Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1893 — Page 2

©he DECATUR, IND. M. BLACKBURN, - ■ - Puhmbiibh. Advertising is a salesman that ■works early and late. lie is talking to people long before your store is open and long after your store is closed. Tiik latest waltz is crfllod “Chi. <eago.” Conqictent judges say that instead of hugging set to music it is straight hugging, with an obligato That will suit the terpSichorban folks. The Cramps have now launched ■ the eighth war ship built by them for ■ the new American Navy. They are not cramped for facilities for turning out all the vessels that may be needed to float Uncle Sam’s Hag. Myra Clark Gaines lettan estate Worth $925,000 when she died in 1887. The lawyers have absorbed SBOO,OOO of it in fighting over her will and hope to get away with the remainder in the new trial which they have just commenced. It is among the coincidences worth noting that Gen. Doubleday, the last surviving officer of the Fort Sumpter garrison, and Gen. Beauregard, who commanded the confederate forces which captured the fort, died so nearly at the same time. ••Clearness and force are as necessary in advertising as in the highest literary work, because both economize the reader’s attention. The less mental energy a man is obliged to expend to grasp an idea, the more vividly will that idea strike him.” A Fresno juror appeared in the box while drunk. He was clearly guilty of contempt of court. But compared with the contempt appertaining to the inebriate, of which the court was clearly guilty shortly thereafter, the juror's effort was notably fee bio ‘Gradually but steadily women are invading man's field of employment, and sharing with him its labors and emoluments. But men need not 1 ecome jealous. The more paying worK women find to do the more men will be relieved of the burden of their support. ‘•Catalonian Jackasses and Donkeys iu Pentellaria,” are subjects of recent United States Consular reports. Why does the government permit these consuls to inflict their autobiographies upon the long suffering people of this country at the public expense? A San Francisco youth took a pocketbook con taking $47, and when apprehended soiJb distance away exttplained that thJepisode was merely a practical joke. At this point the Judge showed remarkable self-re-straint. In finding the merry jester guilty of larceny he said not a word about carrying a joke too far. A piece of Kansas City property ■was sold last week for $4,500 a front foot and the local newspapers exul—tantly announce that this is a higher price than any obtained during the boom. But somehow the report sug- - gests that the price—like the salary of the opera comique artist or the star pitcher—is for publication only. It knocks out all thought of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough (formerly Mrs. Hamersly) being a Jone and poor widow, when we read ■that she is negotiating for the purchase of that glorious old estate, Aldermaston Park, which contains some 2,500 acres of the most pictures ,ue an*d best-wooded land in England. ' A legend says that the devil gave a hermit the choice of three great vices, one of which was drunkenness. The hermit chose this as being the least sinful. He became drunk and then committed the other two. And it still remains a fact that a man is capable of any crime, however revolting under the influence of liouor. Whisky is the devil’s Samson and Goliah. One wlk. has had experience says —that ir good-street ,‘■fakir-' can earn $2 per day. That is, by making a show of himself, being regarded as a swindler and being unquestionably a o. . nuisance, he can earn about as much as the man who carries a hod. Still there will always be fakirs. A man -with superlative power and agility of jaw must either be one or take to pugi ism, and the latter calling is crowded uow. Tender surgeons make foul wounds. Os the malady a man fears, he dies. Diseases are a tax upon our pleasures. Hethat would be healthy must wear his Winter clothes in Summer. He that sits with his back to a “draught sits with his face to a coffin. A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart and a lady's hand, A physician is a man —who pours drugs, of which be knows little, into a body of which he knows less. Sportsmen have long wondered ■whether the writers who fill the supplement of the Sunday papers with the accounts of the wbnderful bags of big game that are made within a few hundred miles or less of this city are not overcharged with imagination, or nut well qualified to distingui»b a ground bog from a bear. The

latter supposition finds support in an ' article which, describing a deer recently killed near Middletown, N. Y., says: “It was a male doo. 1 ’ • The Grant Monument Committee announces that It has at last raised t enough momey to complete the work t and that the c< ntracts have been let. s ; This, It is to be understood, is not s the inllllon-dollar monument that , New York promised when the dead soldier was laid in Kiverside Park - eight years ago, but a modest three ior four hundred thousand dollar af- ’,' fair that the generous millionaires of the metropolis decided to be more in keeping with the simple tastes of Grant. This Is doing as well as could bo expected of New York. * an Omaha paper has been prlnt- ■ ing interviews in relation to the ein--1 ployment of convicts. One citizen i advocates making lawyers of them,so j that when they shall be set free j will not compete with men who work. | This is, by implication, a little rough i on attorneys, but it is othe.wise impracticable. How long would a burglar stay In jail after having conquered the intricacies of law? Not a minute. He would throw away his flic, quit digging surreptitiously at the j bricks and find a technicality big I enough to knock out the whole sido of the penitentiary. ToParis by rail! It sounds strange, but they say it will be feasible by and by. Engineer Hutchinson has already made the surveys which show that a road via Alaska and across a bridge over Bering Strait, to connect with a Russian railroad, is feasible. Henry Clews gave the clews to the enterprise in one of his bright speeches at a dinner to some capitalists in New Yotk two years ago; and we shall probably be able to go round to the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 byway of St. Petersburg. But wont there be some grand chances for train robbers of lofty intellect along these lonely lines? Western artists who have been rejected from thedoors of the World’s Fair can find abundant comfort in the history of art insider countries. Rejection froßEthe establishedexhibitions cf France and England has often been the first sure sign of ultimate celebrity and sometimes of fortune. Instead jof wasting moments of depression in vain repinings, let the rejected read the liv«s of the preraphaelites, the annals of the Barbizon school and the first struggle of the impressionists. The stones which I the buildings rejected have often become foundations of new and splendid temples. A Norwegian gentleman, has just pocketed 2,000 crowns by the i simple expedient of passing under his own name, which happens to be Henrik Ibsen. Me telegraphed to the owners of a public hall in Christiana to secure it for a lecture which he proposed to give on “The Submission of Woman.” That hallowner promptly announced the lecture, and on the appointed day every seat was full. The manager, arrayed in his best, awaited the sturdy, bearded, be-spectacled dramatist, and was just beginning to grow impatient, when “Mr. Henrik Ibsen” was announced—and a thin, rosy, fairhaired gentleman appeared. He was Henrik Ibsen; there was no mistake about it. He had even—being a farseeing person—brought his certificate of birth to prove that be was surnamed Ibsen and Christian-named Henrik, and he duly mounted the ■ platform and gave his lecture. The damage to the hall furniture was estimated at three times the receipts. Japanese House Mats. Japanese house mats, says Miss Bird in her work on Japan, are as neat, refined, and soft a covering for the floor as the finest Axminster carpet. They are five feet nine inches long, three feet broad, and two ! and a half inches thick. The frame is solidly made >f coarse straw, and with very fine woven matting, as nearly white as possible, and each mat is usually bound with dark blue i cloth. Temples and rooms are meas- ; ur. d by the nflmber of mats they contain. find rooms must be built for the , niat-, as they are neve cut to the rooms. They are always level with the polished grooves or ledges which ■ surround the floor. They are soft and fiuec, quaiities are ■ very beautiful. They are as expensive as the best Brussels carpet, and the Japanese take great pride in them, and are mu-h aggrieved by the way in which some thoughtless foreigners stamp over them with dirty boots. The Change In Woman. Charles Dudley Warnecspeaking of , the change in woman says: “When , she comes into a crowded railway sta- ; tion she comes with a straightfor- ’ ward, resolute, unassuming air, like a man. She knows exactly what she wants: she .is hot flurried; she does not need to go about nervously asking I questions of stupid men. She has . her watch and time table, and quietly : Uxbs her place and her rights. Only one thing she - has no| learned, and \ that is not to break into the head of ’ a line waiting at the ticket office or the-pf>storbce window. In time she will fail wlfnilyJnto the ordered line , of life by learning to respect the rights of ot'.er-, although they may ibe men.” Oh. no, she won’t do anyI thing of the sort. She will continue to do exactly,the same as she has al- j ways done, and she . will continue to j i gftt off ba kward from a moving car. i —Omaha World-Herald. ’ i I . —-r . —‘. j . » The Meepy Totrn. Passenger—Will you wake me up 'i in Philadelphia, porter? Porter— I not allowed to wake any body there, ilsit-e-New York Herald.— ‘ ' i tt A

; DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. AN IMPORTANT SERMON DEDUCED FROM VISIONS. Drenua Recorded In the Bible-Why the Dreams of To-Day Arc, um a Rule, of No Slffnlttcunee —But God Can and Occasionally Does Speak in Dreamt* i — What I» In a Dream? A remarkable sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage last Sunday, the .übject being a psychological and religious studv of the phonoinenaof the mind during sleep and the significance of dreams ■ as evidence of immortality. The text chosen was Genesis xxvlli, 11, “He took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down la that place to sleep, and ho dreamed," Asleep on a pillowcase tilled with hens’ feathers It is not strange one should have plea-ant dreams. lit,it here Is a pillow of rock and Jacob with his head oa it, and. Io! a dream of angels, two processions, those coming down the stairs met by those going up the stairs. It is the first dream of Bii>lo record. You mav say of a dream that it is the absurd k combination of waking thoughts, and with a slur of intonation you may say, “It is only a dream,” but God has honored the dream by making it the avo-' t>ue through which again and again he has marched upon the human soul, decided the fate of nations and changed the course of the world’s history. God appeared in aaream to Abiinelech, warning him against an unlawful marriage; in a dream to Joseph, foretelling his coining power under the figure of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing down the sheaf: to the chief butler, foretelling his dlsimprisonuient; to the chief i aker, announcing his decapitation; to Pharaoh, showing him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine strucK years, under the figure of the seven fat cows devouring the seven lean cows; to Solomon, giving him the choice between wisdom and riches and honor; to the warrior, under the figure of a barley cake smiting down a tent, encouraging Gideon in his battle-against the Amalokites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under the figure of a broken image and a hewn down tree, foretelling bis overthrow of power; to Joseph of the New Testament, announcing the birth of Christ in his own household; to Mary, bidding her to fly from Herodic persecutions; to Pilate's wife, warning him not to become complicated with the judicial overthrow of Christ. Au Abundant Revelation. We all admit that God in ancient times and under Bible dispensation addressed the people through dreams. The question now is. Does God appear in our day and reveal Himself through dreams? That is the question everybody asks, and that question this morning I shall try to answer. You ask me if I believe in dreams. My answer is, Ido believe in dreams, but al| I have to say will be under five heads. Remark the First—The Scriptures are so tull of revelation from God that if wo get no communication from Him in dreams we ought nevertheless to be satisfied. vVith twenty guidebooks to tell you how to get to Boston or Pittsburgh or London or Glasgow or Manchester, do you wani a night vision to tell you how to make the journey’ We have in this Scripture full direction in regard to the journey of this life and how to get Jo the celestial city, and with this grand guidebook, this magnificent directory, we ought to be satisfied; I have more faith in a decision to which I come when I am wide awake than when I am sound asleep. I have noticed that those who give a great deal of their time to studying dreams get their braitfs addled. They are very anxious to remember what they dreamed about the first night they slept in a new house. If in their dream they take the hand of a corpse, they are going to die. If they dream of a garden, it means a sepulcher. If something turns out according to a night vision, they say: “Well, I am not surprised. I dreamed It” ’lf it turns out different from the night vision, they say, “Well dreams go by contraries.” In their efforts to put their dreams into rhythm they put their waking thoughts into discord. Now, the Bible is so full of revelation that we ought to be satisfied if we get no further revelation. If there should come about a crisis' in your life upon which the Bible does not seem to be sufficiently specific, go to God in prayer, and you will get especial direction. I have more faith 99 times out of 100 In directions given you with the Bible in your lap and your thoughts uplifted in prayer to God than in all the information you will get unconscious On your pillow. 1 can very easily understand why the Babylonians and tfie Egyptians, with no Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese, in their holy book, Chow King, should think their emperor gets his directions through dreams from God, and that Homer should think that all dreams came from Jove, and that in ancient times dreams were classified into a science. But why do you and I put so much stress upon dreams when we have a supernal book of infinite wisdom on all subjects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams?' Why should Eddystone and Barnegat lighthouses question a summer firefly? The Meaning ot Dreams. Remark the Second—All dreams have Bn important meaning. They prove that tbe soul is comparatively independent of the body. The eyes are closed, the senses are dull, the entire body goes into a lethargy which in ill languages is used as a type of death, and then the soul spreads its wings and never sleeps. It leaps the Atlantic oceatvand mingles in scenes 3,000 miles awav. It travels-great reaches of time, j flashes back 80 years, and the octogenarian is a boy again in his father’s house. If tbe soul, before it has entirely broken j Its chain of flesh, can do all this, how : f ar can it leap, and what circles can it! cut. when it is fully liberated? Every drcam, whether agreeable or harassing, whether sunshiny or tempestuous, means so much that rising from your couch you ought to kneel down and say: “OGod! am I Immortal? Whence? Wither? Two natures. My soul caged now—what when tbe door of the cage Is opened? If my soul can fly so far in the few hours in which my both’ is asleep in the night, how far can it fly when my body sleeps the long sleep of the grave? Oh, this power to dream, how startling, bow overwhelming! If I prepared for the after death flight, what I an enchantment! If not prepared for the after death flight, what a crushing I agony! Immortal! Immortal! pj Remark the Third—The vast majority ■ of dreams are merely the result of dis-; turbed physical condition and are not a ; supernatural message. Job bad carbuncles, and he was scared in the night. He says. “Thou scarest! me with dreams and terriliest me with ; visions.” Solomon bad an overwrought brain, overwrought with public business, i and he suffered from erratic slumber, and he writes in Ecclesiastes, “A dream cometh through the multitude of business.” Dr. Gregory in experimenting with dreams found that-a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in slumbdr made him think that he was going Up the hot sides of Mount Etna. v Another morbid physician,experimenting with dreams, his feet uncovered through sleep, thought he was riding In

- .... an Alpine diligence. But a great many • dreams are merely narcotic disturbance. Anything that you sen whiles under the influence of chloral or brandy or “hasheesh" or laudanum is not a revelation from God. The learned Do Qulncey did not ascribe to divine communication e what ho saw In sleep, opium saturated; o dreams which be aftprward described in the following words: “I was worshiped: 1 was sacrificed; I flea from the wrath of Brahma through all the forests of Asia. Vishnu "hated me. Siva laid In wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and f Osiris. 1 had done adood.they said, that made the crocodiles tremble. I was s burled for a thousand years in stone costins, with mummies and sphinxes in nars I row chambers at the heart of eternal 1 1 pyramids. I was kissed with a cancerous . | kiss of crockodiles and lay confounded j i witn unutterable slimy things among b wroathy and Nijotic mud.” Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for divluo ruv- • clatiop. , A Dream Often a Penalty. t But I have to toll you that the majority of the dreams are merely the pen- ■ alty of outraged' digestive organs, and vou have no right to mistake the nlghts for heavenly revelation. Late supr 1 pers are warranty deed for bad dreams. I Highly spiced salads at 11 o'clock at I night instead of opening the door heavenward open the door inferhal and ■ diabolical. You outrage natural law, -' 'audtyou Insult the God who imide those i laws. It takes from three to five hours • to digest food, and you have no right to I keep vour digestive organs in struggle when the rest of your body is in somnolence. The general rule Is. oat nothing ■ after 6 o'clock at night, retire at 10, : Sleep on your right side, keep the window I open five inches for ventilation, and i other worlds will no« disturb vou much. By physical maltreatment vou take the ladder that Jacob saw in Jiis dream, and you lower it to the nether world allow- ; ing the ascent of tbe demoniacal. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An - unregulated desire for something to eat ruined the race in paradise, and an unregulated desire for something to eat keeps it ruined. The world during 6,000 years has tried in vain to digest that first apple. The world will not be i evangelized until we get rid of a dyspep- , tic Christianity. Healthy perple do not want this cadaverous and sleepy thing i that some people call religion. They want a religion that lives regularly by day and sleeps soundly by night. If through trouble or coming on of old ago or exhaustion of Chistian service you cannot sleep well, then you may expect romGod “songs In the night,” but there are no blessed communications to those who willingly surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon’s army at Leipsic, Dresden.and Borodino camo near being destroyed ■ through the disturbed gastric juicesof! its commander. That is tho way you have lost some of your battles. Another remark I make is that our ■ dreams are apt to bo merely the echo of our day thoughts. I will give vou a rocipe for pleasant dreams: FttFyour days with elevated thought and unselfish action, and your dreams will be set to music. If all day you are gouging and grasping and avaricious, iu vour dreams you will see gold that vou cannot clutch, and bargains in which you were outsliyloeked. If dur- j ing the day you are irascible and pngna-; clous and gunpowderly ot disposition, ; you will at night have battles with enc- | mies, in which they will get the best of ; you. If you are ailday long in a hurry, ) at night you will dream of rail trains that you want to catch while you caw? j not move one inch toward the depot. Recipe for Ibid Drcams. If you are always oversuspicious apd expectant of assault, you will have at night hallucinations of assassins with daggers drawn. No one wonders that Richard 111, the iniquitous, the night, before the battle of Bosworth Field. I dfeauied that all those wbqm he had ‘ murdered stared at him, and that ho was torn to pieces by demons from the ' pit. The scbolar's dream is a philosophic ' . echo. The poet’s dream is a rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his “Kubla Khan” asleep in a narcotic dream, and ; waking up wrote down 300 lines of it ; Tartini, the violin player, composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep in a dream so vivid that waking he easily j transferred it to paper. Wakjijg thoughts have their echo In sleeping thoughts. If a man spends his life in trying to make others happy, and is heavenly minded around his pillow he wilffsec cripples who have got over their crutch, and processions of celestial imperials, and hear the grand march roll down from drums ot Heaven over jasper parapets. You are very apt to hear in dreams what you hear when you are wide awake. ■ Now. having shown you that having a Bible we ought to be satisfied not get- ; ting any further communication from ' God, and having shown you that all j dreams have an important mission, since ! they show the comparative independence of the soul from the body, and having shown you that the majority of dreams are a result of distun ed physical con- i ditions, and having shown you that our , sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo j of our waking thoughts, I come now to j mv fifth and most important remark.and ■ that is to say that it is capable of proof | that God does sometimes in our day and | : has often since the close of the Bible dis- i pensation appeared to people in dreams. ■ All dreams that make you better are I from God. How do I know it? Is not | God the source of all good? It does not [ take a very logical mind to argue that ■ out. Tertullian and Martin Luther be- j lieved in dreams. The dreams of John ' Huss are immortal. St. Augustine, the : ■ Christian father, give us the fact that a j Carthaginian physician was persuaded lof the immortality of. the soul by an ! argument which he heard in a dream. ■ The night before his assassination the wife of Julius Ctcsar dreamed that her I husband felLdead aerdss. her lap. It is ‘ possible to prove that God does appear In dreams to warn, to convert and to I save men. I My friend, a retired sea captain and a , Christian, tells me that one night while ; on tho sea he dreamed that a ship’s crew were in great suffering. Waking up from his dream, he put about the ship, tacked in different directions, surprised everybody on the vessel —they thought he was going crazy—sailed on in another direction hour after hour and for many - hours until be camo to the perishing crew and rescued 'them and brought them to New York. Who conducted that dream? The God ot tho sea. Rescued by Means of Dreams. In 1695 a vessel went out from SpitI head for the West Indies and ran against the ledge of rocks called the Caskets. The vessel went down, but the crew | clambered up on the Caskets to die“ of ; thirst or starvation, as they supposed. ■‘But there was a ship bound for South- ! ampton that had the captain's son on ; board. Tills lad twice in one night | i dreamed tliat there was a Crew <?f sailors ; dying on the Caskets. He told Ins father iof his dream. Tho vessel came down by ! the Caskets in time to fiud and to rescue those poor dying Jinen. Who conducted that dream? The God of the rocks, tho God of the sea. God has often appeared in dreams to rescue and comfort. You have Known people—perhaps It is something I state I in your own experience—you have seen people ao to sleep with bCfeavemer.ts In- 1 consolablo, and they awakened in perfect resignation because of what they bad seen In slum er. Dr. Crannage, one of the most remarkable men 1 ever mot —remarkable for benevolence and great

iTitiWiMUlii lilSlWMMMyilnßlHi nil I)l Il !»!■ I «>•*<* I "■«.|.'«| •■■ r philanthropies—at Wallington, England, . allowed me a house whoru the Lord hud 3 appeared in a wonderful dreutn to a poor r woman. Tho woman was rheumatic, - sick, poor to tho last point us destltu- / tion. She was waited on and cared for i by another poor woman, her only at- ; tendant. i Word came to her one day, that this ; poor woman bad died, and the invalid of t whom lam spanking lay helpless upon . tho couch wondering what would become r other. In that mood she fell asleep. In I her dreams she said the angel of tho I Lord appealed and took her Into tho i open air and pointed In oi>odlrectlon,and ■ there wore mountain* of bread, and ■ pointed in another direction, and there I wore mountains of butler.and in another i direction, and there were mountains of I all kinds of worldly supply. Tho angel ; of the Lord said to Lor, “Woman, all these mountains belong to your Father, • and do you think that Ho will let you, his child, hunger and die?” Dr. Crannage told mu thot by some divine impulse ho went Into that destitute home, saw the? suffering tnoro and administered unto it, caring for her all the wav through. Do you tell mo that that dream was woven out of earthly anodynes? Was that the phantasmagoria of a diseased brain? No, It was an ' all sympathetic God addressing a poor woman through a dream. The Drcam ot John Newton. Furthermore, I have to say that there are people In this house who were converted to God through a dream. The Rev. John Newton, tho fame of whoso piety fills all Christendom while a profligate sailor on shipboard, in his dream thought that a being approached him and gave him a very beautiful ring put it upon his finger and said to him, “As long as vou wear that ring you will bo prospered; if you lose that ring, you will be ruined.” [ In tho same drcam another personage appeared, and by a strange Infatuation persuaded John Newton to throw that ring overboard, and it sank into the sea. Then the mountains in sight were full of fire, and the air was lurid with consuming wrath. While John Newton was repenting of his folly in having thrown overboard the treasure another personage came through the dream and told John Newton he would plunge into the sea and bring the ring up if he desired It. He plunged into the sea and brought it up and said to John Newton. “Here is that gem, but I think I will keen it for you, lest you lose it again,” and John Newton consented, and ail the tire went out from the mountains, and ail the signs of lurid wrath disappeared from the air, and John Newton said that he saw in his dream that the valuable gem was his soul, and that the being wiio i persuaded him to throw it overboard was ! satin, and that tho one who plunged j in and restored that gem, keeping it for ! hitn, was Christ, and shat dream makes I one of the most wonfibrful chapters in the life of that most wonderful man. A German was crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and in his dream be saw a man with a handful of white flowers, and he was told to follow the man who had that handful of white flowers. The German, arriving in New York, wandered into the Fulton streeet prayer meeting, and Mr. Lampnicr — whom many of you i know—tbo great apostfle of prayer meetings, that day had given to him a I bunch of tuberoses. They stood on his ! desk, and at tbe close of tho religious ■ services he took the tuberoses and ' started homeward and tho German followed him, and through an interpreter 1 told Mr. Lamphier that on the sea he | had dreamed of a man with a bandful of i white flowers and was told to follow him? Suffice it to say. through that interview and following interviews he became a Christian and is a city missionary preaching the gospel to his own countrjluen. • Uod in dreamt I John Hardock while on shipboard ' dreamed oqe night that the day of judgment had come, and that the roll of the ' ship’s crew was called except his own ' name, and that these people, this crew, ; were all banished) and in his dream he ' asked the reader why his own name was ‘ omitted, and he was told it was to give ■ him more opportunity for repentance. He woke up a different man. He tecaine . illustrious for Christian attainment If ; you do not believe these things, then you must discard all testimony and refuse to accept any kind of authorativo witness. God in a dream! Converted Through a Dream. Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to God.through a dream of the last judgment, and I doubt if there is a man or I woman iu this bouse to-day that has not hal some dream of that great day of judgment which shall' be the winding up of the world’s history. If vou have not dieamed of it, perhaps to-night you ! may dream of that day. There are enough materials to make a j dream. Enough voices, for there shall ■ be the roaring of the elements and the 1 great earthquake. Enough light for tlie dream, for tbe world shall blaze. Enough excitement, for the mountains shall fail, i Enough water, for the ocean shall roar. Enough astronomical phenomena, for tho ' stars shall go out. -Enough populations, for all the races of all tho.aaes will fall ' into line of one of two processions—the one ascending, the descending; the one led by tho rider on tho white horse iof eternal victory, tho other led on by I Apollyon on the black charger of eternal ! defeat. i The dream edmes on mo now, and I ■ see the lightnings from above answering • the volcanic disturbances from beneath, ■ and I hear the long, reverberating thun--1 ders that shall wake up the dead, and ‘ on one sido 1 see the opening of a gaie into scenek golden and amethystine, and on tho othey side I hear the clanging back of a gate into bastlies of eternal bondage, and all tho seas, lifting up their crystal voices, cry, “Come to judgment!” and all the voices of the Heaven cry. “Como to judgment!’' and crumbling mausoleum and Westminster abbeys and pyramids of the dead with marble voices cry, “Come to judgment!” And the archangel seizes an Instrument of music which lias never yet been sounded, an Instrument of music that was made only for one sound, and thrusting that mighty trumpet through the clouds and' turning It this wav he shall put into his lip and blow the long, loud blast that shall make the «<>lid earth quiver, crying. "Come to judgment!” Then from this earthlv gro-fmoRB quit, Attired la atari we shall forever sit. Educated Indians. The crucial test of the Indian work is, of course, the return of the student* to their Indian homes. Tbe change from school life in the East to agency or camp life is, of course, immense, and if they give way under the strain and return to their blankets it should not mean, in any fairness, that the In- ; dian is incapable of civilization. But fair or hot, the question remains, “Does the’work pay?” Twenty-five students have been , returned to their agencies after three yews at Hampton Constant communication has l»een kept up with them through letters, agents or mission a ies. Os these, at latest dates about May I—fourteen are reported to have done on the whole very well, uniformly ; some of them “finelythr* e j more, “fairly well." Three, after some falling bock, are now iinproving. Three have died, one of them by an accident. One has gone back t > his blanket and Indian life,—New York Herald.

■ y> Vv '•' l ■ w v, # - ’i-jrv a* . , SUGAR TRUST PROFITS, r ————— > THEY WARRANT AN INCREASE OF DIVIDENDS. r ■ The Earnings on the Aotnal Capital of I the American Hngar Retlnery Company f Amount to About <» Per Cent.—Unholy I‘rotectlou. Front- Ara Enormous. ‘ Willett & Gray’s Sugar Trade Jourt nal says: I “At a meeting of tho board of diI rectors of the American Sugar Re- ’ fining Company, held March 7, tho ' following were unanimously adopted: “Whereas, Tho earnings of tho i company during tho past quarter warrant an Increnso of dividend on the (Oiumun stock; and “Whereas, Since tho annual roi port of the ticasurer to stocklrolders on Dec. 1, 1892, received from tho [ corporations who-e stock is held by this company (for tho your ending ' March 1, 1893). render unnecessary . for working capital the fuitner rei tention of tho surplus earnings ot • 1891 and 1892, as shown by the annual report: “Resolved, That there be paid a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent on 1 the common stock, and in addition i there be paid an extra dividend of i 10’ per cent, on the common stock from the surplus earnings ot 1891 and 1892, and that a dividend of 13} per cent, be paid on that portion of 1 the preferred stock of the company 1 which is entitled to quarterly dividends. all the above dividends being payable on April 2 to stockholders of record March 13, when the tranfer books will be closed, to reopen on April 2.” In addition to the above resolution, the statement is authorized that the company, on March 1, after providing tor all these dividends, has a surplus of net earnings of $5,000,000 in the treasury. Notwithstanding that more than one-half of the $75,000,00J stock (one-half common and one-half preferred) is water, yet the holders of common stock certificates will receive on April 2 a dividend of 13 per cent with the promise of 9 per cent, more before the close of the year, besides a I shine in the surplus earnings (already I $5,000,000) th it tan, anil may, in- ! crease the dividends 15 or 20 per cent. more. Deducting that part ot the profits made in 1891, it is evident that this giant trust cleared, in 1892, afur investing tens of millions ot dollars in refineries and properties, at three times their actual value, .about equal to j about 33 per cent, on the common . and 7 per cent, on the preferred i stock, or 20 per cent on the whole stock. Taking out the water, the earnings cn the actual capital appear II •be about 40 per cent But common I slock which gets the greater part of , the prullts is earning about 66 per cent, on the actual capital back of it The holders of original trust certificates can step into the office at the end of each year and draw Out two-thirds as much as they put in, without diminishing the original investment Isn’t it splendid? and all because McKinley gave the trust free raw sugar and a duty of A cent per pound on refined sugar. As the trust refiner over 3.000,00u,000 pounds per year and collects the full half cent on every pound from the American people, this duty is worth •over $15,000,000 a year to it This was an entire gratuity from McKinley. B g refiners have stated under, oath that sugar can be refined as ch -aply here as anywhere. The cost of refining is about A cent per pound. During 1892 granulated sugar sold for alxjut U cents flaore per pound than raw (96 per cent centrifugal). If this is not legalized robbery, by what term shall it be known? It is n i wonder that .McKinley finds hosts of friends in and out of the Home i Market Club who are ready to con--1 tribute a few thousand dollars to help him out of his present financial difficulty. They could afford to buy Central Park, build a magnificent palace in it, and donate It all to their I tariff benefactor. If McKinley had made a targainwith the manufacturers (like the Hawaiian sugar barons have done in regard to sugar bount es with the Hawaiian planters) that he should receive one-half of all of the protection monopoly profits made under his bill, he would n»w be the wealthiest man in the world and would be the first, billionaire. It was a shame that he neglected the people and made his bill in the interests of trusts; it will be scandalous if he now accepts financial assistance ■ from any manufacturer or representative of a monopoly benefited by bis tariff bill. The Fox and the Gee»e. The Philadelphia Record contains a suggestive cartoon. Two geese labeled “Silver Purchase Democrat” and “Enormous Appropriation Dcmociat” are carelessly approaching a fox, lying on its back as if dead. The 4ox is labeled (“High Protection.” The cartoon is .ent tied “The geese that think the fox is d ad,” and is intended as an object lesson for Democrats. The idea is a good one and expresses a truth which may be more conspicuous to the Democrats after thei have made, or tried to make, a tariff bill on the lines of the Chicago p atform. But it comes with poor grace from a newspaper that advocated new duties on sugar, tea, and coffee, and the leaving of tariff duties an fabrics of every description, products' of Iron and steel, earthenware, glassware, etc.” (all of which articles by the way, are manufactured in Philadelphia), because “tariff beneficiaries whose interests deserve consideration” are not in favor of a “ruthless cutting of protective dutb s." No, the high protection fox is not dead, and he lives at the same old quarters and does 1 - business in the same way. Iron Ore Tra«.€. The reported completion ot arrangements for a combination of the producers of iron ore In the lake region will n »t be overlooked by the revisers of the tariff in the Fiftythird Congress. The recent discovery of large bodies of tine ore that can be taken out at a small cost have led manufacturers to expect some reduction of price. T.ie combination agreement is designed to prevent any such effect of this addition to the,

i ■ ... ■ ;.>,■■■■ .. . mining area. Tho revised tariff ’ should contain no paragraph Imposing a duty on iron ore.—Now York 1 Times. Twilit Roturu) Method*. The following Is the second of a r series of open letters now being ad’r dressed to President Cleveland by Thomas G. Shearman. The first letter simply asked permission to address a number of letters to Mr. Cleveland, with the Idea that they b« made public. Mr. Cleveland, lb giving consent, stated that he re- ■ gartled Mr. Shearman as well versed i in the tariff question and capab eot giving valuable suggestions. At Mr. i Cleveland’s suggestion the letters are given to the public at the same time they are given to him through the columns of the New York Tlmea. Dead Sih: In purxuiknoo ot the plan approved by you In our recent correspoudenoe, I bee to submit to you acme pr< llinluary consideration* «yith regard to tbe ecneral work of t iriff reform. r< aervlua questions of methods and del alls for subsequent letters. Tbe first necessity ot the gr at work of reform, to which tho American iwople have called you by such an impressive majority, is that it should bo thorough, it may bo consider d that the necessities ot Government tevonue created by the reckless extravHganoe, it not actual corruption. of tbe last proteotioniat Congress,have made it impracticable nt tlie present time to construct a now tori IT upon a perfectly sound basis. It may be admitted, indeed, that an ideal revenue tarlft has been made impracticable for the next four years. At all events, it is certain that tlie nearest approach to the ■ standard ot a tariff tor revenue only which can bo made at the next session of Congress must be a tariff which seoun s the argest public revenue with the smallest private gain. Unlees,taxcs are restored on sugar, tea and coffee, it seems evident that no adequate rev- ■ enuo con be raised without Imposing a large number of duties which would have some (lenient ot so-called “protection” In them, and therefore increase the profit of some individuals at the expense of the community at large. But whatever tariff taxes have been repealed ought to remain repealed. The framers of the McKinley tariff. Iu their greediness tor prohibitory duties for purposes of private gain, caused this nation to take a long stride toward the broadest free trade, and, believing this to bo tho ultimate result at which wo should alm, I am not disposed to advise any step backward, simply for the sake ot banishing all elements of protection from the tariff. * * * All that is therefore practicable jnst now, from any point ot view, is the abolition or taxes upon crude materials for manufacture and the reduction ot other protective taxes to that point which will put the largest propartion of such taxes into the public purse and the smallest proportion into private purses. The only danger to the cause of tariff reform Iles lu the possibility that a timid and unwise conservatism may prevent tbe fulfillment of those pledges upon which the people have justly relied and that some weak compromise may be adopted which will do little or no good, will disappoint the rightful expectations ot the majority, and will lead tlie people to seek rebel from oppression In disastrous experiments. The danger of the present political situation lies in the depressed and discouraged con lltlon of the farmers and planters of the West »nd South. For some years past they have not had good prices for their crops, except when, by reason of some disaster, those crops were small. Both wheat and cotton have been selling until recently at the lowest prices ever known to the present generation, and multitudes of small farmers and planters are now In a condition of poverty of which theproaperous people of the East have absolutely no conception. Nothing is more natural or more inevitable than that, under the circumstances, millions ot honest and taithful toilers, driven ahnost to despair, should catch at any political straw which promises relief. It the party to wh ch the American people have now committed the charge ot their Government docs not devise some measure which will bring sikeedy relief to the farmers and planters, the people wl.l certainly call Into power some other party which will promise such relief. But it is entirely in the power of Congress to lift this heavy burden from the agrlcu tural classes, and to restore prosperity to them and to the whole country. There is but one way in which It can be done, and that is by a prompt and large reduction or duties upon toreiun imports—so large as to strike down the Chinese wall which is now erected kvainst importations irom Europe, our best customer, and so prompt as to give admission to those goods, in large and generous measure, l<fcg before tlie Congressional elections of 1&H come around. For the only way In which the prices of farmers’product s can be increased without lessening their production, and therefore tbe only way in which the agcrecate income of American farmers and planters can be lucre sed, Is by opening our doors to an Immense increase of importations, every dollar's worth ot which w,ll be paid for immediately by the export of American farm products. • Let us row, white retaining all the freetrade features of the McKinley tariff, add to them free trade in raw materials and a large reduction in the duties upon manufactured goods, and we shall bring about an increase ot necessary Importations, which will pay for an immense increase in cur exports ot wheat, corn, cotton and provisions. This Will enable the planters of the South to raise a larger crop than ever, and yet to secure for It the same price per pcund which they are now getting for their small crop. It will raise the price of wheat 15 or 20 cet.ts a bushel and raise the prices of all other farm products. On the other hand. It will reduce the cost of manufactured goods, and thus give to the farmers and planters the advantage of higher prices for everything, which they sell and lower the prices for everything which they buv. It will solve the problem in w hich they are interested, and will not merely hold the vote gained In the last election, but bring tn thousands of voters who have thus far held aloof from us. Nor will such policy be attended with th,e least danger to the great manufacturing Interests. Very likely a few concerns, which are now making an annual profit of -20 or so per cent, upon their capital, may have to be content with lu per cent., but this is no cause tor lamentation. Tbe groat mess of manufacturers will be greatly b. ncflied by thorough tariff reform and reduction. Considered from a merely political point of view, the expediency of such a course is obvious. The only persons who could even pretend to suffer any injury from It are to lie found In a limited part ot New Eng and, a little district of New York, and the State of Pennsylvania. Almost without exception these per ons did everything witbin their power to difeak you, and the cause which yon represent at the re* cent election. No consideration which could be shown to them would have the slightest effect in gaining their votes or influence. They have carried oil New England, except Connecticut against any tariff reform wfiatever; they hold Pennsylvania firmly, but everywhere else they are power ess for any purpose. You have everything to gain in the West and South by a courageous and thorough reform ot the tariff. You have everything to lose there if you fail to accomplish such a reform, and It Is * mere wkstc of time to attempt to conciliate the protectionist fanatics of tho Northeast. Yours very respectfu ly. Thomas G. Sheabmas.. Unholy “Protection.” It would be hard to fianie a severer indictment of the protective system than Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts has just drawn in a tribute to his long-time colleague, Henry L. Dawes, who retires from Congress after eighteen years of service in the House and another eighteen In the Senate. Says Mr. Hoar: “Probably no Massachusetts interest has failed of obtaining such legislation as those concerned have f desired. He (Mr. Dawes) has contented himself with securing for the interests that he represented all that they desired. In every. Massachusetts factory there has b'een at least one man who has been accustomed to depend upon Mr. Dawes to see that his interests were cared for in national legislation, and on whose steadfast support Mr. Dawes, in his turn, could always depend when it was needed. ” Mr. Hoar depicts Mr. Dawes as representing, during his long service In the Capitol, net the masses of the people in Massachusetts, but the owners of the factories; and as vlrtu- ■ ally making bargains with them by which he got? them such rates of profit as they wanted through tariff legislation, while they saw that men were sent to the nominating conventions and to the Legislature who would continue him In office when his term expired. We have never seen so open an exposure of the system. —New York Evening Post. Freedom to trade is as much a natural right as freedom to produce, for as the value of tlie thing made depends upon what the producer can g< t for, It, any hindrance to Its free exchange reduces Its value, thus depriving the producer of part of tne result of his labor. —St. Louis Courier. f' ,'!.T '