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v 11 BlDllfcl | The Fate of a Twe!ve-Year-Yd Boy L ' in Greenville. B SEEMINGLY A PLAIN CASE. A Single Draught of the "D-rlc Corner" Whisky Appears to Hii.e Daho tho Kuclnpcc 4 i At Greenville a little boy just 12^ years old was found dead in the stable ' of J. B. Thomason, on Brown street. His death is t&ly another tragedy of the Dark Corner, for the littlo fellow was raised in that section and he died from the effects of illicit whisky, Joe Turner, together with his two little nephews, went to Greenville and put up for the night at Thomason's feed ' stable. The elder Turner is a bloated, heavy-set fellow with a face as villainous-tvs could be wanted on any stage in heavy tragedy. He is always more or less intoxicated, and it is only with considerable difficulty that an intelligent answer can be gotten Irom him. Turner and his brother were witnesses for th?j State in the case of Joe Robertsou. who was convicted some time ago of the murder of Lance in the Dara Corner. Under the skillful cros*oxaminatiou of Capt J. A. Mouney both Turners showed up to gieat disadvantage, and their evidence was such as to -i T,.:. nni cast suspicion upon mem. iuia ia vmj to 6how the character of the people. Turner states that the dead boy, Oilell Turner, took on,ly one drink of whiskey on the road, bat he had had nothing to eat. After passing the i'oo mill, Odell went to sleep, aud ho was not aroused after reaching town. The uncle was very much under the influence of whisky and paid no attention to him, but the smaller boy tried to wake his cousin and found h m dead. The body of the dead boy showed %, - very plainly the signs of alcoholism, and Dr. W. (t. Brainlett. who testified before the coroner's inquest, gave that tta the cause of his death without an examination of the internal organs. One drink of Dark Corner whisky may have been sufficient to cause his death, as he had not had anything to eat since a verv'early breakfast, and his uncle states that be was nut addicted to the use of whiskey.?TLe State. Killed By His Own Gun. At Packsville, Clarendon count}-, Mr. David Cuttino, a young man about 30 years old, spent the afternoon hunting birds, and when he returned , to the store of his brother, .Mr. U. L. Cuttino, plaoed hiswgnn on the edge of the piazza against a post and started to enter the store. Just then the gun slipped off the edge of the piazza floor. * Mr. Cuttino turned to catch it, but the hammer struck the floor before he could catch it and the gun was discharged. The loads from both barrels entered his side below the point of the ribs, and, ranging upward, causing almost instant death. ! > -IGovsrnor's Private Secretary Dead. Mr. J. M. Cooper, private secretary to the Governor, died iu Columbia last week at the Colombia Hospital from the effects of an operation whioh he bad performed on him. He had lone been a sufferer from appendicitis. He was * ?*>A ?as?s XTi< womatna trora n UU U V UV VQMD ViU. UiO 4VUI?*UU ? v? v taken to Mayesville for interment. It is. of course, impossible to say just yet ' who will be his successor, bnt it ia understood that Mr. Harris will succeed him. He is thoroughly familiar with the duties of the position and would immediately take charge. A Model State Farm. The South Carolina convicts raised 1,500 bales of cotton this year. Of this 1,200 bales grew on 1,400 acres, which ^ ie much better than than the average 'farmer does. Superintendent Neul says next year be will grow a bale to the aero. On the 23rd the penitentiary sold 1,022 bales of cotton to R. J. MeCarley & Co. The lot was divided into ' two, ninety-six and nine huudred and twenty-six bales. The successful firm bid 5.0? cents for tho larger and 0 5-16 on the smaller. There were other bidders also, but the abo^e prices were the highest -lThe Naval Militia. ' I * Adjutant and Inspector General Watts has returned to Columbia from Washington, whither he went in tho interest of the naval militia. reports that all the State will ask for will probably be granted, and that the militia would get the use of boats anil uniforms to be furnished by the government. \ The Secretary of the Navy is thoroughly " in accord with the views of Gcu. Watts as to the needs Of the militia, and will recommend to Congress that all iequests be granted. Sjrfilllpox to Greenvlllr. The board of health of Greenville has officially declared four cases of sm?:l pox existing in that city. All ncccssarv precautions have been taken, it is a a of, to keep the dreaded disease from upreadiug. Later A special from Greenville says it is believed by many that the cases of smallpox ure only aggravated cases of chicken pox. Business goee on, aud there is no fear on the part -of citizens or visitors to the citv. . T Reward of $500. 9WT.m.a lll.n JUV HV. VIPUVB aiiOU w VV, y V* VUMIVOIV/U, IUC #F*?weler8, -who were robbed of $3,000 worth of diamonds last week, have offered $300 reward for the oaptnro of the guilty rarties. Hailed With Delight. A "Washington special to the Register says: Hon, Geo. D. Tillman's prospective candidacy for Governor next year is bailed with delight by his herds of friends who served with him in Congress during fonrteen years, from 1878 to 1892, that he was a member of that body. Fatal Boiler tCxploslori. '* At Cross Hill, in this State, a boiler bursted, fatally wounding three persons 'one white inaa, Mr. Moore, and two negroes. Mr. Moore and one of the negroes died in about two hours after the accident % # THE. NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washlncton Items. TrveMert MeKinlejfc pardoned William E. Burr. Jr.. the St. Louis banker who. on January 27 la*t. was sentenced to five years in th.? nenitentiarv for embezzlement. The raising of duties on hogs and hog products by the French Chamber of Deputies is regarded by officials in Washington as a retaliatory movement against the United States. The State Department is investigating the killing of two American man-o'-war's men in Japan, with a view to demanding reparation. The operation of the Civil Service law was discussed at the last meeting of the Cabinet, and the opinion was unanimous that the law must be upheld. I Domestic. I\ Martin Rood, a watchman In a store at j Canaan, Conn., attacked six burglars and i iptured four, two of whom he had shot , Uown. ! Yapan's new war ship, Chitos, will soon heyflnished at the San Francisco (Cal.) woVicp. AVlersen, the cook of the schooner Olivo | Peea.^ was convicted of murder at Nor folkA'a., and sentenced to be hanged. A lyavy snowstorm prevailed in the northtV^ ttnd western parts of New York State, t" AChntmas rabbit hunt for the poor in ! Monroe \punty, Missouri, netted 8000 ani| mills. v atom PA'at excitement toe Illinois nous? | of IiepresA tatives passed the Republican i Senatorial Hpportionment bill with only ] two votes t\ sp^re. In the SuAerr.eCourt In Brooklyn a jury 1 awarded Jo'.Y J.Lewis $ 1000 damages for | injuries receiVd.in the Merrick road difl| arter. LewisVtb-Ough his guardian, be] gan suit agaiiA t tie Bong Island Railroad Compnny forV?54.000. This is the first suit brought b\W ^irvivor of the disaster. The leading bfteuit manufacturers have announced a A'miltaneous advance in prices, indicating ttyit the proposed $55,000,000 combinat\ony among them is practically accompllsAedi The New EnglamHSociety of Brooklyn held its eighteenthtvumal dinner in Brooklyn. Ono hundreW ,ud forty men and women participated jn the festivities. i Governor Black waAatong the guests and made an address. \ St Clair McKelway, | Senator Hawley ami Giorge W. Smalley j also spoke. John D. Hart, an owner of the fllibusterj lng steamer Laurada.was surrendered by ' one of his bondsmen Philadelphia and taken to the Eastern Ttnltontiary. James R. Qriner, a h>tel proprietor, of Duryea, Penn., shot a,d killed his stepdaughter, Mrs. Schaeffer wlio served him. as cook and sued him for money loaned. Russia lias placed oratrs in San Frnnelsco and Chicago for larg* food supplies for her garrison in Vluljvostock, and Japan is making extensive wval preparations, both countries acting probably with n view to trouble over the Russian occupation at Port Arthur. J. Pierpont Morgan has outlined a plan for a great soiling agency in >ewYork for anthracite coal, theroby dolnr away with the middlemen and saving th?v?ompnnies twenty millions a year. It is proposed to buy the entire output of the rallr>ads. Seven boys, each less than fifteen years of age, were charged with trying to wreck trains in New Jersey. , The Fall P.Irer (Mass.) Manufatturer? Committee sent a reply to the operatives, rejecting their propositions. The sewer-pipe manufacturers eas?t,[ the Mississippi Iilvcr have virtually reached an agreement by which therois to be a central selling agency. Martin J. Oakley, Jr.. a fireman of Eigine Company No. 5, New York Citr, was Hlled by being suffocated by gas In the cellar of 42G East Fourteenth street, where a simll Are was smouldering. Three other flreui n were overcome, and were taken to hospital. A broken gas pipe caused the damage. The Farm and Dairy Product Compaq of Jersey City has filed articles of lncorl . poration at Trenton, the object being to 01 ganize a trust to control the supply of milk V/M.b IV/A MlU UlCUkCi ?ow iVi a. An explosion of a dynamite cartridge In Brooklyn broke six thousand windows in many factories and tenement houses and caused much excitement. A baby weighing nineteen pounds was torn to Mr. and Mrs. Badke, of Oshkosb, Wis. A largely attended sugar beet institute was held at Union, Broome County, N. I. A refinery will be elected at Binghamton. Cashier Long, of the Dime Barings Bank, in Brooklyn, disappeared over a week ago, owing to a temporary aberration, and returned just after the officials, fearing for tho safety of $22,000,000 in securities, had succeeded in having the vault opened by two expert mechanics, who worked for seven days upon it. The securities and the cashier's accounts were found correct. . Julius A. Brose, discount clerk for the State Banking Company in Newark, N. J., was arrested, charged with being a defaulter in the sum of $7200. Washington Hesing, ex-rostmaster of Chicago, died a few days ago. Pardee Hall, at Lafayette College, Easton, Penn., was nearly destroyed by fire. "Jack" Dalton. the Alaska prospector, said in an interview at Seattle, Wash., that horses could be used to better advantage than reindeer in the Klondike relief expedition. Mrs. Flora Yager, supposed to be insane, shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Q. O, Sweet, of Susquehanna, Penn. The bronze tablet parking the birthplace of General Israel Putnam, placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution, was dedicated at Dan vers, Mass. Four notes for $1000 each, which Adolph D. Luctgert, of Chicago, tho alleged murderer of his wife, gave ex-Judge Vincent for legal services, are said to have forged indorsements. William Hanson, n well-known figure among social agitators in New York City, killed himself by taking prussie acid. Ho called himself u "philosophical Anarchist," and committed suicide because he was on object of charity. 1 U'J VUUVUIVI VI VU91VU1? VI JUC T Fla., has been ordered to wateli the tug Dauntless, which is suspected of Retting ready to take another expedition to Cuba. Tne Montgomery nt Pensacola had steam up to intercept any one of the suspected vessels which are taking on cargo at that port. ? A freight train became unmanageable on a mountain grade near Altoona, Penn., and after running twelve miles in as many minutes, crashed into another trnin, injuring several men, probably killing two and wrecking fifty cars. Heavy snows and sleet in Nebraska and Indiana impeded railroad traffic. I Several more New Hampshire cotton mills announced reductions in wages. George J. Fritch. a St. Louis (Mo.) business man, hanged himself on account of despondency over business troubles. Foreign. An Indian newspaper severely criticises the inefficient handling of British troops in tne fighting in Afridiland. The Bengal Chamber of Commerce has asked the Indian Government to establish a gold standard forludia. An >ffl.-ial dispatch from St. Paul do. Loanda, Portuguese Lower Guinea, says that the natives of the Humbe Plateau, in the Portuguese colony of Angola, have massacred a Portuguese officer, a sergeant and twelve men. llelnforeements have been sent from St. Paul do Loanc(a._ i ran lii "| Issued By the Prohibitionists of the State. THEY WANT WHAT WAS WON. r The People Asked for Bread, Will j the Legislature Continue to Give 1 Them -Whiskey? The Prohibitionists, as was recently stated, are hard at work organizing their forces all over the State prepara- i tory to the coming fjght for the cause j to which they have been so devoted. | They have just issued an address which | 3hows that they mean to keep up their i fight. Tho address opens by quoting from the address issued by the Prohibition convention held in Columbia in 1892, as follows: "The prohibitionists of South Carolina, in convention assembled, acknowledging Almighty God as the ; source of all power of government do j hereby, in the name of God and huI manitv, issue to the people of South I Carohtia this address. The liquor traf! Co as now fostered by governments, j protected by laws, entrenched bv long usage and tolerate 1 beyond the bounds of endurauce, imposing enormous avoidable economic burdens upon indivicuals, the family and State; the mother cause of poverty, vice and crime; the nucleus for impurity, anarchy and death, in either high or low license, is unscriptural in principle and contrary to good government and should be prohibited by law. Therefore we appeal to the people who have , the inalienable right of government and who have the right to be heard on 1 all measures affecting them socially, morally, financially and politically, but who have not heretofore fully exercised this right in this question, to 'come to our aid. Wo call upon all ! lovers of righteous government in the ! State to use every effort for the prohibition of this traffic in the State." Then the address says: "On the issue thus 6quarcly presented, the people in thfc primary election, Aug. 80, 1892, voted 10,000 majority for prohibition. Out of a total vote of 80,482, 70,58o were taken in the prohibition boxes 40,888 in iavor, w, r.*i against u. "In the eight counties which gave a majority against prohibition the majorities were small, ranging from 113 to 592, excepting in Charleston, where | only 284 votes were counted for prohibition and 3,938 against it The total majority in these eight oounties was 5,7?7, the other 27 counties giving an aggregate majority of 15,788. The people asked for prohibition and were given the dispensary. The prohibitionists have not shifted their ground 6ince, but stand on the samo platform as in 1892 and call upon the legislature to comply with the demands then made and wnich have never been modifieu by any vote of the people since. This is i the whole question. | "The people asked for bread. Will the legislature continue to give them whiskey?" It is thus seen that the Prohibitionists are demanding that they be given what the people voted for in the first instance. The Alliance In Line. , The Alliances of the State of South i .Carolina are going to be enlisted in very 'l ? * _ * iZiL.iiAii v.ii .1 i' anori oraer in mo u^ut iui ueuor |u iuos or the cotton crop. President Willorn, of the Southern Cotton Growers' | association recently formed in Atlanta, WjM in Colombia a few days ago and ! ftued that at the Atlanta convention I ha had pledged the support of the | SoVth Carolina Alliance to the cotton ' grwers' movement. In view of this, i as n-esident of the State Alliance, he would issue an address to the sub-Allianqps of the State, calling upon them to had special meetings between the first or the year and the second Friday in Ja^iary, for the purpose of taking the pljb adopted by the convention up and giying it careful consideration. He feels tlkt the Allihnce will stand to the plan acfpted to a man, and he wants the South Carolina Alliancemcn to get in line ?d help win the fight, just as they didAn the battle against the jute trust l\e quarterly meetings of the county aitances are to be held all over the StateAn the second Friday in Jannary; hen* it is that Mr. Wilborn will appoint sole day prior to that time for the sub-Allknces to hold these meetings. 1 Paid th?Pcnalty la Lexington. A special flm Lewiedale to the Register of the 1th savs a negro went to the house offlDavia Keisler, a respectable young mite uan who lives six miles north omiis place,and asked Mr. Keisler's wife^- apiece of bread, which she gave him.sShe was in the house alone, about mo hours afterwards, when she was Bddenly seized by the throat and cholml bv some one who slipped up fromSihind her. Mrs. Keisler succeeded ilsereaming, and her screams were hrfc by a family of negroes who livticSose by, whereupon ber assailant H _ l()u the morning of | the 20th the boc 0Man unknown negroB was found about Mmiles north of be<*cA banging to a troa^ Mho uublic toad.hj? body riddled w. '^Lullcts. This curred in one of t.ov^>st peaceable j^H| law-abiding neigb^Moods in Lei^HH ton county. James Downey. 4 . Laurens, ate veteran and was The (i overt an-1 there ta Jones Mas Col. Wilie Jones, of Control, has tenderj^^HH^H^^H to Gov. Ellerbe, High The of the who died on auditorium a. m. to 1 gro in \ THE YEAR 1398. PoO > . ? !? sl^fssS;! CO ? ?13 "$ ?J>j ? ^1*2 -5 ill ? f "5 5 " S3 ? J"--.-,-,-,i|-,9'wr-,-<i-..T^ 9 10 is 12 IS!Mi*5 10 x,i,a x3 ?4ti5 x&| 1617118192031? 17,? 193031,2223 33 34 35 36 27;S8 jg 3425263738.3930' 30 31 1 3' I"*!"-! Feb x a 3' 4 5 Aug. ...12343 6; 678 9 10 11 ia 78 9 ic IX|I3 13 13 14 15 16 17,18 19 14 15 16 ? li ijjao | ?ill 33 33 24 35 36 31 23 23 14 25 2637 37 28 ? 28293031 ... Mar. ... ... 1 3 3 4 5 Sept.... ...... ... 1 aU 6780 10 II 13 4 5 8 7 8 0.10 13!l4 15,l6l7 l8l9 11:13 13 14 ?16 17 201. das* 25 2*, 27 JO 39 30 Jl ... ...|| wjw... Apr 1 a Oct. ..J...I 1 3 4 5 ? 7 8 9 *\ 3 4 5 9 7 10 it la 13 14 13 16 9 10 11 u 13,14*? 17 18 IQ C ai 33 13 16 17 ll 10 ?11 22 142326:27382930 13'24 25 26 27,38 29 ... 1...| 3031 May 1234567 Nov.... ... 1 ? 3) 4 5 I 9 10 II 13 13 14 6; 7 8 Q 10- XX 12 15 16 I7|i3 10 6 3l| ? 14 15 16 17 II 10 32I33 24 33 20 37.18. 20 21 32 23 34 1?20 aglsOlI 17.35 29 30 r June ... ... ... 1 a 31 4; Dec. 113 5 6j 7 8 9)10 xzf 4! 3 6 7 8) 9.10 12:13 14 1516 X7 ? II 13 ? 14 1516x7 igjso.ai'aa 33:24 35. 18 19 20 11 33 3324 2617 38:19 3o|...|..~l 13526137118291301311 Festivals and Fasti. Epiphany*. January C Septuagesima 8unday February C ,'Quinquagesima Shrove Sunday Feb. 30 [Ash Wednesday February 9) First Sunday In Lent February 71 [St. Patrick Maraii.17 Palm Sunday. April 3 GoodFrlday 7 April 8 iE|ste.r Sunday April 10 J.ow Sunday .' April 17 llogation Sunday 31 ay 15 Ascension Sunday Holy Thursday. .May 19 Pentecost Wliit Sunday. May 29 Trinity Sunday .Tune 5 Corpus Chrlstl June 9 St. John Baptist June 24 Michielraas Day September 29 First Sunday in Advent November 27 St. Andrew November 30 Christmas Day December 25 Morning and Evening: Stars. Mercury will bo Morning Star about Jan uary 29, May 28, SeDtcmDer '^1, aaa evening Star about April 10, August 8 and December 3. Yenus will be Morning Star till February 15; then Evening Star till December 1; and then Morning Star again the rest of the year. Eclipses For the Year. In the year 1893 there will bo six eclipses, three of the sun nnd threo of the moon. , I. A partial eclipse of the moon, January 7. Visible more or les3 to North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. il. A total eclipse of the sun,'January 22. Invisible to North America. Visible to Ontral and Eastern Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Path of totality running through jCentral Africa, India and the Chinese Empire. f (III. A partial eclipse of the meon, July 9. Invisiblo to North AmerioA. Visible more or less to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and to thp eastern portion of South America. Magnitude of eclipse =0.934. IV. An annual eclipse of the 6un. July 13. Invisible to North America. Visiblo to the 8outh Pacific Ocean and the southern; Extremity of South America. % V. A partial eclipse of the sun, December 13. Small and unimportant. Yisibleinthe Southern Ocean. VI. A total oolipso of the moon, Decern-' t>er 27. Visible more or less to all the con-: tinents of the world oxcept Australia, and ito the Atlantic Ocean. MISS LEILA HERBERT A 5UICIOL. The Daughter of the. ex-Secretary of the Navy Kills Herself in Washington. Miss Leila Herbert, the young: aad RC" camplished daughter of Hilary A. Herbertf Secretary of tho Navy during President Cleveland's last administration, committed suicide by leaping from the third story of her father's house, in Washington. Her skull was crushed and nock broken by the tall of nearly fifty feet. . More than two months ago-Miss Herbert: was thrown from a horse while visiting', friends in Virginia, and sustained injuries which threatened to leave her a cripple fori life. The possibility of such an affliction! caused a melancholy which led to her sui-! clde. Miss Herbert also keenly regretted her| retirement from the high social positionj she occupied during her fathor's service as; Secretary of the Navy. Recognized as one of the Cabinet ladies, the especial friend and favorite of Mrs. Cleveland, petted and flattered in the highest oiroles, Miss Hergi bert enjoyed to the utmost tho four of her father's term as a Cabinet office^^H Miss Leila Herbert was tho eldest^^^H Secretary Herbert's three children, a charming figure in Washington^^^^HH She came with her father when he was elected to once took charge of his hou^^^^^^^^H making the Herbert home^^^^^^^f^H attractive and oomfortabl^^^H^^^^M from the spirit of true gave an fashionabhyj^^^^H^^^^^^^K became was the circle bliities Her social wtfl R,jDfl Ing vrfl tvl V Plil M18ICI1. The Clergy of the State All Have One Text. HABIT OF CARRYING FIREARMS, It is Thought the Sermons Will Have O I _l. i. llfiA.1. Al. ~ T tsuuiu weigui u uu me Jj^ibiuiuro On Laws That .Seem to Be Dead. The invitation of Bishop Ellison Capers, to all denominations to join the Episcopal clergy on the 19th in attempting to check the murder fever in the State was generally accepted. The ! Methodist conferance at Flore'nce j passed resolutions to accept the invitation. Bishop Capers preached in Orangeburg on the line of his address to the olergy, but made a point on the pre- ; vailing habit of carrying concealed . weapons by all classes of men in flagrant disregard of law. In Cokimbia, Kev. Mr. Mitchell, of j Good Shepherd, scored the juries for failure to render ^ue verdicts; referred to the dispensary constabulary and the methods of shooting down men accused of petty crimes, tie made a sensational reference to the South Carolina Senate, having elected J. Calhoun Caughmau to a high office in that body when he had I helped lynch a "poor, helplebs negro" i I_ aL . T : a. *11 A . 1 << 1 1 in me -Liexiugigo jau auu uau uousieu , of and exhibited the blood stains on his 1 clothing. " Air. Mitchell showed that j 209 homicides had been committed in j this State in twelve months. Dr. W. E. Evans, of Trinity, spok6 ' mnch on the same line, deploring the 1 fall of the State, which was once a leader ingreatneBs and chivalry and nobleness, bat was now a leader in crime. Various causes were assigned for so i mnch murder. The ministers said that J the pardoning power of the Governor and the plea of self defense at trials had been abused until men had come to see how easy it wa3 to kill and cb- ' cape. The State Legislature will meet in ' January, and it is believed that the sermons will have some weight with iU.i u i_ A. i:. :*u 1..,. kUUL UUU) 1U UCUiiUg W1W11 LOIUIIU IttWO , which seem to be dead. The State, in an editorial of the 21st, j among other things has the following to say of the number of murders committed in this State: "The eminent criminologist, Prof. Cesare Lombroso, whose waitings lit ve world wide celebrity and whose judg-j ments are everywhere accepted as the j highest authority, has an article in the J current number of the North American 1 Keview which throws much light on the , subject. Treating the (fuestion "Whyj Homicides has Increased in the Unitedi States, Prof. Lambroso presents tb^ following authentic figures of the re^H tive prevalence of homicides in E^^B peaii countries: "Italy, 9(5 per 100,000 inhab)j^^^| Spain 53 per 100,000 inhrbitants^^BH ugal, 25 per 100,000 in habitan^B|^H tria, 25 per 100,000 inhabitai^^^HH gary, 75 per 100,000 Sweden and Norway, lS^^H^HBH inhabitants; France and^^^HHH per 100,000 inhabitant^^^^^^^^B per 100,000 inbabitant^^^H^^B^H 100,000 inhabitants.^^HH^B^^^B Car ol i and one year the accidental is South Carolu^HKfl^H^^HBBH homicidj^^^^HRHI^H^B^^E th a dABH^^^^^RB less lessjfl WEEK OF PRAYER. H Topic* Expounded by the Kor. C. 1? P*I lner, Ephratah, N. Y. n It is tbe prerogative oi the Evangelical Alliance to annually prepare and pnbllsl ' subjects for prayer and exposition durine tho week of special Invocation, wliich is al? I ways the first week of the new year. Tb< j use of these subjects is not obligatory. Tti< pastors may use them or not, according t< their discretion. But while this Is true there is but little disposition on the part a onristiaa ministers to aeviate irom um suggested themes on account of the exoef lent judgment evinced in their selection! The topics for the eoming prayer seasoi are of oeculiar Interest on account oi events which have transpired during the past year and of existing conditions. It la safe to say that ninety per cent, of all whl observe the sacred periol will not be ln<Ui' fcront to the following line of thought: Sunday, January 2- Sermon on Kx. l&V. This text has been selected to prepare the Christian public to come into the Di'vlne presence aright, and to permanently reside in the glory of His love. ThewttJ^Bi by which wo are to enter God's temple {through the most natural and only H < clous means, which is prayer. If the 'tlons which form the.substanoe of ours^^^^B [plications bo for what wo need, and 'presented in the right spirit, we?*nay SH | poet a heavenly reply. There shall 'showers of blessings. Bat if we attempt approach the Lord in an unbecoming mai^^^H ner for that which is unnecessary, y?nMH jonly have no right to expect an answus^^^H but should be condemned. When the way approach has been suggested by the paM^^H tors, wo are asked to urge the people tq^^H live in the spifit of prayer. This is thetestj^^H fit true prayer. There fire many who praw at home and in public whose experience and conduct evince lack of sincerity. Hi is good to profess to be a praying man; but it is better to be such under all cir-> cumstances. He who Drays only wfth the"' lips cannot expect bis supplications to rteal jH higher than the carrying power of the hu-j man voice, whilo he who prays from thej heart is justified in looking for an answe^^^f which is demonstrated by the conslstenew^^H of his actions. ^^B Monday, Jnnnnry 3 Confession tad H| Thanksgiving. ^^B There are two characteristics of prsvsj which are abeolately necessary?confession! B and thanksgiving. Yet it is doubtful if anjx ^B fiart of prayer is more ignored. Supplier ion predominates. The very things#! ^B should do the most we do the least. What we need is not to be compared with what we constantly receive. By remembering H the tendency of human nature an explana- B tion arises. None of us are disposed to In- V dulge in confession of sin, for we like to B make ourselves think we are quite 'good. B Confession, however, is what we need. W< have not read the Bible as we should.. & Prayer has been neglected. We have don? Jess for the Church and humanity than we should have done. At the remembranoe of these things the spirit of thanksgiving arises. God has not dealt with n? accord- a lng to our sins. Though we have beeh in- ^ consistent?still his blessings have crowned our days. There are many who have been deprived of the very things we It will be of no use for us to ettead meetings dnring the week of prayer, we are willing to confess to God eu^B^B^B and thank Him for all his past for prayer without these Tuesday, January 4?Chnr^^^^^HHH^B Is very pleasant for denominationolists and^^^^^^^^^^^BB union once a vearto the great He id Bgynutunl < ^Mgrve one