Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1893 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. NLAOXBURN, . • • Ptret.T«wra. Not always ready for a fall opening—papa’s pocketbook. The heir apparent of Austria did not wake a good impression in this country with his apparent air. Connecticut, it appears, lias produced an expert female burglar, and Connecticut should proceed to get a patent on her. It is solemnly announced that monkeys wl I lie the fashionable pets for women this season. Aping the fashion will also be very general. When Brazil required Dom Pedro to step down, she forgot that while a republic is the best form of government, it requires a high average of level-headed citizenship to run one successfully. ? A newspaper writer says that the taste of Russian ladies for 'strong perfumes is due to'the Asiatic strain in the Muscovite blood. Americans who have had much to do with Russian immigrants, however, ascribe it; to-a disinclination to soap and water in the Muscovite disposition. In the matter of divorce suits there is a sharp but friendly rivalry among members of the dramatic, base-ball and prize-ring professions. None of them dares aspire to the title of artist until he or she shall have flung out for public airing a bundle of dirty domestic linen. There are very few old men in the present House. Only four, as a matter of fact, have reached the limit set by the psalmist. They are Thomas Dunn English, of New Jersey, who is 74; William Lilly, of Pennsylvania, and his colleague, Charles O’Neill, who are 72, and “Objector” Holman, who is not Quite 71. A Washington cashier stole $20,000, repented to the extent of expressing sorrow and retaining the booty, and got a sentence of three years in the penitentiary. Had he stolen more the punishment would doubtless have been less, and had he stolen the entire bank his safety would have been assured, and the respect of his fellow-citizens heaped upon him in smothering bounteousness. —— Young “Jack" Astor does not seem to be a complete success as a hardy mariner. Every time he takes the ’ wheel of his $250,000 yacht Nourmahal the skippers of vessels in the vicinity weigh anchor and get out of the way with all the haste possible. He ran the vessel on a reef once, and a little later rammed a ferryboat and nearly sunk it. He explained that the first accident was “due to champagne.” He must have “switched” to absinthe or plain whisky when he butted the ferryboat. The very cradle of civilization, so far as historical knowledge goes, pays a high compliment to American genius. A comprehensive system of street railways is to be constructed in Cairo, Egypt, and the Public Works Department of that city is advertising in New York for proposals. It would almost be enough to provoke a smile en the countenance of the Sphinx if the figure should happen to glance over at Cairo some morning and see a company of busy Yankees laying out street railway lines. Colonel Dave Littler, whom the New York reporters have dubbed A-iolus IL, is enlightening the Manhattan Islanders up m the greatness of' hicago. “Why,” said he, “New York is only a, way station compared to Chicago. It can’t equal Chicago in enterprise, in big banks, in pork, in cattle, in get up, and in rapid growth. In a few years Chicago will be the largest and greatest city in the world and will extend eighty miles around the lake. New York? Well, it will remain away station.”

A British stati tician who has been analyzing the causes of bankruptcy in England , concludes that only two out of one hundred failures resulted from causes beyond the control of the bankrupts, or fraud or failure of others. The one chief . cause of bankruptcy is found to be speculative trading, this including, of course, the attempt to carry on business with an exces-ive amount of borrowed cap tai. We wonder if a like ana ysis would show the same causes of bankruptcy in the United States. Bungstartcr Tillman, of South Carolina, is going to get a trade mai;k for his whisky bott'es after all. lie asked the commissioner of patents to regist t the Libel put on all packages of liquors which the State se Is, but the commissioner refused,, on the ground that a State could not engage in trade outside its own borders and therefore cou d not use a tr.itSuaiyk. Tillman thereupon asked for a writ of mandaufus orde ing the patent •fflce to register his 1 bd. and Judge Bradley, of the Supreme C urt of the District of Columbia, has granted it. •Billy" Deutsche, wh> brokethe bank at Monte Carlo and made great winnings at Paris, is dying at L>enW. Despite his success at play, he ta not an advocate of gambling, and jg aMMrr to the question. "Do you think any lenedt Is derl>«J from ■oMf* won by gambling?” he an-

s, “ e t Inly not. A man who ‘ my at cards simply fitters ' it away and aCiUires habits which unlit him for any legitimate occupation 1 attribute the majority of . suicides to gambling.” The birthday of the Queen of Denmark was the occasion of what appears to American eyes a singular I proceeding. The Danish court was i in mourning for Prince William of I Glucksburg. On the royal birthday | the lord chamberlain announced that mourning was “suspended” for twenty- fcur hours. For one day, accoid- , Ingly, all was Joy and gayety at Fredenshorg. The next morning befitting gloom once more descended upon the castle, and the royal inmates again began to mourn as bard as they could for poor old Bill, whose spirit must have been touched by this deli cate attention. After spending many million pounds sterling in the construction of monster cannon and enormous war vessels, England is now told by a recipient of some of the millions that a mistake has been made. Lord Armstrong, whose firm built the illfated Victoria, says “the arguments against building immense ironclads are unassailable.” The same conclusion was reached by the British Admiralty some time ago, and no more unwieldy warships will be built for the British navy. It is fortunate that no such mistake was made in the construction of our new navy. We have no war vessels of the larger type, as compared with the navies of England, 1 France, and Italy. They are of aboißk the type that practical experience ha discovered to be the best for effective service. There is grave reason to fear that Germany’s Grand Old Man is rapidly nearing the brink of his remarkable life. The worst is rarely told by the doctors in cases of famous patients, but enough appears to show that the great ex-Chancellar cannot long survive. The young Emperor evidently suspects that the end is near. With that shrewdness and cunning which have marked his brief reign in several instances, he now fairly gushes with love for Bismarck. Well he knows that Germany will appreciate the old man at his full value after he is gone. He knows, too, that his rude treatment of Bismarck, until a recent p riod, will stir the German breast. Hence his semblance of love now toward the man who was riveting the German Empire together at a time when Willie’s military buttons were safety-pins. A recent attempt at train-rob-bery in Missouri was baffled by the bandits being betrayed to the police. Among those who joined the gang for the purpose of “giving them away” was a newspaper reporter. This opens up new possibilities. The efforts of newspaper reporters to “disguise” themselves as tramps, beggars, book agents, bichloridians, lunatics, and so on, are familiar to the reading public. But these attempts, meritorious as they are in the city editor’s eyes, serve no high and useful puYp ise. This latest effort, however, has a practical sound. It is not only worthy of imitation, but it gives the reporter a reason for existence. The most pro ound and optimistic students of sociology have hitherto been tempted to despair when contemplating the newspaper reporter. Now he can be classified somewhere between the stool pigeon and the detective. Lord Armstrong, the great English shipbuilder, who built the Victoria, enforced the lessons taught by the disaster to that vessel at the annual meeting of his cone rn. He contended that the arguments against building immense ironclads were unassailable. The same arguments, he said, held as good, however, against gigantic battleships. The strength and stability of the Camperdown’s prow ram were quite insufficient to enable her to deliver an effective blow without peril to herself. The same defect probably exi-ted in the other rams. life of a battleship was far too valuable to be staked on the use of her ram. Besides, a big battleship wis Vo unwieldy to give full effect to her ram. He advocated,

therefore, the building of several vessels especially designed for ramming. The occasional loss of such an inexpensive ves-el would be of small importance as compared with the loss of a great battleship like tte Victoria. Undoubted y Lord Armstrong voices ihe general conviction of naval experts in his comments upon the lamentable collision off Tripoli. - A Novel 'I eat. A simple but, effective test to decide Wi.etiiei a man was drunk or sober was jdescri ed by a medical man who rave evidence l>efo;e the Pontefiact bench Tne cold-is wl»p were charge i wdh drunkenne s went to doctor ten m nu’e* after they were seen by the po.ic -. The doctor made them w Ik up and down the-u gery. which they did in a str.i,hl i ne, and then stood en cl w.th their eyes clotted ami I held their arms at brigth with extep< ed Ungers. The witness affirmed that the Litter was a severe ordeal f'r persons un ter the influence of alcohol. and as the colliers passed throu h it without -Ign- of >bakine-s the ihaige against them was dismissed. j Or enta Punot Ho. A Chines college student who wag visiting in Washiii.ton-recetitly call* <1 Jon a you« g wo nan In 1 Connecticut avenue. He was inviu d to tail again. , 1 lie did so in aloti half an hour. ■ The Chinese are punctilious—Wa blug ton Cap! i al. 11 IlAsCdonel iffiuebe O uxlos be«D • i chloroformed?

TALMAGE’S SERMON. ANTI-ELECTION DISCOURSE BY THE BROOKLYN PASTOR. Rev. Dr. Talmage Di»e<i"’e» Personal Chaj. aeter an Applied to Poll!Ice—Good Advice for All PnrUea-A Timely Topic Troalod. The Tret of Fltnees. Discussing the election, and using the text, Exodus xx, 18, "And all the people sjiw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the no se of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking," Rev. Dr. Talmage says: On the eve of elections in the sixty counties of this State and in all the counties of most of the United States, while there are many hundreds of nominees to office, it is appropriate and important that I preach in is before election set mon. My text in lor ms you that the lightnings and earthquakes united their forces to wreck a mountain of Arabia Petr.ea in oiden time, and travelers today find heaps of porphyry and greenstone rocks, bowlder against bowlder —the remains of the first law library, written not on parchment or papyrus, but on shattered slabs of granite. The cornerstones of all moral ty, of all wise law, of all righteous jurisprudence, of all good government are the two tablets of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments.

All Roman law, ail French law, all English law, all American law that is worth anything, all common law, civil law, criminal law. martial law, law of nations were rocked in the cradle of the twentieth chapter of Exodus. And it would be well in these times of great political agitation if the newspapers would print the Decalogue some day in place of the able editor.al. The fact is that some people suppose that the law has passed out of existence, and some are not aware of some of the passages of that law, and others say this or that is of the more importance, when no one has any right to make such an assertion. These laws are the pillars of society, and if you remove one pillar you damage the whole struct ire. I have noticed that men are particularly vehement against sins to which they are not particularly tempted and find no especial wrath against sins in which they themselves indulge. They take out one gun from this battery of ten guns, and load that, and unlimber that, and fire that. They say, “This is an Armstrong gun, and this is a Krupp gun, and this is a Nordenfeldt five barreled gun, and this is a Gatling ten barreled gun. and this is a Martini thirty-seven barreled gun.” But I have to tell them that they are all of the same caliber and that they shoot from eternity to eternity. Many questions are before the people in the coming elections all over this land, but I shall try to show you that the most important thing to be settled about all these candidates is their personal, moral character. The Decalogue forbids adu.tery, image making, profanity. maltreatment of parents. Sabbat,i dese rat on, murder, theft,incontinence,lying, and covetousness. That is the Decalogue by which you and I will have to be tried, and by that same Decalogue you and I must try candidates for office. Os course we shall not find anything like perfection. If we do not vote until we find an immaculate nominee, we. wi l never vote at all. We have so many faults of our own we ought not to be censorious or maledictory or hypercritical in regard to the fauLs of others. The Christly rule is as appropriate for November as any other month of the year, "Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.” An Un partisan View.

Most certainly we are not to take the statement of red hot partisanship as the real character of any man. From nearly all the great cities o this land 1 receive daily or weekly newspapers, sent to me regularly and in compliment, so I see Loth sides—l see all sides -and it is mo-t enterta'ning and my regular amusement to read the opposite statements. The one statement says the man is an angel, and the other says he is a devil, and I s; lit the dinerence, and 1 find him half way between. There never has been an honest or respectable man running for the United SUV-s presidency, or for a judgeship, or or the mayoralty, or or the shrievalty since the foundation of the Ameri an Government, if we may bel eve the old files o. newspapers preserve 1 in the museums. What a mercy it is they were not all hung bjfore they were inaugurated! If a man believe onehalf of what he sees in the newspapers in these times, his career will be very sho, t outside of Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. I was absent two or three years ago during one week of a political canvass, and I was dependent entirely ujion what I read in regard to what had o ■- curred in these cities, and I read there was a procession in New York of 5,'4) i patriots, and a minute after I read in another sheet that there were 17,000, and then 1 read in regard to another procession that there were 1 o,< 0). and then i read in another paj.er that there were 63,000.

A campa : gn orator in the Rink or the Academy of Music received a very co d reception a very chilly reception —sa d one statement The other statement said the audien e rose at him so great was the enthusiasm that for a long while the orator could not ba heard, and it was only after 1 sting his hand that the vo ’iteration began to subside! One statement will twist an in.erview one way. and another s atement will twist an interview another way.' You must admit it is a very ditiicu,t thing in tiu.es line these to get » very accurate esti nate of a man*»' character, and I charge you. as your i rel’gio » teacher-1 charge you to cau-1 t;on and to mercifulness an 1 to prayer. 1 Warn you al»o against the mistike which rru’ny are malting and always do m-ke of applying a diuerent standard of character for those in prominent |m> sition rom the standard they apply for ordinary | era >n«. 'However much a -man may have, or however high a payi io.i he gets, he ha, no esp.cial liberty given him in the interpr et .t on of the Ten t.omrnandments. A great sin-1 te• I- no more to be. excused than a i r;, li si' ner. Do not charge illustrious defect o i to eccentri rity or chop o.f toe Ten Command 'nents to suit es tecial < -s' s. '1 he right is ever) stingly 11 ight, and the wrong is ever.astingfy iw o g. If a: y man nominated for any j o !i< e in this c ty or S ate difer- from I <■ Decalogue, do not fix up the Decai Itoue, but fix him up. The law' must ' stand whatever else may aJL I call your attention also to the fact t ,at you are ail aware of, that the I making of one Commandment makes it the more easy to break all of them, and the philosophy lap aln. Any kind o sin weakens ti.e conscience, and if The onseien eis weakened that opens , toe door for all kinds oi transgression, i If. for Instance, a man go into this poj litical campaign wielding aa j hi* chief weapon, and be believes everything bad about a man and nothing good, how tong before that man bimaelf will get over the moral depr>a*ton.' Neither in time nor etera ■ <•

No Tam perl nr With the Law. And then, when you investigate a man on such subjects you must go to the whole length of Investigation and find out whether or not ho has repented. Ho may have been on ,his knees before God and implored the divine forgiveness, and he may have im l plored the forgiveness of society and the forgiveness of the world. Although if a man commit that sin at A0 or 35 years of age, there is not one case out of a tho s nd where he ever repents. You must in your investigation see if it is possible that the <*nu case I investigated may not have boon the exception. But ao not cho > off the seventh commandment to suit the case. Do not change Fairbanks' scale to suit what you are we'ghing with it. Do not cut oit a yardstick to suit the drygoods you are measuring. Let the luw stand und never tamper with it. Above all, I charge you do not join in the cry that I have beard for fifteen, twenty years I have heard it — that there is no such thing as purity. If you make that charge, y ou are a foul mouthed s andaler of the human race. You are a loner! Make room for that leoer! When a man, by pen or type or tongue utterssuch a slander on the human race that there is no such thing as purity, I know right away that that man himself is a walking lazaretto, a reeking ulcer, and is lit for no society better than taat of devils danined. We may enlarge our charities in such a case, but Tn no such case let us shave off the Ten Commandments. Let them stand as the everlasting defense of society and of the church of God. The* committing of one sin opens the door for the commission of other sins. You see it every day. Those eni; bozzlers, those bank cashiers absconding as .-oon as they are brought to justice, develop the fact that they were in all kinds of sin. No exception to the rule. They all kept bad company; they nearly all gambled: they all went to places where they ought not. Why? The commission o’s the one sin opened the gate for all the other sins. Sins go in flocks, in droves, and in herds. You. open the door for one sin - that invites in all the miserable segregation. Some of the campaign orators this autumn, some of them—bombarding the suffering candidates all the week will think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All the week hurling the Eighth commandment at ole candidate, the Seventh commandm jnt at another candidate, and the Ninth commandment at still another, what are they doing with the Fourth commandment—"Rememthe Sabb :th dav to keep it holy.'” Breaking it. Is not the Fourth commandment as important as the Eighth, as the Seventh as the Ninth?

Some of these political campaign orators, as I have seen them reported in other years, and as 1 have heard it in regard to them, bo nbarding the suffering candidates all the week, yet tossing the n me of God from their lips reeklessiy. guilty of pro anity wnat are tt.ey doing with tne T iird commandment? Is not the Third commmidment. which says. ‘Thou shilt not take the name of th? Lord tny God in vain, for the Lord w 11 not hold him guiltless that takvth his nane in vain” is not the Third command nent as important as the o'her se en? Ou, yes, we find in all departments men are hurling their indignation against sins perhaps to waich they are not especially tempted burling it against ini uity toward which they are not particularly drawn. Trie I hy the Decalogue. I have this book for my authority when I say that the man who swears or the mm who breaks the Tabbat i is as culpable before God as those candidates who break othereommandmen s What rig t have toil and 1 to select which < ommaadment we will keep and which we will break • Bet er no- try to measure the thunderbolts of the Al mighty, saying this has less bla e. this has less momentum. Better not lan d e the guns. lietter not experiment much with the divine ammunit on. I tell you there is nothing worse to fight than the ten regiments, w.th bayonets and sabersof tire marching down the side of Mount Sinai. '1 hey always gain the victory, and those who tignt against them go under. There are thousands and tensof thousands of men being slain by the Decalogue. What is the matter with that yo mo man of whom 1 rea I. dving in hisdissipations' In his dying delirium he said: “Aow set hon the dice. It is mine No, no It is gone: all is gone! Bring on more wine! Bring on more wine! Oh, how they rattle theirchuins! Fiends,fiends, fiends I say you cheat! The curds are marked! Oh, deatu oh. death! oh. dea h Fiends, fiends, Hen s ” And he gasped his last and was gone. The Ten com andmeir.s slew him. Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nineteenth century revise the Ten Commandments. but let them in society and at tne polls put to the front those woo come the nearest to ttds God lilted standard. On the first Tuesday morning in November read the twentieth C.ia|terof Exodus at family prayers. The rporal or itpmoralcharacter of the off cers elected will add ,5 per cent, unto or subtract <5 per cent, from the public morals. Yb j and I cannot afford to have bad officials. The young men of tuis country < annot a ord to have bad officials. Tne commercial, the moral, the artistic, the agr.cultural, tne manufacturing, ‘.he religious interests of this country cannot a lord to have bad o i.cials, and if yo i, on looking over the whole field, cannot find men who, in your estimation, come witn n reasonable distance of obedience of the Decalogue, stay at Lome and do not vote at all. A Good Campaign Docamcat.

I suppose when in the city of Sodom there were so r candidates put up for oiiice. and Lot di 1 not believe in uny of them, he did not register. I suppose <• tnere came a crisis in the politics o. Babylon, where Liin.el did not bel eve in any of t.e c ndidates, he staid at home on election day, praying with his face toward Jerusalem. But we have no such crisis, we lia.e n_> such exigency, thank God. But 1 have to say to you to-d.y that the moral character of rulers always affects the ruled, and I appeal to history. Wicked King Manasseh depressed the moral tone of all the nation of Judah and threw them in.o ido'atry. Good King .>osiah lilted up the w 1 ole nxt on by his e,<ce lent example. Way is it to day England is higher up in morals than at any point in her national history.’' It is because she has the best ruler in all Europe-all the attempts to scandalize her name a failure. The ) oliticafl ..power of Tilly rand brooded all the pol tical tricksters of the last ninety years. The dishonest vice presidency of Aaron Burr blasted this nr.t on until important letters were written in cipher, bei ause the people could not trust the United States mail. And let the court circles of Louis XV and VIII march out, followed by the debauched nations. The higher up you put a bad man the worse is his power for evil, The great fabulist says that the pigeons were in fright at a kite flying in the air, and so these pigeons hovered near the do vecot. But one day the kite said: “Why are you afraid? Why do you pass your life in terror? Make me king, and I’ll destroy all yeur enemies." So the pigeons made the kite king, and as soon as he got the throne

his regular d'et was a pigeon a day. , And while one of the victims was waiting for its turn to come itsak’. “Served ius right ” Tho ma aria of swamps rises from tho plain to thp height, but moral malaria descends from tho mountain to the plain. Be careful therefore how you elevate Into any style of tuthorlty mon who are in any wise auigoniatfc to tho Ten Commandments. As near as I can tell tho most important thing now to be done is to have abo.ut 40,(4)0,000 copies of the Sinaitic Decalogue printed and scattered throughout the land. It was a terrible waste when the Alexandrian library was destroyed, and tho books were taken to heat 4,000 bathe for tho citizens of Alexandria. It was very expensive heat. But without any harm to the Decalogue, you could with it heat a hundred thousand baths of moral purification for tho American people. I say we want a tonic-a mighty tonic, a corrective, an all powerful corrective and Moses in the text, with steady hand, notwithstanding the jarring mountains and the full orchestra of the tempest, and the blazing of the air, pours out the ten drops no more, no less-which our people need to take for their moral convalescence. The Gospel In Politic* But I shall not leave you under the discouragement of the Ton Commandments, because we have all ouended. There is another mountain in sight, and while one mountain thunders the other answers in thunder, and while Mount Sinai, with lightning, writes doom the other mountain, with lightning, writes mercy. The only way you will ever spike the guns of the Decalogue is by the spikes of the cross. The only rock that will ever stop the Sinaitic upheavals is tho Kock of Ages. Mount Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai. The English survey expedition, I know, sav that one Sinaitic peak is 7,0,4) feet high and another 4<,uoj and another 9.0,0 feet high, and travelers tell us that Mount Calvary is only a bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem. But Calvary in moral significance overtops and overshadows all the mountains of the hemispheres, and Mount Washington and Mont Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks compared with it. You know that so netimes one fortress will silence another fortress. Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the mountain of the law I put the mountain of the cross. “The soul that sinn th. it shall die,” booms one until the earth jars under the cannonade. “Save them from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom,” pleads the other un il earth and heaven and hell tremble under the reverberation. And .vioscs, w„o commands the one, surrenders to Christ, who commands the other. Ones by th • law our topes were slain, Bui n >w in < h iit we live again. Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupted one day and poured torrents of s. oria upon the villages ut the base, but that t..e mountain divided its . ame

and made a lane of saiety for all those who came to rescue their aged paren s. And t.iis volcanic Sin.i d.vidcs its fury for all those wh .m Christ has come to rescue irom the red ruin on both sides. Standing as I do to-day, half way between the two mountains - the mountain of the Exodus and the i our.tain o i henin teenth of John - all my terror co nes into supernatural calm, for the up oar of the one mountain su sides into quiet and comes down in oso deep a silence that I can hear the other mountain speak-ay, I can hear it whisper, “The blood,the b ood, the b ood that cleanseth from all sin.” The serve*’ ixpedition i-.a., s thi.t the Sinaitic Mounta ns have wadys or water-courses -AUeyat and A.elah — en tying into Fe ran. Bat those streams are not navigable. No boat put into those rocky 1 earns c< uid sa l. But l have to tell you to-day that the boat of Gospel rescue comes right up amid the watercourses of Sinaitic gloo n and th. eat ready to take us Iro u under the shadows into the calm sunl ght of God’s 1 aruon and into the land oi peace. Oh. if you could see that boat of gospel rescue coming this d.,y, yoil would eel as uoun Gilmore in his book, “The Sto m Warriors,” says that a ship's crew ,elt on the Kentish Knock sands, o i the toast of England, wnen they were being bsaien to pieces, and they all felt they must die. They had given up a 1 hope, uni every moment washed off another plank Irom the wreck and they said. “We must die: we must die.” But after awh le they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat co rung through the breakers for them, and the man standing highest upon the wreck said: "Can it be Can it be? It is, it is, it is. it is! Thank God!.. It is the Ramsgate lifeboat: It is r it is, it is. it is ” And the Old Ja k Tar. describing that lifeboat to his comrades alter he got ashore, said, ‘ Oh, my lads, what a beauty it did seem coming through the breake s that awful day;” May God, through the u ercy in Jesus Chrirt, take us all off the mse able wreck of I 0.. r sin in the beautiful lifeboat of the Gospel. Stub Ends of Thought. Ho e and energy and sunshine never thriveon a torpid liver. No woman ever grunted her way to glory. A half-dozen hearty laughs are equal to a meal of victuals. The man wh > gives much to the poor doesn’t leave much lor thieves lo steal. A fat pocketbook is a g-eat tonic. Sugar-coated lies are easily swallowed. A grod dinner is a bene lictlon. Mighty few people go to Heaven on an empty stomach. We love the h imely (lower that fills the air with fragrance. \\ hat does a woman care for angel wings when she has a new silk gown? —Free Press. Avoid Strong Odors. Strong perfumes are dee edly Injurious to the sense of smell. By the.r frequent u-e the secretory glands ot the nose and throat a>e , overtaxed and we.tkene I. Some day the person observes that the hearing is less acute than usual, and the sense of smell seems defevtl ,e. '1 his is, of course, a credited to a culd.and but Hi tie is thought of IL After a time, the entire head becomes affected, and there are throat and l .ng complications which are likely loend in chion c, If not fatal, illne-a. Smelling salts are a prolific cause of deafness all strong and pungent (xlors. particularly those which act upon the secretory processes, should be avoided as far as possible. Apprreated. Boston Woman—-Oh, I do so lore the fields on our New England farms! New 1 ork Girl—Why? Boston Woman—Be. auae they are so cultivated, you know.—Truth. i ‘She's moat Tmfcrtunatcly married. What has she in common with her husband ’’ '‘Accord ng to the ' new slylea they can use the same collars and necktie and possibly tbe same rest."

JUGGLED STATISTICS. MANUFACTURERS GET IN FINE WORK WITH FIGURES. Those Favored by Protection Will Spend Millions to Prevent tho Removal of the Dutlee-Tlie Ohio Farmer anil McKinley —The Income Tax. How and Why Tto Done.* When it is sought to do away with unnatuial obstructions t > trade opp wition is at once encountered from those interested in maintaining tho obstructions. The manufacturers specially favored b protection dami, welch turn water away from competitors' mills and into their tiwn sluiceways, will spend millions to p event tho removal of the cams. Buying votes, bull-dozing employes, bribing legislators, coloring or falsifying statistics, and t.leks, job, and chicanery of all k.nds are in o. dor. Observe for a moment the effects of protection upon statistics— offlo al and un fficlal. No one who has heard or read the testimony b.fore the Ways and Means Committee, given by manu-, facturers during the l.At decade, in regaid to wages and labor cost, has any doubt as to the worthlessness of most of the stati.tics pie ented. If the “facts" presented uro not absolutely false, it is only the highest wages in America that are compared with the lowest in’ England or Europe. Who doubts but that these same manufacturers, who ever possible, have juggled their returns to the Census Bureau Who doubts that Census Taker Porter has often shut one eye and passed such patriotic imperfections by? Even his population statistics are worthless because of his inability to see and count “free-traders.” Major Brock, of the Bureau of Statistics, neglected to make corrections amounting to more than $75,tX) >,OOO in the value of our imports, but no pains were spared to pre-ent the protection and reciprocity statistics in the most favorable light. Statist clan Dodge, of the Agricultural Department, always fixed up his statistics to show what protection and reciprocity had done tor the farmer. The tin-p.ate statistics of the Treasury and consular reports of the State Department were all edited with the one end in view and are notoriously crooked. All departments, both lederal and State, a e expected to d‘> their duty in this line. In this connection ex-Labor Commissioner Pock, oi New York, is called to mind. He made figures to order for Repub ican manuiautu ers and burned the public papers tnat woalJ diselo e the particulars in regard t > the inaccuracies. He is now under ind ! ‘ nent for this offense, and is out ou bail, awaiting his trial. For tn o earn > reasons the statistics published in trade papers and rep >rts are unreliable when they deal with protected industries. Toe pubLc must

be deceived v r kept in ignoi ance of luct. not favorable to protect! n. It is I p obable that , steel rails are u. ado as cheaply here as anywhere, but tie manufacturers will mt du-c’ose the, cast of pr. d ction. An instance of the baneiul eflects upon statistics is sup- | pliel by the sugar indu try. Willett & Gray’s Sugar Tr d■» Journal is the semi-./tficial mo..tip ece of the tugar trust, and is interested in making profit, a) p ar as small as possible until tae Democrats uecide wi at I hey will do with tne i cent p.r pound duty on resin d sugar. Recently a Balti- . more man, to decide ale , wrote to . Willet & Gray to find out if refiners | were making more tnan one cent or , less tnan t cent per pound on efined j sugar.-. Those suppose J iel able au-I t .critics. a ter c mplaini g about the ; “great in.ustke” done reline ‘s by “ab- i surd and mislea ling statements, proceeded to juggle wdn facts in a most reckless wanner. They t id the Balt m rean ab ut “long p ices,” subj ct to di c unt, brokerage, co.t of refining I ut scent per pound, lo sos by “wearand tear” ts machinery, taxes, intern t, I e c.. until the inqui or might a most supi ose the refine, s were ,o.ing money every day. And yet in a special number issm d in tebrua y, 1 91. giving an “ Analysis of the Suga • R fining Bu ine.s tori’Bß Ixß9-1b90,” Messrs. Willett , ot Gray them elves estimated the cost of refining in Ibb-S and ißß‘Jat i emt, and in iß!>.i at 9-16 cent per pourd. They then deducted nothing for broke age on refined or Lr inqurity on raw sugar. They knew then, a- t iey km.w now that the 9-16 < en, cm t of i eflning includes b th of the-e item v and also wear und tear, st rage, taxes interest, etc. But even the ..-.6 cent is probably too much. Tne J urral of C< mmorce and Commercial Bulletin ex rcsse* the opinion that tho cost of refin.ng dies not exceed a cent per ] ound. Instead of estimating net p ohts at e nsiderably less than *• c n, as d d Willett & G ay, the Bulletin cone, ud d that they were fully I cent for Ea te n and Zt cents per p und for We ern le.iners, aud that profitj were about twice as g eat si t io average for the lad year, when it estimated “an aggr gate of $ 8,5.12,GbO that i< clean profit t > t.ie most arbitrary monopoly tha'. tl e country ever . saw or put up with.”—Byr< nW. Holt. I The Ohio Farmer and M eK’nle • There is n d a fa mor in the State cf Oh o who does not feel that in some way his inte ests nave b.en > aerified. | He sees immen e wealth accumulated by tne manufacturing industries. He I sees that the icsee.ive pants have i quadrupled in vtl o. He i ecognizes that those engaged i.j tnosa interests I ave iVad each year at a cost twice, tn ice greater tnan ne ha. expondfid. I He t ten realizes t.i; t his f urn has de- ■ pieeiatcd in vaLe That it uas de-' diced twenty, tnirty and in m n/ instances sis y pe.’ <ent. wit! in the la t three decades, aud he asks himself. “Wny is this st ? Why doss not the G >v< rn nent deviso some 1 gislati n which will at lea t keep mv property from dep.eciatim. 1 have been promise 1 a home m .rket for my products, but I have di covered that my home market is rul d and regulated by the p lees btaina >le in the s.reets of Liverpe 1. Home maraet is a myth, if it is sab ect to t ie control of tne Liverp> >1 market. My fai-m lat depreciated In val io yearly, t o tgh it is moi e prudi cti e tnan it ever has been. I have male it so by the hardest of labor, yet it is st.ll declining in value. 1 pay indirect taxes which enrich the j mi ufacturer. His goodt a e n-t conv o led by a for ign ma. k _t. The t riff en .b e i him to havo.a homo market, . and he sells at a la ge profit. But I mu*t part with my ] reducts at a price fixed in Livjrpuol. I cun t see the jus-; I Vice of legislation which '•uf trees a trL ute from me tor others, and leaves I me nuke 1 to contend with the ohe .p labor of foreign countries.” That is a sensible a "gument and a sen ib e coni elusion, but the farmer will continue to BU ler—his lands will continue to , depreciate until ths protective ta. iff Is r °Tne McKinley md klnd-ed legislati ns are responsib'e for the present , depressed condltiois. The Repub 1Anna have enacted all the laws for 1 more than tnirty y ars. These laws 1 tax the multitude t the benefit of the ' manuf ctnring interoxts. They have ' taken hundreds of millions ot dollars tram the laborer, too mechanic, the

farmer, and they will mntlnue to take millions more if they r e not rejlaoed with wliolesmoo laws which tax i nly for tho support of tho gove.nment.— Pomeroy (Ohio) Democrat. A Just Income Tex. Why is it that the average legislator apiHiars to bo dete mined to make tho poorer classes pay in prop- rtlon to their ability higher taxes than the rich? Ono can under, tan I why it should l>o so in a Government whore groat power is lodged in u privileged uri-tocracy. But why is it so in a republic? ** It Is a notorious feature of the MoKinley law that tho highest percentage of extortion is laid upon ihose kinds and qualities of goods w nich are the necessities or the commono t comforts of tho masses of the people. The luxuries of the rich are taxed lightly in comparison. This is one of the outrageous wrongs of that iniquitous statute. No sooner is an income tax proposed than forthwith schemers are prolific of projects for such an income tax as will cause certain hardship t > the great body of persons of small incomes, wageea ners, salaried men and small traders, but may be borne by capitalists easily or with comparative ease. I The purpo eof such schemes apiware to bo to make an income tax unpopular, and so to defeat it in the interest of plutocrats who now contrive to escape all taxatl n on a large share of their invested wealth. These are the persons whom an income tax ought to catch and compel to do their proper duty towards the Government that protects them Incomes under $5,000 ought to be exempt from tax or subject to only a nominal rate. As a rule tho receivers of such incomes are persons who pay their full share of taxes in indirect but not less certain ways. They are not the ones who do or can shirk their : proper share of the expenses of government. They are not the ones who indulge In luxurious living. They are not the ones who pile up vast fortunes by adding interest they cannot spend to capital that is more than efficient for comfort and for self-indulgence. The proper object of an inc me tax is not to oppress the industrious and the struggling and to prevent them from acquiring a modest competence. Its object is to compel those who have inc mes in excess of the moderate requirements of living and of rearing a family and of saving against the years of weakness, to do their full share in supporting the Government under which they pr< sper in an extraordinary degree. The difference between what the very rich man pays and what is pai l by the man who has no capital but his hands and his health, under the indirect system of tari ft taxation, is a difference that is relatively oppressive to the great majority of the people an I partial to the few. A prop srly graduated income tax, with sharply increasing rates for inc >mes above ss,i OJ, would correct t,his injustice and oppress no-

body. With a Treasury deficit of $50,000,COO in siglit it w< uld bo st a gj if such a t ix were not growing in favor.—Nev , York World. Too Good to Bo True. It is reported from Washlr gton on the authority of Democratic m ml era of the Way. and Means C mmittee that a tariff bill will probably l»e ready to lay before the fu l committ e on or before the lOtn of N ve.uber. It is further repo, ted ihai these mumberd agree that the bill wul bo reported to i the House an 1 placed en the calendars I by the liOth of next mouth. I “If this pn gram is earr;e 1 out,” { a Washington dispatch to the HuraldJ I “it will be possible for the House tol conclude consideration of the bi.l anq ; send it over for the concurrence of the] j Senate before the Christmas holidays.) I The probabilities, the.efore. a e that tho measure will bocomo u law during 1 toe latier part of Feb u ry or early in . Marc i.” To this it Laa el that tha I De ocrais of the commi tee are now | w< rk ng every d iy from early morn to dewy eve upon tho various schedules. i All this is encouragin', so a as the c mmittee is concerned, it me ns that tho Democrat, of t ie committee now understand that it is important to respond within a roasmable time to the 1 popular decision at the polls last November. It means, or seems to mean, that the policy of procrastination is no longer regarded with fav. r by those who are cuarg d with the uu.,y of redeeming tho party p.edge a.,d the decision of the peoi lo to tne so m of law. It i-eems to mean that these gentlemen intend to do what they cau t. get tha revised tariff in operation long enough before the next Congressional election to give the pe pie tome chance to judge as to its merits. Itseeme to mean that they a:e disposed io re ect the cowa dly c u. sols of mere politicians, to assume that tae people mea.it what they said at the polls and to rely upon the popular approval. — Giving Consumer* » Ch»no«. By the grace of the McKinley tariff, whio.i imposes an ave. duty of 2t cents a pound on varu us si os of window glass, the American Window Clasa i Trust i ■ enabled to maintain an ab o- | lute monopoly of the d mestic ma. ket. j Toe advantage of tho t ust seems to I have been p e sed too la.*, for at a meeting he d in China , o > n Wednesday ast it was ag eud that the market I — that is, the h me marke-- should reI ma n ujon for an ind.Lnte po.icd. I Ti e expl inution oi.ered uy the Presi- ■ dent iff tho combination w s simple enough: “There is no demand for glas : wo cannot create trade, and in the face of the li o ht demand there La |n i neces ity to muntan prices.” In I othe • wo. ds. the p ‘ice o tie trust, I under changed indu (trial a d commercial lO.dtions, La e bee me practically prohibitory, und a new a id I wer level I. to b i sought in un Li.iied competit on. W.ien tuis sha 1 have been determined w th re ison ble a eu aey, to the a.t penny which c n umei-o can afftrd to puy, tho trust will again step in to “maintain p ice,” under the she ter of a tar.ff ranging fr un lOuto ; 13U pur ceut.—FhiLudelj.hia l!ee„rd. We Will Try Them. A Yonk rs (N Y.) ILm of c rpet manti.act r.rs confirm tue pub (sued rep rt that they are making carpets 1 f r export to the English market, m orde • to fill E. glish orders, 'ij- ey «*re enabled to sue es fully c m ete in the i Eng ish market by reason . f improved machinery. T. ere can be no reasonab.e doubi that aft> r tl.e tariff duty 1 shall have Ice.i removed fro n caiqet w h>ls the carpet < made in Kensington wi 1 find teady sa o in every , eutral market of the world.— Philadelphia ‘ Reoord. McKinley Proteotloa Did It. I Wheat sold in New York on Monday 1 at 68 cents per bushel for December opti n*. This is the lowest price over recorded in thedealingsof taePr duce Exchange. Such prices do not cover | the average ooAof prcducti n. The only gleam of comfort to be derived tr m such transactions is the incidental promise < f cheap bread to the millions who find their dally bread hard to earn.—Philadelphia Record. I Remember that what y >ur children hear at hams takes wiage- omit Aiea . abroad.