Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1891 — Page 2

J r ■*** l ' l ' l ' . t 1 **■?'■?*' T«i 'r • rßiiri^^>«^ ■ * &he DECATUR, IND. M. BLACKBURN, ... Publtsheti. ■Never look a gift revolver is the muzzle. Sam’l of Posen would give his last helef-a-tollar to be out of the scrape he is in. An ancient lyre dated 2,000 years "B. Q has just come to light. It took a modern liar to find it, however. They have had a serious whirlwind in Nicaraugua. Revolution is the order of the day down there, and even the wind revolves. A seat in the Boston Stock Exchange was sold for $22,000 last week. Injsome districts a seat in Congress •an be had for less. Trifles should never be allowed to discourage the ambitions. When a kangaroo is on its last legs it may •till be able to do some good jumping. So Old Man Anson thinks of acting on the stage. It is expected that Boston and New York will crowd all the front seats when he makes his dehut. The venerable B. P. Hutchinson must be called “Old Hutch” no longer. He has written an article for a forthcoming review and ranks with the literary fellers now. When a girl gets hold of a good complexion lotion, it circulates among'' her friends as rapidly as a favorite preserving kettle moves among the •Ider women in the neighborhood. William Waldorf Astor has deeded to locate permanently in England. There is nothing like being right on the spot so as to know when to turn your trousers -up at the bottom. 4- Canadian chemist has discovered a compound that he claims will cure all diseases. He should administer a dose to some dominion statesman and see what effect it will have upon an itching palm. Chauncey Depew is very emphatic in describing the tattered state of the second-hand garments he saW exposed for sale in Whitechapel, but it’s safe to say he saw nothing more threadbare than his own stories. A depatment of forestry is to be one of the attractions at the fair and the work of erecting a building for it will soon be begun. For the entertainment of the effete East some fine specimens from the dense and extensive forests of Chicago will be on exhibition. The first foreign flag to be raised over the World’s Fair grounds is that of Turkey. Well did the philosophical Ben Franklin say that America’s national emblem should not be the rapacious and pedatory eagle but the ■useful *«d succulent turkey. * It is a mournful illustration of the fact that many of the good things of this world come too late that the United States is about to lay a cable to Honolulu now that it is too late for to telegraph home for cash enough to hold up the honor of four aces. A New Yorker who reproved a “masher” by knocking out two of his teeth is in danger of death from blood poisoning. It has long been conceded that the “masher” is a contemptible reptile, but this is the first case that demonstrates that he is venomous. The latest fad in church social affairs is t>he basket social. To prove his piety and devotion to religion, a man has to pay an exorbitant price for a basket; some are empty, find some contain prizes. There is a suggestion of the Louisiana Lottery in this that is fully appreciated by the man who draws an empty basket. But it is a great sinner who would complain tn the cause of religion. It is a good thing that the dead cannot be restored to life. If a man who has been dead only a day could be brought back to life, it would interfere with the plans of the living, and cause as much annoyance as his death caused grief. If the friends of the most popular man that ever,lived could be brought together six months after his death to decide upon his restoration to life, the chances are great that he would be left at rest in the cemetery. A high explosive said to be more powerful than dynamite and safer than gunpowder has been tested recently by United States engineers. It is called terrorite and its inventor hails from San Francisco. The stories of its wonderful properties as a killer in battles are interesting—at a safe distance. Perhaps it is true as claimed that the new discovery will revolutionize warfare, but warfare has been revolutionized so often by new discoveries that there is no longer anything novel in the experience. Cupid Is a shy rascal. He revels in surprises While you fancy him busy with the young and tender, he is aiming darts at the hearts of the aged. Nothing plqases him so much as to see the oetpgenarian playing at Don Juan, or the blushing and giddy matron of 75 skipping from home with some lady-killer of four score. And Cupid must have laid down and •oared with laughter when he heard J. ; _

of that Westchester County, Mass., , elopment, both the parties to which were past three-score and ten. In alluding to Napoleon I. as the “Corsican parvenu” the Emperor William said just enough to put the i excitable and irritable Parisians into a fever heatJ Wars have been pre- , cipitated-trom slighter incidents, and with the strained relations existing between Germany and France, little more is required to fan the ’mouldering fires into a flame. The Mitylene incident, too, comes in to make things more interesting, and when the time arrives for one European power to strike it would seem that all must become involved in a death grapple. z One shrewd boomer ip the region of Regina, in the Canadian Northwest Territories, has discovered that around Regina frost does not injuie wheat as it does in Manitoba! And the Manitoba boomers assert that three nights of frost, ranging from three to eight degrees below freezing-point, have not injured milk in the wheat in Manitoba at all, although it did injure some grain in North Dakota and Minnesota. Strange . are the ways of the boomers and the conscienceless Number One Hard crop-liars of 5 the sub-arctic Northwest! It is reported in Germany, and the story is accompanied by a wealth of ( corroborative detail, that in the per- I plexing times that now beset him the Emperor has turned again to that Tried counselor who, more than any other man, made the fortune of the ' imperial house. If it be true that Bisinatck is again restored to favor it will be a most fitting climax to a life , of triumphs. It will be a political . movq, too, not void of effect upon the European situation, for the exchancellor is well known to hold the ’ view that it would be better to fight France now than later. Yet speculation as to the effect of the return to ; power of the man of blood and iron . is unprofitable in view of the Emperor's character, which makes it improbable. The late Senator Hearst’s millionaire son is likely to achieve passing renown as the owner of the fastest steam yacht ever built. This little needle-shaped craft, named the Vamoose, has been speeded on the Hudson to the satisfaction of its - owner and its builders, the Herreshoffs, who are also responsible for the Norwood, before the Vamoose the fastest thing gfloat The Vamoose steamed all around the Mary Powell, which is reckoned the *racing queen of the Hudson, and when a New York Central train came along, the little lightning propeller beat it upstream from Yonkers to Hastings, a distance of three miles. It was only an accomodation train, to be sure, but accomodation trains make up between stations the time lost in stops. So the feat was a remarkable one. At the rate of speed shown in this trial the Vamoose could make the distance from Chicago to Milwaukee in about three hours and a half. Yachts that can run thirty miles an hour will be ’ the next thing. Hattie Belknap, 15 years old, is the heroine of Grand Crossing, DI., at present. She had been cleaning the furniture with gasoline, and afterward attempted to light the gasoline stove. The fumes, with which the atmosphere was charged, ignited, and in a moment the house was in a blaze. Miss Belknap rushed out doors, but remembering that two children were in the house, she saved them by a feat displaying presence of mind rarely equaled. Soaking a blanket in water she wrapped it around herself and dashed into the flames, appearing a moment later with the two children. Nothing should or can be said derogatory to Miss Belknap's brave deed. It was . heroism pure and simple and involved astonishing dexterity of wit and ac- ! tion. It does seem strange, however, j that a young lady of such exceptional intelligence should have allowed herself to have set a house on fire by using gasoline. The dangerous nature of this highly volatile, treacherous and inflammable fluid, has been proved again and again. It should never be brought into a private house at all. Even Miss Belknap, with all her dexterity and presence of mind, should discard its use. She might not come out of another explosion so foitunately. How to Sleep on a Car. The majority of travelers will tell you that they don’t sleep soundly on sleeping cars, that they never feel rested in the morning, and that night railroad trips are an abomination. This may be all true, butif they don’t sleep well it is often their own fault. Very few people know how to sleep in the sleeping car. The secret is this: Sleep with your head toward the engine. By so doing you will not wake up with headache or spend a restless night. When the feet are toward the engine the motion of the train causes the blood to settle In the head, and rest is then out of the question. The porters know this, but only on a few lines will they bother to change ends while making up births. Insist upon their doing It and you will pass a comfortable night, that Is, if you have good health and a clear conscience.—[New York Herald. Girls who allow sparking in their homes should use smokeless powder so that the engagement might not be discovered.

-a— ———- w—— DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. 'US THE NECESSITY FOR A MORE EARNEST BELIEF. This Ago of Infidelity Will Poss as Others Have Passed and the Hlhle in Its Entirety Will Remain—The Inspiring Example of Eleazar. A Stout Grasp of Faith. Dr. Talmage’s text was IL Samuel xxiii, 10: “Ana his hand clave unto the sword.” A great general of King David was Eleazar, the hero of the text The Philistines opened battle against him, | and his troops retreated. The cowards j fled. Eleazar and three, of his comrades I Went into the battle and swept the field, for four men with God on their side are stronger than a whole battalion with God againstthem. '‘Fallback!”shouted the commander ot the Philistine army. The cry ran along the host, “Fall back!” Eleazar having swept the field, throws ! himself on the ground to lest, bnt the muscles and sinews of his hand had been so long bent around the hilt of the sword that the hilt was imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the hand, and he could not drop this sword which he had so wielded. “His hand clave unto the sword.” That is what I call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel, and we want more of it. 1 propose to show you this morning how Eleazar took hold of the ’ sword and how the sword took hold of i Eleazar. I look at Eleazar’s hand, and I come to the conclusion that he took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled had no trouble in dropping their swords. As they fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanging,in a every direction. It is easy enough for , them to drop their swords, but Eleazar’s hand clave unto the sword. On, my friends, in this Christian con- ! flict we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me ' sad to see these Christian people who hold* only a part of the truth and let the truth go, so that the Phillistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole sword away from them. The only safe thing for us to do is to put our thumb on the book Os Genesis ahd sweep our hand around the book until thb New Testament comes into the palm, and keep on sweeping our hand around the book until I the tips of the fingers clutch at the ! words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” I like an ! infidel a great deal better than I do one 'of those nambypamby Christians who : hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. By miracle God preserved this Bible just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when the sword is let loose it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God’s truth has been fully , tested, and it is bent this way and that way, and wound this way and that way, but it always comes back to its own shape. Think of it! A book written eighteen centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in our time the average sale of this book is more than 20,000 copies every week, and more than a million copies a year. Isay now that a book which is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, and Renan will, come along and try to wrench out of your hana the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates in the store, or the shop, or the factory, or the banking house will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel, and with Eleazar’s grip, hold on to it. You give up the Bible, you give up any part of it, and you give up pardon and peace and life and Heaven. I see hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young men in this audience. Do not be ashamed, young man, to have the world know that you are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of all that is good and it is the sworn enemy of all that Is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man who stood in the cell of a Western prison. This criminal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows. The convict standing there at the window of the cell, the writer says, “looked out and declared, ‘I am an infidel.’ He said that to all the men and women and children who hapi pened to be gathered there, ‘I am an infidel,’” and the eloquent writer says, “Every man and woman there believed him.” And the writer goes on to say, “If he had stood there saying, T am a Christian,’ every man and woman would have said, ‘He is a liar. ’ ” This Bible is the sworn enemy of all this wrong, and it is the friend of all that is good. Oh, hold on to it Do not take part of it and throw the rest away. Hold on to all of it. There are so many people now who do not know. You ask them if the soul is. immortal, and they say, “I guess it is, I don’t know; ' perhaps it is, perhaps it isn’t.” Is the ■ Bible true? “Well, perhaps it Is, and perhaps it isn’t; perhaps it may be figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, ' and perhaps it may not be at all.” They despise what they call the Apostolic creed; but if their own creed were written out it would read like’ this: “I believe in nothing, the maker of Heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing, and which nothing was dead and buried . and descended into nothing, and arose from nothing, and ascended to nothing, and now sitteth at the right hand of nothing; from which it will come to judge nothing. I believe in the holy agnostic church and in the communion of the nothingarians, and in the forgiveness of nothing, and in the resurrection of nothing, and in the life that never shall be. Amen !” That is the creed of tens of thousands of people in this day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory I will not. “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the holy Catholic church, and in the. communion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen.” Oh, when I see Eleazer taking suph a stout grip of the sword in the battle against sin and tor righteousness, I come to the conclusion that we ought to take a stouter grip of God’s eternal truth, the sword of righteousness. As I look at Eleazer’s hand I also notice his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did not notice that the blit of' the sword was eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him'. As he went out into the conflict he was so anxious for the victory he forgot himself, and that hilt might go ever so deeply into the palm of his hand, it could not disturb him. “His hand clave unto the sword.” Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go Into Christian conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us or denounces us? What do we care for misrepresentation or abuse or persecution in a conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves. That mail who is afraid of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not it you get the victory? Oh» how many Christiana there are who are

all the time worrying about the wa r the ' world treates them. They are so tired, and they are so abused, and they are so . tempted, when Eleazar did not Chink whether he had a hand or an arm or a foot. All he .wanted was victory. We see bow men forget themselves in , 'worldly achievement. We have often , seen men who in order to achieve worldly success will forget all physical fatigne r and all annoyance and all obstacle. Just after the battle of Yorktown, in the American Revolution, a musician, wounded, was told he must have his limbs ‘ amputated, and they were about to 1 fasten him to the surgeon’s table—for it was long before the merciful discovery i of ansesthetics. He said. “No, don’t i fasten me to that table; get mo a violin.” A violin was brought to him and he i said, “Now go to work as I begin to i play.” and-for forty minutes during the awful pangs of amputation he moved not i a muscle nor dropped a note, while he . played some sweet tune. Oh, is it not I strange that with the music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and with this grand march of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphi ant, we cannot forget ourselves and forget all pang, and all sorrow and all persecution and all perturbation? We know what men accomplish under > worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back for worldly antagonism or for hardship. You have admired Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico,” as brilliant and i beautiful a history as was ever written; but some of you may not know under what disadvantages it was written—that “Conquest of Mexico”—for Prescott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fastened, and totally'blind, with his pen between those pieces of wood, he wrote, the stroke against one piece of wood telling how far the pen must go in one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood * telling how far the pen must go in the other way. Oh, how much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for worldly success, and yet how little we endure for Jesus Christ. How many Christians there are that go around saysaying, “Oh, my hand, my hand, my huit hand; don’t you see there is blood on the hand and there is blood on the sword?” while Eieazar with the hilt imbedded in the flesh of his right hand, does not know it. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize Or sailed through bloody seas. What have we suffered in comparison with those who expired with suffocation, or were burned, or were chopped to pieces for the truth’s sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is j-ust as much persecution going on now in various ways. In 1849, in Madagascar, eighteen men were put to death for Christ’s sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death the more dreadful in anticipation, they were put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and-while they were swinging in these baskets over the rocks they sang: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to thy bosom fly. W h la the billows near me roll. While the tempest still is high. Then they were dashed down to death. Oh, how much others have endured for Christ, and how little we endure for Christ We want to ride to Heaven In a Pullman sleeping car, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up early so we can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only In time, to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the lint and bandages and all the salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazer does not know his hand is hurt. “His hand clave unto the sword.” As I look at Eleazar’s hand, I come to the conclusion that he has done a great deal or hard hitting. lam not surprised when I see that these four men—Eleazar and his three companions—drove back the enemy of Philistines, that Eleazar’s sword clave to his hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword, the other end of the sword wounded him. When he took hold of the sword, the sword took hold of him. Oh, we have found an enemy whp cannot be conquered by rose water and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust. There is intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling. and there is lust, and there are 100,000 battalions of iniquity, armed Philistine iniquity. How are they to be captured and overthrown? Soft sermons in morocco cases laid down in front of an exquisite audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right names. We have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacrament on Sunday and devour widows’ houses all the week. We have got to stop our indignation against the Hittites, and the i Jebusites, and the Gergashites, and let these poor wretches go, and apply our j indignation to the modern transgressions ' which need to be dragged out and slain. I Ahabs here. Herods here. Jezebels i here. The massacre of the infants hero. | Strike for God so hard that while you 1 slay the sin the sword will adhere to ’ your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few John Knoxes and John Wesleys in the Christian church to-day. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. We keep on refining it, nntil we send apologetic word to iniquity | we are about to capture it. And we ; must go with sword silver chased and j presented by the ladies, and wo must ( ride on white palfrey under embroidered i housings, putting the spurs in only just, enough to make the charger dance i gracefully, and then we must send a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to | ask the old black giant of sin if be willl not surrender. Women saved by the grace of God and on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes because their new hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with great revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper if he will not please te say “amen” and “hallelujah” a little softer. It seems as if in onr churches we wanted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand flowers, when we actually need a baptism of fire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But we are so afraid somebody will criticise our sermons, or criticise our prayers, or criticise our religious work that our anxiety for the world’s redemption is lost in the fear we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazar went into the conflict, “and his hand clave unto the sword.” But I see in the next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parted. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword he could not drop it, and his three comrades, I suppose, came up and tried to help him, and they bathe£ the back part of the hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would relax. But no. “His band clave unto the sword.” Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pull back the thumb; but no sooner were they pulled back than they closed again, “and his hand clave unto the sword.” 'But after awhile they were successful, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the hand corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt, “His hand clave unto the sword.” You and I have seen it many a time. They are in the United States to-day many aged ministers of the Gospel. They are too feeble to preach. In the church records tho word opposite tbelr name is “emeritas,” or th* words aw, “a mlnia-

» ter without charge.” They were an , heroic race. They had small salaries > and but few books, and they swam : spring freshets to meet their appointb ments. But they did in their day a mighty work for God. They took off i more of the heads of Philistine iniquity i than you could count from noon to snnr down. You put the old minister of the > Gospel now into a prayer meeting er oc- > casional pulpit, or a sick room where > is some one to be comforted, and it is tho same old ring to his voice and the same i old story of pardon and peace and Christ > and Heaven. His hand had so long • clutched the sword in Christian conflict ’ he cannot drop it. “Has hand clave » unto the sword.” ‘ I had in my parish In Philadelphia a > very aged man who, in his early life, had • been the companion and adviser of the i early Presidents, Madison and Monroe. > He had wielded vast,influence, but.l only i knew him as a very aged man. The > most remarkable thing about him was > his ardor for Christ. When he could not i stand up in the meetings without prop-; i ping he would threw his arm around a • pillar of the church, and though his • mind was partially gone, his love for! • Christ was so great that all were in deep respect and profound admiration, and > • were moved when he spoke. I was called to see him die. I entered ttfe room and •. he said, “Mr. Talmage, I cannot speak i to you now.” He was In a vfery pleasant I delirium, as he imagined he had an au- ; dience before him. He said, “I must • • tell these people to come to Christ and > prepare for Heaven.” And then in this i pleasant delirium, both arms lifted, this ’ octogenarian preached Christ and told of the glories of tho world to come. There, lying on his dying pillow, his dying hand i clave to his swo.rd. I Oh, if there ever was anybody who had i a right to retire from the conflict it was t old Joshua. Soldiers come back from i battle have the names of the battles on their flags, showing where they distin- j guished themselves, and It is a very ap- ! propriate inscription. Look at the flag 1 of old Gen. Joshua. On it, Jericho, Gib-; eon, Hazar, City of Ai, and instead of > the stars sprinkled on the flag, the sun * and the moon which stood still. There he is, 110 years old. He is lying flat on ! his back, but lie is preaching. His dying words are a battle charge against idolatry, and a rallying cry for the Lord of Hosts, and he says, “Behold, this day I 1 go the way of all the earth, and God hath not failed to fulfill His promise con- i cerning Israel.” His dying hand clave unto the sword. There is the headless body of Paul on the road to Ostea. His great brain and his great heart have been severed. The elmwood rods had stung him fearfully. When the corn ship broke up he swam ashore, coming up drenched with the brine. Every day since that day when the horse reared under him in the suburbs of Damascus, as the supernatural light fell, down to this day when he is 68 years of age and old and decrepit from the prison cell of the Mamertine, be has been outrageously treated, and he is waiting to die. How does he spend his last hours'? Telling the world how badly he feels, and de-j scribing the rheumatism that he got in prison, the rheumatism afflicting his limbs, or the neuralgia piercing his temples, or the thirst that fevers his tongue? Oh, no. His last words are the battle shout for Christendom: “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good fight.” And so his dying baud clave unto the sword. It was in the front room on the second floor that my father lay a-dying. It was Saturday morning, 4 o'clock. Just three years before that day my mother had left him for the skies, and he had been homesick to join her company. He was 83 years of age. Ministers of the Gospel came in to comfort him, but he comforted them. How wonderfully the words sounded out from his dying pillow. “I have been young and now am old, yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread.” They bathed his brow, and they bathed bis hands, and they bathed his feet and they succeeded in straightening out the feci, but they did not succeed in bathing open the hand, so it would stay open. They bathed the hand open, but It came shut. They bathed it open again, but it came shut. What was tho matter with the thumb and the fingers of that old hand? 1 Ab! it had so long clutched the sword of , Christian conflict that “His hand- clave unto the sword.” Facte of Memory. Sundry men, gifted with a tenacious verbal memory, have performed wonderful feats. Learned Rabbis have been known to repeat the whole of the Hebrew Scriptures, word for word. A French Marquis made a hand-book of France from recollection, in which he described every chateau in the king- ■ dom. Cardinal Mezzofanti, the wonder I among mere linguists, could remember I entire dictionaries and grammars. I A Roman priest used to amuse his i friends by an extraordinary feat of I memory. Allowing them to designate 1 any line of an Italian poet, he would I begin with it and recite 100 lines, backward or forward, according to the wish of his listeners. A Scottish clergyman, it is said, . could, repeat every word of the Scripj hires of the Old and New Testament I quoted in the writings of the Greek and I Latin Fathers. His friends used to say that, if every copy of the Bible in the I world was destroyed, he would be able to reproduce the entire Scriptures from j his memory. Prescott, the historian, tells an anecI dote of how Macaulay was caught tripping, cne day, in a line of “Paradise Lost.” In a few days he came back with the poem in his hand, saying, as he offered it to the gentleman who had caught him, “I do not think that you will catch me in the Paradise again”— and they did not. The late Dr. Addison Alexander, of Princeton Theological Seminary, had a wonderful memory. It was not only tenacious of words and facts, but, as often as he willed it, would summon into his mind all of his past experiences and knowledge. For the amusement of the young folks, he would sometimes say, “Now I am going to talk without thinking.” Then he would pour out period after period of strange words and incongruous images, harmonious and even rhythmical in sound, but wholly destitute of sense. If any one thinks this an easy feat, let him try to suspend his reason and give a free rein to his fancy in periods which shall be grammatically correct and yet destitute of meaning. It might made an exercise in the mere verbal use of words. Another of his surprising feats was to submit himself to examination and tell, off-hand, where he was and what he was doing on any day of any year the examiner chose to name. He would submit himself to be catechized about the Kings and Queens of ancient and modern Europe, and tell the name of any sovereign, with the dates of his birth, coronation and death, and hia chief exploits. It is the favor of man which gives the beauty and comeliness to woman, as the stream glitters no longer when the sua aaoseth to shine.— Taiteman.

STEEL RAIL COMBINE, i i — ~ ' HOW IT HAS REDUCED WAGES j , THIS YEAR. Meeting: of the Combine In Philadelphia to Arrange Particulars and Prepare lor a Future Boom—Free . Trade in Labor Only—Plate Glass and tho Tariff-Socks lor McKinley. How It Works. I The Iron Ag.e, unier the hoad ; ng ot “The Coming Loom, ” says: ‘‘A discussion of the situatiou with many thoughtful and experience.! members of iho iron trade leads to the conviction t..at a no.able ri-u in the prices in the leading lines of iron and steei must be expected. A consideration of the condition of j affairs in the rail trade wou d point to the conclusion that a notable rise in pri.es cannot welt be expected d ring the ba anee of this year, but the vntict- ( pation of requirements for 1893 may 1 lead to tne beginning of a boom before this j ear is closed ” j lu or_er to taks comp ete advantage ' of the coming boom, the “Steel Rail Trust" heid a meeting last week in Philadel, hia, at which arrangements were ma e for the admission of the Maryiai.d branch of the Pennsylvania Steel i oinpauy into the cotnb.no. In consequence of this a new a..otinent was made. * The year now drawing to a close has shown the great strung h of the combine. It has been ab.e to maintain the combine prices o i er ton at Eastern mills and per ton at the Western without a break, and in spite of the fact . that the price of rails has been main--1 tamed, an.l tho raw mat rial has taken, it ha< been able to reduce wages. t There are six com anics in the trust, which, in la t, embraces ab the mil.s in ! the country. 'I hese are the Illinois i Steel company, Carneg e Bros. & Com- ! pany, the Cambria Iron Company, ’ the I‘ennsyl ania Steel Companv, the . Bethlehem Iron Company, and the ■ Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company. ! Since .ianuary .ast, all ha\e reduced i wages as ioiluws: Tho Bethlehem Iren t ompany redu< ed wages 10 per cent. Feb i. The Lackawanna Coal and iron Company reduced the of its workmen an average of .0 cents per day, Jan- i. The Pennsylvania Steel Company reduced wages on an average of 8 |to 10 per vent. Feb. 1. The I linois Steel Company reduced the wages of its workmen on March 6. A strike ensued. Carnegie Bros & Comuany cut down the wages of their work men 10 per cent Thus ah but one member of the comoine have cut down wages s-ince Jan. 1. Immedtately alter the meeting of the combine in rhilade phia Carnegie Bros. & Co. published the following notice in their mi.ls: “To our employes: As provided in our agre ment, we hereby notify you i that we d< s.re to end it Lee. 31, lb9l, and that we will be ready to make a new sliding sca e agreement with you at any time after Oct 10, 18'Jl, to take effect Jan 1, 1892. The contemp ated cbangps are rendered necessary principally by the introduction of many mechanical improvements and advanced methods of manufacture, by which the output has been very much increased since our agreement went into effect. That th© above me ns a “sliding scale” downward se. ms evid nt It shows, also, tnat the trust is resolved that its workmen shall have no share in tho new boom anticipated by she combine. Protected by a prohibitive duty on rails and closely united to maintain prices, the “steel raii trust” has absolute control of the consumers of its products and of the workmen employed by it. Ohio Wool-Growers Revolt. S. B. Carlton, a prominent farmer and wool grower of Ohio, is one of many Repu .11 an farmers who declare they will not vote for McKln.ey. He says: “The McKinley bill is ruinous to the interests of the wool-growers. The depression in the wool market is due not so much to the change in the schedule of the wo 1 tariff as it is to the increase of the duty on woolens. The shoddy nianufa turers are protected by this duty and the wool market is depressed, i “I would not favor free wool with a high tariff on woolens, f.r that would bo injurious to the wool industry. I would, ho..ever, fa or free wool If the duty were taken from woolens. “1 sold my wool this year for 28 cents, and it was of a better grade than wool which 1 sod, before the McKin ey bill went into operat on, for seven and eight cents more per pound. The cause of this depression in prices is due to the McKinley bill. I have always been a Republican, but will vote against Melt nley because of his intamous bl L’ How will Senator Sherman be able to explain his vote on the McKin ey wool tariff to Me Carlton and other Republican Ohio wool-growers? During th» debate on the tariff of 1883 Senator Sherman sad: “In 1867 the price of wool was 51 cents, in 1870, 46 cents; in 1875, 4 > cents; in 1880, which was an abnormal year, 48 cents per pound. This was the re. ult of the policy of prot cting the wool-growers, as it is in all industries, to gradually reduce the price. Under the opeiation of the existing law '{the tariff of 1867) the price of wool has gradua ly gone do-wn. ” Lest the Senator might feel tempted to deny that he said anything like this; let him turn to his file of the Congressional Record, where he will find it on page 2301 of part 3 of volume 14. Free Trade in Labor Only. When manufacturers go to Congress an I advocate high duties the interests o their workmen are predominant. T'ney do not ask for the Increased duty for themse.ves, but so’e’y for their employes When the duty is increased the mask drops off and the'r true alms a e revea ed. This fact is well exemplified in the case of g.ove manufacturers who secured a large increase in the duty on gloves. Where the workmen come in is shown in the following advertisement which appeared in the Berliner Berlclite, a leading German newspaper last March: “A long-established, large gove manufactory in Glocersville, State of New York, wants ten glove makers. I'rice for cutting one dozen g oves (Dollirtis’ Leder), 3.50 marks. Funds advanced for passage, further information of R. A Wirbel and Co., Haynau i SihL” Verily, Wm. D. Kelley, the leader of the high-tariff party in Congress, told the he said in 1873: “Yes, men are on the free list They cost us not even freight; we promote free trade in men, and it is the only free trade I am orepared to promote." Political Reciprocity. The political “reciprocity" of the high tariff advocates >s working out its legitimate resu ts. It has been lauded by high tariff organs as the means by which our merchant marine is to be rejuvenated aid new markets for our surplus farm products are to be provided. Its sham character has, however, bogun to show itself. It was never intended, even by its author, to be anything but a political dodge by which attention was to be d awn from the real ob eet of the McKinley tariff, which was the protection of the “trusts” and combinations from foreign com pel tion. Soon after the Brazilian rec proclly treaty went into elect a line of steamers wm put in operation between Baltithe most impouaut BnuUian

ports. At ths time the hfgh-tarlff pa* pers pub.ished this fact with flaming head lines as the first fruits of reclproo* , ity. After six months’ trial the com* pany has discontinued its line for the reason that it does not pay. Its whole history is but another iilus rat on of the ’ difference between poiit cal and practi- ' cal commercial undertakings. SOCKS FOR MR. M’KINLEY. His Tariff Leads an Irish Lad to Make Him a Present. Samuel D. Frew came to this cowntry from Beifast, North ire and, six years ago He liked the Ameri. an c linato and the American people, but he eosld not e dure Ameri< an stockings. He longed for the comfortable, hoine-Knit hosiery of old Ire and. And so final yhj wrote to his mother in Ireland to send him some stockings bhe was glad to please her bov, and so she knittol six pairs of Irish stockings and sent them to her son. But she didn’t write about them, for she wanted them to be a surprise, and the first young Frew knew of the matter was when a bulky document arrived from the custom-house. It was as follows : baniuel D. Frew to the Harris European and American Express Company, custozn-honse brokers and forwarding ag. nta. Dr.: To spevldc duty on one puu_d manufactured wool at cents. ....A .®> To ad valorem duty on articles valued at $2, at 8u per oent_ Reimbursements, charges, and freights® United Slates bonded storage and 1ab0r.... Jtt t aitage, shipping, or delivery .35 Postage, e c JDS Custom-house entries, eta.s# Total SB.ZI When Frew looked at the bill he thought the custom house was at fault: so he went home and hunted up a tariff book and figured out just what the tariff qught to bn Hero is the way he made it: Ad valorem duty on articles valued at S 3, at per cent..< Specific duty on one pound manufactured wool at 35 cents... .85 Total Frew went baric to the expr'ss office indignant at the thought of being so im-pos-d upon, and handed the clerk the bill as he made it out. The clerk looked at it and laughed. “Oh. that was under the old tar.ff bill,” said he. “'lhiaother bill is made out according to Mr. McKinleys rew tariff laws.” “Yoo won’t accept my bill, then?" said Frew. “No,” answered the official. Frew thought for a moment. Then he called the clerk aside and whispered confidentially: “ You tell that d d McKinley that he can have my stockings ” The stockings are sti 1 at the custom house, and after the expiration of the required time they will be sold at public auction same as the Astor dresses were. —New York World. Plate Glass and the Tariff. The plate glass inlustry Is a striking il ustration of the fallacy of the Republican party’s -promises. For the last ten years the magnates ha e gone to Congress at each sess'on of that honorable body and pleaded for an increase in the duty on that article At each sess'on it was granted, Congress no doubt th nking that the plate workers receded handsome wages for the r skill, and. of course, the pleas that these masnates gave strengthened this bel es. If a commission could be appointed by Congress to inquire into the condition of the plate workers and the wages that are paid them, it is likely enough that Congress would reduce the tariff. * * * The time is coming when the men that work at th s industry w.ll be given an (pportunity to go before Congress and give their owntestimony. If this doesn’t have the effect of reducing the tariff, it will have one good effect, and that is it will show Congress that the plate-glass magnates are the biggest Hart in the country, and it will also be able to furnish that body with tho wages paid in this country and the amount of work that is done. It will also be able to furnish the wages that are paid to the men engaged in this industry in Europe, with the amount of work done. * * * If there is anything more wanting to convince Congress of the injustice of the-piate-glate masena es, or if they are influenced by their arguments let this fact be borne in mind, that plate glass can be made cheaper in this country than it can be made in Europe * * * In Amer ca the supply is a little short, of the demand. Under this state ofaffairs competition is shut off. The, glass trust is able to charge what they, please for plate glass. Now, if there was any fair reas3n why the war tariff, should bo continued, it would be all, right, or if the American, manufacturer could not compete with the manufacturer, there would be som v excuse for this tariff; but when we have every advantage over our competitors, there is no excuse for us to. fear them. When we have new machinery that turns out nearly double the amount of 1 p ate glass made by the old style mar chinery, aided by natural gas, low wages, long hours, and; getting more work out of our men, it ought to be apparent that wo could outsell the European in any market tn the world; —National Glass Budget, official organ of Flint Glass Workers’ Union. Predictions and Reality Regarding. Tin Plate. During the debate an the tin plate duty Senator Allison assured: his fellow Senators that as soon as it was certain that he duty would be increased mills would be erected to makettln tilate. Said he: “There are a number es establishments whieh could, immediately enter upon the production of those tin plates, or at least within a very b let period, probably within thirty days, and we have assurances, and bel eve from examination and investigation, that within the time fixed for the taking effect of this new bill (levs than oue year; there will be in this country a sufficient plant to manufacture all the tn plate that we use. I have no doubt of it ” ' A whole year has, passed since the McKinley bill became law, and the only t n plate mill claimed by the advocates of the duty to be now turning out tin plate for commercial purposes Is that of the Apollo Sheet Iron Company. What this mill amounts to la shown by the following letter to Gov. Campbell, of Oht<K from a resident of Apollo. He writes m follows: “Dear Sir: You of course have heard of the great tin-plate manufacturing establishment at Apoilu By an effort I have secured a couple of samples, and will inclose you the same. There are two qualities, as you will discover, and not a particle of tin in either. Their building is 7x9, with a high board fence about it With a couple of other gentlemen, I tried to get In, bnt was told that they did not allow any one inside the mills. I ssked for a sample of their tin, which they could not refuse." A large manufacturer of ®raio bags made from imported burlaps has stated that the enormous wheat crop in the great West and Northwest has caused an unusual demand'for bags in which to carry whsat and corn from the farms to the market. He is now shipping a carload of grain bugs every week to Kansas City. Here tho tariff gets in its work. A carload of bags weighs 34,000 pounds, and the duty ot cents a round amounts to 9390 on the carload. This has, ot course, to be paid by the last man who buys the bags—the farmer. Vandyke Sqvibler, the painter, nays he is wedded to hia art. Cant aha got a divorce? g