Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1893 — Page 2

©he DKOATUH.IXU ■. KLAOXBURN, - • • rvaniswaa. “I am a good deal like the thermometer," said the reformed drinker. ■How so?” “Because it will be a cold Hay when 1 take another drop.” Whether the president of the col•:gc or the captain of the foot-ball earn is the greater man remains an open question in educational circles. The fruits of the earth do not tnore obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our own ose and subsistence than our faculties demand instruction. ' Hr who does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of noble actions becomes extinct in him. When a man speaks the truth in I the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. Prof. Garner, after a sojourn in Africa, visiting monkeys and learning their language, is back, and reports that monkeys do talk and have a language. He, however, doesn t yet acknowledge to being well up in the Simian. He says the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not on speaking terms—not that they are open enemies or filled with jealousies, but they don’t use the same text books. Hit who In the pride of supposed Innocence gathers his skirts away from the touch of the erring and guilty and leaves them to their fate Is as cruel and uncharitable as were the priest and the Levite who, seeing their fellow-traveler lying wounded and bleeding, “passed by on the other

side.” Whatever may be his fancied superiority, he himself is on the downward road as regards charity and kindliness, and needs humbly to turn from the error of bls ways. The “Nlctheroy," as “El Cid" is hereafter to be called, will be watched with great interest if she enters into the naval operations in support of President Peixoto, when she reaches Brazilian waters. For In everything except her colors she is one of the most American ships ever equipped for fighting. Her captain is a Cape Cod mariner. His mates and lieutenants are graduates of our naval schools The Hotchkiss guns and the dynamite hurlers are peculiarly American. The country will expect Important things of the Nlctheroy, and is not likely to be disappointed. Obstinate Muley Hassan, who says of himself: “I am the King of Kings and the Prince of Paradise,” is accepting war with Spain with a light heart Muley is doomed to a great awakening. The shroud of Islam will be rent in twain, and the Span- , ish Socialists will dissolve the fierce theological schools of Fez, and setup their cunning councils in their stead. The captain-general and the “sereno” will maintain law and order where now there is tyranny and feudalism. And meantime a Franco-Russian squadron is preparing to manifest at the mouth of the Dardanelles. Verily, the isolation of Islam is over.

Thebe is no cause for regret in the fact that the big New York Central engine 999 and the English locomotive Queen Empress did not race from Buffalo to New York. The race would have been unsatisfactory. Aside from the fact that the English machine was new and untried, the road was unfamiliar to the British engineer, and it would have scarcely been possible to secure conditions to make the race a fair one. If the American engine had won the cry from the Britons would have been that their locomotive was not in racing trim, and the result would be unsatisfactory all around. The bad grace with which our English friends took the defeat of the Valkyrie is a sufficient warning against entering fnto any contests with them unless the advantage—if there is any—shall be on their side. John Bull is becoming a hard loser, and the only way to shut him up is to give him odds and then beat him into the bargain. If Chief Brennan's Chicago janizaries will enforce vigorously the order issued in reference to reckless drivers they may have whatever they I ask for. The tyranny exercised over pedestrians by cabmen, truckmen i and drivers of vehicles generally is monstrous, and would not be tolerated in any other city on earth. The Chicago man who would escape being knocked down and run over by teams must be a high-class sprinter and dodger, and as for women their only hope is Providence. On the downtown crossings the reckless and hoiui; cidal Jehus are kept in order by the Central detail police, but away from the business district it ik every man for himself and the bakery wagon catch the hindmost. If the police want to make themselves popular let them yank a few hundred insolent drivers from their seats, and if they can find a reasonable excuse for clubbing the heads off a few of them so much the better. When Chief Brennan’s minions have brought the Chicago cabbles and expressmen to their senses for crim Inally headlong driving let them turn •ace more to the peddlers who stre ik the pale air with cries that madueo invalids and make strong men and

! women sick. The nuisance of street yelling had become slightly abated; but with cold weather the hawkers of vegetables and fruits seem to think it necessary to howl more loudly than ever in order to be heard through closed doors and barred wln--1 dows City people temporarily visit- ' ing a country village, find much in , bucolic scenes to excite their visiI bilitles, and still more In rustic cus- | toms to shock their sense of propriety ; and arouse a feeling of pity for the countryman’s benighted ignorance. But it is certain that no country I village would endure a nuisance onej half as outrageous as is borne with--1 out protest, and apparently with helplessness, by the residents of any city, in the shape of reckless drivers, yelling newsboys, howling hucksters, and gibbering banana peddlers. Chicago Herald: What is commonly, but inaccurately, termed the overproduction of girls is scaring some of the sociologists and reformers again. It is asserted that the excess of women over men is an alarming and abnormal feature of modern civilization. As a matter of fact, it is nothing of the sort. The women have always outnumbered the men and probably always will. In the earlier history of the world sanguinary and interminable wars kept the male population from increasing rapidly. Whisky, cigarettes, late hours and rapid living are doing the same thing now. As for the women composing the so-called surplus, they are not in need of any one’s pity. They are getting along first-rate. Some of them are unmarried from choice; others because they can’t get husbands. Both classes are to be congratulated. The average woman pan make a living as well as the average man can, and when she is paddling her own canoe she takes no chances of having to endure a male animal who drinks whisky, chews tobacco and won’t take a bath once in six months. No one need cry over the spinsters.

An expedition recently started from the United States for South America whose object is to scour tropical forests for brilliant plumaged birds to adorn women’s headgear. It is bad enough to see a delicate-faced female with the skin of some little animal disfiguring her throat, but it is worse to look at her hat and behold the externals of the carcasses of slaughtered birds. It is suggestive of a cruel disposition and at war with marriage. The London Times has entered the field with a strong protest against feathered females, and calls attention to the extermination of several species of the beautiful birds, many of them songbirds in Great Britain, all Europe and the United States. Herbert Spencer holds that women do not progress so fast as men—indeed, are very 4ar behind men; but what are we to think of his idea when the male sex form a company to slaughter birds that females may be adorned with the remains? Out upon such progress! While on the bird subject, attention may as well be called to the cruel little cages of song birds and others of plumed beauty, which are scarcely capacious enough for a mouse. We have all sorts of humane societies, but nobody protects birds against the devilish meanness of man in thus torturing their little lives out of them. There is a larger scope for an organization of women than that Outlined by Miss Octavia Bates, of Detroit, in her plan to promote and protect the interests of women at World's Fairs. Real international expositions are held at long intervals. Probably one in ten years is within tbe average, although exhibitions claiming but not deserving the prefix international are held oftener. Merely to conserve tbe interests of women at expositions held ten years apart would scarcely justify the formation of an organization. Indeed, such an organization would of necessity be little else than a name. It would lack cohesiveness because It would be without a tangible object A great society of women, however, one formed to redress the wrongs and maintain the right of women—that is, a women’s rights society in its highest sense—would have an everpresent object in view. It need have nothing to do with politics; ite members could wear their hair long or short as they pleased. Its mission would be to protect and assist women who through poverty, misfortune or accident need protection and assistance. Such a society would have a mission which would commend it self to women and then of all nations, and its formation would be one ot I the many happy results of the I World’s Fair.

Edcentric Abner Kirby. The late Abner Kirby, of Milwaukee. was a man of many eccentricitieß of character. As a landlord he puzzled his guests ijy naming his rooms instead of numbering them, and a newcomer was frequently startled at the order given the bell-boy to “show the gentleman up to Gehenna.” > Though fond of ardent spirits, he swore in 187(1 that he would not take another drink until Tilden was elect/ ed, and he did not. During the sixties he lost $500,000 ih wheat and later made $150,000 In thirty days in the same kind of speculation. One afternoon soon after thiiGhe tbssed $50,000 in bills in his wireSHap, ashe sat in the hotel parlor, and said: “Here, mammy, go and pay off the mortgage." was invariably made of imported Scotch goods, and as ho, always wore his clothre until they had become threadbare, they were in strange contrast with the big diamond in his necktie. Crankism as a plea for assasslnation is played out Guiteau found it so.

TALMAGE’S SERMON. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE PREACHES AT BIRMINGHAM. • ■■ .1 ■ The Mlrsnulon* Conversion of the Great Persecutor Roth an Kneoura<oment and a Warning—Out of Great Trlbnletlon* Come Z.oal and Clear Views of Truth. Talha In the South. Rev. Dr. Talmage during his Southern tour last week spoke at Nashville, Memphis, other cities, and on Sunday forenoon proached to a large audience at Birmingham, Ala., under the auspices of the Baptist. Church. The subject was “Unhorsed,’’ and the text chosen was Acts ix. 3-5: “And as he journeyed he camo near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from Heaven, andne fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul. Saul, why persecutes! thou mo'? And ho said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, lam Jesus whom thou persecutes!.” The Damascus of Bible times still stands, with a population of 135.000. It was a gay city of white and glistening architecture, its minarets and crescents and domes playing with the light.of the morning sun: embowered in groves of olive and citron and orange and jximegranato: a famous river plunging its brightness into the scene: a city by the ancients styled “a pearl surrounded by emeralds.” The Coming Terror. A group of horsemen are advancing upon that city. Let the Christians of the place hide, for that cavalcade coming over the hills is made of persecutors; their leader small and unattractive in some respects, as leaders sometimes are insignificant in person—witness the Duke of Wellington and Dr. Archibald Alexander. But there is* something very-uitcnt in the*eye of this man of the text, and the horse he rides is lathered with the foam of a long and quick travelpf 135 miles. He urges on his steed, for those Christians must be captured and silenced, and that religion of the cross must be annihilated. Suddenly the horses shy off and plunge until the riders are precipitated. Freed from- their riders, tne horses bound snorting away. You know that dumb animals, at the sight of an eclipse, or an earthquake, or anything like a supernatural appearance, sometimes becomes very uncontrollable. A new sun has been kindled in the heavens, putting out the glare of the ordinary sun. Christ, with the -lory of Heaven yrapped about Him, ooked out from a cloud, and the splendor was insufferable, and no wonder the horses sprang and thb equestrians droppod. • Dust covered and bruised, Saul attempts to get up, shading his eyes with his hands from the severe luster of the ) heavens, but unsuccessfully, for he is struck stone blind as he cries out, “Who art thou. Lord?” and Jesus answered him: “I am the one you have been chasing. He that whips and scourges those Damascene Christians whips and scourges me. It is not their back that is bleeding: it is mine. It is not their heart that is breaking; it is mine. lam Jesus whom thou persecutest.” The Deformed Transformed.

From that wild, exciting and overwhelming scene there rises up the greatest preacher of all the ages—raul—in whose behalf prisons were rocked down, before whom soldiers turned pale, into whose hands Mediterranean sea captains put control of their shipwrecking craft, and whose epistles are the avant courier of a resurrection day. I learn from this scene that a worldly fall sometimes precedes a spiritual uplifting. A man does not get much sympathy by falling off a horse. People say he ought not to have got into the saddle if he could not ride. Those of us who were brought up in the country remember well how the workmen laughed when, on our way back from the brook, we suddenly lost our ride. When in a grand review a general toppled from the stirrups, it became a national merriment. Here is Paul on horseback—a proud man, riding on with government documents in his pocket, a graduate of a most famous school, in which the celebrated Dr. Gamaliel had been a professor, perhaps having already attained two of tne three titles of the school—rab, the first: rabbi, the second, and on his way to rabbak, the third and highest title. I know from his temperament that his horse was ahead of the other horses. But without time to think of what posture he should take, or without consideration for his dignity, he is tumbled into the dust And yet that was the best ride Paul ever took. Out of that violent fall he arose into the apostleship. So it has been in all ages, and so it te now. Purified By Hufferlnc You will never be worth much for God and the church until you lose your fortune, or have your reputation upset, or in some way, somehow, are thrown and humiliated. You must go down before you go up. Joseph finds his oath to the Egyptian Court through the pit into which his brothers threw him. Daniel would never have walked among tbe bronzed lions that adorned the Babylonish throne if he had not first walked among the real lions of the cave. And Paul marshals all the generations of Christendom by falling flat on his face on the road to Damascus. Men who have been always prospered may be efficient servants of the world, but will be of no advantage to Christ. You may ride majestically seated on your charger, rein In hand, foot in stirrup, but you will never be worth anvthing spiritually until you fail off. They who graduate from the school of Christ with the highest honors have on their diploma the seal of a lion's muddy paw. or the plash of an angry ware, or the drop of a stray tear, or the brown scorch of a persecuting fire. In 999 cases out of 1,000 there te no moral or spiritual elevation until there has been a thorough worldly upsetting. The Brave Christian*. Again. I learn from tbe subject that the religion of Christ is not a pusillanimous thing. People in this day try to make us believe that Christianity te something for men of small caliber, for women with no capacity to reason, for children lit the infant claw under fi year* of age, but not for stalwacj men. fxxA at this man of the text!* Do you not think that tbe religion that could rapture * ch a man as that must have some utwirr in it? He was a logician; he wa- a metaphysician: he was an a:l cormuering orator; he was aj/> tofthc highest type, bad a nature tha*. could swamp the leading men of hlsioin day, an/Jhurbrd against) sanhedrin he made iLtremblo, He learnwl all that he vwtrtd in th< school of his native village; then be ha/1 gone ta a higher sehrail and there the Greek awLHebrew and <s ; rfecv-,d himsijf in ixdle tettres, until m altar ;. ea,> no a*tarnished the u -‘ ans, and the Atuenteh* by -.udtatJore from their ' m ve r fz W( d anythtog </r Herl<rt I Spencer that inetrength

or beauty with Paul’s epistles. I do not think there is Anything in the writings of Sir William 'Hamilton that shows such mental discipline as you find in Paul's orgilnient almut justification and the resurrection. I have not found anything in Milton finer in the wav of imagination t han I can find in Paul's illustrations drawn from the amphitheater. There was nothing in Robert Emmot pleading for his life, or in Edmund Bnrke arraigning Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall, that compared with the scene in the courtroom when, before robed officiate, Paul bowed and began his speech, toying. "I think myself happy. King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day.” < I repeat that a religion that can capture a man like that must have some power in it It is time you stopped talking as though all the brain in the world were opposed to Christianity. Where Paul leads, we can afford to follow. Talented Christian*. I am glad to know that Christ has in the different ages of the world had in his discipleship a Mozart and a Handel in music, a Raphael and a Reynolds in painting, an Angelo and a Canova in sculpture, a Rush and a Harvey in medicine, a Grotius and a Washington in statesmanship; a Blackstone, a Marshall, and a Kent in law. And the time will come when the religion of Christ will conquer all the observatories and universities, and philosophy will through her telescope behold the morning star of Jesus, and in her laboratory see “that all things work together for good,” and with her geological hammer discover the “Rock of Ages.” Oh, instead of cowering and shivering when the skeptic stands before you and talks of religion as though it were a pusillanimous thing - instead of that, take your New Testament from vour pocket and show him the picture of the intellectual giant of all the ages prostrated on the road to Damascus while his horse is flying wildly away. Then ask your skeptic what it was that frightened the one and threw the other. Oh. no, it is no weak gospel. It is a glorious gospel. It is an all conquering gospel. It is an omnipotent gospel. It is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation. He Must Be Humbled. Again, I learn from the text a man i cannot become a Christian until he is unhorsed. The trouble is, we want to ride into the kingdom of God just as the knight rode into castle gate on palfrey, beautifully caparisoned. We want to come into the kingdom of God in fine style. No kneeling down at the altar, no sitting on "anxious seats,” no crying over sin, no begging at the floor of God’s mercy. Clear the road and let us conie in all prancing in the pride of our souL No, we will never get into Heaven that way. We must dismount. There is no knight errantry in religion, no fringed trappings of repentance, but an utter prostration before God, a going down in the dust, with the cry, “Unclean, unclean!"—a bewailing of the soul, like David from the belly of hell—a going down in the dust until Christ shall by his grace lift us up as he lifted Paul. Oh. proud hearted hearer, you must get off that horse! May a light from the throne | of God brighter than the sun throw you! Comedown into the dust and cry for pardon and life and Heaven. Again, I learn from this scene of the text that the grace of God can overcome the persecutor. . Christ and Paul were boys at the same time in different villages, and Paul's antipathy to Christ was increasing. He hated everything about Christ. He was going down then with writs in his pockets to have Christ’s disciples arrested. He was not going as a sheriff goes to arrest a man against whom he had no spite, but Paul was going down to arrest those people because he was glad to arrest them. The Bible says, “He breathed out slaughter.” He wanted them captured, and he wanted them butchered. I hear the click and clash and clatter of the hoofs of the galloping steeds on the way to Damascus. Oh, do you think that proud man on horseback can ever become a Christian? Yes! There is a voice from Heaven like a thunderclap uttering two words, the second Word the same as the first, but uttered with more emphasis, so that the proud equestrian may have no doubt as to who is meant: “Saul! Saul!” That man was saved, and he was a persecutor, and so God can by His grace overcome any persecutor. Still Some Persecution.

The days of sword and fire for Christians seem to have gone by. The bayonets ot Napoleon I pried open the “inquisition” and let the rotting wretches out. The ancient dungeons around Rome are to-day mere curiosities for the travelers. The Coliseum, where wild beasts used to suck up the life of the martyrs while the Emperor watched and Lolia Paulina snt with emerald adornments worth 60,000,000 sesterces, clapping her hands as the Christians died under the paw and tooth of the lion—that Coliseum is a ruin now. The scene of the Smithfield fires is a haymarket. The day of fire and sword for Christians seems to have gone by. But has the day of persecution ceased? No. Are you not caricatured for your religion? In proportion as you try to serve God and be faithful to him, are you not sometimes maltreated? That woman finds it hard to be a Christian as her husband talksand jeers while she is trying to say her prayers or read the Bible. That daughter finds it hard to be a Christian with the whole family arrayed against I her—father, mother, brother, and I sister making her the target of ridi-; cule. That young man finds it hard to j be a Christian in the shop or factory or store when his comrades jeer at him because be will not go to the gambling heli or other places of iniquity. Oh, no, the days of persecution have not ceased and will not until the end of the world. But, oh, you persecuted ones, is it not time that you began to pray for your persecutors? They are no prouder, no nercer.no more set in their way than was this persecutor of the text He fell. They will fall if Christ from the heavens grandly and gloriously looks out on them. God can by His grace make a Renan believe in the divinity of Jesus and a Tyndall in the worth of prayer. - Robert Newton stamped the ship a dock in derisive indignation at Christianity only a little while before he became a Christian. “Opt m y house,” said a father to his daughter, “if you will keep praying.” Yet before many months passed the father knelt at the same altar with the child. And the Lord Jesus Christ is willing to look out from Heaven upon that derisive opponent of the Christian religion and address him, not in glit- j i taring generalities, but calling him by name: “John! George! Henry!— Saul, Saul, why oorsecutest thou me. Hojh- for the Worst. Again, 1 learn frohi this subject that there is hope for the worst offenders. It was particularly outrageous that Hau) should have gone to Damascus on that errand. Jesus Christ had been dead only three years, and the story of His kindness, and His generosity, and His love filled al 1 the air. It wan not an old storv. as it is now. Itwas a new story. Jesus had only three summers ■

ago been tn these very places, and Sam •very day in Jerusalem must have mot people who knew Christ, people of good eyesight whom Jesus had cured of blindness, people who had been dead and who had been resurrected by the Saviour, and people who could toll all the particulars of the crucifixionjust bow Jesus looked in the last hour, just how the heavens grew black in the face at the torture. He heard that recited every day by the people who wftre acquainted with all the circu instances, and yet in the frosh memory of that scene he goes to persecute Christ’s disciples, impatient at the time it takes to feed the horses at the inn, not pulling at the snaffle, but riding with loose rein faster and faster. Oh, he was the chief of sinners! No outbreak of modesty when he said that. Ho was a murderer. Ho stood by when Stophen died and helped in the execution oithatgood man. When the rabble wanted to bo unimpeded in thoir work of destroying Stephen and wanted to take off their coats, but did not daro to lay them down lost they lie stolen, Paul sad, “I’ll take care of the coats,” and they put them down at the feet of Paul, and he watchod the eoats, and he watched the horrid mangling of glorious Stephen. Is it a wonder that when he fell from the horse he did not break his neck—that his foot did not catch somewhere in the trappings of the saddle. ami he was not dragged and kicked to death? He deserved to die miserably, wretcncdly. and forever,notwithstanding all his metaphysics, and his eloquence, and his logic. The Chief of Sinner*. He was the chief of sinners. He said what was true when he said that. And yet the grace of God saved him, and so it will you. If there is any man in this bouse who thinks he is too bad to be saved and says, “I have wandered very grievously from God; Ido not belive there is any hope for me,” I tell you the story of this man in the text who was brought to Jesus Christ in spite of his sins and opposition. There may be some here who are as stoutly opposed to Christ as Paul was. There may be some here who are captive of their sins aS much so as the young man who said in regard to his dissipating habits: “I will keep on with them. I know I am breaklug my mother’s heart, and I know I am killing myself, and I know that when I die 1 shall go to hell, but it is now too late to stop.” The steed on which you ride may be' swifter and stronger and higher mettled than that on which the Cilician persecutor rode, but Christ can catch it by the bridle and hurl it back and hurl it down. There is mercy for you who say you are too bad to be saved. ou say you have put off the matter so long; Paul had neglected it a great while. You say that the sin you have committed has been among the most aggravating circumstances; that was so with Paul’s. You say you have exasperated Christ and coaxed your own ruin; so did Paul. And yet he sits to-day on one of the highest heavenly thrones, and there is mercy for you, and good' days for you, ana gladness for you, if you will only take the same Christ which first threw him down and then raised him up. It seems to me as if I can see Paul to-day rising up from the highway to Damascus, and brushing off the dust from his cloak, and wiping the sweat of excitement from his brow, as he turns to us and all the ages, saying, “This a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” The BnMlme Reality. Once more, I learn from this subject that there is a tremendous reality in religion. If it had been a mere optical delusion on the road to Damascus, was - not Paul just the man to find it out? If it had been a sham and pretense, would he not have pricked the bubble? He was a man of facts and arguments, of the most gigantic intellectual nature, and not a man of hallucinations. And when I see him fall from the saddle, blinded and overwhelmed, I say there must have been something in it. And, my dear brother, you will find that there is something in religion somewhere. The only question is, Where? There was a ’man who rode from Stamford to London 95 miles, in five hours on horseback. Very swift. There was a woman of Newmarket who rode* on horseback a thousand miles in a thousand hours. Very swift 1 But there are those here—aye, all of us are speeding on at tenfold that : velocity, at a thousandfold that rate toward eternity. May Almighty God, from the opening heavens, flash upon your soul this hour the question of Jour eternal destiny, and * oh, that esus would this hour overcome you with His pardoning mercy as He stands here with the pathos of a broken heart and sobs into your ear: “I nave come for thee. 1 come with my back raw from the beating. I come with my feet mangled with the nails. I come with my brow aching from the twisted bramble. I come with my heart bursting for your woes. I can stand it no longer. lam Jesus whom thou persecutest.”

Almost Infallible. A well-known contractor walked into a bank in this city the other day to cash a check for S4O. The payingteller looked at the cheek a few minutes, then counted out S4OO, and handed it to the contractor, who, although be noticed the error, said not a word, but rolled up the bills and wadded them down iato bis pocket This happened in the morning, and about 2 o clock the same afternoon, before the officials of the bank had an opportunity to discover the error, the contractor walked into the office of the President of the bank. •‘ls this bank responsible for the errors of its clerks?” he asked the President \ “if it can be proved that any of our clerks have erred,” replied the President, in a very chilly manner, “we will make the correction." ‘•Well, nobody saw this error made but myself," continued the contractor,“and my' word oqght to be sufficient proof. I think.” “I am sorry, sir,” said the bank president, “but we shall have to have additional proof. We require this In order to protect ourselves; that Is all.” “Very well, sir.” replied the contractor, rising to leave, ‘‘l am sorry I cannot furnish what ypu demand. The error, I referred to was the payment ots4oo for a check that called for only S4O; but, as no one saw me recelve-the extra $360, I suppose you will not want to correct the mistake. Good day, sir.” “Hold on! Come backl” shouted the bank President who, by this time, was very wide awake to the abyss to which he had i>een led. - The matter was soon adjusted satisfactorily, and now when any person reports an error at that bank, the first question asked is: “In whese favor?"— Washington Post The shortest route to a man's heart Is sjUd to be through his stomach. In that case a good cook book is the it reliable marriage guide

NEW TARIFF BILL ITS PRINCIPAL FEATURES ARE EXCELLENT. Neoeainrle* of Life Cheapened. Free Raw Material* to the Front, Bonntlee and Bubaldiv* to the Bear—The BUI Nhould Be Hurried Through. A Commendable Measure. The Ways and Means tariff bill, which will probably be known as the Wilson bill, is, on the whole, a satisfactory response to the demands of the country. The Democratic administration and the Democratic majorities in the two houses of Congress were chosen to give relief from the high taxation Imposed by the McKinley act, and this bill is the response to the country’s delire. The first, because the most universal, iemand was that the necessaries of life ihould be made cheaper to the people by the abolition of taxes on the materials used by American manufacturers und on the took of agriculture and trade. The bill is fully satisfactory in this respect. In making the additions to the free list the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee have risen above selfish ooLsiderations. They have refused to heed the protests and outcries of protected interests in their own districts. This Is especially true of the Chairman of the Bommitteo, whose district contains many coal and iron mines, and whose Eonstituents clamored loudly against the ab lition of the tariff taxes on coal ind on iron ore. But the duties on coal &nd on iron ore are an annual tax on manufacturers of more than $1,750,000, Mid have closed up many furnaces and iron and steel mills in New England. Cheap ore and pig iron lie at the basis of our industries, and Mr. Wllscn and his associates have sought the good of the whole. With the taxes removed from these articles, there is every reason to believe, from the present state of the metal market, that American iron masters will soon control the iron and steel trade of the world. In the not remote future the West Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and Alabamians themselves will find free ore and coal beneficial. The remainder of the free list additions are directly for the relief of the people who are bearing the more serious burdens of the present tariff. Not mly are wools made free, but the tax nn wearing apparel is also repealed. Clothes are to be cheaper. Fuel, lumber, stone and structural iron that go into houses, the tools of the mechanic, the machinery and implements of the farmer are to be made cheaper. The monopolies that were fostered by the taxes on cotton ties and binding twine ire to have their hold on their victims loosened. Sham reciprocity, which, untaxing foreigners only, has raised the price of coffqe and extended the area of protection under the pretense of granting relief to commerce, is to be abandoned. The bounty on sugar is to be withdrawn gradually, and the tax on refined sugar is to be reduced. The most disappointing feature of the new bill is the sugar schedule. Most Democrats will say that the bounty ought to have been taken away at once, for such a tax is directly hostile to American institutions and especially to Democratic principles. Many difficulties, however, stood in the way of radical treatment The sugar growers of the country protested against being suddenly left stripped of all protection. They argued that this would be discrimination against them: that while other protected Interest? were to have their favors withdrawn gradually it was proposed to cut off the sugar bounty at once and after the growers had arranged their business with reference to it. In order to satisfy. these people and their representatives in Congress, who were for the bill otherwise, the plan of gradual withdrawal of tne bounty was adopted. It is a compromise concerning which something can be said on both sides. The reduction of the rate on refined sugars will be a blow at the trust, but not a serious one. The bill generally is excellent. It has been prepared with great care and entire conscientiousness. It goes very far, perhaps as far as it is possible to go at once, toward a complete fulfillment of Democratic pledges. When it Casses and becomes a law, a new and righter era will begin for American commerce.—New York World. Immediate Tariff Reduction. The following quotations are from A. Augustus Healy’s article, in the December Forum, entitled, “Necessity for Immediate Tariff Reduction:” “The present time Is most opportune for changing the tariff. The financial panic through which we have passed, with its attendant disaster and suffering, has furnished a golden opportunity for putting a new tariff into effect with the least possible displacement and loss. “The great majority of manufacturers are not at all afraid of a lower tariff. It will in reality be a great boon to them. But they are extremely impatient to know what it is to be in all its details. “The new tariff should be put into effect as soon as possible, in order that it may have time to vindicate itself and establish itself in the favor of the people before the Congressional elections of 1894. The permanency of the reform may be involved in having this done. “I have every confidence that a wise tariff law, such as we may reasonably expect at the hands of the present Ways and Means Committee, if put into operation by the Ist of January, 1894, will find great favor in the eyes of the people “before the Congressional elections .of next year, and will continue to give universal satisfaction, until, with general consent, the business j of the country shall be prepared for a further reduction of duties; thus repeating the history of the low Walker tariff of 1846, which, having brought prosperity to the country during a period of ten years, was further reduced in 1857. Mr. Blaine tells us in his ‘History’ that ‘this act (the tariff of 1857) was well received by the people, and, indeed, was concurred in by a considerable proportion of the Republican party.’ “It seems clear to me that to postpone the revision of the tariff is to postpone the revival of jaqsperity by introducing uncertainty, W a constant element, in a large class of industries. On the other hand, the.prompt phssage of a new tariff bill would clear up all floubt; business would at once adapt itself to now conditions; our merchants and manufacturers would have courage and confidence to undertake new and large enterprises, and with a more liberal commercial policy, it Is probable that we should at once enter upon a long course of business prosperity. “The people of the United States are inclined to favor that party which is , able to accomplish results. They desire prompt action on the part of their representatives tn carrying into effect needed legislation.” One Rational Republican Opinion. While the free-listing of these and other articles reduces the revenues

I about twenty-two millions, it is better, I the revenue question apart, that some of them should bs duty free. This Is the oa.ro with wool, for reasons which , this paper has stated repeatedly. The removal of the duty on lumber will bo fol lowed by increased importations from Canada, but the destruction of the American forests, which has lieen progrossingHO rapidly, will bo checked. The tariff protaction of those forests has contributed to their untimely destruction. That free iron ore will injure the iron-ore men of the United States may well bo questioned. What the effect of the removal of the duty on coal will bo time will show.—Chicago Tribune. Tnxea Accord Inu to Value. It Is plain that the ad valorem or “according to value” stylo of duty is much more equitable than the fixed or specific stylo of duty. Rich people naturally like the specific, style of duty more than they like the other, as under it they are not required to pay their proper share of taxation. It is to the great advantage of the poorer classes to have ad valorem duties on everything, as then they are not required to pay their ojvn share of taxation and a considerable slice of the rich men’s share as well. The inferior dualities of goods which poor people buy are not any longer to be taxed two, throe or four times as highly as the fine qualities of goods la the same line which millionaires buy.—New Orleans Times-DeniocraL v Understand* Hl* Buitnee*. George A. Macbeth, a lamp chimney manufacturer of Pittsburg, talks like a man of courage, enterprise and American spirit of the new tariff bilL “There has been too much tariff," he says, “on glassware. It It were taken off altogether it would be a good thing, which other manufacturers cannot see now, but will later. Without a tariff on the finished product the markets of the world would be open to us. We care nothing in our business for foreign competition. Labor-saving mash inery, skilled workmen and all the natural benefits we possess give the Americans an advantage in manufacturing which no other country possesses.’ That is the American spirit which wins and conquers. Tax the Income*. There are no sound reasons advanced sufficient to justify the defeat of this species of taxation.—Nashville American. It is just, will keep down discontent among people on whom taxation is a burden ana will make the rich more secure in their property holdings.— Washington (Ga.) Chronicle. The income tax is opposed by many of the “goldbugs* upon tne ground that it is inquisitorial, but as all taxes are inquisitorial and burdensome this argument should not prevent the lawmakers from placing it upon the statute books —Bangor Commercial. > Our Consul at Chemnitz finds that the income tax in Saxony has worked very successfully, and that in the main it has yielded safe and certain results, with little loss and less complaint. It would be our own fault if we were not to make our income tax popular.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We need the income tax to make good the deficiency in the Treasury now existing and likely to continue, and we need it because it tends to equalize taxation. Under the present system taxes are so unequally distributed that the wealthy bondholder may escape while his poor neighbor pays more than his just part—Atlanta Constitution. Hurry the Bill Through.’ LET the tariff bill become a law before Mr. Cleveland's first year in office expiree.—St Louis Republic. The Wilson bill ought to pass both - branches of Congress without material modification or unnecessary delay.— Kansas City Star. Since the tariff must ba changed, the one imperative duty is to perfect the change as promptly as possible. Some business must be done in the meantime, but no large engagements can be entered into until all there questions are settled. —Philadelphia Times. • The Wilson bill, which is destined to supersede the iniquitous McKinley measure, is now ready for the action of Congress. Rush it through with a whirl, gentlemen, and if there is any attempt at blockading in the Senate, just send for David B. Hill. —Chicago Times. The tariff bill is ready for Congress, and the people are ready for the tariff bilL Time is precious. The quicker we get the bill passed the quicker shall we rid our industries of that uncertainty which, aside from bad tariff legislation itself, is the greatest source of harm in tariff legislation.—Louisville Courier-Journal Another Great Ship Canal. The great canal between the North and Baltic seas is fast approaching completion, and the engineers say that it will be opened without fail next year. It has no locks or sluices along its course, but at each end there are gates regulating the water level in the canal. The average level will be the same as that in the Baltic. The bed of the canal is 27 feet below normal water level and it has a bottom width of 66 yards. The slope of the sides is either two to one or three to one, and the least depth of water is to be about 18 * feet deep. The Baltic trading steamers generally draw less water than this minimum and are of such a beam that they can easily pass in the canal. The greatest amount of curvature is made with a radius of 3,000 feet, and 63 per cent, of the canal is straight. During the summer about 5,000 men have been at work on the great ditch, and up to the present time about 100,000,000 cubic yards of excavation have been completed at an expense of about $17,500,000. The entire cost of the canal is estimated at $39,000,000, of which sum Prussia contributes $12,500,000 and the German Empire the balance. The Making of Fly Paper. The substance used in the sticky paper employed to catch, flies.is a kind of birdlime. The regular bird lime te made from the bark of the holly by boiling it and condensing the product until it is about the consistency of molasses. It is the stickiest stuff known to the chemist. AUy that touches the paper never gets away to tell the tale; a bird that lights on the twig that has been smeared with it finds escape an impossibility. The use of it on papei to destroy insects is an Indian invention. In Hindostan flies and mosquitoes make life a burden, and without the sheets of sticky paper hung everywhere about the roof ana on the walls, existence would boa misery. An Income Like a Vanderbilt’s. Dean Hoffman, of the General Theo logical Seminary, New York, has an income as large as that of Cornelius Vanderbilt He inherited most of hi» property, which Is in the form of city real estate. The Hoffman House, containing the celebrated barroom, be longs principally to this worthy clergyman, and pays 25 per cent on the in vestment Ho has given more than i million to the'bhurch, and his brother. Dr. Charles F. Hoffman, built All Angela Church, endowed it and gan it to the parish.