Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1893 — Page 2

©he democrat nrcCATC'R, IND. M. BLACKBURN, - ■ • Ptn>T.T*n*n. It ought to be a very easy matter to break the new plate-glass trust Religion Is a natural instinct with women—politics is an acquired taste, like the relish for olives. Where’s the profit when sunshine, makes ns happy and gay if it makes all the microbes feel Just the same way? The Welch have a drink called Mysglsn Llanpairdysllipozogocb. It makes a man dizzy even to look at the name. Why do our reportorial friends invariably speak of the “cool million” and crisp flve-dollar notes? Why cool and why crisp? The Count of Paris indicates a cheerful willingness to undertake the guidance of the French ship of state. AH that seems to be lacking is the consent of France. A lady is attempting to traverse the country by rail and throughout her journey not touch her Chicago foot to the ground. The value of accomplishing this ambition does not appear. What are feet for? Members of Parliament have officially declared that they want pay for their services. Is patriotism dead over there? In the United States office is sought for its honors alone. At least such allegation has been .made. (Here is a hint from the Household, which is commended to the attention of all who need it: “Ho, all ■ye dyspeptics!” says a quack at the bead of his advertisement But that Is exactly what dyspeptics won’t do. If they would hoe vigorously they might not need any medicine. Eiffel is said to be a fugitive. The possibility that he may have climbed his own tower seems to have been overlooked by the police. If he has, some cunning engineering device may be expected to pull the tower up after him. and what would French justice do then? True, it might convict DeLesseps some more. After winning glory for saving a train a man in Oregon lias been arrested charged with having loosened the rail that gave him a chance to be a hero. So another idol tumbles, a spectacle always somber, but aggravated this time by the fact that the passengers theoretically snatched from death had given their bold rescuer a purse made up of contributions averaging 22 cents apice.

Juana Juarez, a Mexican g irl of; "Durango, was in a casket surrounded by weeping friends, the occasion being her yvake. Some careless mourner flipped a drop of hot tallow from one of the candles upon the waxen Angers of Juana and she bounced out of the casket with a howl that completely robbed the wake of its solemnity, and refused to return. It is so seldom that the chief figure at one of these ceremonials gets a chance to participate actively in proceedings, that Juana’s experience is really worthy of record. The plain old farmers who captured Latimer made the orthodox detective methods appear at a disadvantage. They simply invited the murderer to come along, gave him something to eat, loaded him into a wagon without so much as a pair of handcuffs to restrain him, and landed him safely in the Jackson prison, after having a pleasant talk on the way and eliciting some interesting statements from the remarkable pris- ! oner. There was no flourishing of shooting-irons, no grand stand plays. 1 It was simply a case of hitching up the team and hauling him back. 'The killing of Mrs. Josephine ’ Frill by a Grand Trunk engine, at Chicago, was one of the most cruel and pathetic murders ever perpe- | trated by the railway juggernaut. By hgr death her boy, a bright littlq fellow only four years old. was left '..without father or mother, the former parent having died only about a week before. The little fellow was taken to the Armory station, where he remained for-several days in the care of strangers before any of his relatives learned of his whereabouts or came to claim him. The grade crossing juggernaut is an unsentimental and hideously cruel monster. John Nowacki’s wife made him happy by presenting him with a son •on the 4th of March. John wrote to the President asking permission to name this inauguration boy Grover Cleveland, which privilege was granted. Thus bit by bit the simplicity of American life, is being destroyed. In the olden time when a citizen wanted to name his heir -George Washington or Thomas Jefferson he just went ahead and did so, with none to stop him or interfere in any way. Nobody thought of asking a President’s permission for such a thing,as that, as that was considered a part of the President’s official burden, assumed with the rest of his obligations when he took the oath of office. t Professor Levermore, of Boston, .advocates the establishment of a newspaper with an endowment of ■from 14,000,000 to 000,000 under the charge of a Board of Trustees

having no pecuniary Interest in ti < project. His theory is that by mak ing a newspaper indejcndent of pop ular*support it would be enabled t< exclude reports of scandals, murders and prize fights, and to devote it columns to topics of a less sensations character. Advertising would noth debarred, but nothing of an cquivo cal nature would be accepted. Sucl a journal Is,, of course, i«>ssible, es pcclally with a heavy endowment back of it, but it would be folly t< call it a “newspaper." At best ii would merrily chronicle a certain clasi of events, much after the pattern o trade and sectarian [>ap?rs. It ii needless to say that the person wht depended solely upon such a ournal for current information would be totally unfit to form a correct judgment of events in the world about him. Two hundred and thirty passengers on the north-bound Oregon express were saved from death or inju y by the heroic conduct of a destituta gardener beat ng bis way on the railroad. The salvation of the train and its load of human freight nearly cosl the life of the man who saved it, and the beneficiaries of his unselfish act responded to the noble promptings of gratitude by raising a munificent purse of SSO, representing a contribution of about 22 cents a head. Aside from the value of the railroad property saved from destruction, the Wells, Fargo & Co. treasure box, said to contain about $50,000, was preserved from molestation, it having been the evident intention of a party of miscreants to wreck and then rob the train. Rewards were offered for those who capture the criminals. It might be a stroke of policy and would certainly be a matter of justice to properly reward the man who averted the terrible catastrophe. To this both the railroad and express company might with good grace contribute. Though injudicious to condemn a new law offhand, it is safe to say that legislation incorporated in the last army appropriation act prohibiting the enlistment of soldiers after ten years’ service is of questionable expediency. And this is safely said, because the very people who should be most interested in applying the law are said to design its evasion. It appears that this removing of all prospect of the benefits of the reretired list or the Soldiers’ Home is liable to loss its best men to every regiment in the army when once their present terms of enlistment expire. To prevent such a disaster it is proposed that the law shall be construed as applying to privates only, and that men of other grades worth keeping shall be transferred, before reaching the ten-year limit, to some other classification, and upon being enlisted in such grades may be transferred back to the ranks if desirable. Seeing that army legislation in recent years has tended toward the elevation of army morals, and made soldiering a ’ more‘attractive pursuit for a decent young fellow, it’s a pity if we have now struck a law that is to nullify some of the results of the best of recent reforms.

A circumstance attending a recent murder trial in Texas has excited great public interest in that State. The trial occurred at Columbus. Arthur King was on trial for the murder of Frank Williams, near Eagle Lake, Sept. 11, 1892. The jury was impaneled, and it being late in the afternoon the court adjourned j for supper. Evidently the Texas courts have expeditious methods which would shock the judicial aggre- j gation and the bar of a Northern, city. After supper the trial proceed-' ed. The examination of witnesses was continued until 11 o’clock, when I an adjournment was about to be had.l At that moment Judge Beauregard Bryan, presiding at the trial, was informed that Jud Williams, a brother! of the man for whose murder King was on trial, had secretly passed a flask of whisky to B. L. Willis, one of the jurymen. Whatever malicious wits may say of barbarous conditions at the South, nothing in this instance justifies their jests. The trial was stopped. Judge Bryan called up before him the juror Willis and Jud Williams. Both were severely reprimanded and Williams was sent to jail, to stay there until the further orders of the couit. He then said that this flagrant misconduct would be calculated to throw doubt upon any verdict that might be rendered and discharg'd the jury. The action of Judge Bryan is universally commended and popular opinion regarding the administration of justice in Texas should be in its favor. Our G owing Country. That there are children now born who will live long enough to see the people of the United States number from one hundred and fifty to two hundred million, says Erastus Wiman in a recent number of the Engineering Magazine, is a consideration that should have great weight in contemplating the conditions that new are beginning to prevail. If in the ten years just closed the population has increased at a rate of nearly twenty-five per cent., and we now start out with sixty-five million, fifty years at the same rate of progression will bring the jopulation up to very nearly two hundred million. But, even if the same rate is not maintained, and if only one hundred and fifty million is reached, the enormous growth will have consequences of a character that should be considered with special reference to enlarged territory arid widened area of opportunity. There is hardly anything more certain under the sun than this growth; and its certainty should deeply impress every one who thinks I at all with the importance of making . preparations for an increase so mo- | men to us.

PR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. HIS TWENTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY IN BROOKLYN. He Fneta Like Uttering a Long and Ix>nd HaUeluJah, for the Talent ot the World Center* at Brooklyn, and Ho the Gospul la Spread Abroad. The Tabsrnaelo I'nlptt.

Rev. Dr. 'lalmaao last Sunday preached his twenty-fourth anniversary sermon. Subject, “A Brooklyn Pastorate. " The tert was Revelation iv, 4, “And round a'out the throne were four and twenty se**.ts. and upon the seats 1 saw four and twenty elders.” This text I rhooso chiefly for the numerals it mentions—namely, four and twenty. That was the number ot olders seated around tho throne of God. But that is tho number ot years seated around mv Brooklyn ministry, and every pulpit is a throne of (dossing, or blasting, a throne ot godii or evil. And to-day, in this tny twenty-fourth anniversary sermon, 24 years come and sit around me, and, they speak out in a reminiscence of gladness and tears. Twenty-four years ago 1 arrived in this city to shopherd 1 such a flock as might come, and that day ' I carried in on my arms the infant son who in two weeks from to-day I will help ordain to the gospel ministry, hoping that bo will be preaching long after my poor work is done. | We have received into our membership over 5,000 souls, but they, 1 think, are only a small portion of the multitudes who, coming from all parts of the earth, have in our house of God teen blest and saved. Although we have as a church raised $1,100,000 for religious purposes, yet we are in the strange position of not knowing whether in two or three months we shall have any church at all, and with audiences of 6,000 or 7,000 people crowded into this room and tho adjoining rooms we are confronted with the question whether I shall go on with my work here or go to some other field. What an awful necessity that we should have been obliged to build three immense churches, two of them destroyed by fire! A misapprehension is abroad that the. financial exigency ot this church is past. Through Journalistic and personal friends a breathing spell has been afforded us, but before us yet are financial obligations which must promptly be met, or speedily this house of God will go into worldly uses and become a theater or a concert hall. The $12,000 raised cannot cancel a floating debt of $140,000. Through the kindness^!those to whom we are indebted $60,000 would i set us forever free. I am glad to say i that the case Is not hopeless. We are ; daily in recept of touching evidences of! practical sympathy from all classes of I the community and from all sections of j the country, and it was but yesterday : that by my own band I sent, forcgtfthL buttons gratefully received, ntfarly .50 ; acknowledgements east, west, noytb, and 1 south.

A Day fur Halleluiah. Our trust is in the Lord, who divided the Red Sea and "made the mountains skip like lambs.” With this paragraph | I dismiss the financial subject and re- | turn to the spiritual. This morning the greatness of God’s kindness obliterates 1 everything, and if I wanted to build a | groan Ido not know in what forest I i would hew the timber, or from what quarry I would dig the foundation stone, or who would construct for me an organ i with a tremolo for the only stop, and so | this morning I occupy my time in build-; I ing one great, massive, high, deep,broad, i Heaven piercing halleluiah. In the rej view of the last 24 years I think it may be useful to consider some of the characteristics of a Brooklyn pastorate. : In the first place. I remark that a Brooklyn pastorate is always a difficult ' pastorate. No city utoder the sun has a grander array of pulpit talent than Brooklyn. The Methodists, the Baptists, theCongregationalists,the Episcopalians, all the denominations send their brightest lights here. He who stands In any pulpit in Brooklyn preaching may know that he stands within fifteen minutes walk of sermons which a Saurin, and a Bourdaloue, and a John M. Mason, and a George Whitefield would not be ashamed of. No city unuer the sun where a pbor sermon is such a drug on the market. For forty years Brooklyn has been surcharged with homiletics, an electricity of eloquence that struck every time it i dashed from the old pulpits which j quaked with the powers of a Bethune, and a Cox, and a Spencer, and a Spear, and a Vinton, and a Farley, and a! , Beecher, not mentioning the names of , | the magnificent men now manning the . Brooklyn pulpits. So during all the j : time there has been something to appeal 1 1 to every man’s taste and to gratify ■ every man’s preference. Now, let me say to all ministers of the | gospel who are ambitious for a Brooklyn pulpit that it is always a difficult pastorate. If a man shall come and stand before any audience in almost any church I in Brooklyn, he will find before him men who have heard the mightiest themes discussed in the mightiest way. You Will have be'oro you, it you fall in an argument, fifty logicians in a fidget If you make a slip in the use of a commer- . cial figure of speech, there will be 500 I merchant’s who will notice it If you I throw out an anchor or furl a sail in the I wrong way, there will be ship captains 1 right off who will wonder if you are as I ignorant of theology as you are of navi- . gation! So it will be a place of hard ! 1 study. If you are going to maintain yourself, you will find a Brooklyn pastorate a difficult pastorate. | ’ A Prominent Pulpit. I I remark still further, a Brooklyn pasi toiate is always aconsplcuous pastorate. I The printing press of the country has no greater force than that on the sea--1 coast’. Every pulpit word, good or bad, ■ I wise or ignorant, kind or mean, is . I watched. The reportorial corps of these cities is an organized army. Many of them have collegiate education and large culture, and they are able to weigh oration or address or serman. If you say a silly thing, you will never hear the end , of it, and if you say a wise thing it will , go into multiplication. There is no need of decrying that fact. Men whose influence has been built by . the printing 1 press spend the rest of their lives in de--1 pouncing newspapers/ The newspaper ■ is the puipit on the wing. More preaching done on Monday than on Sunday. [ The omnivorous, all-eyed printing press , is ever vigilant. ! | Besides that a Brooklyn pastorate is always conspicuous in the fact that ’ everybody comes here. Brooklyn Is New York in its better mood! Strangers have not seen New York until they have seen Brooklyn. The East River is the chasm in which our merchants drop their cares • and their anxieties and their business troubles, and by the time they have . greeted their families In the home circle I they have forgotten all about Wall Street and Broadway and the shambles. ’ If they commit business sins in New 1 York during the day, they come ever to Brooklyn to repent of them! I Brooklyn Absorbs the vyorld’s Intellect • i Everybody comes here. Stand at the ' bridge entrance or at the ferry gates on ; Sabbath morning at 10*o’clock, or SabI bath evening at 7 o’clock, and you see ( north, south, east, west—-Europe, Asia, , Africa, New Zealand, Australia—coming to Brooklyn to spend the Sabbath, Or part of It. in the persons of their representatives. Some of them fresh from

! the sea, They have Jost landed, and' i they want to seek the house of God pub- | Itoly to thank the Lord for their deliverance from cyclone and fog bank* off Newfoundland. Every song sung, every prayer offered, every sermon preached In New York and Brooklyn, and all along thia soa coast, in some shape goes all around the world. A Brooklyn pastorate is at the greatest altitude of con■plcuity. Again I remark that a Brooklyn pastorate i» characterized by brevity. I bethink myself of but three ministers of the gospel now preaching here who wore preaching when I came to Brooklyn. Most of the pulpits around mo have changed eeven or eight times since my arrival.

Sometimes the pastorate has been brief for one reason and sometimes lor an- , other reason. Sometimes the ministers of tho gospel hsve been too gcod for this , world, and heaven has transplanted them. Sometimes they changed places ' by tho decree of their denomination. Sometimes they came with great blare of trumpets, proposing to carry everything before them, and got extinguished before they were distinguished. Some rot preached out In two or three years and told the people all they knew. Some with holy speed did in a short time work which It takes a groat many years to do. Whether for good or bad reasons a Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by brevity, not much of tho old plan by which a minister of tho Gospel baptized an infant, then received him Into tho church, after ho had become an adult married him, baptized hjs children, married them, and lived on long enough to bury almost everybody but himself. Glorious 010 pastorates they wore. Some of us remember them—Dr. Spring, Peter Labaugh, Dominie Zabriskle, Daniel Waldo, Abram Halsey. When the snow melted from their foreheads, it revealed the flowers of an unfading coronal. Pastorates of thirty, forty, fifty, fiftyfive years’ continuance. Some of them had to befholpod Into the pulpit or into the carriage, they were so old and decrepit, cut when the Lord’s chariots halted one day in front of tho old parsonage they stepped in vigorous as an athlete, and as wo saw the wheels of fire whirling through tho gates of the sunset we all cried out, “My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof.” I remark again, a Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by its happiness. Brooklyn a Pl* ■» lor Happiness. No city under tho sun where people take such good care of thoir ministers. In proportion as the wi-rld outside may curse, a congregation stands dose up by , the man whom they believe in. Brooklyn society has for its foundation two : elements—the Puritanic, which always , * mean; a quiet Sabbath, and the Hol- ■ I iandish, which means a worshipful i people. On the top of this an admixture ! ot all nationalities—tne brawny Scot, ' ' the solid English, the vivacious Irish, I j ! tho polite French, tho philosophic Ger- ■ man, and in all this intermingling of ; I population the universal dominant theory that a man can do as he pleases, provided he doesn’t disturb anybody else.

A delightful climate. While it is hard on weak throats, for the most of us it Is bracing. Not an atmosphere made up of the discharged gases of chemical factories or the miasms of swamps, but coming panting right off 3,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean before anybody else has had a chance to breathe it! All through the city a society of kind, genial, generous, sympathetic people. How they fly to vou when you are in trouble! How they watch over you when you are sick! How tender they are with you when you have buried your dead! Brooklyn is a good place to live In, a good place to dis in, a good place to be buried in, a good .place from which to rise in a beautiful resurrection. In such a city I have been permitted tb have 24 years of pastorate. During these years how mapy heartbreaks, how many losses, how many bereavements! Hardly a family of the church that has not been struck with sorrow, but God has sustained you in the past, and he will sustain you in the future. I exhort ydp to be of good cheer, O thou of the broken heart. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I wish over every door of this church we might have written the word “Sympathy” —sympathy for all the young. The Sympathies oi Brooklyn. Yes, sympathy for the old. They have their aches and pains and distresses. They cannot bear or walk or see as well as they used to. We must be reverential in their presence. On dark days we must help them through the aisle and help them find the place ir. the hymnbook. Some Sabbath morning we shall miss them from their place, and we shall say, "Where is Fattier So-and-so to-day?” and the answer will be: “What haven't you heard? The King's wagons have taKeh Jacob Up to the palace where his Joseph is yet alive.” Sympathy for businessmen. Twentyfour years of commercial life in New York and Brooklyn are enough to tear one’s nerves to pieces. We want to make our Sabbath service here a rescue tor al! these martyrs of traffic, a foretaste of that land where they have no rents to pay, and there are no business rivalries, and where riches," instead of taking wings to fly away,brood over other riches. Sympathy for the fallen, remembering that they ought to be pitied as much as a man run over with a rail train. The fact is that in the temptations and misfortunes of life they get run over. You ana I in the same circumstances- would have done as badly; we should have done worse perhaps. If you and I had the same evil surroundings and the same evil parentage that they had and the same native born proclivities to evil that they had, you and I should have been in the penitentiary or outcasts of society. “No,” says some self-righteous man, "I couldn't have been overthrown in that way.” You old hypocrite, you would have been the first to fall! We want in this church’to have sympathy for the worst man, remembering he is a brother; sympathy for the worst woman, remembering she is a sister. If that is not the gospel, I do not know what the gospel is. Gratitude to God for the Past. Let it thrill In every sermon. Let it tremble in every song. Let it gleam In every tear and in every light. Sympathy! Men and women are sighing for sympathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for sympathy, tumbling off into uncleanliness and crime and perdition for lack ot sympathy. May God give it to us! Fill all this pulpit with It from stop to step. Let the sweep of these galleries suggest its encircling arms. Fill all the house with it from door to door and from floor to ceiling, until there is no more room for ft, and It shall overflow into the street, and passersby on foot and in carriage shall feel the throb of its magnificent benediction. Let that be a new departure as a church. Let that be anew departure as a pastor. Sympathy! Gratitude to God demands that this morning I mention the tact that during all these twenty-four years I have missed but one Service through sickness. When I entered the ministry, I was so delicate I did not think I would preach three months, out preaching has agreed with me. and I think the healthiest thing in all the earth is the religion of Jesus Christ. Bless the Lord, O my soull What ingrates we are In regard to our health! 1 must, in gratitude to God, also mention the multitudes to whom I have been permitted to preach. Ittssimply miraculous, the attendance morning by

morning, night by night, and year by year and long after It has got to bo an old story. I know somn people are dainty and exclusive In their taste*. A* lor myself, I like a big crowd. I wonld like to see an audience large enoagh to scare me., If this gospel Is good, the more that get it tho bettor. The l*roach*r’» Ambition. Your present and everlasting welfare Is the object ot my ambition. I have *o worldly ambition. I bad once. I have not now. I know thb world about as well as any one knows It. I have beard tho hand-clappiua of its applause, and I have heard tKewio of its opposition, and I declare to you that the former is nut erpeclally sought for, nor is the latter to bo feared. The world has given mo about all the oomfort and prosperity it can give a man, and 1 have no worldjy ambition. I have an all consuming ambition to make full proof of my ministry, to get to Heaven myself and to take a great crowd with mo. Upon ycur table and cradle and arm-chair and pillow and nursery and drawing-room and kitchen may tfia blessing of tho Almighty God come down! During those twenty-four years there Is hardly a family that has not been invaded by sorrow or death. Where are those grand old men, those glorious Christian women, who used to worship with us? Why, they wont away into the next world so gradually that they had concluded tho second stanza or the third stanza in Heaven before you knew they were gone. They had on the crown before you thought they bad dropped tho staff of tho earthly pilgrimage. And then the dear children! Oh, bow many have goue out of this church! You could not keep thorn. You folded them in your arms and said: “O God I cannot give them up. Take all else—take my property, take my reputation—but let me keep this treasure. Lord. I cannot bear this.” Oh, if we could all die together, if we could keep all the sheep and the lambs of the family fold together until some bright spring day, the birds a-chant and the waters a-glitter, and then we could altogether hear the voice of the good Shepherd and hand in hand pass through the flood. No, no, no, nol Oh, if we only had notice that we are all to depart together, and we could say to our families: "The time has come. The Lord bids us away.” And then we could take our little children to their bedsand straighten out ttieir limbs and say: "Now, sleep the last sleep. Good night, until it is good morning.” And then we could go to our own couches and sav: “Now, altogether we are ready to go. Our children are gone; now let us depart. ” No, no! It Is one by one. It may bo in the midnight. It may bo In the winter, and In the snow coming down 30 inches deep over our grave. It may be in the strange hotel and our arm too weak to pull the bell for help. It may be so suddenly we have no time even to say goodby. Death Isa bitter, crushiug, tremendous curse.

The Harp of Comfort. I play you threo tunes on the gospel harp of comfort. “Weeping may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning." That is one. "All things work together for good to those who love God.” That is the second. "And the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to the living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes.” That is the third. During 24 years I have tried as far as 1 could, by argument, by illustration and by caricature to fill you with disgust with much ot this modern religion which people are trying now to substitute for the religion of Jesus Chrtot and the religion of the apostles. I have tried to persuade you that tho worst of all cant is tho cant of skepticism, and instead of your apologizing tor Christianity it was high time that those who do not believe in Christianity shoald apologize to you, and I have tried to show that the biggest villains in the universe are those who would try to rob us of this Bible, arid that the grandest mission of the church of Jesus Christ is that of bringing souls to the Lord—a soul saving church. But now those years are gone. If you have neglected your duty, if I have neglected mv duty, it is neglected forever. Each year has its work. If the work is performed within the twelve months, it is done forever. If neglected, it is neglected forever. When a woman was dying, she said, "Call them back;” They did not know what she meant She bad been a disciple of the world. She said, “Oh, call them back!” They said, “Who do you want us to call back?” “Oh,” she said, “call tnem back, the days, the months, the years, I have wasted. Call them back!” But you cannot call them back. You cannot call a year back, or a month back, or a week back, or an hour back, or a second back. Gone once, it is gone forever. When a great battle was raging,* messenger came up and said to the General, who was talking with an officer, "General, we have taken a standard from the enemy.” The General kept right on conversing with his fellow officer, and the messenger said again, "General, we have taken a standard from the enemy.” Still the General kept right on, and the messenger lost his patience, not having his message seemingly appreciated, and said again, 'General, we have, taken a standard from the enemy.” The General then looked at him and said, "Take another.” Ah, forgetting the things that are behind, let us look to those that are before. Win another castle; take another standard; gain another victory. Roll on, sweet day of the w*rki's emancipation, wheu "the mountains and tne hill's shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the wood shall clap their hands, and Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and iustead of the brier will come up the mvrtie tree, and it shall be unto the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that cannot bo cut off.

“There’s nothing like starting right," observed the senior partner as holobked up from his daily. “I see that pepper has taken a jump of 10 per cent., cinnamon is on the rise, and allspice is running away with market quotations. ” “And you will have to increase the price of your goods ?” queried his broth-er-in-law from one of the back townships. “That’s where we hit ’em—no increase 1 We started this business with the firm ntention not to be controlled by rings or failure of crops, and our pure ground seasonings are made without reference io pepper, cinnamon, spice or anything else in the trade! Start right, sirstart right If I should start a starch factory I would not depend either on com or potatoes.”— Wall Street News. The contractors on one of the railroads down East, finding it impossible to keep track of the Italian laborers by their unpronounceable names, fell upon the plan of numbering them. The number of each is painted in plain figures on the seat of his pantaloons. Before beginning work in the morning, at noon and again at night the men are formed in line, and the foreman passes in the rear of them and takes down each number, in order to ascertain who is present, as well as who is absent The plan is beneficial in two ways—the men are easily recognized, and they are also kept from sitting down too much for fear of rubbing out thp figures.

~ SDAMEFUL ADMISSION. WORKINGS OF A HIGH TARIFF BROUGHT TO LIGHT. Another Industry Admit* that Protoetion Enervates and Pauperise* the Banin*** and Result* In Higher Pries*—Commercial Freedom Would Stop Canadian Exodus. An Open Confession. Willett and Gray's Sugar Journal ' of April 0 pula on an injured look and 1 usks why tjie sugar refining industry should bo singled out “for special j attack on tho ground of too much | protection." It quotes the latest; statistics to show that in over tweaty principal manufactur ng industries tho p otoction varies from 27 to 113 per cent., while it is but 13.98 per cent on refined sugar. This certalnly does look unfair. While Uncle Sam is lending a helping hand to the manufacturing industries, he should ' endeavor to be impartial. Th n the Journal proceeds to make a confession which it is well for the country to understand. It says: “The advantages derived from the above noted discrimination against refiners are not very apparent Oon-1 trary to general opinion, the prosperity of refiners is probably owing in a considerable degree to the small measure of protection accorded them compared with all other manufacturers. This small protection forces economies of management and concentration of manufacture, by means of which profits can only be made and dividends maintained, and pre- ; vents competition from the building of new refineries."

This Is not the first industry that has made this shameful admission. The window glass manufacturershave admitted, in the National Glass Budget and other glass Journals, that too much “protection” has made them careless and wasteful in their methods, so that instead of making good use of our abundant natural opportunities —cheap gas, fuel, sand, etc., —and making the best and the cheapest glass in the world, we have become so slothful that we can make only inferior glass atr nearly twice the European cost of good glass. The Budget frankly avows that if it had not been for “protection” and the absence of natural competition, the unsurpassed facilities for glass production coming from free natural gas would have given us the markets of the Western, if not of the Eastern, world. With protection we are still using antiquated pots instead of modern tanks, used all over Europe, and with the declining supply of natural gas we will have lost the opportunity of an age. Nature is withdrawing her bounty; protection has defeated it Other countries less favorably situated and supplied with raw materials wili continue to supply th ■ markets that should n ,w be ours. The woo eu men claim to be in the same nasty, measly predicament. Not lung ago. when they were clamoring for more protection, they were pretending that it would stimulate home competition and cause pr.ces to decline. Jiow, since the jig is up with them and their shoddy claims, and cons derable of their protection is to be withdrawn, they are ready and willing to go back on all past statements anil to make the most shameful admissions to save as much as possible of thdir unconstitutional and unholy bonus. Here is what the American Wool and Cotton Reporter of Feb. 23 said: “Were the Mills bill put in operation to-day the measure of protection afforded by it, so far as pertains to the woolen industry, would be less than would have been realized at the time the bill was formulated. Conditions have changed cons derably during the past four years, and what would have been a sufficient measure ot protection then would be inadequate to-day. The foreign manufacturer, because of the obstacles of higher duties, has been forced to a lower plane of economy, while the domestic manufacturer, with a wider market than formerly to cater to, has had less incentive to restrict and economize. These conditions have widened the difference between them, and has increased the advantage the former has over the latier." Higher prices and slovenly methods of manufacture, then, are the heritage of thirty years of protection and high taxation. Instead of strengthening our weak industries and fitting them to stand alone and to produce goods at u mpetitive prices, it enervates them and makes them a heavier and heavier burden upon the taxed consumers. Like indiscriminate charity it increases the evils it seeks to remedy. On e pauperize an industry and allow it to draw Its support from honest, seli'-suppo ting industry and it will soon lose that self-reliance and independence which is the mainspring of success. If, as the .Sugar Journal says, “small protection forces economies of management and concentration of manufacture, by meam of which profits can only be made and dividends maintained," tho Journal ought to be thankful at the prospect of continuing and increas ng this economic and profit-producing system, which the present Congress will surely inaugurate, by greatly reducing the aihount of protection now enjoyed, or rather wasted, by their spendthrift pauper industries. They should rejoice at the prospect of earning an honest living, and sixty millions of consumers will Jo n with them in the chorus.—Byron W. Holt. Why Canadian* Emigrate. We are told by the Mail and Express, and other high Republican authorities, that the Canadian Government is unable to stem the exodus of its people from the eastern provinces into our New England and Middle States, and that, to counteract this loss, “nearly three hundred agents are constantly employed traveling about the Western abates to encourage emigration to Canada, and offering $lO bonus to a head of a family and $5 for each member. Besides this, free homesteads are provided." Yet the tide is running strong from Canada to this country and the last census shows that there are nearly 1.000,000 Canadians here. Tbe Mail and Exp ess says Canadians come here because “they are convinced that on this side of the dividing line lie opportunities for thrift and industry." This is undoubtedly true, Why, then, are

there greater opportunities for thrift and Industry here? Both countries have high protective tariffs, and both have millions of unused and fertile farm and timber lands. It is not nature’s fault that opportunities are greater in this country; it is man's fault Tho artificial restriction of trade and commerce by "protective" tariffs is mainly responsible for the present exodus. It would drive the oppressed out of any country which 1 has no greater variety of climate than 1 has Eastern Canada. “Protect” Michigan or Maine from the rest of thia i country, as Canada is now protected : from It, and tho cost of living will go I up and wages down so much that thousands will emigrate to the other States and great offers of cash will be necessary to allure them back to their “protected" homes. The pinch of protection is felt more In small countries, which lack a great diversification of soil and 1 climate. Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia are being depopulated by protective tariffs, and their oppressed come to this country because it is the greatest free trade country on the globe; trade being absolutely free from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, and from Canada to Mexico. Five yqars of McKinley ism would cost old England one-fifth of its population and the manufacturing and commercial supremacy of the globe. One decade of high protection has started Canada on the down grade and has brought, about a reaction there which it took three decades to bring about in this groat country. The sentiment for annexation is growing rapidly there. On April 4 the Hon. Honore Mercier, Prime Minister of Quebec from 1886 to 1892, addressed an immense audience in Montreal,“On the Future of Canada." He pictured the great advantages that would follow union with the United States, and advocated political independence as the first step to annexation. The meeting passed a resolution in favor of immediate independence. Practically all to be gained by annexation, of real benefit to the people, could be obtained by the removal of the two tariff walls between the countries. Canadians are responsible for one of these and could remove it any time. We will promise toremove half of our wall and to take the McKinley barbed wires off the top during the next two years. It is not likely that we will stop the good work at once, and who knows what may happen before the twentieth century arrives? Slaves who realize their condition and who could appreciate freedom, are already half free; and freemen, who do not appreciate their liberty and cannot govern themselves wisely, are half slaves. When Canadians have studied their conditions and understand the nature of their bonds they will virtually be free, even though politically and nominally subject to Great Britain. There'* a Good Timo Coming. Our principles lead to a refusal of bounties and subsidies which burden the labor and thrift of a portion of our people. We shall challenge “wild and reckless pension expenditure.” Our Government rests on the equality before the law which is guaranteed to every citizen.—Grover Cleveland's inaugural address. No bounties! No subsidies! Stricter pension laws and all. Fewer taxes on necessities! My goodness what a fall For the gluttons and the greedy 'uns who’ve lived up onr needs! What a raking off ot barnacles, what a digging up of weeds. What a cleaning ont of parasites, what a hoeing ont ot cant. M What a howl they will be setting np, aniM>h! my eye, what rant We shall near from Dan to Beersheba, from farthest North to South, When these disgruntled, pampered hogs shall one and all give month. They've lived so long on other folk they felt quite well assured That for another century they'd surely be tn- . dured. And now they find they’ve got to quit, and that right mighty quick. The pain they feel is out ot all proportion t« the prick. For after all they’ll get their due, as much as all the rest, But then for years they've fattened vpon nothing but tho best; And tbat they now should be denied the right to filch us more Is what they didn't bargain for, "’I qnallty In law.” Equality's a doctrine tn which they don't believe, Unless it be the doctrine of eqnality to thieve An equal share In subsidies, or bounties, or • tax By which they each could rloher grow and fill their treasure sack. But now we kind o' seem to see as how them days are done. And a brighter, better, jnster reign of equality's begun, Atime in whlcb the good old phrase, equality in law. Means what onr founders meant it should, ttu same for rich and poor. —Jack Plain, in American Industries. Who I* Afraid? The Tribune remarks that "a 25 per cent, tariff on woolen goods alarms peoplri,quite naturally.” Indeed I What people? Are the people who wear woolens alarmed at the prospect of a reduction in the taxes upon them? Or is it the manufacturers? If so, why should they be alarmed? They will get their raw material free, as they did under the tariff of 1816-19, when the duty on manufactured goods was 20 to 25 per cent. If that was sufficient to protect this “infant manufacture” seventy-five years ago, why is it not adequate now? The duty on manufactures of wool was only 25 to 30 per cent, in 1861, under the original war tariff, and but 30 to 35 per cent, in 1862-63. Why should the people pay two or three times as much now?—New York World. , ? '

The Hon. John De Witt Warner >gttes some sound advice and strikes straight from the shoulder when he says: “No one will question the right of a party to put as many recommendations in its platform aa crammed the one adopted at Chicago. It was perfectly understood, however, that tariff reform was the issue we made. In that sign we conquered. If we permit ourselves to be diverted from it before our pledges ate fulfilled we shall be horsewhipped at the polls the first time the people get a chance at us. ” Possibly Gov. McKinley’s recent experience nas convinced him that the foreigners don’t pay the tin-plate tax. 1 , Dr. W. W. Alley, who died at Moravia. N. Y., aged 91 years, was the oldest homeoiathlo physician in the countiy. He had been in ocntlnuous practice for slxty-slx years.