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The Abbeville Press and Bannem BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. ESTABLISHED THE ABBKFILLE OIL?FERTILIZER 00. J ALLEN SMITH. J. M. HARDEN*. W. 1?. FERGUSON. President. Manager. Superintendent. II % Tblfl Cotton plnnt wan fertilized with oar No notion s^ed meal cotton need meal. ' whs used on tbl* plant. The above cut i9 an exact reproduction of photograph of two nlanta from same plantation this reason. r V V- * * * WE ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY Hulls and Meal for Cattle Food. And will GIN your Cotton at current rates. frW Pay Highest Market Price for Cotton Seed. I NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS. * I For tbe purpose of accommodating the public iu the matter of taking tax re-! turns, I will fulfill the appointments below mentioned, either in person or by deputy. Note the dates and save yourself a trip to Abbeville. Remember when you sign a return, for yourself or for another, you take an oath that you have returned the property therein named at its true value. " 1 lit . ....J nnno npnnlw o amull frunlinri Kememoer auo u you uavc umnwt ouu icium ?iv?.v, ?uV ? ......? thereof, you lay your^glf liable to an investigation by the Assessing Board and to prosecution before the Auditor. We wish only a fair and honest return. The appolntmeqfb are as follows: Ninety-Six, from 2 o'clock p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, until 1 o'clock p. m. Jan. 10 v Greenwood, fron? 2 o'clock Wednesday 16th until 2 o'clock Friday 18th. Coronaca, Jan. 19tb, Saturday, until arrival of down train. Hodges, Saturday and Monday, 19th and 21st of January. Verdery, Monday, Jan. 21st. Bradley, Tuesday, Jan. 22d. Troy, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 23rd and 24th. MeCormick, Frldaj and Saturday, Jan. 25th and 26th. 'v Bordeaux, Monday, Jan. 28th. Willingtor, Tuesday, Jan. 29th. Mt. Carinel, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 30th and 31st. Calhoun Falls, Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 4th and 5th. Lowndesville, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6th and 7th. rv*"" 1 An Tiisoitnu an/4 WcHnosHov Vth MH nnH fit h JA/UmilOt i UVOMPJ MUM If * VW. - W ? Due West, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 7th and 8th. Mountaio View, Jau. 11th and 12th at Alliance Ginnery. Antreville, Jan. lltb and 12th at McAdams store. Cedar Springs, Jau. 12th at Hunter* store. Long Cane, Jan. 11th and 12th at residence of A. F. Calvert. Abbeville, from 1st of January uutil 2Uth of February, 1895, except Wednesday, Jan. l(Hh, Thursday, Jan. 17th, Friday, Jau. 18, and Saturday and Monday, Jan. 19ih and 21st, and Feb. 4tb, 5th, Gtb and 7th. On these dates the Auditor and his Assistant will be absent Ailing the above appointments. Tax pay era will observe the following instructions : Where you have land in more than one township don't fall to make separate returns, giving the exact number of acres in each. Present your plats and deeds to the Auditor where you have detected an er ror in your former return, in order to verify a correction. W. W. BSADLET, Auditor. ' v. * THIS WAIT '?= * A' 11 UIJ n < \ -v rim . A i? j P R RPF With a full and select lin > K DRUGS, CHEMICALS, MEDICIN1 OILS, . GLASS, PUTTY Is in the market to down competition. making any purchases. ?=*I am Boun^L to I "Our Fighting Force." "Only 20,000 Men Available." So says General Ruggles in his report to the Secretary of War. The law as defined in the United States Revised Statutes allows ns to have ! 155,000 men, but tor the last five years the average number of enlisted men and officers has been only 20,488, and deducting those on the sick-list we have 20,0o0 available men ready to be called into the field on an emergency. General Reggies earnestly recommends to the Secretary of War that the Regular Army be increased to 30,fwtfl mon in thnt fhern mnv iilwnvs 'be an available force of 25,000 men. This) number includes cavalry, artillery und | infantry. I General Iluggles further reports that the Indian as a ?uldier is not a success, und he does not encourage further Indian enlistments. If ihe autonomy of our country were Jo be preserved, and its government sustained by purely brute force, or if the protection of our 13,000 miles of unforlfied sea coast was to be defended bodily by these25,000 men, we should consider this recommendation good, but entirely inadequate for so greutan undertaking. It would give 555 men to each of the forty five states, omitting the territories. The mockery of a standing army ! Our security depends upon the justness and equality of our laws; our policy of neutrality ; our remoteness from any enemy, or rather the want of f'* ntfu/iL- na u nrl tho nonprnil U1I CUCUIJ IV Hvvavn u9( miiv* vuv ^ law-abiding character of our citizens? in short, the native, practical common fense of the American people. We know that war means a destruction of life and property, of manufacturing, com merical and financial interests, of death and poverty to the common people, while religion and education, the arts and the sciences remain at a standstill. It were better Congress appropriate money for a great national institution of learning than for an increase to the standing army. B. A. L. . The Fleet ins: Yenrw. The close of any one year ought to awaken, not melancholy, Jut serious, thought. The swiftly passing hours, days, and months of life suggest lessons which we may ponder with protit. Earthly pursuits or pleasures should not to preoccupy the mind during the holiday season us to displace quit meditation. The year just now closing has furnished each one a history, every page of which is full of deepest meaning. There have been joys and sorrows, sunshine and shadow, that have made life real to us. We cannot pass again the same highway ; tbe record has been made, a record that is in many respects unlike that of any other year of our life, and quite dissimilar to the experience of any other person. One thing, however, all have exl>erienced in cimraon, namely, the loving care of our heavenly Father. There has not beeu an hour without His gentle hand to guide us if we were willing to be directed by Him. He has been all the while intent upon our instruction in the tilings of supreme value?the things that make for peace and for the perfecting of character. Even our unanswered prayers have been the token of His care; for the withholding the best gifts is .His way oftentimes to secure our affections- ana spiritual enrichment. Mistakes have marred the record. We cannot in one sense erase them; but in another and higher sense we can count them forever buried. Our blessed Saviour asks us to bring every error ol judgment, ami every evu thing, and lay them down at His feet, He can counteract the effect of all; He will forgive all; He will smile and accept every contrite, believing heart, however unworthy. Let us not, therefore, commit the error of dwelliug with a morbid sensitiveness upon the unfaithful past. Kather let us turn our faces toward the future with new purpose and hope. * "I didn't know yo' could read, JJre'r Dowue3T." Downey (apparently much interested in his paper): uO yes, I'se read ebber since 1 wus: er boy." "Den how how comes it dat you'se readin' dat paper upside down ?" "I always reads dat way, den I'se got a de bottom facts without habing ter read down the whole column." - I i npi :ed, W " A <lf vy \/1. 3S, PAINrS, and Specialties, Call on liiin before 'leased ? i How Ertriio Prrnclicil. "When T get big enough. I'm going to be a preacher," said Eddie one day. "What is a preacher," asked grand-ma. Eddie looked surprised. "Don't you know what a preacher is? A preacher is Ihe man that tells peoples what the Bible means. And be says, 'Thirdly, my brethren,' and every body listens to him. It's nice to have people listen to you." Grand-ma smiled. "I think you are big enough to preach now," she said. "Really and truly, grand-ma?" asked tbe little boy eagerly. "Yes, realy and truly." I'm '(raid not," said Eddie, after a few minutes of thought, "or I'd know how, and I don't." What does tbe preacher do first?" asked grand-ma. "He takes a text, and then he 'splains it. I can't do that." "Oh yes, you can," said grandma. "Here is a good text for you to explain: 'He ye kind one to another.' " "There's nothing to 'splain 'bout that," said Eddie. Von just lie kind to everybody, and that's all there is about it." "A good text, though, for my little prcacher's first sermon. I should like to hear him preach from it for a week." "Preach a week ? Why grand-ma, r nnnlf ? " Can't you be kind to everybody you meet for one week-?" Eddie looked thoughtful. "Would that be preaching?" he asked. "It would, and the very best kind. A good preacher bus to preach that way, or people will not listen to what he says in the pulpit." "Well," Raid Eddie with a sigh, "I suppose I can try ; but I wasn't thinking 'bout that kind of preaching." "You'll be showing everybody what that verse in the Bible means, you know," said grand-ma. "It's Dot Kina to tne reacner i<> whiht per in school," said Eddie, th?? next day ; and he did not whisper once. "It's not kind to Bridget to play along the road and keep my dbinor waiting, and he hurried home jrom school. "It's not being kind to mamma not to do errands promptly." he said ; aud he did quickly and well whatever he was bid. Everyday and all day he thought about what wa* kind, and tried to do it. The end of the week came. "How do you ]ike preaching?" asked grand-ma. "Why, J like it; but, grand-ma, I guess everybody has been preaching about that text. For everybody has been so kind to me." The Hard Lesoon, "I can't do it. It's so hard." "O. ye.s you c.in, my bird. You know very well that mama would not give you anything to do whicb you could not do." "But I want to go and see ray little birds." "And I waut to go to my garden. I'm sure it wants watering. All the seeds are coming up." "They can wait, dear. They are busy about their own work." "O, mama, little plants don't have to work, do they?" 'Everything, which Ciod has made has work of some kind." "Are you going out, mama?" asked Lula, she saw her puttiug her linnet, nn. ""Yes." Here wag an end of all hope of help in the hard lesson. Lulapul the end of her pencil iu her mouth as ?ho looked forlornly after her. ''I hope," said mama as she went out of the door, "that you will do your lesson before you do anything el9e. 'Duty before pleasure' is a good old saying. I heard it wheu I was a little girl. And it is Just as guod for little girls now as it was then." "Dear me!" said Lula, with a sigh as her mama closed the door. "I wonder why we have to do hard things wheu there are so many easy things to do. I wonder why we have to study when we want to play. Jt's nice out in the sunsbiue. 1 want to * t<?a.i_ r see II my JIlMtJ unua mc ail buic. t wonder where kilty is. I guess I'll just go for a little while and do my lesson afterwards." Lulu passed an unt hole which she had not seen before. "How soon they have made it," she said. "How hard those little mites must have worked." | Yes, things were busy. The morning glory vine was doing its bet-t to hurry uu to the top of an old trellis, to cover it with beauty. Tbc apple blossoms were just putting out, doing their share, Lulu knew, in the making of the rich fruit. The bees were buzzing around the lilrc bushes, gathering tbeir store of honey. "I wish I hadn't left, my lesson," said the little girl. "Wliai will mama say when she comes and finds it not done? She will think [ um not ?-o good as the birds and the bees and blossoms. But it* I try hard perhaps I can get it done before she comes." "Better late than never," is another good old Buying. Back at her slate with bright eyes and quick wits, Lulu put her whole heart in her lesson. And she had her reward in mama's pleasant smile and in the delightful feeling of duty done. And how sweet was the play which came afterwards. Try it for your.-olves, little ones. Visitor?"What bright eyes you have, my little man. Yon yet plenty of sleep, I presume." Little Man ? "Yes'm. Mamma makes me go to bed every uight at eight o'clock." Visitor?"So you will keep strong and healthy?" Little Man?"No'rn. Ngo she can mend my pains." As our body cast* a shadow, so does our character cast an influence. Asa shadow may he either hen ling or hurtful. so does influence either Mess or damn. It costs niuedollars for five minutes' conversation by telephone between Jfew York and Chicago. ftppve you made your contribution of cern for the hungry folks in Nebraska? not, wh v not \ I f I DeHcrtiiitf Christ Jesun, I J5Y KEV. THEODORE U. CUY1>ER, I). I). From a Roman prison Paul writes of Demas as his "fellow-prisoner in Christ . Jesus." From the same place he sadly ! writes to Timothy some time alteri ward: "Donas hath forsaken me. ! having loved this present world." i There is the secret of this lamentable j desertion hy a man who had won a ! good name "as a soldier of Jesus Christ, i What was true of Demas is true of every one who has backslidden and brought reproach on hisOhristiau profession. There is always a secret reason. If we could get at the inside history of every backsiidder, or of every open apostate, we might find such indictments as these written beside their names : "Deserted from inordinate greed for moneyor "Deserted from love of the wine cup, or soire other sensual Just;" or ".Deserted through neglect, of his Bible and his cloi-et;" I or "Deserted through the enticements !of godless associates or "Deserted from tampering with skeptical books or kindred poisons of faith."&\Ve are not Jeft to conjecture as to the reason of poor Denias's desertion ; lie forsook his post of duty from "loveof this present world." Was Demas a genuine Christian at the start? Did he sink into utter apostasy ? The Bible narrative does not give a point blank answer to either of these questions. There is, indeed, a tradition that he fell away utterly from the faith and became a priest in a heathen temple. But without attaching any weight to this tradition, it is enough to know that his loyalty to his Master gave way under strong temptation. It ought to be known also that every Christian is liable to strong temptations, aud that our Master never promises to keep any man who ventures out of the path of duty aud over into the enemy's territory. No Christian is safe when he voluntarily yields to any seductive influence, ami I"'" o uinfnl affpnrirm irrnw until It roots Jeaun Christ out of the heart. We are not mere passive machines; we are responsible free agents; and there is a deeply true sense in which it depends upon every professed Christian whether he is saved or not. "1 say unto you all, Watch!" "Be ye not conformed to the world ;" "Lei him tbat thinueth lie s'andeth take heed lest he fall;" "He that eudureth to the end shall be saved." What do all these solemn admonitions mean except to keep us from presumption, and to teach us that no Christian is absolutely &afe unless he holds fast to his Lord and Saviour? JJemas felj. So may you or to Demas began to love the world. When that love began to work into his heart it ate out his spirituality aud his loyalty to his Master. Let the same false, sinful love begin to eat into our hearts, and it will produce the ( same result. It i9 a subtle, silent process, this pushing Christ off of the , heart-throne, and sometimes it is a \ slow process. Very few Christians go , to pieces sudden ly. Everything depends upon the heart. Christian brother, the vital question with us is, do we keep up a close , heart-fellowship with our Saviour? Do we maintain this by prayer, by , watchfulness, by Bible study, and by , aggressive Christian activities for the good of others ? Does the love of Christ con-train us, as the master-purpose of our lives ? It is the people of low vi tality that?as Dr. Maclaren says? "catch all the fevers that are going." Let us be ou our guard. He who be- < comes worldly-minded is soon drawn i away from loyalty to Christ. When i we begin to love the world, the love ol I Christ cools off. When we begin I. I worship gold, we noon cease to wor- I ship God. When we begin to relish i haunts of sinful pleasure, we lose our < relish for the place of prayer. When I we take to irreligious books we drop < the Bible. When the greedy lusts of the flesh or the lusts of the world are iallowed to eat into the heart, they ! weaken conscience, and deaden the spiritual ^flections, and grieve away the Holy Spirit, and then we are ready ; to desert. "Demus hath forsakeu me,'' j cries the grand old caged hero in ' fern's prison. Anu jcsuh unrisi says ol" every backslidding Christian, ' ' Thou liast forsaken Me, and art lov- 1 ing this present world !" < j Desertions of Christ begin with occasional neglects of duty, and occasion- 1 I ul yiel<iing to what we may regard as 1 small sins. "'This once only" is what ( ; we whisper to ourselves. "This once ' I only" lias made all the tipplers, and * 'all the gamblers, and all the adulter- ! jers, and all the Sabbath bereakers? 1 ye*, and all the backsliilers froma pure, s i'lean, honest, andgoiily life. When a * Christian deserts Christ, he soon iinds ' that Christ has deserted him. Peace ' is gone. purity is gone, power is gone, 1 and be scion learus that it is an evil ( ' A- -i 4. r?ii,? a | and U tutter inmg 10 utrpuri innu iui- I living God. If any reader of this ari tide is in such a state of backsliding ; ^ ! I entreat him to "repent and do his a first works." It will be awful to die in such a condition. Hasten back to a Christ ! Hasten to thy desei ted post c of duty ! Seek reconverting grace, and i: : then, like the deserting Peter, thou v i may est be restored, and saved as a t "brand from the burning !"?The Lon- 0 j don Freeman. 1 t j I'ra.yilia: Always. I We are not like little children, who v liroforth from their father's house in j | the morning to spend the day away|r from him, and only return at evening , to find rest ami a shelter. No, we are ( with Him all the while, and He is t with us. We never leave His pres- l( ence. He is with us through all our ;] weariness and work to help us. We \ ! may tell our needs and look for Plis f laid just as often as we please to ask Him. He will never weary of our j |asking; hut we often grow weary in i(, Celling Him things. Many, many j I times, as we go through our daily L j tasks, we may look up to Him, and h the hrief ejaculations may convey onr L !i inmost desires. Sitting at tiie desk! t;.? write?if that he our occupation? Imw delightful to speak to Him ; or. doing business with others, sonm of, them sharp-witted, some of them dull 1i and stupid, how niuch easier to con tl'ol our temper because of an^tfpi- l i....i ..? l Innt nt'iii'up 1 TI r lUill IlilUit? WI rnvuv pinj'.! a< w ( would influence others for go&d, 1'{>W| much better lo (Jo it by the way of: the throue of grace! Ic -- 5 A \ Why Not Dance? BY REV. J.E. MARVIN, PRESBYTERIAN. 1. T cannot dance with a clear confidence, before God, and therefore I should abstain. All branches of the church have condemned dancing as carnal and immoral, inconsistent with the Christian profession. 3. Even the sacred books of the Pugans declare it an immoral amusement. 4. Pagan moralists, like Cicero, call it indlcent and voluptuous. ' 5. Dancing was one great meant by which Nero corrupted Rome. (i. It has a bad name for professing Christians, and it dishonors the cause. 7 I'lio Imct nnrt nuia^ i1?vnnt f'liris. tians do not want to dance. 8. None but slide-backers and unconverted persons are found dancing. 0. It is not a favorite arausetnent even with conscientious worldlings. 10. It is one of the most favorite amusements with the vile everywhere. 11. The world has no confidence in the piety of church members who dance. . 12. It is a distinctive badge everywhere of worldlinessand worldly conformity. 13. Jt destroys a professing Cbristian'fc testimony, influence and usefulness everywhere. 14. The dancing of sexes together, as in modern times, was never practiced by the virtuous in Bible times. 15. Dancing grieves and offends all faithful pastors and devout Christians. 10. It is a comnanion vice with driukingand many other Hints. 17. It dissipates the mind, corrupts the heurt, and sears the conscience. 18. The decollette dress of the dance is an immoral invention of harlots. l'J. The "German" and other round dances are favorites in brothels. 20. The liberties indulged in dancing are nowhere else allowed in deeent society, and under other circumstances they furnish ground for divorce. 21. It brings virtue into close connection with vice at late hours and under excitement, in which virtue is well-nigh powerless. 22. Meu do not choose to dance with tnemselves, nor even w?th their own wives and sisters. 23. Beyond the thrill of music; and poetry of motion, it seems to have a sex reference. 24. Indeed it is so allied to licentiousness that the vilest places in our cities are called "Dance bouses." 25. The police report shows that a very large proportion of abandoned women are ruined in connection with the dance. 20. T cannot dance in modern society to the glory of God, nor can anyone. 27. If Jesus Christ were here I am 3ure He would not go with me to a dancing party, and I cannot ask or obtain His blessing upon it. 28. I would not like to meet death it a dance and in a ball dress. 5W. 1 would nouiKe 10 oe iouuu m a ball-room when the Lord comes. 30. And finally: I have no desire to dance, because my soul is filled with the joy of God's salvation, aud my life with the privileges of His service. "IF." Such a little word, and yet it includes so much! Hours, days, years?yes, a whole lifetime?may be shrouded in clouds, thwarted in happiness, and turned away from true success ^by that seemingly insignificant monosyllable hiding in the heart's core, like i worm in the petals of a flower. A Joubting spirit!?how it has trou oled and hindered us during the days 3f the year just gone. "O, bow much more glorious record Had the ungels of me kept, Had f done, instead of doubled. Hud I warred, Instead of wept " * r J nflJ) io *"111 (]UICII1CSS UUU V>"ll Ilucutc ir? itreugth; in anxiety and questioning;, weakness and failure. Let us eave our doubts with the old year, iiid take with us into 1895 the cheerful hope and courageous assurance which is the birthright of every jhild of God. As to the question, 'Am I truly His child?" surely ;here should be no hesitation. That 'act may be settled fully and foriver. "If we confess our sins, He aithful and just to forgive us our ;ins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness "fie that heaieth My word, and believeth on Him that *-? 1 lent Me, ham everlasting me, auu i ball not come, into comdemnation ; )ut it passed from death unto life." [fa doubt remains as to our true reation to (Jod. the wisest tiling we :an do is to be honest with ourselves, md see whether there is not some iccret sin cherished in the heart vhich we have not frankly, and with i full desire to have it eleaused away, . 'confessed" to Him. The only "it" [bout the clearisiug is in our part of onfessiou. "If our heart condemn is not, then liaye we confidence toward tJod." Settled, then, the quesion as to being truly His child, why arry a burden of doubt as to any- i hing concering our spirtual or tempiral welfare? To doubt is disloyalty. 'Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, he Holy One of Israel; I am the 3 H... n.wl nihinh tllppl jOI U lllj UUU mnvu ... ? it profit, which leadeth then l?y the vay that thou shouldest go;" "For ! the Lord thy God will hold thy ight hand, saying: unto thee, Fear lot; I will help thee; ''And jiod is able to make all grace abound oward you ; that ye, always having ill suliiciency in all tilings, may ibouud to every good work." Now, f we have a question which robs us ?f peace, let us take heart from these ind many more such assurances in lis word; let this be our rest and} :onfidence for the future, because it: s God who speaks; and no good I hing which He has spoken concer-j ng His people has failed. All has, j ind will forever, come to pass.?X- Y. \d locate. ? The law of the harvest is to reap nore than you sow. Sow an act, and ou reap a habit, sow a habit, and you cap a destiny.?George Dana Boardnan.' I It takes a braver man to forgive an j meruy than to make one ThnnjrhtA for the The beginning of a n^w good time for many tbi^HH^HH good time to lay plans 'hHHH enterprises, to pay oflo^^^HHHa settle up outstanding accounts^E^^B gin a new, clear set of books. Business men make an era oflHH ginning of the New Year;Wr^^M want to make a change in ^Wir-t^H ployes, or in their mode of carrytfiflH their affairs, this, they fold, is time to make it. j2fl| 11 is a good time for prospect andi^H trospect in morals as well as -in bu^H ness. It is a good time for us, as Cbrfl[ tians, to take account of stock, and sure bow we stand toward our Mat^H and our fellow-men. Are we?we will not say doii^H but?trying to do our duty, aa lj^H down for us in the life and teaobing^HS our SaVior, Christ? Are we any n^HM er that beautiful standard of life love which he gave, than we we^^^9 year ago, or have we fallen bacl^HH one or the other?which ? J9m| There is no standing still^yBS Christian life ; remember we forward or we slip back, ifl H easier for us to do right than year ago, it must be harder, a^B^ES wrong act or word must come I^B H readily than before. If we broken the thread of evil held us, it has grown strode* each passing week, and the tia^^Hfl coming when it will hold us as wi^^B chain that a giant's strength coal^HH break. gBttH A traveler, iiiakiag a murlro Sf Vv?t luaius IKUU ujf lUC Uiliep(/JUs~^i^^0B pauses. New Year's days are^RH uiileposts on the journey of life^^n| is well to mark, as we reach bow far we have traveled. never tell how many mlleposts tHflfl may be; but we may be sure HH tbe number is lessening with eVBj fresh one we pass. Lord, thou knHH est. There are many questions to as^HH selves at these milepoets. ^Hg9 First, are we on therigbt For there are ma*jj-/T)y-pSth^E^H cross ways from the straight road^B^H we have set out to walk iu, AH moment's idle straying might leal H into' one, where we might wand^^EH days and months before we disc^^^f ed our error. "Examine vourael^HB Tben we find there is no way oflHH ting back into the right road cross-track ; we must retrace our uo matter bow slow and pain&^Hfl effort, before we can again treH H right path. Kev.2:5. Another traveler might rest/roiB^H journey at some friendly hotoe orl^Hfl tor rnauy days together ; but on HHSflj pathway we can not rest even for a<u^H The ceaseless march of years bears ^9 on, some whither ; either we journ^B onward on the heavenly rood, oralo^^B the dangerous pathway that lead*A9 misery and death. Whither is my daily walk and c^^H wersfltion IpftrMnor mp nni/anl nr ward ? is a good tbough/t for of us at this New Year'? 90:12?Southern Christian The Military SpiriKHH^SS sign HUH The most daTi^^ free country is ^ferSfll^BKHflNM War at the best ismmton^^^H^H No nation should encourajS^SHH spirit among its people. for war often precipates a is cheap. It costs neitheflBH^HH| treasure?at least no blood traordinary outlay of treasHB^^HBj thing that tends toward w^HjH^BH discouraged. At present^^^^HB^B spirit dominates nearly society. Those who pi]^HB|^HHH God and follow the tejflraffigHSH Nazarene have gone wiJ^BHB^^Sfl training. Higher inaHM^^^Hgg learning subordinate which elevate, refine to those which degradflM^^^HK^H all the baser passions JHdRHHHH tions were suggtfitedfn^HH^H^H last aunual report" oT Gen^PI^HffH to the secretary of war. He mends^an increase of the army navy, auu lucreaoeu uumu|jitti???u?n|i fortifications and arms so tbat'we be prepared for an invasion from BH eign powers. Gen. Schofleld flj Bj not earn his living by the sweat oflBB face to direct the movements of aiHEH gauization that has done since the last shot at ? Appomatto^B than trench upon the-liberties of people and eat out their substanceH He draws a princely salary and glve^H no thought of from whence it coum^| or through what channel it pro^^H ed. The average reader would ? H pose that, from his expressed he regards the normal conditio^^^B this people as one of war: that tneJH should not relax their diligence, but^ enlarge their paraphernalia of war and equipment for the field and hospital. Were it not for (to coin a new f title) Darnal salvation warriors, the 1 bloodthirsty professed followers of I Christ, hi' would be slow Hoviliah schme. He*^^H^9Hfl[ through a professed iutej^^^^^^H country. War is not to^BSfl^^^H of the wageworkers of^J^w^aHHH Prepraation for for war whoever^^^^^^^^^H ther purpose of increastafHHH^flS^HB enlarging the navy ciou that it is for the purpose^^^HHH iug easy places for a few hun<^H^^9 social an<l military parasites^^^^H men to C'ougress who have to uip all such schemes at tion.?Kansas Agitator (Jiin>Flriiii; on a Baltlc^^Hfl^^^N ltefore guns are uieoh^^HflB^^I decks are cleared for aotioo^BflE^B^^H chairs in tne cauiu are uuWmNHUI tied together, whilst movaHKBH^^B is secured. The doctor ma^HHnSBKfl every man has had cotton wool. jHHHHH the charges dous, the to stern. TJ^R99HHngRH9| is so grea^B^H3NQ|BM9 and woodwork is^HnHM^H resembles wree^JBSEngMRB^HH ed her practice/ standing heay across men become BHR^9HHH| Health, H|n|n|