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BILL ARP As Bad as -A.nanias . Bill -A.rpa th? Atlante. C Honesty ifl the best policy," said Boa Franklin, and Richard Whatley, the great theologian, added, "But he vrho acts on that principle is not an honest man." 'Die truth is, that real, genuine honesty is not a policy at all, for poli cy requires thought, plan and general ly some dissimulation. It comes from the head, the brain; whereas honesty is a moral principle that comes from thc heart, and takes no time for thought. Policy is a cold, hard word; honesty a warm, genial, neighborly one. The poets like it next best to love-Hearns says, "It's guid to be honest and true," and Pope says "Au honest man's the noblest work of God. The best definition of the word is. "free fair in. dealing and worthy from deceit, just in speech and action, to bc trusted." I was ruminating about this because 3 clever oountry boy from whom I buy my lightwood brought me a load to-daj and the top layers and all that was in sight wore rich in rosin and clean ?and attractive. He wanted a dollar and a half, and I told bim it was too much; but he pleaded like a lawyer, and said he had hauled it tea miieo, 4dnd that kind of pine was getting awful scace; that he could have sold it down town, but knew that I liked rich, clean split pine, and so he brought it to me. He is a good-looking, hard-working boy, and so I bought it and stood by while he threw it oft'. The top was all right, but that out of sight was black knots or half-rotten pieces, and dis gusted me.? "Look here, Felton," said I, "do you know of a boy who would put his best pine in the bottom of the wagon, or who would even mix it about half and half?" "No, sir, I don't," said he; "we bavent got any of that sort in the piney woods." "Don't you know," said I, "that I wouldcnt have given you your price if I had seen into the bottom of your ? wagon?" He smiled complacently, j and replied: "Tbat'sc just thc reason we put the best on top; we couldent get more'n half price if we didcot, and you know, major, we get mighty little for a hard day's work, anyhow." "But, Felton, that way of doing is cheating, and they say that oheatiog never thrives. I should think you would feel ashamed to throw your load off right here before mo." "Well, now, major, to tell yon the truth, I was in hopes you would go in the house before I throwed it off; but everybody hus to put the heston top," and he smiled all over his face. What kind of a boy is that? Well, he is a little better than the average of boys, or of men either, as to that, for he smiles at you while he deeeives you. Heard a blind phrenologist tell a man onco that his bump of covetousness was so large he would steal if he had a fair chance-that is, if he found a man asleep with his pocketbook under his pillow he would take it, but at the i>ame time he had sympathy so largely developed that he would kiss his sleeping victim before he left him. I like that boy for his good nature, and had rather he would oheat ma than a boy who wculdent own up to anything, and go off and brag how he got me. Yes, everybody puts the best on top, and everybody tries to get tho advan tage in a trade-not everybody, but the exceptions are very few. A man can tell a He by concealing tho truth -whon I was a -lad I beard old, Dr. Nathan Hoyt, of Athens, preach a sermon in our town, and have not for gotten how he looked straight at me and said: "Little boy, you can tell a lie by winking your eye." My wife says she was in a store one day when a country woman came in and asked the merchant if he could match that scrap of gingham which she showed him. He said no, but he had some thing very like it, and prettier, und he finally sold it to her. After- she left, my wife remarked that she might ha ve matohed it at the nest door, for she noticed the identical goods in the window as she passed? "Yes, I knew it," said the.merchant, "but it wasent my business to tell her; I must sell her my own . goods if I can." That was the kind of honesty that was poli cy, but it wasent fair or neighborly it wasent doing as yon would be done by. The trading world ia very busy concealing the truth. I bought a fine sow from a neighbor once, and she oat np a dozen chickens the day I got her. When I asked bim why ho dident tell me that, she was a chicken eater, he smiled and said be though t I would find ic but aoon enough. A merchant may know that a cor tain piece of prints Will fade when washed, but he does not tell it. You can "hardly find a rea! linen bosom shirt nowadays, but they are all sold for linen. These are not frauds of much consequence, but they illustrate the scripture, which saith "A lie sticketh close in the joints between buyer and ae'ler," and "lt is naught-it is naught-saith the buyer/bailie goeth his way and re? joiceth." Thai w#a in * horse trade, 'S LETTER. A.re Some Mien, Says 3 ^Philosopher. ?onttitution. 1 reckou. Hypocrisy, deceit, exag geration are not confined to traders; professional-men and politicians use all these to gain their ends. Yes, and even some preachers will make up a pathetic story to move their hearers to tears, or to give a sensational effect ? to the sermon. Then, there aro the j white lies that the women have to tell : every day: "Oh, I am so glad to see ; you; you are looking so well; your lit ? tie girl is a dear little thing, and as pretty as a piuk; (jo sit lougcr; won't ; you take dinner with us?" Sometimes j shu is not glad, nor is the little girl j pretty, nor does she want the visitor { to sit longer or stay to dinner. But these are social deceptions, and keep up good will. What an awful thing it would be for a lady to tell her visitor that she had stayed long enough, and had better go. Not long ago a lady of our town told two boys who came to see her boys that they had better go home, for they had stayed long enough, and it raised a rumpus that is not yet allayed. Ordinary lying that has no malice in it is not a cardiual sin. It is not forbidden in the ten commandments. Ananias-was not suddenly punished for lying unto men, but he had lied unto God. He sought to defraud tho Lord's treasury-and there is many a church member doing the same thing now. They make no sacrifice. They withhold a part and lio unto their own consciences. The poor widow's mite is still a bigger thing than a rieh man's large donation. I wonder what kind of a world we would have if everybody was good. I don't mean religious, but kind and just and honest. Our courts and prisons would be abolished. Just think of it. But it cannot be. Ori ginal -sin and total depravity and moral turpitude are still in the way. The mystery of ovil still hangs over us. John Stuart Mill and Herbert j Spencer and other great thinkers say that the Creator made the very best world aud the best inhabitants that He could out of the material that He had, but that it is improving as the centuries roll on. And John Fiske says that evil is necessary to toaoh us what good is. That if there was no crime or pain or grief we would have no joy or happiness and would not know what it was. Plato said 2,000 years ago that we had to limit God's omnipotence or His goodness, one or the other, and ni&cy learned and' sin cere men, like Calvin and Edwards, have tried to recouoile predestination with free agency, but it is all incom prehensible to me and I have to fall back and entrench myself on those in junctions whioh say "Deal justly love mercy and obey the Lord thy God," and the later one whioh says, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself," and then accept David's faith, which saith, "Though He slay .me yet will I trust in Him." I'm not going to strain my mind over perplex ing problems that have never been solved. Mr. Fiske is a beautiful writer, but if evil was created aa a contrast sp that we might know what good is then how can we enjoy heaven when there is no evil, no crime or grief or affliction. One thing I do know, that this is a beautiful world and this life is a happy one to those who choose to make it so. President Dabney, of the University of Tennessee, said in a recent speech at Huntsville: "Eng land is about to perpetrate a great crime against the Boers in expelling them from their own domain. But this is progress and is inevitable. It is the law of nature and the law of nature is the law of God." That sounds like a strange doctrine to those who believe that God is love. The Savior said, "Offenses must needs come, but woe unto them by. whom they come." Then what peril are those rulers in who have the power to oppress and use it to carry out a sel fish policy. After all it is safest to be an humble, honest citizen and have no policy. BILL ABP. - The Words of a Famous Mission Worker Perhaps no mab in? Atlanta is better and more favorably known than Mr. I John F. Barclay. He for a long time has been'a ai.fferer from indigestion and dyspepsia. This is what he says: Atlanta, Ga , January 23, 1895. Dr. C. O. Ty uer : Having used Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy for several years io tay family I gladly add my . testi mony to what has. already been said in its praise. Without any exception. I think it is the finest remedy on tho market and nothing would induce me to do without it. 9 JNO. F. BARCLAY. . For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. . . TFirst Boy (contemptuously) Huh! Your ma takes in washing. Second Boy-Of course; yon didn't s'poso she'd leave it hanging ont over night unless your pa was in jail, did ye? ; SABBATH OBSERVANCE. DEUT. 5:12-Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. The Sabbath beyond question is of divine and very ancient origin; and after thc gnawing tooth of timo shall have crumbled the many places of note to dust, the Sabbath shall bo. Edeu was blessed with the Sabbath and with the marriage -elation. The man who strikes cither strikes at much that is holiest in the sentiment of thc best men and women, and at much that is dearest to God. Palsied thc hand that would lift itself against tho Sabbath of God. God gave a law by which the people were to be govern ed. A law is a rule prescribed by a superior, or a principle hy which a thing is regulated, and is based on the priuciple of right. When Moses had the law read to the people they said. Amen, which meant, wc submit to it. And it has been the purpose of God always to maintain a testimony for truth and righteousness in the midst of this ungodly world, in ether words ho made an example of many for a warning to all succeeding generations, and has not left us without warning and example. In tho days of Moses there was aman found gathering sticks on thc Sabbath day, and God had bim stoned to death. Num. 15:32, and Jeremiah 17:21 say: "Take heed to yourselves and bear no burden on the Sabbath day." And in Ex. 20:10, that thy son, thy daughter, manser vant, maidservant, and thy cattle, and thy strauger that is within thy gates are forbidden to work on the Sabbath. Neb. 13:15 says: I testified against theai that sold victuals on the Sab bath day; all of which I understand<to ia;an for the sake of tho money tbat is in the business are these things for bidden. I do not find in God's word where he authorized man to revoke his law. Christ said he came not to destroy tho law, bot to fulfill. Paul said of Christ that he is the end of the law, etc. Mind you, the keeping of the law is not a question of salva tion, but of service; or, in other words, we-show our respeot to God by the way we treat His commandments. The Sabbath was made forman, hence is a blessing to him. And God pre ceded man in keeping it, for we find that in tho beginning he made Heaven and earth in six days and rested on the seventh, leaving an example for man. Man needs rest. It is God's day, and he lifts up his voice and says, Stop and rest. And if maa takes God's day he takes that which does not belong to him. Happy is that land and blessed is that home where God is loved and honored by keeping His Sabbath. Kingdoms have risen and fallen, but the Sabbath hath still been kept in memory and maa has had seme inclinations tc follow his Maker's example, though it has been to many more of a holiday than a holy day, and often much dese crated. This point I desire to men tion more particularly. The Sabbath is a memorial of the resurrection of Christ; hence it should not be a day of gloom, but a day of joy, gladness, praise and thanksgiving-a day to feast on God's Book. Was there ever such a book? See how full of wisdom and lovel Look at it on bended knee and find Heaven between its pageB. God took great care to make it, but man does not take much time to read and search it. In reading it our minds are taken away from the world and from earthly care. Many observe the Sabbath merely SB a custom, and not beoause God saith so; henoe it is kept in a loose way. We arc wasting much time on the Sabbath day, when there is so much good to be done. Souls arc neglected; Church and Sabbath-school not attended. And probably we pre vent others from attending by visiting them. If at Churoh, they are there on business, and while they sit in the Church their minds are far away, making plans for which they are anx ious Monday should come to put in practice. The Sabbath is a day es pecially to feast on God's Word, and not on the news of the - day. God said, Take six days for business, but many say, No; we want seven. As we take the Sabbath for anything else but to serve and glorify His name, we greatly desecrate the day. Too many use it for amusements; or recreation, pastime, business, Cte, and many make much ado about the iron works and railroad men for breaking the Sabbath, but other men do the same, though in a way not so visible to the pnblio. It is said that the Philadelphia ex position, whioh olosed on the Sabbath, was a financial success; while the New Orleans exposition, which was open on tho Sabbath, waa a financial failure. It was on tba Sabbath that the disciples had meetings and Jesus came among them. That is . what we need-Christ's presence. The soul ia happy when spent with the disciples and Jesus. Thomas was absent from Churoh that day, and the shadow of doubt will hang around his name for evir. The Sabbath was made for maa that ho might once a week torn his mind entirely from his worldly pursuits and think of God's power over all things and Bi? tender care and lota xor him and bis own dependence on Him, end is reminded of that eternal rest prom ised him when the toils of life ure ended. Tho nation will soon forget its God after it has forgotten His Sabbath. When wc labor six days in thc week we waqt a good spiritual meal on the Sabbath if wc can get it, and wc find therein a blessed compen sation and refreshment. When Chris tians begin to live up to tho gospel mark wc may then look for institutions of the world to begin to fall in Hue also. And now may the Lord's spirit help us to love, serve and honor Him who said, "I am Lord also of thc Sab bath." Amen and amen! W. M. HALL. Lincoln, Ala., 1890. A Hypocrite Steer. One of the sights of thc great cat tle yards of Chicago is an old white ox named Judas. Ile oamc to the yards a good many years ago, while he was yet a frisky steer, and he was immediately pur chased by one of thc great packing houses, and driven from the traia which brought him from his Iowa homo to a distant yard. \ The life of most animals at the cat tle yards is very short-a week at thc very most. A few days after the ar rival of Judas the herd of cattle which occupied the pen with him was selected for killing. The way to the packing house led down a long alleyway, with high fences cn each side, then up a narrow chute and ioto thc building. For some reason the cattle seem to know what is coming, for they always object to bo driven up the chute. Judas was no exception. He plunged madly about among the herd and the cattlemen had more trouble-with him than with any other animal. At last, however, ho seemed to realize that sooner or later he must go and he made a virtue of a neoossity, trotted quietly up thc chute, and thc other cattle followed rapidly after him. Thus he ran until he had just reached the door of the packinghouse. Then, quick as a wink, he turned and galloped down a side passage -and es caped, while the other cattle went on ward into the building. Judas had been so vary clever that the good-natured cattlemen let him go for that day, for genius is to be appre ciated in a steer as well as in a man. Thc next day, however, they drove him up again with another herd. This time he made not the slightest objection, but trotted forward quietly and the other steers, having a confi dent leader, behaved admirably. But just as Judas reached the door of the building he dodged again, so suddenly that the men couldn't turn him, and escaped as ho had done before, while the herd behind him went careening into the killing room. Since then Judas has been a regular employe of the cattle yards. Every day he leads up a herd of eattle and every day he dodges just at the door of the building. He has saved the cattlemen no end of trouble and delay with riotous herds since he began his service. He has grown fat and sleek on the good living of the yards, and so high ly are hi3 services regarded that the cattlemen provide him with a white blanket on cold days to keep him com fortable. And thus he is living to a green old age, but he bears the disrespectful name of Judas-tho betrayer. - - 4? ?! On the 10th of December, 1897, Rev. S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church, South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., con tracted a severe cold which Wf ?t tended from the beginning by vijieot coughing. He says: "After resort ing to a number of so-called 'specifics.' usually kept in tho house, to no pur pose, I purchased a bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, which acted like a charm. I most cheerfully re commend it to the public." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Don't waste your time in regret ting thetimeyouhave_wasted^_ I inmigration Statistics. In his annual report to tho Secretary of tho Treasury Com missioner General Powdcrly, of tho emigration bureau, gives the total arrivals for the year ended Juno 30, 1899, as 311,715, anjin orease over tho preceding year of 82, 41i?, or 40 per cent. Tho opinion is ex pressed that at least 25,000 persons were not listed in this number through a defect in tho law, as well as an inde terminate number from Canada and Mexico, who are not under existing regulations accounted for. Tho in ' crease over the figures for last year is I represented largely by emigration from Europe,especially from Italy,Australia, Hungary, Kassia, and Finland, which shows gains respectively of 18,800; 22, 004 and 31,154. Ol' tho total arrivals Europe supplied 297,340; Asia. 8,972; Af lien, 31, anil nil other countries, 5,343. The distribution as to sex was lin,277 males ami 110,438 ten?ales; as to age, 13,043 were under 14; 248,187, from 14 to 45; and 10,545 of 45 years or older. As to illiteracy, 00,440 could not either vend or write. As to amount of money brought, 30,071 hud each $*30 or over, ami 174,013 bad each less than $3U. Tlie total amount of money exhibited to the officers was $."i,414,4(i2. 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