Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1893 — Page 2

■ ..I!.-.! — ®he DECATUR, IND. BLACKBURN, - ■ • rimumK Tub New York divorce courts put asunder about five couples per day. New York doesn't care to l» beaten by Chicago in any branch of industry. In the great debate tietween Hrinceton and Yale, the decision was that the Princeton bang exceeded in its aspect of uon-intellectuality anything that had recently appeared in public. The female baseball club has returned from Cuba and Die members •ay that the Cubans insulted them. The Cubans did worse than this. They permitted the females to come back to the United Slates Some objection is made to the circumstances that Mrs. Cleveland is to have a private secretary. There would be no such objection but for the fact that many people, even in this en- . lightened country, have never learned to mind their own business. A MAty-in Seattle went to sleep with $6,000 under his pillow and when he awoke the-re was not a cent there. There is a moral to this, but I few there be that need to find it, as the habit of reposing the ear on $(>,000 wads is not dangerously prevalent. A Chinese woman under arrest refused to go with the police until they bad permitted her to paint her lips and do her hair up in the latest Pekin twist The touch of nature that makes the whole world kin refuses to exclude even the imported heathen. Mascagni, the Italian composer, has been lionized in Berlin and has been more honored than an imperial visitor would hate been. But even the enthusiasm of his reception had its penalty. He had to make more than a thousand autograph hunters happy. A Pittsburgh boy of only 3 years drank half a pint of whisky and came near Being wafted lienee in a state J cf inebriation as complete as ever witnessed. He was brought back with difficulty, and when he felt his head doubtless registered a swear-off as profoundly sincere as a person of older growth could have done. A stranger on the cars near Los Angeles ordered cigars for his fellowpassengers and, just as the weeds had been lighted, blew out his brains. There are various ways in which the man Inclined toward suicide screws his courage to the sticking place, and Indulgence in railroad cigars is perhaps as cheap and effective as any. Possibly a correspondent can be 1 unnecessarily accurate. One says that Mr. Cleveland in alighting from the cars recently walked with a flrm step. Just what sort of a step would be natural under the circumstances be fails to state, but for a 250-pound man, upholding the dignity of a nation, perhaps a flrm step is as good as any. A California girl of only sixteen has lust eloped for the seventh time and yet considers herself only fairly embarked upon the matrimonial sea. She is a handsome little beast, and at first glance it is said to be impossible to detect the fact that nature inadvertently sealed the sutures of her shapely head before putting any brain on the inside. Pittsburgh good people have dug up a lot of long-buried blue laws and are trying to enforce them. As they have tailed to enforce the statutes of the present, their search among the dead bones of the past is believed to be not a certain assurance that they will mold the world anew. However, it is spectacular, and is said to be healing to conscinces badly bruised. They don’t like French out in Montana, at least such French as goes with roast beef and mashed potato. They have introduced a bill in the Legislature to make it a misdemeanor to print menu cards in any tongue but plain United States English. This will come pretty hard on ; those landlords who like to conceal the only really desirable dish of the course under a name that no one could possibly penetrate. A turbulent gentleman in Madrid was surprised in the act of making a bomb designed for social reformation. He dropped the bomb, which exploded, spraying him against adjacent circumstance. As his friends scraped him from the ceiling they could but wonder if for one fleeting instant the deceased had not realized, and found comfort therein, that Hie bomb was a good one, and that to the extent of its ability, society was being reformed. The growth of ’the mileage of electric street railways from fifty to 6,000 mile during the last five years shows the tremendous strides that this system of transportation is making. The present mileage of electric street railways is greater than that of all other forms of street railways combined. The increase in the electric lines has been attended by a great development of suburban property in many localities and has provided suburban communities with a very fair substitute for rapid transit — The Shanghai Mercury tells of a Chinese boy of 10 who dearly loved a y -

t maiden 6 years older, and after lav* ishing upon her all his indulgent oar* ent would give him wrA coldly jilted for a more mature devotee of 15. The boy found his rival and the S’ girl together and attacked the hated one with a knife, spilling much gore t on adjacent space. The boys were spanked with bamboo and the girl i with a leather strap, but none of the trio evinced much penitence. It is a swift world and China seems to be - not lagging behind. ; ' — ; i Uncle Sam can catch the fair > I feminine smuggler, but he doesnot j possess persuasion, patience, or force i enough to make her try on the beauj tiful robes which he has seized, and 1 the owners of which he wishes to find and incriminate. By the way, some of the dames of New York’s “t'Qur 1 Hundred” must have passed an unpleasant houror two when they heard that the superb collection of frocks bad ’ been seized. But the dress- ; makers who brought the dresses i knew how to weep; and that always overcomes Uncle Samuel. Secretary Hoke Smith isn’t afraid of the office-seekers. While his colleagues barricade their doors, ;or get up in the middle of the night to write their official correspondence i free from the exasperating presence lof the hayseed iu search of a place, the sturd” Hoke sits at his public desk. When an office-seeker comes in, ana gets as far as “Howdy, Hoke?” the freezing gaze of the Hokeian eye fastens upon the applicant, and he retires in mad hbste, wondering what made him venture out on such a cold morning. Recently a Baron who professed to be a socialist struck New York, taking up quarters and halves with the Most crowd. He denounced anarchists as long as he could get a cent out of the socialists, and then going over to the anarchists proceeded to steal them blind with one hand, while with the other he held his old colleagues sizzling to the Are of disapproval But at last he -was found out. Ne aroused suspicion by appearing in a clean collar, and the r presence of aharof soap among his effects completed his ruin. He has had to go to work. Seattle has a manufacturing future before it second to none on the Pacific Coast It has natural mineral resources in its vicinity that promise to equal those of the great iron region of Pennsylvania with proper development; it has an available timber supply that is as near inexhaustible as any on the continent; cheap fuel is furnished by the numerous coal deposits within easy reach; her harbor affords safe and ample accommodations for her rail transportation fagjti|aß*% great and increasing. time another and most important factor will be added to these advantages. A project is now on foot to utilize the enormous power of the Snoqualmie Falls, located about twenty-two miles from the city. It is estimated that by converting this natural force into electricity and conveying it to Seattle hundreds of thousands of horse-power will be made available at much less than 50 per cent, of the present cost The projectors claim that they will be able to furnish power for all the street railroads and machinery now operated in Seattle and have a reserve force that can be brought into service to an almost unlimited extent. As cneap power Is the prime factor in making manufacturing profitable, Seattle’s industrial future is undoubtedly a bright one. That her citizens have the necessary enterprise has already been amply demonstrated in her remarkable recovery from, and progress after, the config gration of a few years ago. Took Possession at Once. A new condition is a new test of character. When a rich man suddenly becomes poor, those who live with him have a chance to see of what stuff he is made; and the same is true when a poor man suddenly finds himself rich. An old gentleman was present at the reading of the will of a distant relative, says the London Spectator. He had hardly expected to find him- ! self remembered in it, but pretty soon a clause was read in which a certain field was willed to him. That was good. But the document went on to bequeath the old gray mare in the said field to some one else, a man with whom the old gentleman was not on friendly terms. That was too much for his equanimity, and he interrupted the solemn proceedings and brought a smile to the faces of the company, by exclaiming: “Then she's eating my grass!” - IWuMt Have Been a Chicago Boy. “Talk about business enterprise,” said Frank L. Perley. “Away back in ’BS we Pad a young fellow with us who was getting sls and his board. The night Jumbo was killed in St Thomas this boy developed himself. We were all sympathizing with poor . old Jumbo and Wondering how we could replace him. The youngster was thinking of something else. -You know the tail of an elephent. has at the very tip a bunch of thick hair, very much like a brush. This boy got under the fence aqd had pulled . every hair out of Jumbo’s tail. His i business at the circus was to sell bal- , I loons to children. Well, there were ' I seventy-six of those thick hairs, and 'j at the show the next afternoon he 1 i was selling them for $1 apiece as 11 relics Os the great giant. He sold , seventy-five of them and practically found $75, The other one he kept for himself and still wears It as his t mascot. "—St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1 'a reign of crime is anarchy.

• DR; TALMAGE'S SERMON.' 1 THH GLORIES OF THE RESURRECTION DESCRIBED. 1 . : > The Earth and Bea Shall Give Up Thaly 1 Dead, and the Reunion. Will Bo Buch »S No Imagination Can Picture—Thu Glorified Body. _ 1 At the Tabernuele. , The tubject of Rev. Dr. Talmage's , Easter morning sermon was, “The Sleepers Awakened,” the text chosen being from 1 Corinthians xv. “Now la Christ risen troin the dead and become • the first fruits of them that slops.” On this glorious Easter morning, amid ' the music and the flowers, I give you 1 Christian salutation. This morning Russian meeting Russian on the streets of St. Petersburg hails him with the salutation, “Christ is risen!” and Is answered by his friend In salutation. i “He is risen indeed!” In some parts of , England and Ireland to this very day* there is the superstition that on Easter morning the sun dances in the heavens, and well may wo forgive such a superstition, which illustrates the fact that the natural world seems to sympathize with the spiritual. Hail, Easter morning! Flowers! Flowers! All of them a-voiep, all of them a-tongue, all ot them full of speech to-day. I bend ovorone of the lilies, and I hear it say. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” 1 bend over a rose, and it seems to whisper, “I am the rose of Sharon." And then I stand and listen. From all sides there comes the chorus of flowers, saying. "If God so clothed the grass of the field, which to-day is and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” Flowers! Flowers! Braid them into the bride’s hair. Flowers! Flowers! Strew them over the graves of the dead —sweet prophecy of the resurrection. Flowers! Flowers! Twist them into a garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter moping. •'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.” The Bloom ot Hester. Oh, how bright and how beautiful the flowers and how much they make me think of Christ and His religion, that brightens our life, brightens our character, brightens society, brightens the church, brightens everything! You who go with gloomy countenance pretending you are better than I am because of your lugubriousness, you cannot cheat me. Pretty case you are for a man that professes to be more than a conqueror. It is not religion that makes you gloomy; It is the lack of it. There js just as much religion in a wedding as in a burial; just as much religion in a smile as a tear. These gloomy Christians we sometimes see are the people to whom I like to lead money, for I never see them again! The women came to the Saviour’s tomb and the}’ dropped spices all around the tomb, and those spices were the seed that began to grow, and from them came all the flowers of this Easter morn. The two angels robed in white took hold of the stone at the Saviour’s tomb, and they hurled it with such force down the hili that it crushed in the door of the world’s sepulcher, and the stark and the' dead must come forth. I care not how labyrinthine the mausoleum or how costly the sarcophagus or however beautifully parterred thefatiffljr grounds, we want them all broken up by the Lord of the resurrection. Ttfejr must come out Father and mqther—they must come out Husband and wife —they must come out Brother And sister— they must come out. Our darling children—they must come out. The eyes that we close with such trembling fingers must open again In the radiance ot that morn. The arms we folded ..id, dust must join ours in an embrace of reunion. The voice that was hushed in our dwelling must be retuned. Oh, howlong some of you seem to be waiting—waiting for the resurrection, waiting! And for these broken hearts today I. make a soft, cool bandage out of Easter flowers. My friends, I find in the risen Christ a prophecy of our «wn resurrection, my text setting forth the idea that as Christ has risen so his people will rise. He the first sheaf of the resurrection harvest fie “the first fruits of them that slept” Before I get through this morning I will walk through all the cemeteries of the dead, through all the country graveyards, where your loved ones are buried, and I will pluck off these flowers, and I will drop a sweet promise of the gospel —a rose of hope, a lily of joy on every tomb—the child’s tomb, the husband's tomb, the wife’s tomb, the father's grave, the mother’s grave, and while we celebrate the resurrection of Christ we | will at the same time celebrate the resurrection of all the good. "Christ the first fruits of them that slept.” The Great Conqueror. If I should come to you this morning and ask you for the names of the great conquerors of the world, you would say Alexander, Caesar, Phillip, Napoleon I. Ah, my friends, you have forgotten to mention the name of a greater conqueror than all these —a cruel, a ghastly conqueror. He rode on a Mack horse across Waterloo and Atlanta and Chalons, the bloody hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. It is the conqueror Death. He carries a black flag, and he takes no prisoners. He digs a trench across the hemispheres and fills it with the carcasses of nations. Fifty tiroes would the world have been depopulated had not God kept making new generations. Fifty times the world would have swung life- 1 less through the air—no man on the mountain, no man on the [sea. an abandoned ship plowing through immensity. Again and again has he done this work with ail generations. He is a monarch as well as a conqueror, his palace a sepulcher; his fountains the falling tears of a world. Blessed be God, in the light of this Easter morning I see the prophecy that his scepter shall be broken and his palace shall be demolished. The hour is coming when all who are in their ; graves shall come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise. Jesus “the first fruits of, them that slept.” Now, around this doctrine of the resurrection there are a great many mysteries. You come to me this morning and say, “If the bodies of the dead are to be raised, how is this, and how is that?” And you ask me a thousand questions I. am incompetent to answer, but there are a great many things you believe thatyou are not able to explain. You would be a very foolish man to say, “I won’t? believe anything I can’t understand.” The Mysteries of Nature. Why, putting down one kind of flower seed, comes there up this flower of Hila color? • Why, putting dpwn another, flower seed, comes there up a floweret this color? One flower white, another flower yellow, another flower crimson,, Why the difference, when the seeds look to be very much alike —are very much, alike? Explain these things. Explain, that wart on the finger. Explain why the oak leaf is different from the leaf of. the hickory. Tell me how the Lord Al-< mighty[can turn the chariot of His omnipotence on-a rose leaf? You ask me questions about the resurrection I cah-J not answer. I will ask you a thousand' questions about everyday life you cannot.> answer. I find my strength in this passage. "All who are in their graves shall coipe C • ■ I ’

• forth- Ido not pretend to make the • explanation. You can go on and say: "Suppose a returned missionary dies In . Brooklyn: when he was In China,his foot was amputated; he lived years after in England, and there he had an arm am- > putated; he is burled to-day In Greent wood. In the resurrentlon will the foot , come from China, will the arm come from England, and will the different parts of the body be reconstructed in the resurrection? How is that possible?” You say that “the human body changes } every seven years, and by 70 years of ago ) a man has had ton bodies, in thoresur- . rec’fon which will come up?" You say: i “A man will die and his tody crumble s Into the dust, and that dust bo taken up Into the life of the vegetable. An aniI inal may eat the vegetable: men eat the i animal. In the resurrection, that body r distributed In so many directions, how , shall it be gathered up?” Have you anv , more questions of this stylo to ask? . Come on and ask them. 1 do not pretend to answer them. I fall back upon f the announcement of God’s word, , “All who are In their graves shall come . forth." You have noticed, 1 suppose, in read- ’ |ng tho story of the resurrection that al- , most every account of the Bible gives tho , idea that tho characteristic of that day will be a great sound. Ido not know that it will be very penetrating. In the , mausoleum where silence lias reigned a , thousand years that voice must pone- ! trate. In the coral eave of tho deop , that voice must penetrate. Millions of spirits will come through the gates of I eternity, and they will come to tho tombs of the earth, and they will cry “Give- us , back our bodies; we gave them to you in corruptiob, surrender thorn now in incorruption.” Hundreds of spirits hovering about the crags of Gettysburg, tor there the bodies are burled. A hundred thousand spirits coming to Greenwood, i for there tho bodies are buried, waiting for the reunion of body and soul. The Sea to Give up It.** Dead. All along the sea route from New York to Liverpool at every few miios where a steamer went down, departed spirits coming back, hovering over tho wave. There is where the City of Boston perished. Found at last. There is where the President perished. Steamer found at last. There is where the Central America went down. Spirits howering —hundreds of spirits hovering, waiting for the reunion ot body and soul. Out on the prairie a spirit alights. There is where a traveler died in the snow. Crash! goes Westminster abbey, and the poetsand orators come forth—wonderful mingling ot good and bad. Crash! go the pyramids of Egypt, and the monarchs come forth. Who can sketch the scene? I suppose that one moment before that general rising there will be an entire silence, save as you hear the grinding of a wheel or a clatter of the hoofs of a procession passing into the cemetery. Silence in all the caves of the. earth. -Silence on the side of the mountain. Silence down in the valleys And far out Into the sea. Silence. But in a moment, in a twinkling ot an eye, as the archangel's trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing, across mountain and ocean, the earth will give one terrific shudder, and the graves of the dead will heave like the waves of tho .sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol and Chalons will stalk forth in the lurid air, and the drowned will come up and wring out their wet locks above the billow, and all the land and all the sea become one moving mass of life—all faces, all ages, all conditions gazing in one direction and upon one throne—the throne of resurrection. “All who are in their graves shall come forth.” “But,” you say, “if this doctrine cf the resurrection is true as prefigured by ..this Easter morning, Christ ‘the first fruits of them that slept,* Christ rising a promise and a prophecy of the rising of all His people, canyou tell us something about the resurrected body?” 1 can. There are mysteries about that, but I shall tell you three or tour things in regard to the resurrected body that are beyond guessing and beyond mistake. The Glorified Body. In the first place, I remark, in regard to your resurrected body, it will be a glorious body. The body we have now <s a mere skeleton of what it would have been if sin had not marred and defaced it Take the most exquisite statue that was ever made by an artist and chip it here and chip it there wita a chisel and batter and bruise it here and there and then stand it out in the storms of a hundred years, and the beauty would be gone. Well, the human body has been chipped and battered and bruised and damaged with the storms of thousands of years—the physical defects of other generations coming down from generation to generation, we inheriting the infelicities of past generations, but in the morning of the resurrection the body will be adorned ; and beautified according to the original | ' model. And there is no such difference 1 between a gymnast and an emaciated > wretch in a lazaretto as there will be a difference between our bodies as they are now and our resurrected forms. There you will see the perfect eye after the waters of death have washed out the stains of tears and study. There you will see the perfect hand, after the knots of toll have been untied from the knuckles. There you will see the form erect and elastic, after the burdens have gone off j the shoulder—the very life of God in the ; body. In this world the most impressive thing, the most expressive thing is the human face, but that face is veiled with the griefs of a thousand years, but in the resurrection morn that veil will be taken away from the face, and the noonday sun is dull and dim and stupid compared with the outflaming glories of the countenance of the saved. When those faces 1 of the righteous, those resurrected faces, turn toward the gate or look up toward the throne, it will be like the dawning of a new morning on the bosom of everlasting day! Oh, glorious, resurrected body! But I remark also, in regard to that body which you are to get in the resurrection, It will be an immortal body. These bodies are wasting away. Somebody Has said as soon as we begin to live we begin to die. Unless we keep putting the fuel into the furnace the furnace dies out The blood vessels are canals taking the breadstuffs to all parts of the system. We must be reconstructed hour by hour, day by day. Sickness and death , are all the time trying to get their prey under the treatment, or to push off the embankment of the grave. But, blessed be God, in the resurrection we will get a body Immortal. , No malaria in the, air, no cough, no r neuralgic twinge, no rheumatic pang, no , fluttering of the heart, no shortness of breath, no ambulance, no dispensary, no hospital, no invalid’s chair, no spectacles to improve the dim vision. But health, , immortal health! Oye who have aches . and pains indescribable this morning—- , Oye who are never well —O ye who are ■ lacerated with physical distresses, let ' me tell you of the resurrected body, free .' from all diseases. ImmortaM Immortal! The Strength ot the Immortal*, I will go further and say, in regard to , that body which you are to get In the resurrection, It will be a powerful body. We walk now eight or ten miles, and we are fatigued; we lift a few hundred • pounds, and we areexhausted; unarmed, • .we meet a wild beast, and we must run or fly or climb or ,dodge because we are Incompetent to meet it; we toil eight or ten hoars vigorously, and then we are weary, but In the resurrection we are ; .to have a body that never gets tired. Is it not a glorious thought? .. J i Plenty of occupation in Heaven. I

i suppose Broadway, New York, (n the : busiest season ot the year at noonday Is i not so busy as Heaven is all the time, i Grand projects of mercy for other worlds. Victories to be celebrated. The down- ' fall of despotisms on earth to bo an- • nouncod. Great songs to be learned and . sung. Great expeditions on which God i shall send forth His children. Plenty to ' do, but no fatigue. If you are seated ■ under the trees of life, it will not be to rest, but to talk over with some old comi rade old times—tho battles whore you i fought shoulder to shoulder. Sometimes In this world we feel we would like to have such a body as that i There Is so much work to be done for i Christ, there are so many tears to bo wiped away, there are so many burdens i to lift, there 1s so much to be achieved for Christ, wo sometimes wish that from the first of January to the last of December we could tell on without stopping to sleep, or take any recreation, or to rest, or oven to take food—that wo could toll right on without stopping a moment In our work of commending Christ and Heaven to all the people. But we all get tired. It is characteristic of the human body in this conolllou; we must got tired. Is It not a glorious thought that after awhile wo arc going to have a body that will never got wearv? Oh, glorious resurrection dav! Gladly will I fling aside this poor body of sin and fling it Into tho tomb If at thy bidding I shall have a tody that never wearies. That was a splendid resurrection hymn that was sung at my father’s burial: So Jesus slept; God's dying son Passed through tho grave and blessed the bed. Rest here, blessed saint, till from his throne The morutn; breaks to piereo the shade. A Happy Thought. Oh. blessed resurrection! Speak out, sweet flowers, beautiful flowers, while you tell of a risen Christ and tell of tho righteous who shall rise. May God fill you this morning with anticipation! I heard of a father and son who among others were shipwrecked at sea. The father and the son climbed into the rigging. Tho father hold on, but the son after awhile lost his hold in the rigging and was dashed down. The father supposed he had gono hopelessly under the wave. Tio next day the father was brought ashoro from the rigging in an exhausted state and laid in a bed in a fisherman’s hut, and after many bouts had passed he came to consciousness and saw lying beside him on the same bed his boy. O my friends, what a glorious thing it will be when we wake up at last to find bur loved ones beside us! Coming up 1 from the same plot in the graveyard, coming up in the same morning light—the father and son alive forever, all the loved ones aliye forever, never more to part, nevermore to die. May the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good work, to do His will. And let this brilliant scene. of the mornine . transport our thoughts to tho grander assemblage before the throne. This august assemblage is nothing compared with it. The one hundred and forty and four thousand, and tho “great multitude that no man can number,” some of our best friends among them, we after awhile to Join the multitude. Blessed anticipation! My soul anticipates the day. Would stretch her wings and soar away, To aid the song, the palm to bear, And bow, the chief of sinners, there. Fable of the Masher. In a certain City, which shall be Namelese, there dwelt a Masher. A Masher, Ety Dears, is a thing which may be described as a Moral Spittoon, and his mission on earth is to pester respectable Girls with his nauseous attentions and to receive the Scorn and contempt of all real men. Now, this Masher was an athletic Masher, hours he would swing ponderouy CIuST and raise gigantic Dumb-bells, till he had a Biceps that looked like a Ham, and this he would feel and say, “I can whip any galoot that objects to me as a Masher, so let him Beware,” and he made a dummy figure of a man stuffed with sfuwdust and hung it up, and he could knock it out in one Round every time. And he cried, “John L. Sullivan, I’m after you. Then he would hit the Dummy in the Eye and feel Good. And ft came to pass one Sabbath Evening at the close of the "Bjirvice, he stood outside the Church Door to make a Mash, and the Yawps and. Squabs, two kinds of hobbiedenoys, looked ou him with Awe, saying, “Look out, and dbn’t try to mash the Slugger’s Girl, for he measures seventeen inches round the biceps and forty-five round the chest, and can lick Sullivan, and Mace and his Maori all at once,” and they I turned Pale at the thought. When the I Ladies came out of Church, where they ' had been singing Hymns and sizing up . one another’s hats and Clothes. The Masher spoke to a Beautiful Girl with whom he was not acquainted. And she gave him to understand that she would prefer his Room to his Compßny, but. he persisted in his annoyances and would not leave her. But a little fellow stepped up out of the Crowd and touched the Slugger and Masher on the j shoulder and said: “A Word with ; you.” He was only a little Chap, and perhaps weighed 119 pounds, but he was full of Courage, and Wiry as a Leopard that cannot knock spots out of himself. And the Masher said: “Begone, or I’ll flatten you out.” But the little Chap would not begone, and he said; “That is my sister,” and he hit the Masher between the Eyes, and he fell down and wept. Then the little fellow sat on him and Whaled the Everlasting Interior out of him, till lie' cried for Mercy and bellowed like a Bull of Bashan. And when the little Chap got through the Masher’s face Jooked like a Strawberry Ice, and he was carried home and did not leave his couch for three weeks. Moral—lt is one thing to knock out a dummy figure and another to stand up before the Righteously Indignant; and one who would persecute a defenseless female can ever have one Ouilce of Pluck, even though he weigh a Ton. The Mining Mania. There was an ex-Governor a few years since whose business frequently called him into some of the mining regions of the West. One day he was approached by a wealthy neighbor who, diffidently suggesting that he must see opportunities for excellent investments, finally offered him $50,000 to be invested in mines. “Do you know anything about mines ?” asked his friend. “No, nothing.” “Would you intrust me with $50,000,. to be invested in railroad stocks or some manufacturing enterprise, according to my judgment.” “No, I don’t think I would.” “Then in God’s name, man,’’ shouted the excitable Governor, “why should you blindly give away your money to be sunk in holes in the ground ot which neither you nor I know' anything?” I ' ■' l Miss Susan B. Anthony recently celebrated her 73d birthday, and felt ' spry enough to talk any horrid antiwoman’s rights man into humiliated : silence.

! LETTERTO CLEVELAND TARIFF REFORM DISCUSSED BY MR. SHEARMAN. I [ Specific Dutlc* Arc a Device ot Mauutao- , turera to Obtain IncreaMnc Protection—- [ They Oppreee the Poor and Are Toole ot , Corruption. Ad Valorem Outlet Hound In Theory. ' By mutual agreement Mr. Thomas i G. Shearman is addressing, through the New York Times, a series of letters to President Cleveland on the 1 subject of tariff reform. Former 1 letters dealt with tho necessity for radical reduction ot duties in accordance with the Chicago platform; the great to tho producers ot cotton, grains, and meats of lower i duties on what must be Imported in exchange for these products; the present extraordinary expenditures due to new pension legislation; the connection between excessive duties and a demand for cheap money; the reasons, political and moral, why sugar, coffee, and tea should not be Uxed; and the necessity for the removal of old rather than the imposition of any new duties. Mr. Shearman is one of the oldest students of the subject of taxation, and because of his long experience as a customs attorney, bis exceptional ability, and his sympathy with the tax-burdened masses, his opinions have come to have great weight with all earnest thinking men. His sixth letter deals with the kind of duties that should be levied. It contains perhaps the most concise statement in favor of ad valorem duties ever made. His position is absolutely impregnable. The subject is so little understood and of such vital importance that we reproduce below the entire letter; Dear Sib— One of the most important questions to be decided in framing a tariff—probably the most important question of mere method—is: Shall duties be specific or ad valorem, or a little ot both? In other words, shall taxes on Roods be proportioned to their value or to their weight and measure? The answers of all tax-eaters to this question are practically unanimous. Public officials whose duty it Is to collect taxes prefer specific duties, because It Is vastly easier to weigh goods and charge so much a pound than It is to i ascertain their true value and assess them In proportion to that. Protected manufacturers prefer specific duties, because It is easy, in this manner, to tax the people 100 per cent, for f>rlvate gain in cases where 50 per cent, openly evied on values wonld not be tolerated. They fire ter such duties because, as we shall presenty show, these duties have a self-acting power of constantly-increasing taxation, until, after the lapse of a few years, such duties become prohibitory and secure to the domestic manufacturer a monopoly, so that, in multitudes of cases, that which was intended as a proper revenue duty, and was such when enacted, Boon produces no revenue to the public, while it extorts enormous tribute from the masses tor the benefit of a small class of capitalists. They prefer specific duties, for the very reason which should make such duties a crime—because they fall more heavily upon articles used by the poor than upon those used by the rich. Not that these gentlemen have any animosity toward the poor or any desire to Increase the amount which the poor shall pay to the Government. They have no such unbusinesslike motives. But experience has taught them that the poorer classes afford a market vastly more valuable, taken altogether, than winch can be found among the rich, whose number is so small asto make their consuming fio..er, as a cla-s. unimportant to most manufacturers. Specific duties, under which the poor nun's coat and hat are taxed precisely as much as those of the rich man. worth five times as much, Inevitably prohibit importations ot goods suitable for the poor, and thus give to the home manufacturers a monopoly of their supply. No wonder that these manufacturers are enthusiastio advocates of specific duties. Many Importers, however, are advocates of the same system for different reasons. It Is, undoubtedly, difficult to ascertain the precise values of many articles, and, therefore, nonest and conscientious importers often find that, under a system of heavy ad valorem duties, their dishonest rivals, by making a few false - oaths as to valuA pay less tax upon the same kind of articles, ana so can undersell them. Severe penalties are Imposed for such offenses, but so long as the reward of crime Is great such risks will be taken. None of these reasons, however, suffices to justify specific duties. The ease and convenience of public servants are not to be considered for a poment against the demands of justice and equal rights. The reasons why protected manufacturers prefer such duties are the very reasons why such duties should not be tolerated. There Is no respecoable argument In favor of specific, duties, except that which is assigned by Importers—the danger of undervaluation and tho consequent advantages of dishonest competition in trade. Let us begin, then, with this argument. We are practical men, and therefore proceed to a practical test. The first and all-sufficient answer to the argument for specific duties, as a necessity to prevent fraud, Is that the experience of eighty years of effort In this direction proves that it Is impossible to prevent such frauds by such means. For more than sixty of the last eighty years, the National Government has been In the hands of men who have taxed their ingenuity to devise specific duties, as a means of preventing fraud, and the only result has been a continual increase in the clamor about fraud, and a development ot new frauds under specific duties themselves. Moreover, at the end of all this Incessant effort to make duties specific, when twenty different Congresses have sought with intense zeal to abolish all ad valorem duties, so tar as they dared to do it, what do wo find? Far more than one-third ot all the revenue collected from ad valorem duties, and more than half of all enumerated articles admitted under ad valorem rates! The tariff of IKB3 was the culminating effort oi the specific fanatics; and yet 38 per cent, of all the revenue under that act was collected on ad valorems, while only 530 articles were subjected to purely specific ' rates, against 789 which were dutiable ad valorem in whole or in part. A clear rhajority was taxed upon a purely ad valorem basis. ■ Such an example of dead failure affords an excellent instance for the application of the old rule: “That which never was never ought to be." Let us now consider the reasons for a uniform ad valorem system. In the first place. It has existed once, and therefore it can exist again. It was in force from 1846 to 1861, and It worked better than any other system ever put into practice. It is universally conceded to be sound in theory and absolutely just in principle. If all values were correctly stated, taxation upon that basis would be ideally perfect. No one proposes for a moment to tax every house alike, or to tax land by the square foot Instead of the market value. Every Intelligent man knows that assessors make gross errors in valuation of real estate, but no human being proposes to interfere with the ad valorem principle in local taxation. The idea of taxing the poor man’s acre in Kansas, worth S2O, as much as the rich man’s acre in New York City, worth 12,000,000, would he so monstrous that no one would venture to mention it. Yet the principle Is precisely the same with that which taxes a yard of qloth worth 50 cents as much as another yard worth $5. Specific duties always and inevitably bear very heavily upon the poor and very lightly upon the rich. This Is their conclusive condemnation. No matter what may be the loss of the Government by evasions of taxes—no matter what may be the loss of honest Importers by the frauds of their rivals—nothing can justify the wholesale robbery of the poorer classes, which is Inherent In every system of tax by mere weight or measure. So powerful is this consideration that even the unscrupulous Congress of 1890 did not dare entirely to disregard it. They did as all preylons Congresses have done—they combined all the iniquities of both the specific and the ad valorem systems. They piled up heavy taxes per pound or yard to make the burden of the poor greater than that of the rioh; and then, to balance this monstrous wrong, they added heavy ad valorem duties, so as to give dishonest Importers all the advantage over their honest rivals which an exclusive ad valorem system could give them. 8 . Then, to rectify the frauds, which were certain to multiply under such a tariff, they prescribed a schedule of oaths or statements bo complicated and inconsistent that it Is utterly impossible for the majority of importers to carry on business at all without telling lies with every invoice. Importers are regularly oom- / t polled to make positive statements as to matHers concerning which they have not. and cannot have, any knowledge, information, or belief Finally, judges arc appointed to pass upon this evidence, who threw it all out of the window and proceed to decide each case upon backstairs whisperings or thbir own infallible consciousness* Among the devices by which the present tariff seeks to avoid tho gross injustice of spe- | clfic duties is the increase ot such duties ao- < cording to increase ot value An the article ; taxed. Thus, in many articles of iron and I steel as well as in wools and woolens, the t specific duty rises with the cost of the KOOdB. Stockings of cotton, which are valued at 60 i oefitß a dozen, are taxed 32 cents; but, if they , are worth 61 cents, they are taxed 68 oents. | Those which are worth »2 are ‘axed fi.io, if worth >2.05, they are taxed $1.57. Similar provisions appear as to cutlery, steel ingots, bars, etc and many other articles. The enormous remptation offered by such laws to underAluation is manifest at a gianw. By rtntx- !

offered by such laws as these. Moreover, auoh regulations put a premium upon tho degradation of goods on the border line. Hy lowering the quality of a pair Ot stockinet from 17 cents to IS, they can be honestly sold in our market at a price B cents lower. Aocordlngly, it is notorious that the quality ot these articles has been greatly degraded since tho now tariff took offoot. Hpeclfio duties on manufactured goods have a self-acting tendency to Increase ths burdens of the people and the power of extortion by homo manufacturers. Manufacturing processes arS continually Improving, and the oosi of production continually grows less. But the specific duty remains the same. Thus, when tho duty of t2B was imposed upon steel rails in 1879, It was, and was Intended to be. only the equivalent of the ad valorem duty of 45 per cent, ad valorem. But constant improvements In manufacturing methods reduced the coat in Europe ao much that in less than five years this duty became a tax of nearly 100 per cent, ad valorem, and was absolutely prohibitory Tho same thing has happened tn equal or little less degree in hundreds ot other tnatanooa. Thus duties, which at first were laid purely for revenue purposes, become first highly protective and finally prohibitory. They are gradually perverted, by automatic action, from fulfilling their only Justifiable purpose, that of providing revenue for the public good, into forced contributions for private profit, and finally into mere cuglues of monopoly and extortion. 81nce, then, specific duties In most oases are Impossible; since they are in all oases unjust, unequal, and oppressive; since they increase tho burdens of poverty and lessen the burdens of wealth; since they offer oven greater temptations to frand than other duties, and since they Insidiously Increase the burdens of taxation and stealthily diminish the public revenue to lacrosse the tribute levied by Individuals upon tno masseH, they should not bo tolerated tn nuy case except one. The one exception Is where azficlesare imported which, If produced here, would be subject to aspeoltio internal revenue tax. Such articles-must, of course, be taxed upon the same footing with similar domestic articles. Hplrlts and malt liquors should therefore pay the Internal revenue tax, in addition to such ad valorem duty as wilt produce the most revenue. This, however, Is uot a real exception to the rule as to the tariff, because those articles are governed by tho internal revenue system, concerning which we have nothing at present to do. Opium should pay the Internal revenue tax, and nothlngelso. The Internal tax upon wines and tobacco is so small that It can easily be allowed for in ad valorem rates. An ad valorem tariff is the only one which la sound In theory; and long experience has proved that It is, after all allowance is made for Its faults, the fairest and most honest in practice. It has grave faults, it Is true; but those faults are inherent and unavoidable in every tariff. All taxes upon merchandise or production, whether domestic or foreign, are Inevitably vicious, unequal, unjust, and corrupting. Under an ad valorem tariff some few hundred business men suffer inconvenience aad loss. Under a specific tariff the same classes suffer half as much Inconvenience, while millions of our people suffer enormous losses. Bad as smuggling is, it is far better to endure some smuggling by undervaluations than it is to deprive millions of the comforts, or even luxuries, of life through the stealthy and snaky oppressions of specific duties. Yours very respectfully, Thomas G. Shearman. The Hon. Grover Cleveland. Blessings of Commerce. The inhabitants of the various sections of the world produce for each other. The temperate zones, for Ipstance, exchange the commodities they can produce most easily and cheaply for the product that can be best produced in a warmer climate. This exchange of products, or commerce, not only giveg employment to thousands upon thousand of hands, butj, brings it about that the people of the various sections can' better satisfy their wants by being enabled to procure what they themselves cannot produce at all, or could produce only at the expense of a great deal of time and labor.. This great expenditure of time and labor would, of course, make the desired products not only dearer, but in many cases, such as, for instance, tropical fruits and vegetables that had to be grown in hot houses, so dear that only the very rich would be able to enjoy them. i But commerce, in order to be efficient, has need of means of communication and transportation. Where such facilities are entirely lacking, no commerce can exist. Where they are very efficient, commerce will be facilitated,and products of all kinds and of every clime will not only be abundant but even cheap, so that they can come within the reach of everybody. Improved means of communication and transportation, because they bring the various sections of the globe closer together by shortening distances, have cheapened production and brought about the loweringof rents of all natural agents as land and mines in the more thickly settled old countries, where no socalled protective system prevented the free importation of the products of other hands. The superior advantages of transportation during *the past half century have brought the old and new countries so close together that the virtual monopoly in the soil and its products, by land owners has been broken, and landlords, etc., in those old countries are compelled to accept much lower rents than when the facilities for intercourse were much inferior. and the cost of transportation consequently much higher. And who have been benefited by it? The inhabitants of the old countries. For the cheaper agricultural rents are, the less product goes to the landlord, and the more to the laborer. This is plainly to be seen in Great Britain, where, it is said, about forty years ago, the landlord received as rent for his land more than one-half of what it produced, while at present, owing to thfe removal of prote ;tive duties, and the efficient, quick and cheap means of transportation, he hardly averages one-fourth of its product in the shape of rent. The landowners have lost, but the British people have gained immensely. It may fie well heie to recall that international commerce is nothing but barter upon a grand scale, and that the products which one section buys of another section are paid for in commodities and very seklom in money. People do not produce for the sake of getting money, but only to obtain commodities to satisfy their wants. As money, however, is the payment, in most instances, for work done, it must be plain that the more productive a country is, the more money it will possess and the more money its laborers will receive as wages.. High money wages, therefore, can never cause high prices of commodities, and low money wages are never conducive to cheapening the prices of commodities. Low money wages are a consequence of small productiveness, or high rents, or both combined. High money wages can only be paid where there is k large product and little of it goes to non-producers. For those reasons the high-paid English workman has nothing to fear from the competition of his low-priced confreres on the I continent of Europe, and for the I same reasons the American workmen ! need have no fear that free trade : will bring down the American wages 1 to the level of English wages.—Ding--1 man Versteeg, in Tariff Reform. Few persons understand the cause ot their own failures. Judging other affairs as they do their own, they could not tell why a barrel is empty when it I has a hole in the bottom.—Century,