposition, seeks the acquaintance of a plain, solid girl, for the purpose of marriage. Money wished, yet not a condition. Widows not excluded !" What rush there must have been of plain, solid girls and widows de sirous of capturing an alone-standing young man, of very good dispo sition!! Surely such an offer was never made before. "Wanted to Marry. A young man of good character, possessor of an estate, with a popu lar restaurant, seeks in this manner a life companion. Money is a secondary matter." Another rush ! But this fellow is an hypocrite. He has no idea of making a life-companion of his wife. A life-.strcan is what he means. He has a restaurant and he wants some one to scour out his beer-mugs with out charging for her services. Fie on you, young man of a good char acter ! Money is rud secondary mat ter with you ! Go and learn honesty from the ingenious youth who ad vertises: "Wanted to Marry A strong, pretty girl. None except rich ladies need apply." But see ! What is this ? A huge rooster, such as we see in our papers at home., on the morning after an election heads, the notice : "General meeting, May 12, in Elvsium at 8 p. mn D. V." This! looks poetical. Elysium? Why, that's the place to which the dead heroes used to go. But why are they going to meet at 8 p. m. ? Perhaps to protest against coercion in Ireland. Who knows? Ah, I be gin to perceive. Let me put it in the form of a conundrum. Which are the strongest spirits in this Elysium? Achilles and Hector ? No, rum and cognac.! Alas! Elysium is a beer garden, 'and the object of the meet ing is to discuss sauer-kraut and pickled pork, and not Irish politics. A. X. X. Ben, Butler ranks among the im possibilities. Savannah Aewn. FOR ADVERTISING: X inch, one insertion...... '....$ 1.00 1 inch, one month 2.50 1 inch, three months, 500 1 inch, six months, 750 1 inch, one year. . . .' 10.00 J column, three months, ; . . 17.50 column, 8ix mbnths, 30.00 J cohimn, one year, 50.00 A column, three months, , 25.00 column, six months, . . 45.00 column, one year, 80.00 1 column, three months ..... 45.00 1 column, six months 80.00 1 column, one year, . J 50.00 1 column, one insertion, 10. (0 2 columns, one insertion 15.00 Space to suit advertiser charged for in accordance with above rates. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Editor O'Brien has gone home. He cannot complain of a cold recep tion here. General Butler's reappearance in politics will be, of course, as a Butler man. Boston Traveller . Mr. Carl Schurz, who broke his hip some time ago, is now able to get about on crutches. His recovcryis slow. " Ingalls has attacked w.oman suf fragists. A more desperate man than Ingalls does not live. Ddlla AVti-ft President Cleveland says he knew nothing of his contemplated western' trip until informed of it by the news papers. President Cleveland came out of the woods to-day. It will soon be time for John Sherman to take to them. Jersey City Argun. Press opinion appears to be di vided as to whether Mr. Blaine will return with an pyeglass or a sham rock. Lo u is cille Cou rier-Journal. Col. James B. Andrews, of Alle ghany City, Pa., will probably earn on the late Capt. Eads' work on the Eadsr ship canal, at Tehuantepec. The Czar was onlyshot at six days last week. Though eagerly demanded no satisfactory explanation has been offered fpr the off day. Omalia Bee. Ingersoll is evidenily a'n able-bodied shepherd, but he ' is leading his flock to a hot place and with very little pasture. Runnel (Ala ) Register. Canon Wilberforce believes that the only way to overcome the drink evil is a great religious movement. Dealers will risk that. Rutland Her ald. Boulanger goes out of the French War Department because he was too saucy ; yet the new Minister who goes in to succeed him isSaussier. -1'hiladeljJiia Ledger.i. Perhaps the reason of Boston's cultured people going wild over Queen Kapiolani was because her skin is about the color of baked bea ns. Cleveland Plaindealer. Dr. McCosh, of Princtjton College, is slowly recovering from his illness. He sat up in his room last week and hopes totbe down and about his du ties before the close of tHe term. It is said that John Greenleaf Whittierand Kobert Purvis, of Phil-' adelphia, are the only original mem bers now living of the original Anti Slavery Society. Wilmington Star. The Czar of all the Riissias would give almost one-half off his Empire. to be able to skip out and go fishing with his wife like the I'resident j)f the United States. Chicago Inler- Ocean. William K. Chandler is the ablest and best known Republican in New Hampshire1, never rising above the partizan, and not ahvavjs stistainhjg the level of the man.; Sjringti'ld Rr ublican. Mr. Blaine is nodoub: greatly de lighted to Observe that John Sher man has made a fool of limself. Mr. Blaine can now go on his European trip in peace. Sherman is no longer d a n gero us. CI eveland Ilain dealer. The statement is made that Jeffer son Davis, Simon Caaneron, A. 1'. Kennedy and Hannibkl Hamblin are the only men living who were members of the United States Senate when the war began. A. Y. World. Senator Sherman's treat speech in Springfield, 111., wjill probably prove to be the banana peel of his political career. Tlsft fjiture will be accomplished in three movements f a slip up," a slip down and a slip out. The death of Mr. W heeler leaves Harmibal Hamblin th only living ex-Vice Presidenf chosenkby the pec -pie. He will be seventy -eight years, of age in August, and lie was elected Vice President twentt-seven years ago. N: Y. World. ' Millionaire Flood hs s recently in closed his San Francisco palace with a bronze fence which cost 830,0JO, and he is now addmg two large bronze gates, each' weighing $4,00) pounds, and which wjll cost $15,000 more. Washington Pdst. It is continually becoming clearer and surer that Grovct Cleveland as President of the United States is strongly intrenched iii the good will of the people. He Has done right, that's one reason ; Mrs. Cleveland is another. Philadelphia Ledger, Ind. Rep. A rebel who became a Republican was truly regenerated, but a relel who remains a Democrat and takes office under a Democratic adminis tration is a "Confederate" still. That is the whole philosophy of Sher man's position. Springfield IiepidJi can, Mug. Secretary Lamar will address the alumni of Emory College at:Oxford, Tuesday, June 21. On the following day Congressman Norwood will de liver the annual address before the literary societies. Oxford is prepar ing for a literary jubilee. Its ap proaching commencement will be unusually interesting. If there is any Democratic dark horse for the Presidency- he is the most carefully secluded animal that was ever heard of. There have really been but two totally unexpected nom inations for, the Presidency for fifty vears Polk and Pierce though per haps Garfield may be added to the number. Boston Herald. - Canon Wilberforce is a very rapid epeaker. A reporter who attempts to follow a discourse by Phillips Brooks subjects himself to the dan ger of nervous prostration. But Wilberforce talks even more rapidly I than Brooks. In his recent temper r ,1,1 : r,...4, . i. : 1;... nuvc ouuicsacs 111 uoftion 111s oration was at times so lightning-like in its delivery that the reporters gave up in despair. N. Y. World. RATES
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