Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1893 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. •. BLACKBURN, - ■ - rrmT.T*nrn. Many merchants are well on the road to fortune through newspa. per advertising. You can be .with them. •Tat as you go” and slue enough to come back on. “Breakers ahead,” said the man of the house when two new servants arrived. It is when a woman gets caught in a shower with a new hat on that you may realize what a rain of terror is. The malleability of gold is so great that a sheet of foil, it is said, can he beaten as thin as the slice of ham in a World’s Fair sandwich. The difference between a tight window aud a “tight” man on a railroad train is that the one you can’t open and and the other you can't shut up. It is only the female mosquito that •alngs. The male is dumb. Gentlemen who use various languages when serenaded at night should remember, therefore, that they are addressing their remarks to ladies. Four German soldiers committed suicide because they had been inhumanly treated by non-commissioned officers. If the kaiser wishes to increase the efficiency of his troops, one of the first things to do is to remedy an evil that is goading so many of his soldiers to self-destruction. The Taris students should 'be promptly hit over the head. When the Quartier Latin breaks loose it is time for the guardians of the law to use their clubs freely and promiscuously. They are good boys, but it is necessary to teach them that they cannot be permitted to run a great city. Blessings light on him who first invented sleep. It covers a man all over, body and mind, like a cloak; it is meat to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, heat to the cold, and cold to the hot. It is the coin that can purchase all things—the balance that . makes the shepherd equal with the king, the fool with the wise man. The Infanta Eulalia has returned to Madrid, and she declares that she enjoyed herself hugely while in America, for all of which she returns her thanks. That is all that is necessary. The Infanta came over here for pleasure, an’d if she enjoyed herself It does not really make any difference whether the American snobs who ran after her were snubbed or not, and she probably doesn’t care. One of the Boston newspapers reports that a young girl in that neighborhood made a hearty lunch of Ice cream, accompanied by a liberal supply .of pickles. After her death, which occurred a few hours later, the doctor who attended her was interviewed, and informed the reporter that It was dangerous even for persons who’could easily digest pork and beans and Boston brown bread to trifle with ice cream and pickies, the latter combination not being at all nice. It is a glorious thing to have the stomach of an ostrich, but it is fatal to abuse it. Prof. Bischoff, of the University of St. Petersburg, published in 1872 a pamphlet, in which he maintained that the average woman’s brain is far superior in every respect to a man's, this opinion being based on the fact that a woman’s brain is generally about 100 grammes lighter. In order prove the truth of his statement he ordered that after his death his brain should be weighed. This was done, and those who believed in this theory were amazed to find that the professor’s brain was lighter by five grammes than the brain of a woman of the lowest intelligence. The farmer, of all men, should take pains to encourage his boys if he wishes them to adopt the business of farming as they grow to manhood. He, better than one engaged in other business, can do this. What is the loss if a small niece of land rbnted to the boy does not produce quite so much as if the better divided skill of the father were used to direct its cultivation? What is lost in money is more than made up by the value of the experience-gained. Let there’bh competition between an acre worked by father and another worked by the son, and the boy who can excel bis father in growing a crop will, in, so doing, acquire more love of farming than be can get in any other way. If the statement published in London that oyer 700 persons have died of cholera in Southern Frapce since May is true, there is no evidence in such a mortality that the disease exists in a virulent or dangerous form, A death rate of twenty-five or thirty a day in a population of 5,000,000 is not like the wofk of Asiatic cholera where that fearful pestilence Qi epidemic tn its most venomous

form. Last year there was cholera at various places in the south of France long before the disease appeared in Hamburg, but it never caused a heavy mortality or spread fur in any direction. The present condition of Marseilles and other cities on the Mediterranean coast calle for watchfulness, it is true, on the part of American quarantine officials, but the news so far received is not really alarming in any sense. Three Wellesley girls who were in a hotel tire arc described coming out of the building dressed as if ready for a picnic, and having saved everything, even to a bag of peanuts. This seems to indicate a certain mental poise and equanimity of nerves which may be credited, for the time being at least, to the good effect of modern ■education of girls. It probably did not enter the minds of these gymnasium - trained and Greek-lettered girls to shriek and run about. They calmly got up and dressed and picked up their things and walked out of the blazing hotel. ’ It is pleasant, however, to note that they dressed themselves with care.enough to look ready for a picnic. The old doctrine that it is every woman's duty to look as pretty as possible under all circumstances receives the unconscious confirmation of these three maids from ‘Wellesley. For some months past farmer* whose fields touch the Darby Creek in Pennsylvania have noticed that the bushes and small trees along the water’s edge were dying. An investigation showed that the bark had been peeled off the trunks near the ground. Only the bushes and trees that'overhang the creek are affected. The farmers thought it must be the work of rabbits, and. as the depredations extended for three miles, a wholesale raid upon the bunnies was planned. Herbert A. Enochs says that a timely and startling discovery thwarted the farmers in their crusade. With loaded gun a farmer sat by the stream to watch for the shrub destroyers, when he beheld a large carp leap from the water and catch at the bushes. It was after a fly that had lighted there, but in its endeavor to get it, tore off a considerable chunk of bark. Then other carp were seen doing the same thing. They had actually girdled all the bushes on the banks for miles in catching flies. The Scriptures tell us, in what is known as the Parable of the Talents, that a rich man, being about to depart for a foreign country, called his servants about him and distributed money among them according to their several merits. Toone he gave ten talents, to another two, and to a third one. The talent was equivalent to about $1,600. When the master returned he called his servants again about him, and asked how they had used their money during his absence. The first two replied that they had gone into business and largely increased their capital; but the third, who had received the smallest amount, replied that “he was afraid” [of a panic] and went and “hid his talent in the ground." He rented a safe deposit box and stuffed his money into it The lord of the manor didn’t like this. He rebuked the patron of the safe deposit, and took his money away from him and gave it to the man who had made good use of ten talents. Thus endeth this morning’s lesson. A rainmaker at Goodland has got himself into serious trouble. A cloudburst in that neighborhood a few days ago destroyed the wheat crop of James Butler, a farmer, and caused a washout on the Santa Fe railroad. A train was wrecked by the washout and the engineer was killed. A. B. Montgomery, the Goodland rainmaker, claimed that he had produced the cloudburst, which came Without warning from the barometer. Mr. Butler will sue Montgomery for the value of his wheat crop. The widow of the engineer will likewise bring suit against the rainmaker for SIO,OOO damages. The papers in both cases have been prepared and the progress of the trials will be watched with great interest. Inasmuch as Montgomery has publicly asserted that he brought about the storm which caused the disasters he will probably be estopped from denying his responsibility for the destruction of the wheat crop or the death of the engineer. There seems to be no reason why the plaintiffs should not recover full damages. When an Individual assumes to take or actually takes the place of providence in the regulation of the weather, it is only fair and just that he should be held responsible for all damages that may result. Too Many Holidays. The refusal of the House of Uomj monk to adjourn over Derby Day re- ; calls a story related of one of the Roi man Catholic peers who took their 1 seats some four or five years before j the passage of the first reform bill, : after an exclusion of a century and a I half. He gave notice that on acer- ; tain day he would make a certain I motion, whereupon there arose from ( his noble colleagues a general cry of i,“Derby!” The astonished novice ’ named another day, only to be greeted with an equally unanimous expostr ' ulation of “Oaks!” At this, he explained that he would ask the forgiveness of their but, having been educated" abroad, he was forced to acknowledge that he was not familiar with the list of saints' , days in the Anglican calendar. Not a Kingly King. Emperor William talks as if there were no other men in Germany but '! soldiers. He has much to say about the welfare qf his people. “A kingly king is he who keeps his people free." ! Emperor William manifests more of • shb nature of a tyrant than of a klngII ly king.—Boston Globe. ' ■ • ; - "

TALMAGE’S SERMON. THE GREAT PREACHER ON A TOUR IN THE WEST. The I'athetlc Story of Jephthah and HU Daughter Contain* Many Leuon* of Warning to the Rath and Some Huggeatlon* to Parente—Training in Childhood. Children'* Right*. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now on his Vacation tour in the West, chose for a topic for last Sunday morning, “Children's Rights,” the text being Judges xi, 36, “My father if thou hast opened thy mouth* unto the Ixird, do to mo according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth.” Jephthah was a freebooter. Early turned out from a home where he ought to have been cared for, he consorted with rough men and went forth to earn his living as best he could. In those times It was considered right for a man to go out on independent military expeditions. Jephthah was a good muh according to the light of his dork age, but through a wandering and a predatory life he became reckless and precipitate. The grace of Gqp changes a man's heart, but never reverses his natural temperament. The Israelites wanted the Ammonites driven out of their country, so they sent a delegation to Jephthah, asking him to become commander in chief of all the forces. He might have said, “You drove mo out when you had no use for mo, and now you are in trouble you want mo back?’ But he did not say that. He takes command of the army, sends messengers to the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country, and getting no favorable responsemarshals his troops for battle. A Rash Man's (Vow. Before going out to the war Jophthah makes a very solemn vow that if the Lord will give him the victory then on his return home whatsoever first comes out of his doorhray he will offer in sacrifice as a burnt offering. The battle opens. It was no skirmishing on the edges of danger, no unlimbering of batteries two miles away, but the hurling of men on the point of swords and spears until the ground could no more drink the blood, and the horses reared to leap over the pile of bodies of the slain. In those old times opposing forces would fight until their swords were broken, and then each one would throttle his man until both fell, teeth to teeth, grip to. grip, death stare to death stare, until the plain was one tumbled mass of corpses from which the last trace of manhood had been dashed out. Jephthah wins the day. Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Sound the victory all through the mountains of Gilead! Let the trumpeters callup the survivors! Homeward to your wives and children! Homeward with your glittering treasures! Homeward i to have the applause of an admiring 1 nation! Build triumphal arches! Swing out flags all over Mizpch! Open all your doors to receive the captured treasures! Through every ball spread the .banquet! Pile up the viands! Fill high the tankards! The nation is redeemed, the invaders are routed, and the national honor is vindicated! Huzza for Jephthah, the conquerer! Jephthah, seated on a prancing steed, advances amid acclaiming multitudes, but his eye is not on the excited populace. Remembering that he had made a solemn vow that, returning from victorious battle, whatsoever first came out of the doorway of his home, that should be sacrificed as a burnt offering, he has his anxious look upon the door. I wonder what spotless lamb, what brace of doves will be thrown upon the fires of the burnt offering. Oh, horrors! Paleness of death blanches his cheek. Despair seizes his heart. His daughter, his only child, rushes out the doorway to throw herself in her father's arms and shower upon him more kisses than there were wounds on his breast or dents on his shield. All the triumphal splendor vanishes. Holding back this child from his heaving breast and pushing the locks back from the fair brow and looking into the eyes of inextinguishable affection, with choked utterance, he says: “Would God I lay stark on the bloody plain! My daughter, mv only child, joy of my home,life of my life, thou art the sacrifice!” A Brave Girl's Fate. The whole matter was explained to her. This was no whinning, hollow Hearted girl into whose eyes the father ooked. All the glory of sword and shield vanished in the presence of the valor of that girl. There may have been a tremor of the lip as a rose leaf trembles in the sough of the south wind. There may have been the starting of a tear like a raindrop shook from the anther of a water lily,but with a self sacrifice that man may not reach and only woman's heart can compass she surrenders herself to fire and to death. She cries oat in the words of my text, “My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do unto me whatsoever hath proceeded from thy mouth. ” She bows to the knife, and the blood, which so often at the father's voice had rushed to the crimson cheek, smokes in the fires of the burnt offering. No one can tell us her name. There is no need that we know her name. The garlands that Mizpeh twisted for Jephthah the warrior had gone into the dust,but all ages are twisting this girl's chaplet. It is well that her name came not to us, for no one can wear it. Thfey may take the name of Deborah or Abi-1 gail or Miriam, but no one in all the ages can have the title of this daughter of sacrifice. Os course this offering was not pleasing to the -Lord, but before you hurl your denunciations at Jephthah’s cruelty remember that in olden times when vows were made men thought that they must execute them, perforin them, whether they were wicked or • good. There were two wrong things about Jephthah’s vow. First, he ought' never to have made it. Next, having i made it. it were better broken than kept. But do not take on pretentious airs and say. "I could not hate done as Jephthah did.” If to-day you were standing on the banks of the Ganges, and you had been born in India, you might have been throwing your children to the crocodiles. It is not because you are naturally any better, but because we have more gospel light. Now, I make very practical use of this question when I tell you'that the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter was a type of the physical, mental, and spiritual sacrifice of 10.000 children in this day. There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their children a class of influences which will as certainly ruin them as knife and torch destroyed Jephthah’s daughter. While I speak, the whole nation, without emotion and without shame, looks iqion the stupendous sacrifice. Sacrificed in School* In the first place I remark that much of the system of education in our day is a system of sacrifice. When children spend six orjseven hours a day in school and then must spend- two or three hours in preparation for school he next . dav, will vou tell me how much time they will have for sunshine

and fresh air and the obtaining of that • exuberance which is necessary for the duties of coming life? No one can feel more thankful than I Ido for the advancement of common school education. The printing of books appropriate for schools, the multiplication of philosophical apparatus, ( the establishment of normal schools, which provide for our children teachers of largest caliber, are themes on 1 which every philanthropist ought to bo congratulated. But this herding of groat multitudes of children in ill ventilated schoolrooms and poorly equipped halls of Instructions is making many I of the places of knowledge in this ’ country huge holocausts. Politics in many of the cities gets into ' educational affairs, and while the two political parties are scrabbling for the honors Jephthah‘s daughter perishes. It is so much so that there are many schools in the country to-day which uro preparing tens of thousands of Involid men and women for the future, so that in many places by the time the child's education is finished tho child is finished! In many places in many cities of tho country there are large appropriations for everything else, and cheerful appropriations, but as soon as tho appropriation is to bo made for the educational or the moral interest of the city we are struck t hrough with an economy that is well nigh the death of us. In connection with this I mention what I might call the cramming system of the common schools and many of the academies. Children of delicate brain compelled to tasks that might appall a mature intellect; children going down to school with a strap of books half as high as themselves. The fact is, in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate, for the simple reason, they say, “We cannot afford to allow our children’s health to be destroyed in order that they may gather the honors of an institution.” Tens of thousands of children educated into imbecility. So connected with many such literary establishments there ought to be asylumns for the wrecked. It is push, and crowd and cram and stuff and jam until the child’s intellect is bewildered, and the menory is wrecked, and the health isgone. There are children turned out from the schools who onoe were full of romping and laughter and had cheeks crimson with health who are now turned out in the afternoon pale faced, irritated, asthmatic, old before their time. It is one of the saddest sights on earth—an old manish boy or an old womanish girl. Little Brain* Overdone. Girls 10 years of age studying algebra! Boys 12 years of ago racking their brain over trigonometry! Children unacquaihted with their mother tongue crying over their Latin, French, and German lessons! All the vivacity of their nature beaten out of them by the heavy beetle of a Greek lexicon! And you doctor them for this, and you give them a little medicine for that, and you wonder what is the matter with them. II will tell you what is the matter with I them. They are finishing their education! Extremes in Family Government. Again, there are many parents who are sacrificing their children with wrong systems of discipline—too great rigor or too great leniency. There | are children in familes who rule the household. They come to the authority. The high chair in which the infant sits is the throne, and tho rattle is the scepter, and the other children make up tne parliament where father and mother have no vote. Such children come up to be miscreants. There is no chance in this world for a child that has never learned to mind. Such people become the botheration of the church of God and the pest of the world. Children that do not learn to obey human authority are unwilling to learn to obey divine authority. Children will not respect parents whose authority they do not respect. Who are these young men that swagger through the street, with their thumbs in the vest, talking about their father as “the old man,” “the governor,” “the squire,” “the old chap,” or their mother as the “old woman?” They are those who in youth, in childhood, never learned to respect authority. Eli, having learned that his sons had died in their wickedness, fell over backward and broke his neck and died.. Well he might. What is life to a father whose sons are debauched? The dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste, and the driving rains that drip through the roof of the sepulcher are sweeter than the wines of Helbon. There must be harmony between the father’s government and the mother’s government. The father will be tempted to too great rigor. The mother will be tempted to too great leniency. Her tenderness will overcome her. Her voice is a little softer; her hand seems’better fitted to pull out a thorn and sooth a pang. Children wanting anything from the mother cry for it. They hope to dissolve her will with tears. But the mother must not interfere, must not coax off, must not beg for the child when the hour comes for the assertion of parental supremacy and the subjugation of a child’s temper. There comes in the history of every child an hour when it is tested whether the parents shall rule or the child shall rule. That is the crucial hour. If the child triumphs in that hour, then he will spurn day make you crouch. It is a horrible scene. I have witnessed it —a mother come to old age, shivering with terror in the presence of a son who cursed her grey hairs and mocked her wrinkled face and begrudged her i the crust she munched with her toothless gums! How xharpPT than a serpent'* tooth it 1* To have a thankless child I Parental Tyranny Rebuked. But, on the other hand, too great rigor must be avoided. It is a sad thing when domestic government becomes cold military despotism. Trappers on the prairie fight fire with fire, but you cannot successfully fight your child’s bad temper with your own bad (temper. We must not be too minute iin our inspection. We cannot expect our children to be perfect. Wo must not see everything. Since we have two or three faults of our own, we ought not to be to rough when We discover that our children have as many. If tradition be true, when we were children we were not all little Samuels, and our parents were not fearful lest they could not raise us because of our premature goodness. You cannot scold or pound your children into nobility of character. The bloom of a child’s heart can never be seen under a cold drizzle. Above all avoid fretting and scolding in the household. Better than ten years of fretting at your children is one good, round, old fashioned application of the slipper! Ruined by Worldllne**. Further on thousands and tens of thousands of the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught to be in sympathy with all the artificialities of society. They are inducted into all the hollowness of what is called fashionable life. They are . taught to believe that history is dry, but that 50 cent stories of adventurous love are delicious. With capacity that might have rivaled a Florence Nighti ingale in Heavenly ministries or made . l- * V'. '' ir / Wipohi

I the father's house glad with filial and I sisterly demeanor,their life is a waste, their beauty a curse, their eternity a demolition. In the siege of Charleston during the civil war a llentenantof the army stood on the floor beside tho daughter of tho ox-Governor of tho State of South Carolina. They were taking the vows of marriage. A bombshell struck the roof, dropped Into the group, and nine were wounded and slain; among tho wounded to death, the bride. While the bridegroom knelt on tho cui'uot trying to stanch tho wounds the brldo demanded that tho ceremony be completed that sho might take the vows before her departure, and when the minister said, “Wilt thou bo faithful unto death?" with her dying lips she said, “I will,” and in two hour sho had departed. That was tho accidental slaughter and the sacrifice of tho body, but at thousands of marriage altars there are daughters slain for time and slain for eternity. It is not a marriage; it is a massacre. Affianced to some one who is only waiting until his father dies so ho ean got the property; then a little while they swing around in the circles, brilliant circles; then the property is gone, and having no power to earn a livelihood the twain sink into some corner of society, the husband an idler and a sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a sacrifice. Ah. spare your denunciations from Jephthah’s hood and expend them all on this wholesale modern martyrdom. I lift up my voice to-day against the sacrifice of children. I look put of my window on a Sabbath, and I see a group of children, unwashed, uncombed, unChristianized. Who cares for them? Who prays for them? Who utters to them one kind word? When the city missionary passing along the park in New York saw a ragged lad and heard him swearing, he said to him: “My son, stop swearing! You ought to go to the house of God to-day. You ought to be good. You ought to be a Christian.” The lad looked in his face and said: “Ah, it is eaay for you to talk, well clothed as you are, and well fed. Butwechaps hain’t got no chance.” Who lifts them to the altar for baptism? Who goes forth to snatch them up from crime ana death and woe? Who to-day will go forth and bring them into schools and churches? No. Heap them up, great piles of rags and wretchedness and filth. Put underneath them the fires of stir up the blaze, ,put on more fagots, and whil% wo sit in tho churches, with folded arms and indifferent, crime qnd disease and death will go on with the agonizing sacrifice. Awful Fo»»lblUtles of Boyhood. During the early French revolution at Bourges there* was a company of boys who used to train every day as young soldiers, and they carried a flag and had on the flag this inscription, “Tremble, tyrants, tremble; we are growing up.*” Mightily suggestive! This generation is passing off, and a mightier generation is coming on. Will they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of sin and the foes of death, or will they be the foes of God? They are coming up! I congratulate all parents who are doing their best to keep their children away from the altar of sacrifice. Your prayers are going to be answered. Your children may wander away from God, but they will come back again. A voice comes from the throne to-day encouraging you, “I willbeaGod to thee, and to thy seed after thee." And though when you lay your head in death there may be some wanderer of the family far away from God, and you may be 20 years inHeaven before salvation shall come to his heart, he will be brought into the kingdom, and before the throne of God you will rejoice that you were faithful. Como at last, although so long postponed his coming. Come at last! I congratulate all those who are toiling for the outcast and the wandering. Your work will soon be over, but the influence you are setting in motion will never stop. Long after you have been garnered for the skies your prayers, your teachings and your Christian influence will go on and help to people Heaven with bright inhabitants. Which would you rather see—which scene would you rather mingle in in the last great day—being able to say: “I added house to house and land to land and manufactory to manufactory. I owned half the city. Whatever my eyes saw I had, whatever I wanted I got," or on that day to have Christ look you full in the face and say, “I was hungry and ye fed ‘Me. I was naked and ye clothed Me. I was elck and in prison and ye visited Me. Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of My brethren, ye did it to Me?” Face Difficulties. Have the courage to face the difficulty, lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. Difficulties, like thieves, often disappear at a glance. Have the courage to leave a convivial party at the proper hour for doing so, however great the sacrifice; and to stay away from one upon the slightest grounds for objection, however great the temptation to go. Have the courtage to do without that which you do not need, however much you admire it. Have the courage to speak your mind, when it is necessary that you should do so, and hold your tonguo when it is better that you should be silent. Have the courage to speak to a poor friend in a seedy coat, even in tho street, and when arich one is nigh. The effort is less than many people think it to be, arid the aot is worthy of a king. Have the courage to admit you have been in the wrong, and you will remove tho fact in tho mind of others, putting a desirable impression in place of an unfavorable one. Hate the courage to adhere to the first resolution when you can not change it for a better, and to abandon it even at the eleventh hour upon conviction. Stained Glass. In making stained glass windows, the coloring matter—red, green, flesh-color, or whatever it may be—is first stirred with the glass in its molten state. When it is rolled into sheets and cools it comes out the brilliant hue desired. Next, imagine an old-fashioned patchwork quilt, where the little blocks or leaves are cut out by means of paper patterns, end sewed together to make the complete figure. There you have tie idea of the stained glass windows. Artists who are adepts make a large design of the painting wanted, Different small parts of it are transferred from this, and pasteboard patterns made from these like the patchwork quilt x Tho glass is cut mt o the shape desired witfi a diamond. Then the pieces are joined together into the perfect whole. Tho edges are united by means of solder and lead, where the patchwork bits would be sewed with a needle. Thus, making a stained glass window is about as much mechanical as urtistic. Bare and fine work, Buch as the human face and parts of the human figuae, are painted upon the glass, requiring the touch of an artist. It saves time and leather to have a broom, brush, and dustpan for every I floor, in the bouse.

PANICS AND PICNICS. THE ONE BRINGS THE OTHER TO WALL STREET. During Such Tlinra m Theao Millionaire Speculator* Double Their Million* i«t the Expense of Legitimate Industry—Primary Interest* in the Way. The Speculator'* Day. Setting aside the silver-mine owners, who want free coinage from a purely selfish purpose—to make a market for their product—there are many farmers, laborers, mechanics, clerks. etc., who honestly believe that silver is tho poor man's, as gold is the rich man's, friend. They think they can got tho best of Wall street’s “gold bugs” by making plenty of silver money, thus breaking the monopoly of gold. They think that the hated capitalists are a unit for tho use of gold, and nothing but gold, as money. Are they right? Should they not discriminate sharply between capitalists engaged in legitimate productive industry and Wall street speculators, trust conspirators, financial sharks, and usurers? The merchant, tho manufacturer, the contractor, the mine operator, and the owners of transportation lines, as such, want a sound, reliable, and stable currency. It matters but little to them whether gold or silver or copper be the basis, providing the currency does not fluctuate in value and that the public has full confidence in its money system. These men are making their profits from the production of goods, and a cessation of business, because of a change from oue kind of currency to another, or because Congress is tampering with tho currency, hurts them, it not only makes it more difficult to contract ahead but it increases the uncertainties and risks of conducting business, and therefore makes it harder to obtain credit. For it must not be forgotten that a vast majority of such business firms both receive and give credit largely. When a panic occurs and business is at a standstill, with millions of men'idle, and therefore consuming less than usual, these business men know that they must suffer a permanent loss. Therefore they are always ready to petition Congress, through their various produce, cotton, oil, grocers, manufacturers, etc.—to give the country a sound currency. But what of the rich speculator, stock wrecker, and usurer? He who sells and induces his friends to sell blocks of stock one week to “bear” tho market so that he can buy all back the next week at his own terms, when he will become a “bull” until he has sold out at a handsome profit, when he turns “bear” again? He who has a large supply of money to hire out or to invest in gold or gold bonds, when it becomes evident that gold will soon be at a premium? These men are right at homo in a tight money market, when they can obtain rates of interest anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent. Panics are picnics for them. If they can induce Congress, or get their Western silver friends to induce it, to begin monkeying with the currency system, they prepare to reap a rich harvest. It matters but little to them how much or how long business is deranged, how many men are thrown out of work, whether gold or silver become the money of the land. They are after shekels, and are not over-scrupulous as to how they get th/an. Usury or trust or swindling laws have no terrors for them. They do not invest in stocks or gbods and trust Ito providence to increase the value of their investments. Oh, no! Nature if too slow and too uncertain. They mike artificial prices high or low at will, and they get their slices no matter which way prices go—only they must lie kept going. The more business is disturbed and the more prices fluctuate, the bigger will be their slices. Before the late civil war our millionaires could be counted on one’s fingers. By taking advantage of every turn in prices of goods or of gold, while the sturdy yeomanry were fighting his battles, the speculators who had $50,000 or SIOO,OOO, in 1860, emerged, in 1870, out of tne blood and money crisis of ten years, worth millions. The foundations of many of the great fortunes of our 5,000. millionaires of to-day were laid while our nation was in greatest peril and distress. These men always play with loaded dice, but they prosper most when others prosper least. Great fortunes have been greatly increased during the last six months of fluctuating prices. No statistics are possible as to the growth of private fortunes which reap the greatest profits. Perhaps the best indication of the differentiation of wealth which is now occurring corries from the unusual profits now being made by loan and trust companies—corporations which loan money only at legal rates of interest and which, therefore, cannot take full advantage of the market. Up to July 20 twenty of these trust companies in New York had reported to the State Superintendent of Banking. With aggregate resources of $229,100,000, against $238,300,000 in 1892, they report profits of $3,709,157 for the same period last year. At whose expense do millionaire speculators double their millions if not at the expense of legitimate industry?—at the expense of farmers, laborers, manufacturers, merchants, etc. It is time for all honest producers to unite and demand a sound and stable currency.—Byron W. Holt. Panicky Protection Trusts. The New York Press is at the head of a conspiracy to make the people believe that they are afraid of themselves. The Press says the Joss to the country through the decline in the value of stocks, since November, 1892, is over $500,000,000. It advises all Republican papers to proclaim that this is due to the fear, of the country that wicked Democrats will keep their pledge and reduce the tariff to a revenue basis. There would be more sense in the claim that tho decline was due to fear on the part of the great majority who voted to abolish protection, that the Democrats might not fulfill their pledge, but would be bribed by protection monopolists to break it. As protected trusts, like the sugar and cordage, have been the greatest losers, the Press may possibly be right. The conspirators who have obtained protection from McKinley in order to boom inflated trusts realize that illegal and unholy profits must soon cease. They see an impending doom for their business. Thoir bunco game must soon stop aiglthe green gdods which they have onhand is becoming worthless. It will be well for some of the industries that have been operated by trusts, paying big dividends on highly watered stock, if these trusts go all to pieces before the tariff is changed. Such industries can the more quickly organize on the new business basis—no protection, no watered stock, no trusts, and no exorbitant profits. Is this what the Press means by its cry of “stop thief? - PnerUe PoUtlc*. The “report" of the Republican Club of this city, characterizing the financial disturbance as “the Democratic panic of 1893,” and holding President Cleveland •"‘"nonsible for it, is too'

puerile to require an answer. When * ship is laboring In a stormy sea the passengers and crow do not stop to dispute about tho responsibility of bring* Ing her into danger. They devote themselves to trying to save the ship. This is what patriotic Americans are thinking about now. Only the little nuike-lwllovo imllticlans who frequent clubs and tty to talk and “resolve" themselves Into prominence attempt to make party capital out of impending * disaster. When the time cornea, to consider the responsibility the will remember under whose administration the surplus was squandered, the reserve gold sent abroad, the Sherman act passed, the taxes increased, and tho calamity organized.—Now York World. Hlrh-llanrted Trail*. It has long been the custom of tar|s> protected trusts to sell their products lower to foreign than to homo consumer. It is useless for the consumers to object, because the trusts are empowered by the McKinley bill to do exactly this sort of two-faced business. Not only dees this bill put up no barriers against exports, but it encourages the exportation of manufactured >1 goods at low prices by remitting the duty paid on the new materials when, and only when, goods are exported. The American consumer is bled unmercifully by this process and his interests are made subservient to the interests of organized capital. It is no wonder then that trusts, taking their cue from laws which disregard and even spurn the interests of the consumer, should treat him as having no rights which highly favored capitalists are bound to respect. So highhanded have these trusts become that B some of them are wont to forget that I their dictatorial power comes mainly I from the tariff, and are showing, or attempting to show, favoritism to con- I Burners under the same tariff but un- I aer different stars on our flag. Under I the title, “Mutch Monopoly Humors,” ] the Wooden and Willow-Ware Trade I Review, thus describes one of the auto- I cratie efforts of the Match Trust: I “In pursuance of its policy of control- I ling the sale of matches, tne Diamond I Match Company issues from time to I time price lists to jobbers in good I standing (i. e.. those who live up to the I letter ana spirit of a code of rules I which are hold by the company to be I as sacred as wore tho ancient laws), I who aro compelled to conduct their I business on tho basis of those prices, on I the pain of being shut off from being I able to procure matches. The jobber I thus has no opportunity to fix the prices I for which ho soils his own goods, and I he is thus placed at tho mercy of any I competition which may arise. Confpe- I tition, it might be. thought, could not J possibly exist where such absolute die- re tation reigned, but tho dictator had I laid tho foundation for a most peculiar I kind of competition. For example, the I Diamond Match Company issues from ■ I its Baltimore office two lists, giving "I tho prices at which jobbers are per- I mitted to sell mutches. Ono of these I lists bears this simple inscription: I “Price list. Tho Diamond Match Com- I pany. Baltimore, Md." The other list I nas the following on its title page: I “Price List. Tho Diamond Match Com- I pany. Special list for Virginia, North I Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Al- I abama, Florida. Jobbers selling goods I in the above States will use this list. I There are a number of differences in I the prices as given in the two lists, the I last mentioned being higher in every I caso where there is a difference. The I result has been that the wooden and I willow ware dealers of Baltimore are I having a very interesting time in sell- I ing matches. In West Virginia, a foot I away from the line dividing the State I from Virginia, some matches can be I sold at from 5 to 50 cents a gross less a| than they can a foot away from border line in Virginia. Again,matches I can be sold in Washington, D. C., at I certain prices, while across the Poto- I mao in Alexandria, Va., orthodox job- I bers must sell them at advances rang- I ing from sto 50 cents. Os course, the 1 result is that Alexandria retail purvey- 1 ors of matches make a pilgrimage to I Washington, D, C. to meet the Balti- , J more jobber,contract there at the lower''* JI prices, and go home at once chuckling ■ and indignant-chuckling over having I outwitted the match dictator and indig- I nant because they have had to I journey toWashington. Therearesome 1 stories afloat to the effect that there I have been jobber who were so philan- I thropic and heterodox as to break the I (Match Company’s) laws made and pro- 1 vided by saving the Alexandria mer- 1 chants’ trip to Washington through a 1 stretch of imagination which permit- I ted the jobbers’ salesmen to Believe 1 that they were selling goods on Wash- B ington soil when they were actually on;” ■ Alexandria territory. Another rumor? B is that one of these philanthropic and B heterodox jobbers has been ruled out B of the church, and can no longer secure B orthodox matches, It is hardly necessary to offer any further evidence as to B the ridiculousness of the Diamond ■ Match Company attempting, with profit B to itself, to maintain such price-lists.” B It is not strange that the people can ■ defeat the trust when there is no tariff B to pfbtcct it, but it is strange that they B should get so indignant at the trust for ■ attempting to sustain two price-lists at B home when it is quite the fashion to do ■ so abroad. What tlio trusts want, and ■ what they hope to obtain when McKin- I ley is President, is more flexible tariff ■ laws—laws that can be raised or low- ■ ered in the interests of needy manu- ■ facturers and that can, in cases of ex- Ji treme necessity, be adjusted to differ- ■ ent sections of this country.—Byron H. ■ Helt. I Pecuniary Interest* In the Way. ■ Whether protection dees or does not I increase national wealth, whether it ■ does or does not benefit the laborer, are ■ questions that from their nature must ■ admit of decisive answers. That the ■ controversy between protection and ■ free trade, widely and energetically as ■ it has been carried on, has as yet lod to I no accepted conclusion, cannot there- ■ fore bo due to difficulties inherent in ■ the subject. It may in part bo account- ■ cd for by the fact that powerful pocuni- ■ ary interests aro concerned in the is- ■ sue, for it is true, as Macauley said,).. ■ that if largo pecuniary interests were ■ concerned in denying the attraction ot ■ gravitation, that most obvious of phys- ■ leal facts would have disputers. But ■ that so many fair-minded men who ■ have no special interests to serve are ■ still at variance on this subject, can ■ only, it seems to mo, be fully explained fl on the assumption that tho discussion M has not been carried far enough to fl bring out that full truth which har- H monizes all partial truths. — Henry fl George., The Pope’s nephew, Count Camillo [fl Peccl, is a thorn in his uncle’s side. I Having lost large sums at play and fl contracted heavy debts, the Pope paid. H all, but banished him from the Papal fl court. He now resides with his wife in H Cuba. Peccl took the opportunity on ■ the occasion of his uncle’s jubilee to ask ■ to come back to his old haunts, but his fl Holiness was obdurate. B As the language of the face is uni- II versal, so ’tie very comprehensive; ’Us ■ the shorthand of the mind, and crowds H a great deal in a little room.—Jeremy |g Collier. .J ■ ■ The Paris sewers are tho la? • ist and ■ most complete in the world. a