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She says: : w:i- t:.k'ii with severe p:iins in . v vveai. I couM hardly walk 1 I : I ii ' r:.l ;::yS!ti:in$ aini .. .-I v (iiiii:iiitiii ftefore I haI :..it;- Ir 1'ii-rie's (.olden I v;ti vtry ln.ich letter. I : :t a:.i have not yet had any ii Mcdi'-.il Discovery" has :i consumption. It sure iiv cures all bronchial and It strengthens weak . linyerin coughs. It isa :M-r of tissue. It cleanses 1, reiulates the .ut? the whole liodv in i .tilde was probably bron . liu'ti! dangerous if let in the ham'.s of an in r. Don't take a local r cv.-rvthinjr. Write to 'fill him your symptoms. v years he has been chief ;r. sii i.m at the Invalids' - d Institute, I'.Tiffalo, ,:.iti .!i with him will cost 'Ehivr'sS'SiUT, i . 1 : r S. A. SI at ion) m and Lnnch Counter. 1 1 1 Rooms, Comfortable Reds. i !!! tbst -class. An oiderly, v.. II l.e. place - SALOON o . ... in the Mate. st"ckeil with , .: i '.! Hi'- very Best and Purest 1 1 !- nuiii.'v nn Ittiy. . ! (Mi AND ioi:(jcos ! ;- ins i n conm-ition. A drcat Convenience lu k People. I'Iiiin il :i nice l ine nf s i in de in v. !,!!! I o;ni onier Sails from !i. !!-eis I i m S-2 up, any size II :i til umilillileed Also lui.' .f seines, linen ducks ami ".;. - r 1 1 1 s clit-ii j . jeineuitier you Can i; Mm w:lit , finill tin- cheapest to I hi. d.-es not eoiilliet with in y ' ! ai !' 'l"i n Lr at ill !. James V. White, I he l'p-to-date Tailor. ; l: i.ixer I ' ,i Ci mi s store, opposite a o In the Spring ii-.-. I a 'ton ie ii ml liivitror- - i i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 ii toti-n." up the Svs :id i-ive aihleil stienuth t.i tin? iiiniioii. A 'ood P.lood i'uri - uh;it you want. To purify I . x 1 and keep it so take ;t lor no (ii t.itr.sT. o! nil Blood Purifiers. Scrofula, Old Sores, Rheumatism, !:czema, Tetter, e e c 6 t, il .Iim ;i-. s of t'.u i a : 1 1 y i. 1 I to it in. ii elims cure: W i il.- to-day it-.! trst inmn i; 1 IWiHid and treatment. : effected ty for book ot Posfotlice : I iioi;ilor , Killrell, I', i.t in Henderson by The Dorsey Drug Co. I'hil II. Thomas, ,inj W. V. Parker. 9 IRG1NIA COLLEGE ; YOUNCj LADIES. Roanoke. Va. nt. V2. iS'.x.i. On if the leading ! Vmii'ir Ladies in tlie '.:it ltiiMiii','-. all modi :,t. '.inlnis ten acres. South in iin (irand -cenerv in :i 1 1 : l;li i'.ui'one.in y oi a., laniea and American Full o.i.i-e. S l nd Music, v .-ii '.it l-'or upciior advaa Students from cataleiriie ad- I'o i r, -i.lent. : P. II AKK.S, Uoanuke Va. Merry otfeeer time is here CH4fii.ES E. HIRES CO.. Philadelphia. Pa. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clo&r.s .:id tirAtit:ttef the hair. i'Tviiii!t'i a Inioriant prowth. rvor Fail to Kestore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Curva p a p i ci hmir taUiing. ; 4.i rii;!n;l on A ;:.' i. cine. - - ..-i - i.s.tvr.. Take 1 1 f t i-artieu'.trjt. tcsliimnil ' V 'l:Iiif for t.oul.-." ! Uu. by rvlwr Lr Vuil. I4.ti I -timer. :- .Van f'ri;' i :r-- ii. ii liriutf.-a nrfeni1 ! f you can liave ;oods deliver- i i- in town absolutely fre of ir. Mrs. Joe Person's Remeay 'l.e lpooklut: ? Ires "n II. TIIOMASON'S THE OQOPUS TRUSTS. ! BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES WILL DECLARE ACJAINST THEH. Something Must be Done to Arrest the (irowth and Development of (iiz.inf ic Combination. of Corporate Capital Comm inly Call d Trusts, but Platform I'l.mks Alone Will N'.,i Remedy th- ItSiulj tlnjc Evil. ( Ikilti ore Sun.) T lie hieairo 1 1 ifii at' iu. lies Sena- tor I), pew as savin r that uiolouht edlv the !e pu I n purt" will :o!opt :i jdnlik eoiideliliiing trusts" when the t ime comes In frame I be next na tional platform, mid :t adding: T think tiie Democratic part v v ill adopt a similar plank." The Tritium: ex presses the opinion that this is alto gether likely, and that if the D.-mo- ci at ! p.i rt v volition hist, jihillk will lie ! In t wo. . lie 'Vi ihuilf, pledges the few iimiv be- i dds its national con is is most probable, its the more emphatic of I'I.e Democrats," suvs win make all the I ui-puicieans no and a ides." A more impor tant ipiest ion is what will the I promised "planks" amount, to, and what effect, if any. will they have in i arreslinj; the enormous growth and : ile idopmelit of I hose jijantie eoni- binatioiis of corporate capital which it ! has become the f.irliion now to call "t I lists"? j The New York Junmal publishes a i list of two hundred and eighty of j such trusts which have been recently j organized in this country, with an j aggregate eap:t:i! of ix nilioiiH eihly j iiinr iniHions m ri n liumlrcil awl f'urty I tiro I Ii'iuxiiiiiI iiml tiro limulnil iliillnnt ; (i;,"S!l.7 ) These. so-ealle I tnisls art as we hae saiil. for the most part.. simply gigantic corpr. ra tions formeil by the consolidation of smaller corporations engaged in tho same line of manufacture or business. They are -distinguishod from tnut companies, properly so called, by being designated as commercial or industrial trusts. They embrace almost every field of human inter prise and industry, and cover almost every article of production, extending from milk and infant's food to burial caskets. Trusts they are certainly are not in the sense in which that term has been used for centuries. and applied to those relations which have been fostered, safeguarded and . ...I i... . : . r IMoiecieti ov genei aiauus oi great chancellors, and by courts of entiitv in Knrlaud and in this country. I'he development of this new de scription of trusts has been so sudden and so rapid as hardly to alTord op portunity for estimating their full effect when they shall have become thoroughly established in operation. The prediction hazarded by Senator Depew and indorsed by tiie Chicago I ritiitnc that in the year 1 1)00 both of the irreat political parlies will be found bidding against each other for iimiilar favor, by the strength and .... i . i vciiemence or ineir ueciaraiion nosiue to trusts, embodied in their national platforms, assumes of course, not only a growing sentiment in op- losition to these aggregations of corporate wealth and power, but such an experience of the evils likely to result from their existence as to make it incumbent upon both political parties to promise the jieople relief from a burden which by that time may come to be intolerable. It is true that the promoters ami organizers of these vast enterprises promise as one result In their favor "the greatest good to the greatest number." in the form of better service and lower prices to tho eon sinner, consequent upon t ho check in' of excessive and thereby in jurious competition, and the great reduction of expenses effected by the substitution of a smaller number of large for a multitude of smaller and weaker establishments, thereby cheapening the cost of production On the other hand there is the in evitable result to lie foreseen of a hard and rigorous application of the rule of the "survival of the tttest in the extinction of a host of small industries, the breaking up of in dustrial establishments and of homes, l'or redress of such evils much more will be needed than "planks" in partv platforms, even though framed in the most glittering and unctuous phraseology of such a master of phrases as Chauncey M. Depew. The Chicago Tribune, from which we have ipiotcd. recognizes this fact anil insists that while the Democrats may have the opportunity of making the bio-.rest and loudest promises, the Republicans have the advantage, if thev will but utilize it, of being in control of Congress, and of having a full half vear before the next election held in which to legislate against trusts, and thereby win the eonu- lence of voters by "deeds whioh speak louder than words." It is a case, it argues, in whioh the men who make laws count for more than the men who make platforms, and re minding Senator Depew that he is now himself one of the lawmakers, it asks him "what efforts is he going to put forth to secure anti-trust legisla tion at the next session of Codgrews?" There is another aspect of the question to which neither Senator Depew nor the Chicago Tribune ap pear to have given sufficient con sideration. While the concurrence of both the great parties in con demning trusts might have a most rrat if vim' effect, aud would be es pecially valuable because of its tendency to prevent this particular .iuestioii from becoming an issue in national politics, it must not be for gotten that the junsuiction oi con gress aud of the Federal Government over the subject of trusts is neces carily limited. The organization and " control of corporations is properly a matter of State, not national concern. Only in eases which come within the exclusive right of Congress to regulate matters oMnterstate commerce has that body ordinarily power to interfere. Past experience has shown how this power of Congress can be evaded, and the "SLS? corporate power and privileges must ' ne wan iuo aiaies inemseives. it is in this direction probably that the j most effective remedy can be found. I If it U objected that in consequence of the large number of States, the diversity of t heir laws and their iii-tere.-ts, the trusts may lind the means of preventing that harmony and uniformity of State legislation which would be necessary to make repressive measures on their part thoroughly effective, the answer will be that that unanimity of same strength and ! . ! popular sentiment wliieli would cause both political nar- , . i i ties to be in accord in their condem ns ion of trusts would inevitably lead to a similar concurrence of action on the part of the State Legis latures. It is in the power of every State to determine for what purposes and subject to what restrictions it will grant charters, to limit the duration, the Held of operations and the amount of capital of every corporation which it may s iffer to created or to do business within its limits. State Le-' l.iiion can prevent such enor ni n aggregations of capital as are I s.io'vn by the New lork Jourmira iki oi two riunureu ana eighty cor porations, boasting an aggregate capital of over six billions of dollars. State Legislation can prevent the consolidation or combination of different corporations, even though they seeek t o conceal their operations under the specious title of a "trust." These are matters with which Con gress would lind it difficult, if not impossibl.', to deal. Hut every State, within its own borders, can do much i to protect the small industries, the 1 individual enterprises of its own citizens, from falling a prey to that deadly octopus, the indiistrial"ti'ust." "TWO." Two women went forth in the jjlory of dawn, Their heroes returning from meet. hittle ti And one whs in white, with a rose at her lueast, And one was in ldack from her head to her feet. As the train from the South thundered ovr the rails One blushed like the rose in her liosoin of snows, But one was as pale as the petals that uroop In the dusk and the dew, when the d.y lllies cloe. I'wo soldiers together were left by the train Where the long, narrow platform lay hot in the sun. And one had returned from his marches to rest, But the othr his battles were over and done. For his sabre was bheathed, and his sash was untied. And his steed from the battlefield never would rise; And hW sleep was too deep, in the folds of the flag To lie wakened by weeping or troubled by sighs. M. Freezing Weather in July Would cause great discomfort and loss, but fortunately it is seldom known. A vast amount of misery is caused at this season, however, by impoverished blood, poor appetite and general debility. These conditions may be remedied by enriching the blood anil toning the stomach with lioo l's Sarsaparilla. This medicine seem 4 to put new life into the whole physical system, simply because of its wonderful power to purify, enrich and vitalize the blood, create an appetite and invigoiate the digestive functions. We advise you to get a bottle and try it if you are not feeling lust ileht. It will do more good than a six weeks' vacation. It is the best medicine money can buy. Fatty Walsh. (Monroe Journal.) One sees many queer things in the large .New York papers, some come dies, but mostly tragedies, illustrat ing some point in the composite character of humanity. We have not lately seen a more interesting item than this, regarding a noted politi cian of that great city: "Thomas Power Walsh, better known to the world at large as Fatty Wralsh, died suddenly last night of heart disease at his home, 48 Madison street, Mr. Walsh returned from his ofllce at G o'clock last night. As he got to the corner of Madison and Oliver streets there was the usual scramble anions' the children in the neighborhood to reach him first and show him that their hands were clean Each evening at 6 o'clock for the past live years ratty Walsh has stood at that corner and put one cent in each clean childish hand extended him. The right as well as the left baud has always been thus rewarded, and Mr Walsh rarely got away with a smaller outlay than oO cents. The paper goes on to say that Fatty Walsh was a popular Irishman, and, like all the sons of Erin, a wit; an office holder, a jovial companion and a staunch, Mend, hut reading between the liqes of the above paragraph, we learn that he was a philosopher and a philanthropist. He possessed three cardinal virtues, charity, the love of cleanliness, and the love of children Hecause of these virtues he was i philanthropist, and a philosopher be cause he perceived, mat to oestow charity, even upon the children whom he loved, he should make it depend ent ujon some effort of theirs though it was only that required to keep their hands'clean. We don't see the like of Fatty Walsh every day, and we are sorry that his acquaintance should not have been formed till after his death. A Night of Terror. "Awful anxiety was felt for the widow of the brave General Burn ham of Machias, Me., when the doctors said she conld not live till morning," writes Mis. S. H. Lincoln, who attended her that fearful night. "All thought she must soon, die from Piieuiuonja, but she begged for Dr. King's New Discovery, saying it had more than once saved her life, and had cured her of Consumption. After three doses she slept easily all night, and its further use completely cured her." This marvelous medicine is guaranteed to cure all Throat, Chest and Lnng Diseases. Only 50c and 1.00. Trial bottles free bv the Dorser Drug Co. A child never seems when its face is clean. really happy EMINENT CAROLINIANS, i AX OPINION AS TO MKN THE ABLEST Produced by the State Within the Last Half t'eutury Who is lieally Great est Among Them Names of six (ientleiiieii of Whom North Caro lina Mas Cause to be Prond. (Wi lining on Messenger.) An excellent contemporary at Char- i I a I. St i . w-w ,,,lle' pronounces nr. IValtnr H eVj.rn nAit nr- MU U . -t.... " . " " "-"' .in'.in.i itiviwitij, luc ic;i4Ci. mail born in North Carolina in a half cen tury. It may be correct in its opin ion. We cannot affirm or deny, for we cannot say who is really the great est man born in this State within the last fifty vears. Dr. Page is untitles- tionably a superior man mentally, and may be above all his fellows. We cannot determine this interesting juestion even among those of whom we have more or less knowledge. Some very bright, accomplished men nave teen born in fifty years in this State. There have been some who are decidedly distinguished, honored, useful, but what particular man outranks and overshadows all the other able and well equipped men in natural endowment and acquisition we are not able to determine. Cer tainly with the nresent liirht before us we must leave the question un settled on our part. The Messenger is glad as a faithful North Carolina newspaper that the State is so well supplied with men of fine intellect ual parts, and that there is educa tional progress as well as material progress. We may say that those of whom we have- information or with whom we have jicrsonal acquaintance, who were born within a half century, there are live of whom we would briefly write. They possess excellent mental gifts naturally. They are all well informed in some fields of study, some are learned in a high sense in the sense the word is used in Eng land, but not in the Southern news papers and all have manifested un mistakable ability in certain tields of intellectual excursion. Who have won best the attention of the higher and best filled minds and have made their marks more ineffaceably upon the world of thought and culture time will reveal. We wish to write a few lines con cerning hve notable men who have lived in the time specified above. No doubt there are some others who might be included if we had wider information and a more accurate dis cernment. We are not well enough acquainted, for instance, to write of the lawyers of the State. We could briefly particularize and characterize some of the famous lawyers of the past, but we do know who are the ablest and most learned lawyers under SO years of age in this State, and how they could compare mentally and in accomplishments with those we shall name personally. Hon. Hannis laylor, LL. I)., ex- minister to Spain and distinguished author; Rev. W. W. Moore, D. D., LL. D., professor in the able faculty of Union Theological Seminary, the superior Presbyterian school of the prophets at Richmond, Va.; Walter H. Page, LL. IX, gifted journalist and successful editor of the Boston Allan tic Monthly; Edwin A. Alderman, LL. IX, president of the University of North Carolina, and George T. Win ston, LL. O., president of the Uni- qersity of Texas, are men of decided force, and amplitude of mental re sources. - We are quite sure that by much odds the ablest work that thus far has been produced by any North Carolinian, living or dead, past or present, is Dr. Taylor's very superior and famous work on the llritisn con stitution- It is a work of which to be proud. It is the production of a finely disciplined and vigorous mind, and shows wida reading and ability to grasp and formulate great prin ciples. It is in two large volumes, octavo, and is a text-book in im portant seats of learning in the Old and New worlds. It has been well praised by writers of fame in special departments, and by eminent authors in fields quite similar to that in which Dr. Taylor has achieved such a pro nounced success. In one reading for some years we have met with but one adverse opinion to the merits of the important work, and that was rrom a Northern writer. So we feel war ranted in the opinion that it is a work of more intellectual consequence than even Hon. Thomas Hart Ben ton's "Thirty Years in the United States Senate," a work ,of uncommon interest and abounding in instruc tion in legislation and political his tory during the period of which it treats. Col. Benton's huge work is, we believe, the best expression of vigor of thought and political wisdom of anything that emanated from a North Carolina native prior to the publication of Dr. Taylor's work. He was born in Orange county, two or three miles from the old town ot Hillsboro, and attended the Univer sity of North Carolina. Dr. Tavlor is a distinguished lawyer living in Mobile, Ala. had the Dr. Walter II. Page has advantage of a superior a superior education. . Alter aitenaing two coneges in nis own land he bad the privilege of in- struction in some famous German university, as we have heard. He made his mark while in his early manhood as a journalist, and was ag- gressive, bright, resourceful, lie is bright. also a man of letters, has the true . literary touch, is familiar with hook. has lived in Northern centres of let ters New York and Boston has many acquaintances among the living writers in the North who dominate there and even furnish thought and diversion for thousands of Southern readers. He is a writer of entertain- ; ing articles, is one of the most suc cessful magazine edftors in this country, is a lecturer of most agree able and sparkling qualities sug gestive, affluent, felicitous in phras ing and much excels, as we have SaJ? ?."r"iff i."J3K I ! one of the gifted living sons of North ' Carolina. j Rev. Dr. Moore, professor of Hanip-; den-Sidney, is a preacher of exceed-f ing charm and rarest simplicity, j We once heard him with unrepressed ; delight. We never heard an able man j who was so charmingly simple, easv, j and yet impressive withal, scholarly I and pure in style. He is a profound ; seuoiar, anionic me loremosi oi ills own age in the South and in the United States, we doubt not. He is a thinker as well as a man of genuine learning, a very successful and great ly esteemed teacher in theology, a writer of much purity, perspicacity, ability and simplicity; a man of most engaging character, and we are not at all sure, that taking him all and in all he is not the foremost native North Carolinian in .00 years in origi nal and cultivated powers, and he was born close to the Observer office in Charlotte. We have not conscious ly exaggerated in fclie slightest his most admirable gifts. We do not doubt that scores of educated minis ters in the Presbyterian church will indorse all we have said and claim more in his behalf. We believe; Dr. Moore has written a good deal in bulk of a learned, reflective quality, in monthlies and other media, but the varied productions have not been gathered into book form as yet, we think. We have had occasion several times to write of President Alderman. He is undoubtedly accomplished, versa tile, with rich stores of acquisition upon wiiich to draw at will, with a mind of unusual symmetry and beauty not poetical that we know, but artistic, graceful, appreciative, productive. He is rarely gifted as a lecturer, anil his numerous addresses for some years in this aud other States have given him fame and made him many admirers. A scholarly gentleman who heard hini deliver an address some years ago in a Southern city to a large erowd of educators, when very distinguished men, famous as speakers, were among those who "held forth" a very gifted professor from Cornell (name not recalled) and Dr. J. L. M. Currv, a master on the platform, told us that Dr. Alderman eclipsed them all, carried everybody with him, and when the address ended, many men and ladies rushed to the platform to congratulate him and take him by the hand. He is a writer of such excellence sohnished, so full of grace and felicities of ex pression that we have ventured be fore to sav that we did not know his peer as to style among living North Carolinians of any age, and wher ever born. We merely gave our own conviction and we still hold it. He is a gentleman of education, of scholarship, of fortunate reading in belles lettres, and is of genial and engaging manners. His presidency of the University of North Carolina has been strikingly successful, and he commands the highest respect and confidence of all the friends of the venerable and distinguished seat of learning now in the second century of its usefulness and influence. We do not admit now that it is second to any ojiher Southern university. Dr. Winston is a teacher of much experience and unquestioned success. He is a scholarly man of large oppor tunities. His training has been ex cellent, with abundant advantages for the acquisition of learning. He is distinguished particularly as a pro gressive, aggressive educator whj has the art of building up an institu tion of learning by intense zeal, vigor of pursuit and grasp of the surround ings. Ho is better as a builder per haps than as a holder. He is a North Carolinian of much success, and deserves a place among the ablest men of his State in 50 vears, whether it be limited to live or ten in number. He is president of the University of Texas and has greatly enlarged its usefulness and its patronage. Ihere is still another man we would name of very tine natural mind, for whom the trtwnp of fame has neither blown so loud nor so re peatedly. He is a modest man not of any of the professions of which the others are members, and his name mav be quite unknown to many who read this. He has a superior mind and if Fortune had smiled upon him graciously he might have been fam ous ere this. Unlike others, he has had none of their large advantages of education. He has not had the privilege of asso ciation from bovhood with the best cultured men of his times, and has not breathed tho inspiring atmos phere of the university and mediated in the sequestered vales and walks of philosophy and learning and letters. He began life poor without liberal advantages of any kind, and has all his manhood been a constant toiler, traveler, bread-winner. We have ; known him from boyhood, have met him often times in manhood, have ' watched with interest the growth and ' enrichment of tine faculties we early j discerned, and have been delighted thereat. If he has an equal in j natural gifts or in actual outpost ' from his mental mint among all the ; men born in a half century in North Carolina, and of like opportunities j without the training and benefits of a ' . - . . . i . i 1 liberal education witnout tne anis ; tnat come to a gineu mum irom scuu - ! lastic life, and because of this neces- ' sarily limited in the range of his reading and knowledge, we have not , heard of him. We can only refer to John IL Morris, the untitled, but the intellectual, lie nas written some brilliant articles and verse that is poetry Hon. Hannis Tavlor is a native of Of Of New Bern; Dr. Moore is a native Charlotte; Dr. Pare is a native Wake county; Dr. Alderman is a na" tive of llminton: Dr. mston is a native, we believe, of Bertie county, and Mr. Morris is a native of (iolds boro. All these are capable of re fleetinjr much credit upon them selves and their native North Caro lina. Loner mav thev live. Maid to order- -the waiter girl. POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY. FAITH IS THE BEST WISDOM AND KNOWLEDQE. Voluntary Subjection to the Supreme Being Our Small and Reasonable Service for the Past and Present Blessings and Privileges of Life and for our Future Salvation and Immor tality. (.Virginian and Pilot.) It is the tendency of the lwsitive philosophy of this age to ascribe a i natural and material origin to all I things, and to accept the theory that i the germ and evolution, or develop : ment, is the ultimate, if not the efficient explanation of everything that appeals to our intelligence. How true soever that may be, in fact, it is certainly unsatisfactory. We still lind a mystery yet unexplored that appeals irresistably to our in satiable curiosity. What is the origin of germs? Whence come the force and direction of evolution? Is anything spontaneous? Is a cause obsolutelv necessary as a condition precedent? If so, how could there be any beginning? Wherever we look we see mysteries upon", mys teries, aud are forced to deduce and infer other mysteries from these uinendless concatenation and in ever increasing number; just as every advance into space, in effect, expands the unexplored, and every step in any direction but adds illimitable new spaces beyond, with the beyond ever receding at an accelerated speed as we attempt to approach it. Man is said to be a rational being; all our alleged conclusions, dis coveries, beliefs and hopes are based on this assumption. Yet here he is for a moment, a castaway on a small and probably overlooked or forgotten islet of the" universe, claiming and demanding to know and understand all things, when he cannot, or does not know himself, whence he came or whither he goes! Yes: this ephemeral insect of the hour, man, having eaten of the apple of knowledge and thrown away the core, is devoured by an inappeasible appetite, which he mis takes for capcity, and which is really only a symptom of an incurable in digestion inherited from Eve and the devil! Perhaps, too, it has developed a mental tape-worm, in the likeness of the old serpent that whispered at the ear of our first mother. Instead of gratifying our diseased yearning, or seeking to do so, it would be more rational and beseeming to apply our selves to the discovery of a remedy for our malady, the original sin of desiring to know the unknowable and to betray the secret whereby chaos is reduced to order light has conquered darkness. Why, in a greator matter follow the example of Blue-Beard's wives? Why endeavor to reach and invade the inscrutable heavens? Does the fate of the Tower of Babel and its builders teach us nothing? Most of us have quit looking for the phil osopher's stone, to transmute all other metals into gold; and but few of us are trying to concoct an elixir of life that shall obolish death; although both of these enterprises have been revived in Chicago, where unreason always finds a hospitable home, if not an asylum. But all of us, everywhere are working on, or contributing to, another Tower of Babel. This one Is of gold, and must succeed, say the .prophets of Baal and Mammon. Even the gods from high Olympus will meet us half way and bow to our golden calf, and wisdom herself has no door that will not yield to the golden kev. The only difficulty is an accidental or de signed confusion of sign-boards. maps, routes and surveys, which are so mixed up that there is already a dispute as to whether the Tower is erected on holy grounds, or on the ash-heaps, cinderpiles and slag drums of Sheol. Alas, for the boom, whose foundations are not on the solid rock and whose titleducds miss the true metes and bounds of right! Here is a case where ignorance is better than knowledge: and ''Where ignorance is Miss, 'Tis folly to be wise." It is a matter of faith and morals; not of science and testimony; nor of investigation and report. Cod speaks, not only by His words of revelation, but by His acts. His works. His spirit, and our souls, our consciences and our very being hear, heed and believe, not the teachings of the theologians, not the wire-drawn and hair-splitting dogmas of creeds, nor the rapt visions of saints and mystics, but the spirit of Cod in formed our devout and faitful souls. Who dared raise a doubt, or a ques tion of knowledge or Veracity? The divine truth must be accepted, be lieved and observed, to the best of our nature, faith and ability: for there is no room for argument or dispute where Omnipotence and Omniscience speak together in one voice, not that of Jacob, nor of Esau, but that unmistakable voice which even the devils hear, believe and tremble. There is no superstitition, nor fear, nor error, nor ignorance, nor stupidity, nor humilation. nor slav ery, nor aoiect subservience in this ; provi aad voluntary subjection to lne supreme Being. " It is our small an,i ro;isonable service for the past ! an, present blessings and privileges ' Gf je :m,j for ourfuture salvation an,j inimortalit v. We know Him to lne extent of our capacity: we hear capacity: we and obey: with love and pride; we ' trust, without doubt: we follow with out fear: and we know that neither reason nor science, nor hate and dis belief, can lind spot, blemish, or , error in Him in whom we are.Happy anu oiest is tne man who tuns sur renders to Him, and thus secures the true liberty and indepedence. WHEN YOU are feeling tired and out of sorts you will find Hood's Sarsaparilla 'will do you wonderful good. I3 Bare tO GET HOOD'S. "SUNSHINE IN MY SOUL." A Word About Its Author. BV One of has fallen song has JOHN' U. CLEMKXTS. the churches's and the realm seen one of its noblemen of gospel sweetest. When, on Prof. John busiest pens laid down, the afternoon of April 10. Robson Sweney sakl farewell to earth, the book of an eventful life closed. He was born in 1K37. His musical career began with study under Pro fessor Barili when he was nineteen years old, and he was a band-master in a Delaware regiment during the Civil War. It is as the author of gospel hymn tunes that have found their way around the world that he will longest 1m- remembered, though .California Fio Svi;vr Co.. illustrate his work as leader of music in j the value of obtaining the liquid laxa Bethany Presbyterian Church, Phila- live principles of plants Known to tw delphia. as musical director at the j Ocean Grove canip-meetiiiirs, aud as I teacher of music at the Pennsylvania j '1 Military Academy, has made him tive, clcansimr the system effectually, known to thousands, and no one ever ; dispelling colds, headaches and fevers met him but to love him. ' gently yet promptly anil enabling one We stood together on the platform to overcome habitual constipation pcr of milnnv station onn Qftrt,r...n . manentlv. Its iierfoct freedom from manv miles from the scenes of his labors, and where he had little ' thought of being known, when a lady t stepped up to him and said "Profes- ! sor Sweuey, I believe? I met you at Ocean Grove last vear. I want to i tell you what a help your songs have been to me." Everywhere he went he found friends to admire him, be cause of the enjoyment and help lie had afforded them. So busy was his pen that always once a year, and some years oftener, his publishers put on the market a new book of gospel songs edited by him. These books had large sales. Perhaps no single comjRisition has been sung more than "Beulah Iand," one of his earliest productions. Stories of its use have come back to him from every quarter, to cheer him and make his heart glad with the knowledge of having been a source-of help to many through i. A traveller climbing the Alps one day. came upon an old lady rocking a wee baby in her arms, and singing in her native tongue, while she swung It to and fro: "O Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land." As illustrating how often the most signal success in composition may be thought a failure at the start, Professor Sweney told me that just after the first appearance of "Beulah Land" he was besought by his puli lisher to try his ham at changing it, "as it didn't seem to bo taking very fast." The young author brought it back in a little while with the re mark, "I can't better it by any change I can think of." "All right," said the publisher, "let it stand as it is. The song is beginning to go," and it has been going from that day till this. I can never forget the impression made ujion my mind by his "Sun shine in my Soul" the "first time I heard it. The California delegation to the Christian Endeavor Inter national Convention at Montreal came marching into the large drill-hall singing the sweet, cheering melody, and the song and the singing made a decided hit. This work of Professor Sweney was the first of a long line of "sunshine songs," by many authors that have scattered cheer and bright ness everywhere. It is a notable fact the words of "Sunshine in my Soul" and "More about Jesus," two songs which have won for themselves a lasting name, both came from Miss Hewitt to Professor Sweney in the same mail. One of the unique pictures hung on the walls of my memory is a Sunday afternoon scene in the Elmira, N. Y., Reformatory, where Professor Sweney led the convicts for an hour in a service of gospel song. The large chapel was filled, and as the hundreds of men entered heartily into the spirit of the service, the effect can readily be imagined. Hon. John Wanamaker paid a very touching tribute to the worth of Pro fessor Sweney's work at his funeral, and said, "This blessed man has only climbed up -the mountain, and like Moses entered the Land of Promise. God sent down His angels from the upjier sky with a message for this sweet singer to come to the Land of Song." The singer's voice is still, and "the pen of a ready writer" shall never fashion melodies for earth. He has found sweeter employment in thei "land of unending song" of which he has so often sung. We shall miss him here, but we are thankful for what he has left behind to cheer us "on our pilgrim way." llinyhnmlon, X. V., Christian EmUavor World. 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