Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1892 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. >. BLACXBtTRN, ... ?B»UIW>' Some people consider It good form to travel on their shape. Erotics reigp, Etna has erupted, and Laura Jean Llbbcy has issued a nejv novel. Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes It; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow. Nothing is done in good style in New York. There was a traip robbery there recently, and the robber didn’t even hold-up the porter of the •leeptng-car. The entire people will be sorry to learn that Col. Dan Lamont is sesiously ill. Col. Lamont always connected manhood and gentlemanly counteay with politics. Few men have ever retired from a taxing position and carried with them in their retirement the*bpst wishes of the multitude of all parties. Kaiser William, in his Braden-, burg ppeech, advised those who do not like his government to “shake the dust of Germany from their feet.” A good many of the people of Berlin seem to bo following this advice in a measure. They are shaking the dust, but even while they shake it they keep their feet in it and in GermanyEmferoH William's Ministry insists upon a larger naval appropriation than usual in order to give employment to men now out of work. When the ships are completed a war will be necessary in order to give employment to them. It is more than likely that the turbulent domestic condition of the German Empire will compel the Emperor to divert the attention of his loyal subjects from fighting him to shooting Frenchmen. In the trial of young Field In New York a citizen by the name of Carney was questioned as to his competency as a juror. “Did you ever .hear of Cyrus Field?'’ asked the attorney, “Neve- hoard of him,” replied the witness. “Ever hear of Bourke Cockran?” “Don't think I ever did.” “Ever heard of Delancey Nicholl?” “Not that I remember.” “The juror is competent,” said the court. This little incident aptly illustrates the too frequent effect of the law regulating the competency of jurors in criminal trials. If the crime be particularly atrocious, or for "other reason notorious, every intelligent man in the county is disqualified by reason of having formed an opinion. ( xsf The demand for better roads throughout the country has assumed the .dimensions of a general movement; and will have a practical result before a great while in a system of graveled or macadamized highways all over the United States. The most pressing need for many years has been good roads, but these can never be attained, even with the most lavish expenditure of money, so long as it is the custom to drive over them in wet weather with buggies whose wheels are fitted with tires an inch or an inch and a quarter wide. In some countries the front wheels of vehicles are made to “track” inside the hind wheels, and wide tires are used on everything, so that a carriage is, in effect, a road-roller. In such countries the roads take care of themselves. . Greece has within her borders little more than 2,000,000 people, but there are some 10,000,000 of Greeks in the world, chiefly in the Turkish Empire or in countries bordering on it. Eptras and Thessaly and the Island of Crete are decidedly Greek"in pace, language and sympathy, while conflicting-claims are made by Greeks and Bulgarians for preponderance in Macedonia and even in parts of Roumania. Greece’s great past makes her people ambitious of a great future and they never cease to dream of once more having Constantinople as the national capital. That will probably ever remain a dream, for Russia and Austria bar the way. But the present crisis at Athens probably involves some secret move regarding the carving up of Turkey which will be revealed before long.

Th! tendency toward a more liberal government is asserting itself in Germany, and Kaiser Wilhelm is confronted with a situation that would perplex a much abler statesman than himself. In his characteristic speech at Brandenburg he ridiculed all criticism of his actions, and now the folly of his utterances is made more prominent by the formidable uprising of workmen at. Berlin. It is a significant fact that public Sympathy is largely with those who have resorted to force because of their grievances. There is a growing dissatisfaction throughout the empire that can only be appeased by a more generous and considerate policy on the part of the government. The kaiser utt£re<l.m<ffe Jihan-he? thought when he asserted that. Germany is growing out of her childhood. Uni. versa! progress has made itself felt there a\ throughout the civilized world, and no assumed autocracy ot archaic systems of government cau stay this yearning for broader liberty. The overthrow of despotism in Germany is inevitable and it only remains to be seen by what methods th< transition will be effected, Whethei revolution and bloodshed or a policj of conciliation and peace shall effec the change, rests almost entirely wltl .»■ LS'.." .. < - ■: Xi-. ;

the young emperor. It K a mfefortune that this great responsibility rests upon a man so Illy prepared by nature and training to meet it His ■opinions are those of bygone ages, life believes himself divinely Invested with the powers which he exercises in defiance of modern views and popular disapproval. Ho may bo oon‘•cientious in his antiquated viewsand misguided course, but this only lenders him the less fit to meet the pending crisis, for to the stubbornness of his convictions is added the stubbornness of a nature that grows stronger and more determined when opposition is encountered. He is not the manner of man 'to grant concessions when they arb demanded. Force will doubtless be the resort of the emperor and a revolution that may sweep him from power may be hastened.

Within the past decade the number of prize fighters who pound their living out of the open countenances of their fellow sluggers has increased with great rapidity. It is no longer “the manly art of self-defense,” but a brutal and bloody contest between ignorant and bullying loafers, who could not earn an honest dollar, try as they might, which they certainly would not do under any circumstances. All of these toughs and thugs should be arrested and locked up, as modern prize fighting is worse, than vagrancy. Its encouragement in this country brings to our shores such disreputables as Mitchell, Slavin, Hall, Fitzsimmons, Maher, and others who see a chance to beat the confiding American public out of its dollars. It would do no good to put a stop to prize fighting without putting the prize fighters behind the bars, for they must live, and unless they could find women to support them they would be obliged to turn their attention to pocket-picking, burglary, or safe-blowing. They are a crowd that should be driven out of the country or put where their exhibitions of brutality would not’bc realized upon and could not offend the tastes of respectable men and wogien. They are a a bad lot The bridewell is their home. The agitation of a reform in the methods of dealing with business on the Erie Canal is not so vigorous as the subject demands. Apparently the weight of railroad rivals on the one hand and of corruptionists on the other form a bad drag on the wheels of progress toward canal reform. “There is too much in it” for both. The enormous profits made by the elevator companies in handling canal grain are so much taken out of the business, so much of a clog on activity along the water route, and so much of a lexer with which to lift and sustain opposition to the men who cry out against the imposition. An official statement makes the following presentation of the facts in the case of an handling 275,000 bushels of gfffin per day: Elevating at 54 cant 81,71875 Storage at cent 687.50 Uto of steam shovel at 2-10 cent 550. CO Cleaning at ft cent 348.75 Total The actual cost of labor, etc., employed in performing this service is reported to be sl2l, orbarbly 3 i per cent, of the amount charged. In spite- of the fact that the greater part of the grain handled is in store but a few hours the storage charge of } cent per bushel is always exacted, and even then the service is not always performed as wanted. During the last few days of canal navigation the railroad elevators absolutely refused to transfer grain to the canal vessels, and the reason for this is said to have been that it was desired to hold back the grain for railroad transportation after the canal had closed for the winter. No wonder that with sucl? extortion the elevator men should be able to declare a profit of over 25 per cent, for last year, though but twenty six out of the forty-four elevators at Buffalo were allowed to handle grain, the rest being kept idle. The animus of the movement is easily understood from the statement that the canal rate from Buffalo to New York is from 3 to 4 cents per bushel lower than the. published rates by rail, and of course the grain tends tt> follow the lines of least resistance. So the railroad men throw their influence in w|th the elevator managers, thus enabling the latter to impose charges they never could collect were it not for the influence of the men whp control the rail routes to the seaboard. The magnitude of the struggle may be inferred from the fact that during the canal season more than 100,000,000 bushels of grain are transported from the lake ports to New York, PMla delphia, and Baltimore over the cabal and the railroads. Short Ration). The Widow Flapjack keeps# board-ing-house In Harlem, and, we regret to say. that she docs not give her boarders as much as they can eat. Gus De Smith, tn particular, is given! to grumbling about the fare. A few mornings ago she gave him a very small piece of beefsteak, but instead of masticating it he merely folded his arms and looked at it—like Napoleon at St. Helena. “Why don’t you eat your steak?* asked the Widow Flapjack: ’ “It’s too hot.” “Blow it, then.” “l am afraid to.” •Why?” “For fear it will blow away, it’s so small.’’—Texas Siftings. -i ’■ — An Utterance to Fontertty. Judge— Have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be , passed upon you? , Prisoner (haughtily)—lf I have , anything to say, I’4 say it in my au- , tbbiography.— Life. ' A tot it- winged duck was hatched ■ t a short time ago at Bar Harbor, Me,

DR. TAIMAGFS SERMON. DIVINK ASTRONOMY ACCORDING TO THE PROPHETS. In thn\ Dnehancinc Volume of th* Bkl)) It It Written that God la a God of Infinite Order »>)U Without Varlabioneta or Shadow or Turning. At the Tabornaele. In this sermon Dr. Talmage traverses wild realms ot thought to teach useful everyday lessons, based on the text, Amos v, 8, “Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.” A farmer wrote this text—Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the earth aud thrashed the gram by a new thrashing machine just invented, as formerly the cattle trod out the grain. He gathered the fruit of the sycamore tree and saci riticed It with an iron comb just before it was getting ripe, as it was necessary and customary in that wav to take from it the bitterness. He was the son of a poor shepherd and stuttered, but befo're the stammering rustle the Philistines and Sprians and Phoenicians and Moabites and Ammonites and Edomites and Israelites trembled.

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Moses was a lawgiver, Daniel was a prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king; but Amos, the author of my text, was a peasant, and, as might bo supposed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor of new mown hay, and the rattle of locusts, 'and the rumble <of carts with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts devouring the flock while the shepherd came out in their defense. He watched the herds by day, and.by night inhabited a booth made out of bushes, so that through these he conld see the stars all night long, and was more familiar With them than we who have tight roofs to, our houses and hardly ever see the' stars, except among the brick chimneys of the great towns. But At seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger, he would stay out in the open field all through the darkness, his only shelter being the curtain of the night heaven, with the steller embroideries and silvered tassels of lunar light VVbat a life of solitude, all alone with his herdsl Poor Amos! And at 13 o’clock at night hark to the wolf’s bark, and the lion's roar, and the bear’s growl, and the owl’s te-whit-te-who, and,the serpent’s hiss, as he unwittingly steps too near while moving through the thickets’. So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens, because it was tfb much of the time spread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing, and others receding. He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of the year. He had a poetic nature, and be read night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem of the constellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars especially attracted his attention while seated oh the ground or lying on his back unuer th# open scroll of the midnight heavens—the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, and the Orlon. The former group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, >s it rises about the first of May. The latter he associated with the winter, as it comes to the meridian in January. The Pleiades, or Seven Stars, connected with sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempest The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a special influence upon the earth, and perhaps they were right If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the electric storms of the sun, by all scientific admission. affect the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? And there are some things which make me think that it may not have been all superstition which connected the movements and appearance of the heavenly bodies with great moral events on earth. Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on the first Christmas night and designate the rough cradel ot our Lord? Did not the stars in ttetr courses fight against Sisera? Was it merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the- moon was eclipsed for twelve consecutive nights? Diditmerely happen so that a new star appeared in constellation Cassiopeia, and then disappeared just before King Chafes IX of France; who was responsible for the St. Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it without significance that in the days of the Roman Emperor Justinian war and famine were preceded by the dimness of the sun, which for nearly a year gave no more light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscure it?

Astrology,after all. may.lfave been something more than a brilliant, heathenism. No wonder tbat Amos of the text, having heard these two anthems ot the stars, pin down the stout rough staff of the herdsman and took into his brown hand and cut and knotted fingers the pen of a prophet and advised the recreant people of his time to return to God, saving, “Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orton.” This command, whion Amos gave 785 years B. C., is just as appropriate for us, .1898 A DIn the first place, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made the Pleiades and Orion must be the ,God of order. It was not so much a star here and a star there that increased the inspired herdsmkn, but seven In one group and seven in the other group. He saw that night after night and season after season and decade after decade they had kept step of light, each one in its own place, a sisterhood never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the time Hesiod called the Pleiades the “seven daughters of Atlas,” and Virgil wrote in his Alneid of “Stormy Orion” until now. they have observed the order established tor their coming and going; order written not in manuscript that may be pigenholed, but with the hand of the Almighty on the dome of the sky. bo that al) nations may read it. Order. Persistent order. Sublime order. Omnipotent order.

What a sedative to you and me, to whom communities and nations sometimes seem going pelimell, and world ruled by some fiend at haphazard and in all directions maladministration! The fiod who keeps seven worlds in right /circuit for 000 years ean certainly keep all the affairs of individuals and nations and continents in adjustment. We had not better fret much, for the peasant's argument of the text was right If God can take eare of the seven worlds of the Pleiades and the four chief worlds oi Orlon, He can probably take care ot the one world we inhabit So I feel very much as my father felt one day when we wr-re going to the conntry mill to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of 7 years, sat in the back part of the wagon, and our yoke ot oxen ran away with us and along a labyrinthine road through the wflorls, so that I thought every moment we should be to pieces, and I made a terrible outcry of fright, and my father turned to me with a face perfectly calm, and said: “Do Witt, what are you crying about? I guess we can ride as fast as the oxen can run,’’ And, my hearers, why should we be affrighted and lose our equilibrium in the swift movement Os worldly events, especially when we are assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are drawing ns on. bnt that order and wise government are in the yoke? In your occupation, you'i mission, your 1 sphere, do the best you ean. and than ? ■ ■ z***'?' '

trust to God; and if things are all mixed and disquieting, end your brain is hot and your hoart sick, get some ono to go out with you into the starlight and point out to you the Pleiades, or, bettor than that, get into some observatory, and through the telescope sue further than Amos with the naked eye could—namely, 300 stars in the Pleiades, and that In what is called the sword of Orlon there is a nebula computed to be two trillion two hundred thousand billions times larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God who made all that and controls all that—the wheel of the constellations turning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands of years without the breaking of a cog or the slipping of a band or the snap of an axle. For your placidity and comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ I charge you, “Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orton.” Again, Amos saw, as we must aoe, that the God who made these two groups of the text was the God of light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star, or two stars, or throe stars, but He makes seven; and having finished that group of worlds, makes anjsther group—group after group. To the Pleiades He adds Orion. It seems that God likes light so well that He keeps making it Only ono being in the nniverse knows the statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric creations, aud that is the Creator Himself. And they have all been lovingly christened, each one a name as distinct as the. names of your children. “He tolleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.” The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they arc Alcyone, Merope, Celmno, Electra, Steropo, Taygete, and Maia. Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two archipelagoes of stars must bo an unchanging God. has boon no chango in the stellar appearance during this herdsman’s lifetime, and his father, a shepherd, reported to him that there had been no chango in his lifetime. And these two clusters hang oyer the celestial arbor now just as they were the first night that they shone on tho Edenic bowers; the same as when the Egyutians built the pyramids, from the top of which to watch them; the same as when the Chaldeansoalculated the eclipses; the same as when Elihu. according to the book of Job; went out to study the aurora borealis; the same under the Ptolemaic system and Copernican system; the same from Callsthenes to Pythagoras, and from Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely, a changeless God must have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups and downs of life, and the tax and reflux of the tides of prosperity, to know that we have a changeless God. the same “yesterday, to-day and forever!” Again. Amos saw, as we must see, that the God wbo made these two beacons of the oriental night sky must be a God of loye and kindly warning. The Pleiades rising in midsky said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and hnspandmen, “Come out and enjoy the mild weather and cultivate your gardensand Gelds.” Orion, coming in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest All navigation was regulated by these two constellations. The one said to shipmaster aud crow, “Holst sail for the sea and gather merchandise from other lands.” But Orion was the storm signal, and said, “Reef sail, make things snug or put into harbor for the hurricanes are putting their wings out” As tho Pleiades were the sweet evangels of spring, Orlon was the warning prophet of winter. Oh, now I got the best view of God I ever had! There are two kinds of sermons I never want to preach—the one that God so kind, so indulgent so lenienVtio imbcfdiie that men may do what they will against Him and fracture His every Jaw and put the pry of their impertinence ahd rebellion under His throne, and while they arc spitting in His face and stabbing at His heart. He takes them up in His strong arms and kisses their infuriated brow and cheek, saying, “Os such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The other kind of sermon I never want to preach represents God a? all fire and torture and thundercloud, and with rediiot pitchfork tossing the human race Into paroxysms of infinite agony. The sermon that I am now preaching believes in a God of loving, kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion.

You must remember that the winter is . Just as important as the spring. Let one winter pass without frost to kill vegeta- 1 tion and ice to bind the rivers and snow ’ to enrich our fields and then ybu will 1 have to enlarge yonr hospitals and your ’ cemeteries. “A green Christmas makes 1 a fat graveyard” was the old proverb, i Storms to purify the air. Thermometer i at ten degrees above zero to tone up the i system. Decembet* and January just as important as May and June. I toll you < we need the storms of life as much as we ■ do the sunshine. There are more men ' ruined by prosperity than by adversity. If we had our own way tn life, before this we would have been impersonations ■ of selfishness and wvrldlincss and dis- 1 gusting sin, and puffed up nntil we ‘ would have been like Julius Caesar, who 1 was made by sycophants to believe that ‘ he was divine, and the freckles on his I face were as stars of the firmament 1 Oh, what a merev it Is that in the text j and ?11 up and down the Bible God In- ■ duces us to look out toward otherworlds! j Bible astronomy in Genesis, in Joshua,,, , in Job, in the Psalms, m the prophets, , major and minor, in St John’s Apo- i calypse, practical saying: “Worlds! . worlds! worlds! Get ready for them!” . We have a nice little world here that we ; stick to, as though losing that we lose all. We are afraid of falling off this i little raft of a worjd. We are afraid : that some meteoric iconoclast will some night smash it, and we want everything ( to revolve around it, and are disap- , pointed when we find that R revolves around the sun Instead of the sun revolv- 1 ing around it What a fuss we make 1 about this little bit of a world, its exist- : ence only a short time between two spasms, the paroxysm by which it was ' hurled from chaos into order, and the 1 paroxysm of its demolition. And lam so glad that so many texts : call us to look off to other worlds, many of them larger and grander and more , resplendent. “Look there, ’ says Job, , “at Mazaroth and Arcturns and his i sons!” “Look therc, tt says St. John, “at I the moon under Christ’s feet!” “Look] there,” says Joshua, “at the sun standing still above Glbeon!” “Look there,” says Moses, “at the sparkling firmament!” “Look there,” says Amos, he hrtrdsman, “at the Seven stars and Orion!” Don’tlot us be so sad about those who shove off from this world tinder Christiv pilotage. Don’t let us be so agitated about our own going off ‘ thia '’little barge or sloop or canal boat of a world to get on some. Great Eastern of tho heavens. Don’t let us persist in wanting to stay in this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world when all the king's palaces already occupied by muny of our best friends are. swinging wide open their gates to let us in. / When I read, “In my Father's house are many mansions,” I do not know but that each world is a room, and as many rooms as there are worlds, stellar stair*, stellar galleries, stellar hallways, stellar windows, stellar domes. How our departed friends must pity us shut np in these cramped apartments, tired If we walk fifteen miles, when they some morning, by one stroke ’of’wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back In time for matins! Perhaps

■ -- yonder twinkling constellation is ths residence of tho martyrs; that group of twelve luminaries is the celestial borne of the apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling place ot angels cherubic, seraphic, archougellc. A mansion with as many rooms as worlds, and all theft- windows illuminated for festivity. Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimulates our expectations! How little It makes tho prosent and how stupendous it makes tho fuiurel How it consoles us about our pious dead, who, instead of being boxed up and under tho ground, have tho rango of as many rooms as there are worlds, and welcome everyv where, for It is tho Father's house, In' which there are many mansions! Oh, Lord God of the Seven Stars and Orion, how can I enduro the transport, tho ecstasy of such a vision! I must oboy my text and seek Him. I will seek Him. I seek Him now, for I call to mind that it is not tho material universe that is most valuable, but tho spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth more than all the worlds which tho inspired her isman saw from his booth on tho-hilis of Tekoa. I had studied It before, but the Cathedral of Cologne, Germany, never impressed mo as it did the last time I saw it. It is admittedly the grandest gothic structure in tho world, its foundation laid in 1348, only eight or nine years ago completed. More than 600 years in building. All Europe taxed for its construction. Its chapel of tho Magi with precious stones enough to purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of St. Agnes with master-nieces of painting. Its Spiro springing 511 feet into the heavens. Its stained g ass the chorus of all rich colors. Statues encircling ther pillars and encircling all. Statues above statues. until sculpture can do no more, but faints and falls back against carved stalls and down on pavements over which the kings and queens of the earth have walked to confession. Nave and aisles and transept and portals combining the the splendors of sunrise. Interlaced, interfoliated, intercolumned grandeur. As I stood outside looking at the double range of flying buttresses and the forest of pinnacles, higher and higher and higher, until I almost reeled from dizziness, I exclaimed: ‘Great doxology in stone! Frozen prayer of many nations!” But while standing there I saw a poor man enter and put down his pack and kneel besidtf his burden on the hard floor of that cathedral. Aud tears of deep emotion camo into my eyes as I said to myself: “There is a soul worth more than all the material surroundings. That man will live after the last pinnacle has fallen, and not one stone of all that cathedral iflory shall remain unc'rumbled. He Is now a Lazarus in rags and poverty and weariness, but immortal and a son of the Lord God Almighty, and the prayer be now offers, though amid many superstitions, I believe God will hear, and among the apostles whose sculptured forms stand in the surrounding niehes ho will at last be lifted, and into the presence of that Christ whose sufferings are represented by the crucifix before which ho bows, and be raised in due time out of all bis poverties into the glorious homo built for him and built for us by ‘Him who maketh tho Seven Stars and Orlon.’”

The despot of the debates for many years was the eccentric John Randolph, who would ride on horseback from hi* lodgings in Georgetown to the Capitol and enter the House, wearing a fur cap with a large visor, a heavy great-coat over a suit of Virginia hoiiiespnn, and white-topped boots with jingling silver spuro. Striding down the main aisle, followed by his brace of pointer-dogs, he would stop before his desk, upon which he would deliberately place his cap, his gloves and his Tiding-wfaip, listening meanwhile to the debate. If he took any interest in it, he would begin to speak at the first opportunity, ■without any regard to what had previously been said. After he had uttered a few sentences (and had drunk\a glass of porter, which an assistant doorkeeper had orders to bring whenever ho rose to speak), his tall, meager form ■would writhe with passion; liis long, bony index-finger would be pointed at those on whom he poured his wrath; and the expression of his lieardless, high-cheeked and sallow countenance would give additional force to the brilliant and beautiful sentences which he would rapidly utter, full of stinging witticisms and angry sarcasms. So distinct was his enunciation, that his sljrill voice could he heard in every part of the hall; his words were select and strictly grammatical, and the arrangement of his remarks was always harmonious and effective.

Randolph, having had a dinnertable difficulty with Willis Alston/ of North Carolina, never let pass an Opportunity for alluding to him in the most bitter and contemptuous manner. Alston, enraged one day bv sorfe lsnKnage used by Randolph in debate, Baid, as the Representatives were leaving the hall, and Randolph was passing trim: “The puppy has still some respect shown him.” Whether the allusion referred to Randolph or to one of his pointer dogs, which was following him, was afterward a question, but Randolph immediately began beating Alston over the head with the handle of his heavy riding-whip, inflicting several wounds. The next day the Grand Jury, which was in session, indicted Randolph for a breach of the peace, but the court aM lowed him to offer the remark about the" puppy as evidence in extenuation, and inflicted a fine of S2ONext to a wasteful eook, the most undftfirable employe in a hotel is-.the waiter with a bad memory. A guest sits down to dinner, reads over the bill of fare, decides what he will eat, calls for it, and expects to get it. The waiter with a bad memory hears what is said, says “Yes, sir,” to every item which is called for iriimediately, and goes into the kitchen to return with something. Nine times out of ten the man brings back an aseortment of articles the very opposite of wliat was ordered: dishes enough for two or three people, and generally asks if that is what is wanted? The guest takes an inventory of what is before him, loses his appetite at the first glance, gets angry, ortTers half thethings carried away; complains to the head’waiter, receives little, if any, satisfaction, eats what is left before him. gets indigestion and curses the hotel. The. miscellaneous dishes taken away by the waiter are some of them wasted and others served half-cold to another guest, and thus more bad feeling is stirred up. The waiter all the time smiles, which makes the victim madder than ever. The head waiter smiles, and salaams „at him when he leaves the dining-room. The clerk is the essence of politeness owpyesenting the bill, and the politeness is not appreciated. The proprietor says “Goodby" to a guest, who doesnot respond; shakes a hand, the .grasp of Which is not hearty; get no promise to “return again,” and remarks, after his patron has departed, that “Mr- — — appeared to be a* little annoyed*at something.” And all this is occasioned by the stupidity and carelessness of the waiter with th? bad memory. Therefore jra say, »jrhy with hinw

THE SHODDY INDUSTRY. ITS PHENOMENAL GROWTH UN- ( DER HIGH TARIFFS. Bxamplo Rotter than Argument In the Melter of Tariff Taaee—American v». foreign Labor—Trust Economic)—Sample rrlooe Under McKinloylsm. ( Shoddy and tho Census. Under tho high tariffs on wool and woolen goods since 1860 tho growth of the shoddy industry hue been phenomenal. Shoddy is a comprehensive term, and in common parlance includes all the various wool substitutes used in manufacturing, except cotton, oows’ hair, etc. There are two classes Os shoddies: The first is made from tho waste pieces of woolen goods loft over In the manufacture of ready-made clothing, and known in the trade as new shoddy; and the second from old woolen rags collected from the ash barrels and refuse heaps of our largo cities, called old shoddy; but, like other industries, the shoddy Industry has grown to such an extent that there have been added new terms to describe the products which formerly went under the general name of “shoddy.” Chief among those are which are made from mixed cotton and woolen goods by the application of an acid which cats out the cotton, leaving the woolen fibers intact, though much impair d. At the same time extracts are subdivided into two classes: First, those made from waste pieces of cloth not In use, just as new shoddies are produced: and second from old mixed rags picked up from all possible places. ' So great have been the improvements in machinery used for working up shoddies and extracts that they are now used in all classes of woolen goods, and are so disguised as to be detected with great difficulty. The growth of the shoddy industry cannot be bettor shown than by a comparison of the census figures since 1860. The following table shows the number of establishments, the capital Invested, the number of yrorkmen employed, and the value of the products during each census year: E>t<bU>hmentt, Workmen, Product, Censtfs. No. Capital. No. value. 186030 81)3 tOO 29 I 84U2.590 18705 S 815,9'0 632 1,768.592 188073 1,166,100 1,282 4,982.615 199094 9.208,0 U From a product of $402,590 in 1860 this industry has increased until, according to the census of 1890, the product is $9,208,011, or an increase of 2,187 per cent. Though the growth of the woolen industry as a whole, including the shoddy industry, has been considerable since 1860 it has not been in proportion to the growth of the shoddy industry. In 1860 the value of the woolen goods produced in the United States was $65,596,364; in 1890, according to the last census, the value of the woolen goods was $338,231,109, showing an increase since 1860 of only 415 per cent. Nothing will show better the great growth of the shoddy industry and ite present extent than the figures from the census of 1890. In the following table Is shown for each of the large woolen products the amount of wool used, and the amountof shoddies, extracts, cotton, hair, and other substitutes for wool: Kind of Wool used, Substitutes, <c. good). pounds. . pound). sub. Woolen g00d’....185,347,944 91,643,386 ?4.7 Worsted g00d)... 97,701.174 7,574,964 7.3 Felt goods 0,799,(83 4,9.1.344 '384 Wool hats 4,537,953 453,931 9,1 < arpets 56,887,8'6 .-.054,011 8.2 Knit goods 21,669,393 37,260,934 83.2 T0ta1372.573.713 154,130,891 59,0 Total 1680296,192,229 106,499,952 96.4 The consumption of wool in 1890 increased 25.8 per cent, over the consumption in 1880, while the consumption of shoddy in 1890 increased 44.7 per cent, ■over the consumption in 1860. No wonder that when President CleveIrnd advocated in his famous message the putting of wool on the free list so as to build up the industry the shoddy men got out a protest declaring that by free wool “our business would be ruined and we and yiose dependent upon us would suffer. There is only ono way to avoid this loss to ourselves and that is by the defeatof the candidate of the Free Trade party, Grover Cleveland. We. have determined in the coining election to support tho candidates of the Protection party, Harrison and Morton. Their election we consider to be indispensable to the maintenance Os our business.” Free wool would be the death of shoddy. American vs. Foreign Labor. Our labor tho cheapest labor in the world.—J. B. Sargent’s opinion.

The following extract from the speech of J. B. Sargent, one of the largest ■ manufacturers of hardware in the | United States, at the hardware din- i ner, shows that our labor is cheaper j than that of Europe. Mr. Sargent! has traveled around the world several times and knows what he is talking about. The applause which greeted every statement he mode shows that thp hardware manufacturers agree with his conclusions: “In agricultural tools and implements, at least, we take halt the | trade of the foreign counties outside of I Europe, and in all kinds of edge tools we take half the trade of South America i and of Asia. But. gentlemen, my time is more than gone, and I will bring my remarks to a close by saying that, with the manufactures of this country in > their present condition, with our ma- i chinery, with our unrivalled help, with , our skilled mechanics, and with you, 1 gentlemen of the hardware and mercan- i i tile branches, there is no reason why ■ wo should not only hold our own in our [ own country, but take a large part of j the trade of all the world.The American manufacturer, with the American mechanic, has never seemed to realize his own strength, or the strength of his trade. We have, as I have always said, the most willing, the most energetic, and the most ambitious workers, workmen and mechanics, anywhere to be found. Although our wages In this country—the earnings of men I per day—are very much more than those < of any other country, and especially of the countries on the continent, who are ; our competitors, and although they earn i so much more per day, still their labor I to the manufacturer is cheaper than i that of laborers in other countries. In ; other words, the labor cost of almost) any article of American hardware man- ; ufacture’ is less than the labor cost of '• the same article in any other country. I The fear which so many of us have had of the pauper labor of England is a matter unworthy of consideration. The pauper labor of England in the manufacture of hardware, as compared with our labor, may be compared i with the aheap Turin labor of India, where that clash of labor is paid 10 cents per day, as compared with our farm labor intlie raising of wneat. With land ae plenty and as cheap, with millions of acres which are not used in India, but that ore roamed over by wild beasts, with land in plenty and with labor at W cents per day (ch ap labor in the usual acceptance of the term), still in this country we cun produce wheat more cheaply than they can in India, and yet we pay SI per day -for the labor, In other words, the Id cents per day labor in India, under nil the conditions that they have there, is not. so cheap in the product obtained as is the $1 per day labor of our Western farmers, and so if wo will only take courage And go out before the world with our industries, with our machinery, with our intelligence, And with our mercantile ability . '''

wo can conquer the world In pursuits. A When I look upon this Intelligent, thia ■ energetic, this ambitious company, it | I Booms strange that any one should think 1 I that tho industry and business ability of I i any other nation on the globe can oom» || polo with us in a free Held and in a fair I fla i'have only to add that I know that you, gentlemen, of tho hardware trade, yon manufacturers and merchants, will carefully consider tho question that must oome before you—of the greater' freedom of trade; tho question of plac- I i ing ourselves with our raw materials dtt I an equal footing with tho manufaeturew I of England. Whenever we do that we can certainly take oare of ourselves in I i agy quarter of the globe. Trast Koonomles. I We have been trying to find In the l current reporte of the trade journal* J ' some evidence as to tho changes made 1 in prices when tho manufacturers in a I large industry lose tho advantages de- ■ rived from those “economies which a I »trust or similar combination enables them to practice. Everybody has heard of these “economies." Everybody has boon told by tho t rust makers that they 1 reduce the cost of production and the 1 selling price of the products. Many have been surprised when they sa* w prices considerably increased as soon as i combined manufacturers were able to I enjoy the “economies, ” It appears also that prices suffer a serious demine when , manufacturers who have Imon in oom- ' binatlon are no longer assisted by tho “economies." The facts are curiously at variance with the trust makers* doctrine. . .» The eombination of the manufacturers of steel beams was dissolved some weeks ago. While these manufacturers enjoyed the saving caused by the “economies" the price of steel beams was 3 1-10 cents per pound at the mill, or (' ’ $69.44 per long ton. A few days ago 2,000 tons were sold in Chicago at the price of 2J cents, delivered. Other sales at oven lowerprlces have been reported, as follows: “It is stated that one large contract, 5,000 tons, for season's delivery, has been placed with a leading architectural works in this city [New York] at M . cents, Pittsburg mill.”—The Iron Age, I Feb. 11, 1892. “In the beam trade the only item of i news of the week is tho report that eon- 1 tracts for 5,000 tons have been placed in. I Boston at 2 1-10 cents, delivered.’— The Iron Ago, March 3,1892. The pries of barbed wire, as fixed by 1 the barbed wire trust, was, at Pittsburg, ! on Jan. 28, just before the dissolution of this combination, $2.55 for painted and $3.05 for galvanized. On March 3, about one month after tho dissolution of the trust, tho prices at the same place were $2.25 and $2,65, and corresponding reductions had been made at other points. I The changes caused by the loss of the trust “economies' 1 may bo set forth as

i follows: With Without “econo- -econo- Decline, mie».“ tule«." per cent. Steel beam* W 9.44 »44.80 35 Barbed wire, painted... 8.55 885 11 Barbed wire, galvanized 3.05 8.65 13 These figures will tax the ingenuity . of the professional advocates of trust- * ism. Immediately after the great advantages duo to the practice of combination “economies” were withdrawn, the price of steel beams did not rise. It fell 35 per cent. And in the case of barbed wire there was a decline of 13 j per cent. The trust's professors should overhaul and revise their chief doctrine. | —New York Tiytfr, An Example of Tariff Taxw. I As an example is always better than i an argument, I will present to the reader an actual transaction under the McKinley bill, which has been furnished m» I through the kindness of a friend in New I York. Ho says, under date of Fob. 17: *t received a shipment this week, from ‘ Manchester containing a number of. ! cases of dress goods, mostly all wool, and some woolen and worsted" cloths, also some eotton warp dress goods. En-1 tered value, $2,631; packing is accountable for sl9 of this, the value of the. » cloth being $2,612. I paid duty. Os course the consumers, the, public nt large, will eventually pay this.” Let us study this concrete example i for a moment. Wo see that cloth and dress goods of the value of $2,612 cost the importer' $5,233.05, which sum he must get'back from the consumers of the goods, with; his profits upon the transaction. ' f 2. The goods imported are among the 1 necessaries'of our country and climate,

and not the mere luxuries of those who are rich and extravagant. 3. The farmer or the* laborer buysthose goods for his wife ami children, and believes, when he puts down on the; store counter a dollar of his earnings,, that he is getting a dollar's worth of, goods, when, in fact, he is paying more: than half of the money for the tax and the profits of the tax of several middle- / men that have bceii secretly wrapped up

in me gtKHir*. 4. These goods are also largely made' in this country. They would not be hn- • ported unless they could be sold here for cost and tax, and a lair profit on both. Except for the tax, we could buy them for the cost and a fair profit on it. The tariff tax which the Government mixes with them before it allows them to pass into the clothing of the people thus morp than doubles their cost, and, at the same time increases by a like amount the price which similar homemade goods’ean be sold to the people. This last is the purpose for which it Is • levied. 5. The labor cost of producing these goods in this country is not more than 20 per cant, greater than the labor cost, in Manchester, and but for a tariff oni wool that actually depresses the value' of our native wool but increases the cost of the foreign wools needed for> mingling with our native grades to j make these goods, the cost of material would be the same in both countries. 5. Let the farmer and laborer now sit down and figure to his satisfaction if' he ean why a law of Congress should be made to compel him to give two. bushels of wheat or two days of his labor for the same quantity of necessary goods that he could but for such a loss' procure with less than one bushel of his wheat, or less than one day of his labor.—Congressman W. L. Wilson, in *1 St. Louie Republic. Cleveland pn the Campaign** Jimnea. Ex-President. Cleveland expressed his, views about, national politics. “All evidence,” said the cx-Rresidont, “of what the people wont awLwhat they' ‘ expect of' the party would seem clearly to indicate tiyii the tariff reform musti ,be the issne Vwe arc to go into swinging fight. My idea has boon that a. ' ! general bill would be the best method,, I but I am willing to defer to those who are on the ground and have the battle, in Congress to fight. I hope the Springer free-wool bill will pass, and am also in favor of any other measures which will lighten the burden of taxation now resting on the poopffi. In fact I favor any ; measure in the direction of genuine tariff reform. As to the prospects of * the Democratic party’s ultimate success, I have but one opinion. It the party is l true to itself, true to its principles and i fulfills its pledges to the people, it can--1 not fell.” As a rule, men who think a great deal ! do not think mueh of each other. -.M • ■■ •-•J