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jlanriage noti<^^ius^?d free. 1 RATES REASON ABLE. - .. ? Obituaries over ten line charged for at JOB PRIATIA6 A SPECIALTY. ? J? I regular advertising rates. ^ VOL, XXIII. LEXINGTON. S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1893. NO. 43. J G. M HARM AN. Editor. -i iibiittwi ?i ? ii Highest of all in Leavening Pc I\V/W! A x AB5QUU k A FULL SYNOPSIS " "V OF HON. W. H. BBAWLEY'S Speech cn the Silver Qasstios. Mr. Brawley said: That the history of legislation is the repealing of bad laws enacted . to abate the fervid hopes of misguided majorities which . in the nature of things must be so, / for the best that can be done is to provide such {temporary expedients as will meet the exigencies before us. The question before the House is the repeal of the Sherman Act. Through - * * ? * ' ?a ? j two weexs 01 aeoaie not out? wwu rhas been said in its favor, it is universally considered a failure, disowned by its putative father, it has no defender. The Democratic party demands its repeal. The Republican party does not sustain it. Business interests from all sections cry for its repeal and the President recommends that it be wiped out from the statute books as the means of restoring confidence in the public credit. The remedy is so simple that it is amaz^ ing that there should be hesitation. The repeal of itself may be no great thing, the fact that the peopie think so, will, of itself, help to cure the disease which is more menm tal than physical. Our opponents oppose repeal unless'something favor^ able to silver be given, and use this, hateful, misbegotten, injurious thing as a club to extort terms. Br The steady recurrence of the phe^L^nomenon thai silver by means of legto M?HB^!WPmienx^^ause* and the that this belief is strongest in W those parts of our country that are backward in industrial developments f has led to the opinion in some quarters L tbat it is due to the desire of debtor | classes to relieve themselves on easy L terms, is a proposition as unjust as P it is untrue. i The clear understanding of a mysterious evil is necessary for its removal. Trained' and experienced thinkers on monetary subjects are rare in all communities, and erroneous opinions, like vague mists, distort and obscure popular vision. There are certain prevalent delusions distrubi~g the popular mind. The first is, that all available money of the coun r- try is in the hands of the few whose interest it is to contract its volume in order to increase its value, an error arising- from confounding capital ~ o w 4 with currency, and the circulation by designing parties of conspiracies on kjJj^the part of the rich for oppression Vof the poor. The second is that the p Bp maintainance of the gold standard Wm tends to make money dear and a K double standard to make it more abundant. The truth is tbat the |".L question of standard has in itself no relevancy to the volume of currency, and there is no fixed relation between the volume of transactions and the standard that measures them. The 'j -1?-j 3 ?1 c-l4 goia sutuuaiu riisicu j iuua lucft lu the suspension of specie payments in 1861, while the volume of the currency was regulated by the States. <? The Act of 1873 only enacted into & law what was a well recognized fact. As evidence of this fact from the foundation of the government only Bright million of silver dollars had K>een put in circulation. The third is that as the gold and [^silver coinage of the world being M about equal in volume, that to stop the purchase of silver would strike down half the money and tend to H increase the wealtn of the rich and Ithe debts ot tne poor. mis Dili toesnot drive out any of our silver coin but the whole is maintained with the pledge of the Government to keep it at par with gold. The fourth is that England adopted a gold standard because she is a creditor nation, and that it is to oui injury and unpatriotic for us tc maintain such standard, and appeals to the spirit of "76" have been con tinuously made to resist such domina tion. Englaud adopted the golc standard before the close of the lasl * I t 1 A I M ? century, out couiu not, carry u mu effect on account of the Napoleonic wars before 1816, when instead oi "being a creditor nation she was strug gling with a gigantic debt. The Ulited States is her only rival for tlx large commerce of the world whiel be hao to fear, and has mor9 to gaii >wer.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report. TELY PURE than any other nation from an abandonment of that standard which all civilized people have accepted. HTU?rtlrl/\crv**QQrl ! TilLI4- uic uiusi nwtoj/jcuu | sion in the South is that there is some mysterious connection between the price of silver and of cotton j which no one can intelligently explain. Last year when the anti option bill was under discussion the cry was that the main cause of the low price of cotton was due to dealing in futures. This fallacy was exploded 1 by the rise in the price of cotton and the discussion of that subject when it was shown by an array of indisput1 able figures that the range of prices I from 1850 to 1860 averaged 10 35-100 J j cents per pound, when in 1800-'61 1 ! the production of the country was 1 i four million bales, and from 1880 to 1 ! 1890, the average price was 10.24 ! cents per pound, and the production ; from 1890-'91 was nine million bales. < with the further fact that the bales ! I of today are heavier than they were ' thirty years ago. If prices were 1 effected by the quantity of silver { money in circulation, they wou-d be ' | greatly higher now than they were thirty years ago, ior there is now nearly fifty times more silver in the ' country than then; and if prices were determined by the amount of | circulation, as would seem to be natural, prices should be higher now ' : than in 1878. when the alleged crime was committed against silver and when the cumulation per capita was ?18.04, while in 1893 it is $23.80. ; These indisputable facts should con. i vince us that the lack of prosperity ! of silver or the contraction of the c currency. ! J While it is true that our farmers can buy a larger amount of such things which contribute to their comj fort with the produce of their farms, I even at the present low prices, than ever before, it is a fact that they are i not prosperous and that the low prices of their produce is one of the j elements of their misfortunes. ?' ?i *i > il i J1 The sixth a iusion is mar mere is a creditor class in this country seek- j ing to oppress the debtor class and , is iu combination with corpoiations . for the purpose of reducing the remainder of the people to poverty and slavery?a delusion founded on ignorance and prejudice the child of ignorance. The truth is that Railroads, manii- , facturers and industrial corporations are our largest borrowers and it is their interest that farmers should have plenty of money so that trade and traffic and travel be increased. The money lender is always unpopular, it has always been so; when in need and we want to borrow he is a benefactor and friend, but when pay day comes, I he is a tyrant and oppressor. Hateful as he may be let him live that we may borrow from him. Ke made no pretentions to finan! eering or political economy for bis : way of life led to other fields. The business of making laws is a serious one and he realized the unavoidable ; uncertainty which attends every measure of legislation. The multij tudious facts of all recorded experi| euce tend to dispel the popular n<j tion that the sufferings of our people I are removeable and that somebody should remove them. The hard "worked and overburdened people of our land are looking to us with eager faith, their passions have been aroused and their desires inflamed t by builders of political air castles, who have dilated upon the possibili I ties of relief, and developed delusive and groundless hopes being so i aroused are not disposed to listen to those who are somewhat acquainted j with laws which govern human affairs ! and are accustomed to consider their t ; mandates and limitations. There " | never was a time when men should ? : be more tolerant of each others opin> ions. This is an age of doubt and - uncertainty, the whole world seems - ! out of joint. The vast changes I j wrought by new inventions with their j t accompanying displacement of labor ) and dislocation of capital liave un; settled everything in the material f world. The foundation of religious - beliefs have been shaken in the 3 moral world and there is an anxious 3 sense of impending change thvough1 out Christendom. What will be the l outcome of these moral and material I revolutions is not given to us to know. I Remembering then that intensity of belief is no sign of truth, and that it prevails most among those who di.Ter most, let us confine ourselves to the attempt to provide a temporary relief for an impending evil. Amid the | " r . I cloud of conflicting opinions one met stands out clear, that under the Sherman Act gold has been driven 1 out of our currency as silver has been infused into it, so that we are brought perilously near the silver 1 standard. ' 1 The gold in the treasury upon i which the whole structure of our f currency rests has steadily gone < dowrn while the only source from 1 which it could be replenished (cus- * torn duties) has dried up. It is not t surprising that the steady disap- 1 nearance of e^old receipts and the do- ( r - o cline of the gold reserve in the treas- 1 ury should shake confidence. * That there is real danger that the country will slip from a gold to a sil- s ver standard unless something he 8 done to avoid it is is fact so patent * that none will deny it. The abuses heaped upon the money power, against England, Wall Street, * Gold bugs and everybody who are ^ supposed ta be not friendly to silver ^ are far away from the real danger * * * * * ? 11 (J which has not yet been touched. We are descending 3teadily from a c gold standard to a silver standard, a c silver monometallism. The experience v 3' all ft?2S is that when gold is the 1 standard a great deal of silver is in * circulation, while no gold remains in J circulation in countries in which sil- ^ ver is the standard. If we should . 3ink to a silver standard all of our 1 gold will (U&ippesr and the cur c. rency be not only contracted but that 1 remaining would shrivel up in its v purchasing power and all labor be paid in silver dollars worth between Sfty and sixty cents. No words can * ?xagerat^ so great a calamity. Our ^ - i x. - l.i. n 1. _ i: t ? 1 present iroume wouiu ue iiKt? u zephyr to a cyclone. Bi-metallism is c not now a practical question; there is* * aothing before the Ifouse tending to 2 secure it .No one whose opinion isjf1 Sw>e secured by free coinage of J)v silver in this country alone at the ratio of 16 or 20 to one. c There is a great confusion of ideas m the subjecti to some bi metalism simply means the use of gold and j silver in the currency, in this sense ?very country has it and everybody ^ "avors it; but bi-metallism proper ^ neans q foed relation,. established . md hxed by law whereby both are ^ ?oined without discrimination at a I 8 ovfnin fivpd ratio; in this sense there I . , - - g is no civilized or uncivilized nation ^ which is bi-wetallip. V/herever bic metallism existed it has been due to c artificial regulations and manipulations of governments. So long as ( there was comparative stability in the production aDd price of the two metals the greater part of the world adhered to the bi-metallic system, which adherence tended to preserve the steadiness of the price of the two metals. This stability in price . being due mainly to the action of ^ Ann OA/d TT*l-?ZVn ev, & viva r?_ 1 gUVCiUUlCUi/^ vrootu nutii 1/uv wv tice ceased, and will not and cannot revive until the practice revives, and it is to this sort of hi metallism that the Democratic party stands pledged. ' By our pledge we are bound to make honest efforts to secure a bimetallic system, either through international agreement or by such safepuards of legislation as will secure that end. Our honor and interests demand that we make an honest effort to secure it and would be much mistaken and gr? atly disappointed if some well digested plan is not proposed before our term of service ends. AVhen it is proposed it should be considered without passion or -'..j-v. prejudice. .cm urinous uimuuiuco stand in its way, for events for the last twenty years Lave been against it, during this period there has been such a great economic change that we may be said to live in a new world and appearances indicate this great new industrial world prefers silver to gold. The exact date when the world began to discard silver cannot be precisely fixed but was gradual in its operation. Just as surely as there has been a constant tendency from the lower to the higher forms of creation, just so surely has the economic wnrlrl sniifht after pnld the higher metal and discarded silver. Our friends on the other side are constantly harping on the ''scramble for gold" among the nations and predict i great evils therefrom. Nations seek i gold because they want it and want i it because it is the money of the j world. We hear of no scramble for j : silver. Nations do not scramble for j I it because they do not want it. This i seems to be a bad omen for silver. Why should we weigh ourselves down ! with that which other nations dis card. Are we not as good as they I are we not entitled to the best. It j is our pride and boast that we have i the best of every thing else, why j iheu should we not have tho best I money. Nobody disputes that gold ; is the best money?best for our own ! business because we are no longer an isolated people: circumstances which separated us from the great commonwealth of nations have fallen away; we stand among them as equals and : as rivals for the worlds commerce. Sold is the money of the world. It s best for the laboring man, for it is ;he wages of his toil. In the good j )ld days there was no question about t among our fathers, they discussed md accepted it as the proper mone;ary measure; those who favored it vere not viilified as trators to their 1 ;ountry. There were no Silver Kings 1 n those days who made life a burden i >y their harangues. Finding our people in the South ] md West suffering from real griev ] mces arising from causes which are 1 ittle comprehended, for we are a ] iimple people not versed in monetary ! icience, they have by constant itera < lit* annVnafriOQ an/J falcftlirubric 1 iUllf J I Wi.iviiv/vyv*.'^ J >ropagated delusions which have ] aken possession of their minds and 1 hey honestly believe that the alleged i lemonetization of silver is the prime >ause of all of their troubles. Many f those who ought to know better vere dupes at first, but now are iin>osters, for finding the silver cult so irmly fixed they prefer to be its jriests and to perpetuate ignorance est they should be discredited when he people awaken to the truth. It. s loudly proclaimed that the public opinion of this country is overwhelmngly in favor of free coinage of sil j rer, that ifc i? naw aroused aud will < jweep put of ppwer the party qr the } npn who oppose it. An elightened ( )ubiic opiuiop isjjh^istable. It , youkl bo foolish ^HM^rd it, ( Chat opinion, in "r ^^^Shtrv, unloubiedlv favors a bi-matellic syS-, < em to be secured by intemational: ' .greement, or by the safeguards of*, i in iou-j, and which has pievafo^^b his-country for more than hal^4P(( enturv, for an inferior, uncertain ,ud fluctuating ptaprlard, 1 That there is ap uninstructed pub- * ic opinion that clamors for free coin. ] * .ge at ail hazards, that men blinded i >y the extremes of misery, are ready < or any desperate measures that prom- < ses relief, and that self seeking demgogues are stimulating thejr pus- i ions to such a degree that their rea;on is for a time in abeyance is, un- ; lappily too true, and it is not with?ut some peril that men resist these , lemands when the public mind is ip , i fever and ferment. But it is only the base and timid who are fright j ned by the threats that have been i ittered here. , Majorities are not always right. It rmc r\f fVio Tnoinriff tVlftf T C*0 UH\j I l/JVV Ui vuv VMMt :ried? "Crucify him; crucify him:" it ,vas the majority that sent Aridities uto exile and gave Socrates hemlock ror his supper. My people are a borrowing people, diey need capital to unlock the stores of nature, to develop to the highest lecrree their agricultural resources, o o to buihl factories and to multiply all those industrial pursuits which in this day are the apparatus of civili zation. The capital they need must come from the older communities. To obtain it we cannot afford to juggle with the currency. Least of all can we afford to separate ourselves from ^ iL A /VXAA ^ A^? lUtJ glfUC liiiuuuo nucic mo gxoniox part of our products find a market. There is among those nations large accumulations of capital seeking investment, but frightened by repeated and disastrious experiences it demands above all things else, security. Any possibility of repayment in money of less value than that which is loaned will drive it from us. My people are by tradition and habit au honest people. They want no man's money without an equivalent. They have suffered as few people have sunered irom oppressions, tne unjust discriminations, and the intolerable exactions of this government, but their crowning misfortune would be the imposition, of an unsound, a fluctuating and a vitiated currency. I know there is a strong opinion among them opposed to the views I entertain and that my course here j means either retirement from public i life or another hard and bitter con- j test and I am weary of conflicts. But the duty seems to me so plain, that I cannot hesitate to save them if I can in spite of themselves, trusting to time to moderate their harsh judgment of me. In the consciousness of such ultimate vindication, I can in my feebleness adopt the words of the mighty Luther: "If there were as many devils in Worms as there I are tiles on the house tops, I would go oo,v oudyhen I have rendered them my acouut, I will say, as he did before the Council, "Here I stand, I caniot do otherwise. God help me. Alien." After payiig a glowing tribute to the PresideD, Mr. Brawley closed I b}r saying: >o let his great example f K 4 Am?f ail n ir> a?ih nr auiuii 11 i (i L ucai itu aiuuui.^ our public inn may learn that truth and courage xe often the highest statesmanship and that our young men may kn^* that Because righta^gbt, to follow right, ^ Were wisdom iirthescoru of consequences. c Stand iv tho Pledges. 11 n: o., oi Augusta Chronice. hi It is reasonably certain that the Senate will coicur in the action of S( the House in repealing the purchas- ^ ing clause of the Sherman act. It is probable that the Senate will V1 pass the Voorlnes bill, which pro- C( poses to issue currency to national ^ banks on the face value of bonds de- 11 posited. This-.'Will instantly add S19,000,000 to the circulating medium ^f the country. * father, the Yoor- ^ hees bill in itself would make possi- ^ ble such addition. Granted that the ^ i i *n in.. l l\ ' c tl LJUU&a W1U prouipnv Hi4? piulfer, the Gorman amendment would ^ remedy an existing evil and give as- a aurance for (he future, That is the banks can now contract their cur- a rency at will. Indeed, they need not e put a dollar in circulation if they so * sleet. Mr. Gorman's amendment, b which Mr. Yoorhees ha* expressed u l willingness to rcdept, provides that 71 before a national bank can withdraw r my of its currency, application at 13 Bixty days must be made to the com- e troller of the currency for perinis- h sioii to make such withdrawal; the j i imenairient fqrtber provides that the 11 aggregated withdrawals shall iu t jalaudar month exceed three million v iollars. . ' v The bill should be amended in an- I >ther important particular, namely: t When a given amount of currency is t issued to a bant,say $50, (KM', on o i deposit of Fni^cd | r be required io put it in circulation, and keep it in p jirculation subject to the provisions I s if the Gorman amendment. j b Let us suppose that all this has ; e -kAon drmp and that, tlin AYilson bill I 1] fVKtt rr-t-T r-rrr- i .t - - 7. ~ k. . pid the Yoqrhees bill, amended, have v received the president's approvals v tfili satisfy the people so far as the ! v ijnestion of financial relief is col-'t jemed? Not at all. j c Every Democratic pledge on this j t important subject tyu$fc b,e redeemed. j t TLe Democratic, platform 011 which ! s Democracy swept ihe country in ; ? 1892, declares that "we hold to the a f use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country." * v If this declaration means anything * 1 t it means bi-meiallLm. A Democratic j Congress and a President cannot stop ! 1 short of bi-metallism in the fullest, ! r broadest sense of the word. Decla tions will not suffice; the pledges I r*\\jnr\ in Hi a nlotf/irm must, hp re- ! ' glTUU lit CUV jy ? v/ i >* ? ? , deeded by Rtat?ite. r * *" ^ Again, the platform pledged the party "to the the coinage of both silver and gold without discriminating against either metal and (with- ( out) charge of mintage/' \ It is alleged that Mr. Bourk Coch \ ran declared in his speech that the j word "free" was not in the Chicago , platform. If by this hair splitting as to words, the distinguished gen , tleman meant to say that the party l is not pledged to the free coinage of , silver and gold: he has studied the platform through a glass darkly. He misinterprets the?-language of the platform and places the party in the position of one who plays upon words , in order to deceive. The platform means exactly what it says: it is for the free coinage of ; silver and gold, and the people will I not be content until this pledge is redeemed. It should be redeemed without delay. Again, the platform declared in | favor of the repeal of the ten per I cent, tax on State banks; and yet Mr. ! Springer, chairman of the Committee ; on Banks and Currency hastens to J say that his committee will not re- j port a bill carrying out this pledge { of the party. We believe that it will be discov- j ered that Mr. Springer is not the j committee on the currency. We be- \ lieve the committee will do its duty ; by promptly reporting a bill which i i will strike from the statute books of j | the Union that iniquitous tax. Give the people the free coinage i of silver and rrold: nivc the people w" ' r> u i * tLe privilege of Slate banks of issur; ; give the people genuine tariff reform, : and every section of the country will enter upon an era of prosperity ! hitherto unknown in this great conn- ! try. One may do without mankind, but one has need of a friend. THE LOVE OF MO.\EY. LEV. THOMAS DIXON'S SECOND SERMON ON MONEY AND CHRISTIANITY. t is Not Money, but the Undue Love of It. Which is the Great Evil Heartless Proverbs of Hard Hearted Money Seekers?Murderers in Trade. Cape Charles, Ya., July i).?Rev. homas Dixon, Jr., preached on obb's island today the second serton in the series on the question of toney and its relation to the gospel f Christ. The proprietors of the ? otel on the island have arranged a 'hedule of three boats on Sundays ) convey the people from the mainaid to the island to attend the serices. The text chosen for the disburse today was the proverb: "He lat hath an evil eye U&steth aftor dies," the specific subject being the Money Mania/' It is not a sin to be rich if our iches are righteously obtained. ^ .nd yet a thousand dangers beset be man who sets oyt with the d?ermination to l?o rich. It is easier 3i* a camel to go through the eye ot needle than for a rich man to oner the kingdom of heaven. He ia lmost sure to reach the crisis in his xperienco when he will say, "Soul, ake thine ease; I have much goods lid up for thee in store," and enter pop 3 downward course from that eminent The determination to get ich at all hazards may be termed a Qodern disease. It is a money aania. It is the evil eye of the closQg days of this century. It has hrown its spell over millions. It 3 a disease which sweeps before it he whole lifttwe of man, that lays raste not only the fairest hearts and *hat might be the fairest homes, x 11 II L 1 L :_i,i u. >Ul IL1HL lays waste wuuii migui uv i he gardens of the nations. It is his modern disease of the evil eye f haste for riches Firsts?It denies and abrogat is the >aramotint law of industry. In the weat of man's brow shall he eat iread, decreed the eternal God, choed the oteimal nature; And yet pen iu modern times have said they fill do nothing of the sort. They fill eat bread without labor. They dll eat bread by trick, by chicanery, >v overreaching, by swindling, by heating, by humbug. This abrogaion of the p$rpT^au}it law of indusry brings us face to face with the ubmerged millions in the industrial rorld, with the countless thousands ,ud hundreds of thousands who cry or bread, who aj-e tn the icious undertow of this angry sea of 1 uman avarice and are dragged to lie bottom of the deepest sea of hunau misery. In the mildest developnents of this mania it is simply gamding, and its necessary corollaries ire hard times, panics and the perineal disturbances of the indysri'ial vorjd \yhiej1. rasult in thousands of v recks. COTTAGE BY THE SEA* Second?It leads to a thousand jritnes. The desire and determina;iou to get rich, and that shortly, is the power that leads the man in ;rqstpd with money to risk tnat money in questionable transactions, [t is this baste to be rich that sketches for your cashier and your merchant and your bank officer, the wild dreams of luxury which lead at last to an outer act of criminality. ii ? 1 1 TOT ''I THEY'RE WAY AHEAD of the ordinary, commonplace pills in every way. That is the reason why Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are sold on trial, as it were. They're guaranteed. If they don't give satisfaction, you can have your money back. In Biliousness, or in any disorder of the stomach and bowels, you need these little " Pellets." They re small, easy to take, and perfectly natural in the way they work, v- (iftof thorn* vnil ICauviua ai W4 ^ ^ ^ ^ ? real and lasting good. They promptly and permanently cure Sick or Bilious Headaches, Constipation, Jaundice, Dizziness, Sour Stomach, Indigestion, and consequent stupor or drowsiness. ***[>> is offered by rw the manufactI urers of Dr. Reward Sase's Ca'arrh ^ - Remedy, for a I case Cal"]"TTTTf" tarr^ *n 1 1V.HU n ill v>< they cannot cure, no matter how bad, or how long standing. The cashier from his desk (beams of ; d a palace, of horses and carriages, and if the cottage by the sea, a magnificent oj mansion in the city. He is not will-! tl iug to obtain his monev bv the slow i I process of work. He believes that , B he can stake a certain sum and win: tl with the turn of the wheel of fortune hi can be rich in a day. He stake tl other people's,money, and the result j hi is crime. These crimes are but sim- ; C ply eceeutric aud aesthetic develop- . tl ments of the older crimes against j C person founded on the same priuci- | ri pie. | c< A liighw .yman is a highwayman | b because he determines to be rich sud- ; h denly. The burglar is a burglar be. h cause he desires to get rich in a night. j c< And the murderer destroys his victims ! u for his money because he desires to be ^ rich immediately. Highway robbery, a! 1 i ? r ^w ourgiary, muruer ior money, mt- me original brutal elements out of which ^ the more aesthetic modern developments of hasty riches have sprung. Sl It is this mania that leads to a tbou sand crimes tod^^ft^s^^^eietyT"^ ThedTveTtbcfgambling den, saloon the ai tiie brothel, have as their fundauien- e< tal inspiration the desire for sudden ai riches. There are individual idiosyn- " cracies that develop them, but j ^ there are thousands of lives drawn i . i\ 1 ! ci 10 mis Wllinpooi Vl \ac uuu unuc IIJ I the atractive power of the evil eye of \ " money. A man believes that he can j ^ become rich rapidly by keeping a i ^ sa|oou. He is willing to trade in ku- f,< man hearts auct human blood to acoomplish that purpose. A man is n willing to debauch his^ fellow man in ^ a gambling hell, believing that he ^ may suddenly acquire - great for- si tune. ^ T?E BUST MAN. Third?This mania as it grows in . d men emphasizes and develops all that is central in self. It necessarily makes a man mean and selfish. It e. causes a man to enter his heart's affection upon that one thing. Ee ^ TEerewill his heart be also. It*5J will harden and make mean the poor man who is alfficted with the mania as well as the rich who have ; gone beyond the hope of recovery. ^ I heard of an old farmer in Maine ^ who sent a son into the war. He ^ was killed in battle. The old man afterward expressed his regrets. He said that he had made a great j ^ miefabo* thnt nnnht to have had a I ' ?t?- o ? substitute. He said that he could not get a man anywhere in the country to do as much work 011 the farm ^ as that boy and tba.t he was the smallest ffttev he ever saw. An old m^n who had emphasized this thought in his life above all ^ others went to a meat market ami de- , l( cided to content himself with a bone , * r for soup. He asked the market man ?a big, fat. Dutchman, jolly and ^ good natural?the price of a bone which he eyed wistfully. The mar- * v * v ket man told" him nothing at all; take the bone along if he wanted it. The j old man who was a little hard of c hearing, put his hand to his ear * and asked, "Cannot you knock on a ^ little!" The market man laughingingly replied, "Yes, he would take ? 10 cents for it." The old man paid r the dime and went away chuckliug over his great bargain. It is 1 necessarily true that as we develop this principle in life we overreach ^ ourselves. The attempt to develop self is sure in the process to destroy j self. j Fourth?This mania surely and thoroughly destroys Christain life, j The man afflicted with it begins at , i 1 once to cultivate these delightful | mottoes, old but awful in their mean j ing: i < "Dog eat dog." ! . "Devil take care of the hindmost." | i I "Business is business. < "The best man is the man that i gets there." j j "Resolved, That we will love our- j ooli'no qc nnr npiirlibnr loves himself, | 0C1 I VO vw* and we will make it hot for any man j than tries to outdo us in this labor of ; , love.*' He prays only that familiar prayer, j "Lord bless me and my wife, my son ! John, liis wife, us four and 110 more.' j A man died the other day in the i fellowship of a Chiistian church. ; He possessed millions, but he wrote i that prayer out in his will when he j left the earth: "Lord, bless me and j my wife, my son John and his wife, j we four and no more. Amen. The i devil take care of the balance." CORNER IN CROWNS. I do not know what a man wlio . f makes this principle the ruling one of his lite will do if he ever gets to ' heaven. They say that some of these ; men who love money, who think ! money, who breathe money, are go- j ing to heaven. Their names are ou ! the church books. AVhat they will j do when they get there 1 cannot un- ' erstand. Sam Jones declares that some of them get there the balance f the poeple will have to sleep with leir pocketbcoks under their pillow, am not sure but that he is light, [ow a man who has snent his lifp in le supreme effort to create a corner l various commodities and prey on le necessities of bis fellow rneD, bow e can enter the kingdom of Jesus hrist and be comfortable is more lan I can understand, even with brist who is lcve m l peace >nd gbtcousness. His life means a )rner. It means to get his neighor at a disadvantage and to prey on is necessities. He lives in corners, j i i e tmiiKs in corners, be moves in Drners. When he dies, he will die 1 a corner, and it he ever gets to eaven he will sit down in a corner, ml there will be a corner in crowns % ithin 24 hours after he gets there if lev tui ri hiui loose. It is very easy to say that this is a iperllcirtl view of the modern raetbls of the commercial wqjlcLancL ~ fftC-' upon impractical education .. .l : :i.i - i i -r. un liuputssiuie lueais. it is very rsy to say that the person is talking, oil he lines not know what he is liking, and ho dops not know what o is talking about. Again I repeat, nv hen can lay an egg. "While I in not perform that feat, I am a bet?r judge of eggs than any hen in le world. Moial judgment is not enendent mirm Anv infimAto tnr.irT 1 - JT J ?,A :lge of technicalities. Great moral uths are so simple that a wayfaring mn, though a fool, need not err lerein. A lie is a lie. Theft i9 left. Gambling is gambling. A pade is a spade. And that is all lere is to it. TEN MILLION DOLLARS. Fifth?It is this mania that re-, uces life to the standard of a miserble commercial dividend. Men fflicted with this disease refuse to oter upon any work that does not ay in a commercial sense. The first uestion they ask is. Will it pay? I sk a man eathen. He says:^\v^^^^5ay^^ foes it pay? I ask him how. Well," he says, "how much did you pend on the heathen last year?" I ill him $10,000,000. "How many id you save ?" I tell him so many h.ousands. He says: "It don't pay. 'hey cost too much. They come do high. They are not worth it. 'oo much money a head." This is l - ...i.- ?e i- ?? ;v Lie untn wlo reiuses to suDScnue loney to buy the new hearse, because e said he never bad any use for the Id one, aud he gave $10 for that. !be idea of a commercial dividend pplied to life invariably reduces it o an absurdity. No work of love pays. Eliminate ave from life, and there is nothing eft but death. A workingman left lis anvil and watched by the bedside if hia dviny wife. She was & little, withered, tired woman, her face >inched and wan aDd overwrought nth long years of toil. He was a rvnof cl.rml/laro/3 ctrrmnr imbed, muscular giant. He gave lays and weeks and months to the enderest ministry of love by her >edside. He lost his position, his dace in the ranks of a difficult trade n which to maintain himself. He an the risk of being a tramp, but he lever left her bedside till the end. iVith streaming eyes he followed the n-eacher to the door and asked if here were any hope. He lost his vages for months. He was brought ;o the verge- of starvation until he lad to accept the charity of strang?rs. It did not pay. No work of ove pay. But shall love cease to ninister to its loved one? Children do not pay. It does not pay to have children. They are a constant expense. They add nothing to the income of household while they are children. Yet shall children cease to be born? My boy has never paid a cent. He has done nothing but spend. He has been a constant expense for doctor's bills, nurse's bills, clothes, shoes, hats. He asked me For 5 cents as I went out of the house last trip. He has cost me more than SI.000 in bills for doctors. He grows more and more expensive every day. He has never added one dime to my income. He has been a constant drain of expense. But as I take bim up into my arms and look into bis face I would not sell bim for 'be world piled with gold to the stars. And yet be does not pay. The truth is that life does not consist in the abundance of things that a man may possess SHEAVES OF LOVE. Dr. George Shindy, the great physician, left his rich patients and went on a vacation to the mountains for absolute rest. He left orders that he should be called on no account; he would answer no call as a physician. While resting in the hammock Continued on fourth page.