Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1890 — Page 6

A TARIFF TRICK. AN IMPORTANT DECISION ON THE NEW TARIFF LAW. The Enormous Increase of Duty on Knit Goods, and How It Was Secured—The ' i Board of Appraisers Completes the Job ■ —A Good Chance to Pay High Prices. The longer the McKinley tariff law gets in its work the more clearly the tricks in it come to be seen and understood. One of these tricks has recently been uncovered by a decision of the Board of Appraisers. The effect of this trick is to impose r. still higher duty on knitted wool under wear and hosiery than the bill seemedoi its face to demand. It will be remembered that under the old law these goods cam! under the paragraph which fixed duties on “flannels, blankets, hats o wool, knit goods, and all goods made on knitting frames, balmorals,” etc. Th duty imposed in this paragraph on a' knit underwear and hosiery, if “valued at above 40cents per pound,” is fixed a figures ranging from 18 cents a pound and 35 per cent, ad valorem to 35 cent< ; 3 pound and 40 per cent, ad valorem. In the McKinley law. however, the word “fabrics” is substituted for “goods ” in the old law, the law now, reading “knit fabrics, and all fabrics made o knitting machines or frames.” McKinl ley fixes the duty on such “fabrics” va ued at above 40 cents per pound at 44 cents a pound and 50 per cent, ad vake rein. The old duty was itself so oppres-[ rive that imported goods costing 830 dozen had to be sold in New York at 87 a dozen. This, however, did not appear to be enough protection for the domestic manufacturers. But' these men were not satisfied, and so they struck for higher protection. The hey-day of pr< - tection then came in with McKinley and Reed, and was taken by the manufa • turers as an invitation to make more ex- , travagant demands than they had ever ‘ made before. Those demands were made and were promptly and fully honored by the high tariff party; but, in honoring those demands, much more was given to the manufacturers than at first appeared. There was a trick in that word “fabrics” which has never been laid open to public view, and which, it is said, was carefully planned beforehand. It seems now that the manufacturers never intended to be satisfied with the largely increased duty of 44 cents per pound and 50 per cent, ad valorem. It was intended from the first that the word “fabrics” in this paragraph should not apply to knitted underwear and hosiery, although these had been dutiable under this paragraph in the old law. There is another paragraph in the bill which covers “wearing apparel.” In * the old law this read “wearing apparel, except knit goods;” in the new law these words, “except knit goods,” were quietly left out, and the way was thus prepared for the decision of the appraisers that knitted underwear and hosiery should be taxed under this paragraph. The effect of this decision is to place an enormously higher duty on the kind of goods here referred to. The duty is raised to 49}.i cents a pound and 60 per cent, ad valorem. A high tariff paper, the Boston Commercial Bulletin, justly calls this “a terrific increase in rate. ” The steps by which this increase in duty was reached may be seen by the following: Cte. p c. 118 and 35 Rhdef the old law. three grades.... 124 and 35 <>... (35 and 40 Apparent duty under new law 44 and 50 .Ileal duty by new decision i.. .49’<.and 60 This decision was reached after some of the domestic manufacturershad directed the attention of the appraiser S-to the language of the two paragraphs. A fitter from Senator Aldrich, the leader or the high tariff party in the Senate, was produced, in which the Senator said that it was the intention of the makers of the tariff to t%x knit goods as wearing apparel under the higher rate of duty. This was of course done; and the people will now have to pay an enormous duty oh all knitted underwear and hosiery .made of wool. Is this ono of the provisions of the tariff law which, as the protectionists assure us, the people will like the longer they pay it and the better they come to know it? They are taking consolation it themselves for their crushing defeat on Nov. 4 by saying that Jiie new law nad not been in effect loffg enough for the people to understand what a good good law it is, and that by 1892 the people will see the good features in it which they failed to appreciate in 1890. The blindness and folly of these tariff makers passes belief. They do not see that the longer" Jhe people pay these duties the less they will like them. The people said on Nov. 4 with unexampled emphasis that they prefer cheapness rather than dearness; arid there is not the slightest probability that they will change t heir minds on that subject by 1892 —nor, for that matter, by 1992. '‘McKinley prices” are doomed. Wasting the People’s Money. For years a system of taxes, originally imposed for the purpose of defraylrig the extraordinary expenses of a great war, and which in the- first instance would, never have been tolerated for any other purpose, has been continued. The result has been that a large amount of money, desirable for the wants of trade, lias been withdrawn from circulation and locked up in the United States Treasury; and for some years past there has been no way of releasing it for public uses, except by buying bonds and so reducing our public debt. On its face this seems all right, although there is no good reason why the present generation should have the whole burden of our national debt imposed upon .its shoulders, and future generations, who will, in point of • numbers and wealth, be better able to pay it, should be totally exempted. It does not, moreover, seem a good business policy to take money by taxation from the people worth, say, eight or ten per cent, to them to keep, for the sake of paying off bonds drawing only four per cent, interest. But be this as it may, there have not been for some years any bonds that the Secretary of the Treasury could call, to pay or redeem, at his pleasure, because there have been none due. And so the only way he has been able to obtain any bonds for redemption has been by offering to their owners a premium or bounty in addition to their lawful principal and accrued interest to come forward and surrender them. Plain people, who do not keep the run of financial affairs, and who do not note how large the premium is getting to be, may be somewhat surprised to learn, that in September, 1890, the Secretary of the Treasury paid a bounty of over 26 per cent on more than «4 ,000,000 for the privilege of paying 816,000,000 of 4 per cent, bonds, not due until well into the next century. And ' the community approved of this procedure, because it believed that by so doing a disastrous money panic was averted. And the same plain people may be more surprised to further learn that, as the result of this same policy, namely, of taxing the people to take from them high-priced money, and then paying a high price to get rid of it to the bondholders, the amount of money which the ‘United States Treasury within the last three years has presented to the bondholders, whom public opinion has been accustomed to regard as having been already sufficiently favored bv exemptions from taxation and otherwise, has been in excess of fifty-one millions

of dollars, necessitating fifty millions of unnecessary days’ work, which the present generation of American people have had to perform during the same period. Does it not become these same people to seriously ask themselves how such a policy of taxation harmonizes with the idea of intelligent government—of government for the protection of industry and promotion of the interests of the ■ whole people? How does such a policy promote the interests of the American farmers, whose farms are reported to be shingled all over with mortgages, and who. by a policy of high and unnecessary taxation, have to sell in the cheapest market and buy in the dearest? David A. Wells TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER BROWN. 50. 8. The Election and the Outlook for Tariff Reform. Dear Farmer Brown—Since my last | letter was' written the people of the ■ United States have rejected McKinley-j ism and "McKinley prices” with an em- ' phasis that leaves no doubt as to what ! they think of either. Never have the j people of this country visited so swift and unmistakable a condemnation upon any measure on which, they were asked to pass judgment, Republican leaders fancied that they received in 1888 a commission from the American people to impose higher tariff taxes than the country has ever had. and they went forward to this work of raising duties with a confidence by no means justified by their slender^ 4 majority. Confident that they had passed a tariff bill that would receive the applause of the people they out it into effect with Unparalleled haste, fancying that the people would see what McKinley calls its "beneficence” and approve the bill by their votes. Their mistake must now be evident to the blindest among them. In the numerous explanations that the Republicans are now making of their defeat, there is abundance of confessions that it was the McKinley tariff bill that brought disaster upon their party. This is openly acknowledged by leading Republicans in Massachusetts, where the tariff was practically the only issue before the people. The St Louis GlobcDemocrat, which is one of the foremost Republican organs of the country, makes this confession: “It was through the tariff law that most of the damage was inflicted on the Republicans. There was no excuse for any increase in duties on any article. Every advance of this sort which was made weakened the party, hampered the labors of its advocates and champions, and placed the organization on the defensive from the beginning of the canvass.” What, then, is the outcome of the election as bearing on tariff reform? It can be predicted with confidence that on March 4, 1893, a Democratic President will be placed in the White House, and a Democratic Senate and House, of Representatives in the Capitol. President and Congress will be distinctly and unequivocally pledged to a reform of the tariff in the interests of the great army of consumers. President and Congress alike will be thoroughly committed to the broad principle that'the people should be compelled to pay no taxes except such as go into the treasury. They will hold to the doctrine that to tax the many for the benefit of the few is simply robbery, and is an outrageous abuse of the powers of government. As the political field looks to-day nothing can prevent the election of a President who holds such views. It is almost equally certain that at the same time the Senate of the United States will pass under the control of the Democrats, and that the Democratic Senators will thoroughly supportthe Democratic House of Represenatives in a radical reduction of the tariff. But you may ask. Are wo to have the McKinley bill and McKinley prices till .1893'? The Congress just elected will meet on the first Monday in December next year. That Congress cannot make a thorough revision of the tariff, as the Senate and President will still be Republican. But there will be tariff legislalation —of that you may be sure. The policy of the Democratic House will most probably be that outlined by Senator Vest, of Missouri. He says: “The Democratic party should proceed deliberately and cautiously to attack the outrageous taxation of the McKinley bill by the enactment by the next House of special bills. These bills should be sent to the Senate, and let the Republicans there take the responsibility of defeating them if they dare. Let the House put salt, lumber, and other articles on the free list by special bills, and then let the Republican Senate wrestle with them.” There will doubtless be a series of these bills in the direction of fiee raw materials and lower duties on the necessaries of life. These can without doubt pass the Senate; as Senators Plumb, Paddock and Pettigrew will certainly be strengthened in thejr low-tariff views by the result of the elections. Other Republican Senators who vpted for the McKinley bill under pressure will perhaps fall in line and vote to please their constituencies. Republican journals themselves pointed out before the elections that the elections might make tariff reformers out of some of the Republican Senators. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, one of the most uncompromising high tariff organs in the country, said during the recent campaign: “United States Senators are not indifferent to what they deem changes of national sentiment. They do not wait to be voted out of office before yielding to the desires of their constituents. What if the elections this fall should seem to show that the McKinley law is not what the country wants? How long would the Senate stand its ground, especially when some of the Republican members were very weak-kneed on the tariff question before the last session ended?” There will be some bills, then, for tariff reduction. If the President should be so bold as to veto those his course would only anger the taxpayers and intensify their demand for tariff reform, and their demand would find emphatic expression in 1892. Furthermore, when the Democrats have taken full control of the Government and have carried out their ideas of tariff reform, wO shall have a tariff far lower than the Mills bill offered us in 1888. Mr. Mills himself has just said, in view of the great tariff reform yictory: “We must not dally with half-way measures; we must open qvery market for all our products. ” Meanwhile the work for tariff reform will go on without interruption. The forces which were influential in bringing about the victory of Nov. 4 will be kept in activity without ceasing for one day. The most Onergetic organization engaged in the tariff fight is the Reform Club of New York. This club has attracted to it many of the tariff reform leaders all over the country. Organized in January, 1888, it took an active part in tho election of that year. It has kept up the fight continuously since then; in the campaign just closed ita efforts were redoubled, and its blows were delivered with telling effect. It.has conducted joint debates on the tariff throughout New York State, and it has sowed tariff-reform documents all over the West. It has supplied hundreds of newspapers with tariff-reform matter, and this work will go right on just as during the campaign. In fact, the club is now fighting already tho great Presidential battle of. 1892. The work of educating public opinion to in-

■ telligent views on the tariff question will ba pushed in every possible way. The ground gained on November 4 is to be i held. There is to be no retreat. The victories of the past are to be an inspiration to greater ones in the future. So, then, there is hope for a relief from I tariff burdens. The horizon is bright; j with the promise of dawn. The work ■ will go forward more easily now. On i November 4 we reached the top of the long, long hill: now we start down on thfl other side. When we reach the bottom all unjust burdens of taxation shall be removed. Yours truly. Richard Knox. Repub'icans on Cheapness. Now that the elections are over and “McKinley prices” are becoming higher, and the Democratic newspapers have nq motive in the world to continue theii “conspiracy to put up prices,” it would be well for Republican voters to remember their party doctrine on the subject ' of cheapness. The following extracts from the utj teranees of leaders of the G. O. P. are worth preserving by those innocent people who fancy that the tariff is not a tax, and when they are made to pay “McKinley prices” they should turn to these words of wisdom to strengthen their faith in the “American system of protection. ” Here are some of the choicest gems of wisdom that we owe to our high-tariff statesmen: \ I canndt find myself in full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, w hich seems to me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman ipejer the coats. — Benjamin Harrison, in an address at Chicago in 1888. We want no return to cheap times in our own country. * * * Where merchandise is cheapest men are poorest.— Hon. William McKinley, Jr., in, House of Representatives, May 7. 1890. Into this contest for cheapness the Republican party does not propose to enter. — Hon. Julius C. Burrows, in House of Representatives, May 8, 1890. The cry for cheapness is un-American. —Henry Cabot Lodge, at Lowell, Oct. 13, 1890. ’ 'The curse of cheapness’ The vulture loves his carrion not more than the freetrader longs for cheapness.— Bulletin of the Protective Tariff League, Oct. 17.1890. The attainment of cheapness of commodities is not the best purpose of the protective system.— The Manufacturer, organ of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Club, Oct. 16.1890. Cheapness is the fetich of the Englishman. Let us then have done with this cheapness and with its advocacy.— Henry Carey Baird, in Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1890. Cheap! I never liked the word. “Cheap” and “nasty” go together. This whole system o$ cheap things is a badge of poverty, for cheap merchandise means cheap men, and cheap men mean a cheap country, and that is not the kind our fathers builded. Furthermore, it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain. — IFiHunn McKinley, Jr., at Kalamazoo, Oct. 14. 1890. “These be your gods, O Israel!” Increasing the Consumption. How the cheapening of commodities increases the demand for them is shown by David A. Wells, in his “Recent Economic Changes,” by pointing to the lowering of thfe price of tea in Great Britain, caused by lowering the duty. In 1852 the duty on tea was 2s 2J-4d (about 59 cents) per pound, and it has been gradually ref duced to 6d (12 cents). In 1851 the EnL glish people consumed 58.000,000 pounds of tea. or slightly jpss than two pounds per head Os the population; in 1886 the consumption was 183,000.000 pounds, or five pounds per head. The lowering of the duty had brought down the price, and had put tea within the reach of people who could not previously afford it; in this way the quantity used was greatly enlarged. Mr. Wells points out another case w Inch shows how the removal of a tariff tax cheapens and increases the demand for it. In 1883 we removed the trifling tax of 1 cent per hundred on matches. This is reported to have reduced the price about one-half, and to have increased the consumption to the extent of nearly one-third. Senator Evarts oiyce ridiculed the Democrats for objecting to a certain tariff tax by saying it was “only a 3-ceut joke.” The eases just cited show that when these “3-cent jokes” are removed or abolished, the people get the advantage, of cheaper prices and larger consumption. A tariff tax is a good thing—to abolish. The Worst Month. “To me,” remarked a man of appreciative discernment, “February is the most disagreeable month of the entire year. ” •’ “Why?” some one asked. “Oh, well, you know it has a fewer number of days than the other months.” “What difference does that make?” “My friend, I see that you don’t get down closely to the business affairs of life. The sooner one month ends, the sooner the first o< the next one comes around. I am a quiet man and do not like callers, and it makes me nervous and ill at ease when, the first of the month, men who really have no cause to enjoy my society come around and discuss practical subjects. I make no complaint of a leap year February, but the February that falls on the lot of ordinary occasions is distressing.”— Arkansaw Traveler. McKinley Did It. Last spring when Maj. McKinley and his associates were in their high carnival of tariff making the New York Dry Goods Economist, which is a protection paper, said: “Not all the Cobden Clubs in Great Britain, backed by all the British gold alleged to have been spent in America by the Cobdenites, ever did onehalf as much to spread free trade ideas in this country as has been accomplished in three months by the Hon. W. J. McKinley and his associates.” The outcome of the elections confirms these words and makes them read now, almost like a prophecy. Where Knowledge Fails. Knowledge is power; knowledge is food, drink, and raiment to him who hath an abundant supply. It has built the mighty city where once the forest stood, it has put a girdle around the earth, and built a peanut roaster that runs by clock work. It plows the sea, walks on the ocean’s bed, and makes the planets come down and talk of things not dreamed of in the philosophy of other days; but it can not, and never will, be able to keep a Country schoolteacher fat while he has to board round ,and take his chances with feast and famine. —Ka m’s Horn. An artist, as the creator of his works, leads a higher life than his lower earthly fate exhibits to us; those creations of his mind to which we cannot rise spring forth in mysterious atmosphere. —Schlegel. Experiments with brake shoes for the purpose of doing away with the disagreeable noise made when a train is being checked, show that gun metal shoes are the most satisfactory. The artist always loses in the world. Society is a crucible in which gold melts.— From “Ariadne.”

THROUGH PALESTINE. DR.TALMAGE’S THRILLING ACCOUNT OF BIBLE SCENES. Ebal and Gerizim and the Mighty Opera of Blessing and Curses Once Kecited There—The Valley of Wars—The Great Battle to be Fougiit There. In the New York Academy of Music, Dr. Talmage preached the eighth of the series of sermons on his tour in Palestine. His subject was “Among the Bedouins,” and his text Numbers x, 31: “Forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness.” Night after night we have slept in tent in Palestine. There are large villages of Bedouins without a house, and for three thousand years the people of those places have lived in black tents, made out of dyed skins, and when the winds and stormes wore out and tore loose those coverings others of the same kind took their places. Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent. Jacob pitched his tent on ,the mountain. Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom. In a tent tho woman Jacl nailed Sisera, the general, to the ground, first having given him sour milk, called “leben,” as a soporific to make him sleep soundly, that being the effect of such nutrition, as modern travelers can testify. The Syrian army in a tent. The ancient battle shout was. “To your tents, O, Israel!” Paul was a tentmaker. Indeed, Isaiah, magnificently poetic, indi-' cates that all the human race live under a blue tent when he says that God “stretcheth out the as partin, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;” and Hezekiah compares death to the striking of a tent, saying, “My age is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent.” In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear something I never heard before and hope never to hear again. It is the voice of a hyena amid the rocks near by. When you may have seen this monster putting his mouth between the iron bars of a menagerie he is a captive and he gives a humilitated and suppressed cry. But yonder in the midnight on a throne of rocks he has nothing to fear, and he utters himself in a loud, resounding, terrific, almost supernatural sound, splitting up the darkness into a deeper midnight. It oegins with a howl and ends with a sound something like a horse’s whining. In the hyena’s voice are defiance and strength and blood-thirstiness I and crunch of broken bones and death. : lam glad to say that for the most part Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot change. their spots, have all disappeared, and the lions that once were common all through land, and used by all the pr<?phets for illustrations of cruelty and Wrath, have retreated before the discharges of gun-powder, of which they have an indescribable fear. But for the most part Palestine is what it originally was. With the one exception of a wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Tiberias to Damascus, that one nerve of civilization, the telegraphic wire (for we found ourselves only a few minutes off from Brooklyn to New York while standing by Lake Galilee), with that one exception Palestine is just as it always was. Nothing surprised me so much as the persistence of- everything. A sheep or horse falls dead, and though the sky may one minute before be clear of all wings in five minutes after the skies are black xvith eagles cawing, screaming, plunging, fighting for room, contending for largest morsels of the extinct quadruped. Ah, now I understand the force of Christ’s illustration when he said, the carcass is there the eagles be gathered together.” The longevity of those eagles is wonderful. They live fifty or sixty and sometimes a hundred years. Ah, that explains what David meant when he said, “Thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” I saw a shepherd with the folds of his coat far bent outward, and I wondered what was contained in that amplitude of apparel, and I said to the dragoman, “What has that shepherd got under his coat?” And the dragoman said, “It is a very young lamb he is carrying; it is too young and too weak and too cold to keep up with the flock.” At that moment I saw the larnb put its head out from under the shepherd’s bosom, and I said, “There it is now. Isaiah’s description of the tenderness of God—‘He shall gather the lambs with His arm and carry them in His bosom.’ ” Passing by a village home in the Holy Land about noon I saw a great crowd in and ardund a private house, and I said to the dragoman: “David, what is going on there?” He said; “Somebody has recently died there, and their neighbors go in for several days after to sit down and weep with the bereaved.” There it is, I said, the old scriptural custom: “Anil many of the jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.” Early in the morning, passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land, I saw among the graves about fifty women dressed in black, and they were crying “Oh, my child!” “Oh, my husband!” “ “Oh, my father!” “Oh, my mother!” Our dragoman told us that every morning very early for three mornings after a burial the women go to the sepulcher, and after that every week very early for a year. As I saw this group just after daybreak I said, there it is again, the same old custom referred to in Luke* the evangelist, where he says, “Certain women which were early at the sepulcher.” But here we found ourselves at Jacob’s well, the most famous well in history; most distinguished for two things, because it belonged to the old patriarch after whom it was named, and for the wonderful things which Christ said, seated on this well curb, to the Samaritan woman. We dismount from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our dragoman climbing pp to the well over the Slippery stones, stumbles and frightens us all by nearly falling into it. I measured the well at the top and found it six feet from edge to edge. Some grass and weeds and thorny groxvths overhang it. Ip ono place the roof is broken through. Large stones embank the wall on all sides. Our dragoman took pebbles amj dropped them in, and from the time they left his hand to the instant they clicked on the botton you could heai it was deep, though not as deep as once, for every<day, travelers are applying the same<xtest, and though in the time of Maunarell, the traveler, +he well was a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is only seventy-five. So great is the curiosity of the world to know about that well that during the dry season a Capt. Anderson descended into this well, at one place the sides so close he had to put his hands over his head in order to get through and then he fainted away, and lay at the bottom of the well as though dead until, hours after his recovery, he came to the surface. It is not like other wells, digged down to a fountain that fills it, but a reservoir to catch the falling rains and to that Christ refers when speaking to the Samaritan woman about a spiritual supply he said that he would, if asked, have given her “living water;” that is, water from a flowing spring in distinction from the water of that well which was rain water. But why did Jacob make a reservoir there when there is plenty of

water all around and abundance of springs and fountains and seemingly no need of that reservoir? Why did Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and digging a well perhaps two hundred feet deep as first completed, when, by going a little way off. he could have water from other fountains at little or no expense. Ah. Jacob was wise! He wanted his own well. Quarrels and wars might arise with other tribes and the supply of water might be cut off, so the shovels and pickaxes and boring instruments were ordered and the well of nearly four thousand years ago was sunk through the solid rock. When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having his own well he taught us not to be unnecessarily dependent on others. Independence of business character. Independence of moral character. Independence of religious character. Have your own well of grace, your own well of courage, your own well of divine supply. If you are an invalid you have a right to be dependent on others. But if God has given you good health, common sense and two eyes and two cars and two hands and two feet, He equipped you for independence of all the universe except himself. If He had meant you to be dependent on others you would have been built with a cord around your waist to tie fast to somebody else. No; you are built with common sense to fashion your own opinions, with eyes to find your own way, with ears to select your own music, with hands to fight your own <■ battles. There is only one being in the universe whose advice you need and that is God. Have your own well and the Lord will "filiit. Digit if need be through two hundred feet of solid rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig it with your yardstick, or dig it with yuur shovel, or dig it with your Bible. In my small way I never accomplished anything for God, or the church, or the world, or my family, or myself except in contradiction to human advice and in obedience to divine counsel. God knows everthing, and what is the use of going for advice to human bejpgs who know so little that no one but the all seeing God can realize how little it is? I suppose that when Jacob began to dig this well on’ which we are sitting this noohtime people gathered around and said, “What a uselsss expense you are going to, when rolling down from yonder Mount Gerizim and down from yonder Mount Ebal and out yonder in the valley is plenty of water!” “Oh,” replied Jacob, “that is all true; but suppose my neighbors should get angered against me, and cut off my supply of mountain beverage, what would I do, and what would my family do, and what would my flocks and herds do? Foward, ye brigade of pickaxes and crowbars, and godown into the depths of these rocks, and make me independent of all except Him who fills the bottles of the clouds! I must have my own well!” | Young man, drop cigars and cigarettes and wine cups and the Sunday excursions, and build your own house and have your own wardrobe and be youj own capitalist! “Why, I have only five hundred dollars income a year!,” says some one. Then spend four hundred dollars of it in living; and ten per cent, of it or fifty dollars in benevolence, and the other fifty in beginning to dig your own well. Or, if you have a thousand dollars a year, spend eight hundred dollars of it in living, ten per cent, or one hundred dollars in benevolence, and the remaining one hundred in beginning to dig your own well. The largest bird that ever flew through the air was hatched out of one egg, and the greatest estate was brooded out of one dollar. On and on we ride until now we have come to Shiloh, a dead city on a hill surrounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gardens, and vineyards. Here good Eli fell backward and broke his neck, and lay dead at the news from his bad boys, Phineas and Hophni; and life is not worth living after one’s children turned out badly, and more fortunate was Eli, instantly expiring under such tidings, than those parents who, their children recreant and profligate, live on with broken hearts to see them going down into deeper and deeper plunge. There are fathers and mothers here to-day to whom death would be a happy release because of their recreant sons. And if there be recreant sons here present, and your parents be r far away, why not bow your head in repentance, anil at the j close of this service go to the ‘telegraph | office and put it on the wing of the lightning that you. have turned from your evil ways? Before another twentyfour hours have passed take your feet off the sad hearts at the old homestead, j Home to thy God, O prodigal! Many, many letters do I get in purport saying: My son is in your cities; we have not heard from him for some time; we fear something is wrong; hunt him up and say a good word to him; he is a child of many prayers. But how can I hunt him up unless he be in this audience? Where are you, my boy? On the main floor, or on this platform, or in these boxes, or in these great galleries? Where are you? Lift your right hand. I have a message from home. Your father is anxious about you; your mother is praying fo®§’ou; your God is calling for you. Or will you wait until Eli falls back lifeless, and the heart against which you lay in infancy ceases to beat? What a story to tell in eternity that you killed her? My God! avert that catastrophe. But I turn from this Shiloh of Eli’s sudden decease under bad news from his boys, and find close by what is called the “Meadow of the Feast.” While this ancient city was in the height of its prosperity, on this “Meadow of the Feast,” there was an annual ball, where the maidens of the city amid clapping cymbals and a blare of trumphets danced in glee, upon which thousands of spectators gazed. But no dance since the world stood ever broke up in such a strange way as the one the Bible describes. . One night while by the light of the lamp and torches these gayeties went on, 200 Benjamities, who had been hidden behind the rocks and among the trees, dashed upon the scene. They came not to injure or destroy, but wishing to set up households tof their own, the women of their own land having been slain in battle, by preconcerted arrangement each one of the 200 Benjaminites seized the one whom he chosofor the queen of his home, and carried her away to a lange estate and beautiful residence,for those 200 Benjaminites had inherited the wealth of a nation. X As to-day near Shiloh wo\ook at the “Meadow of 'the Feast,” where the maidens danced that night and at the mountain gorge up which tho Benjaminites carried their brides, we bethink ourselves of the better land and the better times in which we live, when such scenes are an utter impossibility, and amid orderly groups and with prayer and benediction, And breath of orange blossoms and the roll of the wedding march, marriago is solemnized, and with oath recorded in heaven two immortals start arm in arm on a journey to last until death do them part. Upon every such marriage altar may there come the blessing of Him “whosetteth the solitary in families!” Side by side on the path of life! Side by side in their graves! Side by side in Heaven! But we must this afternoon, our last day before reaching Nazareth, *pitch our tent on the moat famous battlefield of all time—the plain of Esdraelon. Wiiat must have been the feelingsof the Prince of Peace as he crossed it on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth? Not a flower blooms there but has in its veins

the inherited blood of flowers that drank the blood of fallen armies. Hardly a toot of the ground that has not at some time been gullied with war chariots or trampled with the hoofs of cavalry. It is a plain reaching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan. Upon it look down the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and Carmel. Through it rages at certain seasons the river Kishon, which swept down the armies of Sisera, the battle occurring in November when there is almost always a shower of meteors so that “the stars in their courses” were said to have fought against Sisera. Through this plain drove Jehu, and the iron chariots of the Canaanites, scythed at the hubs of the wheels, hewing down their awtul swaths of death, thousands in a minute. The Syrian armies, the Turkish armies, the Egyptian armies again and again trampled it. There they career against it, David and Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Ceeur de Lion and Baldwin and Saladin—a plain not only famous for the past, but famous because the Bible says the great decisive battle of the world will be fought there —the battle of Armageddon. To me the plain was the more absorbing because of the desperate battles here and in regions round in which the holy cross, the very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was supposed to have been crucified, was carried as a standard at the head of the Christian host: and that night, closing my eyes in my tent on the plain of Esdraelon —for there are some things we can see better with eyes shut than open —the scenes of that ancient war came before me. The Twelfth century was closing, and Saladin, at the head of 80,000 mounted troops, were crying; “Ho for Jerusalem! Ho for all Palestine!” and before them everything went down, but not without unparalleled resistance. In one place 130 Christians were surrounded by many thousands of furious Mohammedans- For one whole day the 130 held out against- these thousands. Tenneyson’s“six hundred”when “some .one had blundered” were eclipsed by these 130 fighting for the holy cross. They took hold of the lances which had pierced them with death wounds, and pulling them out of their own breasts and sides hurled them back again at the enemy. On went the tight when all but one Christian had fallen, and he, mounted on the last horse, wielded his battle-axe right and left till his horse fell under tha plunge of the javelin, and the rider, making the sign of the cross toward the sky, gave up his life on the point of a score of spears. But soon after the last battle came. History portrays it, poetry chants it, painting colors it, and all ages admire that last struggle to keep in possession the wooden cross on which Jesus was said to have expired. It was a battle in which mingled the fury of devils and the grandueY of angels. Thousands of dead Christians on this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedans on the other side. The battle was hottest close around the wooden cross upheld by the Bishop of Ptolemais, himself wounded and dying. And when the Bishop of Ptolemais dropped dead the Bishop of Lydda seized the cross and again lifted it, carrying it onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, and sword against javelin, and battle-axe upon helmet, and piercing spear against splintering shield. Horses and men tumbled into heterogeneous death. Now the wooden cross on which the armies of Christains had kept their eye begins to waver, begins to descend. It falls! and the wailing of the Christain host at its disappearance drowns the huzza of the victorious Moslems. But that standard of the cross only seemed to fall. It rides the sky to-day in triumph. Five hundred million souls, the mightiest army of the ages, are following It, and where that goes they will go. across the earth and up the mighty steeps of the Heavens. In the Twelfth century it seemed to go down, but in the Ninteenth century it is the mightiest Symbol of glory and triumph, and means more than any other standard, whether inscribed with eagle, or lion, or bear, or star, or crescent. That which Saladin trampled on the plain of Esdraelon I lift to-day for your marshaling. The cross! The cress! The foot of it planted in tho earth it saves, the top of it pointing to the Heavens to which it will take you, and tho Outspread beam of it like outstretched arms of invitation to all nations. Kneel at its foot. Lift your eye to its victims. Swear eternal allegiance to its power. And as that mighty symbol of pain and triumph is kept before us we will realize how insignificant are the little crosses we are called to bear, and will more cheerfully bear them. Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free ? No, the're’s a cross for every one And there’s a cross for me. As I fall asleep to-night on my pillow in the tent on the plain of Esdraelon, reaching from the Mediterranean to thte Jordan, the waters of the river Kishon soothing mo as a lullaby, I gathering of the hosts for the last battle of all the earth. And by their representatives America is here and Europe is here and-Asia is here and Africa is here and all heaven is here and all hell is here, and Apollyon on the black horse leads the armies of darkness, and Jesus on the white horse leass the armies of light, and I hear the roll of the irums, and the clear call of the clarions, and the thunder ot the cannonades. And then I hear the wild rush as of millions of troops in retreat, and then the shout of victory as from fourteen hundred million throats, and- then a song as though all the armies of earth and heAven were joining it, clapping cymbals beating the time—“ The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” N' ‘•Doable up, Jobu.” She had never been to school before, but when she was assigned to a place in the school of practice at the Normal School, says the Philadelphia Record, little Sadie Smart had the advantage of “a little teaching at home,” which fond mothers substitute for the school-room routine when fearing to trust their precious ones to the tender mercies of the “school-marm.” The instruction at home often develops relics of backnumber school methods, which the teacher must eradicate before she begins to educate. The first impediment in the way of stern reality that little Sadie encountered in her heretofore asuhalt-like path of life was tho word “deer” given her to spell. “D— two e’s—r”— sho said confidently. She knew it, for her mamma told her so. “That’s right,” said MissKodrule, the teacher, “but when you find two letters together that way always say double e or double a, as the case may be. Now, don’t forget that” The spelling books were laid away and the reading lesson taken up. The paragraph which fell to Sadie’s lot to read aloud was something like this;, “The sun is up, but John still sleeps. Up, up, John, the sun is up.“ With all the assurance of knowledge she rose to her feet and read as follows: “The sun is up, but John still sleeps. Double up, John. The sun is up.” “Now, Richard, why did tjie Israel* ites make a golden calf?” “Why, ’cause they didn’t have enough, gold to make • cow, I s’pose.”

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