Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1893 — Page 2

Ilimtiurat DECATUR, IND. H. BLACKBURN, - ■ ■ Publisher. Missing word contest: “Well, I’ll be Practices what he preaches —the minister who rehearses his sermons previous to delivering them. Any one can readily tell the difference between custom-made clothes and ready-made clothes by simply looking at the bill. Mrs. Jenness complains that bald heads are inartistic. She’s right, no doubt, but they are easier to look over in the front rows than feminine tall hats. Eiffel emerged from the panama scandal thoroughly tarred. He will, however, escape being feathered. The available feathers were all. it is believed, utilized in providing a lining for the Eiffel nest. Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson is a portly, gray-haired woman, who was a grandmother when she became Mr. Stevenson’s wife. She is a remarkably clever woman, a talented writer, and a chatty and cheery conversationalist. In Missouri vagrants are put up at auction. Os course there is sentimental objection to this system. The sentiment is so strong in fact that if the vagrants would refrain from indorsing it so loudly it would probably kill the imitation of slavery days. A Boston (yes, Boston) firm advertises “Gen. Butler’s Autobiography, Written by Himself.” We think that all will agree that this is the best way to have autobiographies written; they are so much more interesting than when written by some one else. An Eastern journal refers to Omaha as the center of culture. Omaha may not exactly resent this, but to have been called the center of the hog-raising industry and the home of the corn-fed steer would have illumined the city with a glow of pride. If the charges now made against Col. Streator are true, it wouldn’t be a bad Idea to give him a dose of the medicine he gave Private lams last summer. A drunken, overbearing, abusive old Colonel dangling by his thumbs would be a warning to other martinets. And what a lot of satisfaction lams must be getting out of these late developments. A horticulturist s- vs there is no plant so universally devested by the animal world as the Castor oil plant, that even the goat will starve before biting of a leaf, army worms and locusts will pass it by, though eating every other green thing in sight, and there is no surer way to drive moles away from a lawn than to plant a few castor beans here-and there. A woman correspondent of several German newspapers went away disappointed after visiting the tenementhouse district in New York with a charity physician. She looked in vain for the deep poverty of continental cities, and was astonished at the little attempts at ornament in the tenement house homes. Above all, she was surprised at the sight of orange venders in the streets. The poor, as she had known them in Germany, would regard oranges as an unattainable luxury. Herr Ahlwardt, who has the honor to be a member of the Reichstag, recently accused Prince Bismarck of making corrupt bargains with Jewish bankers at the expense of the state. Ahlwardt said that he had the documents to prove the truth of his assertions. When he produced the docu- ». ments it was found that they had as much to do with the accusation as with a small boy's theft of green apples. Ahlwardt was hooted down, and only saved of the charge of talking through his hat from the fact that the expression is recognized as slang, and also that he was bareheaded at the time. Enforce the Chinese exclusion act as we may, Cupid is a smuggler that no revenue officer can hope to detain. 'For what is handsome Commander Whiting of the Alliance, late 'at Hawaii, about to do? Nothing less interesting than marry one of the prettiest and most popular Chinese belles on the islands. The girl is Miss Etta Ah Fong, one of fltfeen daughters of a millionaire merchant who married a woman of mixed blood. It is all well enough for the great ships of the Atlantic squadron to bp prancing around in a Columbian dress parade, but here comes an old wooden cruiser in the Pacific with the commander dead set for a Chinese engagement. War, war, war with Cupid astride the bowsprit laughing fit to kill. Trinity Church, Omaha, Neb., has adopted the nickel-in-the-slot idea as.the means of liquidating its church debt. At the close of each session of the Sunday school the superintendent brings forth an artistically shaped, red-lettered box with a slot in the lid. It is called the birth day box. The man of discretion infcvites all who have had birthdays during the preceding week to come forand deposit a nickel for each year of their age. It is supposed, of course, that none but the superintendent and the cheerful giver sees

nnd oounH the nickels as they drop , into the box, which, as a precautionary measure, Is padlocked. The scheme Is reported to be a great success, as from one to three persons pay • tribute and make silent, confession each week. The report fails to state I whether the superintendent ever forgets his discretion or whether the bottom of the receptacle is padded to prevent would-be snoopers from • counting the nickels as they plinkplunk, plink-plunk Into the box. What physicians do not know ; I alwut the bodies of those on whom j they practice their art is shown in the death of Colonel Elliot F. Shepard. Both ether and Colonel Shepard were presumably well known to the doctors, but the effect of combining ' them was a surprise Much of the practice of medicine is a groping ini the dark. The processes of the bodjl in health and disease are largely hld-f den from observation, and the doctof has to guess at what is going on in! side, and to guess again in regard to what will be the effect of pouring ip drugs. The science, of medicine has made many advances in the present century and even in the past ten or twenty years. But the main advance has been in surgery and in the prevention of disease. It is natural to suppose that the greatest progress must be made along the latter line. The wisest may not know what a disease or a drug may do to a man when it gets inside of him, but when it is discovered how a disease is caused It does not need more than good common sense to explain to this man that it is best for him to keep away from it. The murder of Effie Clark by E. Ro«s Smith at Evanston was a brutal and unprovoked crime of a class that unfortunately is becoming too common. The only palliating circumstance attending the tragedy was the fact that the murderer was his own executioner, and thus the State was saved the trouble and expense of hanging him like a dog as he deserved to be hanged. He was a suitor for the young lady’s hand, but his advances had been repelled, and this fact is given in extenuation of his desperate deed. But that is no excuse; it is rather an aggravation of the atrocity, and stamps the young man as a wretch far more inhuman than the desperado who kills for lust or sordid gain or to avenge a real or fancied wrong. The sentiment that finds in love an excuse for ji heinous crime is mawkish, illogical, idiotic, dangerous to the public weal. It is a perversion of human nature as repulsive to all right-minded persons as is the indulgence in any other mode of torture. Murder it is, and murder most foul at that, and the perpetrator is deserving of the utmost loathing and execration of mankind. The murder S? Keeper Haight and the escape and recapture of Convict Latimer are the climax of a number of sensational occurrences in the ■ Jackson penitentiary that must be discouraging to prison reformers. For a long time Jackson has been exemplary of the application of mild discipline to convicted criminals. ' The former Warden, a man of kind ' heart and high notions, instituted a ■ system which departed notably from the old ways of dealing with prison- ' ers. Many privileges were permitted to the convicts, an extraordinarily good quality and large quantity of food was allotted to them, their work was light, their hours of work short, and their terms were Relieved by many entertainments. Warden Hatch tried to make good men out of his convicts. The convicts retorted by : blowing down the walls of the prison ' with dynamite. Warden Davis, who , followed Warden Hatch, adopted ■ methods only slightly modified. In- ' tercourse between the prisoners and the guards was remarkably free, and discipline was relaxed in every case • where that seemed possible. A life i convict deliberately poisoned the keeper, opened the prison doors for himself and fled. The good men and women who are prepared to cry down any suggestion of a return to the old severe methods of prison government , for Jackson will derive small comfort from this latest development in the ' “m >ral reform" penitentiary. They 1 denounce the wardens who treat convicts “as if they were tigers." ' What would they suggest as the best means of 1 guarding against the tigerish craft and treachery of such a man as Latimer? The influence of prayers, music, theatricals and social intercourse may mellow the heart of a man who has murdered his father and mother, but a quicker and more efficacious remedy is the old one of ten hours a day in the stone yard. Wade Hampton. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, named as Commissioner of Railroads comes of an old Southern fetmily,

and was born in Columbia, S. C., in 1818. He was graduated from the University of South Carolina i n 1835. When the war broke x out he was. known? as one of :he largest planters i n the

South. He had served in both branches ot the Legislature, and was a man l of great influence. Through opposed to secession, he entered the Conj federate army and'organized and took i command of the Hampton Legion, i He served with great gallantry, and I attained the rank of Lieutenant General. After the war Gen. Hampton became a prominent advocate of the . policy of conciliation between the , whites and negroes, and in 1876 was I elected Governor of South Carolina tl)is P'atform. He was re-elected ®%t the expiration of his term, and I then was sent to the United States 11 Senate, where he served two terms.

’ DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. 1 A LESSON DRAWN FROM THE WEDDING FEAST. How Many and What llaM-leu ExcnsM Mon Make For Not llocoinlng Christians. Christianity la n Very Groat Help IN Every Proper Relation in Life. I ■ At the Taliornacle. Rev. Dr. Talmage is bls sermon In the Brooklyn Tabernacle Nunday forenoon Spread before the great audience in eloquent words the beauty and attractiveness of the gospel feast, the teat chosen being from Luke xiv, 18, “And they all with one consent began to make excuse.” After the invitations to a levee are sent out the regrets come in. "One man apologizes for nonattendance on pne ground, another on another ground. -The most of the regrets are founded ou prior engagements. No in my text a great banquet was spread, the invitations wore circulated, and now the regrets come in. The one gives an agricultural reason, the other a stock dealer’s reason, the other a domestic reason—all poor reasons. The agricultural reason being that the man had bought a farm and wanted to see It. Could he not see it the next day? The stock dealer’s being that he had bought five yoke of oxen and he wanted io go and prove them. He had no business to buy them until he knew what they were. Besides that a man who can own five yoke of oxen can command his own time. Besides that, he might have yoked two of them together and driven them on the way to the banquet, for locomotion was not as rapid then as now. The man who gave the domestic reason said he had got married. He ought to have taken his wife with him. The fact was, they did not want to go “And they all with one consent began to make excuse.” So now God spreads a great banquet It is the gospel feast, and the table reaches across the hemispheres, and the invitations go out, and multitudes come and sit down and drink out of the chalices of God’s love, while other multitudes decline coming—the one giving this apology and the other giving that apology. “And they all with one consent began to make excuse." I propose this morning, so tar as God may help me, to examine the apologies which men make for not entering the Christian life. Religion Has Made a Record. Apology the First—l am not sure there is anything valuable in the Christian religion. It is pleaded that there are so many impositions in this day—so many things that seem to be real are sham. A gilded outside may have a hollow inside. There is so much quackery in physics, in ethics, in politics, that men come to : the habit of incredullty.and after awhile they allow that incredulity to collide with our holy religion. But, my friends, I think religion has made a pretty good record in the world. How many wounds it has salved; how many pillars of fire it has lifted in the midnight wilderness: how many simoon struck Saharas it hath turned into the gardens of the Lord; how it hath stilled j the chopped sea; what rosv light it hath sent streaming through the rift of the storm cloud wreck; what pools of cool water it hath gathered for thirsty Hagar i aud Ishmael; what manna whiter than , coriander seed it hath dropped ail around the camp of hardly bestead pilgrims; what promises it hath sent out like holy watchers to keep the lamps burning around deathbeds; through the darkness that lowers into the sepulcher, what flashes of resurrection morn! Besides that this religion has made so many heroes. - It brought Summerfield, the Methodist, across the Atlantic Ocean with his silver trumpet to blow the acceptable year of the Lord until it seemed as if all our American cities would take the kingdom of Heaven by violence. It sent Jebudi Ashman into Africa alone, in a continent of naked barbarians, to lift the standard of civilization and * Christianity. It made John Milton among poets, Raphael among painters. Christopher Wren among architects, Tborwaldsen among sculptors, Handel among musicians, Dupont among military commanders; and to give new wings to the imagination, and better balance to the judgment, and more determination to the will,and greater usefulness to the life, and grander nobility to the soul, there is nothing in all the earth like our Christian religion. Were They all Deceived? Nothing iA religion! Why, then, al! those Christians were deceived, when in their dying moment they thought they saw the castles of the blessed, and your child, that with unutterable agony you put away into thegrave, you will never see him again nor hoar his sweet voice nor feel the throb of his young heart? There is nothing in religion! Sickness will come upon you. Roll and turn on your pillow. No relief. The medicine may be bitter, the night may be dark, the pain may be sharp. No relief. Christ never comes to the sickroom. Let the pain stab. Let the fever burn. Curse it and die. There is nothing in religion! After awhile death will come. You will hear the pawing of the pale horse on the threshold. The spirit will be breaking away from tne body, and.it will take flight — whither, whither? There is no God, no ministering angels to conduct, no Christ, no Heaven, no home. Nothing in religion! Oh, you are not willing to adopt such a dismal theory. And yet the wdrtd is iuil of skeptics. And let me say there is no class ot people for "Whom I have a warmer sympathy than for skeptics. We do not know how to treat them. We deride them, we caricature them. Wo, instead of taking them by the soft band of Christian love, clutch them with the iron pinchers of ecclesiasticism. Ob, if vou knew how those men had fallen away from Christianity and become skeptics you would not be so rough on them! Some were brought up in homes where religion was overdone. The most wretched day in the week was Sunday. Religion was driven into them with a trip hammar. They had a sur- j feit of prayer meetings. They were Stuffed and choked with catechisms. They were told by their parents that‘ they were the worst children that ever Jived because they liked to ride down hill better than to read “Pilgrim’s Progress. They never heard their parents talk of religion but with the corners of their mouths drawn down and the eyes rolled upOthers went into skepticism through maltreatment on the part of some who professed religion. There Is a man who says, “My partner in business was voluble in prayey meeting, and, he waa officious in all religious circles, but be cheated me out ot 83,000, and I don’t want any of that religion.” The Vice ot 111 Temper. Other persons apologize for not entertaining the Christian life because of the incorrigibility of their temper. Now, we admit it is harder for some people to become Christians than for otheri, ’but. the grace of God never came to a mountain that it could not climb or to an abyss that it could not fathom or to a bondage that it could not break. The wildest horse that ever trod Arabian sands has been broken to bit and trace. The maddest torrent tumbling from mountain shelving has been ban nessed to the millwheel and the factory band, setting a thousand shuttles all

a buzz and a-ciatter, and the wildest, the haughtiest, the most ungovernable man ever created, by the grace of God ; may be subdued and sent out on ministry of kindness as God sends an August thunderstorm to water the wild flowers down in the grass. i Good resolution, reformatory effort, , will not effect the change. It takes a I mightier arm aud a mightier hand to bend evil habits than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger iaseo than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A man cannot go forth i with any human weapons and contend i successfully against these Titans armed with up torn mountain. But you have . known men into whose spirit the Influ- , once of the gospel of Christ came, until their disposition was entirely changed. So it was with two morenants In New York. They were very antagonistic. They had done all they could to injure each other. They were in the same line of business. On of the merchants was converted to God. Having been converted, he asked the Lord to teach him how to bear himself toward that business antagonist, and he was impressed with the fact that it was his duty when a customer asked for a certain kind of goods which he had not, but which ho knew his opponent had, to recommend him to go to that store. I suppose that is about the hardest thing the man could do, but being thoroughly converted to God. ho resolved to do that very thing, and being asked for a certain Kind of goods which ho had not, he said, “You go to such and such a store, and you will get it.” After awhile merchant No. 2 found these customers coming, so sent, and he found also that merchant No 1 had been brought to God, and ho sought the same religion. Now they are good friends and good neighbors, the grace of God entirely changing their disposition. "Oh,” says some one, "I have a rough, Jagged; impetuous nature, and religion can'tdo anything for me.” Do vou know that Martin Luther and Robert Newton and Richard Baxter were impetuous, all consuming natures, yet the grace of God turned them into the mightiest usefulness? Oh, how many who have been pugnacious and hard to please, and irascible and more bothered about the mote in their neighbor's eye than about the beam like ship timber in their own eye, have been entirely changed by the grace of God and have found out that “godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for the life which is to come.” The Impetuous Apostle. Peter, with nature as tempestuous as the sea that he once tried to walk, at one look of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich harvests of grace may grow on the tiptop of the jagged steep, and flocks of Christian graces may find pasturage in fields of bramble and rock. Though your disposition may bo dll a-bristle with fretfulness, though you have a temper a-gieam with quick lightnings, though your avarice be like that Os the horse leech, crying, ‘-Give!” though damnable impurities have wrapped you iu ail consuming fire, God can drive that devH out of your soul, and over the chaos and the darkness He can say, “Let there be light.” Converting grace has lifted the drunkard from the ditch, and snatched the knite from the band of the assassin, and the false keys from the burglar, and in the pestiferous lanes of the city met the daughter of sin under the dim lamplight and scattered her sorrow and her guilt with the words, “Thy sins are forgiven—go and sin no more.” For scarlet sin a scarlet atonement. Other persons apologize for not entering the Christian life because of the in- - consistencies of those wno profess religion. There are thousands of poor farmers. They do not know the nature Os soil nor the prpper rotation of crops. Their corn is shorter In the stalk and smaller in the ear. They have 10 less bushels to the acre than their neighbors. But who declines being a farmer because there are so many poor farmers? I There are thousands of incompetent merchants. They buy at the wrong time. They get cheated in the sale of their goods. Every bale of goods is to them a bale of disaster. They fail after awhile and go out of business. But whodeclines to be a merchant because there are so many incompetent merchants? There are thousands of poor lawyers. They cannot draw a declaration that will stand the test They cannot recover just damages. They cannot help a defendant escape from the injustice of his persecutors. They are the worst evidence against an v case in which they are retained. But who declines to be a lawyer because there are so many incompetent lawyers? Yet there are ten of thousands of people who decline being religious because there are so many unworthy Now, I say it is illogical. Poor lawyers are nothing against jurisprudence, poor physicians are nothing against medicine, poor farmers are nothing against agriculture', and mean, contemptible professors of religion are nothing against our glorious Christianity. The Wild Fancies of Skepticism. Sometimes ynu have been ri. ing along on a Summer night by a swamp, and you have seen lights that kindled over decayed vegetation—lights which are called jack-o’-lantern or will-o’-the-wisp. These lights are merely poisonous miasmata. My friends, on your way to Heaven vou will want a better light than the will-o’-wisps which dance on the rotten character of dead Christians. Exudations from poisonous trees in our neighbor’s garden will make a very poor balm for our wounds. Sickness will come, and we will be pushed out toward the Red Sea which divides this world from the next, and not the inconsistency of Christians, but the rod of faith will wave back the waters as a commander wjieels his host The judgment will come, with its thundershod solemnities, attended by bursting mountains and the deep laugh of earthquakes, and suns will fly before the feet of God like sparks from the anvil, and ten thousand burning worlds shall blaze like banners in the track of God omnipotent Oh, then we will nojt stop and say, “There was a mean Christian; there was a cowardly Christian; there was a lying (Christian; tbere was an impure Christian.” In that day. as now, “If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself, but ’ if thou scornest thou shall bear it” Why, my brother.'the inconsistency of Christians, <so far from being an argument to keep you away from God, ought .to be an argument to drive you to Him. The best place for a skillful doctor is in a neighborhood where they are all poor doctors; the best place for an enterprising merchant to open his store Is in a place where the bargain makers do not Understand their business, and the best place for you who want to become the Illustrious and complete Christian, the beet place for you is to come right down among us who are incompetent aud so Inconsistent sometimes. Other persons apologize for not be'comlng Christians because they lack time, as though religion muddled the .‘brain of the accountant, or tripped the pen of the author, or thickened the tongue of the orator, or weakened the arm of tho mechanic, or scattered the briefs of the lawyer, or Interrupted the sales of tho merchant. They bolt their store dooys against it and fight it back with trowels and yardsticks and cry, “Away with your religion from our More, our office, our factory!” They do not understand that religion In this workaday world will help you to do anything you ought to do. It can lay a keel; it can sail a ship; it can buy a

, cargo; it can work a pulley; it can pave i a street; it can fit a wristband; It can I write a constitution; it can marshal a ■ host. It is as appropriate to the as--1 tronomer as his telescope; to the chomi Ist as his labratory; to tho tuasou as bit plumbllme; to the carpenter as his plane; to the child as his marbles; to the grand- . father as his staff. Religion Adds to Ono’s Energies. No time to bo religious hero! You 1 have no time not to be rollglooa You might as well have no dorks in your store, no books in your library, no compass on your ship, no rifle in the battle, no hat for y6ur head, no coat for your back, no shoos for your foot. Better travel on toward eternity bareheaded and barefooted and houseless and homeless and friendless than to go through life without religion. Did religion make Raleigh any loss of a statesman, or Havelock any less of a soldier, or Grinnell any less of a merchant. or West any less of a painter? Religion Is tho best security in every bargain. It is the sweetest note In every song; it is the brightest gem In every coronet. No time to be religious? Whv, you will have to take time to be sick, to be troubled, to die. Our world is only tho wharf from which we arc to embark for Heaven. No time to secure the friendship of Christ? No time to buy a lamp and trim it for that walk through the darkness which otherwise will bo Illumined only by the whiteness of tho tombstones? No time to educate tho eye tor heavenly splendors, or the hand for choral harps, or the ear for everlasting songs, or the soul for honor, glory, and immortality? Ono would thluk we had time for nothing else. Other persons apologize for not entering the Christian life because it is time enough yet. That is very like those persons who send their regrets and say: “I will come In perhaps at 11 or 12 o'clock. I will not be there at the opening of tho banquet,but I will bethero at the close.” Not yet! Not yeti Now, I do not give any doleful view of this life. There Is nothing in my nature, nothing in tho grace ot God, that tends toward a doleful view of human life. I have not much sympathy with Addison’s description of the "Vision of Mirza," where he represents human life as being a bridge of a hundred arches, and both ends of the bridge covered with clouds, and the race coming on, the most of them falling down through the first span and all of them tailing down through the last span. It is a very dismal picture. 1 have not much sympathy with the Spanish proverb which says, “The sky is good, and the earth is good—that which is bad is between the earth and the sky.” But while we as Christian people are bound tc take a cheerful view of life we must also confess that life is a great uncertainty, and that man who says, “I can’t become a Christian because there is time enough yet, ’ is running a risk infinite. You do not perhaps realize tho fact that this descending grade of sin gets steeper and steeper, and that you are gathering up a rush and velocity which after awhile may not answer to the brakes. Oh, mv friends, be not among those who give their whole life to the worid and then give their corpse to God. It does not seem fair while our pulses i are in full play of health that we serve ourselves and serve the world and then make God at last the present of a coffin. It does not seem right that we run our ship from coast to coast carrying cargoes for ourselves and then when the ship is crushed on the rocks give to God the shivered timbers. It is a great thing for a man on his dying pillow to repentbetter that than never at all. but how much better, how much more generous, it would have been if he had repented 50 years before! Mv friends, you will never get over these procrastinations. Now Is the Proper Time. Here is a delusion. People think, “I can go on in sin and worldliness, but after awhile I will repent, and then it will be as though I had comeat the verv start” That is a delusion. No one ever gets fully over procrastination. If you give your soul to God some other time than this, you will enter Heaven with only half the capacity for enjoyment and knowledge you might have had. There will be heights of blessedness you might, have attained you will never reach; thrones of glory on which you might have been seated, but which you will never climb. We will never get over procrastination, neither in time nor in eternity. We have started on a march from which there is no retreat. The shadows of! eternity gather on our pathway. How insignificant is time compared with the I vast eternity! I was thinking of this while coming down over the Alleghany mountains at noon by that wonderful place which you have all heard described as tho Horseshoe, a depression in the side of the mountain where tho train almost turns back again upon itself, and you see how appropriate is the descrip- ■ tion ot the Horseshoe, and thinking on ; this very theme and preparing this very sermon It seemed to me as if the great courser of eternity speeding along had just struck the mountain with one hoof and gone on into illimitable space. So short is time, so insignificant is earth, compared with the vast eternity!. This morning voices roll down the sky, and all the worlds of light are ready to rejoice at your disenthrallmenL Rush not into the presence of the King ragged with sin when you may have this robe of righteousness. Dash not your foot to pieces against the thrbne of a crucified Christ. Throw not your crown of life off the battlements. Ail the scribes of God are this moment ready with volumes of living light to record tho news of your soul emancipated. Perseverance Rewarded. A well-known citizen of Detroit was out oh the street with a $3 umbrella over him when he observed that a stranger was dogging his footsteps. | After making sure of this fact ho wheeled around and said: “See here, sir, are you fallowing me?” “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply. “What for?” “Because I want that umbrella. YVm will leave it somewhere within half an I hour, and I might as well have it as ’ some one perfectly able to buy a dozen of them!” “Don’t you worry about my leaving it,” observed the citizen as he walked off. He entered two offices on Griswold street, took a shy up the stairs of “the Walker block and made a call i1 telephone headquarters. When he came out of the latter place he started for the Postoffice, and had just entered the building when he threw up his hands and exclaimed: “Hang me lif I haven’t left that umbrella!” He rushed back to the telephone office like a man going to a fire, and when he gazed around the room in search of the lost article, one of tho clerks remarked: “Oh! was that your umbrella? It was carried off by a man with red chinwhiskers!”— Detroit Dree Press. Gray horses are the longest lived, and roans come next in order. Creams have not much staying power and succumb quickly in very hot weather. Lighten the load when the roads get muddy.

THE FARMER’S RIGHT. THE TARIFF BURDEN MUST BE REMOVED. i ———- Why the Reform Club Advocates AS Valorem Duties—Schedule* of the Bill Prepared for Congreu* Con>lderatlon—Occupation of the New ■■Calamity Howler*" Gone. The New ■■Calamity Howlen.” •Calamity howlers" have changed sides since Nov. 8. Before election all who did not think we could tax ourselves Into prosperity, and who quoted statistics of increasing mortgages and millionaires, and gave some of the facts in regard to the hundreds of bounty-fed trusts that were advancing prices at one end of their factories and reducing wages at the other end, wore “calamity howlers;” so the McKinleyites said. Since eleotion the protectionists have turned about-face, and are doing some howling on their own account, .or at least have begun to tune up their howler instruments; for, up to date, by some singular freak of fortune or misfortune, there has been, outside of the wage reductions in the pearl button industry and the cessation of that other great McKinley protege —the tin industry—nothing to howl about. Instead of tho protected, industries getting ready to start “to destruction on a toboggan slide,” as some t>f the protectionists still promise, the most of our important industries are not only prosperous just now but are looking ahead, under the promise of free raw materials, to even greater prosperity. The manufacturers of cotton and woolen goods have been so unusually busy since the country fully decided to pay its own taxes and go to the dogs that wages have advanced from sto 10 per cent in the cotton industry, and the price of wool has gone up several cents per pound. The iron and steel industry also is not preparing for the “utter destruction” to which it was doomed if the free-traders should get control of the government, and diminish the supply of the pap to this whopping Infant. The enlargements and improvements now occurring in this industry in anticipation of free ores and an enlarged demand for finished products are sufficient to give the blues to this second crop of calamityites. ’ Here are a few of the latest of these tantalizing items: On April 1 it was reported from Pittsburg that the Carnegie Steel Co., the largest of the kind in America, was preparing for a boom by increasing the capacity of its four great plants at Braddock, Duquesne, Beaver Falls, and Homestead. At Braddock the capacity of the blooming department is to be doubled, two immense underground heating furn ices to be added, and the big foundry and machine shops increased to provide employment to 200 more men. At Duquesne the capacity is to be more than doubled, and steel rails as well as billets will be made. The 1,000 employes will be increased by several hundred. At Homestead a new press for the armor plate works will be put in. It will cost over $1,000,000, and. will be the largest piece ot machinery of the kind in America, probably in the world. It will enable the Carnegie Co. to make the greatest forgings in the world. A plate weighing 200 tons can be worked in one mass. At Beaver Falls two open hearth furnaces will be added. The total cost of all these improvementswill be at least $2,000,000. It was also announced that the Tyler Tube Works, at Washington, Pa., which now employs 270 men, is to double its capacity; the Gautier Steel Works, of Johnstown, Pa., is adding a new building for the manufacture of merchant steel, which will provide work for 100 new men. Many other mills are enlarging and others . that have been closed are starting up. Tue pig-iron trade is in excell lent condition and the wrought iron . pipe mills have orders ahead for six or eight months. In some other lines orders have been received for more than a year ahead, a most discouraging condition of affairs to contemplate for the tariff editors on Rej publican papers, whose hopes lor pro- ' motion depend upon the fault they can find with free-trade rule. —Byron W. Holt. Paying lor Reclpro ity. It will be remembered that President Harrison, under the so-called reciprocity sections of the McKinley bill, issued his proclamation declaring coffee imported to this country from Venezuela, Colombia and Haiti subject to an import tax of three cents a pound, because those countries were derelict in meeting the administration’s reciprocity ideas in admitting American products free of duty. They alleged they could not do so as it would break up their revenue system. The excuse was not acceptetU-and reciprocity as to those countries became retaliation. Well, what has been the result, and who pays the piper? | In 1891, before the retaliatory proclamation was issued, we imported i ab iUt 520,000,000 pounds of coffee, of which 87,500,000 pounds came from Venezuela, Colombia and Haiti. This was a monthly average of 7,300,000 pounds from these three countries. Under the President’s proclamation this has fallen off to about 835,800 pounds a month, valued at $150,000. This was the report for January. The decrease was the effect of the exaction,of a "duty of three cents a pound so far as the quantity received from those countries is concerned. It cut down our supply to that extent. We received one-sixth of our consumption from them. It was what is known in the trade as mild coffees, and cutting off their supply enabled other countries producing the same grades to exact higher prices. The price of mild coffees to American consumers has been increased at least 1} cents a pound, the increase in the aggregate amounting to several millions of dollars annually. The retaliatory proclamation has not only increased the price of coffee from the three countries, but has also affected the prl6e of the large quantities of coffee that are on the free list. It has been stated that President Cleveland has called on the State Department'for information as to our trade relations with the three countries; and this suggests what is probably a fact, that he may rescind

President Harrison’s proclamation imposing the tax of three cents a pound. As the operation of McKinley reciprocity has been to add to the cosFof coffee to American consumers, it would seem to be tho commonsense thing to do to wipe it out. It only adds another to the stupendous failures of McKinley ism.—Pittsburg Post __ Reform Club Tariff Schedules. The following are the different ■ schedules in the Reform Club tariff bill, with tho more Important items under each schedule. The figures showing the value of imports tn 1892 and the present rate of duty, or the ad valorem equivalent, are taken from the tables accompanying the draft of the bill: SCHEDULE A, 30 PER CENT. Value Present imports duty. 1892. Vol Fire crackersl 393,633 140.11 Tobacco manufactured2,769.oll 127.83 SCHEDULE 11, 40 FIB Ct NT. Wines 3.348,378 64.73 Tobacco, raw or manufactured 7,256,255 89.72 BOHEDULE C, 30 PER CENT. I Carrlacea 870,874 44.82 Spirits (internal revenue 68 per cent 1,731,608 171.84 Silk, manufactured3l,443,lßo 63.96 SCHEDULE D, 36 PER CENT. ‘ Earthenware j 8.737.130 67.65 Glass and nines ware 8,881,903 67.23 Manufactures ot iron, steel and tin 29,827,922 66.38 Metals and metal compositions 8,070,743 44.03 Manufactures of c0tt0n28,667,600 67.33 Laces and edtdnita 2,487.066 60 Wool, manufactures bf 35,792,006 96.81 Glpves, except 5i1k6,842,799 56 SCHEDULE K, 20 FEB CENT. Ale and beer 1,763,433 47.62 Fish, capned In 0i1<1,176,892 31.26 Fruits, preserved, eto 1,084,424 34 I H0p5839.295 42.86 Nuts 1,809,595 49. 84 Rice 2,684,698 64.91 Buttons 1,337,516 61.71 Feathers and flowers, artificial 4,230,797 20.81 Musical instruments 1,046,006 40.33 Paints and colors.. 1,376,260 30.60 Coal-tar colors, etc. 1,640,025 36 Glycerine 806,172 33 Soda, except soda ash 1,974,427 37.40 Manufactures of flax and 1iemn.12.V09,807 40 SCHEDULE F, 16 PERCENT. Fruits 8,235.391 22 , Hosp. 608,485 27.99 Burlaps 6,902,032 28.5 T Bags tor grain 1,238,748 45.43 Brushes... A 807,844 40 Clocks and watches 1,920,068 26.99 Oils, vegetable 1,649,203 36.55 SCHEDULE G. 10 FEB CENT. Furs 4,622,208 20 : Leather, not manufactured.... 6,623,182 16 Cement 3,811,602 21.94 Soda ash 4,282,416 18.73 Barley. 1,181,867 69.28 Potatoes 137,293 2«.39< Books, maps, eto 2,076,927 25 1 Paper, manufactures 0f3,366,360 32.601 Precious 5t0ne512,661,871 10.64; Logwoods, dyewoods, eto 325,577 11.36 Sumac 294,677 11. M Iron ore 2.691,571 29.6 W Scrap Iron and steel 516,151 47.39! Wood, manufactured 9,187,324 18 I Pulp. 1,831,231 12 I Animals 2,640,661 26.171 Eggs 3,054,906 15 J Fish, not canned in oil 713,839 44.701 Hay 716,153 62.891 Salt 715,153 62,891 Vegetables, except potatoes... 2.577,630 38 J Sugar. 647,226 19.68 Coffee 616,745 16.071 Art works, paintings, etc 1,610,746 15 j Bristles 1,412,375 10.4 d Coal and coke 4 562,374 22.311 Several corrections should be made| in the above table. Thus the duty] on silk spun in skeins, etc., Is put at| 15 per cent.; the present duty is 35i per .cent, and the value of the im-i ports $1,093,384. This amount should! be deducted from tho total for silk. 1 The duty on woolen yarn is changed l from 63.70 to 15 per cent. The value! of the Imports is $710,537, which; should be deducted from the total sor 1 woolens. The value of the importal of pig iron and scrap iron should bq deducted from the total of iron andj steel. The table is slightly inaccu j rate in other ways, but will serve to! give an idea of the rates of duties. Presa Comment. Following are the opinions of some< of the leading papers concerning thel tariff bill prepared by the Reform} Club: The tariff bill of the Reform Clubi of New York has at least the advant-l age of representing the business side : of the tariff question. It is not as-! sumed to be the conclusive word on the, 1 question when the next tariff bill isj framed, but is part of a variety of information sought with a view to; to guidance. It is the antipode of that on which the McKinley commit-’ tee most relied. Their system of action was to call the manufacturers of the country together, ask them how much duty they wanted, and then admit their claim, thus paying them for campaign contributions to; the Republican party rendered and establishing a basis for further assessment. —Boston Herald, Ind. This method of drafting a tariff bill is entirely novel of late years,' but it is thoroughly Democratic.; Hitherto it has been the custom for manufacturers, the direct.beneficia-j ries of protection, to pool their interests, and then make demands upon a} Republican Congress which promptly yielded to them,. The great mass ofl the people were not consulted in such matters. * * * The best feature! of this new undertaking of the Re-: form Club is that it will serve to direct the attention of the industrial world to the fact that reductions of! the tariff will be made within less than eighteen months. —Albany Argus, Dem. The services of the Reform Club in advancing the cause of tariff reduction have been inestimable in value. In season and out of season this club has sent speakers to all parts of the State, and sent its literature to thousands of citizens, and has pursued the protection fallacy to its death. The gentlemen who prepared the schedule bore the burden of the battle when the battle was burdensome. A report such as they have prepared merits study and courteous consideration.— Utica Observer, Dem. Why Ad Valorem Duties? The tariff bill proposed by the Reform Club contains only ad valorem duties. The only actual tariff composed entirely of ad valorem duties was the “Walker Tariff bill” of 1846, a bill which gave greater prosperity to all classes, and especially the farmer, than was ever enjoyed before or since. Here is one of Secretary Walker’s reasons in favor of this feature of his bill: “The tax upon the actual value 16 the most equal, and can only be accomplished by ad valorem duties. * * * AH specific duties should be abolished and ad valorem duties substituted in their place. * * ♦ If an annuabtax of 930 was assessed on all houses, without respect to their actual value, making the owner of the humble tenement or cabin pay a tax of S3O and the owner of a costly mansion a tax of but S3O on their respective houses, it would differ only in a degree, but not in principle, from the same unvarying specific duty on cheap as on fine articles."