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f J : J TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ' i (CASH IX ADTAXCE) ' ! One Copy, One Year, -'. ' r ' v $1 0. KOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. All correspondents aro'. hereby iiotifled th:it to insure the insertion, of their cohi- munieations they must furnish us w th th'"ir.lwHi Jfname and address, -which Yil dilate to keep' in strict conscience. W ,! if on one side of the sited. i TnE Plant is in no wise responsible the' views of its correspondents. Address all communications toj T11E TOBACCO I'LANT ite j TJUKHAM, N. C FAITH AXI HOPl. Ik .n't lie sorrowful, darling!' ; Now do.n't lie snrrowfut,-TrJiy ; -' For. itaking the year tofrt-thwy-niY deaf, '1 litre L-n't more night than day. It's rainy weather, my loved orRv; o '1 ime's wlieels.they heavMy run ;.. I tt taking the year together, my dear, j here isn't more cloud thanun. We re old folks now, companion Mir heads they are growing gray ; I'.ut taking the year all round,' my clear, on always find the May. " We've had our May, my darling, A ml' our roses, long ago ; v; And the time of the vear is come, iv d l or the long dark nights, and the "snow ; I'.iit (lod is Goi, my faithful, . : . )f night as well as of day ; ; t. Aud we feel and know -that we can go Wherever, he leads thc-way.-Ay, (!od of night, my darling !. )f the night of death so erini : Audlthe gate that from life leads out, golid wife, i. - ' Is the gate that leads to Ifiiii; ; . -t-KKMi;HANHT'l'KAI-K watering tiii: plocksJ ! Dr. Talinajje's Sermon, Prcacli ! Sunday, .July 17lh I8S7. ; 1 Text: "We cannot, until the flodks 1m- gathered together, ami till thry l ull the stone irom the welbs mouth it . .'.a iT -. .11. d 1- iiKii wewaier uie sneep." iiencMS xxix, S. ; : " -sffi 1 ; : Aj seeiiej in Mesopotamia bcaiiti- iully ii:istr:i. A well ;of water of irit.it value in -that' region. Tflu ; lnlds arouild about it jwhitc with j time flocks of sheep lying dounv waitjing for tlie tlie watering: I, hear I theij- bleating coming wn the bright S air, hnd the laughter of lyoung nii-n i andj maidens indilgingin rustic n parted iljook oil' ami Lsee otl er 4 Hocks of sheep coming. jMeiinwh ile 5 .l:ieol, a stranger, on thej interesti iig ir:ind of looking for a Kyife, con es to the well. A-heautifuUsheplierd 'ss i comes to the same weli i 1 see 1 er 1 approaching, folloyed fojjlibr fatlu r's i lit ick of sheep. It was atlhemoral ile i meeting. . Jacoh niarrie that sh p 1h idess. The Uihle account of it s: .! ".Jacoh kissc(kKachel, anl lifted ip ihis voice and wept." Itjhhs alw: ys l t li a mystery to niewhjtt hv fou id to cry aliouti JJut before that seme Kciured, Jacob accosts the slu p i herds, and asks them why they p st i pone the slaking of the thirst of th se sh (, and why they ditt nut imme . ; d lately proceed- to water tlien. rI he shepherds replyto the effect r 1 Ve lare all good neighbors, and as a mat i ter of courtesy we w'aitytlniil all he sluep of the neigh borhodd k;ojne ip. I'.e-ides that, the stone oh the we Is mouth is somewhat heavy 4 and-s 'V ; eral of us take hold of it and pi sh lit aside, and then the bhekets i nd. troughs are filled, :md th sheep ire .itisfied. We cannot, ifnti'l all he t locks are gathered together, and till they roll the stone from' the well's mouth ; then we water the theep. 1 (ill, THIS: IS. A THIHSTYhVOliU)! I bit for the head, and blistering for the feet, and parching ibr,the tongue. The world's.great want is a cool, re-, freshing, satisfying draught. .Ve wander around and we find the cis tern i em-ptv.. Long, aifkl. tedious i -drought has dried uj . (he worl l's jlbuntains, but nearly nineteen c n turics ago a shepherd with crook in .the shape of a cross, and feet cut to the bleeding,, explored tlie desk rt i passages of this world, and one djay I came across a well a thousand f -et deepl bubbling and bright --and opa ; lescent, and looked to tl;en(irthya id I the south, . ami the "cast,! and the west and cried out with a vo ce 1st roiig iw 1 m usical,t hat ra hg tl i rou gh the ages : "I Io, "every one that thiist- th,. come ye to the wa.ters !' v "-'Now a great Hock of sheep to-d:iy I gather around the v (Ipspel well. There are a great many tltiifty son Is. il wonder-why the lloeks of allia tions do not irather wbv so ma iv stay ithirsty ; and while;tLam w n derii!ig about it. mv text breaks foith in the exclamation, saying: uVv lannot, until all the floeJiS; -be' ga h Iwcbtogether, and till tliey roll the stone from the well's mouth ; then w e water the sheep." , -' :' . : If a herd of swine conic , to a well "tlboyangrily jostle each other for the .-precedence; if adrovefxuittlecome to a jwell, they hook each bthe'r back fronij the water, but when a flock of sheep come, though a hundred of .them shall be disappointed, the' only! express it by sad blcAting ; they come together peacefully;! :. l'e wa nt a great multitude to. ; 1 C( M K AHOUXD THE ' iOSPEL WELL. I know there are those7 who do i ot like a, crowd they think a crwwd is vulgar. If they are oppressed lor room in church it makes hein posi tively impatient and belligerent. Y "e have had people permanently leave our church because so lnany other people come to it. Not so did thtse oriental shepherds. .-They waited until all the. flocks were gathertd, and the more flocks fhaV came t le better they liked it. And so -ve ought to be anxious that all the pc o )le should come. (Jo otit into t le highways and the hedges ' and com pel them to come in. (3o to tie rich and tell them they are indigent without the Gospel of Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them the affluence there is in Christ. Go ta the blind and tell them of the touch that gives eternal-1 illumination. Go to t le lame and.tell them of the joy tlat will make the lame man leap like a hartJ Gather all the sheep off of ill the mountains. None so torn of t he dogs; none so sick, none so worried, none! so dying, as to he omitted. Why not gather a great flock ? ill Jirooklyn in a flock ; allflSew Ycrk in a flock ; all London in a flo( k ; jail the world in" a flock; This G s pel well is deep enough to put out the burning thirst of the twelve h un . dred millions of the race. Do not let the church, by a spirit of exeju- ! siveness, keep the world out. ; . down all the bars, swine open all the J gates, scatter all , the invitatidns, VOL. XVI.--NO. 30. "YVhosoever will, let him come." Come, white and black. Come, red men of the forest. Come, Laplander, out of the snow. Come, Patagonian, out of the heat. Come in furs. Come panting under palm leaves. COME OXE. COME ALL. COMK sow. As at this well of Mesopotamia Jacob and Rachel, were betrothed, so this morning at this well of salvation Christ our .Shepherd j will meet vou coming up with your long flocks of cares -and anxieties, and he will stretch out his hand in pledge of his affection, while all heaven will cry out, "Behold the bridegoom cometh; go ye out to meet him," You notice that this w ell of Meso potamia had a stone on it, which must be removed before the sheep could be watered ; and I find on the well of salvation to-day impediments and obstacles, which must be re moved in order that you may obtain the refreshment and life of this gos pel.! In your case the impediment is pride of heart. You cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain ; you do not want to come with so many others. It is to you like when you are dry, coming to a town pump, as compared with sitting in a parlor sipping out of a chased chalice which has just been lifted from a silver sal ver. Not so many publicans and sinners. You want to get to heaven, but it must be a special car, with your feet on a Turkish ottoman and a band of music on 'board the train. You do not want to be in company with rustic Jacob and Rachel, and to be drinking out of the fountain where ten thousand sheep have been drinking before you. ? You will have to remove the obstacle of pride, or NEVKK 1'IXI) YOi;ii WAY TO THE WELL. You will have to come as we came, willing to take the water of eternal life in any way, and at any hand, and in any kind of pitcher, crying out: "'Oh, Lord Jesus, I am dying of thirst, (iive me the water of eter nal, life, whether in trough or goblet; give me the water of life ; I eare not in what it comes to me." Away with all your hindrances of pride from the well's mouth. Here is another man who is kept back from this water of life by the stone of an obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth of the well. You have no more feeling upon this sub ject than if God had yet to do you the first kindness, or you had to do God the first wrong. Seated on His lap all these years, His everlasting arms sheltering you, where is your gratitude? YVhere is your morning and evening prayer? YVhere are your consecrated lives? 1 say to you, as Daniel said to Belshazzar: "The God in whom thy breath is, and all thy way, thou hast not glori fied." If you treated anybody as badly as you have God you would have made 500 apologies; yea, your whole life would have been an apol ogy. Three times a day 'ou have lieen seated at God's table. Spring, summer, autumn and winter he has appropriately appareled you. Your health from Him, your companion from Him, your children from Him, your home from Ilim ; all the bright surrounding of your life from Him. O MAN', WHAT POST THOU WITH THAT HARD HEART? Canst thou pot feef'one throb of gratitude toward the God tjiat made you, and the Christ who came to redeem you, and the Holy Gliost who has all these years been impor tuning you? ; If you could sit down five minutes under the tree of a Sa viour's martyrdom, and feel His warm life trickling on your forehead, and cheek, ; and hands, methinks you would get some appreciation of -what you owe to a crucified Jesus. Heart if stone, relent, relent, Touehed by J evils' cross siiIhIium, See His body, mangled,-rent, Covered with aigore nfliliMx, Sinful soul, what hast thou doiie? t'rueitied the eternal Son. Jacob vith a good deal of tug and push took the stone from the well's mouth, so that the flocks might be watered. And I would that this morning mv word, olesseu oi tiou. 111 1 t 4 1 1 might remove jthe hindrances to your getting up to the Gospel well. Yea, I take it for granted that the work is done, add now, like oriental sheep, I proceed to water the sheep, thirstv ! You have Come, all ye an undefined-lomrinsi in your soul. You tried money making ; that did did not satisfy you. You tried pic tures and sculptures , but works of art did not satisfy you. You tried office under government ; that did not satisfy you. You are as much discontented with this life as the celebrated French author who felt that he could not any longer en dure the misfortunes of the world, and who said: "At 4 o'clock this af ternoon I shall put an end to my own existence. Meanwhile, I must toil on up to that time for the suste nance of my family." And he wrote on his book until the' clock struck 4, when he folded up his man uscript and, by his own hand, con cluded his earthly life. There are men in this house who are perfectly discontented. L'nhappy in the past, unhappy to-day , to be unhappy for ever, unless vou come to this Gospel well. " j : - THIS SATISFIES THE SOUL with a high, deep, all-absorbing and eternal satisfaction. It conies, and it offers the most unfortunate man so much of this; world as is best for him, and throws all heaven into the bargain. The wealth of Croesus, and of all the Stewarts, and of all the Barings, and all the llothchilds is only a poor, miserable shilling com pared with the eternal fortunes that Christ offers you to-day. In the far east there was a king who used once ayearto get oh a scales, while on the other side the scales were placed gold and silver and gems ; indeed enough were placed there to balance the king; then, at the close of the "HERE SHALL THE PRESS ' weighing, all those (treasures were thrown among the populace. But Christ to-day steps on one side the scales, and on the other side are all the treasures of the universe, and he says : "All are yours all height, all depth, all length, all breadth, all eternity ; all are yoiirs." YVe don't appreciate the promises of the Gos pel. YVhen an aged clergyman was dying a man very eminent in the clmn h a young theological student stood by his side, and the aged man looked up and said to him : "Can't you give me some comfirt in my dying hour?" "No,' said the young man ; "I can't talk to you on this subject ; you know all about it, and have known it so long." "Well," said the dying man "just recite to me some promises.'? The young man thoifght a - moment, and he came to this promise: "The blood of Jesus Christ eleanset i from all sin ;" and the old man clapped his hands, and in his dying moment said : "That's just the promise I have been waiting for. 'The )lood of Jesus Christ cleanseth froni'all sin.' " Oh, the warmth, the grandeur, the mag nificence of the promises ! COME ALSO TO THIS Oflsi'EL WELL, ALL YE TROI I LEI). I do notsuppose you have escaped. Compare your view of this life at lo years of age with what your view is of it at 40, or fiO, or 70. YVhat a great contrast of opinion! YVere 'you right then, are you right now? Two cups placed in your hands the one a sweet cup Jthe other a sour cup. A cup of joy and a cup of grief. YVhich has been the nearest to being full, and out of which have you the more frequently partaken? What a different place-Greenwood is from what it used to be? Once it was to you a grand city improve ment, and you went out on the pleasure excursion, and you ran laughingly up to the mound, and you criticised in a lijjhtway the epi taph. But since thej day when you heard." the bell toll at the gate when you went in with tlie procession, it is a sad place, and there is a flood of rushing memories that suffuse the eve and overmaster jthe heart. Oh, you have had trouble, trouble, trouble. God onl ykfiows how much you have had. It is a wonder you have been able to live through it. It is a wonder your nervous system has not been shattered, 'and your brain has not reeled. Trouble, trouble. If I could gather allj the griefs, of all sorts, from this great audience, and could put them in o le scroll, neither man nor angel could endure the re citation. Well, whf.t do you want? Y ould vou like to iave your prop- erty back again ? a Christian man, No," vou say, as I was becoming arrogant, and I think that is why the Lord took it away. I don't want to have my property back." Well, would vou have ivour departed friends back again ? "No," you say, "I couldn't take the responsibility of bringing, them from a tearless realm to a realm of tears. I couldn't do it." Well, then, what do) you want? A thousand voices in the audience cry out: "Comfort, giv us comfort." For that reason I have rolled away the storie from the well's mouth. Come, all ye wounded of the flock, pursued of the wolves, j COME TO THE FOUNTAIN", where the Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. "Ah," says some one, "you are not old enough to understand my sor rows. You have -not been in the world as long as I .have, and you can't talk to me about my misfortunes in the time of old age." Well, I may not have lived as long as you, but I have been. a great deal" among old people, and I know how they feel about their failing health, and about their departed l'lienc: and about the loneliness that sometimes strikes through their souls, sons have lived toge After two per il er for forty or fifty years, and one of them is taken away, what desolation ! I shall not forget the cry of the late Rev. Dr. DeWitt, of New Y'ork, when he stood by the open grave of his beloved wife, and after the .obsequies had ended, he looked down into the open place and said : "Farewell, my hon ored, faithful and beloved wife. The bond that bound us isi severed. Thou art in glory, and I bere on earth. YVe shall meet again. Farewell ! Farewell !" To lean on a prop for fifty years, and then have it break under you ! There were only two years' difference between the death of my father and mother. After my mother's decease, my father used to go around as though looking for something ; he would often get up from one room, without any seeming reason, and go to another room ; and then he would take his cane and start out, and some one would say : "Father, where are 'you going ?" and he would answer: "Ij don't know ex actly where I am ging." Always looking for something. Though he i 1 1 il T was a tenaer-nearteo: man, i never saw him cry but once, and that was at the burial ot my niother. After sixty vears living gether it was here are aged hard to part. And people to-day who are feeling just such a pang as that. I WANT TO TELL THEM! THERE IS PER FECT enchantment in the promises of this Gospel ; and I come to them and offer, them my arm, or I take their arm, and I bring them to this Gos pel. Sit down, father or mother, sit down. See if there lis anything at the well for you. Come, David, the Psalmist, have you anything en couraging to offer them? "Yes," saj-s the Psalmist "They shall bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and flourishing, to show that the Lord is upright, he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in me." Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your prophecies for these THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1887. aged people? "Yes," says Isaiah: "Down to old age I am with thee, and to hoary hairs will l carry thee." Well, if the Lord is going to carry you, you ought not to worry much about your failing eyesight and fail ing limbs. You get a little worried for fear sometime you will come to want, do you ? Your children and grandchildren sometimes speak a little sharp at you because of your ailments. The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to want? Who do you think the Lord is? Are his graneries empty ? YVill he feed the raven, and the rab bit, and the lion in the desert, and forget you ? YVhy, naturalists tell us that the porpoise will not forsake its wounded and sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth has not as much sympa thy as the fish of the sea? But you you say : "I am so near worn out, and I aiii of no use to God any more." I think the Lord knows whether you are of any more use or not; if you were of no more use he would have taken you before this. Do you think God hasjforgotten you because he has taken care of you seventy or eighty years? He thinks more of you to-day than he ever did, because you think more of him. May the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Paul the aged, be your God forever ! But I gather all the promises to day in a group, and I ask the shep herds to drive their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the sparkling sup ply. "behold, haity is the man whom god cokkecteth." "Though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion." "Many are the alllictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivercth him out of them all." "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." 1 am determined this morning that no one shall go out of this house un comfortcd. Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul who seems to hide away from the consolations lam ut tering, as a child with a sore hand hides away from the physician lest he touch the wound too roughly, and the mother has to go and com pel the little patient to come out and see the physician. So I come to your timid and shrinking soul to day and compel you to come out in the presence of the Divine Physician. He will not hurt you. He has been healing wounds for many years, and he will give you gentle and omnipo tent medicament. But people, when they have trouble, go anywhere than to God. DeOuincy took opium to get rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb took to punch. Theodore Hook to something stronger. Edwin Forrest took to theatrical dissipation. And men have run all around the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get away from their misfortunes. It has been a dead failure. There is only One well that can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that is THE DEEP AND INEXHAUSTIBLE WELL OF THE GOSPEL. But some one says in the audience: "Notwithstanding all you have said this morning I find no alleviation for my troubles." YVell, I am not through yet. I have left the most potent consideration for the last. I am going to soothe you with the thought of heaven. However talka tive we may be, there will come a time when the stoutest and most em phatic interrogation will evoke from us no answer. As soon as we have closed our lips for the final silence no power on earth can break their taciturnity. But where, oh Chris tian, will be your spirit? In a scene of infinite gladness. The spring morning of heaven waving its blos soibs in the bright air. Y'ictors fresh from battle showing their scars! The raijn of earthly sorrow struck through with the rainbow 6f eternal joy. In onp group God and angels arid the redeemed Paul and Silas, Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and John Milton, Gabriel Michael, the archangel. Long line of choristers reaching across the hills. Seas of joy dashing to the white beach. Conquerors marching! from gate to gate. You among them. Qh, what a great flock of sheep God will gather around the celestial well ! No stone on the well's mouth while the Shepherd waters the sheep. There Jacob will recognize Rachel thei shepherdess. And standing on one side of the well of eternal rapture, your children ; and standing on the other side of eternal rapture, your Christian ancestry, you ; will be bounded on all sides by a joy so keen and grand that no other world has ever been permitted to experience it. Out of that one deep well of heaven the! shepherd will dip reunion for thej bereaved, wealth for the poor, health for the sick, rest for the weary. And then all the flock of the Lord's sheep will lie down in the green pas tures, and world without end j will prajse the Lord that on this summer Sabbath morning we were permitted to study the story of Jacob and Ra chejl the shepherdess at the well in Mesopotamia. Is There a Cure for Consumption? YVe answer unreservedly, yes ! If the patient commences in time the use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," and exercises proper care. If allowed to run its course tooj long all medicine is powerless to stay it. Dr. Pierce never deceives a patient by holding out a false hope for jthe sake of pecuniary gain. The "Gplden Medical Discovery" has cured thousands of patients when nothing else seemed to avail. Your druggist has it. Send two stamps forj Dr. Pierce's complete treatise on consumption, with numerous testi monials. Address YY'orld's Dispen sary JHeoicai Association, Jiutiaip, N.!Y. GRADUATING SPEECH. Our Social Dangers! and Their Remedies.; IU- A. M. Simmons. Kairfvel.l, X. C As long as the sweeping billows of the great and terrible ocean of time will roll and surge, it can with safety be said that society will be composed of various classes, , including the strong and weak, the rich and poor, the educated and illiterate, the in dustrious and careless, the good and bad. Not until Plato's, "Ideal Re public," or More's " Utopia," is real ized which is as impossible as transmitting the baser imetals into gold will entire peace, harmony, good-will, and prosperity be found to reign supreme in all the affairs of life. . 1 The views of extremists upon all questions, social, political and reli gious, are dangerous amlmisleading. This stupendous and inos't valuable truth can be shown from observa tion, experience and the pages of history. The demagogue who seeks to satisfy the infamous cravings of his appetite for gain and honor, by means of falsehood and deception, should be watched as tlie most pois onous serpent. But at the same time, the man who remains 'silent when the welfare of his country is in peril, deserves our greatest cen sure and contempt. I . The optimist, with hi4 apparently beautiful theories, is as far from ele vating the condition -of I man as the pessimist who advance's ;the doctrine that all things are tending to the worse. If one would raise the stain! ard of society, he nuist set hclbn him a lofty ideal, and strive to n-aci. it by precept and example, and no; trust to fate that allthinlrs will urow better without human do . -prralioii. It is my hoiust lielid't the fanatic on the subject of religioh does quit as much harm to t hat UK ss i insti tution, as the most han'u ned infidel, who denies belief altogether in the ministry of Christ, and who is to tally ignorant of the, riches and pleasure which emanate from this divine source. j- It is universally admitted to be true that the stability and success of a nation depend upon the soundness of its society. This, although it may seem as old as the pyramids of Egypt, should receive the careful and profound consideration of every one who has the good of his country at heart, and who wishes to see her shine with splendor and brilliancy among the great nations rf the earth. It is true that the slavery question, which threatened the existence of our glorious republic foe nearly one half a century, has beensettled. We rejoice that the two sections of our country are now being united with the strongest ties of friendship, and that sectional prejudices'are passing away like clouds of mist before the rising sun. Proudly may we boast that our people are at peace with the foreign world, and our eagle is en joying himself in the noonday sun while all the powers of Furope are at the threshold of war, with the lioii of England and the bear of Russia cowering in their dens, intelligence so pleasant as this should, indeed, fill us with rejoicing; nevertheless, upon examination we shall find our selves surrounded by dangers more appalling than the roan of cannon and the din of battle. Prefer to the dangers in our society. They should be guarded as the most 'destructive and potent enemies to our common wealth. Ignorance is a most alarm ing cause, and where tins prevails crime reigns supreme, arid immoral it7 is seen in its darkest phases. The masses should be educated, by com pulsion, if necessary, ami raised ton plain from which they could appre ciate the rules of public and private decorum, and defend themselves from the tyrannical encfoaclnnents of those whose lots have fallen in more fortunate places. There is also much to be feared fronrthe highly cultured. Let "no one understand me as advancing or advocating the doctrine that education !is an evil ; but I am endeavoring to-jshow from the present condition of society the dangers which are probable, and which already exist between these two classes. 1 While money has done much to elevate and dignify the state of man by its magical chafVn and power, its use has also been perverted, twisted, and abused to a most alarming de gree by those who bow down and worship at the altar of I Mammon. The money kings of America to-day are entering the citadel j of society with open purse and spreading ter ror and anxiety, as the Barbarians entering the gates of Rorhe ; for the sober-minded know that the liberties, which were gained by the blood of our ancestors, are being greatly im periled. Although many wealthy men endeavor to assist 'humanity, yet the many work exclusively for their own personal ends, ajid besides, too often by unjust means. Though it is to be greatly deplored, never theless it is freuuentlv triie, that our legislation, which should be held in I the most sacred esteem, and sacri ficed under no consideration's com pletely governed b the rnillionaire. In Rome, whither we may go for valuable lessons of instruction, cor ruption was not so diffuse, and bad not so terribly stained hdr beautiful escutcheon of military praise, until her-coffers were filled to overflowing. Men with public trusts sorhetimes act wrong with the purest of motives on account of the fallibility- of human reasons, frequently for the sake of policy, that deadly enemy to duty, when they should do what their con sciences dictate to be right, just, and most profitable to themselves and countrymen ; but in the majority of cases our bad legislation is the fruit of the rich man's money. These are most appalling evils,' and should re AND'UNBRIRED BY GAIN." ceive the open and severe condem nation of everr real lover of his country. 1 1 would be ridiculous and absurd to contend "that the wealthy classes are not entitled to foster com binations and co-operations ; but monopolies are evils which should receive nothing but the strongest chastisement of the law and the se verest disapproval of man ; since they have contributed -so much toward, disturbing oiir social equi librium as to threaten us with de struction. While speaking of this element of our society, we would not forget those who are bound down by tlie heavy shackles of poverty, from which there scarcely seems to be any possible escape. Here misery can lx) viewed in all its wretched and loathsome phases ; here we see crimes of the darkest hue ; here we continually notice insurrections and violations of the laws, which are the soul and body of our Government. Men, to a great degree, are driven to this wicked resort; but they are frequently influenced by means of envy, hatred and madness. The great difficulties arising from this class are the rashness and thought lessness with which their plans are adopted and executed, as in the "Terrors of the French Revolution." Now great putrefying sores; as Socialism, Knights of Labor, and Nihilism are beginning to cover the lody of society, -and unhss speedily remedied, will take away all its vital energy. Do not understand me as opposing the organizations of the poor and laboring classes. It is my holiest conviction ' that they should combine as the Creeks at the battle of Marathon ; but honor, virtue and justice ought to be considered su preme in every act of man. If these stupendous truths could only be complied with, an 'Age of I'erielcs" would -blossom in ''Our Land of the Free and Home of the Prave," but if the peace of the land be continually interrupted, her his tory will be blotted as that of Greece and Rome. The great duty and privilege for statesman, lawyer, doctor, scientist, farmer and all, are to endeavor to establish quietude and harmony in our 'country. To wluft source must we look for the accomplishment of these most desirable ends ? Tlie.ex trcme elements of our society, as we have seen, are diametrically opposed to each other like the poles of an electric battery. In the medium class, beyong a reasonable doubt, re poses the power to solve this mighty problem which is harassing our age. Unquestionably,-of tlie men who have figured largely in the halls of Congress, on the fields of battle, in the ciourts of justice, in the realm of science, and the sacred retreat of theology, the majority have come from this ideal element. Hither must we look, when the storm is raging furiously, for men who will take charge of the Ship of State, and conduct her safely into a harbor of calm waters. A Oreat Moveineift. Rev. J. II. McCulluunh, IlemltTKiii, Ky. According to the statistical report of the Sunday schools of the United States, rendered at the late Interna tional convention held in Chicago, there has been an increase in the scholar membership of all the Sun day schools in the United States since 1884 of o()o,G4o. It is interest ing to know by what agencies this increase has been secured, for it shows that a great missionary work has been done to bring an army of o)"),(KH) into active membership with bur Sunday schools. No more im portant work can be conceived of, for it has to do with the destiny of our entire country. The three last annual reports of the American Sunday School Union, the old undenominational society "that cares for the children," who are provided for by no one else, show that since 1881, it has brought 18",0'H children into4,".M7 new Sun day schools, a number equal to .1,000 more than one-half of all the in crease reported as having been se cured by this arid all other agencies during thrse three years. But this American Sunday School Union did more thart this it aided 4,82o other schools, which have 4G,774 teachers, and 513,714 scholars so that in these three years it reached '.1,872 commu nities and Sunday schools, and 700, 748 children and youth, and then reaided and revisited these schools 9,24-5 times, besides making 92,584 visits, to families, supplying' 45,019 destitute persons with the scriptures and holding 27,247 religious ..meet ings.' That there is great need for more of just such work in our coun try, is evident from the fact that ac cording to the International Secre tary's report there are but 8,034,478 scholars in all the Sunday schools in the United States, that report to this convention, which the chairman of the executive committee said was five per cent, too small. If five per cent, were added, we have 8,430,201 scholars in all our Sunday schools. But the statement was made that 20 per cent, should be deducted for those over 21 and under G years of age, and those who attend more than one school and are counted twice; which deducted would leave G,748,9G1 children and youth of school age in our Sunday schools, while there are at least 9,000,000 more children of that age in our country, and very likely most of them attend no Sunday school. Truly the American Sunday School Union is doing a great work, for present and future; America, for which there is most urgent need. Any who would like to read its last annual report, or aid its work by gift of funds, may send to Rev. J. II. McCullaugh, Henderson, Ky. $1.50 PER ANNUM.' THE BOHEMIAN FRONTIER. THE PLANT'S LETTEIt FROM THE OLD WOKLI). An Interesting and Instructive Description of the Cities and Scenery Along the Route. After a lively skirmish for railway tickets in the midst of a dense throng of would-be excursionists, we made a dash for the Bohemian train, last Saturday evening, and had the satis faction, or rather dissatisfaction, of being obliged to wait a long ten min utes before the train showed the faintest symptom of moving. At lengthi however, -he viicr shrill whistle was heard, the station bell was tapped three times, the en gine gave an unearthly screech, the train shook itself violently with a succession of jerks and bumps, and we slowly drifted out from the tur moil of the city into the midst of green fields and forests of sighing firs and larches. YVe at first followed the line of the road to Dresden, but at Flocha we diverged towards the South and were soon passing through a country which became constantly more beautiful as we advanced. At Zschopau we found ourselves among the outlying hills of the Erz (ebiryr, or Ore mountains, which is the geological frontier between the two great "German Empires. , The town of Zschopau is very an cient and is of Sclavonic origin. The Chali'au 1VilInccl; which is a sort of citadel, is a handsome old building whose high, round tower is, in mv 'opinion, one of the prettiest bits of architecture in Saxony. Leaving the train at Annaberg we spent the night there, and early, in tlie morning started for YVeipert. a frontier town of Bohemia, the train having consumed an hour and a half in traversing what is, as the crow flies, a distance of about six or seven English miles. The grades were, as may be imagined, very heavy almost continually ; and when at length we reached a crest of the hills and looked down into the first valjey of Bo hemia, many hundred feet below us, it seemed almost incredible that in another half-hour Ave should have wound our way down into the abyss. Yet such was the case, and after hav ing passed through the clutches of the gaudy guardians of the customs, we hastened to the Hotel Stadt Leip zig and enjoyed a heart' breakfast. Could a vehicle be secured for love or money ? Yes, the waiter thought it could be obtained, for the latter article. And so it caliie about that i half an hour later we rattled up the hill and out of the town of YVei pert into the hill country of fair Bo hemia. Such a floral "Eldorado as is Bohemia in June it would bedifli cult to find elsewhere. Every field was a mass of color butter-cups, daisies, violets almost as large and rich as punsies, beautiful little forget-me-nots, and a score of varieties of beauties unknown to me, min gling their charms in prodigal pro fusion. Along the roadside tiny pink-tipped daises, blushing occa sionally into crimson, kept our ad miration at fever point. Afteratwo hours' drive we reached thecrestof the highlands, three thou sand feet above the sea, and looked down into the great valleys of Bohe mia, in the western end of which t t lies the famous watering place oi Carlsbad, while far away to the southeast is situated the ancient and YVords cannot historic city of Prag describe the beautiful view that greeted us here. P rom the hillside close at hand huge, Isolated masses of rock towered up from the side of the mountain, around whose heads the wind shrieked and howled. In the valley beneath us half a dozen modest villages and a feV ancient walled towns lay ir distinct in the distance. Far away to the east, west and south hundred.'! of peaks rose more or less ambitiously amidst the blue haze, so that it was difficult to decide which were mountains and which were clouds. Having enjoyed to the utmost the beautiful view, we a!;ceriWd on foot the Kupferhuegel, find received a warm welcome from the landlord of the "gosthares," or inn, which clings to the mountain close to its summit. From here, after having a light dinner, we started on foot on our re turn to YVeipert, this time ehoosing a winding path through the forest. At 7:30 p. m. we took the train at YVeipert, and at midnight arrived at home, thoroughly exhausted, but well pleased with our day's tramp over the Bohemian frontier. X. X. X. Most Anything' Would Stop Louisville Oourierf Journal. The flies stop buziing, the office boy ceases to shufflel his feet, and there i3 a general ana solemn hush when Mr.- Gould sits tlown to write' his check for 84,500,000. Why Kansas M Dry. St. Taul Globe. Perhaps the presence of sundry "visiting statesmen" in the neighbor hood may explain that mysterious disappearance of whisky in Ken tucky. Brother Oldham In Trouble. Anniston Wist. Please ekscuse enrhy mistaiks in speling in terdas ishshue. The prufe reader is drunk, an we donnt kno who to ask how ter spel words. Dr. Pierce's "Pelleti," the original "Little liver Pills," (sugar-coated) cure sick and bilious headache, sour stomach, and bilious attacks. By druggists. James Russell Lowell is said to be aging rapidly in appearance. 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Simon Cameron has sailed for Europe, to be gone until Septem ber. - Dom Pedro has sailed Janeiro for Europe and Land. from Rio the Holy- Bonanza Mackay has just invested S250,O0O in an Alaska mining expedition.- Captain Jack Hussey, who saved so many lives at Castle Garden, could not read. Senator Stanford has a vineyard containing 5,000 acres, the largest in the world. . Dr. Henry YV. Ravenel, the emi nent South (Carolina botanist, is dead, at the age of 7.'. John Donaghue, the Boston sculp tor, is making a life-sized statue of John L. Sullivan. Joseph YV. YVhitc, cashier of Times newspaper of Philadelphia, has de--faulted for $20,0(0. YVilliam O'Brien, the Irish editor, is separated from his wife. She was a soubrette actress. Father Bagley, of Baltimore, who devoted all of his life to missionary work in that city, is dead. Ralph Disreali, a nephew of Lord Beaconsfield, is to publish a novel. Will he be an echo or an original voice. Slar. A. Mercie, Paris, has been awarded the contract for the equestrian statue of Gen: Robert E. Lee to be erected in Richmond. Rev. James Robinson, of Money Creek, 111., has baptized over 15,000 person during his ministerial career of forty years. The people of Augusta deny hav ing hung (iov. Gordon in effigy. They lay the blamc on three or four drunken men. Judge Hilton's park at Saratoga now comprises .1,000 acres. It is said to the handsomest private park in the country. Joaquin Miller has sold his log cabin in YVashington for $5,100, and its new owner has rented it to Mr. Adee, assistant secretary of state. Judge Thurman emphatically re fuses to accept the Democratic nomi nation for the governshrp-of Ohio. Hon. Thomas E. Powell will proba bly get it. Capt. Jarvis, a professional a-ro-naught, proposes to cross the Atlan tic ocean from St. Nazaire to New Y'ork, making the trip about the 1st of October. Solicitor McCue, of the treasury department, lias made 8150,000 in real estate in YVashington in the two years during which he has been a resident of that city. Mr. YV. YV. Corcoran, who is at Deer Park for the summer, is slowly growing stronger, but he will, in all probability, never walk again. His mental faculties are as vigorous as ever. Mrs. Livermore has delivered more than 800 temperance addresses. For many years she has lectured five nights a week for five months in the year. She travels yearly. 25,000 miles. . Mrs. Cleveland's shoes worn in the Adirondacksiwere a pair. of No. 5's, for which she paid 85. At least such is the exceedingly important state ment made by a "Washington shoe dealer. Prof. J. G. Dana, of Y'ale Univer sity, will spend next month with his family in the Sandwich Islands. He will there investigate the changes produced by the recent volcanic eruptions. Mrs. Gen. Ixigan is in very poor health. She has been in Chicago arranging sonic business affairs of the late Senator, but will return to her YVashington home soon, and take a long rest. The empress of Japan expects to visit the United Suites in October. She will land in San Francisco, come east by way of Salt Lake, Omaha and Chicago, &nd return in two months by the southern route. U. S. Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, states that he never wrote or inspired the letter recently attrib uted to him, in which he was repre sented as favoring Blaine and Sher man on the Republican Presidential . ticket. Mrs. Levina Fillmore is the oldest woman in Buffalo, iN. Y. If she lives until August 13th she will cel ebrate herone hundredth birthday, at the Methodist Church over which her late husband presided for a quar ter of a century. The only member of the late Hor ace Greeley's family now living, is his daughter, Miss Gabrielle M. Greeley, who four years ago bought her father's house and farm of eighty two acres at Chappaqua, for $10,000, and now resides there. Chief Clerk Duryce, of the patent office, who was one of the old barna cles, has quit the alleged cause be ing that he knew of his radical friend Bacon's deficit and did not report it. It is said that a Mr. Lipscomb from South Carolina is to take his place. Mr. Edison, the inventer, will eat a beefsteak only in meat. He likes all kinds of vegetables, and for des sert always takes - fruit, strawberries being favorites. It enly takes him a few minutes to eat dinner. Soups are .omitted from the table. YVTien Mr. Edison uses the telephone he fairly shocks whoever receives his message by talking very loudly. Be ing slightly deaf he does not appre ciate the high pitch of his own voice...
The Tobacco Plant [1872-1889] (Durham, N.C.)
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