Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1893 — Page 2

.. !»1H "«**■ U I*" l > 11 "" I . ' .-I' -'I ■' ■ - ' ©he democrat DECATL'R, IND. 1 M. BLACKBURN, - • - Fawim Don’t Gif IM-— *" And wonder why Down *° aQ d *o * a p r ° s ‘ peroui and you are not YOU CAN BE. Advertise. Get people . to come to your store. In ehort, make money by advertising. Others da * Gkn. Butler had a neat little law practice, which was worth $50,000 a year. From other sources, including his bunting factory, he made probably as much more. If Congress had power enough to -shut out “the heathen” on the Pacidc slope it ought to have enough to shut out “the Mafia,” “the dynamiter,” and the breeders of pestilence on the Atlantic slope. Tiie Queen in her speech to'Parliament made her usual distinction between “my lords and gentlemen." To Americans acquainted with the general run of lords that come over here the distinction seems extremely’ L pat. Lieut. and ex-Prof. Totten abandons the army to engage in literary work. If the end of the world is so near at hand as he has prophesied, the wonder is that it mattered to him in what calling he should engage. _________ It is said that Colombia expects the support of the United States in the Panama troubles, but it might be well to state that while this country is taking care of the Monroe doctrine it is not seeking any unnecessary acquisitions in the way of scandals. The New York Recorder says: “To evade our laws the steerage of the European steamers has been promot ed to the rank of second cabin. This is the meaning of it.” Cholera doesn’t stop for names, and would as soon . make the trip in the cabin as in the steerage. The legal fraternity has a griev- ' ance. Chili paid $75,000 in damages to sailors of the Baltimore. The , grievance lies in the fact that the . sailors received the money, the old usage of accepting only such as law- , yers did not care to retain having , been cruelly disregarded. A startlingly large number of Chicago citizens have been reported to the police as “missing” during the winter. When the streets are cleansed most of these mysteries will doubtless be solved and many a fam- • ily will be plunged into mourning ' “when the mud gives up its dead.” Over £44,000, subscribed in several missing-word competitions, is now impounded in the British Law Courts. Five actions have been brought to determine the ownership of the money. The proprietor of one paper says he distributed £175,000 in prizes • during the run of the competitions. Statistics concerning longevity of the Congregational ministers of New England show that they reach an average age of 71 years. “So much for regular living,” says some one. Possibly it is due as much to ease and the avoidance of many of the risks to which other professional and business men are subject. A young man in New Jersey has been sued for breach of promise. On the witness stand the information was wrung from him that the shattered engagement resulted from a proposal made by the girl during leap year. He was too polite to say “no.” Politeness is sometimes expensive. In this instance the figure has been set at $20,000. *’ The discovery that a gentleman perfected the incandescent lamp away back in the sixties is not surprising. Such discoveries are always being made. However, the gentleman’s Ingenuity in hiding his light so effectually under a bushel is almost as remarkable as the invention, and his modesty deserves more reward than an unappreciative world is likely to bestow. A Chinese anecdote of Buddha, to Illustrate his observance of the first •of “the ten precepts,” “thou shalt not kill any living creature.” relates that in th,o winter he hid a louse in the hole of a tree, wrapped it in silk and regularly fed it: that he filtered his water, not for his' own sake, but in order to prevent swallowing and thus destroying any living thing in it. This shows that there may be too much of a good thing even in observance of moral precepts. Dr. Samuel Lockwood, I’resident of the United States Hay Fever Association, believes that the pollen grains of ragweed are the main source of irritation in cases of hay fever. He thinks that when these pollen grains settle on the mucous membrane they begin to swell and protrude a little tube or rootlet which pushes its way down into the mucous membrane, practically taking root there. Hence those localities or atmospheres which are free from such pollen are comfortable abodes for j ersous subject to hay fever during

the season when they would else- ‘ where be prdne to suffer from it. So aTany Boston physicians fell into the way of assigning heart failure as the cause of death that the Board of Health refused to accept such certificates and demanded a more exact statement of causes. They might as well have said that their patients died because they were “short of breath." The old familiar phrase as truly represents the cause of death in many cases as does heart failure. Indeed, death comes either through stoppage of the heart’s action or stopping of breathing. One may j take brief precedence over the other, | but neither shortness of breath nor heart failure can supply a satisfactory statement of the cause of death for statistical record. A Pittsburg hotel keeper has beei sued for damages by a railroad conductor because the night clerk failed j to call the conductor for his train. The conductor missed the train and lost his job. He asks for $3,000. We believe it will be the testimony of most travelers or people living in hotels that pjerks and bell boys take a fiendish delight fu waking up people who leave “calls.” Not only are they rejoiced to arouse the man who wants to be turned out at some unholy hour, put they include all his neighbors. In modern hotels yhere there is pipe telephone or teleseme connection between office and rooms the business is simplified somewhat. In old-fash-ioned hotels, such as linger in many Southern cities, the arousing of all the guests by thumps on the door of one is a part of every night’s history. The Pittsburg night clerk must have been new at the business or he would have shaken the dreams of the plaintiff guest even if he had been felled in doing it. The Egyptians are getting as excited as in the time of Arabi Pasha. The young Khedive, like Arabi, is being made the representative of the national longing for independence of foreign control. But the Khedive, like Arabi, must yield. England has her grip on the land of the Pharaohs, and there is no likelihood that it will be loosened in the near future. The English will probably be astonished, as usual, that the material benefits , they have brought to the country de ■ not weigh against the sentiment of 1 nationality, but the fact that they , are not popular with the people they ( govern will never induce them to i give up the power they hold. England is in Egypt for her own profit 1 and will stay there until the Eu- j ropean powers are ready to fight to i expel her. The fact that her rule is I also beneficial to Egypt is not due * more to the cold justice of the En- ] glish nature than to the fact that i orderly administration that is best i for industry is the administration 1 thpt can get the ipost money out of a , country. Order and security bring i riches, and riches bring in taxes. So ! Egypt will continue to be discon- < tented and prosperous. Representative Bleecker, of < Minneapolis, introduced the follow- 1 ing bill in the Minnesota House, and ’ it was referred to the proper com- , mittee with instructions to report ae soon as possible: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for J any person to manufacture or sell, or to 1 offer for sale or 10 use or to j ermit the ] manufacture, sale, or use of any hoopskirt or hoopskirts or anything like ‘ thereunto within the limits of Minne- ' sota. Sec. 2. Any person violating this act. j or in any way assistir g the violation of any provision of this act, shall be pun- 1 ishtd by a fine of not less than $25 for ’ each offense, and, in default, shall be * incarcerated in the county jail for a 1 period not exceeding thirty days. Three c Geers and a tiger for the j bold Bleecker and his bill 1 As we t say in the vernacular, that's the stuff! 1 It may be entirely pardonable for a * town to use a little bustle to extend ] her outskirts, but it is very different i with a woman. The fioopskirtis not I in harmony with the spirit of our 1 American institutions. Its introduction would kill off the hammock in- , dugtry; bicycling would lose half its ’ charm, and men would be forced out 1 of street cars and elevators and be > ] obliged to walk in the middle of the \, street. A few months ago when the ! ' Minnesota Legislature in its wisdom J saw fit to legislate against tights on the stage the country 1 arose as one man and several chorus girlsand took j exceptions to the wisdom of such an arbitrary display of prejudice against 1 high art and anatomy. Now, how- j ever, the contemplatedreform touches a responsive chord in the ' heart of the great Ameripan public. The country is willing and ready, to 1 stand tights, but hoopskirts, never! 1 Bully for Bleecker! The Cat. ' The Egyptians are the first people among whom we find notices of the cat. It figures largely upon the monuments as a domestic pet, and was ' honored when dead. Comical stories are told by Herodotus, of the anxiety to save the cats when a house caught fire, and of the grief when one dkd. The cat seemed to have served as a retriever in fowling expeditions, and even in fishing. Itseems strange! that no mention of the cat occurs in I th" Bible or in any Assyrian record. 1 Professor Max Muller is quoted as saying that even in India it was hut. recently known as a domestic animal. I Its Sanscrit name is marjara, from a root meaning “to cieari,” from the creature’s habit of licking itself at its toilet. Tiie cat’s mousing habits I wen- well known t » thp Itoniam, and ' even to the Etruscans, as shown by ' antique geffis and even wall paintings. The domesticated • among the Greeks has Been shown by ■ Professor Itolk-t >n to have beer tin ' white-breasted marten. Besides the cat. the Egyptians domesticated the I ichneumon, popularly known a»; ' I Pharaoh's rat, which is still to be ! | seen in houses at Cairo. 1

■ Dll. TALMAGE’S SERMON. J ' HE CONTINUES HIS SERMONS ON COD IN NATURE. I I ■" ; "Sw«l Hplocg. and <tayoh»”— Wonderful Force i*»d Vartol/ of the ' Illblo’a Imagery From Nut uro- How the Divine Care 1» shown In tin* Ocean's Shells. I Bible Cvnohology. i Rev. Dr. Ta Itn use's subject was the ! ; “Concholoay of the Bible? or, God Among tbe Shells,” the text being takoni from Exodus. 30th chapter, 34th verso. I "And the Lord said unto Moses, Take} I unto thee sweet spices, stacto, and I nnycha." You may not have noticed tho shells of the Bible, although In this early part 1 of the sacred book God calls von to consider and employ them as he called Moses to consider and employ them. The onycha ot my text Is a shell found on tho banks of the Red Sea. and Moses i and his army crushed many I of them under foot as they crossed tho , bisected waters, onycha on tho beach ; and onycha in tho unfolded bed of the i

deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation cl God, and as true as the first chapter of Genesis and tho last chapter of Revelation or everything between. Not only is this shell, the onycha, found at the Red Sea, but iu the waters of India. It not only delectates the eye with its convolutions of beauty, white and lustrous and serrated, but blesses the nostril with a pungent aroma. This shellfish, accqstomed to feed on spikenard. is redolent with that odorous plant—redolent when alivo and redolent ' when dead. Its shells when burned bowitch the air with fragrance. In my text Gwl commands Moses to mix this onchya with the perfumes of the altar in the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of its perfumes at! the altar of Brooklyn Tabernacle, for, j having spoken to you on the "Astronomy i of the Bible; or, God Among the Stars;” i the “Chronology of the Biblo; or, God I Among the Centuries;” tho "Ornithology of tho Bible; or, God Among the Birds: the “Mlneraloghy of the Bible; or. God Among the Amethysts;” the “Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God Among the Fishes,” I now come to speak of the "Conchology of the Bible; or, God Among the Shells.” Riches of the Ocean. It is a secret that you may keep for me for I have never before told it to any one,that fin all tbe realms of tho natural world there is nothing to mo so fascinating, so completely absorbing, so full of suggest!voness. as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up tho onycha from the banks of the Red Sea or‘pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic ocean and listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine voices—bass, alto, soprano—in an unknown tongue, but i seeming to chant, as I put them to my ear, “The sea is His. and He made It;” others singing, “Thy way. O God, is ia the sea;” others htmning, “He ruletbA the raging of tbe sea.” 1 “What,” says some one else, “does thoi shell impress you more than the star?”In some respects, yes, because I caa handle the shell and closely study the* shell, while I cannot handle the starXand if I studv it, must study it at a distance of millions and millions of miles. • ' “Wbat,” says someone else, “are you more impressed by the shell than thp flower?” Yes, for it has far greater varieties and far greater richness In color, ‘Jas I could show you In thousands of specimens, and because the shell does not fade, as does the rose leaf, but main- . tains its beauty century after century. ■ so that the onyeba which the hoof of Pharaoh’s horse knocked aside in the chase of tbe Israelites across the Red Sea may have kept its luster to this hour. Yes, they are so particolored and many colored that you might pile them np until you would have a wall with all the colors of tbe wall of Heaven, from the jasper at the bottom to the amethyst at. tbe top. Oh, the shells! The petrified foam of the sea. Oh. the shells! The hardened bubbles of the deep. Oh, the shells, which are the diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of the continents. How the shells are ribbed, grooved, cylindered, mottled, iridescent! They were used as coin by some of the nations. They we fastened in belts by others, and made In handles of wooden implements by still others. Mollusks not only of the sea, but mollusks of the land. Do you know ho v much they have had to do with the world's history? They saved the church of God from extinguishment. The Israelites marched out of Egypt 2,000,000 strong, besides flocks and herds. The Bible says “the people took their dough before it was leavened, their j kneadingAroughs being bound up in the [ clothes on their shoulders. They were thrust forth out of Epypt and could not tarry; neither had they preoared for themselves any victuals.” Just think of it! Forty years in the wilderness. Infidelity triumphantly asks. Bow could they live forty years In the wilderness without food? You say manna fell. Oh, that was after a long while. They would have starved fifty times before | the manna fell. The fact is. they were chiefly kept alive by’the mollusks of tho land or shelled creatures. Mr. Fronton and Mr. Slcard took the same route, from Egypt toward Canaan that the Israelites took, and they gave this as their testimony: Israel’s Itoute to Canaan. “Although tbe children of Israel must have consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with baggage and innumerable flocks and herds, they were not ttKely to experience any Inconvenience iu their march. Several thousand persons might walk abreast with the greatest case Jn the very narrowest part of the valley in which Jhey first began to file off. It soon afterward expands to above three leagres In width. With respect to forage they would be at no loss. The ground is covered with tamarisk, broom, clover, and saint foin, of which latter especially camels are passionately fond, besides almost every variety of odoriferous plant and herb proper for pasturage. "The whole sides of tho valley through I which the children ot Israel marched are still tufted with brushwood, which' dotbtless afforded food for their beasts, together with many drier sorts for lighting fire, on which the Israelites could with the greatest ease bake the dough' they brought with them on small Iron plates, which form a constant appendageto the baggage of an oriental traveler. < Lastly, the herbage underneath these I trees and shrubs Is completely covered 1 with snails of a prodigious size and of i the best sort. and. however uninviting such a repast might appear to us, they i arc here esteemed a great delicacy. They are so plentiful In this valley that it may bo literally saM that ft is difficult] to take one step without treading oh them.” , Bo the shelled creatures saved the host of Israelites on tho march to the prom- ' ised land, and the attack of Infidelity at ; this point Is defeated by the tacts, as jn-< ' fidelity fs always defeated by faota, since’ It Is fosuded on Ignorance. In writing and printing our Interrogation point hats at the bottom a mark like a period and over It a flourish like the swing of a. teamster's whip, and we put the Inter- ‘ rogation point at the end of a question, but In the Spanish language the Interro* 1 gallon point Is twice used for each ones-

tlon. At tho beginning of tbe question the Interrogation point Is presented upside down, and al the close of the question right aide up. Wlicn Infidelity puts a question about the (Scriptures, as It always Indicates Ignorance, tho question qugbt to be printed with two Intorrogatl,bri points, one at the beginning and one at the eloso, but both upside down. The Iloj-a) Families «< Nel""* Thank God for tho woaltn of mollusks nil up and down tho earth, whether feedingtho Is ran Illes on their way to tho , land flowing with milk and honey, or, as we are better acquainted with tho mollusks, when flung to the beach of lake or sea. There are three great families of them. If 1 should ask you to name three ot the great royal families of tho earth, perhaps you would respond, the | house of Stuart, tho house of Hapsburg, I the house of Bourbon, but tbo throe royal families of mollusks are tho univalve, or shell tn one part; tbo bivalve, or shell of two parts, and tho multivalve, or shell in many parts, and I see God in their every hinge, In their oVery tooth, i in their every cartilage, in their every I ligament, in their every spiral ridge, and i iu their every color, prism on prism, and : their adaptation of thin shell for still | ponds and thick coatings for boisterous seas. They all dash upon mo tho thought of tho providential earn of God.

> \. hat Is the use of all this architecture ' of the shell, and why Is it plctursd from the outside lip dear down Into its labyrinths ot construction? Why the iutinlty of skill and radiance <n a shell? What is the use of tho color and exquisite curve of a thing so insignificant as -a shellfish? Why, when tho conetiologlst by dredge or rake fetches the crustoceous specimens to the shore, does he find at his feet whole alhambras and collscums ' and parthqnous and crystal palaces of : beaiuy in miniature, and these bring to 'lightonly an infinitesimal nart of the opulence in the great subaqueous world. Linnteus counted 3.500 species of shells, but conchology had then only begun its ! achievements. I While exploring the bed of the AtlanI tic Ocean in preparation for laying the I cable shelled animals were brought up i from depths of 1,900 fathoms. When lifting tho telegraph wire from tho Mediterranean and Red Seas, shelled creatures were brought up from depths of 2,000 fathoms. The English admilalty, exploring in behalf of science, found mollusks at a depth of 2,435 fathoms, or 14,210 feet deep. Wbat a realm awful for vastness! As the shell is only the house and tho wardrobe of insignificant animals'of tho deep, why all that wonder and beauty of construction? God’s care lor them Is the only reason. And if God provide so munificently for them, will he not see that you have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and shelter for a periwinkle! Shall there not be wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would God give a coat of mail for the defense of a nautilus and leave you no defense against the storm? Does He build a stone house for a creature that lasts a season and leave withj out home a soul that taxes hold on centuries and eons? Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of the Creator in tho old red sandstone,” and I hear tho harmonies of God in the tinkle of tho sea shells when tho tides come in. Tho same Christ who arow a lesion of providential care from the fact that God clothes with grass the field instructs me to draw the same lesson from the shells. u God’s Care anil Man's Freedom. But while you get this pointed lesson at providential care from the shelled creatures of the deep, notice in their construction that God helps them to help themselves. This house of stone in which they live is not dropped on them and is not built around them. Tbe material ' for it exudes from their own bodies and 13 adorned with a colored fluid from the pores of their own neck. It is a most Interesting thing to see these crustacean animals fashion their own homes out of carbonate of lime and membrane. And all ot this is a mlgnty lesson to those who are waiting for others to build their fortunes when they ought to go to work and, like tho mollusk, build their own fortunes but of their own brain, out of their own sweat,, out of their own industries. Not a mollusk on all the beaches of all the seas would have a house of shell if it had not itself built one. Do not wait for others to shelter you or prosper you. All tho crustaceous creatures Os the earth from every flake of their covering and from every.ridge of their tiny castles on Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean coasts say, “Help yourself, while God helps you to help yourself.” Those people who are waiting for their father or rich to die and leave them a fortune are as silly as a mollusk would be to wait for some other mollusk to drop on it a shell equipment It would kill the mollusk as in most eases it destroys the man. Not one person [ out of a nundred ever was strong enough to stand a large estate by inheritance dropped on him in a chunk. Have great expectations from only two persons—God and yourself. Let theonv* chaos my text become your preceptor. But the more I examine the shells the more I am impressed that God is a God of emotion. Many scoff at emotion and seem to think that God Is a God of cold i ; geometry and iron laws and eternal ! apathy and enthroned stoicism. No! , No! The shells with oyerpowering em-i phasls deny IL- While law and order I reign iu tho universe, you have but to! see tho lavlsbness ot color on the crustacca, all shades of crimson from faint- [ est blush to blood of battlefield, all ! shades of blue, all shades of greon, all 1 shades of all colors from tho deepest ■ black to whitest light, just called out on j the shells with nd more order than a • mother premeditates or calculates how ■ many kisses and bugs she shall give her ' babe waking up in the morning sunlight . | Yes, my God is an emotional God, and i He says, “We must have colors and let' tbo sun paint all of them on the scroll of ; that shell, and we must have music, and : here is a carol for the robin, and a psalm ' for man, and a rloxology for tho seraphim, j and a resurrection call for the arch-1 angel.” Aye. he showed himself a God ! of sublime emotion when he flung him-; self on this world In the personality of. Christ to save it, without regard to the i tears It would take, or the blood it | ' would exhaust, or the agonies It would , crush out When I see the Louvres and t.be Luxemborgs and the Vatican* ,of Divine painting strewn along the 8,000 miles of coast, and I hear tn a forest on a summer morning musical academies and Handel’s societies of full orchestras, I say God fs a God of emotion, and If He observes mathematics It Is mathematics set to music, and His figures are written not In white chalk on blackboards, bnt written by a finger of sunlight on walls of jasmine- and trumpet creeper. The Royal Pnrple. In my study of the conchology of the | •Bible I notice that the mollusks or shelled animals furnish the purple that you sec richly darkening soniany Scripture chapters. Tbo purple stuff In the ancient tabernacle, tbe pnrple girdle of tho priests, tho purple mantel of Roman /Emperors, tho apparel of Dives In purple and fine linen—aye. the purple robe which In mockery • was thrown upon Christ —were colored by the P'* r P'° °* the shells on tho shores of the Mediterranean. It was discovered by s shepherd’s dog having stained bls mouth by breaking one .of tbe sfleels, and the pnrple aroused admiration. . Costly purple! Six pounds of tho nur- 1

n pie liquid extracted from the shellfishes - wore used to prepare one pound of woo). ■ Purple was also used on tbe pages of s books. Bibles and pravor books ap- • peered in purple vellum, which may i still bo found In some of tho national » libraries of Europe. Plutarch speaks of s some purple which keeps its beauty for 100 years. But after awhile tho purple became easier to get, and that which had been a sign of imperia) authority ’ when worn in robes was adopted by ' many people, and so an Emporlor, jeal- ’ ous of this appropriation of the purple, 1 made a law that any one except royalty ' wearing purple should bo put to death. 1 Then, as if to punish tho world for 1 that outrage of exclusiveness, God ob--1 literated the color from the earth, ns ' much ns to say. “It all cannot have It, ' none shall have It.” But though Got! has deprived the race of that shellllsti 1 which afforded tbe purple there ere shells enough left to make us glad -and worshipful. Oh. the entrancement of hue and shape still left al) up and down tho beaches of all the continents! These creatures of tho sea have what roofs of enameled porcelain! They dwell under what pavilions blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and mysterious as an aurora! And am I not right in leading you for a few momeuts through this mighty realm of God so neglected by human eye and human footstep? It is said that tho Harp and lute wore invented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile overflowed its banka, and when tho waters retreated tortoises were left by tho million on all the land, and those tortoises died, and soon nothing was left but the cartilages and gristle of these creatures, which tightened under the heat Into musical strings that when touched bv the wind or foot of man vibrated, making sweet sounds, and so tho world took tho hint and fashioned the harp, and am I not right In trying to make music opt or the shells and lifting them as a harp, from which to thrum tbo Jubilant praises of tho Lord and tho pathetic strains of human condolence? Tho Pearl of Great Price. But I find tho climax of this conchology of tho Bible in tbe pearl, which has this distinction above all other gems—that It requires no human hand to bring out its beauties. Job speaks of It, and its sheen is in Christ's sermon, and the Bible, which opens with the onyeba of my text, closes with the pearl. Os such value is this crustaceous product I do not wonder that for the exclusive right of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon a man paid to the English Government •000,000 for one season. „ . So exquisite is the pearl I do not wonder that Pliny thought it was made out of a drop of dew, the creature rising to tlw surface to take it and the chemistry of nature turning the liquid into a solid. You will see why the Bible makes so much of the pearl in its similitudes if < you know how much it costs to get it. Boats with divers sail out from the , island of Ceylon, ten divers to each boat. Thirteen men guide and manage the boat. Down into the dangerous depth** amid sharks that swirl around them. ' plunge the divers, while 00,000 people 1 anxiously gaze on. After three or four minutes’ absence from the air the diver ascends, nine-tenths strangulated and blood rushing from ears and nostrils, and flinging his pearly treasure on the sand falls into unconsciousness. Ob, it is an awful exposure and strain and peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do so, and is it not a wonder that to get 1 that which the Bible calls tbe pearl of 1 great price, worth more than ail other pearls put together, there should be so . little anxiety, so little struggle, so little . enthusiasm? Would God that we were , all as wise as tho merchantman Christ , commanded, “who, when he had found ! one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it” But what thrills mo with suggestive- 1 ness is tbe material out of which all < pearls are made. They are fashioned ; from the wound of tbe shellfish. The j exudation from that wound is fixed and , hardened and enlarged into a pearl. The { ruptured vessels of the water animal fashioned the germ that now adorns ; finger or carring or sword hilt or king’s crown. 1 So out of the wounds of earth will 1 come tbe pearls of Heaven. Out of tbe < wound of conviction the pearl of pardon. < Out of the wound of bereavement the i pearl of solace. Out of the wouudof loss j tho pearl of gain. Out of tho deep , wound of the grave the pearl of resur- t rection joy. Out of the wounds of a Saviour’s life and a Saviour's death the rich, the radiant, the everlasting pearl < of heavenly gladness. i “And the twelve gates were twelve j pearls.” Take the consolation, all vo who have been hurt, whether hurt in , body, or hurt in mind, or hurt tn soul. J Get your troubles sanctified. If you suffer with Christ on earth, you will reign 1 with Him in glory. Tho. tears of earth are the crystals of Heaven. “Every ; several gate was of one pearl.” Shaved by Sec Hons. A commercial drummer, with several heavy cases in hand, panted into Warth’s barber shop, Trenton, N. J. One side of his face had a several days’ growth of whiskers, while the other j side was perfectly smooth. He threw 1 ' himself into a chair. “Shake me,” he : said, brusquely. The astonished barber began to ad- 1 ; just a cloth about his neck, looking at ; the drummer’s face meanwhile with ! I eloquent curiosity. “Been in the barber chair once this I morning, haven’t you?” queried the ' ; barber. I “Twice," said the st ranger correcting ■ him; “once in Philadelphia and once in < ; Bristol. Got my fuco lathered in Bhil1 ndelphia and then saw I couldn’t make . Imy train unless I started. Got the ! barber to wipe off my face, and I ran < ' and got on just as the trnia was moving. ' At Bristol I thought I’d have time to ( ; do some business and get shaved and ' cutch the next train. Got through i with my business, ran into a barber I shop, got lathered again, and got half I my face shaved, when I heard tho train > coming. Jumped up and paid the j barber, and again had my face wiped off, and struck for the depot and got the train just as it was moving. People on the train looked at me and then turned away and whispered. They thought I was an escaped lunatic. I want a close shave,, please, and take your time to it. I’m going to make up for this helter-skelter business in tbe morning.”— Trenton Times. Not Afraid. A gentleman went into a gun store for the purpose of buying a gun. He saw a fine sample of tho stock on the i show-case and attempted to pick it up j for examination. The German storekeeper who saw the movement shouted: [ “Mine friend, dots bcosor you look pooty veil out. Dot gun vas Joaded, und vhen he goes off he kicks like der tuyfel.” The gentleman, thinking to have some fun with the German, replied, “A gun can’t kick, it has no legs." “Vat,* said the storekeeper. "He don’t can kick. Yoost yait. I dells you sometings, und I gif you a leedle inflamations. I vas in der pishness, und I know sometings. A gun don’d kick mit its legs. It kicks mit ifa breeches. *. —Carl Prettel’s Weekly.

THE SIIODY INDUSTRY. DUTIES BRING PROSPERITY TO BOGUS WOOL MEN. How Wool Tiirimi Foster the Makins ot Cloth from the Moat Filthy Haifa— Hawaii and the Hurar Bounty—FannaylvauU Tariff Hoforua. How Cheap Coats Are Made. Those who think that there is ( no connection between high duties'on wools and woolens and tbe rapidly growing use of shoddy and adulterated woolen goods should road the exceedingly interesting article on shoddy, in tho November supplement to the New York World, by Mr. W. B. Estell. Mr. Estell, under the auspices of the Reform Club, visited many leading shoddy factories and collected information on the most recent methods of making and using this bogus wool. He tells us that shoddy is made from every Imaginable quality of woolen rags, from tbe new tailors’ clippings to the most filthy scraps gathered from garbage barrel and gutter. After being assorted according to color and quality, they are put through the various processes employed in manufacturing shoddy. Shoddy ot the best quality is made from new all-wool rags. Tho rags are torn into shreds by means of a revolving cylinder, cal’ed “the devil,” covered with thousands ot short, sharp teeth. So close do these shreds resemble real wool that detection is almost impossible. The shoddy Is mixed with a little “live” wool, spun into yarn and made Into the “allwool" suits we hear so much about. Manufacturers thus foist upon tho American people clothing, which has been worn out before by four or five different people. The last appearance of shoddy as clothing is in the form ot satinets, the admixture ot cotton and shoddy out of which our $5 suits of clothing are made. Even then we are not rid of it, for it Is put through another process by which it is ground tine as dust, after which It is called “flocks” and used for Alling the cheap mattresses and pillows which the poorer people buy. Mr.. Estell also tells how the rags in which wool and cotton are mixed is subjected to various processes which have for their object the destruction of the cotton, thus leaving the wool, though in an impaired condition, yet fit to be torn into shoddy. The “union” goods, as such rags are called, are bathed In acids in some instances and exposed to gas in others. The acids and gas eat the cotton or other vegetable fibers, leaving “wool extracts. ” Shoddy and “wool extracts” are made into yarn and wove into cloth. But since duties have made foreign fine wools so high that none but the rich can afford a genuine all-wool suit made of soft wools, many devices lt.ive been introduced to supply the demands for low-priced imitation flue-wool suits. One way of making ’cheap coats” is to run the cloth—s <-rhap>-al ready half shoddy—through a liquor,"containing wool dust. The dust adheres to the surface and is pressed firmly into the cloth by being passed between large rolls. Another way of giving a soft, velvety texture and of ‘adding to weight of cloth, consists of “flattening” the yarn. This ia accomplished by blowing “flocks” and line shoddy against the threads while they are being twisted into yarn. Os course made of such stuff has its faults. These, however, are hidden from the unwary purchaser in various ways; the “flocked” or “fulled" sides of the cloth are pasted together and the cloth is then worked up into readymade clothing; with openings left in the lower corners of the coats to prevent accumulations of “flocks and shoddy. ” Mr. Estell shows how the growth of the shoddy industry has kept pace with the decline of the wool-raising industry, and by quotations from the manufacturers of shoddy themselves proved “shoddy” and not “free wool” is the enemy of the wool-rais-ers of America, .’inch men as Mr. Muhlhauser, of Cleveland, the largest manufacturer of shoddy in America, if not in the world, frankly said thAt the admission of foreign wool Into this country would mean the destruction ot the shoddy manufacturing business, and better prices to the American sheep growers for their wool. Upon this point tho following evidence is cited: The New York Press, the leader of high tariff newspapers, and then edited by Robert P. Porter, contained in its issue of Aug. 23, 1888, the following news item: SHUT BOWK BBCAUSK <>V TUB MILLS HILL. Tho inanufacturlnß firm ot J. G. Feuuihß & Co., at Ludlow, N. Y.. shut down their works yesterday, throwing outot employment some forty operatives of both sexes. They were engaged in exacting wool from delaines and oilier rag materials, to be used In tbe manufacture of shoddy cloth. They siy tlip passage of the Mills bill in tho lower hou-io of Congress, admitting wool free of duty, has dctirrod them from continuing their industry. The following is taken from a cir- : cular circulated in 1888 by the Republican Rational Committee, signed by seventeen rag and shoddy dealers: There is only one way to avoid this loss to ourselves, and that is by the defeat ot tho candidate ot the tree trade party, Grover Cleveland, Wo have determined In tbe coming election to support the candidates of the protection party, llarrlaou und Morton. Their election wo consider to be indispensable to tbe maintenance of ourbuslnoss; , While In the last campaign the following, from the Johnstown (N. Y.) Republican, of July 27, 1892, is a typical instance of the straightforward and frank avowal of the direct dependence of the shoddy industry on high protection: I-BOTECTION in ambtirdam. It does not require much penetration to discover that tbe McKinley tariff law has proved a blessing to Amsterdam. On every band there are numerous evidences ot the good effects tbe measure has had upon business of every kind In this now very busy manufacturing city. Four years ago there was not a shoddy or extracting mill in this city worthy the mime. To-day tho mill of Banta Bros, is one'bf the largest and bort equipped in the Ste lTl S the high price, because of tariff duties, which our American clothing manufacturers must pay for the foreign wool which is indispensable to the manufacturers of good cloths, that drives them to the use of shoddy Instead of native wool. An examination of the statistics relating to the price of wool, and the nrlce of shoddy as given by the Amer-

lean Wool and Cotton Reporter, shows tnat every upward stride oi the manufacturer of shoddy has bees • followed by a decline of tbo price ol American wools. While prices of bogus wools hav« ' been well maintained prices of real wools have gone down rapidly and unceasingly until the election of 1892, when tho lowest prices on record were reached. Since then real wools are In better demand und prices have re- ! covered several cents per pound. • With free wool our shoddy manufac- ' turers muy bo expected to take n back seat and leave room for manufacturers of all-wool cloths. In a few years our farmers and laborers will bo indulging In as comfortable clothing and blankets as arc now common iu nearly every other cold and civilized country. Pennwjrlmtnli Tariff Reform. The Philadelphia Record, a good tariff-reform paper (except upon the coai combine, the sugar trust, and tho textile, glass and Iron Industries of Pennsylvania), estimates that duties ot 1J cents per pound on sugar, 2j cents on coffee and 5 cents on tea would yield an annual revenue of $80,000,000, and that these duties would “constitute the basis of an Ideal tariff for revenue only." It admits that “political protectionists, of course, would furiously assail this policy, and dolefully lament over duties that rob the people of a ‘free breakfast table;’ " but says that “If they should really desire a free breakfast table iet them move for tho repeal of the high duties on earthenware, glassware, table cutlery, table linen, napkimr and all other taxed accessories of the' American citizen's morning meal.” It thinks that the “tariff beneficiaries, whoso interests deserve consideration, recognize that the only alternative lies between this ideal tariff for revenue and a ruthless cutting of protective duties." “These protectionists would prefer moderate revenue duties on sugar, coffee and tea to a sudden and sweeping removal of protective duties upon textile fabrics of every description, products of iron and steel, earthenware, glassware, etc., and their interests therefore will bring them, in spite of themselves, into acquiescence in the Democratic tariff policy.” The Record professes to believe that this policy will not make good Democrats of the beneficiaries ot protection, but will just please tho American people who “have never quarreled with taxes that go directly into the public treasury." And this Is the way the Record interprets tho results of the election: Tho people want to pay higher duties, do they, and treat the protected manufacturers with such kind consideration that all will become good Democrats? Jlieir main object, then, is to build up a Democratic party by protective tariffs to please the manufacturers better than McKinleyisml We beg leave to differ from such Pennsylvania steeped-n-protection conclusions. They may be partly right in theory, but they are practically and politically all wrong. Tbe people drew no fine-haired distinctions between revenue and protective tariffs. They voted for lower duties to get relief. They all use sugar, tea and coffee, and will sec and fed any tax that any party may hereafter put upon these articles. The name of the party that will do so will bo “Mud.” Wool I* Booming. Prospects for free wool are having an effect upon the market not anticipated by McKinley and his political wool-growing friends. Since 1890 the wool market has been flabby and prices have declined to an unprecedented extent Since Nov. 8, however, the market has shown more life, and about the middle of January prices began to rise. By the end of January* they had advanced 2 or 3 cents per pound on Ohio fleeces and many other grades. Here is the way the American Wool add Cotton Reporter of Kcb- 2 opens its wool trade page: “It Is doubtful if there has been any previous time" In a year when dealers in wool have felt better than at present. This is a market in which one may let a customer go ouUkind feel that another will soon come in; it is very strong, both statistically and in accordance with laws of supply and demand. “The strong features noted last week, ending Jan. 24, have been more marked during the week under review, some kinds of wool being higher than quoted at last writing; Australian, for example, has developed more strength, and Ohio fleeces are a cent better even than reported for the week ending Jan. 24'; XX is worth 31 cents; there are, at date, free inquiries all along the line for Ohio wools, wfifleh are not obtainable in considerable quantities; many houses accustomed to handle Ohio wool have not a fleece In store; those who have any possess small stocks, for which they are asking full prices; 30 cents has been repeatedly declined during the week, one of the largc&t mills in the East having offered to take all that might be furnished at that figure.’’ Hawaii uud the Sugar Bounty. Hawaii produces about 265,000,000 pounds of sugar annually. It has been suggested, with some apprehension, that 'it we extend a protectorate over the islands, or in any fashion attach them to our territorial possessions, we shall have to pay to the producers of this sugar the same bounty which we are now paying to 1 sugar-groWers here. At that rate the bounty on Hawaii’s sugar would amount to more than $5,000,000 annually. But there is no occasion for appre- '' hension on that score. Whatever we may do with respect to Hawaii, we are not going to annex a new sugarbounty charge upon the Treasury. Qn tbe 4th of March the Government of tbe United States will pass under control of a party which utterly repudiates the policy of taxing the people for money with which to pay men for engaging in unprofitable business. The Democratic party Is not going to extend the sugar bounty. It is going to abolish it—-New York World. Tn® only tin-plate mill In operation now is the McKinley plant, that grinds the tax out of the American consumer. '»■ ‘ t 7 i- l'l i • . < ->. I- <