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TUESDAY. April 25. UW8.
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TO AIIVKKTISKRS:
THE LEADER has an extensive
State awl Local circulation, amt as a
in icspa/icr advertising medium has on
lg one equal among the Weeklies of
Mississippi. Rates anil terms given on
application.
A SELECT LIST.
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Leading Papers Willi Which
Tlio Leader Clubs.
The Leader has made a clubbing ar-1
raugements with a few representative
journals of different classes, with
either one of which it will lie sent one
year to any subscriber at the following
rates:
The I.eailer and the Voice, (the ablest of
Prohibition papers'. si,75
The Leader and The Citizen totiiclal organ
of the National Pro. Committee' . l.&T
The leader and Home and Farm (Agricul
tural and Family). t.-fl
'Hie Leader and the National Economist
1 Hie National organ of the Alliance). 1.75
The Leader and the Clarion-Ledger 'lead
ing Democratic |>npcr of Mississippi)_ 1.75
Von pay your money and take your
choice.
Edwiu Boothe the actor is a very
sick man.
Robt. T. Lincoln, late minister to
England, is en route home.
The whiskey fight is on in Bolivar
county. au;l it promises to be a fight to
the death.
The Prohibitionists made a good
showing in the anti-license elections of
Illinois last week.
The V. M C. A., of Mississippi, will
meet in State Convention at Oxford on
the 27th to.TOth inst.
llenry C. Foster, the slayer of Judge
Morgan, has been granted a new trial
by the Supreme Court.
Richard O'Donnell, once private sec
retary to "Boss" Tweed, of New York,
died in Denver Friday.
The Democrats carried the city elec
tion of Chicago, and the Republicans
won in St. Louis and Peoria.
Every county adjoining Lincoln is
now against the liquor traffic. Jeffer
son being the last to join the dry ranks.
The Press says every colored appli
cant for a teachers" certificate in Law
rence county on the 14th inst. failed
on examination.
Let it ever be remembered it can
not be too often repeated that "a man
cannot be a saint in religion and a
11 evil in politics.”
Robinsonville, Miss., between Tunica
and Memphis, was completely wiped
out by a cyclone last Thursday. A
half dozen or more people were killed
and many others badly hurt.
The Mississippi Press Association
meets in Natchez, May 3d. The mem
l>ers will follow the commendable pre
cedent. adopted last year and pay their
own expenses while in the city.
A curious phenomenon followed the
cyclone at Kelly. Miss., in the shape of
a sulphur rain, which so polluted the
ponds and cisterns as to render the
water unlit for drinking purposes.
It is curious that a man will vote for
what he doesn’t want because he fan
cies he cannot get what he does want
if he votes for it, isn't it ? Yet that is
exactly what every sincere Prohibition
ist does who votes a whiskey party
ticket.
The Clarion-Ledger is authority for
the statement that Rev. Dr. John Hun
ter. the eminent Presbyterian divine
of Jackson, said in a recent discourse
that the time is coming when women
will vote, and for one he did not think
it would be a great calamity if they
did. for they were behind all the moral
movements inaugurated in the country
In point of mechanical beauty and
arrangement, editorial ability and
breadth, the Tennessee Methodist, pub
lished at Nashville, takes place in the
very front rank of Southern religious
weeklies. Moreover, it is one of those
far too few religious papers that be
lieves men's business and political acts
should harmonize with their church
creeds, and has the courage to say
so.
One of the very best appointments
made by President Cleveland is that
of Robt. E. Wilson to be Register of
the U. S. Laud office at Jackson. Mr.
Wiisou is a thorough and reliable bus
iness man, admirably poised in all
things, and his valuable services to his
party preeminently entitle him to the
recognition he has received. He qual
ified and asMuued charge of the office 1
Saturday. <
x \tiov\i. rn.iM ks.
National finances are in n bad wav.
The ('leveland administration, "huh
is plainly hostile to silver and leans
strongly toward gold tncnomotnli*iu.
despite the Democratic platform dc
deration, has followed the Republican
precedent of discriminating .main-t
silver by paying all »•<»» obligation* of
the government in gold. La"t Friday
all the gold in the Treasury in excess
of the reserve for the re
demption of greenbacks, wa* entirely
exhausted and the reserve it*wif' n-ndi
ed upon to the extent of three or four
millions. This i* the first time since
the resumption of specie payment that
the sino.'inn.neb reserve has been cut
into.counting in the subsidiary coinns
a part of the available fund* of the
Treasury.
The policy seems to be to play into
the hands of the inonomotalists of
Kurope and Wall street and degradi
silver until it is finally demonetized.
Obligations of the government, which
on their face arc declared payable in \
U. S. coin (either gold or silver.tin
option of the tjorcru incut i arc uniform
ly paid in tjolil coin at the option of tin
mourn lonIn. and Secretary Carlisle de
dares his intention <>f continuing (hi*
I>61 icy if he has to still further trench
upon the !*in0.000.0l1> gold reserve.
We are told by the dispatches that
Assistant Treasury Jordan Inst Hntur
day morning issued invitation* to a
large number of New 1 ork Rankers to
meet with him for consultation, and
that at this meeting {?!!' financial situ
at ion was thoroughly discussed. >;:;d it
was decided that the parity of gold
and silver must be maintained, and
that the government must meet it* ob
ligations in gold nt any cost.
It was further practically decided
among the bankers that they would ad
vanoe no more gold to the 1 reasurcr
without ail invitation, and then not in
a large amount without a l*>nd i*suc.
[u other words, the policy of lti«
money sharks, into whose lianus the
administration is playing, is to force
on the country one of two uitaypatives
either the demonetization of silver
or the issuance of more bonds iis
a basis on which to perpetuate the
National Bank monopoly if indeed it
does not contemplate the accomplish
ment of both objects at the same time.
Meanwhile, there tire daily rumors of
a financial crises and money panic and
a crash may come any day the money
lord lock up their safe* and tap the
alarm bell. In short. Wall street is
firmly in the saddle and running the 11
nances of the government pretty much
to suit itself.
Verily, those poor deluded souls who
religiously believed the millcnium
would be ushered in with the new
democratic administration are not ,
ealizing their rosy expectations.
t(t»inlMki*K off th«k International Moiiftarj
('l)ftkrt*urr Called t« Wasliiii^tuii.
Washington. April 22. The gentle
men who represented the United States
at the International Monetary Confer
ence have been summoned to Washing
ton. with a view to a conference with
the President and Cabinet in regard to
tiie present monetary situation. Their
presence is also requested for consul
tation looking to the selection of suit
able representation on the part of the
United States to take the places of
those who do not care to attend ttie
adjourned meeting of the internation
al conference, which is to take place
next June.
Scranton has just developed a re
markable case of youthful depravity.
Jim Smith and Charley Tagart. two
youths of that town, a few nights ago
robbed the bookkeeper of a lending
mercantile house 0fs8tHi.no and then;
carrying him out in the suburbs of town
riddl ed him with bullets. When found
late next day, more dead than alive.
Mr. Cook, tlie wounded man, related
his experience, and when the young
men were arrested later on suspicion,
he identified them and they made a
full confession. Also that they had
been previously implicated in (lie mur
der of a tramp but a short time before.
It was with difficulty that the officers
saved them from being lynched, and
the Governor was called upon to order
out the Scranton military company to
protect them from the outraged com
munity.
The whisky distillers of Ohio and
Kentucky have lately been clamoring
for an extension of the bonded period
for paying the revenue tax. The cus
tom heretofore lias been to grant this
already privileged class seven months
of grace beyond the three years allow
ed by law for the payment of the tox.
The bonded warehouse storage this
year is large in Kentucky, where the
crop so far has been double that of
1892, and the round total of gallons
will creep up close to 50,000,000. The
uuinber of gallons of taxable spirits
of all kinds in bond in 1892 was 11*5,
813,934, and the owners, to take it out.
will be obliged to pay the government
in revenue taxes t he sum of *122.554,
(530.70. This sum does not include the
estimated taxes for the present year.
Meridian, the Queen City of the East,
is once-more dry. A majority of the
legal voters think too much of their
reputation as Christian men and good
citizens to publish their names on a
liquor petition, aud so license fails by
default. Wbeu these same Meridian
ties, with other of their fellow-citizens
of Mississippi, get to voting ng.aiust a
party that openly declares in its !V'u
tiouai platform that it is for the very
thing the#v condemn, their triumph aud
consistency will be complete.
The Lousiana authorities refused to
surrender Col. Hobgood to the Marion
couuty authorities until ne answered
the charge against him in Louisiana
for train robbery. Hobgood is indict
ed in Marion for the killing of old man
Terra!, as plain a case of cold-blooded
murder as ever perpetrated iu
Mississippi.
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HOl’K KnR MISSISSIPPI.
Tin* Liquor Traffic Stcadih Los
imr (icon.id.
Tlir New Constitution a I teg- j
uhir Saloon l*araly*t*r.
\ <; In nee nt On- PreM-nl stain* mill Ki«
l,,,-,. |'rin|ir(t> of On* Prohibition
t hhw ill till' Stair.
S|1! i.il l'mres|i.inilr«Mf o( Tlir Volre.S
.Iacksox. Miss.. April !•’>. The cor
don is drawing closer and closer around
the liquor traffic in Mississippi. Under
the old constitution, in nil Local Op
tion contests, the ignorant, irresponsi
Me floating black and white vote was
the silicon's bulwark. The new consti
tution. with its educational, tax-paying
and other rigid requirements, sweeps
this a way. Out of eight counties which
have held Local Option elections dur
ing the last 1- months, all have gone
against license hut one, and the saloons
carried t hat by a mere scratch. All of
these were saloon counties before, and
tin net gain of seven counties added
to the 11 already “dry’’ increased the
-dry” counties to IS out of a total of
7"> in the State.
The new dram-shop law, with its
many rigid features, taken in conjunc
tion with the revised franchise laws, is
fd-:o playing havoc with the saloon bus
iness, Meridian and Colnmbn.s. t lie
two I«rgpsj- and most prosperous cities
in the eastern portion of«he State, have
lately gone "dry" because the saloon
men could not secure the signatures of
a majority *>f the registered voters to
tl.eir petitions for a renewal ue {lie law
requires. At Columbus a majority
counter-petitin;: was filed, which makes
it unlawful foe any I'pepsn to |>e issued
for tU mold |(s, As Meridian and Co
lumbus were the only pjfires jn Laud
erdale and Lowndes counties, respec
tively. where liquor was sold, they are
mte- .added to the Prohibition counties.
Holly fspi inaa. one of the largest towns
in north Mississippi, tin. n»d,’.“ "dry."
as Meridian did. adding Marshall to
Mu i'sf I'f Prohibition counties, mak
ing-! in ah. uiut i» gain of 10 un
der the new constitution.
Here nt the State Capital, where 1
saloons existed last year, several have
closed rather than pay the 82.209 State
and municipal tax and undertake to
comply with the rigid nenal provisions
of the law. One-half ot JiU'Jfsou's
d rims hop-keepers were indicted by the
last grand jury for not keeping the law,
and tliis will cost some of them dearly.
The same influences are at woplf in oth
er saloon counties, notably the Delta,
or the Black Belt, and many saloons
which have heretofore flourished are
closing as fast as their old licenses ex
pire.
Altogether it may be said that Mis
sissippi is making as encouraging pro
gress in ridding herself of the legalized
liquor traffic as could be reasonably
hoped for under a High License and
Local < >plion law. Indeed, public sen
timent and the complexion of the last
Legislature were such that u irtight
out Prohibition law for the entire
State could have been easily passed at
the last session but for the timidity
and temporizing policy of the non-par
tisan Prohibition leaders whose coun
sel was sought and prevailed.
As to the enforcement of Prohibition
in the "dry" counties, it can be said of
a truth that it is as satisfactory and
successful as its wisest and most san
guine advocates ever anticipated. In
whatever it fails could be easily
remedied by tin. proper change in the
United States Revenue aqd inter state
Commerce laws, which the Prohibition
Party i> pledged to revise. Hou. J. B.
Chrismau, Circuit Judge of the Jack
son Judicial District., has several times
lately declared from the bench that
the laws against the sale of liquor in
"dry" counties of his district are as
well observed and successfully enfor
ced as the laws against larceny, burg
larly. assault or any other crime, and
that the amount of crime and cost of
court expenses he had observed (luring
his 1.1 years on the bench are from 30
to 100 per cent, greater in the license
counties than in the Prohibition coun
ties.
The party Prohibitionists of the
State are much encouraged by the in
crease at the last election of 100 per
cent, over their vote of 1888, mol .are
preparing to reenter the field and press
forward. Tin: Mississippi Leadek,
which was published here last year.has
just beeu moved back to the flourish
ing city of Brookbayep, its old home,
33 miles south, and will lesqme publi
cation on the 18tli inst„ with in proved
facilities. It will hereafter be owned
by a stock company of loyal party
Prohibitionists, ami B. T. Hobbs, its
founder, and one of the gamest and
most faithful Prohibitionists in the
State, will continue as its editor.
Chairman Henry Ware, of the Prohi
| bition State Committee, is planning to
i put a State organizer in the field at an
1 early day, to cooperate with the com
i mittce and the State paper in forward
ing the interests of party work. There
will be no election in the State before
that of Congressmen in 1894, to be fol
lowed by a general election of State
and county officers in November, 1893.
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Several portions of Mississippi have
i recently been severely scouraged by
cyclones, l’ortioue of Jasper and Clarke
i counties were visited Jaei week. The
i course of the cyclone was Hortfceastly,
; cutting a clean swath three miles wide
through Chickasaliay Swamp, twisting
and splintering the largest timber into
one great mass of wreckage. Reports
indicate that the path of the cyclone
extend* more than ten miles, and that
at least fifty families nre left in a
helpless condition. Many are ■yithput
food, shelter or clothing. 4 number
of persons were killed outright and
others badly wounded, chieliy colored. |
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The membership of the Knights of
Labor is two hundred and fifty thous
and. Their motto," That is the most
perfect government in which the inju
ry of one is the concern of alj,” has a
meaning which extends far beyond tne 1
limits of the organization. The orga
uizatwu excludes from its ranks all
lawyers, bunkers, liquor i^gkoys or sel
lers, gamblers, and professional politi
cians. but admits all who follow useful
callings in life.
The widow of the late (ten. W. S.
Hancock died in New York Saturday.'
< 01*1 \ll riKC-riT rot HT.
Two ttunlem** to llmif Two Uhltfrop*
jr«» to flic IVn, uml Two WVtWky
St'Urrn to the fountjr Karin.
llASGtitCRST, April 20. In the cir
cuit court yesterday eveniug Judge
I'hrisnian parsed the following sen
tences:
Oa'sar Hetiinugton and “Gen."!
Washington, colored murderers, to
hang on June 11.
J. A. Pcnnex.white bigamist. 20 years
in the penitentiary.
Pet Tyson and George Shields, white
caps, l year in the penitentiary.
T. P. and G. L. Ware, white, unlaw 1
ful retailing. 1 year on the county
farm and fined slix> each.
•Iinlw OliriMnaa " III Knlort-e the Law.
Hazokio rst, April 21. Court ad
journed hero today. Just before the
close about one hundred men, the sym
pathizing neighbors of Pet Tyson and
George Shields, the two white rappers
convicted during the term and sen- ;
f enced to the penitentiary for one year
each, by a committee, waited on Judge
Chrisman and requested a new trial
for their friends. The interview was
held in the judge's private room at the j
hotel and lasted about an hour. Ex
actly what transpired there is not ,
known, but there was a good deal said
aboqt !)js honor's plain speech iqui
firmness I»y the committee and sym
pathizers after the interview ended. i
It is known that ho expressed the
opinion that the convicted men were !
guilty, and that lie not only refused
the application for a new trial, but re- j
fused bail pending their anneal fo flm
Supreme Court. Judge Chrisman is j
one of the most conscientious and at
the same time fearless judges in the i
State, and nothing can swerve him ■
from the path of duty as he sees it,
and the just enforcement of the law
against all classes and colors alike.
On this account he has been a terror
to evildoers ever since he ascended the
bench. White capispi will certainly
find rough sailing in his district, and
in his efforts to crush it Judge Chris
man will have the sympathy and sup
port of all good citizens.
I.AJU.K rPOMIHITION UAINS IN
KIHMtl; ISLAND.
The Prohibitionists of Rhode Island
send greetings and tidings of great joy '
to their friends throughout the nation.
The first p ted ip; in ary skirmish in the
great battle of 1 SIX! has just hewn fought
in that State, and the Prohibition party
conies out of the conflict with a doub
led vote. Unde;’ the majority rule the
large Prohibition vote prevents an
election by the people nud throws the
matter into the Legislature.
The total vote in the State was 47.110,
a falling off of 7.5(17 from last fall's
election. The total Republican vote of
1892 for Governor was 27.4(11; ot u*(5.
21.830; a falling off of 5.031. The total
Democratic vote of 1892 for Governor
was 25,4:13: of 1SU3 TJ.Od-"*. a felling off
of 3.418. The total Prohibition vote of
1892 for Governor was 1.598; of 1803.
3.2*jfl; a gain of boon, morn than double.
The Leader today begins the publi
cation of a series of six short articles,
written for the Tennessee Methodist,
by ,). I). Smith. M. I).. of Paducah. Ky..
on the outdgef: ."Should there he a
political party advocating ins td.’uit.
tiou of the licensed liquor traffic; and
if so, wlmt should be the attitude of
Christian voters towards it ?" We be
speak at the outset for tliese'articles a
thoughtful ami unprejudiced reading
on their merits. And we will add,that
The Leader unites with Dr. Smith in
his challenge to any one who will un
dertake to controvert the position he
assumes and will accord the same
amount of space for reply. Wo partic
ularly e.vtcntltiiix chatfciipr- «•»« Abit
partisau Mixxiwtippi I’rphilhtionixt or
churchman of repute. We may add
that Dr. Smith is not a but a
prominent Kentucky Methodist lay
man, who votes as he prays.
The plant of the Carnegie Steel
Company at Homestead, l’a., is in
creasing its capacity by one-ha|f. This
is one of the plants that was listed by
the Republican papers to be ringed if
Mr. Cleveland was elected.—Chicago
Times, Dem.
This increase of the capacity of the
Carnegie piagf proves, if it demon
strates any thing, that Hp, fTjrnegie
has practical faith in what he declared
in a speech in Dundee. Scotland, in
Sejitfinher. 1890. On that occasion
he said ,
1'pon my honor, 1 could not name
a question of any moment dividing the
Democrats from the Republicans.
Perhaps some ot you may say the tar
iff lull. . . Relieve me, there Is no is
sue id'parties in America on the tar
iff, except as to details, and any
change that is made will not disturb
the manufacture* which they have
seen fit to establish.
A scrutiny of the official blue-hook
iu regard to the appointments in the
legislative departments at Washington
ilisclvs^S i* little over 9.300 clerkships
and similar poslUous in .sala
ries from 1,000 up to 1,800. included in
the classified lists of the civil service
law, the occupants of which can only
be removed for cause, and ovey 1,500
positions of the higher grades, the oc
cupants of which are subject to change
at the will of the heads of the depart
ments. The salaries of these positions
range from 83,(XXI downward.
In a;; editorial on ‘‘The building Up
of a party," tii.e i»Tpy Vork Evening
Post said recently; “The Invukiug up
of the old parties could not be more
strikiugly exemplified tljap ip the ap
pointment to the Supreme Jieppb by
the outgoiug Republican president of
a representative Southern Democrat,
and iu the selection for the state de
partment by the incoming Democratic
president of a Northern man who was j
until last year a promipeut Republi j
can. Neither of these actions would
have l»eep possible in a period when
party lipr« were strictly drawn, and
both Harrison and Cleveland sjiow by |
their course in these two matters that j
they appreciate the changes which are
in progress.
The United States Official
Investigation of Baking Powders,
Made under authority of Congress l>v the Chemical Division of the
Dep t of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and recently completed
Shows the Royal Baking Powder
to be a cream of tartar baking pow=
der of the highest quality, superior
to all others in strength, !eaven=
ing power, and general usefulness.
The Royal Baking Powder is thus distinguished the highest
exp i t official authority the leading Baking Powder of the world
A CHALLENGE.
Those W lio Oppose Political
Prohibition (’ailed on to
Answer.
Can a Man 1>e a Saint in Relig
ion anti a l>e\il in Polities?
Should Tl»prr lx* a Political Party \dvo
ratlug tin* .\l)p|lt|oi| of tin* liirrnx*
ISev^rage Liquor Traffic: amt! if mo.
What Should hr tlir Attltudr of
Christian Volrrs Toward It ?
Nd. I of a Snips of Si\ Articles Wtittrit !•
I>. Smith. M. !>.. for the I cum'smt Mel hot! |>f.
Now, my good brother^ get (git your i
pencil and paper, aiul us you read mark
sentences apd make notes for reply,
for I guarantee that the columns of the
Tennessee Methodist will be open to
yoti for a thorough dissection of what
I sjiajl sgy outlie subject; and you
should make the dissection publicly or
else (jilit saying privately Hint it can
be made. Yes. you have been saying
that the question of politics or politi
cal methods should never enter the
columns of a religious paper, be dis
ous«od }»} the pulpit by the preacher,'
in any way agitate the (.’{u^eli. nor de
mand of the church member loyalty to ;
the principles of the Christianity lie
professes.
But ;mw I ;im going to ask for your
authority for such a position, and 1
want you to give me tin- "thus sayeth
the fjord” on the subject right here in
the Tennessee Methodist. I say that a
man's politics should lie a part of his
religion, and hence his. i ’it'' : '
ItHlKIUUfi Ulfl'U MIUIIKI Hit! I 'MI
say his politics should he no part of
his religion, and hence his political and
religious creeds may very properly he
antagonistic. Now, as an honest en
quirer UlU't ijijii J want vnnr author
ity for your position.' and iii order fo
entitle'ipysHlf to it 1 nil! first give you
what I conceive t>. he jny authority for
my position. When God estabiuhed
his Church in the family of Abraham,
a lid afterwards gave his descendants a
distinct tfCitjoiuiljty. lie gave them as
complete a political eietd ay lie dpi a
religious creed and he made t he two
creeds to harmonize. He has at no
time acknowledged hiserror In so do
ing, nor authorized any man or set of
men to destroy the beauty and harmo
ny of his plan. Do you tell me Christ
discovered the error of the Father and
corrected it? M.v ';;;pt’;er. God never
made ' any mifetakcsj )>uj, you 'ii,\ (
“Christ sijid, *My kingdom is not of this
worpl ’ ” No, nor was the kingdom of
grace that God gpf mi in the hearts of
the Israelites of Hilo xv.q.id -|mt that
did not prevent him from giving it tout
a political creed to harmonize with
their professed spiritual relations to
linn : nor did Christ ever aut horize any
man op cqnibination of men to destroy
thaf ha rue in.y
But, you say, ‘»J)jd not Christ say.
•render unto C;asar the things that be
long to Caesar, and to God the things
that are God's?”’ V’es, and if you were
under the protection of a heathen gov
ernment today, you would pay your
taxes to that government just as Christ
said flo, agu then you would worship
your own recognized God B0tcad of
the idols of that government jiist as
Christ said do ; and just as Daniel and
many others had done in the past; hut \
thaf would have nothing todo with the
exercise m ypui political creed or guar
antee political rights: ox justify ypu jr
ignoring or destroying the beauty and
harpiony that God had established lie
tweeq Hip political and religious creeds
of his specially feppyphsed people.
What right has a professing Clnist'ini,
to claim the benefits of any part of the :
Old Testament Scriptures who rejects
the bjnding force of another part?,
There are some thing* U>3t have been ,
fulfilled: but they have their esaet j
counterpart in newly instituted Chris- :
tiau ordinances, and in tiiese, are of
just as binding force as they ever were.
Then I insist that, under existing cir
cumstanees, in order that the religious
and political creeds of Methodists may i
harmonize, vve must have a political
party or legalization that makes the
abolition of the’ licensed beverage liu
or traffic one of the leading planks in
its platform.
Now, tny iii'Otiicr, don t sulk. Hulk
ers never did do any good, either ii) re- ]
ligion or polities, Ijiyoii do uot keep
the file of the Tennessee Methodist,
cut this out and carefully paste it in
your big scrap book, and leave plenty
of room for other articles to follow. 1,
am going right down to the core of this
licensed liquor problem ; and if there
are rotten spots in the core where they
woj-e least expected, you must stand 1
the liberation and diffusion of the nox
ious gases while 1 dissect the rotten !
spots. Aud now. if I fail at any time (
to properly wield the knife while mak- * ■
ing the dissection. I claim it as a Chris- ,
tiau duty you owe me that you come
back at me through the Tennessee
Methodist that I may have the benefit
of your council.
Paducah, Ky.
I
The President o* tho Mississippi ,
Press Association not;lies us th it board
in Natpfaez can l*e ofitained'in private
boarding boifitfP afld | Jjp two lintels at J
prices ranging front <>n« dollar to iwu 1.
dollars aud fifty cents per day. i
A Three Fold Coni.
First Strand. Would it not sound
harsh and severe to sa.v. and yet it is
not true, that every legalized liquor
establishment in the land is a Chris
tian institution?
Second Strand. Is it not absolutely
true that, if every Christian voter in
tilt' nation would postively refuse to
support with his ballot, any* tax or li
cence party, there would not he out
l galizcd saloon in the United States':
Third Strand. If Christian men per
sist in voting for tax and license par
ties are they not as guilty of legali
zing and perpetuating the liquor traf
fic as in any other man. even though
the other man be a brewer or saloon
keeper.
Render! Are you helping to make
the cord which binds the saloon to tin
nat ion? Consider these three propo
sitions in the light of your own ac
lions and decide the matter as you
arc willing to meet the same in the
day of judgement!
A visit to the penitentiary is some
time improving in more ways than one
A News reporter was yesterday eon
ducted through the work shop, which
is under the supervision of Mr. W. J
Met tehee. They arc now filling an ol
der fop the Columbian Club for some
stands on which to exhibit articles id
the World’s fair. These stands art
beauties and arc made of native wood?
in the most artistic manner. We alsc
saw a rustic set made for a gentleman
in this city, which is a beautiful tiling
.Many articles of me and beauty art
mailt* in the shops every day, and il
Jackson had as large a factory cm the
outside as she has within the walls ol
M ississippi's free boarding house, it
would add greatly to the prosperity o|
the city. t/«c/,-«mi Xi'ira.
J'y tliv way many Christian men,
and even some ministers, shrink from
following the plain path of duty for
four of abuse and detraction, one
might suppose they believed their
Lord and Savior a coarse, ironical jes
ter wntiu lip pa pi.
“Blessed gee they that have been
p -seeqtrd for righteousness* sake: for
theirs is the kingdom of lieaveq. Bles
sed are ye when men shall reproach
you, and persecute you. and say all
manner of evil against you falsely,
for my sakii. Rgiolce. and be exceed
mg glad; for great is your reward in
heaven: for so persecuted they the
prophets which were before you.
Tin* Mont Nrtrrow-Mimlwl Man.
Homo of our people talk about men
put • >eiug narrow minded and Puri
tan) r wlmn they ignore the lews against
moral evils.--'The trouble js that the
most narrow minded man ill the world
is the one who believes that his indivi
.IpgJ views are above the law. and that
the world revolves m.oi.ud the com
munity in which he lives, and there
fore has the right to bo a law unto
himself Xeir Orleans Della.
The Vicksiaug bo.sf tt.lU.-, glibly
about putting enough silver in the
American silver dollar to mako it
worth intrinsically as much a* a gold
dollar. But suppose this should be
done, will the Post tell us how long,
with silver discriminated against as it
is now, grid subject to market fluctua
tions. such parity would lie maintain,
ed ? If the unfair discriminations
against silver coinage w-ere removed,
there would be enough silver in the
silver dollar gs it j.s
The Carroll county grand jury, so it
is stated unanimously determined uot
to Indict < mu. P. Money, the slayer of
E. E. Elam, last December. According
to the published accounts oi that af
fair, this is about equivalent to licens
ing murder in that bounty, provided a
fellow feels sufficiently aggrieved to
take his shotgun and go out aud shoot
down the object of his wrath.
Madison Cawein contributes to the
May number of Fetter’s Southern Mag
azine (Fetter A Shober, Louisville,
Kentucky > the best poem by far that
le has ever written. This beautiful
>Oem is accompanied by'a handsome
hill page engraving by ^Vdliam i^awein,
vliich is tb<» frontispiece of this very
nteresting number. .
Some one with a fever for figures
las calculated that if, when Judas
jet rayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver,
>ach piece valued at 3 cents, 90 cents
n all, that sum had been put at 4 per
•ei\t. the year following, it would now
iniount to 83.fTvT38,000,lXX),000,(Xl,0(K>,
1.^,000.000.000,000, This amount put
utp gold *wofdd main* g solid globe a*>
arge as 17,000 si;cn planets as the
Mirth. -Ex,
Max Judd, Mr. Cleveland’s Consul to
,’ie.nnia, has been refused reconition,
lie objection being that Mr. Judd is an
Austrian by former allegiance and is
niguged in the immigration business.
KpgJ—“i suppose you will go lo Mrs.
iliink’s funeral ?*' Mrs. Fogg "Well, I
fon t know; yeb. 1 suppose so; but I
hall always think it was her place to<
nuke the first call.”
TIIK ONLY YOTK Til VI Wil l. , VT
lllHhtip KlIk OrraM „f ||„. „ ,, , ,|nrh
S»ull., on ll„. limy „rn,rMta„
-I cannot think of strong,.,- w,»n|si„
wl.icl, to express my eonvietinuy
than I used in an article to the Christ
Ian Advocate last December "
‘•The foes of the saloon must unit,
against its friends. The issue must I,e
squarely joined. The battle must b<
desperately fought, and the tieid „»
battle must be the Held of polities
This opposition must enter the |j,.i,i
; just as did the opposition to the exten
S of slavery, and it must remain
therein until Prohibition, like freedom
shall become an accepted do,•trim
1 against which no party s|mi| dart
speak.”
“The voting clergymen and laym-n
of the church must become a unit on
this great, subject at the ballot lm\
the point at which they have been di
j vided in tin- past, and are divided new.
‘‘The sad experiences of the past
ought to teach all churchmen the Its
soil which salt,,mists have learned so
perfectly, namely, that men are news
sary as well as measures. Prohibition
measures are good, but alone they are
not sufficient. They need to lie t-n
foroed, they cannot enforce themselves,
As well might we, at the very outset,
ask that they enact themselves as to
ask. later on, that they carry them
selves into effect. Of what avail is
a Maine law if rummies are to be
; elected to enforce if ? What hem-lit
can result from even constitutional
Prohibition, so long as Christian men
vote for candidates who are out of
sympathy therewith, and who will, if
j elected, wink at the violations thereof.
“When oqce the Ch list Ian voters of
America form and execute the deter
mination to vote only for pronounced
upon unequivocal Prohibition plat
forms, the end will be at hand, and tin
salon will go.”
I’yoloiM* Near villc.
Wostville, Miss.. April A terri
ble cyclone passed about a half mile
from the courthouse at about d o'clock;
Wednesday evening. pith msi U law
done considerable damage e-u tbo
southern outskirts, 'J’tie county trcas
urer’s and Wni. Thurman, a farmer
dwellings and oi|t Iniu-e-i blown away
It swept everything before it for about
nine niilos from hero, traveling in u
northeasterly direction, and left sever
al families homeless. A man named
Elijah Husband was killed inhishonse
at Rials, seven miles east from here,
and several persons’ arms and legs
were broken. Forty homes are re
ported destroyed.
The press dispatches tell u- that
! Democratic Secretary of the Treasury
John <"i. Carlisle, has been holilitg,
council with Republican John Sherman
on National finances. Another proof
that the two old parties art; as much
alike on the money question as two
black-eyed pees, and that they cannot
I bo depended upon to destroy the \a
Uomq Rapt monopoly and give > 4*
pouptry needed financial legislation.
Joseph Kausler, a prominent young
! farmer of Madison county, was shot and
instantly killed ill his Held last week
by Joel Johnson, a neighbor tunnel1,
but slightly bis senior. The difficulty
originated over a negro hand who had
quit Johnson and gone ovei to Kan
ler’s, where. Johnson followed him
It isn’t clear as yet who hes.an tic
fight. The affair is lamentable in tlm
j extreme. The 'editor of Tun
! has kno'.vu both parties well from boj
: hood, and held both in high esteem
Eaten Jofipsop fond *1 pfelimimuy
trial at Canton Friday and Satnuluy
: and was released on a -d.tHl<i bond
; Hou. T. 8. Ford, or Marlon, ts down
with pneumonia.
Don M. Dickinson is very -iek at In
home in Detroit.
• The Meridian News has been en
larged.
Crystal Springs is In the midst of
the pea shipping sejwtfp.
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