Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1893 — Page 2

TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Omn.nU «nrt Oritlnlam* B*ae<l Upon Hspponlnv* <» r th * Day-M»«uwlo»J •nd Now. Not»«An exploding b 'mb is not an outburst of patriotism. The Russian sailors are said to take great Interest In our “schooners." It costs as much io convict a New Vork murderer as it does to build a oubile school. The man with a bnil on his never borrows trouble. He has enough of it Sanitation is desirable, but the cyclone’s wav of cleaning up a section is not io lie commended. IT is said that Ch cago water has bugs mit Rut even this is better than whisky with snakes in it The cautious man never rakes any chances. That's the reason you so seldom see him at a church fair. It seems easy enough to name a baby, unless by some extraordinary chance the baby happens to be your own. The cruiser New York's twenty knots an hour show that this country* is not only getting a navy, but that it’s getting it fast. ‘Squire” Abingdon is dead. He , wifi be remembered for a time as the individual who blackened Langtry’s eyes and boasted of it. The spirit of conquest recently developed by the Japs in the Pacific would indicate that they had some new warships to try also. Do not speak unk ndiy of a man because he is a “stick.” A match is but ast ck, but see how it tires up when it comes to the.scratch. “1 wish,” said the embarrassed- • looking man. who had tried to dance. I “that it wasn't so hard to catch a train at the depot and so hard to miss it in a ball room.” An old ladv being asked her opinion of ase mon, said she had three opinions to it—first, the p eacher [ read it; second, he read it badly; third, it was not worth reading. Burglars broke into the house of: the Bradley-Martins at New York. and stole most of the bric-a-brac. ' There is, however, something for which to be grateful; They left the hyphen. Warp Me Allister wants a foreign mission. He mightdo well in Africa, teaching manners to the monkeys, whose conversational powers are being developed under the coaching of Professor Garnier. Inquire not too much into your bosom companion's triefs, nor compel him to tell all the tales of his. life. Much and all will be told those . that do not ask; and you shall have the secrets into which you do not pry. A number of orders have been given to Philadelphia iron workers lor machine?Ao be used in distilling alcohol from sweet potatoes. A gallon of alcohol can be distilled from a bushel of sweet potatoes at a small cost. « Cholera is now quite pronounced in parts of Russia, Austria, and France, but it has not been received according to the plan of last year. Nobody calls it cholera now in the hope of assuaging the pangs of those who die of it. A iio'-se is no home unless it contains food and tire for the mind as well as for the body. For human befmrs are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish. » Eastern students, in hazing some ( of their fellows, marked them indel-j ibly with lunar caustic. If the vic-| thus do not beat the hollow heads of their persecutors, then college ath-; letics should be stricken from the; curriculum and tiddiedewinks substituted. A Kansas City woman sued a j safety deposit company for money' purloined from a vault which she had ■ rented and recovered. The verdict is just. If a safety deposit company that fails to take care of the valuables intrusted to it cannot be held responsible why does it exist at all? Something handsome awaits the man who shall contrive a magazine, self feeding electric arc lamp that ■shall work unerringly and be cheaper than the wages of the men now employed to put in new carbons. Invention has overcome one serious difficulty after another in electric .. lighting, and the hopeful thing about the commercial use of electrftity is that every skilled man employed in the business seems to aspire to be an Inventor. The world has reclaimed about 40,OOO.obOacres of land by irrigation. India' has 25,000,000 acres, Egypt \ 000,000, Europe 5,000,000, and the ( nited States 4,000,000. But the United Slates is only a beginner and w H yet cause many millions of acres •of arid or semi-arid lands tp blossom

as the rose as population crowds tho fertile portions of the country. Spasmodic efforts are being made , to revive interest in a once popular j pastime in this country known as base ball, which was Jockeyed to . death a few years ago. The salaries I connected with It are no longer princely, and the struggle to restore i it to favor is on a scale too small to ’ promise well for success. The I‘magnates" must die before tho game re- ' vlvcs. 11 I Never for a moment must we un- • derrate the intentional benevolence ; that freely and gladly bestows whatj ever It possesses for the benefit of others, even to a sacrifice to self. ' The motive which prompts this » course of conduct Is the very kernel of social welfare, and, were it always I prevalent in the hearts of men, most of the knotty social problems which now so frequently agitate the community would be instantly solved. Oscar Widde’s new play consists of a title and a jumble of epigrams. It would be improved by the eliminai tion of the epigrams. When. for instance, Wilde makes one character aver that “a bad man is one who admires innocence,” he is indulging in something very like idiocy. His ’ further allegation that a "well tied tie is the first serious step in life” is only half complete. A well-tied tie, trespassing somewhat on the ear, is also sometimes the last serious [step • in life. The little town of Oakland, N. J. boasts of a man named Van Blarcom, who recently swore continuously for twenty minutes. His profanity was not a monotonous repetition of the same oaths, smeh as the low-class swearer indulges in, but it was picj turesque, varied, and vigorous. Despite the range and potency of hie blasphemy a justice sentenced this artist in “cuss words” to sixty days in the county jail. It is evident that , swearing as a fine art is not apprect ■ ated in New Jersey. A negro preacher of Cambridge, j Ohio, prophesied that he would die on the evening of April 28. He was in good health until within a few minutes of 7, when he quietly lay down and expired. People who de not believe in the modern gift of i prophesy will see in this occurrence the effect of mind over matter. If that negroes gift of dying at pleasure could be made a universal acquirel meat, what a deal of revolting detail I could the world be spared in the mat- ■ ter of su cide. A person tired of life i would not find it necessary to blow his head off in his bedroom,or to take poison and die in the house. He would simply will himself dead and pass away naturally and peaceably. The improvement of firearms in the course of the present century almost equals the progress from crossbows to flint-lock muskets. The trumpet-shaped musquetoons of the fifteenth century could be used only at short range, but their chief defect was their liability to miss Are al•together. As late as 1752 Marechai Saxe pardoned a deserter because every one of the six muskets in the hands of the tiring squad had failed to explode its charge, and the delinquent was considered a protege of Providence. Imagine the chances of that soldier if the six marksmen had used rifles of the Manlicher pattern, with cartridges warranted to explode 449,995 times in half a million shots Fatal. Clifford Harrison, the English reader, has his own ideas of the "total depravity of inanimate things. ” He says it is usually fatal to introduce an effective pause into a recitation, for something is sure to mar it. He adds, plaintively: If lam reciting in a hall where there is a striking clock, or past which a train runs, with shriek and roar. I know that striking clock and shrieking train will make themselves | heard at a moment when it is most important for me to have unbroken silence. _ I once wrote some verses for recitation. into which I was so injudicious ■ as to put a sudden exclamation: ‘ Listen I What is,that?” I might have known what would i happen. Clocks chimed, doors slammed, special trains screamed, old gentlemen coughed, some one was i convulsed with an irrepressible sneeze, i.dogs came from distant parts on purpose to bark, candle-shades fell off, a waiter dropped a tray and teacups, a baby cried, and a deaf old lady was j heard to say to her neighbor: "Would half a cucumber be of any ( use?” : I learned bitter wisdom, and cut i the passage out. , Sending Photo# to th© Prenklent. ■ What under the sun do people sup-.; pose Mr. Cleveland wants of their photographs? Do they think the White House runs an identification bureau? This is one of the craziest crazes the American people buffer ' from. Apparently there is an insane idea in the popular-minds that the ■ President wants to make a national . photograph alburn to look at when he . isn’t busy. Every mall brings Its , quota of photographs, which includes the babies named after members of ' the White House family, all, the ’ “first” voters for Cleveland. all his i j discoverers, their wives and families, i all the freaks that spring up, and pictures of all sorts of pl’aces. In the ■month since he moved io Washington . oyer two gross of pictures have been received. The President never sees , them.—Kate field's Washington, t —r- ——. ? It always scares a man who has □; done wrong to be told that he has an j; expressive face. 9 Even the chuehes have adoped the i fad of trying to soiled something, “

“ HARP AND JAVELINDR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON A r NOVEL SUBJECT. s The Wonderful Soothing and Healing Power ot Miuto aa Illustrated by David 8 Delore Naul-Whon Itoalnted. Ute Evil la r all Ute Greater. a ” J The Tabernacle Pulpit. * Tn , his sermon l»st Sunday In ths . Brooklyn Tabernaels, Rov. Dr. Talmage brought in a aovol and practical conjunction that is suggested by a text perhaps never before chosen. Tho subject announced was: "Harp 5 and Javolfn," the text being I Samuel, . eighteenth chapter, tenth and olovonth . verses: “And David played with h» hand as at othor times, and there was a javelin in Saul's haud. And Saul cast I the javelin, for he said, I will smite I David even to tho wall with it And David avoided out of his presence twice.” 1 What a spectacle for all ages! Saul, a , giant and David, a dwarf. An unfortunate war ballad had been composed and sung eulogizing David above Saul. That song threw Saul into a paroxysm of rage, which brought on one of his old spells of Insanity to which bo had been subject. If ono Is disposed to some physical ailment and ho got real mad, it Is very apt to bring on one of his old attacks. Saul is a raving maniac, and ho goes to Imltatinc the false prophets or sibyls, who kicked and gesticulated wildly when they protended to be foretelling events. Whatever tho physicians of tho royal staff may have prescribed for tho disordered king I know not, but David prescribed music. Having keyed up the j harp, his fingers began to pull the rhythm, from tho vibrating strings. Thrum I Thrum! Thrum! No use The king will not listen to tho exquisite cadences. He lets fly a javelin, expecting to pin the minstrel to the wall, but David dodged the weapon and kept on, for be was confident that he could, as before, subdue Saul's bad spirit by music. Again the javelin is flung, and David dodges it and departs. What a contrast! Roseate David with a harp and enraged Saul with a javelin. Who would not rather play the one than fling the other? But that was not the only time in the world’s history that harp and javelin met. Where their birthplace was I cannot declare. It is said that the lyre was first suggested by the tight drawing of the sinews of a tortoise across its shell, and that the flute was first suggested by the blowing of the wind across a bed of reeds, and that the ratio of musical intervals was first suggested to Pythagoras by the different hammers on the of the smithy, but the harp seems j to me to have dropped ont of the sky . and the javelin to hav been thrown up ! from the pit. The oldest stringed, instrument of the world is the harp. Jubal sounded his I harp in the book of Genesis. played many of his psalms on the harp while he sang them. The captives in Babylon hung their harps on the willows. Josephus celebrated the invention of the ten-stringed barp. Timotheus, the Milesian, was Imprisoned for adding tho twelfth string to the harp, because too much luxury of sound might enervate the people. Egyptian harps, , Scottish harps, Welsh harps, Irish harps 1 have been celebrated. What an Inspired triangle! Everlasting honors to Sebastian Erard, who by pedals invented called the foot as well as the hand to the harp. When the harpsicord maker for whom he worked discharged him for his genius, the employer not wanting to be eclipsed by his subordinate, Erard suffered from the same passion of jealousy that threw Saul of mjjtext Into the fit during which he flung a javelin at the harpest. The harp is almost human, as you find when you put your finger on its pulse. Other instruments have louder voice and may be better for a battle charge, but what exquisite sweetness slumbers between the harp strings, waking at the first touch of the tips of the fingers. It can weep. It can plead, It can soothe. It can pray. The flute is more mellow, the trumpet is more startling, the organ is more majestic, the cymbals are more festive, the drum is more resounding, but the harp has a richness of its own and will continue its mission through all time and then take part in celestial symphonies, for St John says he heard In Heaven the harps of God. The Ancient" Javelin. But the javelin of my text is just as old. It is about 5J< feet long, with wooden handle and steel point, keen and ' sharp. But it belongs to the great family of death dealers and Is brother to sword and spear and bayonet and first cousin to all the implements that wound* and slay. It has cut its way through the ages. It was old when Saul, in the scene of my text, tried to harpoon David. It has gashed the earth with grave trenches. Its keen tip is reddened with the blood of American wars, English wars, German wars, Russian wars, French wars, Crusader wars and wars of all nations and all ages. The structure of the javelin shows what it was made for. The plowshare Is sharp, but aimed to cut the earth in preparation for harvests. The lightning rod is sharp, but aimed to disarm the lightnings and secure safety. The ax is sharp, but armed to fell forests and clear the wav for human habitation. The knife is sharp, but aimed to cut the oread for sustenance. But the javelin is sharp only to open human arteries and extinguish human eyesight and take human life and fill the earth with the orphanage and widowhood and childlessness. Oh, I am so glad that mv text brings them so close together that wo can see the contrast between the harp and the javelin. The one to soothe, the other to hurt; the one to save, the othor to destroy; the one divine, the'other diabolic; the one to play, the other to hurl; the one in David's skillful hand, the other in Saul’s wrathful clutch. May God speed the harp, may God grind into dullness the sharp edge of the javelin. Now whatdoes all this make you think of? It suggests to me music as a medicine for physical and mental disorders. David took hold of the musical instrument which he best knew how to play and evoked from It sounds which were for King Saul’s diversion and medicament. But, you say, the treatment in this case was a failure. Why was It a failure? Saul refused to take the medicine. A whole apothecary shop of curative drugs will do nothing toward healing your Illness If you refuse to take the medicine. It was not the faultof David’s prescription, but the fault of Saul's obstinacy. — David, one of the wisest and best of all ages, stands before us in tho text administering music for nervous disorder and cerebral disturbance, and David was right. Music is the mightiest force in all therapeutics. The Power of Mualc. After the battle of Yorktown, when a musician was to suffer amputation, and before the days of anaesthetics, the wounded artist called for a musical Instrument and lost not a note during the forty minutes of amputation. Filippo Palma, the great musician, confronted by an angry creditor, played so enchantlngly before him that the creditor forgave the debt and gave the debtor 10 guineas more to appease other creditors. An eminent physician of olden time

contended (of coureo carrying our theory too far) that all ailments of tho world could be cured by music. The medical journals never report their recoveries by this mode. But In what twilight hour has many a saint of God solaced a heartache with a hymn hummed or sung - or played! Jferdme of Prague sang while , burning at the stake. Over wbat keys of piano or organ consolation ha» walked. Yea, in church one hymn has rolled peace over a thousand of tho worried, perplexed atid agonized. While there are hymns and tunes ready for the jubilant, there is a rich hvmnology for the si«<‘ring—“Naomi" and “Eventide" and “Autumn leaves" and “Come, ye disconsolate," and whole portfolios and librettos of tears sot to music. All the wonderful triumphs of surgery and all the new modes of successful treatment of physical and mental ‘ disorders are discussed in medical oon- ' ■ ventions and spread abroad in medical ' books, and it is high time that some of ' j the millions of souls that have been medlcatod by music, vocal and Instrumental, let the world know what power there is In sweet sound, whether rolling from lip or leaping from tigbtonod chord or asceudlag from ivory key.

The Rebetlloui Nature, But when in my text I see Saul declining this medicine of rhvthm and cadence and actually hurling a JaveHn at the heart of David the harpist, I bethink myself of the fact that sin would like to kill sacred music. We are not told what tune David was playing on the harp that day, but from the character of the man wc know that It was not a crazy madrigal, or a senseless dittv, or a sweep of the strings suggestive of the melodrama, but elevated music, God given music, Inspired music, religious music, a whole Heaven of it encamped under a liarpI string. No wonder that wicked Saul hated it and could not abide tho sound and with all his might hurled an instrument of death at IL I know there are styles of music that sin admires, and ydu hear ft as you pass the casluo or the dance hall, and the devil has stolen most of the fiddles, though I am glad the Ole Bulls have snatched up the charmed strings from their desecration, but it is a fact that sin has a javelin for sacred sounds. In many churches the javelin of criticism has killed the music, javelin flung from organ loft or from adjoining pew of the supersensitive. Saul’s javelin aimed st David’s harp. Thousands ot people so afraid they may not sing scientifically, they will not sing at all. or aing with such low tone that no one hears<hem. In many a church the javelin of criticism has crippled tho harp of worship. If satau could silence all the Sunday school songs and the hyinns of Christian worship, he would gain his greatest achievement. When the millennial song , shall rise—and it is being made ready—- • there will be such a roll of voices, such I a concentrated power of stringed and | wind instruments, such majesty, such 1 unanimity, such continental and hemi- ' spheric and planetary acclamation, that it will be impossible to know where earth stops and Heaven begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up, thou millennial harmony! The Meanness of Revenge. See also in my subject a rejected opportunity of revenge. Why did not David pick up Saul’s javelin and hurl it back again? David had a skillful arm. I He demonstrated on another occasion he ' could wield a sling, and he could have easily picked up that javelin, aimed it at Saul, the would be assassin, and left the foaming and demented monster as lifeless under the javelin as he had left Goliath under a sling. Oh. David, now Is your chance. No, no. Men and women with power of tongue or pell or hand to reply to an imbittered antagonist, better imitate David and let the javelin lie at your feet and keep the harp in your hand. Do not. strike back. Do not play the game of tit for tat Gibbon, in bis history, tells of Bajazet, the great Moslem general who was brought a captive to the tent of Timur. He had attempted the massacre of Timur and his men. Timur said to him: “Had you vanished us I am not ignorant of the fate which you reserved for myself and my troops, but I disdain to retaliate. Your life and home are secure, and I shall express my gratitude to God by my clemency to man.” Beautiful. Revenge on Christian’s tongue or pen or hand Is inapt and more damage to the ono who employs it than the one against whom it is employed. What! A javelin burled at you and fallen at your feet, and you not hurl it back again? Yes. I have tried the plan. I learned it from my father and have practiced it all my life, and it works well, and by the- help of God and javelinsnot picked up I have i conquered all my foes and preached funeral sermons iu honor of most of them. The best thing you can do with a javelin hurled at you is to let it lie where it dropped or hang it up in your museum as a curiosity. The deepest wound made by a javelin is not by the abarp edge, but at the dull end ot the handle to him who wields it. I leave it to you to say which got the best ot that tight in the palace— Saul or David. See also in my subject that the fact that a man sometimes dodges is not against bis courage. My text says that when Saul assailed him, “David avoided out of his presence twice”—that is, when the javelin was flung, he stepped out of its direction or bent this way or that— In other words, he dodged. But all those who have read the life of David know that ho was not lacking In prowess. David had faults, but cowardice was not one of them. « When David, who was, I guess, about four and one-half feet high, went out to meet the giant, who was. I guess, about ten feet high, it was a big undertaking, and tho unequalities of the struggle are so great that it struck the giant’s idea of the ludicrous, and he suggested to the little follow that he would make a fine dinner tor a buzzard or a jackal—- “ Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls ot the air a»od to the beasts of the field.” / Courage of the Righteous. When David went out to meet that giant and conquered him, he demonstrated, as he did on other occasions, I his courage. But I am so glad that when Saul flung that javelin David dodged it, or the chief work of his life would never have been done. What a ; Itesson this Is to those who go Into useless danger and expose their lives or their reputations or their usefulness unnecessiylly. When duty demands, go anead, though all earth and hell oppose. Dodge not one inch from the right position. But when nothing Is Involved step back or step aside. Why stand In the way of perils that you can avoide? Go not into quixotic battles to fight windmills. You will be of more use to the w<#ld and the church as an active Christian man than as a target for javelins. There are Christians always- in a fight. If they gj into presbyteries or conferences or consociations, they fight there. My advice to you is, if anything is to be gained for God or the truth, stand out of the way of the javelins. I Samuel Xviil. H, “David avoided out of his presence twice." Washington was as mighty in his retreats as in his advances. His arin'v would several times have been destroyed it he had not dodged. He dodged on Long Island; he dodged on New Jersey heights. Lincoln on his way to inauguration at Washington was waited for by assassins, but he took another train and dodged the desperisdoes. W® have high example of the fact that sometimes a

man will servo God boat by disappearing from this or that place, this or that environment. A mob brought Christ to the top pf the rocks back of Nazareth. They did not like his preaching, and they proposed to hurl Him down the precipice. But while they were getting ready lor the massacre Christ darted into the crowd and amid tho confusion escaped to Capernaum and continued oxorolslug devils and coellng fevers and filling fish nets and giving healthy circulation at blood to paralysis and curing dementia and turning corpses Into living men and womou and doing his chief work. What a good thing he dodged the crowd on the rocks back of Nazareth I Likewise at Jerusalem one day, while he was sauntering up and down in Solomon's porch waiting for an opportunity to ftiv kind words or do a useful deed, the people proposed to pay him for his self sacrifice by stoning him todoath.but the record Is, “He escaped out of their handa" Cuumlms Hatred. Soo also in my subject the unreasonable attitude of javelin toward harp. What had that harp in David's hand done to the Javelin in Saul’s hand? Had the vibrating strings of tho one hurt the keen edge of the other? Was there an old grudge between the two families ot

’ sweet sound and sharp cut? Had the tri- ’ angle ever Insulted thd pollsned shaft? ‘ Why the deadly aim of ths destroying * weapon against tho Instrument of sooth- * ing, calming, healing sound? Weil, I will answer that if you will 1 tell me why the hostility of so many to ; the gospel, why the virulent attacks against Christian religion, why the angry antipathy of so many to the most genial, most inviting, most salutary influence 1 under al) tho heavens. Why will men ' give their lives to writing and speaking and warring against Christ and the gos--1 pel? Why the Javelin of the world’l hatred and rage against the harp oi heavenly love? You know, and I know 1 men who get wrathfully red tn the face 1 and foaming at the mouth and use the ' gesture of tho clinched fist and put dows their feet with indignant emphasis and 1 invoke all sarcasm and Irony and vitw 1 peration and, scorn and spite at th< ' Christian religion. What has the Chrla ' tian religion done that it should be sc 1 assailed? Whom hath it bitten and left with hydrophobia virus in their vein' 1 that it should sometimes be chased ai though it was a maddened canine? 1 To head off and trip up and pusl down and corner our religion was the dominant thought in the life of David Hume and Voltaire and Shaftesbury and even the Earl of Rochester, until on( day in a princely house, in which Chet blasphemously put God on trial, and th( Earl of Rdchester was tho attorne] against God ana religion and receivec the applause of tho whole company, when suddenly the Earl was struck u» der conviction and cried: “Good God, that a man who walks uprightly, wh< sees the wonderful works of God and hai tho use of his senses and reason, shouk use them in defying his Creator! I wish I had been a crawling leper in a ditch rather than have acted toward God.as 1 have done.” Javelin of wit, javelin of irony, jav elin of scurrility, javelin of sophisstry, javelin of human and diabolic hostility have been flyiqg for hundreds of years and are flying now. But aimed at wnatf At something that has come to devastate the world? At something that would maul and trample under foot and excruciate and crush the bumam race? The Wonderful Harp. No, aimed at tho gospel harp—harp on which prophets played with somewhat lingering and uncertain fingers,but harp on which apostles played with sublime certainty, and martyrs played while their fingers were on fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood of the Christ out of whose heartstrings the harp was chorded and from whose dying groan the 'strings were keyed. Oh, gospel harp! All thy nerves a-tremble with stories of self-sacrifice. Harp thrummed by fingers long ago turned to dust Harp that made heaven listen and will yet make all the earth hear. Harp that sounded pardon to my sinful soul and peace over the grave where my dead sleep. Harp that will lead the chant ot the blood washed throng redeemed around the throne. May* a javelin slay me before I fling a javelin at that. Harp which it seems almost too sacred for me to touch, and so I call down from their thrones those who used to finger it and ask them to touch it now. “Como down, William Cooper, and run your fingers oyer the strings of this harp.” Ho says, “I will,” and he plays: There Is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immauuel'a veins. “Come down, Charles Wesley, and touch the strings.” He says, “I will, and he plays: JSsns, lover of my soul, Let ms to tby bosom fly. "Come down, Augustus Toplady, and sweep your fingers across this gospel harp.” He says, “I will,” and he plays: Bock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. “Come down, Isaac Watts, and take this harp.” He says, “I will," and he plays Alas, and did my Saviour bleed, And did my Sovereign die? “P. P. Bliss, come down and thium this gospel harp.” He says, “I will,” and ho plays: Halleluiah, *tis done! I believe on the Son Ineffable ■ harp!' Transporting harp! Harp of earth! Harp of Heaven! Harp saintlv and seraphic! Harp of God! Oh, I like tho idea of that old monument in the ancient church at Ullard, near Kilkennny, Ireland. The sculpture on that monument, though chiseled more than a thousand years ago, as appropriate to-day as then, tho sculputure representing a harp upon a cross. That is where 1 hang It now; that is where you had better hang it Let the javelin be forever buried, the sharp edge down, but hang the harp upon the cross. And now upon our souls let the harps of Heaven rain music, and as when the sun’s rays fall aslant in Switzerland at the approach of eventide, and the shepherd among the Alps puts the horn to his lips and blows a blast and says, “Glory be to God,” and all the shepherds on the Alpine heights or down in the deep valleys respond with other blasts of horns, saying, “Glory be to God.” and then all the shepherds uncover their head? and kneel in worship, and after a few moments of silence some shepherd rises from his kneas and blows another blast of the horn and says, “Thanks be to God,” and all through tho mountains the response comes from other - shepherds, “Thanks be to God,” so this moment let all the valleys of earth respond ?o the hills of Heaven, with sounds of glory and thanks, and it be harp of earthlv worship to harp of heavenly worship, and tho words of St John in tho Apocalypse be fulfiilea, “I heard a voice from Heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice el a great thunderer, and I heard the voice pf harpers harping w.lth their harps.” — —-—— *'■ Speeding the Parting Guest.. The els an easy, graceful and entirely polite method of speeding the parting guest in vogue with Ahie icun naval office.s when the ship lies in the stream. When a cal.er •as said all he has to say and hea d all that anybody has to say In reply, and yet has not the grace to take him elf off, somebody pointedly announces that the next boat ashore will depart in iifteen minutes. Only the dullest landsman fails to take this hint. ' .

! DENOUNCE THE BILL. ‘ NEW TARIFF MEASURE MEETS ’ WITH OPPOSITION. > > *" , Mnnufho* urvra Condemn II H»can«e Tbcir | Power t,t Hob the zTnople Would Ha | LoMeueii —'l weuty-flvo I'er Cent. More • than b Ni oeaaary, Why They ufijeet. , The Reform Club's tariff bill was ; drawn up by < nlightened, unselfish, disinterested men—men who are i anxious to see thek country prosper. 1 The worst that the pAitectlonlsts can • say of th>m is th.v. they aro “the- ; orlsts and hobby-riders." They propose a bill wh ch, as compared with | ( the present tariff, would tie justice i itself; yet even their bill doos not do • away with .special privileged, for it leaves an average protectlon of 25 per cent, to the favorite industries of ' McKinley. This is an offer to compromise with the manufacturers who ■ now get an average of 60 per cent. ‘ protection. The manufacturers manifest great anger at the proposition to split in two their rates of levying taxes upon the consumer. They dunce and stamp and say all manner of foolish things. It a band of pirates were in control of all ot our ports and had become so strong that they could not only levy I tribute upon the great bulk of our imports but could dictate legislation so that I hey would collect from the : people 50 per cent, of the selling val-, ue of clothing, and of some kinds of foods, furniture, utensils, implements, etc.; then, if they had held this special privilege for thirty years, we could imagine how red in the face they would get and how they would storm and curse at the proposition to break down their industry by allowing them to take only half as much plunder as formerly. It Is not strange, then, that, the manufacturers who have enjoyed similar privileges should rave at the Reform Club bill as they do in their organ, the American Economist. The issue of April 21 contains letters from fifteen manufacturers on the effect of the proposed measure. “It would necessitate a reduction of at least 50 per cent, in wages paid in my industry,” says the proprietor of the Riverside knitting mill. “It would blot out the fine kid glove business entirely In this country,” say Dempster & Place, glove manufacturers. “Would cripple our industry seriously,” say Pratt, Read & Co., ivory cutters. “There would be no wages paid here by us, for we wguld have no business," says Jas. Lindsley, manufacturer off lime and cement “A soup-house incubator,” is what E. A. Hartshorn, flax, hemp and jute spinner, calls the bill. “It would certainly wipe out our industry, unless our operatives would subtnjt to a reduction in their wages of at least 50 per cent,” say the British Hosiery Co. “There would be no wages paid, as we would wind up the business,” says the Southington Cutlery Company. “We would cease to be manufacturers," say W. C. Fajerweather, manufacturer of iron and steel .bridges. “It would ruin my business,” says S. B. Vrooman, proprietor ot a planing mill. To tell the truth not all of the manufacturers belong to the pirate class, though piracy has become so elevated that it has become quite the fashion for manufacturers to claim membership. Planing mills would continue to turn; knitting mills and spinning machines to revolve; hammers, chisels and saws to pound and cut; and machinery to run at even greater speed than formerly. It is true that in some branches of manufacture some departments might have to cease; but the increased work in the other departments, due to cheaper raw materials and to the greater demand for goods at lower prices, would more than off-set the loss to the wage-earner, though it might not do so for the manufacturer. The one strange feature of this whole business is that it should, apparently, never occur to* the American Economist to consult any but these piratical manufacturers. Id Its opinion, the Refo m Clubmen who drafted the bill are theorists, and not “practical business men,” because they do not belong to the pirate band. For thirty years this band has told us what rales of duty would be good for it and t{ie country. Shall we, now, think of fixing rates without consulting it? “Impossible, supremely ridiculous!" says the band’s chief mouth-piece. —Byron W. Holt Twenty-flve Per Cent. More than Enough. Mr. A. H. Saxton is connected with Alfred Field & Co., hardware and cutlery, Chambers street, New York, and is a recognized authority on tai Iff matters in the hardware business. To a reporter of American Industries, on the Reform Club’s tariff bill, he said: It is well arranged, placing the highest rates on the things that can best stand them, and will leave no incentive for dishonest people to violate the law by false invoices. It may seem like a revolution tochange from the present tariff to that proposed by ihe Reform Club; but, as everybody now knows that the present tariff is .a barefaced robbery of the people, a revolution in rates must come sooner or later. If the Democratic party do not do their full duty, and do it at the earliest practicable moment, they will, in my judgment, lose the opportunity 1 of a generation, and be false to the issue which revolutionized them into power. All this silly claim and talk about the necessity of protecting manufacturers is, and has always been, absolutely absurd. If put into proper wording It would mean, “robbery of the people for the benefit of the manufacturers.” There is no class of people In the States that need less aid from the Governmept than these same manufacturers, and it was demonstrated over and over again during the last tariff discussion ihat their claimed need of p Moellon was false and ins ncere. and simply set up to Increase advantages they bad (already long enjoyed As a single illustration of this the table cutlery manufacturers went to Washington and claimed that unless they could obtain a large advance over the then existing rate of 35 per cent-, they must go to the wall and out of business, and this, In the face of ths fact that table "cutlery bad bet a successfully made here, and was

- — —1 I ' growing and prosperous, under a 24 per cent, tariff. In order to show up tho absurdity of their claim tor any increased duties, I went to the trouble of finding out what I could 1 duplicate some of their leading patterns for abroad, and thlu was the result: That If table cutlery was on tho tree list, I could not Import, as | it cost me as much tn Sheffield as I I paid for It here, and then I bad the freight and expenses besides. It was also proved by an annual statement of one of tho table cutlery companies that they were earning largo dividends under the old tariff, so that a duty of 25 per cent, on this article, as suggested by the Reform Cub, is not low enough to afford tho Government much revenue, as only a few of tho finest and most reputeble goods can come in under It. j Also, take pocket cutlery, which was made here and prospered under a tariff of 24 per cent. The manufacturers of these goods did not stop at any sort of misrepresentation to gain their object under the McKinley bill, and gave out the impression that It was for life or deatl\ if the increase asked for was granted or not After they had succeeded, four of the compauies re| resenting an actual investment, according to their own statement before Congress, of #400,000, offered the same to the public for 41,i 600,000, or four times its actual ' value, and it is now interesting to hear the reasons they give in their prospectus as to why their plants are i worth four times the original Investment I quote from their prospectus. “This business, with a record of over twenty years, has steadily grown into a profitable undertaking. The manufactured goods now equal the best foreign makes, and it is impossible now to turn the channel of trade back to the foreign manufacturers,” and “the business of these companies has steadily increased year by year—the profits for 1892 may be fairly estimated to be not less than sufficient to pay 8 per cent, on the ($800,000) preferred stock, and 15 per cent, on the ($800,000) common stock.” In other words they calculate to pay in dividends $184,000 per annum, on an actual investment of $400,000. So that It seems that a tariff of 25 per cent, on pocket cutlery is ample protection, even if that side of it Is considered. I am in thorough accord with the Reform Club’s idea that all metal manufacturers should come under the uniform rate, and I am also in accord with their plan that all duties should be ad valorem. The plan of the complex duties of the McKinley bill was simply to hide tne enormity of the advances. They did not dare put a duty of 100 per cent ad valorem on cutlery, and 300 per cent on pearl buttons, but they endeavored to hide these rates by a system of specific duties. How well they accomplished their object the last two elections amply demonstrate. The protection ostrich did not succeed in hiding himself by sticking his specific head into the sand. The Intelligence of the people to find him out had not been counted on. The intelligence of the people was demonstrated, however, by the political revolution that followed. I am inclined to think that as a revenue measure the Reform Club’s suggestion will be worth the most careful consideration and study of our Washington statesmen. What we want Is a simple, straightforward revenue tariff. There must be no coquetting with this interest or that interest. The day of paternalism must be in the past, and the responsibility is on the Democratic party to see to it that no laws are put on the records for the specific purpose of swindling one set of men for the benefit of another set. There were IBts of rates in the old war tar iff that had become absolutely ridiculous, except from a protective standpoint. Increased Interest in Taxation. The increased interest, during the, last few years, in the subject of taxa4 tion is simply marvelous. Prevtoui to 1888 the subject was supposed tq interest only theoretical men, proses-J sors, economists and editors, who, to maintain their dignity, felt called, upon to discuss the subject occasions ally. The occasional articles by Wells, George, Sumner, and others appeared, at least to the careless obj server, to have been seed sowed in stony places. Cleveland’s bold mess sage of .1887, compelling the two. leading parties to make the tariff the leading issue, precipitated a discussion which has extended into other kinds of taxation and which is thickening and deepening during political campaigns, and between them, and which will not cease until radical reforms have occurred. Instead of occasional campaign articles on the tariff question, prepared for partisan papers, interest in the subject is now so wide-spread that it pays nearly all the leading dailies to employ a tariff editor and to devote much space to the subject* Numerous press bureaus supply s veral columns a week of tariff matter to thousands of country papers which are trying to keep up with the t imes by supplying what is most demanded by their readers. Many of the legislatures of different States have devoted more time than usual to the subject ot taxation and have appointed committees that have spent, days listening to reformers of varying opinions and intelligence. The New lork Daily World is now printing a series of articles, each several columns in length, on frauds in State and local taxation. < Henry George’s paper, the Standaid, did much to arouse discu-sion, l?ut it was never self-supporting and ceased to exist more than a year ago. Its function is now performed by more thanJOO self-supporting SingleTax papers. The truth is that there has never, since man began to cultivate fields, to build cities and to cairy on an cxtinsive trade, been uny real re orm in taxation. Under tnonatchles, where the masses had only to obey a vs, It was not strange ihat the unjust and slipshod n ethods handed down from ancient times siiould have, remained p act icall.v unchan <d: but in a republic of enlightened citizens, it is astonishing that the great evils < f un;u-tand unnecessary taxa! ion have not long ago attracted sufficient attention to lead to what will now 'soon full w h« complete overthrow of a.l kinds ol indirect taxation.