Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1892 — Page 6

' j ©he Iknwrrat DECATUR, IND. K P, WTAOEBURN. ... Pctltbbu. Why seek longer for perpetual moK- tion? It can be found In the gas meter. That decision simply means that the Government and not the Louisiana lottery is running the United States mails. Mail wagon robberies are becoming as frequent between New York and Jersey as out West. What is the trouble anyway? A “White Cap" leader was hanged in effigy recently near the town of Sterling, N. Y. Why not hang a few of them au naturel? A Chicago newspaper speaks of “Patti and her buoyant spirits.” It is not so exceedingly difficult to be buoyant on $5,000 per night. Try it once. They are making oil out of corn now, but that noble grain rye has not yet been degraded by application to any purpose save the one for which Nature obviously intended it. By love’s delightful influence all the injuries of the world are alienated, the bitter cup of affliction is sweetness, and fragrant flowers are strewn along the most thorny path of life. People are sometimes curious to know whence came the word “jag,” as descriptive of a big load of whisky in a man. It has not yet been determined, but likely enough it is derived from jug. A big army Uncle Sam can raise at any-time upon three weeks’ notice. But ships and heavy guns and protection to harbors are things that don’t grow up like Jonah’s gourd. They have to be kept in stock, more or less. ■ If a man abuses an enemy, he hurts himself, and if he praises him, the people say he is a hypocrite. • There seems to be no course a man can adopt under any circumstances that can be more creditable than the simple course of keeping still. Somehow the prospectus of that new electric line between St. Louis and Chicago, with its promised speed Aof 100 miles an hour, its absolutely straight track, its illuminated road, and other accessories, sounds as if Mr. Pennington of airship fame had taken his pen in hand again. Man’s great actions are performed in minor struggles. There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble "and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees, no renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty' are battlefields which have their heroes. The Birmingham (England) Medical Review for October, 1890, contains an article on “Food and Its Adulterations,” in which it is stated that, “quite apart from any question as to the injury Resulting) to the human system from taking these salts, It would only be right that\ the medical profession. should resolutely discountenance the use or ant and all secret preparations confessedly adulterations, and adulterations, too, of a sort not justified by any of {he-Exi-gencies of the circumstances. Cocoa is only to be recommended when it is as pure as possible.” Humanity, it appears, is in serious danger from one of those trivial causes which are scarcely to be detested at first sight, but have sbmetimes changed the fate of nations. One-half the woes from which men suffer would disappear if they wquld but cast aside the collar button, and never wear it more. Thus says a philosopher, who may have incurred his antipathy to the collar button by chasing it around his room on one of the recent cold mornings, while arrayed in little more than Adam spirted in the Garden of Eden. Well, it will not cost as much to try the experiment in leaving buttons aside. Married men are provided for; but who is to pin the bachelors’ collars on? ’ » Mattie Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is finally a duchess, having been married twice in two days, with a profusion of ceremonies, to Duke de la Rochefoucauld. The Duke has altogether the better of the bargain, as the wealth of the bride is tangible, whereas his titles are pure pretense and have no legal recognition. The presents were numerous and costly to the bride’s parents. Minister Reid attended all the weddings, giving away, or rather transferring the bride, and assisting in every way to give the titular-finan-cial affair an appropriate advertisement The weddings were exceed- ~~ Ingly private, invitations having been studiously confined to a few persons with long pedigrees and £ sufflutent number of reporters to ex plolt the pedigrees in the newspapers a Cupid is understood to have sent hii 5.. • regrets. A writer in the Hospital Ga zette, of London, says: “We d< not regard all adulterations aequally heinous. When, however potent chemicals are systematical!, addcd. what '-words can auttteiwHJ. convey our indignation! * * Cocoa of the most excellent qualit. and ’of absolute purify is now to b

obtained at very reasonable prices; and no purchaser need be at any loss to get an article to which the severest tests can be applied, and which will come out triumphantly from the ordeal. We were, nevertheless, positively startled, not long since, to receive a pamphlet, bearing on its front page the names of some distinguished chemists, and addressed to the medical profession, vaunting some foreign manufactured cocoas which were distinctly stated to contain a considerable addition of alkaline salts. Surely even lay readers do not need to be reminded that soda and potash cannot be taken with impunity day after day.”

It probably is not so often the case In old-world countries, where parents and relatives have a controlling hand, but on this side of the water, when there is reciprocity of high temperature affection between two young people, and they seek to marry, the stars in their courses may fight against their union, but it will be had, even if a South Dakota divorce is likely to soon be needed. In a recent case at Brooklyn the parents had the doors barred to the young man and life made so uncomfortable for the girl that she Anally requested him to desist from his visits, but said that, if he could find a perch within ear-reach of her chamber window, she would hold nocturnal chats with him. He gained the requisite elevation some distance above a half-filled cistern, and all went well till one night he lost his balance and fell head first into the cistern. The feminine shrieks brought the stern parent to the scene, who flshed out the halfdrowtftd lover, and was so taken with his devotion and pluck that he invited him into the house and welcomed him as a prospective son-in-law. The lesson of the incident is obvious, but unless raised a Baptist the average young man will hesitate to take that sort of a bath in ice water, even for his best girl. The parent who is unable to direct the youthful tendencies by moral suasion might as well withdraw from the field.

Clara Louise Kellogg is printing a series of personal reminiscences which occupy a sort of half-way ground between the vcon sessions of Marie Bashkirtseff and the diary of Samuel Pepys, comprehending the ingenuousness of both. Miss Kellogg begins by regretting that she has not kept notes of her distinguished intimacies, having in mind, no doubt, the success of Nathaniel Parker Wit lis in exhibiting the back yard of royalty, and of John W. Forney in describing “Famous. People Whom I Have Met.” “Being the first prima donna to secure attention, both here and abroad,” says Miss Kellogg, with the true Bashkirtseff modesty, “naturally many noted people called on me, and at receptions in the different cities many men and woment of letters were presented to me. ” She knew the novel-making machine, Anthony Trollope, and Mr. Trollope was pleased to meet her. Emerson, Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes bowed at her vocal shrine. Nathaniel Hawthorns she had trouble with, or, rather> without—for the author of “The Scarlet Letter” seems to have been too shy to take advantage of an opportunity to secure an introduction. “He was such a retiring man,” she says, “that I did not meet him, although he came up to Mrs. Field’s for that purpose. He was up-stairs, but could not summon sufficient courage to corfle down.” She does not think much of the musical taste of men of letters. “They are like the majority of mortals,” she declares, “who love music merely fqr the concord of sweet sounds. ” Musical artists, inferentially, love music for its discords —a frank and unusual confession from one of them. Miss Kellogg does not exactly claim to have rivaled Patti in art, but in social respectability the American has proof that she was far superior. “Once Patti and I sang at the same concert,” she remembers, “and when it ended the diva received attention exclusively from the gentlemen, while I was visited both by ladies and gentlemen.” Miss Kellogg met the Prince of Wales with her mother. Not only was the prima donna maternally protected, but she discreetly observes that the Prince “had not then begun to ‘tread the primrose path of dalliance.’” It is a pity that Miss Kellogg’s delightfully amusing recitals should be marred at the outset by an ill-natured reference to Emma Abbott. * Whatever may have been Miss Abbott’s artistic deficiencies, her place in American art, has been fixed'above that of the present critic, and even naivete should respect the dead.

( irsar’s Stinginess.

A recently consecrated bishop of the Episcopal church has a youthful .sou. who- nut 1< mg ago msked.Jbis.Sunt. day-school teacher who was the stingiest man mentioned in the Bible.’ The teacher saw that the lad wanted the opport unity to answer the question himself, so he said: “I don’t know, do you?” “Yes, Casar,’’“was the reply. “Why Osar?” asked the puzzled teacher. “Why, don’t you see?” said th, Uy, “th; ili ui our Lord a penny, and when them ‘Whose 1 subscription is this?* they said, ‘Caesar's,Land I think he must hhve been'a pretty mean man to give ■so little.” ' iteep Away from Hurmah. In Burmah it is the woman who does the wooing. Not only does she select her own husband, but when she tires of him she procures a divorce for the asking of it and marries anew. . — “Goipg — It takes eight times the strength to go up-stairs that is required tq walk the same distance on a level i..

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. HE PREACHES ON THE GLORIES OF RELIGION. Tll4 Queen of She ba Wat Amaaed at the Magullleenoe ot Solomon, but Not So Much at the Newly Converted Christian la Sure to Bo Surprised. Tabernacle Truths. Dr. Talmage’s text was I Kings, x, 7. “Behold, the half was not told me.” Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem should bo the center of all sacred, regal and commercial magnificence. He set himself to work and monopolized the surrounding desert as a highway’tor bls caravans. Ho built the city of Palmyra around one of the principal wells of the East, so that all the long trains of merchandise from the East were obliged to stop there, pay toll and leave part of their wealth in the hands of Solomon’s merchants. He manned the fortress Thapsacus at the chief ford of the Euphrates, and put under guard everything that passed there. The three great products at Palestine —wine pressed from the richest clusters and celebrated all the world over; oil which In shat country is the entire substitute for butter and lard, and was pressed from the olive branches until every tree in the country became an oil well, and honey which was the entire substitute for sugar—these three great products of the country Solomon exported and received in return fruits and precious woods and the animals of eyery clime.

He went down to Ezion-geber and ordered a fleet of ships to be constructed, oversaw the workmen, and watched the launching of the flotilla which was to go out ‘on more than a year’s voyage to bring homo the wealth of the then known world. Ho heard that the Egyptian horses were large and swift, and long maned and round limbed, ’and he resolved to purchase them, giving Jsßs apiece for them, putting the best of these horses in his own stall land selling the surplus to foreign potentates at great profit He heard that there was the best of timber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out 180,000 men to hue down the forest and drag the timb'er through the mountain gorges, to construct it into rafts to be floated to Joppa, and from thence to be drawn by ox teams twenty-five miles across the land to Jerusalem. He heard that there were beautiful flowers in other lands. He sent for them, planted them in his own gardens, and to this very day there are flowers found in the ruins of that city such as are to be found in no other part of Palestine, the lineal descendants of the very flowers that Solomon planted. He heard that in foreign grovfes there were birds ,of richest voice and mostWqxurlant wing. He sent out people-to catch them and bring them there, and he put them into his cages. Stand back now and see this long train of camels coming up to the King’s gate, and the ox trains from Egypt, gold and silver and precious stones, and beasts of every hoof, and-birds of every wing, and fish of- every scale! See the peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horsemen run and the chariots wheel! Hear the orchestra! Gaze upon the dance! Not stopping to look into the wonders of the temple, step right on to the causeway and pass up to Solomon’s palace! Here we find ourselves amid a collection of buildings on which the King had lavished the wealth of many empires. The genius of Hiram, the architect, and of the other artists is here seen in the long line of corridors, and the suspended gallery, and the approach to the throne. Traceried window opposite trheeried window. Bronzed ornaments bursting into lotus and lily and pomegranate. Chapiters surrounded by network of leaves in which imitation fruit seemed Suspended as in hanging baskets. Three branches—so Josephus tells us —three branches scultured on the marble, so thin and subtle that eve.n the leaves seemed to quiver. A laver capable of holding 500 barrels of water and 600 brazen ox heads, which gushed with water and filled the whole place with coolness and crystalline brightness and musical plash. Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solomon sat on a throne ofivory. At the seating place of the throne,on each end of the steps, a brazen lion.

Why, my friends, in that place they trimmed their candles with snuffers of gold, and they cut their fruit with knives of gold, and they washed their faces in basins of gold, and they scooped out the ashes with shovels of gold, and they stirred the altar fires with tongs of gold. Gold reflected in the water! Gold flashing from the apparel! Gold blazing in the crown! Gold! gold! gold! Os course the news of the affluence of that place went out everywhere by every caravan and by wing of every ship, until soon the streets of Jerusalem are crowded with curosity seekers. What is that long procession approaching Jerusalem? I think from the pomp of it there must be royalty in the train. I smell the breath of the spices which are brought as presents, and I hear the shout of the drivers, and I see the dust covered caravan showing that they come from far away. Cry the news up to the palace. The Queen of Sheba advances. Let all the people come out to see. Let the mighty men of the land come out on the palace corridors. Let Solomon come down the stairs of the palace before th'e Queen has alighted. Shake out the cinnamon and the saffron and the calamus and the frankincense and pass 4t into the treasure house. Take up the diamonds until they glitter in the sun. The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters the palace. She washes at the bat h. She sits down at the banquet The cupbearers bow. The meat smokes. You hear the dash of waters from the molten sea. Then she rises from the banquet, and walks through the conservatories, and gazes on the architecture, and she asks Solomon, many strange questions, and she learns about the religion of the Hebrews, and she then and thefc becomes a servant of the Lord God. She is overwhelmed. She begins to think that all the spices she brought,and “am the precious woods which are intended to be turned into harps and psal- - terms and into railings for the caulway betwees-the temple and the palace, and the 8180,000 in begins to think that all these presents amount to nothing in such a place and shit Is almost ashamed that she h aß brought them, and she says within herself: “I heard a great deal about this wonderful “feligion’of the Hebrews, but I find It far beyond my highest anticipations. I must add more than 50 per cent, towhat has been related, It exceeds everything that I could have expected. The half—the half was not told me.” Learn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social position and wealth surrender themselves to God. When religion comes to a neighborhood, the first to receive it*are the women. Some men'Say it is because they are weakminded. I say it is because they quicker perception of what Is right, more ardenCaffettion and capacity for sublimer emotion. After the women have received the Gospel then all the distressed and the poor of both sexes, those who haveno friends, except sesus. Last of ‘all come the people -

of affluence and high social position. Alas, that it is sol If there are those here to-day who have been favored of fortune, or, as I might better put It, favored of God, surrender all you have and all you expect to be to the Lord who blessed the Queen of Sheba. Certainly you are not ashamed to bo found in this Queen's company. I am glad that Christ has had His imperial friends In all ages—Elizabeth Christina, Queen of Prussia; Marla Feodorovna, •Queen of Russia; Mario. JEmpress of France; Helena, the imperial mother of Constantine; Arcadia, from her groat fortunes building public baths in Constantinqple and tolling for the alleviation ortho masses; Queen Clotilda, leading her husband and 3,000 of his armed warriors to Christian baptism; Elizabeth of Burgundy, giving her jeweled glove to a beggar, and scattering great fortunes among the distressed; Prince Albert, singing “Rock of Ages” in Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria, Incognita, reading the Scriptures to a dying pauper. I bless God that the day Is coming when royalty will bring all its thrones, and music al) its harmonies, and painting all Its pictures, and sculpture all its statuary, and architecture all its plliars, and conquest all its scepters; and the queens of the earth, in lone lone of advance. frankincense filling the air and the camels laden with gold, shall approach Jerusalem, and the gates shall be hoisted, and the great burden of splendor shall be lifted Into the palace of this greater than Solomon. Again, my subject teaches me what is earnestness in the search of truth. Do you know where Sheba was? It was in Abyssinia, or some say in the southern part of Arabia Felix. In either case It was a great way off from Jerusalem. To go from there to Jerusalem she had to cross a country infested with bandits and go across blistering deserts. Why did not the Queen of Sheba stay at home and send a committee to inquire about this new religion, and have the delegates report in regard to that religion and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted to see for herself and hear for herself. She could not do this by work of committee. She felt she had a soul worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted a robe richer than any woven by oriental shuttle, and she wanted a crown set with the jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels. Put on the spices. Gather up the jewels of the throne and put them on the caravan. Start now. No time to be lost Goad on the camels. When I see that caravan. dust covered, weary and exhausted, trudging on across the desert and among the bandits untilit reached Jerusalem, I say, “There Is an earnest seeker after truth.”

But there are a great many of you, my friends, who do not act in that wav. You all want to get the truth, but you want the truth to come to you; you do not want to go to it There are people whb fold their arms and say: “I am ready to become a Christian at any time. If I am to be saved I shall be saved, and if lamto be lost I shall be lost” Ah! Jerusalem will never come to you; you must sto to Jerusalem. The relieion of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come to you; you must go and get religion. Bring out the camels. Put on ail the sweet spices, all the treasures of the heart’s affection. Start for the throne. Go in and hear the waters of salvation dashing in fountains all around above the throne. Sit down at the banquet—the wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the angels of God the cupbearers. Goad on the camels; Jerusalem will never.come to you; you mifst go to Jerusalem. The Bible declares it: “The Queen of the South”—that is, this very woman I am speaking of—“the Queen of the South shall rise up tn judgment against this generation and condemn it; for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold! a greater than Solomon is here.” God help me to break up the Infatuation of those people who are sitting down in idleness expecting to be saved. “Strive to enter in at the straight gate. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” Take the kingdom of Heaven by violence. Urge on the camels’.

Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that religion is a surprise to any one that gets IL This story of the new religion in Jerusalem and of the glory of King Solomon, who was a type of Christ —that story rolls on and on and is told by every traveler coming back from Jerusalem. The news goes on the Wing of every ship and with every caravan, and you know a story enlarges as it is re- : told, and by the time that storv gets down into the southern part of Arabia Felix, and the Queen of Sheba hears it, it must be a tremendous story. And yet this queen declares in regard to it, although she had heard so much and had her anticipations raised so high, the half —the half was not told her. So religion Is always a surprise to any one that gets it. The story’of grace—an oid story. Apostles preached it with rattle of chain; martyrs declared it with arm of fire; deathbeds have affirmed it with visions of glory and ministers of religion have sounded it through the lanes and the highways and the chapels and the cathedrals. It has been cut into stone with chisels and spread on the canvas with pencil, and it has been recited in the doxoiogy of great congregations. And yet when a man first comes to look on the palace of God’s mercy and to see the royalty of Christ and the wealth of this banquet, and the luxuriance of His attendants, and the loveliness of His face, and the ioy of His service, he exclaims with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with triumohs, “The half —the half was not told me!” I appeal to those in this house who are Christians. Compare the idea you had of the joy of the Christian life before you became a Christian with the appreciation of that joy you have now since you have become a Christian, and you ard*willing to attest before angels and men that you never in the days ot your spiritual bondage had any appreciation of what was to come. You are ready to-day to answer, and if I gave you an opportunity in the midst of this assemblage you would speak out and say in regard to the discoveries you have made of the mercy and the grace and the goodness ot God, “The half—the half was not told me!” Well, we hear a great deal about the good time that la coming to this world, when It is to be girded with salvation. on the bell* of the horses. The lion’s mane patted by the hand of a babe. Ships of Tarshish bringing cargoes for Jesus, and the hard, dry, barren, wlnterbicachcd. sto rm-scarred, thunder—split rock breaking into floods of bright water. Deserts Into which dromedaries thrust their .nostrils, because they were afraid of the simoomdeserts blooming into carnation roses and silver-tipped llllies. It is the old storv. Everybody tells IL Isaiah told ft, John told IL Paul told It, Ezekiel told It, Luther told it, Calvin told it. John Milton told it—everybody tells It. and yet—and vet when the midnight shall fly the hills, and Christ shall marshal His great army, and China, dashing her idol* into the dust, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line; and India, destroying her juggernaut and snatching up her little children flrom the Ganges, shall hear the voice of God and Wh6eHßtoMn«? M* l cov “ ered Italy, and all the nations of the earth shall hear tb*i voice oLGodand fall Into line; then the church which has been toiHngrand struggling through the centuries, robed and garlanded like *

brfde adorned for her husband, shall W* aside her veil and look up Into the flbee qf her Lord and King, and say, “'A# half—the half was not told me!” Well, there Iscoming a greater surprise to every Christian—a greater surprise than anything I have depicted, Hqpven is an old story. Everybody talks about it There Is hardly a hymn In the hymn book that does not refer to IL Children read about It in their Sabbath school book. Aged mon put on their spectacles to study IL We say It Is a harbor from the storm. We eall it our home. We say ft Is the house of many mansions. We weave together all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhllarant Words; we weave them into letters, and then we swell it out in rose and lily and anaranth. And yet that place is going to be a surprise to the most Intelligent Christian. Like the Queen of Sheba, the report bas come to us from the far country, and many of us have started. It is a desert march, but we urge on the camels. What though our feet be blistered with the way? We are hastening to the palace. We take all our loves and hopes and Christian! ambitions, as frankincense and myrrh and cassia to the great King. Wo iqust not resL We must not halt The night is coming on, and it is not safe out) here in the deserL Urge on the camels, I see the domes against the sky, and the bouses of Lebanon, and the temples and the gardens. See the fountains dance in the sun, and the gates flash a# they open to let In the poor pilgrims.; Send the wtjrd up to the palace that wo are comingl and that we are wearv of the march As the deserL The King will come out And say: “Welcome to the palace; bathe in these waters, recline on these banks. Take this cinnamon and frankincense ahd myrrh and put it upon a censor and swing it before the altai.” And yet, my friends, when Heaven bursts upon us it will oe a greater surprise than that —Jesus on the throne, and wo made like him! All our Christian friends surrounding us in glory! i All our sorrows and tears and sins gone by forever! The thousands of thousands, the one hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can number, will cry, world without end, "The half—the half was not told us." NITRO-GLYCERIN E. Some Singular Stories Concerning It* Tremendous Explosive Force. [New York Special] One of my friends in this conference had been an eminent contractor, and something was said about the Irish making a dynamite war on England, on which this gentleman remarked: “I have had a good deal to do with nitroglycerine. I did some important Government work, such as the making of breakwaters, where the rock was brought io me in large pieces, and we had to blow it up, and used nitroglycerine for that purpose. It is the most destructive thing you can conceive of. A little cartridge of it as thick as the end of a musket barrel, dropped to the bottom of an oil well, will shatter the most tremendous primitive rock. You can take a piece of it half as big as your hand and it will, blow a rock as big as this room in which we are sitting all to flinders. I can tell you of a very singular property about nitroglycerine. On one occasion an ordinance was passed in a certain\city where I was doing public work imposing a penalty of SSOO for bringing nitro-glycerins within the city limits. I had to have it, so I told my foreman to put that glycerine under my fable, at which I sat writing. As it is exploded by concussion, you may imagine that for a few days I was a little skittish. There was enough glycerine there concealed by that tablecloth to have blown up half a dozen blocks of that city. People used to come into my room, sit a few minutes, and suddenly one or more would put their hands to their head and complain of headache. Not being subject to headaches myself, I could not under stand it. I suppose that from one-half to three-fourths of all my visitors who Bat with me more than ten minutes would have those headaches. One day a man came into my office who had been blowing out in Pennsylvania. He sat there fifteen minutes and suddenly said: ‘ Why, I have a headache; you must have nitro-glycerine here.’ ‘"Oh, no,* said I, with a smile. ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘ this is a nitro-glycerine headache. I think I smell it, too.’ He began to sniff his nose. ‘There is a very slight odor, hardly perceptible, in the stuff, and it looks like a box of larch* With th» my visitor lifted the tablecloth and said: * Have you got it there ?* pointing to the boxes. ‘Yes,’said I, with a laugh, ‘ that is nitro-glycerine.’ * Well,’ said he, ‘it gives the headache to a large proportion of people who sit near it.’ ”

“Did you have any accident?” said I. “No, 1 did not; but a fellow-contrac-tor, who was doing some work in Canada, was driven out of that country by an accident that happened to him in a very simple way. He had been using nitro-glycerine, and it is supposed that some of it got spilled on the tire of a wagon, which was left unmoved for some time. One day he hitched a horse to the wagon and started to drive it off, and then that small amount of stuff adhering to the tire blew lip as the wheels moved, and really destroyed two-thirds of that little town. The people around ■were killed, the hotel was blown to pieces, two or three blocks were devastated, and my associate was unable to do any contracting work in Canada. He hastily sold what he left there to a native, and crossed the river and came away, otherwise they would haye sued him for all the damage done to that town.” “Cheering Word*.” Absent-minded clergymen have, perhaps, caused more amusement than almost any other class of people, for any- ’ thing is twice as funny if the minister does it, or if it happens in church. An example of the mirth-provoking thoughtlessness of one of the class mentioned is given below: A clergyman, beloved by his people, was called to a chair in one of our theological seminaries a few years ago, and accepted the call. He prepared his resignation and took it to church one Sunday, intending to read it after the notices, but, the thought occurring to him that it might draw the attention of his audience from his sermon, he decided to defer its reading until later in the serve. Having .finished his discourse, he presented the resignation, and then turned to the hymn,' had hardly gained in appropriateness by the change; for it began: \ What oherring words are theses Their sweetness who can tell. —Good Cheer. “My client,” said an Irish advocate, pleading Lord Norbury in an action for trespass, “is a poor man. Ho lives in a hovel, and his miserable dwelling is in a forlorn and dilapidated state; but, thank God, the laborer’s cottage, however ruinous its plight, is his sanctuary and his castle. Yes, the winds may enter it and the rain may "enter it, but the King cannot enter it.” “What-not the reigning King?” inquired his Lordship. -^.,!^! 7,. <

SOME SAMPLE DUTIES. THE TARIFF ROBBERY ON WOOLEN GOODS. The Structural Iron and Mtccl Tnut at an End—Conirrcmman Bodtt Say* that the Sugar Bounty I* Oppreuive—A Wrapping Paper TruxL Tile Old and Now Dutle*. Now that the Bureau ot Statistics has issued Its annual report on imported merchandise entered and withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption In 1891, wo have the data required to determine how high a rate we are paying on Imported merchandise. The McKinley tariff raised duties on wool and woolen goods so high that for a long time they were thought to bo prohibitive. But it was soon found that, notwithstanding the high duties, woolen goods continued to bn imported, though In diminished quantities. In 1890 we imported $54,165,423 and in 1891 $43,235,410 of manufactures of wool. Os the import* in 1891, $23,543,610 were entered under the duties Imposed by the tariff of 1883, and $19,691,795 under the McKinley tariff. Allowing for the abnormally large imports from July 1 to Oct. 4, for the purpose of anticipating the higher duties, the Imports under the new tariff are but little loss than before It became a law. In short; the duties Imposed by the McKinley tariff are not high enough to accomplish the end Intended, namely, prohibition. The McKinley tariff made such radical changes in the classifications of woolen goods that it has been impossible hitheito to determine how high the duties Imposed by It are. The following table is a comparison of the old and new duties on the various classes of wools and woolen goods: -i-Wool*— —ta- ._..! Two’L Perot. Combing,4l.o.l 6U.16 CaroetJE 68.85 97.10 Blanket*A7l.l4 81.74 Banting "7. «>■<» Carnete 60.49 Dre** good* Endleaa belta 62.13 97.80 Pluahea ..... 1’8.84 C10ak559.40 85-85 Bata 67.62 76.68 Knitfabiioa M- 30 « Sh&wlM W>..W A*. 5 6 Clothfc. " 53.55 82.78 Webbing., itc All other manufacture* 68 87 87.92 Total manufactures of wool.. 69.12 92.-4 Under the tariff of 1883 worsted cloths were not separated from all other wool manufactures, and the Item of “cloths” In, the above table represents woolen cloths only for 1890. Under the McKinley tariff woolen and worsted cloths bear the same rates. Similarly plushes were not separately enumerated in 1890. . „.\ On bunting, as shown above, the ad valorem rate is less now than In 1890. The duties are, however, higher now than before, but since they are practically prohibitive this fact is of little im-. portance. The McKinley tariff increased the duties on all goods an average of 33 per cent., and the average on all classes Is 92.27 per cent. \ This Is the tariff which Mr. Whitman’s so-called National Association demands shall be left as it is. Those who desire to see these high rates cut down are trying to get something at the “expense of other people." Doubtless he meant at the expense of such concerns as that of whleh he is president, which earned a profit of 50 per cent, in 1891. \ln spite of the fact that the duties have been advanced 33 per cent, and importations have fallen off but little, there are those who claim that the price of woolen goods has not advanced. Either prices have advanced or, what is the same \ln effect, the quality of the goods has been lowered by the larger use of shoddy and cotton. No other explanation is possible. In spite of the fact that the duties average 1 ’-92.24 percent, of the value of tbe goods Imported, there are those who claim that the foreign manufacturer continues to pay the tariff tax. The mere of the average rate of duty is sufficient to refute this absurd claim. It Is about time that the people who use woolen goods, and there are some that cannot afford such a luxury, should have something to say about the taxes which the tariff compels them to pay to enable manufacturers to make profits of 5(1 per cent.

Wrapping-Paper Trust. The representatives of the wrappingpaper combine concluded their secret conference at the Auditorium yesterday, and were congratulating themselves last evening before departing for their homes on the fact that they had gathered in three more factories—two in Ohio and one in Indiana. There are fifty-'eight mills in the United States engaged in manufacturing coarse wrapping paper, and of these twenty-six are in the trust, which has its headquarters in Chicago. This trust was badly wrecked by the anti-trust law when it first came into force, and has not fully recovered from the shock. However, it is making rapid strides, and expects have all the mills back into the combine in a year or two. At' present it runs under no particular name, without a president or any high-sounding title of any sortAkThe product of its twenty-six is marketed through a general agent, and he, with two others, constitutes the Executive Committee. They are J. C. Richardson and F. C. Trebein, both of Ohio, and J. B. Halladay, of Chicago. The lastnamed is the general agent of the concern, and from his headquarters in Chicago supplies the market of the country with course wrapping paper, except in so far as the independent -mills supply it. There are a large number of mills not now in the trust, and these are, as usual, cutting prices. The trust price for common wrapping paper ranges from $1.25 to $1.75 per 100 pounds, whilethe figures of the independent makers range from sto 10 cents less. The object of the meeting was to extend the membership of the trust and take steps to prevent further hurtful competition. The progress in this direction was quite flattering. Three of the largest mills outside of the trust were taken into the fold and others are preparing to follow. A slight eut in prices was ordered, but Mr. Halladay says thftt as sO'on as the other mills are induced to join the combine the rates will be raised to the figures of two years ago.—Chicago Times. Ju his recent speech at the Greystone Club, in Denver, Governor Boies said of the men whose business profits were increased by the new tariff. ‘‘At first these men could not bring to their aid the united strength of either of theugreat polititloal parties of lhe country. In both were willing champions of the people’s rights, and in both, I regret to say, where those who, yielding to the influence that wealth is always able to exert, joined hands to perpetuate in times of peace laws that were born of War’s necessities alone. The scene has changed. Upon one side are now arrayed the beneficiaries of these laws, aided by allies more powerful than themselves in the shape of trusts and combines, that these laws have made possible, and so strengthened, they are in charge of the Republican party. They dictate its policy—they control its action. If .they maintain their position it does not follow that thja nation as a whole will cease to

grow rich. We shall still go on producing wealth as we have done before, but a few will control it, many will be poor. Can we change those laws? Can w e divide the mighty ourrenta that are emptying the wealth of this nation into the hands of a few men, and scatter their golden contents among those who produce It? This is the supreme question ot the hour. In the present status of political parties there Is no power on earth that can accomplish this save and except ’The Democracy of '92. We must not falter. This Is the issuo, and Ibis alone will lead us to victory. The Structural Iron Trust. The combination which eleven manufacturers of structural iron aijd steel had so long and successfully maintained for the purpose of exacting an abnormally high price from consumers or rolled beams and channels caine to an end during the past week, and the effect was manifest In a sudden drop in the price of beams from 3.1 cents to 2.4 cents per pound, or from $62 to S4B per net ton. There is promise of still lower prices, as members of the late pool are reported as offering to sell beams at any figure above 2 cents per pound. The product of the eleven concerns in the combination amounted to about 120,000 net tons lust year, so that the saving to consumers by the decline that has already taken place Is at the rate of not less than $1,680,000 per year. Inasmuch as erode steel now costs the manufacturers something less than $25 par ton, there Is still a very comfortable margin left for the beam and channel manufacturers at S4B, or even S4O, per net ton. Although the cost of rolling beams Is considerably above the cost of making rails, the members of the steel rail combination are entirely satisfied with the profits yielded from rolls at S3O per ton. f The disruption of the beam combination Iff duff to several causes, chief ; —« among which was the refusal of Carnegie, Phipps <t Co. (limited) to accept the allotment of business awarded to them in the distribution by the combination. Mr. Carnegie's firm has recently built a large mill for rolling beams at Homestead, near Pittsburg, which is said to have capacity for producing all the beams required In this country; and when the allotment to this mill was presented to Mr. Carnegie for his approval „ he refused to accept it and withdrew from the pool—a step which he is credited with having long meditated. Another cause for the collapse was the dissatisfaction of the Illinois Steel Company with the price fixed by the combination. , To meet die competition of outside mills, and prevent further importation of foreign beams, the combination had decided to reduce the price to 2.8 cents per pound; but the Illinois Steel Company desired that a further reduction should be made, to which other members would not agree. The large importations of German and Belgian beams, which can be laid down at the seaboard for about 2.3 cents per pound, have cut into the trade of members of the combination very heavily of late. It is estimated that 12,000 to 15,000 tons of foreign ’ beams have been Imported at Atlantic ,a ports within a few months, and good authority places the stock of foreign beams in Boston at present at about 2,500 tons. I The prospect of permanently low prices for beams and channels is not altogether satisfactory. The opinion is freely expressed in the iron trade that the free competition which has been precipitated by the collapse of the pool may be followed sooner or later by a new combination, in which Mr. Carnegie would come in for such a share of the business as he might choose to dictate. So long as manufacturers in this country shall have such an incentive to combination as is offered by the tariff of $lB a net ton on structural shapes there is the , strongest encouragement to combine J and plunder the people to the utmost of , J their ability. The beam combination 1 was a creation of the tariff; and so long j as the duty on foreign material shall re- 1 main at the present high figure the I American manufacturers cannot bo ex- | peeted to permit the opportunity for J plunder to remain unimproved. There i is now before Congress a bill that pro- 1 poses a reduction of the duty on struc- I tural shapes to $5 per ton. It is hardly I possible that this bill will become a law; d but It would go far toward correcting a I long unrestrained evil. — Philadelphia I Record. I To Repeal the Sugar Bounty. I Representative Scott, of Illinois, has J| introduced a resolution providing for | the repeal of the sugar bounty. | “The sugar bounty,’’ said Mr. Scott, I “is oppressive because it takes from the I public Treasury from ten million to I twenty million dollars annually to en- I rich the few sugar producers at the ex- j| penso of the already overburdened tax- I payers of the country. There is a II deficit in the public revenues and this I is especially burdensome at this time. | The sugar bounty is contrary to the I Constitution and violates every principle I of republican government. It is note- I rlous that except when famine exists I abroad, corn, wheat and other farm B products are produced at a loss, and I that to levy this burden upon agricul- B ture in its depressed condition Is an in- , M justice too grievous to be borne. ■ “There is no just reason why corn, ■ wheat, and other great industrial inter- I ests should not be given bounties if it is ■ considered American, patriotic, and ■ honest to donate money out of the ■ Treasury to enrich private enterprise. ■ Why not give 5 cents a bushel as a ■ bounty on corn, or 35 cents a bushel on ■ Wheat? By doing this, these great in- ■ dustrles would not languish as they a have in the past. There Is as much ■ right to do this as to give 2 cents a pound as a donation to the sugar pro- ■ ducer. It would bo as proper to give ■ every wage-earner 25 cents a day for ■ every day he is employed. It would ■ help to equalize the burdens put on him {■ in the increased price he must pay for ■ his food and clothes by the Iniquitous ■ tariff taxes. There is as .much right to ■ pay a bounty to labor as to those en- ]■ gaged in producing sugar. There is no M right nor justice in the whole thing, and fl the law giving a bounty on sugar should ■ be repealed." > ■ An absurdity of the tariff law is found ■ in the story which, is told of a New- :■ Yorker, who while abroad bought two S rosaries at $8 for his maid servants, and M then expended $4 In having them sent to Rome for the Pope’s blessing. In payIng the duty on the arrival of the goods II he explained the situation and was M called on to pay 40 per cent! on the rosaries themselves considered and 40 >♦. per cent, in the increased value arising from the Pope’s blessing, this 'latter MH article coming under the head “Not otherwise provided’for." The most in- HB veterate protectionist will hardly argue that the American industry of blessings ■J needs fostering by a 40 per cent. duty. Sg She Miule Them, <>r Coihm-. Young 'Wife—l knew you would like the slippers, Harry, if for no ]IH other reason, because I made them. ,B| Husband—You don’t mean this is all your work! Why, what a talented little wife I have, to be sure, YoUng wife—Yes, all my work. Os course, I bought the uppers, and Mary Ms sewed them together, and I got a man to sole them, but I put the bows Mg on and did them up in the box. And, ’M|| do you know, Harry, lam just proud MH of rayself. I didn’t think I could ■ ever do such things; indeed, I didn't. —Boston Transcript. |M| ■ . ■'/ 1 w