Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1893 — Page 2

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. THE GREAT PREACHER GIVES A NEW YEAR'S DISCOURSE. "Con.ldrr the Year* of Many Oenoratlone" Waa the Text, and the Sermon Waa Keganil ng '■■The thronology ot the Bible, or God Among the Centurloa." At tli|' Tabernacle. Rov. Dr. Talmage appropriately took for the subject of his Now Year's <lav sermon “The Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries.” The text chosen was Deuteronomy xxxil, 7. "Consider the years of many generations.” At 13 o’clock last night, while so many good people were watching, an old friend passed out of our homes an'd a stranger entered. The old friend making valedictory was 1892; the stranger arriving Is 1891 The old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranger put bls linger over his lip and said nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and I did not see either the departure or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for mo the best way to be wide awake now. Goodby, 1892! Welcome, 1893! As an array is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, and they observe this order in their march and their tread is majestic, so the time of the world's existence is divided into an army divinely commanded; the aras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward into the eternity past, out of the eternity to come! Forward is the command, and nothing can halt them, even though thq world should die. While obeying my text, "Consider the years of many generations,” I propose-to speak of the “Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries.” Wo make a distinction between time and eternity, but time is only a piece of ■eternity, and the chronology has been engaged in the sublime work of dividing up this portion of eternity that we Call time into compartments and putting events in their right compartment. It Is as much injustice against the past to wrongly arrange its events as it would be an injustice if, through neglect of chronological accuracy, it should in the far distant future be said that America was discovered in 1776, and the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1492, and Washington born on the 22d of March, and the civil war of the United States was fought in 1840. As God puts all the events of time in the right place, let us be careful that we do not put them in the. wrong place. The chronology of the Bible takes six steps, but they are steps so long it makes us hold our breath as we watch the movement. From Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the exodus out of Egypt. From the exodus to the foundation of Solomon's temple. From the foundation oi Solomon’s temple to the destruction of that temple. From the destruction of the temple to the return from Babylonish captivity. From Babylonish captivity to the birt’h of Christ Chronology takes pen and pencil, and calling astronomy and history to help says; “Let us fix one event from which to calculate everything. Let it be a star,

the Bethlehem star, the Christmas star.” And from that we go back and see the world was created 4,004 years before Christ; the deluge came 2,348 years before Christ; the exodus out of Egypt occurred 1,491 years before Christ, and Solomon’s temple was destroyed 586 years before Christ. Chronology enters the first chapter of Genesis and says the day mentioned there is not a day of twenty-four hours, but of ages, the word there translated as “day” in other places meaning ages and so the Bible account of the creation and the geologists’ account of the creation are completely hatmonious. ••-Chronology enters the book of Daniel and says that the words “time and a half” mean a year and a half. Chronology enters at another point and shows us that the seasons of the year were then only two —summer and wipter. We find that the Bible year was 360 days Instead of 365; that the day was calculated from 6 o’clock in the morning to 6 o’clock at night; that the night was • divided into four watches —namely, the late watch, the midnight, the cock crowing, the early watch. The clock and watch were invented so long after the world began their mission that the day was not very sharply divided in Bible times. Ahaz had a sundial, or a flight of stairs with a column at the top, and the shadow which that column threw on the steps beneath indicated the hour.the shadow lengthening or withdrawing from step to step. But the events of life and the events of the world moved so slowly for the most part in Bible times that they had no need of such timepieces as we stand on our mantels or carry In our pockets in an age when a man may have a half dozen or a dozen engagements for one day and needs to know the exact minute for each one of them. The earth itself in Bible times was the chief timepiece, and it turned onee on its axis and that was a dav, and oiice around the sun and that was a year. It was not until the Fourteenth century that the almanac was born, the almanac that we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to mage one. Chronology had to bring into its service the monuments of Egypt,and the cylinders ot Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon, and the pottery of Nineveh, and the medals struck at Antioch for the battle of Aetium, and all the hieroglyphics that could be deciphered, and had to go Into the extremely delicate business of asking the ages Os Adam and Seth and Enoch and Methuselah, who after their 300th year wanted to be thought young. I think it must have been in recognition of the stupendous work of making almanac that all the days of the week are named after the gods, Sunday, after the *un, which was of old worshiped as a god. Monday, after the moon, which was also worshiped as a god. Tuesday, after Tuesco, the god of war. Wednesday, after Woden, the chief god of the Scandinavians. Thursday, after Thor, the god of thunder. Friday, after Frea, .the goddess of mar Aage. And Saturday, "after Saturn. Tbe’old Bii le year began with the 25th of Not until 1752 • did the first of the rfionth of January get »he honor in legal documents in England oJ btjjng called the first-day of the year. IspruVetflfihts all along have been made in chronology until the calendar, *nu the almanac, and the clock, and the watch seemed to have reached perfec- > tion. and all the nations of Christendom have similarity of time calculations and have adopted what is called “new style,” except Russia, which keeps what is called the “old style,” and is twelvedays different, so that, writing from there, if you wish to be accurate, you date your letter Jan. 1 and Jan. 13, or Dec. 10 and . D«c?22. It is something to thank God for that the modes are so complete for calculating the cycles, the centuries, the decades, the years, the months, the days, the hours, the seconds? Think ot making appointments as in \he Bible days for the time of the new Boon. Think of making one of the watches of the night in Bible times a rooster crowing. The Bible says, "Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice" “If the Master Cometh ,at the cockcrowing," and that was the way the midnight watch was indicated. The crowing of that barnyard bird has ai-

ways boon most uncertain. The crowing is at the lowest temperature of the night and the amount of dew and the direction of the wind may bring the lowest temperature at 11 o’clock at night or 2 o'clock in the morning, and at any one of six hours. Just before a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the night Is almost perpetual. Now stop and reflect. Why is it that this sublime subject of Bible chronology has been so neglected, and that the most of you have never given ten minutes to the consideration of it, and that this Is the first surmon ever preached on this stupendous and overwhelming theme? Wo have stood by the half day or the whole day at grand reviews and seen armies pass, xT Again and again and again on the Champs Elysees Frenchmen by the hundreds of thousands have stood and watifhod the bannered armies go by, and the huzza has boon throe miles long and until the populace were so hoarse they could huzza no longer. Again and again and again the Germans by hundreds ot thousands have stood on the palaced and statued Untor den Lindon, Berlin, and strewn garlands under tho feet of uniformed hosts led on by Von Moltko or Blucher or Frederick tho Great When Wellington and Ponsonby and the Scots Grays came back from Waterloo, or Wolseley from Egypt or Marlborough from Blenheim, what military [wocossions through Regent street and along by the palaces of London and over tho bridges of the Thames! What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of our American capitals, while mayors and governors and presidents, with uncovered heads, looked on! But put all those grand reviews together, and they are tame compared with the review which on this New Year’s Day you from the pew and 1 from the pulpit witness. Hear them pass In chronological order —all tho years before the flood; all the years since tho flood; decades abreast; centuries abreast; epochs abreast; millenniums abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian populations, Assyrian dominions; armies of Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts, crusaders of the first, the second, third and the last avelancho of men. Dark Ages in somber ppaulet and brighter ages with shields of silver and helmets of gold; Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, England, and America, past and present; dynasties, feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing to-day in a chronological review, until one has no more power to look upon tho advancing columns, now brilljant, now squalid, now garlanded with peace, now crimson with slaughter, now horrid with ghastliness, now radiant with love and joy.

This chronological studv affords, among other practical thoughts, especially two—the oq_e encouraging to the last degree and the other startling. The encouraging thought is that the main drift of the centuries has been toward betterment, with only hero and there a stout reversal. Grecian civilization was a vast improvement on Egyptian civilization, and Roman civilization a vast improvement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a vast improvement on Roman civilization. What was the boasted age of Pericles compared with the age of Longfellow and Tennyson? What was Queen Elizabeth as a specimen of moral womanhood compared with Queen Victoria? What were the cruel warriors of olden times compared with the most distinguished warriors of the last half century, all of them as much distinguished for kindness and good morals as for prowess—the two military leaders of our civil war on Northern and .Southern side communicant members of Christian churches, and their home life as pure as their public life?

Nothing impresses me in this chronoogical review more than the fact that he regiments of years are better and i letter regiments as the troops move on. ! thank God that you arid I were not lorn any sooner than we were born, low could we have endured the disaster >f being horn in Qte Fifteenth or Sevsnteenth or Sixteenth century? Glad am [ that we are in the regiment now passng the reviewing stand, and that our ihildren will pass the stand In a still better regiment. God did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. A good deal of cleaning house will be necessary before this world becomes as jlean and sweet as it ought to be, but the brooms, and the scrubbing brushes, and the upholsterers and plumbers are already busy, and when the world gets fixed up, as it will be, if Adam and Eve aver visit it, as I expect they will, they will say to each other, “Well, this beats paradise when we lived there, and the pears and the plums are better than we plucked from the first trees, and the wardrobes are more complete, and the climate is better.”

Since I settled in my own mind the fact that God "was stronger than the devil I have never lost faith in the emparadisation of this planet With the exception of a retrogression in the Dark Ages, the movement of the world has been on and on, and up and up, and I have two jubilant hosannas —one for the closing year and the other for the new year. But the other thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chronology, and indeed all chronology, is urging the world to more punctuality and immediateness. What an unsatisfactory and indefinite thing it must have been for two business men in the time of Ahaz to make an appointment, saving, “We will settle that business matter to-morrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz reaches the tenth step from the top,” or “I will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus in the time of the new moon,” or when asked in a courtroom what time an accurrence took place should answer, “It was during the time of the latter rain,” or “It was at the time of the third crowing of the barnyard!” You and I remember when ministers of the Gospel in the country, giving out a notice of an evening service, instead of saying at 60r7 or 8 o’clock, would say, “Tbe service will begin at early candle light.” Thank God for [chronological achievements which have ushered in calendars and almanacs and clocks and watches, and at so cheap a rate all may possess them! . Chronology, beginning by appreciating the value of years and the value of days, has kept on until it cries out, “Man, immortal; woman, immortal; look out for that minute; look out for that second!” We talk a great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value until the last fragment of it has passed out of our possession forever. The greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob another of his time. ’ Hear it, ye laggardsand repent! All the fingers of chronology point to punctuality as one of the graces. The minister or the lecturer or business man who comes to his place ten minutes after the appointed time commits a crime the enormity of which can only be estimated by 1 multiplying the number of persons present by ten. If the engagement be made with five persons, he has st'olen fifty minutes, for he is ten minutes too late, and he has robbed each of the five persons of ten minutes apiece, and ten times five are fifty. If there be 500 persons present and he be ten minutes too late, he has committed a robbery of 5,000 minutes, for ten times 500 are 5,000 and 5,000 minutes are eighty-three hours, nhlch make more

than three days. The thief of dry goods, the thief of bank bills, la not half so bad as the thiof of time. Dr. Rush, tho greatest and busiest physician of his day, appreciated the valueof time, and when asked how ho had been able to gather so much information for his books and lectures he replie,(V “I have boon able to do II by ocou<w*zing my time. I have not spout one hour in amusement in thirty years.” And taking a blank book from his pocket he said, “I fill a book like this every week with thoughts that occur to me and facts collected In tho rooms of my patients.” Napoleon appreciated tho value of time whan the sun was sinking upon Waterloo, and he thought that a little more time would retrieve his fortunes, and ho pointed to the sinking sun and said, “What would I not give to be this day possessed of the power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours!” The good old woman appreciated the value of time when at ninetythree years of age she said, “The Judge of all the earth doos not moan that I shall have any excuse for not being prepared to meet him." Voltaire, the blatant infidel, appreciated the value of time when in his dying moments he said to his doctor, “I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give mo six months of life,” and when 1 ' told that ho could not live six weeks ho burst into teats and said, “Then I shall go td hol'a” John Wesley appreciated the value of time when he stood on his stops waiting [for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, “I have lost ten minutes forever.” Lord Nelson appreciated the value of time when he said, “I owe everything in the world to being always a quarter ot an hour beforehand."

A clockmaker in one of tho old English towns appreciated the value of time when ho put on the front of the town clock tho words, “Nowor when?” Mitchell, the astronomer, appreciated tho value of time when he said, “I have been in the habit of calculating tho value of a thousandth part of a second." That minister of tho. Gospel did not appreciate the value o-f time who during a season of illness, instead of employing his time in useful reading or writing, wrote a silly religious romance, which in some unknown way came into the possession of the famous Joe Smith, who introduced tho book as a divine revelation, which became the foundation of Mormonism, the most beastly abomination of all time. They best appreciate the value of time whose Sabbaths have been wasted and whoso opportunities of repentance and usefulness are all gone, and who harp, nothing left but memories, baleful and elegiac. They stand in the bleak September, with bare feet, on the sharp of a reaped wheat field crying, “The harvest is past!’-’ And the sough of an autumnal equinox moans rtirth in echo, “The harvest is past!” But do not let us get an impression from chronology that because the years of time have been so long in procession they are to go on torever. Matter is not eternal. No,'no! If you half a day, or a whole day, or two days, as I Once did, to see a military procession, ■you remember the last brigade, and the last regiment, and the last company finally passed on, and as we rose to go we said to each other, “It is all over.” So this mighty procession of earthly years will terminate. Just when I have no power to prognosticate, but science confirms the Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always last Indeed there has been a fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again and again gone up in their observatories to attend the deathbed of dying worlds and have seen the'm cremated. So lam certain, bot|» from the Word of God and science, that the world’s chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and pass on. and then wifi come the final decade and then the final year, and the final month, and the final day." The last spring will swing its censer of apple blossoms and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset ’will burn like Moscow, and the last morning radiate the hills. The clocks will strike thei? last hour, and the watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will bo needed to run hither and yon with torches to set tho world on fire. Chemistry teaches us that there is a very Inflammable element in water. While oxygen makes up a part ot the water, the other part of the water is hydrogen, and that is very combustible. The oxygen drawn out from the water, the inflammable hydrogen will put instantly into conflagration the Hudsons and Savannahs and Mississippis and Rhines and Urals, and Danubes, and Atlantic and Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean seas. And then the angel of God, descending from the throne, might put one foot on the surf of the sea and the other on the beach and'ery to the four winds of heaven, “Time was, but tinfe shall be n'o longer!” Yet, found in Christ, pardoned and sanctified, we shall welcome the day with more gladness than you ever welcome a Christmas or New Year’s morn; 1 When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow And heaven’s last thunder shakes the earth be, low, Thou, undismayed, frtialt olor the ruin smile And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile.

The Duty of Dressing Well. Do not disdain dress and the little niceties of the toilet; you may be a very clever woman—perhaps even intellectual—but for all that you cannot afford to be careless in these matters. No woman with any sense of self respect should allow herself tb sink into a dowdy; but whatever be her trials, vexations or disappointments, she should dress as well as her position will allow. Do not imagine that we are advocating extravagance; on the contrary, simplicity is our motto, which, if united to good taste, will be found more effective in the eyes of . husband, father, brother or lover, than the most costly attire which the milliner’s art can invent, A simple bow in the hair may look quite as coquettish and fascinating as a diamond agirette; and a cotton dress, if fresh and prettily made, may be as becoming as silk; indeed, we have often seen a cotton eclipse a silk. We mention this to illustrate the fact that riches are little compared with taste, and that every woman may dress well if she chooses —that, in fact, it is her duty to herself and those around her to dress as well as her position will allow. Those who accuse us who write of the fashions, and you who read, of frivolity and triviality, forget that it is just as easy to dress well as it is to dress badly, and that to dress out of fashion requires as much expenditure of thought and care as to dress in it.

A Kindly Spirit “Never*!! speak to him again, never!” said the man in the tweed suit as he shut his teeth together. “Oh, come now, he’s your best friend," replied the one with the white plug hat. “He can’t be. He had a party at his house and never invited me.” “That proves his friendship beyond question. He had invited no less than twelve of your creditors and he realized what your position would be.”— Detroit Free Press. After all, why not let the stage elevate itself? Who is to condemn it if it Uses wings and files.

WILL CONTINUE WORK. AVAR ON THE TARIFFITES TO GO MERRILY ON. The Reform Club Decides that There Will Be No Ceaeatiou of Hostilities—Lines of the Chfca*o Platform to Be Followed Out. President E. Ellery Anderson, of the Reform Club of New York, hits just presented his report at the annual meeting of that organization. Mr. Anderson discusses the silver question, the anti-snapper movement in New York, the reasons for the opposition to D. B. Hill, the tariff, and the nomination and election ot Grover Cleveland. The club spent during tho year over $44,000 in tariff reform work. Os this amount $39,900 was supplied from individual subscription and $4,000 from dues of non-resident members. Mr. Anderson says: “This work was carried on continuously, through speakers and lecturers, through the constant distribution of tariff reform articles, which, through the Western Press agencies, appeared in over two thousand newspapers and reached a very large number of readers, and through the instrumentality of its own publication—Tariff Reform. “Your committee,” he adds, “feels that a great step in advance lias been taken, and that in the battle that has been fought for principle in 1892 the Reform Club has held the right of the line, and has contributed its full share to the result which has been achieved. “Much, however, remains to be done. On some of the principles involved there is substantial accord. Free wool, free metal ores, free lumber, free coal and free salt commend themselves to all tariff reformers. We all agree that duties which serve as bulwarks for trusts and monoplies, such as the 50 cents per hundredweight on refined sugar, while the raw material used by the refiners Is on the free list, should be repealed. “It would seem to be absolutely necessary to impose taxes upon very many articles with a view to obtaining the highest possible amount of revenue from them, which we would gladly see taxed much less if there were less need for revenue. It is probable that no adjustment of tariff rates upon articles now dutiable, whether high or low, could produce a sufficient increase of revenue to meet the necessities of the Federal Government during the next three or four years. In view of this difficulty several different solutions have been proposed. It has been suggested that the taxon whisky should be increased. If such an increased tax could be fully collected, and if it could be made to apply to all whisky in bond at the time ot the passage of the act, a large additional revenue might be obtained from this source; but all the experience of the past shows that very high taxes upon whisky cannot be thoroughly collected, and that they open the way to enormous frauds. We cannot afford to run the risk of such shameful scenes as were common during and shortly after the last war. “It has been proposed in some quarters to tax raw sugar, tea, and coffee, which are untaxed by the existing tariff. But to this many earnest tariff reformers are opposed, as a step away from free trade, rather than toward it; while they agree that free trade, though it may yet be long distant, is a consummation desirable to be attained.

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“The only alternative in the way of actual taxation which remains appears to be an income tax, which again meets great*opposition on account of the gross frauds upon the revenue which have always abounded under every income tax, especially in this country. The only remaining alternative, so far as we are aware, is the issue of deficit bonds to an amount sufficient to cover the deficiency which has been caused by the wanton and corrupting extravagance ,of the present administration. To this, of course, there are serious objections not necessary to be dwelt upon. •

“Upon one point the opinions of the committee are unanimous. Whether the reform of the tariff results in increasing or decreasing the Government revenue, it ought to and must succeed, without delay or evasion, upon the lines prescribed by the Chicago platform of 1892. Every increase of taxes made by the McKinley law must be absolutely repealed. All raw materials must be admitted free of duty and all partially finished materials for manufacture must be a<fmitted at very low rates of duty. No duties must in any case be retained at a rate higher than that which will produce the largest revenue to the Government and the least revenue to protected individuals. The promises made to the people, which they have believed and upon the strength of which they have restored Grover Cleveland to national leadership, must be fulfilled to the last letter without the smallest unnecessary delay. “Many ingenious efforts will be made to obstruct the work of tariff reform. And even after such reform is secured by favorable legislation the American people will need to be constantly educated, year after year, as to the importance of maintaining that which has been achieved and of going forward in the same direction. It is, therefore, the purpose of your committee to conduct an intelligent discussion on the subject of proposed legislation affecting our system of taxation.- We propose to conduct this discussion by means of our periodical issues of ‘Tariff Reform’ and by regular contributions to the press. We shall also endeavor, if the opportunity is afforded us, to conduct a scries of lectures in which the subject matter of correct taxation will be fully presented to the people from time to time. The field is ample, and we promise to return full measure for such co-operation as we may from tftne to time receive fiom our subscribers, from the members, resident and non-resident of our club, and from those who desire to see the principles settled at the late election enacted into the permanent laws qf our country.” The Other President Harrisdß,in his last message, calls attention to the great inI crease in wealth among manufactur-

ers since 1880. No doubt the PreslI dent states the facts correctly, otherwise he would have to confess that the protective tariff failed to socomplish its avowed object—tho enrichment of the American manufacturers. But a glance at the farm statistics of the United States would reveal a very different picture. For Instance, statistics published bythe Ohio Farmer show the average value of land in Ohio per acre in 1880 was $27.00; average value per acre 1890, $22.08; decrease value per acre 1890 of $4.Q2. Aggregate valueof real estate in 1890, as equalized by board, $2,140,136,490; in 1880, as equalized by board, $1,09L--509,830; increase over 1880, $42,625,000. Valueof farmlands 1880, $084,826,510; value of farm lands 1890, $506,301,909; decrease from 1880, $115,564,607. Value of real estate in towns and cities in 1880, $412,583,314; value in 1890 $570,773,687; increase over 1880, $158,090,273. The total increase of real property in Ohio in 1890 over 1880, as equalized by tho State Board in both years, amounted to a fraction less than 4 per cent. This increase remains as a balance of the increase of towns and cities, after canceling the appalling loss on farm lands. On farm lands the loss aggregates about 15 per cent! in the decade, while the towns and cities gain a fraction over 38 percent. The St. Louis Republic shows that, “while the farmersof the South have suffered a loss of $180,000,000 on their cotton crop, the farmers of the West have suffered a loss of $168,000,000 on their wheat crop and $240,000,000 on their corn crop—and the aggregate losses on these three staples alone amount to $558,000,000.” Verily this picture is not so pleasing viewed from the side of the unprotected farmer as from that of the protected manufacturer. —Oakland County Post.

Strong Spinal Column* Needed. Set it down that a Democrat who wants tariff reform postponed is not a true Democrat. He may vote for its candidates, but he is treacherous to the party’s-prlnciples and hostile to its spirit. The party did not make Grover Cleveland its candidate and declare Republican protection to be a fraud with a purpose to delude and betray the people. It did not adopt tariff reform as a cry merely to enable it to get possession of the offices. It adopted it as a principle and a faith and pledged itself, if intrusted with power, to reconstruct the tariff so as to relieve the people of unnecessary taxation. The party cannot delay entering vigorously upon that work without exciting distrust and contempt. The people whom we have educated to renounce the policy of Republican protection and to depose its Instruments cannot be fooled. They demand action. And so do Democrats who are Democrats in very truth. Nothing else is honorable. Nothing less is possible if the party would not be humiliated. We must show that we have the courage of our principles. We must respect our pledges. We must act boldly and promptly. Timidity and dalliance will be fatalPluck in defiance has won us a great opportunity. Pluck in using the opportunity will win the admiration and the full confidence of the nation. —New York World. Want Freedom and an Extra Session. There is no mistaking the spirit and intent of these resolutions, recently adopted at Chicago: “The Trade and Labor Assembly of Chicago, a delegated body representing the organized artisans and mechanics ot this city, desires to support the call made by various journals and citizens for an extra session for the repeal of the McKinley law. The verdict of the people at the last election was emphatic and overwhelming against the further con-* tinuance of a national policy that restricts and preys on the consumer. We therefore, as the representatives of organized labor in Chicago, declare to you with all the solemnity of serious men and women, that, inasmuch as the only protetion we secure as industrial units comes by virtue of our own organizations and the degree of intelligence and fraternity we cultivate among ourselves—we therefore request that this legal and arbitrary protection be unqualifiedly repealed. As workers, we have no fear of our European fellowworkers. “We therefore ask you to aid in hastening the time when free trade, carried on by free men, will be the ruling policy of our nation.”

Labor Needs Only Fair Play. Labor in the United States, as in every other country, has been plundered and humiliated by an abuse of the taxing function. Workingmen need no more laws to protect them in their rights; no more legislation intended to compel a generous division of the money extorted from consumers. All that they need and should demand is the immediate and unconditional repeal of the laws which support and make their robbery possible. It is high time that members of labor organizations rid their minds of the protection superstition that the distribution of wealth among its producers can be regulated by statutory law. Wealth would flow in abundance and in equitable measure to each of its makers, whether earned by hand or brain, if the taxing power of government were not prostituted for selfish ends. The law of the distribution of products is a natural one and, when unimpeded by stupid legislation, will do its work perfectly and beneficently. Acts of Congress in such a case are as impertinent and mischievous as they would be directed at the regulation of a person’s digestion. It is this broad principle of individual sovereignty—a principle that is cardinal in America’s/tlonstitution and in Democratic faith—that members of labor unions must comprehend and be guided by if they would conquer their oppressors and establish justice In the lamj-—Chicago Herald.

More Revenue with Less Duty. Those commentators on the tariff who insist that a reduction of duties would be equivalent to a reduction of revenue betray Ignorance of the subject. It would be quite possible to increase revenue by reducing duties, and to reduce revenue by increasing duties. Many of the present protect- ■ ** > - -v KdKiS

ive duties are so high as to be ptohlb itory. To bring these duties down t» a point whore importation would b profitable would result In increase* revenue. There could be nothin) simpler than the details of a revenue tariff. It Is only when tariffs are st arranged that the duties are no louge: collected at tho custom houses bui at the warehouses and factories o favored persons, corporations, anc trusts, that the matter becomes com plicated.—Philadelphia Record. High Tariff— Tried and Fouud Guilty. Mr. Harrison hardly does justice t< the alms and purposes of the poopli who have asked him to give way tx what they believe to lie a better na tional policy. The theory of proteo tion had a full generation in whlct to show what it can do. At the cn of that time the merchants anc artisans deliberately declared that the results did not equal their expec tations, and that the promises made by the protection leaders failed ol fulfillment. There was no othei issue of any serious Importance in th< campaign. The voters gave them, selves to a consideration of this question: “Now that you see what protection can do, and what it cannot do, are you satisfied with it and will you have it continued?" That question was debated long and exhaustively, and on the first Tuesday ol November it was put in the convention of the whole people. It was overwhelmingly decided against President Harrison and against his party. And it was thus decided, not for anj reasons personal to the President, but because the great bulk ol the nation belfbve that a lower tariff will give thenunorebusiness, a larges market, more steady work, and better wages. We are a work-a-day comihunity from Atlantic to Pacific, and we want all that our circumstances, our enviable position, and the peculiarity of our institutions are capable of affording us. If we can get on in spite of a high tariff, cannot wt get on better without it? That was the backbone of the contention, and as the judgment of the people js final in this matter, the one party stepped to the rear and the other party came to the front. We seek prosperity, and we seek all the prosperity within reach. We arc all alike in that mat tet and there is no di vision of opinion on the subject. Give us mills that will turn all the year round; give us a market that will accept all we can produce; give us living wages and steady employment. These are our one ambi ion and we care more for them than for party organization. Therefore, if the majority believe that a radical revision of the McKinley bill will give us these things, then let that bill be revised. That is the whole story and all there is to it.— New York Herald (Independent).

Iron IliiHlneM Booming.

We commend to the “prophets ot ruin” the interesting collection of exact information about the iron industry of Pennsylvania and Ohio which we publish elsewhere in a letter from Pittsburg. It is a gloomy tale if they approach it from the point of view of their predictions, but an exceeding cheering ofie if they approach it from the opposite direction. It shows no “ruin” anywhere, but increased activity in mills already in operation, purchases of new property with a view to enlarged facilities and the employment of more labor by many establishments, the reopening of mills which have for a long time been idle, and the building of entirely new plants employing many thousands of new hands. All this information is specific and exact, and is set forth with a fullness of names and localities, amounts of tJ capital, and numbersof laborers which makes it very different reading from the “ruin” intelligence which is put forth from time to time in the Republican press. The latter, like the erstwhile news about the American tin works, is always very general, and the persons who are responsible for it are never able to get down to particulars.—N. Y. Evening Post.

T.hat Sheltering Umbrella. Nothing funnier has appeared since the election than President Harrison’s remark that “protection has failed because the wage-earner has refused to share his shelter with the manufacturers he would not even walk under the same umbrella.” Considering that the operatives In the protected industries do not constitute more thiyi one-twentieth of the working population, the assumption that their action decided the election is quite amusing in itself. But when the mind pictures the strikers at Homestead, nine-tenths of whom were paid less than $2 a day, “refusing to share their shelter” with Andrew Carnegie, who had pulled out more than $1,000,000 a year in profits, the comicality suggests its own cartoon. Mr. Harrison perhaps failed to notice the fact that $1,250,000 was contribted to his campaign fund by the protected millionaires of Pennsylvania alone to preserve the tariff which they had paid for and made. Does the President really think this payment was pure philanthropy, to enable the paternal plutocrats to hold an umbrella over the wage-earners?— New York World. The Sleeper's Answer. There is a choice recipe In which the owl figures "to make any one that sleepeth answer to whatso ver thou ask” given in “Physick for the Poor," published in London in 1657, says “All the Year Bound.” It says you are to “take the heart of an owl and his left leg and put that upon the breast of one that sleepeth, and they shall reveal whatsoever thou shalt ask them.” The Hindus, however, declare that the flesh and blood of owl will make a person insane who eats or drinks it. On this account men who are devoured by jealousy of a rival or hatred of an enemy come furtively to the market and purchase an owl. In silence they carry it home and secretly prepare a decoction, which an accomplice will put into the food or drink of the object of their malignant designs. To Insure Red Cheeks. Y'oung ladies of Germany have a 'superstition that if they bury a drop of their blood vmder a rosebush it will ever after insure the experimenter a pair of rosy cheeks. A wood-chopper at Bedding, Cal., shot a stranger because he was putting on too much style. The wounded stranger was lately from Bed Bluff,

The Care unit Cleaning or Marble. Marble, which' is much less used than heretofore, has fallen somewhat into disfavor because of tho difficulty of keeping it in order. It will become stained and spotted, and ths average housekeeper seems not to understand hew to put it in proper condition. Grease spots are especially disfiguring, and stains are given up as hopeless. The first step in cleaning marble is to wash it thoroughly with clean water and a soft cloth. Every particle of dust, dirt or gumminesi should be removed; then for tho treatment of stains there are various methods. Some strong acids will remove such, but they ate dangerous to use, as they will cat holes in the marble by dissolving the elements of which it is composed. Paint may be removed by pouring a quantity of chloroform over the spot and holding it in place by a thick cloth of linen or cotton. It is said that blotting-paper saturated with chloroform laid over paint spots will absorb them, at least, will so dissolve the ingredients that they may be washed out by sopping them up with the cloth and water. A lien the colored particles are taken out the oily portion isqulte likely to come with it If not cleaned, apply more chloroform. Almost hopeless-looking paint stains have been entirely removed in this way without leaving a spot If the marble is only ordinarily soiled or discolored, make a paste of common baking soda and water. Spread it thickly over the marble and allow it to stay for some hours, covering it with a damp cloth so that it will not dry too quickly. Leave It on over night; the next (lay wash thoroughly with clean water and polish with a bit of old wool cloth or felt If marble is carefully washed once or twice In a month it rarely becomes dull or spotted unless by some accident, but when neglected it seems to grow spots, and becomes gray, and loses all of its brilliance and fine finish.—N. Y. Lodger.

Walnut* from tho Sood. It requires no more skill and appliances to grow walnuts than It does to grow corn—in fact, not so much. The main thing is to get the seed all right to start with. These must be gathered as fast as they ripen in the fall and before they have time to dry out at all. I take the nuts as they fall from thrf-lree and spread them out on the cool cellar floor for two or three weeks, until the weather gets so cool that there is'' no danger of their heating and sprouting. Then I heap them out on the ground, under some trees if possible, and cover over with four or five inches of earth. The nuts may lay several deep on tho ground, say four inches deep. Let them lay here and soak and freeze until time to plant in the spring. Examine occasionally in the spring as planting-time approaches, to see that they are not sprouting too much. It will do no hurt If the shells are cracked before planting by the sprout starting, but when this is noticed the nutsjshould be planted without;further delay. Plant the nut where the tree is wanted to stand. Plant in mellow soil and to about the depth that you would a potato. It will make a fine growth the first season ot fifteen to twenty-four inches. Take your spade that fall, sharpen it well and go along and cut off the tap root of each tree about six inches below the surface of the ground. This is done by pressing the spade down at an angle that will cause it to strike the root about that distance down. The objecs in this is to induce a more liberal growth of lateral root near the surface of the soil.—W. D. Boynton, Outagamie County, Wis.

Pluck of a Swedish Girl. Froken Skogstad, a Swedish lady, a week or two ago displayed marvelous pluck and endurance on the occasion of the wreckage of the Vega, the Captain of which vessel is her father, whom she has accompanied on his voyages for twelve years past. While the Vega was adrift she was tied to the mast for forty-eight hours, when a Norwegian vessel Froken Skogstad then sent her father and two of the men on board in the boat, herself remaining on board the Vega, which she tried to steer so as to make it follow in the wake of the Norwegian vessel. The Vega, however, would not obey the rudder, but ultimately Froken Skogstadt, in spite of the peril, succeeded in saving the ship’s documents, and the rest of tbe crew were saved. Froken Skogstadt at the time wore regular sailor’s clothes. —London Queen. Queer Bequest*. Some queer bequests have been made in favor of pets. Abouteighty years ago "Elizabeth Orby Hunter, ot Upper Seymour street, widow,” gave to her parrot, which she described as her “faithful companion ot twenty-five years,” an annuity of 200 guineas, to be paid half-yearly as long as it should live to whoever may have the care of it and proves its identity.” Elaborate provisions were made for the welfare of the parrot, a guardian being appointed to insure its comfort. In another case of an annuity to provide for a parrot the question was eventually raised whether the annuity was to bo continued during the life of the old woman to whom the money was left for this specific purpose, or whether it ceased with the existence of the |\ bird. The question was settled io y favor of the woman. Diet of Business Men. . A food journal advises business teen to diet themselves so as to be “ . able to do the maxium of work between the lunch hour and evening, and not to work for a few minutes I after eating. Such foods as plain soups, cold chicken, nfilk drunk slowly, cresses, lettuce, rice, rice nuddlng, sandwiches, beef or lamb, bread and butter, will be amply nutritlve, and yet so readily assimilated that brain work will not interfere with their digestion. Alcohol in any form should not be taken by brain workers, and pastry and ice cream should be avoided. Fifteen minutes should be spent in light reading oi conversation before severe mental labor is begun. A light cigar immediately after lunch aids digestion. It is in the eyeplng, when the work of day is done, that a substantial meal ** should be taken.