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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-07

complaining COO Will give you some
thing to complain about. Mark that!
The second prescription for the allie
Walton of financial distresses is proper
Christian investment. God demands
of every individual state and nation
certain proportion their income. we
are parsimonious! We keep back from
God that which belongs to him, and
when we keep back any thing from God
he takes that which we keep back, and
he takes more. He takes it by storm,
bv sickness, by bankruptcy, by any
one of the ten thousand ways when ne
can employ. The reason why many OF
YOU are cramped in business is because
you have never learned the lesson OF
Christian generosity. You employ an
agent. You give him reasonable
salary, and, TO-! you find out that he Is
appropriating your funds beside the
salary. What do you do? Discharge
him. Well, we are Gods agents.
He put in our hands certain moneys.
Part is to be ours; part is to be his.
Suppose we take all; what then? tie
will discharge us; He will turn us over
to financial disasters and take the
trust away from us. The reason that
great multitudes are not prospered in
business is simply because they have
been withholding from God that which
belongs to Him. The rule is. give and
you will receive; administer literally
and you shall have more to administer.
am in full sympathy with the man
who was to be baptized by immersion,
and some one said: You had better
leave your pocketbook out, it will get
wet" No" said he, II want to go
down under the wave with everything
l want to consecrate my property and
all to God" And SO he was baptized.
What we want in this country is more
baptized poclketbooks.
So that one of the recipes for the cure
of individual and national finances is
more generosity. Where you bestowed
one dollar on the cause of Christ, give
two. God loves to be trusted, and He
is very apt to trust back again. He
SAYS: THAT man knows how to handle
money; he shall have more money to
handles" and very soon the property
that Was on the market for a great
while gets a purchaser, and the bond
that was not worth more than so cents
on dollar goes to par, and the open
ing of a new street doubles the value
of his house, or inone way of a million
God blesses him.
Once the man finds out that secret,
and he goes on to fortune. There are
men whom 1 have known for ten years
have been trying to pay God $1,000.
They have never been able to get it
paid, for just rs they were taking out
from one fold of their pocketbook
bill, mysteriously somehow in some
other fold Of their pocketbook there
came q larger bill. You tell me that
Christian generosity pays in the world
to come. rtell you it pays now, pays
in hard cash, pays in government Sc
curities You do not believe it? All,
that is what keeps you back. knew
you did not believe it. The whole
world and Christendom is to be
reconstructed on this subject, and
IS you are part of Christen-
dom, let the work begin in
your own soul. But" says some
one. II don't believe that theory; be-
cause have been lc ing money for ten
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-07

u.Oug-CruSJeu you more imam you nau
right to ask? Strike, then, bal
ance for God. Ecoromize in anything
rather than in your Christian charities.
There is not more than one out of 800
of you who ever give enough to do you
any good, and when some cause Of
hristianity-some missionary society
or Bible society or church org auiza-
ton comes along and gets any thing
from you, what d. you say? You
saw: II have been bled," and there
never was more magnificent figure o:
speech than that ussd in common par
lance Yes, you have been ble., and
you are spiritually emuciated, when
If you had been coura geous enough to
60 through your property and say:
'.That belongs to God, and this be-
longs to God;" and no more dared to
appropriate it to your own use than
something that belonged to your neigh
Dor, instead of being hled to death by
charities you would have been rein
vigorated and recuperatel and built
up for time and eternity. God will
keep many of you cramped in money
matters until the day of your death
unless you swing into larger gener-
osity.
People quote as joke what Is a Di-
vine promise: Cast thy bread upon the
waters and it will return to thee after
many days" What did God mean by
that? There is an allusion there. In
Egypt, when they SOW the corn, it is at
q time when the Nile is Overlooking its
banks, and they SOW the seed corn on
the waters, and as the Nile begins to
recede this seed corn strikes in the
o. nd n hal
is the allusion. It seems as if they are
throwing the corn away on the waters,
but after awhile they gather it up in a
harvest. Now, says God in His word:
"Cast thy bread upon the waters, and
it shall come back to thee after many
days" It may seem to you that you
are throwing it away on charities, but
it will yield a harvest Of green and
gold-a harvest on earth and a harvest
in Heaven. If men could appreciate
that and act on that, we would have no
more trouble about individual or ma
tional finances.
Prescription the third, for the cure
of all our Individual and national fnan-
cial distresses: A great spiritual awak-
ening. It is no mere theory. The mer-
chants of this country were positively
demented with ahe monetary excite
ment in 1S47. There nevsr before nor
since has been such a state of financial
depression as there was at that time.
A revival came, and 500, 600 people were
born into the kingdom Of God. What
came after the revival? The grandest
financial prosperity we have ever had
in this country. The finest fortunes.
the largest fortunes in the United
States, have been made since 1857.
"Well," you say, what has spiritual
improvement and revival to do with
monetary improvement and revival"
Much to do. The religion of Jesus
Christ has direct tendency to make
men honest and sober and truth-tell-
ing, and are not honesty and sobriety
and truth-telling auxiliaries of ma
terial prosperity. If we could have
an awakening in this country as in the
days OF Jonathan Edwards, of North
ampton, as in the days of DIR. Finley of
BaSlxing ridge, as in the days of DIR.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-07

four dollars or five dollars. OA! Buy -
some one, ''are you not aware OF the
fact that there is a great population
out of employment, and there are hun
dreds of the good families OF this coun-
trv who are at their wits END, not
knowing which way to turn" YES
I know 1t better than any man in
private life can know that sad fact, Tor
it comes constantly to my eye and ear:
But who is responsible for this state OF
things?
Much of that responsible l put
upon men in comfortable circumstan-
ces, who, by an everlasting growing,
keep public confidence depressed and
new enterprises from starting out ana
new houses from being built. You
knew very we'll that one respondent
man can talk so men into dependency,
while one cheerful physician can wake
upinto exhilaration whole asylum OF
hvpochondriacs It is no kindness to
the poor or the unemployed for you to
ioin in this deploration. If you have
not the wit and the common sense to
think of something cheerful to say,
then keep silent. There is no man
that can be independent of depressed
conversation. The medical journals
are ever illustrating it. 1 was reading
of five men who resolved that they
would make IN experiment and
see what they could do in the
way of depressing a stout, healthy
man, and they resolved to meet
him at different points in his journey;
and as he stepped cut from his house
in the morning in robust health. one
Of the five men met him and said:
"Why, you look very sick to-day. What
Is the matterP" He said: II am in ex-
cellent health; tn is nothing the
matter" But passi- g down the street.
he began to exam.ne his symptoms,
and the second of the five men met
him aud said: "Way, how bad you
look" WELL" he replied, x don't
feel very wellv' After awhile the
third man met him, and the fourth man
met him, and tho fifth man came up
and said: why, you look as it you
had had the typhoid fever for six
weeks. What is the matter with
your? And the nan against whom
the stratagem had been laid
went home ard died. And
II you meet q man with perpetual talk
ABOUT hard times and bankruptcy md
dreadful winters that are to come, you
break down his courage. A few au-
tumns ago, as the winter was coming
on, people said: 1--WE shall have q ter
rlble winter. The poor will be frozen
out this winter" There was some
thing in the large store of acorns that
the squirrels had gathered, and some
thing in the phases of the moon, and
something in other portents, that made
you certain we were going to have
hard winter. Winter came. 1t was
the mildest one within my memory
and within yours. All that winter
long l do not think there was
an icicle that hung through the day
from the caves of the house. So you
prophesied falsely. Last winter was
coming, and the people said: I'VE
shall have unparalleled suffering
among the poor. It will be a dreadful
winter" Sure enough it was a cold
winter; but there were more large
hearted charities than ever before
poured out on the country; better pro-
vision made for the poor, SO that there
have been scores of winter when the
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-15

the proceedings for claim and deliv-
cry, the bond for tine mare and the
proceedings in the courts for the pos
session OF the mare.
Mr.. B. L. Abney, OF this bar. has
been employed to represent Mr.. Evans
in the litigation, and Mr.. Evans also
expects to see the fight through to the
finish, and contends that Governor
Ellerbe will never from the facts of
the case get possession OF the mare:
1t is said by Governor Ellerbe's side
that Mr.. Evans has offered, since the
litigation began, to buy the mare and
other COMPROMISES. All OF these
Governor EIlerbe has dsclined to en-
tertain in any way, as he wishes the
matter settled once for all as ques
tion has been raised, and on the other
hand the representa-, es Of Mr.. Hvans
contend that they have made absolute.
ly no overtures to purchese sally
or anv other kind of advances, but
are anxious for the case to be tried.
Mr.. D. G. Ray, of the firm OF Bar
ron & Ray. said today that the papers
have BEEN filed, and the case docket ted
for trial.-Charleston News and Cou'
riar
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Opened by Cubans.

New YORK, April IA special to
The World from Havana says: Gala
bazaar, IN this province has been raid
ed, the Spanish jail forced open and
eighteen insurgents, who were to be
shot this week, released. Most of the
Spanish guard of fifty were killed OF
wounded. Among the prisoners was
Sonora Isabelle Teresa Monteza, said
to be a relative Of General Acosta.
She is nearly fifty years ofsage and
has been confined in the vile dungeon
more than three months. She disap'
peared from her residence, two miles
from this place and her friends had
made many attempts 10 ascertain he1
whereabouts, but without success.
When found she was in rags and
emaciated to a shocking degree. She
was very prominent in that section,
had been raised in afHuence and her
Imprisonment almost destroyed her
reason.
The insurgents were so wrought up
by this discovery that they fred the
field where they had the fight and
hacked the bodies of their fallen ene-
mics relentlessly, so as to be sure
that no spark of life remained in any
of them.
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what about that horsew Governor
Ellerbe gave him al order for Sally
IL due iurli, no " - 20 Savannah and
go. the horse that he Won IN Ander-
sou Comfy, and under tn.s, MIR.
Ey ans says, he has perfect nght IL
hold and keep the mare, and will fight
the case TO the end.
Governor Ellerbe when he came to
Columbia asked for the return of the
mare. Mr.. Evans refused to return
her. Then, it is said by Mr.. Evans's
side, that Governor Ellerbe asked Mr..
Evans to come up to the Mansion to
see him about the matter. Mr.. Evans
went there with his friend, Mr.. Bones.
Mr.. Evans refused to ''lend" Cover.
nor Ellerbe the horse, as be requested,
so it goes, unless he had something in
writing. Governor Ellerbe refused to
give anything in writing to show that
be had borrowe the horse, his conten
ton being that the horse belonged to
him. You can have her whenever
you want her, on the word OF the
Governor of the State" was the state.
ment of Governor Ellerbe, is the con.
tention, and on such a plane Mr..
Evans, il is stated, gave the use of the
mare to Governor Ellerbe. A few
days afterwards Mr.. Evans wanted
the mare to take a trip in the country,
and sent for the mare. Governor
Ellerbe sent back word that he was
having 'Sally" treated, and offered
the use of "Sally's" sister. Mr.. Evans
declined, and took this as refusal to
return his horse or let him use his
own property. A few days after this
Mr.. Evans saw the mare and took
possession of her. This brought on
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-15
JAMES NORTON,
Comptroller General.
State Board of Pensioners
Want at the Doors of Thousands,

GREENvILLE, Miss, April S.-The
condition of affairs in this section of
the Mississippi river continues serious.
Want is today at the door OF many
laborers. The Yazo, Miss, delta
embraces ten counties with popula.
ton OF nearly 10000 people, 70 per
cent, of which are farm laborers. The
secretary of war has kept himself in
telegraphic communication with the
governor of Mississippi seeking infor-
nation concerning the needs of the
flo oded districts. Governor McLaurin
in turn has kept in telegraphic COM
munication with the representative
men of the delta, and yet he has ad-
vised that assistance was not needed.
Today's advices gave a more extended
report of the prevailing condition, and
the leading planters and business men
of Washin gton county sent dispatch
to the governor appealing for govern.
ment aid.
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The Plano for q Lifetime,
The Piano Of the South,

Tho Plano Sold Most HeasonabIy'
That's the popular MATHAsBEK, sold
for Quarter of Century past by
the old reliable Ludden & BaJes South
ern Music House of Savannah, Ga.
It's great Piano everyway, and one
OF the many reasons for its popularity
Is the fact, conceded by all, that it is
more specially adapted for our South
ern Climate than any other Piano
made.
Ludden & Bates are now interested
in the MATHUsHEK Factory, and have
largely reduced Prices on their Lat
est Styles. See their new advertise
ment in this issue, and aUrite them.
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Advice to Mothers.

We take pleasure In calling your atten
don to . remedy % long needed In carry.
Ing children safely through the critical
Stage of teething. It Is an incalculable
blessing to mother and child. II you are
disturbed at night with sick, fretful.
teething child, use Pitts, Carminstve, 1t
viii give instant relief, and regulate the
bowels, and make teething safe and easy.
4 viii cure Dysenssry and Dlarrhos.
Fits Carminatve is an instant ,enef Tor
0Ilc of infants. It will promote digestion,
eve tone and energy to the stomach and
hwels. The sick. puny, suffering child
VII soon become the fat and frolicklng Joy
Of the household. II Is very pleasant 10
tha taste and only cost rs cents per bottle.
Son by druggists and by
THE MURRAY DRUG CO..
Columbia, 8. q.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-04-15
Indigestion.

IndfRe6tt0ns
From which springs, directly or in
directly, nearly every form Of head.
ache, and sick headache never sepera'
ted therefrom, is surely and speedily
relieved and cured by the use OF
"Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kid.
neys." One 25c bottle will convince
of its merit. Try it. Sold by dealers
generally.
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THE Mississippi floods continue and
there is great suffering among the peo-
ple of the flooded sections. The call
for help has been answered by the
National Government appropriating
two hundred thousand dollars for the
protection of the life and property Of
the sufferers.
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NOT MISLEADING.
No DANGER, IN CURING ONE HABIT, OF FORM.
ING ANOTHER.
OPIUM (Morphine, Laudanum) ETC., CURED
IN FROM Four 10 Six WEEKS.

LIQUOR DISEASE
Cured Usually in Four Weeks. Also Tobacco
: Habit and Nervous Diseases,
The Cure has been endorsed by the Legis
lature of six States and one Territory; by
the National Government in the Soldiers
Homes and in the regular army; by many
local authorities in the cure Of INDECENT
drunkards (morphine and iquor); by Miss
Wallard, the w. c. 7. u; Francis Murphy,
Neal Dow and the 1. 0. G. T.; by prominent
men all over the land; by 100000 cured pa
tients, more than 10000 of these being ply
sicians.
The Leslie E. Kelley Company and the
Kelley Institute of s. c. are responsible cor
porations which could not afford to put forth
any claim that they are unable to prove.
For printed matter and terms, address,
THE KELLEY INSTITUTE,
or Drawer 27. Columbis, 8. C.
Mention this paper.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03

A year ago the Rock Island Railway
company inaugurated among It's en-
ployes in engine and train service the
Brown system Of discipline, which vas
this month inaugurated on the Santa
Fe, and as yet no employe has been
discharged for receiving the limit Of
demerit marks, nor does any employees
record show q number which might DO
called alarming. This demonstrates
the working of the system. THE Rock
Island company wouldn't think OF going
back to the old way" said Assistant
General Superintendent w. H. Still
we'll the other day in talking OF the
! Brown system. "During the past year
it has proved a great success on our
line, and We find that under the rules
Of the system employees become more
careful and painstsking in their work.
II is true that the system decreases the
number Of extra men at the division
points, but those who are in the engine
and train service are all working. Thb
large lists Of extra men who we're often
scarcely able to make living wages have
been done away with, and those who
! are now in service are earning goods
wages. Every man pays attention to
his work and strives to keep a good
record. Before the system was insu-
guFated I have known men to violate
rules for the sole purpose Of being sus-
pended for ten or fifteen days in cases
where they wanted to lay of and knew
that it would be impossible TO secure
| the consent Of the master mechanic OF
trainmaster. OF course, under the sys-
tenn anything Of this kind is impossi.
Die. The Brown system is compare
| lively new, and / believe that within a
short time it will be inauguTated on 81
Of the railroads 10 this country. When
4 I say all the railroads, mean al Of the
roads which keep up to date in all q
their departments. There are some
roads which pied along In the old Fut:
and never make any material advance
msnt. On such roads the Brown sys
! tenn may never be insugurated, but d
all the big lines / think it viii be pa
into effect."-Tonska Journal
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03


Every human heart has its ambition
If there we're no evil there could be
no good.
The man Who keeps his mouth shut
never has to eat crow.
Those who know the least are always
in the biggest hurry to tell if.
The same opportunity makes a hero
of one man and an ass of another.
History has proven that reformera
are often the most in need Of reform
A man may run into debt, bat he
seldom comes out Of it faster than &
walk.
There may be better things in the
world than money, but it takes money
to buy them.
He who minds his own business
walks head and shoulders above go pei
cent OF MS IeIlOWS.
Lack of desire to sin can make nc
one q saint. Temptation resisted i;
the criterion of worth.
Morals age manners, and manners
are something for which climate and
environment are largely responsible.
HypOcFites often use a scripture
quotation as a funnel through which
to drop poison into some human heart
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03
FROM ALL OVER The COUNTY
PIaaaant Hnme I'm.


From Our Correspondent.
Harvey Chambers vas visiting at F.
KOontz's Thursday.
Miss Mary Lister is visiting relatives
in Mcpherson county.
FIN. KOontz and brother visited at
Mr.. Chambers Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes started for
Sheridan county Tuesday to be gone a
few days.
viii Stone was in the west part Of
the county seeking cattle to purchase
last week.
Most all of the young and some of
the older people have been up on the
creek plumbing again.
The farmers have begun to cut up
feed and the most Of them have an sb-
undanes and Of an excellent quality.
The coyotes are beginning to make
trouble by picking up the farmers
poultry. A wolf chase would be in
order as soon as the feed is cut up.
The EndeavoF was postponed Sunday
evening on account Of Rev. ], G. Mer.
Fitt's appointment and be gave Us an
able and interesting sermon from Gal
vi, 7-8. He filed his last regular ap.
pointment in the morning also.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03
RAILROAD NEWS.

Master Mechanic Mccormick went
east Monday.
It is rumored that 9 and 10 will be
run on Sundays.
Al Prewit is working on the night
shift at the Grier.
Engine III, of the work train, is in
the shops for repairs
Ed Mcbride went west Friday night
fix up an engine boiler.
Roadmaster G. B. Lane was here from
Phillipsburg Wednesday.
W. /. Allen passed through on bis
special car enroute west Saturday.
It is reported that Tim Lee, formerly
an engineer here, died in Mexico re.
Gently.
A Goodland railroad man has appli
ed for patent on an improvement OF
the air signal in use on passenger
trains.
Frank Candy has got job of brak
ing on the Rock Island, and made his
first trip yesterday.
Engineer Lou Brown has gone 6
hunting out in Colorado, and Engineer
Sam Houlihsn is on the work train.
Trains 9 and 10 will be resumed OF
Sunday, commencing the 18th. Thil
will give Goodlsnd its Sunday mail.
Dave Cunningham returned from
Phillipsburg Monday where he ha,
been in charge of the round house 10
a few days.
The work train in charge Of ConduC
tor Hazslbaker was here Friday, Tn
train went west Saturday to do som
work on the west-end.
Wills Cruel, who has been section
foreman here in the absence Of Foremal
McDermott, has been sent to LimOE
McDeFmott has been on the sick list
= but has reported for work.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03

oupy his pnlpit more than Ose Sunday,
snd then he viii dnd it necessary TO
leave town in q hurry. The press and
pulpit so hand in hand with WhiteWash
brushes and pleasant words, magnify
ing the little virtues into big ones.
The pulpit, the pen and the grayestone
are the great saintmaking triumvirate I"
And the great minister vent away look
ing very serious, while the editor
turned to his work and told about the
surprising beauty Of the bride. while
in fact, she vas bOmely as a mud fence;
had a wealth Of golden hair, etc.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03
WoRrH WHILE.

lis easy enough 70 be pleasant
When lite flows along ike song;
But the man worth while is the one who viii
smile
When every thing goes dead wrong.
For the test Of the heart is trouble,
Apd railways Gomez with the years,
And the smile that Is worth the praise ol
earth
Is the smile that comes thFoagh tears.
It is easy enough 70 be prudent
When nothing tempts you 10 stray;
When without or within no voice Of SIN
Is Turing your soul away.
But its only a negative virtue
Until i is tried BY FIRE,
And the life that is worth the honor Of earth
Is the one that Fesists desire
By the cYnic, the sad, the fallen,
Who had no strength for the strife,
The world highway is numbered to-day;
They make mp the item Of life
But the virtue that oonqueTs passion.
and the sOTTcW that hides IN a smile
Il Is these that are worth the homage OF
earth,
For we ind them but once in a while.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.