Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1893 — Page 2

n ©he Jlcmorrnt DECATUR, IND. ■. BLACKBURN, ■ . - rwiuinm Tmc Inflating power of ca* is especially noticeable in the price charged for it If haste is the mark of a weak mind, there is reason to believe that the average errand boy is profoundly intellectual. Wyoming has a mine of natural soap. If a little drifting should disclose a towel deposit and a bathtub Wyoming has found a prize. Lecturers on journalism should try a little of the every day grind and wear of the editorial den, and then go and apologize to the public for previously giving out misinformation. Mr. Gladstone is one of those incautious people who do not destroy letters. The venerable statesman is said to have a collection of 60,000 letters deposited in a strong room at Hawarden castle. . Johnstown, Pa., which was practically swept away by the floods three or four years ago, is now more prosperous than ewer and has a population ■of 36,000. The lesson is that if your town is not burned up the next best thing is for it to be drowned out* A bald-headed scion of English nobility has been arrested at San Francisco for annoying a pretty typewriter Things that are considered legitimate in London will hardly go in this country, where women are held in chivalrous respect by gentlemen of the opposite sex. The sword that glistened in the j arena of the Circus Maximus show a | disinclination to go back into peaceful sheaths. Their chances of being beaten into pruning hooks are so slight that judicious prune farmers are said to be looking in other directions for their tools. According to the Eastern idea of the woolly wildness of the West, a ■ Chinese should now be decorating' with his suspended person every lamp-post on the Slope. The assur-; ance that the lamp-posts are still un-1 adorned is given in the hope that its ■ truthfulness will be accepted. Another man who never discovered how very crazy he was until he had carved his wife to death is now a candidate for sympathy or the rope. Without desire to prejudice his case, it may be said that no solution of the lunacy question other than by means ol iu t*utopsy will ever be wholly

satisfactory. The Duponts of powder-making fame have retained to a remarkable degree after many generations of residence in this country the physical characteristics of their French ancestors. Several of the family would infallibly be taken for native Frenchmen in Paris, and are sirfgularlv foreign looking in this country. A Minnesota court has awarded the first wife of Alfred Johnson of Chicago $35,000 alimony because the wily Alfred divorced her and married again without her being officially notified. Mr. Johnson now has cause to reflect upon the wisdom of the adage about being “off with the old love before one is on with the new.” Queen Victoria and Queen Marguerite do not speak as they pass by. Their dignity has been mutually offended. Yet for the sake of example, at a time when universal peace is a fad, it would seem that they might forget their grievances long enough to say, “Hello, there!” or something equally high-toned and non-com-mittal. Two Missouri judges who were sent to jail by a third Missouri judge got out under the poor debtors’ act, but are likely to be sent up again for contempt of court. Ermine doesn’t seem to carry mqch weight in Missouri, and the wool-sack, of a truth, is hedged with no more dignity than

the worm-fence seat of the humble agriculturist. At Stockton, Cal., the other day an old German physician named Thiesen brought suit to recover his fee for performing an operation for tonsilitis. On the trial it developed that the doctor tore the tonsils out with his fingers and that the patient subsequently bled nearly to death. But the jury awarded the doctor SSO lor his “surgical” operation just the same.—Ex. The reclamation of the land covered by the Zuyder Zee in Holland has been commenced. The dam, or sea wall, necessary to accomplish this object will be eighteen miles long. It will be built through the water from 13 to 20 feet deep. The estimated cost of the undertaking is $95,000,000, which, it is expected, will be more than repaid by the 1,000,000 acres of land which will berecovered. A Minnesota man named Fish has sued Ignatius Dondelly, the cryptogramle detractor of Shakspeare, for $25,000 for defamation of character. We don’t know what Donnelly said about Fish, but if he treated him half as roughly as he did the late divine William of Avon it

will take a shrewd lawyer to save k Ignatius' bacon before any intelligent ' Jl,ry ' One of the nephews of the King of * Italy went to Monte Carlo and blow in all bis ready money and 750,000 ( francs that ho had deposited at Rome. The King of Italy has In consequence issued an order forbidding any other member of his family to go to Monte ' Carlo on pain of being sent to mill. ,' tary duty in Africa. The warning . was timely. It would not require many such expenditures as that made by this nephew before the hangers on of Humbert’s family would find it necessary to look for work. MS———— l ——— Commerce may be a cold-blooded occupation, as devoid of sentiment as a flsh, but sometimes things happen that have a wonderful appropriate flavor even in trade. We note in this connection the arrival of three steamships in Montreal in a single day, the first loaded with gin, the second with j lemons, ani the third with sugar. Montreal has no kick coming, and if she can keep this sort of thing up we don’t see why the United States should object to being annexed to the dominion. We may pass, before the end of the century, from the iron age to the age of aluminium. Such wonderful strides have been made in cheapening the production of this wonderful white, bright, light metal that it will come more and more into use in every-day life, and a few more steps in invention may bring it into structural work. There are some difficulties in the way yet of this wholesale production of the metal, although comparing the nearly 300 tons of it made last year with the few pounds of it made annually twenty years ago, the progress is something remarkable. It is time, therefore, to shorten its ' name. No polysyllabic word like ; aluminium can last. Call it alum for short What Cuba wants with an attempted revolution just now is not very clear. The whole island is prospering greatly. More and more of the virgin are being taken up for sugarcane cultivation; the little towns through the island are ’ growing fast The system of cen- | tralizing the sugar-making which obj tains in the central and southern ! portions by allowing the farmers to raise and cut the cane, is creating i a new midale class of well-to-do people. A guerilla warfare—the only war possible for the revolutionists—would simply stop all this, return large regions to the wilderness, and re-impoverish the whole people. The path to betterment of governmental conditions for Cuba lies wholly in the field of intelligent agitation. The well-known missionary, J. S.

j Baldwin* ajawceded authority on all I Chinese Matters, says that if the provisions of the exclusion act be en- ! forced the Chinese Government will i retaliate by deporting Americans j from that country. Such a course would work great hardship to the many American merchants and business men residing, in the celestial empire and would destroy at one blow the fabric, at best insubstantial, which the Christian missionaries , have been rearing for so many years. But such .retaliation, if unaccompanied by the violence of which an ' example has so often been set in this , counttv, would raise China in the re- ’ j spect of the nations of the earth. It , is a poor rule thau will not work both ways. So far as the use of dynamite has i been carried beyond its ordinary in/dustrial purposes, it has hitherto been chiefly in the commission of crime ! rather than in i(s punishment. But ■ the tables seem to have been turned, ' and the monopoly which burglars and anarchists have enjoyed seriously in- ! fringed, by an enterprising California . detective. Two distinguished traini robbers, Evans and Sorilag by name, are now in temporary retirement in that State and are thought to have immured themselves in a cave somepl where among the hills of Fresno ; County. The detective who is in . pursuit of them has provided himself | with a quantity of dynamite, with t the avowed intention of blowing

them out of their hiding-place. The I scheme is a novel one, and the travj eling public, especially in trans-Mis- ! sissippi regions, will join with great unanimity in wishing it abundant 1 success. Only Twenty Inches High. There has arrived in Soochow a microscopic podigy twenty inches in I height, aged 51 years, and sporting a flowing gray beard almost as long as himself. The small man has a “cockey” sort of way about him which is all his own, and is dressed in English fashion—coat, hat, boots, and all. He tells the gaping crowd of bumpkins who unceremoniously jostle the city swells in their eagerness to hear him speak that he hails i from the dwarf kingdom of the West- ;; ern Ocean and he emphasizes his in(l formation by a flourish of a bamboo ! tobacco pipe which is much- taller | than himself. But when desired to give a specimen of the , language of 1 the country of his nativity he regales I his audience with a choice collection of English phrases, squeaked tout in an uncertain tone of voice.—Celestial ! Empire. The fact that there Isa lot of com- • fort for the bereaved in a big life in. ’ surance, is what keeps some fro m ■ buying a policy. I A man wastes lots of time in slghling over the time he fooled away II when a boy.

TIMBREL OF JUBILEE. MOSES AND MIRIAM ON THE BANKS OF THE RED SEA. | A Dnjr ot Rejoining at the Brooklyn Tabcruno'.o- Dr. Talmage'* Kloquent and Inaplring Sermon—A New Departure Jly 1 Uia Thankful I'aator. I The Tabernacle Pulpit* Last Sundav was one of the greatest days tn the history of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The music, instrumental and congregational, was of the most Joyous type; the hymns, the nrayers, and the sermon were celebratlve of the entire extinguishment of the floating debt of $140,000, accumulated from the disasters which required the building of three immewe churches. Text, Exodus xv, 20, 21: "And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel hi her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, 'Sing ve to the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.’ ” Sermonlzers are naturally so busy in getting the Israelites safely through the parted Red Sea and the Egyptians submerged in the returning waters that but little time is ordinarily given to what the Lord's people did after they got well up high and dry on the beach. That was the beach of the Red Sea, which Is at its greatest width 200 miles and at its least width twelve miles. Why Is the adjective “rod” used in describing this water? It Is called the Red Sea because the mountains on its western coast look as though sprinkled with brick dust, and the water is colored with red seaweed and has red zoophyte and red coral. This sea was cut by the keels of Egyptian, Phcenician and Arabic shipping. It was no insignificant pond or puddle on the beach of which my text calls us to ! stand. I hear upon It the sound of a : tambourine, for which the timbrel was only another name—an instrument of music made out of a circular hoop, with pieces of metal fixed in the side of it, which made a jingling sound, and over which hoop a piece of parchment was distended, and this was beaten by the knuckles of the performer. The Israelites, standing on the beach of the Red Sea, were making music on their deliverance from the pursuing Egyptians, and I hear the Israelitlsh men with their deep bass voices, and I hear the timbrel of Miriam as she leads the women in their jubilee. Rather lively instruments, you sav, for religious service, the timbrel or tambourine. But I think God sanctioned it. And I rather think we will have to put a little more of the festive into our religious services and drive out the dolorous and funereal, and the day may come when the timbrel will resume its place in the sanctuary. But that which occupied the attention of all the men and women of that Israelitish host was the celebration of their victory. They had crossed. They had triumphed. They were free. Afore wonderful was this victory and defeat than when the hosts of Richard overcame the hosts of Saladin at Azptus, than when at Bannockburn Scotland was set free, than when the Earl of Northumberland was driven back at Branham Moor, than when at the battle of Wakefield York was slain, than when at Bosworth Field Richard was left dead, than when the Athenians under Miltiades at Marathon put the Persian* to flight, for this victory of my text was gained without sword or catapult cr spear. The weapon was a lifted and prostrated sea. "And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the

Lord, for He bath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has He thrown into the sea.” A Glori on* Triumph. Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day feels much as Moses and Miriam did when they stood on the banks of the Red Sea after their safe emergence from the waters. Bv the help of God and the generosity of our friends here and elsewhere our $140,bOO of floating church debt is forever gone, and this house, which, with the zround upon which It stands, represents >410,000, I this day reconsecrate to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost A stranger might ask how could this church get into debt to an amount that would build several large churches? My answer is, Waves of destruction, stout as any tbat ever rolled across the Red Sea to my text Examine all the pages of church history and all the pages of thd'world’s history and show me an organization, sacred or secular, that ever had to build three great structures, two of them destroyed by fire. Take any of your bigjest life insurance companies, or your biggest storehouses, or your biggest banks, or your biggest newspaper estabIshments and let them have to bufld hree times on the same foundation, and t would cost them a struggle if not demolition. My text speaks of the Red Kea once crossed, but one Red Sea would not have so much overcome us. It was with us Red Sea after Red Sea. Three Red Seas! Yet to-day, thanks bo to God, we stand on the shore, and with organ and cornet in absence of a timbrel | we chant, “Sing ye unto the Lord, for ye liath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the seta.” But why the great expense of this structure? Mv answer Is the Immensity of it and the firmness ot it. It cost over 834,000 to dig the cellar before one stone was laid, reaching as the foundation does from street to street, and then the building of the house was constructed in away, we are told by experienced builders who had nothing to do with it, for durability |

—, of foundation and wall such as characterizes hardly any other building of this city. To the day of your death and mine, and fpr our children and grandchildren after us, It will stand here a house of God and a gate of Heaven. For me personally this Is a time ot gladness more than tongue or pen or type can ever tell. For twentv-four years I had been building churches In Brooklyn'and seeing them burn down until I felt I could endure the strain no longer, and I had written my resignation as pastor and had appointed to road ft two Sabbaths ago and close my work in Brooklyn forever. I felt that my chief work was yet to be done, but that 1 could not do it with the Alps on one shoulder and the Himalayas on the other. But God has interfered, and the way is clear, and I am hero and expect to be here until my work on earth is done. Why should I want to go away from Brooklyn’ I have no sympathy with the ] popular sentiment which defames our | beloved city. Some people make It a ( part of their religion to excoriate and | belittle the place of their residence, and i there has been more damage, financial and moral, done to our city by this hypercrltlcism than can never be estimated. The course of our city has beem onward ana upward. We have a citizenship made up ot hundreds of thousands of as good men and women as inhabit the earth, and I feel honored in being a citizen of Brooklyn, and propose to stay here until I join the population hr the Silent City out yonder, now all abloom with spring flowers—sweet types of resurrection! My thanks must be first to God and then to all who have contributed by large gift or small to this emancipation.

1 — ■ ; Thanks to the man. women.and children • who have helped, and sometime* helped with self Mcrltlee* that I knnw must E have won the Applause of the Heavens. If you could only read with me a lew of the thousand* of letter* that have come to desk In The Christian Herald ofn flee, you would know how deep their a sympathy, how large their »acrlflce has been. “I have sold my bicycle and now send you the money." Is the language of one noble young man who wrote to The Christian Herald. "This is my dead •on'* gift to me. and I have been led to , send it to you," writes a mother in Rhode 1 Island. ? A blind octogenarian Invalid In York, 1 Pa., sends his mite and his prayer, j Tnanks to all the newspaper pres*. 1 Have you noticed how kind and *ympa- ’ thetfc all the secular newspapers have .’ been, and of course all .the religious J newspapers, with two or three nasty ex--1 cepuons? You say that sometimes newspapers get things wrong. Yes, but which ' of us does not sometimes get things c wrong? If you want to find a man who ! has never made a mistake, do not waste vour time by looking In this pulpit. Thanks to the editors and reporters and ' publishers. Gentlemen of the Brooklyn ' and New York printing press, if you never report anything else that I say, ‘ please to report that. Yes, I see you are ' getting it all down. A New Departure. As a church wo from this day make a new departure. We will preach more Instructive sermons. We will offer more ; faithful prayers. We will do better j work In all departments. Wo will In I the autumn resume our lav college. We will fill al) the rooms of this magnificent pile with work for God and suffering I humanity. Moro prayers have been | offered for this church, andon both sides ! the sea, than for any church that has ever existed, and all those prayer* will be answered. Clear the track for the Brooklyn Tabernacle! “Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown I into the sea." But do you not now really think that the Miriam of my text rejoiced too soon? Do you uot think she ought to have waited till the Israelitlsh host got clear over to Canaan before she struck her knuckles against the timbrel or tambourine? Miriam! You do well to have the tambourine ready, but.wait a little before you play it. You are not yet through the journey from Egypt to the Promised land. You will yet have to drink out of the bitter water of Marah, and many of your army will eat so heartily of the fallen quails that they will die I of colic, and you will at the foot of Sinai be scared with the thunder, and there will be fiery serpents in the way and many battles to tight, and last of all the muddy Jordan to cross. Miriam! I have no objections to the tambourine, but do« not jingle its bells or thump its lightened parchment until you are all through. Ah, my friends, Miriam was right If we never shouted victory till we got clear through the struggles of this life, we would never shout at all. Copy the habit ot Miriam and Moses. The moment you get a victory celebrate It. The time and place to hold a jubilee for the safe crossing of the Red Sea Is on Its beach and before you leave it It is awful, the delayed hosannahs, the belated hallelujahs, the postponed doxologles, the trains of thanksgiving coming in so long after they are due! It is said, do not rejoice over a revival too soon, for the new members might not holdout Do not thank God for the money you made to-day, for to-morrow you might lose it all and more. Do not be too grateful for your good health today, for to-morrow you may get the grip. Do not be too glad about your conversion, for you might fall frem grace. Do not rejoice too soon over a church's deliverance, because there might be disasters yet to come. Oh, let us have no more adjourned gratitude! The tidie.'to thank God for a rescue from temptation is the moment after you have broken the wine flask. The time to thank God for'your salvation is the moment after the first flash of pardon. The time to be grateful for the comfort of your bereft soul Is the first moment of Christ's appearance at the mausoleum of Lazarus. The time for Miriam’s tambourine to sound Its most jubilant note is the moment the last Israelite puts his foot on the sand on the parted inland ocean. Alas, that when God’s mercies have such swift wings our praises should have such leaden feet! Miriam’s Bong. Notice that Miriam’s song in my text had for its burden the overthrown cavalry. It was not so much the infantry or the men on foot over whose defeat she rejoiced with ringing timbrel, but over the men on horseback —the mounted troops! “The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” There is something terrible in a cavalry charge. You see it is not like a soldier afoot, thrusting a bayonet or striking with a sword, using nothing but the strength of his own muscle and sinew, for the cavalryman adds to the strength of his own arm the awful plunge oi a steed at full gallop. Tremendous arm of war is the cavalry! Josephus says that in that host that crossed the Red Sea there were 50,000 cavalymen. Epamlnondas rode into battle with 5,000 cavalrymen and Alexander with 7,000. Marlborough deI pended on his cavalry for the triumph at Blenheim. It was not alone the snow that despoiled the French armies in retreat from Moscow, but the mounted Cossacks. Cavalrymen decided the battles of Leuthen and Leipsic and Winchester and Hanover Court House and Five Forks. Some of you may have been In the relentless raids led on by Forrest or Chalmers or Morgan or Stuart of the southern side, or Pleasanton or Wilson or Kilpatrick or Sheridan of the ! northern side. The army saddles are the thrones of battle. Hurricanes in stirrups are the cavalrymen. No wonder that Miriam was chiefly grateful that the Egyptian cavalrymen, pursuing the Israelites down to midway of the Rod Sea, were unsaddled, unstirruped, unhorsed. Miriam struck the center ot the tambourine with the full foice of her right hand when she came to that bar of the music, ‘The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” Ah, my friends, ills the mounted troubles that we most fear. The little troubles we can endure—the cinder in the eye, the splinter under the. nail, the thorn in the foot, the social slight, the mean fling, the invidious comparison or the remarks that snub. The annoyances and vexations on foot wo can conquer, but alas for the mounted disasters, the bereavements, the bankruptcies, the persecutions, the appalling sicknesses that charge upon us. as it were, with uplifted battleax, or consum- | Ing thunderbolt of power. Therb are | those among my hearers or readers who I have had a whole regiment of mounted j disasters charging upon them. ) But fear I not The smallest horsefly on the neck ’of Pharaoh’s war charger, pass!ng between the crystal palisades of the upheaved Red Sea, was not more easily drowned by the falling waters than the 50,000 helmeted and plumed riders on the backs of the 50,000 neighing and capari. soned war chargers. And I have to tell you, O child of God, that the Lord, who is on your sldej now andTorever. has at Bls dispoSSt and under His command all waters, all winds, all lightnings, all time, and all eternity. Come, look mo iu the face while I utter the word God commands me to speak to you, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” Don’t throw away your

» tambourine. You will want it a* Mir* 1 a* you sit tlute and I stand here, and t the tune yon will yet play on 11, whether . standing on beach of time or beach ot f eternity, will be tho tune that Miriam » playedlwhen she cried, “Hing ye to the - Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously; r the horse and hi* rider hath he thrown s into these*." r I expect to have a good laugh with you f in Heaven, for the Bible *ay* in Luke 9 sixth chapter, twenty-first verse, “Blessed 1 are ye that weep now, for ye shall j laugh.” Wo shall not spend all eternity > psalm singing, but sometime* in review of the past, as Christ say*, we shall , laugh. There is nothing wrong in laughter. It all depends on what you laugh . at, and when you laugh, and how you • laugh. Nothing, it seems, will more > thoroughly kindle our Heavenly hllarii ties after wo have got Inside the pearly • gate thau to see how in this world wo ■ got scared at things which ought not to i have frightened us at all. i How often we work ourselves up Into > a great stow about nothing! Tho Red > Sea before may bo deep, and -the Egyptian cavalry behind u* may be well I mounted, but if wo trust the Lord wo i will go through no more hurt by the i water than when in boyhood wo rolled our garments to the knee and barefoot i crossed the meadow brook on the old homestead. The odds may seem to be all against you, but I guess it will bo all right with you if you nave God on yoqr i side and all tho angelic, cherubic, soI raphlc and archangellc kingdoms. “If ' God bo for you, who can be against you?” Lay hold of the Lord in prayer, and you will go free, as did .Richard Cecil with £2O of missionary money in his sad- ’ dlobags, and the highwaymen grabbed j his horse by tho bridle and told him to 1 deliver, and he prayed God for safety and suddenly one of tho robbers said: "Mr. Cecil, I once heard you preach. Boys, let the gentleman go." An idea ui Heaven. ” But let me criticise Miriam a little for the instrument of music she employed in the devine service on the sandy beach. Why not take some other Instrument? The harp was a sacred instrument. Why did she not take that? The cymbal was a sacred Instrument. Why did she not take that? The trumpet was a sacred instrument Why did she not take that? Amid the great host there must have been musical Instruments more used in religious service. Na She took that which she liked the best and on which she could best express her gratulatlon over a nation’s rescue, first through the retreat of the waves of the Red Sea, and I then through the clapping of the hands of their destruction. So I withdraw my criticism of Miriam. Let every onp take her on his best mode of divine worship and celebration. My idea of Heaven is that it is a place where we can do as • we please and have everything we want. Os course we will do nothing wrong and want nothing harmful. How much of the material and physical will bnally make up the Heavenly world 1 know not, but I think Gabriel will have his trumpet, and David his 'harp, and Handel his organ, and Thalberg hls ptano, and the great Norwegian performer his violin, and Miriam her timbrel, and as I cannot make music on any ot them I think I will move around among all of them and listen. But there are our friends of the Scotch Covenanter Church who do not like musical instruments at all in Divine worship, and they need not have them. I tell Duncan and McLeod and Bruce they need never hear in Heaven a single string thrum, ora single organ roll. We will all do as we please in that radiant place if through the pardoning and sanctifying grace of Christ we ever get there. What a day it will be when we stand on the beach of Heaven and look back on the Red Sea of this world’s slo and trouble and celebrate the fact that we have got through and' got over and got up, our sins and our troubles attempting to follow gone clear down under the waves. Oh, crimson floods roll over them and drown them, and drown them forever! What a celebration it will be —our resurrected bodies 'standing on the beach whose pebbles are amethyst and emerald and agate and diamonds! What a shaking of hands! What a talking over old times! What a jubilee! What an opportunity to visit! In this world we have so little time for that, I am looking forward to eternal socialities. To be with God and never sin against Him. To be with Christ and forever feel His love. To walk together in robes of white with those with whom on earth we walked i together in black raiment of mourning. To gather up the members of our scattered families and embrace them with no embarrassment, though all Heaven be looking on. Together at the Daat. A mine in Scotland caved in and caught amid the rocks a young man who in a few days was to have been united in holy marriage. No one could get heart to tell his affianced of the death ot her beloved, but some one made her believe that he had changed bis mind about the marriage and willfully disappeared. Fifty years passed on, when one day the miners delving in the earth suddenly came on the body of that young man,‘which had all those years been kept from the air and looked just as. it was the day of the calamity. Strong, manly, noble youth, he sat there looking as on tho day ho died. But no one recognized the silent form. After awhile they called tho oldest Inhabitants to come and see if any one could recognize him. A woman with bent form and her hair snowy white with years came last, and looking upon the silent form that had been so completely preserved gave a bitter cry and fell Into a long swoon. It was tho one to whom half a century before she was to have been wedded, looking then just as when in the days of their youth their affections had commingled. But tho emotion of her soul was too great for mortal endurance, and two days after those who fifty years before were to have joined hands in wedlock were at last married In the tomb, and side by side they wait for the resurrection. My friends, we shall come at last upon those of our loved ones who long ago halted in the Journey of Ufa They will bo as fair and beautiful —yea, fairer and more beautiful than when we parted from them. It may be old age looking upon childhood or youth. Oh, my Lord, how we have missed them! Separated for ten years 'or twenty years or fifty years, but together at last. Together at the last Just think of it! Will it not be glorious? Miriam’s song again appropriate, for death riding on the pale horse with bls four hoofs on all our hearts shall have been forever discomforted. I see them now—the glorified — assembled for a celebration mightier and more jubilant than that on tho banks of the Red Sea, and from all land* and ages, on beach of light above beach of light, gallery above gallery and thrones above thrones, ip circling sweep of 10.000 miles of surrounding . and upheaved splendor, while standing before them on "sea of glass mingled with fire” Michtel, the archangel, with swinging scepter beats time for the multitudinous chorus, crying: “Sing! Slntf! Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath ho thrown into the sea.” ■ New vails are made of very fine Russian net, bordered around the lower edge with threb rows of very narrow black velvet ribbon, and tied iu front with three tiny bows. *■. . .

AN OBJECT LESSON. ' ‘ t t "OIVE-AWAY" PRICES ON TAGS AT THE FAIR. - lir . s Clothing Shown to Ba SO For Cant Cheaper In Europe than It I* Hero-Stop the Tariff Bobbery, and Stop It Quick. Treaoherou* Trust* Exposed. Wo are missing one of the great lessons that the World’s Fair could teach us. Last year the Fair Commissioner* decided that foreign exhibitors would be permitted to place tags on their exhibits showing tho foreign prices of different articles. We should not only permit, but should request the'use of these tags. Suppose all articles on exhibition were tagged with tho prices at which each sold in different countries. What a “give away" those tags would be not only for McKinley protectionists but also for many of our trusts that are selling at protection and trust prices here, but are taking what they can get in other countries. Just to see how they would look, suppose we place tags on a few articles: Retell Retell price*, price*, New York. London. Fine natural underwear, averaif) *i»e*— Ladle*' light-weight, lb*. to doxen, per garment*2.oo *I.OO Men'* light-welghtahirt,« iba. 1 or. to doxenl2s 1.15 Men'a shirt, 1* iba. to doxen.. 4.75 1.96 Men'* ablrt, medium weight, ll 1 * iba. to doion4.oo 1.65 Underwear— Men'a Furley A Buttram shirt* j>er garment3.oo 1.20 Men's Furley ,t Buttram shirt*, per garment... 2.00 .60 12-thread merino ehirt, 16 lbs. to doxen. retails.soo*6.oo 2.160*2.40 Ladles' merino shirt, Cartwright A Warner, or Furley A Battram. retai12.506*2.78 1.08 Ladies' merino garment4.2s 1.68 Children's merino shirt 1.60 .60 Children's merino shirt 2.08 .9651.08 Hosiery— Woolen stockings, perpair... .60 .20 Woolen, men's half-hose, per pair 254*.30 .12 Upholstery goodsCommon lace curtains, per pair9o .48 Gloves (average sires!— Men's Fowne’s Craven Tan. per pair 1.75 .85 Men's Dent's Craven Tan, p<r pair 1.73 .85 (France.) Men's Perrin's pique, per pair 2.23 1.50 Linen goods. (These prices are wholesale.)— Cheap crash towelling, per yardlo .06 Huckaback towel, per d 05.... 1.75 .77 Glass toweling*. 18-inoh, all linen, per yardloH .06. Napkins, Ji, per do* 1.40 .66 Napkins, 64, per doz 2.00 .84 prices Cutlery, etc.— U. B. Europe. 1- jack knife, good English quality, per dos 2.40 .98 2- jack knife, good English quality, per d0*4.00 1.60 1- jack knife, Jos. Rodgers' make, per d0*4.05 1.60 2- jack knife, Jos. Bodgers' make, per do* 6.07 2.20 Carvers, 7-lnoh, Rodgers' make, per pair -.83 .44)4 Table knives and forks. Rodgers' make, per gross 24.00 13.25 Butcher knives, 6-tnch, Rodgers' make, per d0*.127 1.28 Razors, common, per d0*2.25 .80 Breach-loading gun*.cheapest made, each 7.50 4.00 Breach-loading guns.cheapest complete. English, each.... 17.00 8.50 Cool broach-loader for gentlemen's use4B.oo 25.75 Tin plate— I. C. Bessemer steel, coko finish. per box 5.60 2.90 WINDOW GLASS. Sizes in /-Wholesale price*, per box.-, sq. inches. U. B. Belgium. 6x 8 to 10x15....*1.84 $ A914 11x14 to 16x24 2.18 101)4 18x22 to'lOxSO 2.82 1.38 15x36 to 24X30 2.9VK 1.58 26x28 to 24x36 3. JI 3-5 1.58 56X36 to 26X44 3.50)4 1.79 26X46 to 3CX 0 3.93 2.31 30X52 to 30x54 4.10 2-5 2.34 30X56 to 34X56 4.3* 2.53 Total, 9 boxes. *20.06M 615.31 POLMHkD PLAT* GLASS. price*, per foot.-* France. U. 8. Cent*. Cents. 24x31 t030x41 Inches.. 27.12 46 38x49 inohei and over 30.44 73 HOUSEHOLD CHOCKERT. (WHITE GRANITE WARE.) .-Wholesale price.-* Eng. U. 8. 1 dozen bakers*.B4 61.40 1 dozen bowls A7 .74 2 covered butters2B .47 1 dozen individual butterso9 .15 1 dozen handled coffee enpe44 .80 % dozen covered dishes 1.12 1.80 )4 dozen ordinary dishes .23 .40 2 creamso9 .20 1 dozen flat plates J# .60 1 dozen deep plates '35 .64 1 dozen fruit saucersl4 .23 2 sugars2l .38 1 dozen handled tea cups3l .6< 1 tea potH A set of crockery as above costing $5.10 in England costs $8.71 in the United States, the United States price being $3.61 higher. The duties on the ware alone amount tojs2.Bl. Duty at the rate of 55 per cent, is also levied on the packages in which the ware is packed, and the other expenses of purchase, which, added to s2*Bl, makes the whole duty equal to the difference between the English and the American price. In nearly every case the American price can be found approximately by adding to the foreign price the duty and the cost of transportation. These are a great object lesson to our “protected workingmen.” WouM McKinley dare stand up in the presence of these tags and tell the throngs of voters present that “the foreigner pays the tax?” But we have riot yet noticed the worst “give away.” Just step into the domestic department of the great Manufactures building and see the tags on some of the articles exhibited by our protected trusts: CIRCULAR SAWS. prioesIlome price, Export price, Sizes. e»ch. each, in-inch 61.20 $ .92 IH-inoh” - 5.68 2.80 30-inoh 9.47 7.20 6U-lnch *2.00 32.00 CROSS-CUT SAWS. Homo price, Export price, each. each. Thin back champion, per toot 6 .26 * .20 Extra thin back champion, per f00t.... 30 .22 HAND SAWS, APPLE HANDLE, NO. 28. 1 Length. Home price. Export price. 16 inches, per doz *15.29 *n.» 20 inches, per doz 17.95 13.50 24 inches, per doz-J1.28 16.00 28 inches, per doz 25.27 Iv.W We will not take time to quote the prices on more tags, but will only observe that those op hundreds of other articles show t b at foreigners can often get our manufactures at prices from 20 to 50 per cent less than we can obtain. This is true of scales, rules", levels, planes, screwdrivers, shears, indurated fiber w.are, britannia and plated ware, clothes wringers and dryers, meat choppers, axes, hammers, braces, wrenches, drills, bolts, augers and bits, nails and tacks, screws and rivets, gaskets, cartridges, type-writers, sewing-ma-chines, bicycles, shovels, plows, cultivators, and most kinds of implements. c It will be remembered that when E. W. Stout, a farmer, from near Trenton, N. J., returned from a visit to his father in England last fall, he brought with him a number of plows, rakes, cultivators, etc. He found that he could, after paying all charges, save from 10 to 25 per cent, hv purchasing these implements—all American made—in England. The . * tf-' •> •

— cordage trust, which is now In such I ill-repute the world over, never did a I meaner thing than when it began, a I a few months ago, to sell cordage in I London much lower than it sold it to I the people who taxed themselves to I support this Industry. The tags on I the colls of rope and the bundles of I twine indicate that the cordage is I one of tho most villainous and treach’ I orous of our many wicked trusts.— I Byron W. Holt. I Moxlco Abolishing Corn I.aw*. I For the second time in leu than I nine months, the government oi 1 President Diaz has broken down its I tariff wall. From March 15 corn will I be admitted into the republic free of I import duty, whether as grain or I flour. I On tho Ist of July last a similar I order prevailed until Sept 30, and I its announcement was received with I acclamation and joy by the poor I people. The crop failures of two I seasons had not alone rendered corn I dear, but actually scarce, and the 1 duties Imposed under the tariff law I reduced tho poorer classes to a con- I dltion of suffering and extreme di»- I tress. True, the great producers and handlers of corn were fattening while destitute people pleaded sot relief; they resisted the proposal to import free the food which the people required, because, forsooth, their particular interests, their exclusive industry, would suffer. Nero, who Is reported to have’ fiddled while imperial Rome was burning, was no unique monstrosity. The same spirit of indifference enables men to-day to witness the miseries of thousands untouched, nay, reaping out of their miseries princely wealth. Maj. McKinley says the principle of protection cannot die; so said the slave owners who had their principle handed down from the earliest days; yet the hour came when, in indignation and shame, the nation cast away the degrading system of slavery. And this Is precisely the war of to-day between Republicans and Democrats, commercial and industrial slavery, or their freedom. It is a great drawback to the development of Mexico that so much of the land Is in the hands of few owners, hence the great extent of uncultivated estate. If this land were fairly taxed it would be thrown open to cultivation, whereas it is now held for speculation, and the owners cannot develop it. In the present instance, however, the liberal and intelligent policy of President Diaz’s administration has proved superior to the protective instincts which are responsible for the fiscal policy cf Mexico. The right course is often stumbled upon by accident, or forced into adoption by the dire distress of a people. Several reductions in impost duties will take effect on April 15, including those on wool, ivory, mother-of-pearl, cotton, hemp, flax, and other fibers, jute, zinc, etc., while on some manufactured articles, notably tobacco goods, there are increases, thus indicating a desire to free manufacturing industries from the burden of imposts on raw materials, and while giving the same an Impetus relieving in a material way, the contumers from the unnecessary cost of addedduties. There is in Mexico a strong party, with several journals in line, notably the Mexican Trader, whose mission is the removal of all vexatious restrictions on trade. Men are traders instinctively, and may be relied upon to make advantageous barter, and to work out the’ problem of “the survival of the fittest” in industrial undertakings, and any system which seeks by protective duties and enervating bounties to permanently maintain any industry,, insults human intelligence, destroys self-reliance and enterprise, ajid is a dead weight upon individual energy, in fine, is in opposition to and subversive of the laws of nature.--American Industries. Stop the Robbery »n<l Stop It Quick. The last National Democratic platform declares that protection “is a robbery of a great majority of the American people." That declaration is the plain truth. It is also true that a just government never has very much business that is more important than preventing robbery. „ It is also true that “protection”robbers should not be permitted to keep on robbing for fear that stopping them will reduce the national revenue a little. It is also true that the National Government Is now in the hands of men who call themselves Democrats. It Is also true that men who will not stop a robbery of the people—and stop it Quick —when it is in their power to do so, are no Democrats at all. It is also true that it is about time for the men who now control matters to begin to prove their Democracy by their works instead of their words. It is also true (what good Democrat doubts it) that our President will do all in his power to stop this robbery and stop it promptly. It is also true (what good Democrat doubts it) that every man that Grover Cleveland has associated with “himself in his present administration will, without an exception, perhaps, zealously assist him in this good work. It is also true that in the next Congress a large majority of those called Democrats will do just about as little as they possibly can do to stop’this robbery. It Is also true that politicians sel-’>-dom do any more for the people than f the people make them do. It is also true that Democratic cltl- ' zens are in no mood to quietly wait a ' whole year for Congress to fool over a new tariff law. Wc care little about a new law; we want laws repealed i rather than laws enacted, and it doesn’t take a long time to do that. * We want the robbery taken out of the present law, and we want it done quick; this, rest assured, Grover Cleveland will give Congress a good chance to do at the earliest practicab’e time. It is also true that if Congress will not, when given the opportunity, make prompt and short work with protection robbery, there will-speedily come to our politicians such a day of reckoning as for righteous jhdgment and swift execution has never yet been experienced by menials of plutocracy upori American soil.—New Crusade