Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1892 — Page 2

F- ©he JJemmxat DBCATUR, IND. F' *• BLACJtBUKI< ’ • • • fPM—W An undertaker’s manservant might properly be called the valet of the shadow of death. The general style of the Anarchist Actions now in circulation seems to •how that the day of the American novel with a plot is at hand. The different effect produced by a mouse and a milliner’s bill upon a woman is a striking illustration of the ancient saying “It is the little things that count." ICnwARn Everett Hale has been presented by«hls parishioners with a birthday present in the form of $13,000. Thirteen is not an unlucky number when employed in this fashion. A fashion note says: “It is now regarded as extremely bad taste to dye one’s mustache." Such a punishment as being regarded a man of extremely bad taste Is too mild fora man who dyes his beard. He ought , to be pilloried. Ahos J. Cummings writes a letter excoriating the members of Congress who quote poetry in their speeches. Our caustic friend should remember how beautifully becoming poetry is in relieving the solid impression of the Congressional Record. The Queen* of England began to rule when she was a lovely girl of eighteen summers. History points to no ruler who has had a more prosperous reign. Her family has grown, and taxes the public purse to the tune of 118,000,000 per year, but her subjects pay it without a growl. Sir Henry Trueman Wood sees in Chicago “strong evidence of a genuine desire to grow out of the vulgarity which attached in the past to the reputation of Chicago and to the methods of making money there.” Sir Henry is really too kind. With advancing refinement and such gentle encouragement Chicago may yet attain that degree of culture which will permit the “upper clawses” to make their money at baccarat or on the turf. Mrs. French-Sheldon, the woman explorer of Africa, spent many months in the dark continent, the companion of natives and surrounded by wild beasts and great serpents without any show of fear. She was named “the Master woman” by the , native chiefs, who were ever ready to do her bidding. She returned from ; Africa with many trophies of her j hunting expeditions where she faced i tigers and escaped the coils of pythons, t but when she got back to England ] she confessed that there were just < • two 1 things she feared— a drunken < nlan and a cow. She said nothing ] about a mouse. ; One of the leading rustlers !n Wyoming is a Methodist preacher who bears the significant name of Rader. J He first came into prominence by chastising a cattleman. This gave , him an immediate popularity and ‘ finally a leadership in the forces of . the rustlers. Mr. Rader is said to be a fearless rider, a good shot and an impassioned exhorter. On Sundays he zealously devotes himself to the work of recalling wandering sinners; and on other days of the week he engages with equal ardorin the pursuit and capture of stray cattle. There is a sort of homogeneousness, as it were, in the two callings which he finds very attractive. All arrangements have been made for the German Emperor’S Shalehunting excursion in Norway. As the Hohenzollern is too large to engage in such sport, the Kaiser will use a small fishing-boat on leaving the royal yacht. Whale-hunting is described as being a very exciting amusement and equally as cruel as the other sports indulged in by crown heads. The entertainment begins by a harpoon being shot from the gun on board the steamer into the whale, and when the line attached to it is tightened a shell fastened to the harpoon explodes and the unfortunate animal is killed. A more dangerous method is to approach the animal in small boats and make the attack with lances and hand harpoons. The death of Franc B. Wilkie in Chicago, removes from the profession, not a journalist “of the old school,” a Bohemian, a vagrant trlfler in the newspaper field, but an earnest, manly worker, fully abreast of 'modern thought and modern practice. He was connected with the business not for what there “was in it,” but for his honest love of journalism, and a desire, which never wavered, to do his share in its advancement and encouragement He never shirked a duty, nor Lid he hesitate to leno a helping hand to other and younger men. But for the * ‘sham journalist," the youth who came in the cabin windows instead of up from the forecastle, the dawdler and worthless shirk, Franc B. Wilkie, had no mercy. He was an honor to the profession, and his loss will be deeply deplored in the city which for many years has been his field of labor, and with whose journalistic successes he has been closely identified. The death of E P. Snyder in the IBinoi’.Penltoniiary gives an Illustra-

tion of how justice is tempered with 1 mercy in our courts. Snyder was an old soldier and was arrested for larceny. He was so far gone with consumption that two bailiffs had to assist him into the court-room. He was sentenced to eighteen months in » the penitentiary and died the second i day after he was taken to Joliet He begged to be allowed to die in jail, where his wife might be near him, ' but justice could not grant such a 1 boon to one who confessed himself a criminal. This case is in strong contrast with one in New York the other day, where a young, attractive woman, well educated, and said to be of > a good family, pleaded guilty of petit i larceny in having stolen clothes to the value of 190. In that case sentence was suspended and the prisoner allowed to go free. Circumstances 1 alter cases when a pretty woman stands at the bar to confess her guilt in stealing what she desired to make herself more attractive, and when a dying veteran steals bread to keep life in his body for a few more days. We do some things much better in the United States than they do in England. Our registration system is better, for one thing. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Labouchere, in a recent debate, called attention to the fact that parliamentary elections in England arc usually held on a registry a year old or more. Thus elections occurring during the last half of last year were held on registries made up in July of the previous year. Mr. Labouchere, fearing that the Tories would defer the dissolution of the present Parliament to the fall, gave notice that he would present a bill to expedite the registration next July, so that the new voters may have a chance to vote at the general election following. He pointed out the absurdity of holding.the generaVelection in October or November of this year on the registry of July of last year. He said that in the workingmen’s constituencies this would disfranchise 25 per cent of the voters. Mr. Gladstone supported Mr. Labouchere, but Mr. Balfour, for the Tories, refused to consider the proposition for expediting the registration in July. That would not work to the satisfaction of the Balfourites. If Republicans br Democrats in this country resorted to the political sharp practices of the Tories as revealed in this matter, what pious lectures the Times, Spectator, Saturday Review, and other London journals would read us! A metropolitan journal, speaking of the difficulty experienced by young men in obtaining employment in the says: The common schools, of which we justly boast, do much, but not all, and the most serious defect in the system of education now in vogue may be remedied, if not by the school managers, by parents. Is a boy properly prepared for the battle of life by leaving school with an elementary knowledge of mathematics, geography, history, and grammar? We think not As population increases the pressure of competition becames more severe. As the world progresses the demand for a high order of skill in every department of activity increases. Specialization is the order of the day in every trade and profession. It is, therefore, of paramount importance that a boy should learn some trade or business before his school or college days are over. If he is fit to be a wage-earner he will make all the better employer of wage-earners later on. It may be plumbing, or it may be book-keeping, stone-cutting, or “clerking;” but it should be something. The merchant or the manufacturer has no time for the instruction of novices. The general laborer must be idle or “saw wood.” The skilled laborer is almost always in demand. The late Emperor Frederick had one son taught shoe-making, another cabinet-making, another navigation, and so on. It is an impressive fact that the president of the greatest railroad in the country learned surveying in his youth and the first vice president became so perfect a master mechanic that when the Johnstown flood paralyzed the entire system he took personal command of the construction corps sent out. Yet neither President Roberts nor Vice President Thomson were poor boys, but both learned a trade. Teach your boy one. A. D. 1892. When the old gentleman saw hey coming in the office he smiled, for she was petite and plump and fair to the effe. “’ “Is tni# Mr. Harry Heartley’s father?” she inquired, addressing ; him. • “It is, miss,” responded the old gent, rising and offering her a chair with a bow. “Then I came to see you, sir, about 1 your son, she said simply. “My son?” and the father looked i disturbed. t “Yes, sir; your son Harry. It is concerning a matter in which lam personally interested.” 1 “What,” glowered the father, “has 1 that young rascal been—” “I beg your pardon,” she inter- ’ rupted, “Harry is all right. I love t him and he loves me, and I have asked him to be my husband. He has agreed to it, and now lam here ’ to get your conqeht to our union. Do ■ I get it?” and her tone had the ring , of determination around it. 1 It was fifteen minutes before s Harry’s father recovered consciousa ness, but when he did die kissed the leap year damsel and she went away B "rejoicing.—Free Press. Some people imagine that the world 6 stands still until it has heard their - side of the story.

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. A DISCOURSE ON THJt POTENCY OF CHRIST’S NAME. Thw Nsaw lerelf Baa a Cwrtata BaaaW or HvwnS, bat No FaatUlar Naoto Vaa ba IMMOolatad from the Character er the ranoa Who Baars It. At the Taberaaele. While Dr. Talmage It able to hold VMt audlencea spellbound by his eloquence, whatever subject he has in hand, he is never so eloquent, or so evidently a great orator, as when he preaches Christ as the one hope for the regeneration of the World. The fact was proved when he discoursed from the text, Phillpptane ii, 9, “The name which is above every name.” Paul Is here making rapturous and enthusiastic description of the name of Christ. There are merely worldly names that sometimes thrill you through and through. Such was the name of Henry Clay to a Kentuckian, the name of William Wirt to a Virginian, the name of Daniel Webeter to a New Englander. *By common proverb we have come to believe that “there is nothing in a name;” and so parents sometimes at the baptismal altar give titles to their children, reckless of the fact that that title, that name, will be a lifetime hindrance or a lifetime help. You have no right to give your child a name lacking either in euphony or moral meaning. It is a sin to call \ child Jehoiakim or Tiglatb-pileser, or by anything that is disagreeable. Because yon have had an exasperating name yourself is no reason why you should inflict it upon your progeny, and yet how often It is that we see a name full of jargon rattling down from .generation to generation simply because a long while ago some one happened to be afflicted withit Institutions and great enterprises sometimes without sufficient deliberation take nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been decided by a name. While we may by a long course of Christian behavior get over tlje misfortune of having been baptised with the name of a despot or a cheat how much better it would have been if we could have all started life without any such incumbrance! When Paul, in my text and in other passages of Scripture, burst forth in. aspirations of admiration for the name of Christ I want to inquire what are the characteristics of that appellation, ‘The name which is above every name.” In the first place, speaking to you in regard to the name of Chrfst I want to tell you it is an easy namp. You are sometimes introduced to people with tong and unpronounceable names, and you have to listen cautiously to get the names, and you have to hear them pronounced two or three times before you risk trying to utter them; but within the first two years the little child folds its hands and looks upward and says “Jesus.” Can it be that in all this church this morning there are representatives of any household where the children are familiar with the names of the father and mother and brother and sister, yet know nothing about “that name which is above every name?” Sometimes you forget the name of a quite familiar friend, and you have to think and think before you get it; but can you imagine any freak of intellect by which you should forget the name of Jesus? That word seems to fit the tongue in every dialect Down to old age, when the voice is tremulous and uncertain and Indistinct, even then this legal word finds potent utterance. When an aged father was dying, one of the children came and said: “Father, do you know me?” and in the delirium of the last sickness he said, “No, I don’t, know you.” Another child came and said, “Father, do you know me?” “No,” he safl. “I don’t know you.” Then the village pastor came ft and said, “Do you know me?” He said. “No; I don’t think I ever saw you.” Then said the minister, “Do you know Jesus?” “Oh. yes!” said the dying man, “Urnow Jesus; chief among 10,000 is He, and the one altogether lovely.” Yes, for all ages and for all languages and for all conditions is an easy name. Jesus, jjove thy Channing name, Tit muaic to my ear; Fain would I Bound it ont so loud That Heaven and earth might hear. But I remark further in regard to this name of Christ, that it is a beautiful name. Now you have noticed that you cannot disassociate a name from the character of the person who has it There are some names, for instance, that are repulsive to mv ear, Those names are attractive to your ear. What is the difference? Why, I happened to know some persons of that name who were crass or sour or queer or unsympathetic, and the persons you have c happened to know of that name were kind and geniaL Since, then, we cannot disassociate a name from the character of the person who has the name, that consideration makes the name of Jesus unspeakably beautiful I canhot pronounce that name in your presence, but you thing of Bethlehem, Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you see His loving face, and - you hear His tender voice, and ybu feel His gentle touch. As soon as I pronounce His name in your presence you think of Him who banqueted with heavenly hierarchs, yet came down and breakfasted on the fish which the rough men hauled out of Geuesaret; you think of Him who, though the clouds are the dust of His feet, walked footsore on the road to Emmaus. I cannot speak His name in your hearing this morning, but you think right away of the shining one who restored the centurion’s daughter, and who helped the blind man to sunlight, and who made the cripple's crutch useless, and who looked down into the laughing eyes ot the babe until it struggled to go to Him; then flinging His arms around it and impressing a kiss upon Its beautiful brow, said, “Ot such is the kingdom of Heaven.” Oh, beautiful name, the namq,of Jeans, which stands for love, for patience, for self-sacrificq, for-magnanimity, for Everything that is good and glorious and tender and sympathetic and kind! It is aromatic with all odors. It is accordant with all harmonies. Sometimes, when I look at that name of Jesus Christ, it seems as if the letters were made of tears, and then they seem to be gleaming crowns. Sometimes that name seems to be twisted out of-the straw on which He lay, and then It seems to be built out of the thrones on which His people are to reign. Sometimes I sound that word Jesus, and I hear in it the sob ot Gethsemane and the groan of Calvary, and then I speak His name and it is all a rlpple with gladness and a-ring with hosanna. Glorious name! lake all the glories of bookbindery and put them around the page on which that name is tainted. On Christmas morning wreathe it on the wall Let it drip from the harp’s string and let It thunder out in organ’s diapason. Sound it often, sound it well, until every star shall seem to shine it, and every flower shall seem to breathe it, and mountain and sea and day and night and earthand Heaven acclaim in full chant, “piessed be His glorious name forever.” ‘The name which is above every name.” Have you ever heard in a Methodist church, during a time of revival, a score of souls come to the altar and cry out for mercy under the power of lust two lines of glorious old John Wesley? Jesus, the name high over all, la Heaven or earth or sky.

To the repenting soul, to the exhauited invalid, to the Sunday-school girl, to the snow white octogenarian, It Is beautiful. The aged man comes in from a long walk, and he tremulously opens the door of his home, and hangs hie hat on the old nail, and be puts his cane to the uenal place, and he Ilea on his couch, and he says to his children and hie grandchildren, “My dears, I am going away from you.” And they say, “Why »*»ere are vou going, grandfather?" “Oh,” he says, “I am going to Jesus!" and the old man faints away into Heaven. And the little child comes In from play and she flings herself into your lap, and she says, “Mamma, I'm slek; I’m so very sick; and you put her to bed and the fever Is worse and worse, and some midnight while yon are shaking up the pillow and giving the medicine she looks up to your face and says. “Mamma, I'm going away from you.'' Yonsay, “Why, where are you going, my darling?” And she says, “I am going to Joans. ” And the red cheek that you take to be the mark Os the fever turns out to bo only the carnation bloom of Heaven. Oh. was It not beautiful when a little child beard that her playmate was dying. and she went to the house, and she clambered upon the bed of her dying playmate, and she said to the dying playmate, “Where are you going to?” and the dying girl said, ‘TamgelngtoJasua” Then said the little girl that was well, as she bent over to give the parting kiss to her dying playmate, “Well, then, if you are going to Jesus, give my love to Him.” It is a beautiful namo, whether on the lips of childhood or on the lips of the old man. When my father was dying the village minister said to him, quoting over hid pillow this passage, “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came Into the world to save sinners,” and there he stopped. Then my father finished the quotation by saying, “ot whom lamlhtet” But I remark again, In regard name of Christ, that It is a mighty name. Rothschild is a name mighty in the commercial world, Sllliman is a name mighty in the scientific world. Irving Is a name mighty to the literary world, Washington is a name mighty in the political world, Wellington,is a name mighty in the military world; but where in all the earth is a name so potent to lift and thrill and arouse and rally and bless as the name Jesns? Why, the sound of that one name unhorsed Saul and threw Newton on his face on ship’s deck; and that one name to-day. while I speak, holds a hundred million souls under omnipotent spell. That name in England to-day means more than Victoria. In Germany that name to-day means more than Emperor William. Oh, mighty name! I have seen a man bound hand and foot of the devil and captive of al! evil habits, at the sound of that name dash down his shackles and march out forever free, I have seen a man overcome of misfortune and trial, every kind of trouble had he; but at the sound of that name the sea dropped, and the clouds parted, and the sunburst of eternal gladness poured upon his soul I have seen a man hardened to infidelity, defiant of God, full of jeer and scoff, jocose of the judgment day. reckless of eternity, at the sound of that name blanch and cower and groan and kneel and weep and repent and pray and believe and rejoice and triumph. Oh, It is a mighty name. Under its power the last temple of superstition will come down and the last Juggernaut of iniquity will be shattered to pieces. The red horse of carnage, spoken of In apocalyptic vision, and the black horse of death must come back on their haunches, while the white horse of victory goes forth, mounted of Him who hath the moon ttndqr His feet and the stars of Heaven for His tiara. Mighty name! It will first make the whole earth tremble, pnd then it will make all the nations sing. Mighty name! Other dominion* seem to be giving way; France had to give up some of her favorite provinces; Spain has lost a great deal of her power, many, of the thrones ot the world are being lowered; many of the scepters of the world are being Shortened, but every tract distributor, every Bible printer, every Christian institution established spreads abroad the mighty name of Christ It has already been heard under the Chinese wall, and in the Siberian snow castle, and in the Brazilian grove, and in the Eastern pagoda. That name will swallow up all other names. That crown wjll yet cover up all other crowns. That emotion will yet compass all dominations. All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall fail. Returning justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend. And white robed innocence from Heaven descend But I remark again, taking a step forward in this subject, that the name of Christ is an enduring name. You get over the fence of the graveyard you pull the weeds back from the name that has nearly faded from the tombstone, and you wish that Walter Scott's “Old Mortality” would come along and rechisel it, so that you might really find Out what the name is. Why, that was the name of man in all the town, in all the country, in all the state, now almost faded from the tombstone. And so the greatest names of this world either have perished, or are perishing. Gregory VI, Sancho of Spain, Conrad L of Germany, Richard L of England, Catherine of Russia. Those names were once mighty, and they made the earth tremble. Who cares for them now’ None so poor as to do them reverence. But the name of Christ is enduring forever. It will be preserved in the world’s fine art. There will be other Bellinis to sketch the Madonna, aud other Ghfrlmidaajos to present the baptism of Christ, and other Bronzinos to show Christ visiting the spirits in prison, and other Giottos to appal the vision with the crucifixion. It will be preserved in the world’s literature. There will be other Alexander Popes to write the “Messiah,” and other Dr. Youngs to celebrate His triumph, and other Cowpers to sing His lova It will be preserved In ths world’s grand and elaborate architecture, and Protestantism shall yet have its St Mark’s and tit. Peter’s. It shall be preserved in the world’s literature, for there will be other Paleys to write the “Evidences of Christianity." More than all, it will be embalmed in the hearts of all the good of' earth and all the great ones of Heaven. Shall the emancipated bond-, man ever forget who set him free? Shall the blind man over forget the divine physician who gave him sight? Shall the lost and wandering ever forget who brought them home? Why, to make the world forget that name would be to burn up all the Bibles and burn down all the churches, and then, in the spirit of universal arson, go through the gate of Heaven and put the torch to all the temples and mansions and palaces until in the awful conflagration all Heaven went down, and the people come out to look upon the charred ruins; but even then they would hear the name of Christ In the thunder of falling towers, and In the crath of temple walls, and see It Interwoven into the flying banners of flame, and the redeemed of Heaven would say, ‘‘Let the temples and the palaces burn; let them.burn; we have, Jesus left” Bleated be'His glorious name forever. “The name which is above every name." My friends, have you made up your mind by what name you wfll accost Christ when vou MO Hint to Heaven?

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Now that to a practical question. Wot you will see Him. child of God, just as certainly as you ait there and I stand here. By what name have you made up your mind to call Christ when you first meet Him In Heaven. Will you call Him “Anointed One,” or “Messiah?” or will you take some one of the symbolic terms which you read to your Bible on earth—terms by which Christ was designated? But at this point I am staggered with the thought that there may be persons to this bouse for whom this name has no charm, though It Is so easy, though It is so beautiful, though It Is so potent, though It Is so enduring. Oh, come today and see whether there is anything to Christ! I challenge you to tost with mo this morning whether God is good, and whether Christ is precious, and whether the Holy Ghost is omnipotent. Come, my brother, 1 challenge you. Come, and we will kneel at the altar of mercy. You kneel on one side of the altar and 1 will kneel on the other side of the altar of mercy, and we will not get up from our knees until onr sins kre pardoned and we are able to ascribe all honor to the name—you pronouncing ii and I pronouncing it—“the name which is above every name.” Hl* worth if «11 tho nations knew, Bure the whole ekrUi wouM love him toe. I pray God He may move upon this assemblage now, that we may see Him walking through all these allies, that the Holy Spirit may spread His wings over this auditory. Now is your time for Heaven. Ob, my friends! meeting once, perhaps never again until the books are opened, what shall we say of this morning's service? Have I told you the whole truth? Have you listened to the whole truth? Now is your time for Heaven. Come Into the kiqgdom. If you never had an invitation before I give it to you now. Ido not ask what your sin has been or what your wandering. That is not pertinent. to the question. The only thing is whether you want Christ Come in, the farthest off. Come, the nearest bv. “Where sin abounded grace shall much more abound." Is there to all this august assemblage a nfan who feels he is too wicked to come? You are mistaken. Come now. “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” Oh, ye who are young! come now. It Is no gloomy religion that I preach. It will take no luster from your eye. It will take no color from your cheek.- It will take no spring from your step I know what lam talking about I have felt the consolation of this grace in say own heart It is not a theory with me. I know in whoip I believe, and He has been so good a friend to me I have a right this morning to commend His friendship to all the people. Oh, come into the kingdom! Do not say you are too bad. “Let the wicked forsake his way and tile unrighteous mantis thoughts.” Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth.” How is He going to do—drive you into the kingdom? He will not do it If you get in at all it will be because you are drawn in by His loVa. What does He say? “Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth.” He was lifted up What for? To drive? No! lifted up to draw. Oh, come now, come now, into the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus! You have heard of that warrior of ancient times who went into battle against Christ He hated Christ and he went into battle fighting Christ;-but in the battle he got wounded, hj was struck by the arrow and he fell, and as he lay with his face up to the sun, and the life blood was oozing away, he put his hand to his heart and took a handful ot blood from the wound, and held It up'toward the sun, and cried out, “O Jesus! thou hast conquered.” And if to-day, my hearer, struck through by the arrow of God's gracious spirit you realize the truth of what I have been you would surrender yourself to the Lord who bought you; you Would“say: **l will ho longer battle against Christ’s mercy. Lord Jesus, thou hast conquered.” Glorious name! I know not what you will do with it; but 1 will tell you one thing before I stop—l must tell it I will tell you one thing here and now, that I take Him to be my Lord, my God, my pardon, my peace, my comfort, my salvation, my Heaven! Blessed be His glorious name forever. The name which is above every name.” True, True! Times Will Change. Twenty years ago, if a private gentleman had taken up a public pgint and seen his house laid bare, the names of his private friends and what they were regaled with in his dining-room warmed up for public palate, he would have asked satisfaction from the editor who dared to take such liberties with his household gods as to set them up for a public show. A man’s house was then his castle. There was a feudal spirit in the home, pervading good society. It is no longer so. A man’s house is the public’s. All may gaze at his pictures, see his plate, count his dishes, enumerate his servants, and report price lists of his wines. There is nothing hid from the publicity thereof. Hid! Who desires to live the private life? What is the thing expected? Editors are expected to give the finishing touch to the entertainment by a swelling notice in the next day’s paper, and columns of such matter would not be too much for those who attend to read. Vanitasvanitatum. Twenty years ago, had a gentleman seen his sister’s name printed in fuU ae Miss So-and-so, of Such-aud-such street (oh, vulgar <rf vulgar), he would have settled with the editor in very short, if not sharp, fashion —but now I Nothing more pleases a charming young lady than to see herself in print; to hear herself described au tout personelle, in detail, even to the hair of an eyebrow or the curve of a nostril.— Boston Transcript. k Good Word for the Next Letter. The Troy Times says of the late Congressman Selye, of Rochester, that one of his idiosyncrasies was a fondness for rhetorical flourish and for words which he thought would imply learning, though on ordinary occasions his language was plain and blunt to the verge of brutality. One evening he was sitting in the editorial-room of the Rochester Chronicle, which journal he then owned, and accidentally overheard a conversation between two members ot the staff as to the proper construction of a sentence. They agreed between themselves that a certain expression might be considered tautological. Instantly Mr. Selye’s attention was aroused. “What’s that?" he demanded. “Taut—taut—what in blank did you •ay? Let’s hear thatword again.* The word was repeated and he inquired its meaning. He was told, and then with an air of incredulity insisted upon having it looked for in the dictionary. ‘This was done, and adjusting his eye-glasses the old gentleman studied it intently for some moments. /Humph—ha—hum," he slowly ejaculated, “blanked good word; blanked if it ain’t. Then, taking s lead pencil, he painfully copied this new linguistic acquisition upon a piece of paper, which he thrust into his vest pocket, exclaiming with increased emphasis, “That’s a blank blanked good word, and I’ll be blanked to blank if I don’t use ii in the very next letter I writer

CREDIT TO M’KINLEY. A LEAF FROM THE PROTECTION LEDGER. Bow This Great PrwUetlvo ayttem Is Warkins to the BtowEt (?) the P»o»to - Poorer Gooda tad Ht|h« Prtoea—■proekela aed tha Sugar Treat. Tha Aoeouat for Oao Week. Credit there to McKinley. They are a few of the items on one aide of the account of the 'bravest and wisest of tariff measures," the ‘‘trust-killing tariff,” as the New York Tribune fondly calls it. This bill that dore not sustain a "higher rate of proflte but a higher rate of wages, * as Professor Gunton told the RepubUoan Club of New York a few days ago. Three are aome of the Items for the wook ending April 1», IMS. When aome loyal Republican has filled out the other side of the Mootmt eo that it will not look too one-aided we will continue our side. ~ ' April B—Bv a strike of 900 girls and boys in the Dolphin Jute MUle, at Paterson, N. J. The Press says "the boys had been getting $9.50 and the girls $3 a week" In this protected industry. April B—By reduction of wages of puddlers at Mollvane k Son’s Plate MUI, Reading, Pa., from $8.75 to $3.50 per ton, and the announcement that next week Seifert’s two rolling mills, employing 300 hands, five miles below Reading, will close down indefinitely. April B—By the determination of the furniture and cabinet manufacturers’ association to keep their factories Closed until the strikers give up their fight for eight hours. April B—By exactions of the rice trust which lead a committee of rice merchants at New Orleans to take steps to build a rice mill to circumvent the trust April 9—By consolidation of the six cotton eeed 01l mills of Georgia into the Georgia Cotton Oil Company. The American Cotton OU Company owns 190 ipUls. For purposes of economy those ft each State are being merged Into separate corporations. All of the trust mUls are now reorganised under State charters, except those in South CaroUna. April 10—By notice of general reduction of wages In all the furnaces at Newcastle, Pa. After April 17 the turn men will be reduced 15 cents, the day laborers 10 cents, and the iron men } cents per pound. This wUI give the turn men $1.75 and the laborers $1.35 per day. April 10—By closing down of the Dolphin Jute MUI, at Pasereon, N. J„ because of the inordinate request of the boys for $3 and of the girls for $2.50 per April 10—By strike of 200 eleetriolight men in New York. April 10—By the strike of twenty helpers at the Phoenix Silk' Mill, Paterson, N. J. April 10—By the announcement In the Tribune that ‘Claus Spreckels cleared $5,000,000 when he sold bis Philadelphia sugar refinery to the trust, giving the latter complete control of refined sugar east of the Rockins. April 11—By a big marble trust which the Tribune announces Is being formed In Georgia "to unite all the marble proprietorships in the country so that the output ae well as the prices can be regulated." The duty on marble averaged about 50 per cent under this 'trust-killing tariff." April 14— By the announcement that the whisky trust, whose total earnings for the year ending March 31,1892, were $4,728,827, is to wipe out all opposition by a temporary reduction of prices. April 14—By the formation of a trust composed of the thirty typefounders in the United States. April 14—By the closing of the Spreckels enormous refinery by the sugar trust, so as to decrease production and maintain trust prices. April 15—By tho completion of the Diamond match trast, it having bought the Lebanon Match Company, of Philadelphia, for $125,000. This was the last company to surrender to the trast. The retail dealers in Philadelphia, upon advices from wholesalers, at once advanced the price of matches 50 cents per gross. Poorer Goode aud HlgMr Prices. Mr. Whiting, a Congressman from Michigan, and one of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, has an interest in a large mercantile firm in St. Clair, Mich. Being in the business he ought to know what-effect the McKinley tariff has had upon prices. When he was asked, on his return to Washington from New York, where he had been buying goods, what effect the high duties have had upon prices, he said: “The Importers of New York are protestiqg with one voice against a policy of the custom house, which is now to exact the highest possible rates of duty, and to treat all importers as dishonest, and guilty of undervaluation. I have no doubt that the moving cause is the fact that money is needed to fill an empty treasury, but the people must pay the bills. The high tariff now being collected encourages American manufacturers to support the Republican ticket with large contributions, and I. have no doubt the administration knows what It Is about. “The claim that goods have not been made higher by tho McKinley law I am able to deny with emphasis, after a practical experience of several days in purchasing all classes of Importations as well ae home goods. In many cases the quality of goods is degraded in order not r to show increased cost. In other cases expensive goods dre dropped from the counters of the wholesale houses and cheaper articles are substituted and introduced as* a ‘change of style.’ It is but a poor subterfuge to make the poor consumer think he is paying no more for the samp articles he purchased a year ago. Ido not think any buyer is deceived. “Hence it is that they are organizing a trust with the galvanizera in order to maintain the high prices which they are now charging for sheet iron. “The only way in which the tin plate Industry can be established in this country on a substantial basis is by putting iron and steel sheqte, now controlled by a trust, upon the free list. Until this Is done consumers will be forced to continue the payment of over $17,000,000 in duties on Imported tin plate into the treasury of the United States." A New Trust. The Iron Age announces that “negotiations tore in progress looking to the merging Into one body of the Association of Iron and Steel Sheet Manufacturers, the National Association of Galvanized Sheet Manufacturers and the Tinned Plate Manufacturers’ Association of the United States. This association when organized will be a powerful one, and Is expected to be of consider-' able benefit to tho trade. A general meeting of the above three organizations will be held in Pitteburg on Wednesday, June 10 next, at which It is expected the consolidation will take place." This 18 just what the manufacturers of iron and steel sheets, who were chiefly Instrumental in getting the increase in the duty on tin plate, have been aiming at all the time. The manufacturers of galvanized iron have such a complete control of that Industry that when the prices of terne plate were advanced, in consequence of the higher duty, they were able to advance the prices of their galvanized iron in spite

of the fret that the price of the erode iron had fallen. The makers of to buminnftg stacks for making tin plate*, and thus become their oustomera tor iron and steel sheets. The makers ot sheet-iron and steel never intended to engage in the tinplate business, as the Iron Age has several times intimated. They know well that re long as the high dutlee on •he*, iron can be maintained there who bulldvt tinning stacks will lave to buy the sheet iron used of them. aaua Spraokuto »• S»sar Treat. The New York Tribune of April It contains the following, “San Francisco, April 11. (Special.) One of Glaus Spreckels' associates who is near to the old ( sugar king gave, to-day, the first inside story of the way the California millioa* wire made the Sugar Trust come to his terms. He said: Vhen the Sugar Trust was formed, Spreckels had full control of all the territory weat of the Missouri River. The leaders of the trust offered him good terms to enter the combination, but he refused. Then they declared war on him, and threatened to carry the fight into hie own country. Spreckels to not a man who ever calmly took a challenge, and hto. first step was to carry the war Into Africa by building a $3,000,000 refinery *in Philadelphia. Then he began to outrates, and he made things so lively for the trust that they were glad to make peace at any price. So they agreed to let Mm alone in hto own territory, and to pay him $8,000,000 for hto Philadelphia refinery. When the , old man returned hero last week, ho was so elated over his profit of $5,000,000 that he divided $8,000,000 in equal shares between hto eons John and Adolph and hto daughter Emma. Now he to making arrangements to handle this reason aU the sugar of the Sandwich Islands, as tho planters have got to come to Mm.’ * This same Claus Spreckels has tor years been posing so tie enemy of the sugar trust and the friend of the people. He has pretended to stand between the two, and to have prevented the trust from raising it* priees even higher than it has done. Some credulous people have been foolish enough to believe that ho was sincere In his opposition to the trust, and that he would do at ho said and fight it as long as he was on top of the earth. The truth to that ho has been doing some financiering on hto. own account, and that there has been mon money for him to remain out bf the trast and to work hto Hawaiian monopoly, than to endanger It by selling out to the trust, at least until he could get hto price, which, it seems, was no less than $8,000,009. Why he sold at this profit to dear when we study the situation a little. Congressman Herbert, (n the last North American Review, quotes from the report of S. G. Brock to the effect that under the reciprocity treaty of 1877 with Hawaii, which admits merchandise from Hawaii have loot $43,898,978 in revenue. The two chief imports from ‘ Hawaii are sugar and rice. Mr. Herbert shows that because of the comparatively small supply of these articles from Hawaii the price ot sugar and rice to not less in the United States because of this treaty. Mr. Spreckels for years had a monopoly of the sugay industry of Hawaii, hence Mr. Herbert says "every dollar of the $43,000,000 of taxes released on Hawaiian sugar went into tho pockets of the producers of that article, Mr. Claus Spreckles and others." It to not surprising, then, that Mr. Spreckels comments in the North American Review of March, 1891, on “the wise and far-seeing policy embodied in the Hawaiian treaty.” Since raw sugar to free he can no longer make an extra profit of from 12-5 to 2 cents per pound and the sugar Industry of Hawaii to seriously crippled, and since he can by this sale make $5,000,000 and maintain hto monopoly of the sugar market west of the Rockies, he has deemed it wise to sell at this sacrifice. Hto Eastern refinery could have earned Mm $1,000,000 a year as long as the present duty of half a cent per pound Is maintained on refined sugar for the benefit of the trust, but perhaps Spreckels has had his ear to the ground and prefers a "bird in the hand to two bush." Republican Patrlotlam. - Here to the official Income of the Hare rison family for four years: President Harriton’t laiary Preildent Harriaon't brother, Carter B. Harrison, United States Maralul >u Ten ne 8 see 16.000 Hla teother-ln-tew, J. D. Soott, Suporfe. tendent of Construction of Public Buildings at Port Townsend. 8,800 Buaaell B. Harriaon'a father-in-law, Alrin Saunders, Utah CommlMioner..... B.OW Baby McKee's paternal uncle Frank, Deputy Collector of customs in.Waehington 10,000 Cousin-in-law D. W. McClung, collectdr of revenge in Ohio N,OOO, ter. Bussell B. Harrison’s cousin, Wm. Haines, law clerk in Postoffioe Do. partment lAd* Lieutenant Parker, nephew by marriage, detailed for nominal dutylnßorlln..... 18,000 President Hsrrtson’s father -in • law, Soott, in Treasury Department 10,000 President Harrison's daughter’s bps* band’s brother, Government Clerk 11,000 President Harrison’s brother's eon-in. law. Government Clerk.. 4. 8.000 Preetuent Harrison’s wife’s niece’s husband, Government Clerk 7,600 President Harrison's father-in-law’s nieoe's husband, in Postoffioe Department.TT.. 8,000 President Harrison's brother-in-law, in Patent Office 9,600 President Harrison’s cousin, J. T. Taylor, Custodian of Postoffioe in Kansas City 8,000 T0ta1......•545.C00 Past Praying For. The Rev. Francis Marsten, a Presbyterian minister of Ohio, has the rude vigor and grit of a Calvin. Ho was asked to open the Ohio Legislature with grayer, and this was the burden of his petition: “Remember, oh Lord, the welfare of these Thy servants, gathered here In this maelstrom of iniquity, fraud, and corruption. Thou knowest with what suspicion this Legislature is looked upon by the people of this great State. Lord, deliver us from the bribes, the bribers and the bribe-takers In our midst, and , keep them from the ways of temptation which surround them on every hand, and may their acts be righteous and not corrupt.” What a kick this Republican body made. It did not want any such deliverance, and in its kicking went so far as to propose that the reverend gentleman be called to the bar of the House for contempt. Never hsd Ohio a more corrupt Legislature and. itteevi- . dently past praying for. Tariff 8hot». On women’s and children’s dress goods that can be bought for 7 cents s yard in Europe, the MoKinley tax to 7 cents a yard and In addition thereto 40 per cent, of value—in all 140 per cent. The total revenue-only tax proposed by J the Springer free-wool bill is only 36 per cent. ' ■ I McKinley tax igp The Century Magazine prints a careful description of the famous rebel yelL This will be very serviceable to such members of the Grand Army as Ingalls who may want to use It in their political speeches, but who never heard it The old legend was that "Trust was dead, bod pay killed him." Nowadays, however, the stronger the trust the more wages are cut down. '-. '---.t '' ’