Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1894 — Page 2

®he gemorrat DEOATVR, IND. n MAflnnn*, • • • rcitl "”' g "‘ lj - '"* 1 Mb. marriage seems to be & complete vindication of ills court practice. Looking into a glass to paint one’s face is not wholly a feminine trick. A man looks into a glass to color his nose. A woman in Russia washed her i hair in petroleum and then lighted a match. Her widower will hesitate before striking another match. ■— I Now the newspaper boys are kindly marrying off another member of the Gould family. We. believe she ought to be consulted in this matter. The habit of giving alms in money to unknown applicants at houses or ! on the streets is one that ought not to be encouraged. It is true there is , a good deal of distress at the present time, but it is taken advantage of by J persons who never have done any work, and make the temporary pov- 1 erty of the industrious their excuse 1 for begging. There are in most localities organizations for the proper distribution of charity. By giving : through such organizations the monej’ « contributed will be made to reach 1 only those who are deserving. The reconciliation of Emperor J William with his former prime min- ; ister is the most hopeful sign we have J lately seen. For nearly four years ' those two have been estranged, and many a time the young Emperor has needed the help and advice of the . statesman whose abilities made Ger- s many an empire, but whom he was ’ too proud to consult. Bismarck, too, " has chafed under his unnatural retirement from public service. We 1 J shall probably hear again from Bismarck whenever the threatening condition of German affairs requires 1 his help to set tilings right. Patent Commissioner Seymour has under consideration the publication of lists of patents that have ex- 1 plred within the past few years. ( Such a publication will open many c valuable inventions that now belong ( to any who desire to use them. Large 1 enterprises keep posted as to the ' . time patents expire, but the informa- J tion ought to be made as public as possible. It is also proposed to make c the patenting of articles more sim- I pie, giving one patent with as many J specifications as it devolves of new 1 ideas, instead of granting a separate J patent for each idea. This will di- I minish the cost of getting out pat- 1 ents, reduce their number and make f it much easier to keep track of them. 1 . f People who notice the increasing 1 diffusion of knowledge among young s women of the humble class and the, s steady advance in wages commanded 1 by good servants sometimes wonder c what posterity will do for servants. t The wonder is gratuitous. The ten- * dency of mankind is to flock to the spots where life, is easiest and most 1 s agreeable. The migration will go on till such places are overcrowded. r Then the supply of labor will be in excess of the demand, wages will fall, and the number of competitors for f each vacant place will swell In other woids, the tide which began to flow when prosperity befell this coun- c try will ebb, in consequence of the 1 superabundance of persons who seek ’ to share that prosperity. ■ t Northwestern farmers are fight- 1 ing a combine of threshing-machine 1 manufacturers and operators which 1 was formed last November. Under s this combine no threshing is to be ’ done at less than 5 cents a bushel for ' wheat and 34 cents for oats. The 1 plan of the farmers is to co-operate ] in each neighborhood, a number of £ farmers uniting in buying a machine ( and exchanging works in managing 1 and running it. There will, how- < ever, be a necessity for employing 1 some one skilled in managing the 1 thresher and running the engine. In most eastern localities the business < of threshing is overdone. So many ’ engage in it as a rapid way to earn ’ money that the season does not last ! long. By the time the machine and engine are paid for both are nearly ' worn out. The threshing outfit costs a good deal more than it used to do, and prices for threshing as well as the prices of grain have generally declined belew paying rates. A young and uneducated Nor- ) Wegian named Edward Brekhus is as- P tonishing the people of Tacoma by going into a trance condition and then uttering most remarkable messages. His preaching is in Norwegian, and those who can understand him say he uses language far beyond his natural powers. He has .very little acquaintance with the Bible, but in his trance state he repeats whole chapters without mistake. After he comes out of the I trance he does not know what he has I said. The case has attracted much • attention from clergymen in Washington, and they are puzzled to account for itexceptas a manifestation of spiritual powers like those recorded Testament times. Chicago Herald: Dr. John T. Nagle, of New York, has evolved the idea of a transcontinental boulevard, with termini at New York and San Francisco. The boulevard, as proposed by the Doctor, is to be wide, fine and well made, taking in many towns and cities, giving the country the grandest driving track in the world. It is to be built by the gov-

ernment and should be begun at once, thus providing work for thousands of unemployed. The scheme is not without virtue. A boulevard from New York to San Francisco would bo one of the wonders of the world. To the cities along the lino it would give a drive, known only in fairy tales. It woultt also, and here is its greatest virtue, enable people who cannot afford to ride to walk out of New York City. A decision by the Supreme Court of Minnesota concerning commitment of alleged insane jiersons should be gratefully welcomed by the people of that State instead of being made subject of censure. The court holds that notice must be given prior to judgment in commitments under tbe law for inclosure of the insane. The present law makes it easy for conniving or ignorant persons Ao railroad obnoxious people into an insane asylum. The court holds that evidence must lie presented in open court, a requirement now practically universal in preliminary procedure touching insanity. The wonder is that the Legislature of Minnesota should have given the Supreme Court of the State cause for rendering a judgment so plainly necessary and so clearly just The Governor of Arkansas makes and proves a serious accusation against the Indian Territory, that under its present government it is the recruiting and organizing place for bands of train robbers, whose depredations are often reported in the Southwest. Maps of the localities adjacent to Indian Territory have been captured, showing the route by which the robbers traveled, both in going to the lines of railroads and returning. Qn these maps were time tables showing when valuable trains were due at points favorable for waylaying. It will be the duty of Congress to take action on this complaint. To make Indian Territory a rendezvous for criminals is demoralizing alike to the Indians and to all the whites in the Territorv, and the criminal classes should be cleaned out for the protection of the mass of citizens. The season of “didn’t-know-it-was-loaded” is on. It was opened the other evening at Decatur. Sitting down to a game of cards in the home of his fiancee a young man took from his pocket a revolver and, extracting what he supposed to be all of the cartrides, laid it on the table, jocosely remarking that it should be used on the first one w-ho quarreled. A play made by the girl was questioned. Recalling his former remark she jokingly pointed the weapon at the young man’s head: there was an explosion and her partner at cards and intended husband was dead on the floor. Neither “knew it was loaded.” Human understanding cannot account for the desire, strong in some people, to carry a revolver. Much less can it account for the uncontrollable passion to “fool” with it. There was no more reason for the young man to carry a pistol than to wear armor or to wheel around with him a Hotchkiss gum The sorrow which his deed has’brought on the girl will doubtless serve, in her case at least, as an everlasting warning not to play with a revolver, loaded or unloaded. In less than a month after the fatal bomb was thrown in the French Chamber of Deputies the murderous bomb-thrower. Vaillant. was executed. There was no precipitation. Every step leading to the guillotine was decorous and according to l»w. At first it was a mystery who th|;w the bomb, and then, after the man had been discovered and identified, he was given every reasonable opportunity to defend himself. France sets herein a good example to America. .Justice is largely defeated in its effect by unnecessary delay. The man Vaillantwas a typical anarchist. He had no excuse whatevef * for his act. He threw that bomb in the hope of killing some of the national lawmakers, and that solely upon the theory that todosuch murder would tend to the disintegration of society, and that such disintegration is the fundamental need of the people. This is alike preposterous in its premise and its conclusion. The largest possible destruction by that bomb would have simply been a personal calamity, having no effect upon the fabric of society. The only question from the first was the measure of punishment, capital or imprisonment for life. The man Vaillant reasoned wfe.ll on this point He said that if he had been sentenced to imprisonment for life he would probably have been pari doned out some time, and then he pwould have gone to making bombs again. Wasted Advice. & aJuhea!®, I I”" The New Pastor—My brother, I adjure you to love your enemies. Colonel Ffeud (.of the Kentucky Moonshine District)—Can’t do it, Parson! Can’t do it! The New Parson—You could if you would try. Colonel Feud—lmpossible! Hain’t got none to love. Shot tbe last one this mawnin’! A married woman’s description of : an ideal man is a picturq of tbe kind she didn’t get.—Atchison Globe.

‘ TALMAGE’S SERMON, I ■ THE MAP OF THE MIND IS ABLY 1 • DISCUSSED. An Swn In the Face— Rev. Ur. Talmage Kaya the Character ot the Countenance la a Mirror or the Seal—Moat Wonderful of God's Works. The Tabernacle I'nlplt. in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday forenoon Rev, Dr. Talmage chose for the subject of his sermon "The Human Face" and hold his groat audience fascinated with the charm of his eloquence as ho discoursed on a subject of universal- interest. The text was Ecclesiastes viii, 1, “A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed,” or, as it may be rendered, “the sourness of his face shall lie sweetened.” Thus a little change in our English translation brings out- the better moaning of the text, which sets forth that thd character of the face is decided by the character o>the soul. The main features of our countenance were decided by the Almighty, and we cannot change them, but under God we decide whether wo shall have countenances benignant or baleful, sour or sweet, wrathful or genial, benevolent or mean, honest or scoundrelly, impudent or modest, courageous or cowardly, frank or sneaking. In all the works of God there is nothing more wonderful than the human countenance. Tlfough the longest face is less than twelve inches from thn£ hair line of the forehead to the bottom of the chin and the broadest face is less than eight inches from cheek bone to cheek bone, yet in that small compass God hath wrought such differences that the 1.600,000.01X1 of the human race may be distinguished from each other by their facial appearances. . An Index of Character. The face is ordinarily the index of character. It isthe throne of theemotions. It is the battlefield of the passions. It is the catalogue of character. It is the mai> of the mind. It is the geography of the soul. And while the Lord decides before our birth whether we shall be handsome or homely we are by the character we form deciding whether our countenances shall be pleasant or disagreeable. This is so much so that some of the most beautiful faces are unattractive because of their arrogance or their doceitfulness, and some of the most rugged and irregular features are attractive because of tbe kindness that shines through them. Accident or sickness or scarification mav veil the face so that it shall not express t ne soul, but in the majority of cases give me a deliberate look at a man’s countenance and I will tell you whether he is a cynic or an optimist, whether he is a miser or a philanthropist, whether he is noble or ignominious. whether he is good or baa. Our first impression of a man or woman is generally the accurate impression. You at the first glance make up your mind that some man is unworthy of your friendship, but afterward, by circumstances being put into intimate association with him. you come to like him and trust him. Yet stay with him long enough, and you will be compelled to return to your original estimate of his character, but it will be after he lias bheated you out of everything he could lay his hands on. It is of God’s mercy that we have these outside indexes of character. Phrenology is one index, and while it may be carried to an absurd extent there is no doubt that you can judge somewhat of amans character by the shape of his head. Palmistry is'another index, and while it may be carried into the fanciful and necromantic there is no doubt that certain lines in the palm of the hand are indicative es mental and moral traits. A Scathing Rejoinder. Now. my text suggests how we may, independent of features, make ourselves agreeable. "A man’s wisdom maketh his face shine, and the sourness of his face shall be sweetened.” What 1 say may come too late for many. Their countenance may by long years of haraness have been frozen into stolidity, or by long years of cruel beaavior they may have Herodized all the machinery of expression.or by long years of avarice they may have been Shylocked until their face is as hard as the precious metal they are hoard-ing.but-I am in time to help multitudes if the Lord will. That it is possible to overcome disadvantages of physiognomy was in this country mightily illustrated by one whose life recently closed after having served in the Presidential Cabinet at Washington. By accident of fire in childhood his face had been more piteously scarred than any human visage that I ever saw. By hard study he arose from being a poor boy to the very height of the legal profession, and when an Attorney General for the United States was needed he entered the Presidential Cabinet. What a triumph over destroy ea human countenance! I do not wonder that when an opposing attorney in a Philadelphia courtroom cruelly referrej to this personal disfigurement Benjamin F. Brewster replied in these wonb: “When I was a babe. I was a beautiful blue eyed child. I know this Realise my dear dead mother told me jo. but I was one. day playing with my jister when her clothes took tire, and I ran to her relief and saved her, lut in doing so my clothes took fire, and She fire was not put out until my face was as black as the heart of the scoundrel who has just now referred to my disfigurement.” Heroism conouering physical disabilities! That scholarly regular features are not necessary for making powerful impression witness Paul, who photographs himself as in flxMlily presence weak,” aad George Whitefield, whose eyes were struck with strabismus. and Alexander H. Stephens, who sat with pale and Bick face in an in-.alid’s chair, while he thrilled the American Congress with his eloquence, and thousands of invalid pr-cachers and Sabbath school teacher* and Christian workers. Aye, the most glorious being the world ever saw was foreseen by Isaiah, who described his face bruised and gashed ami scarified and said of him, “His visage was so marred, more than any man.” So you see that the loveliest face in the universe was a scarred {ace - ! . ...J...... :• - -- The Bright Side and the Dark. And now I am going to tell you ot soine of the chisels that work for the disfiguration or irradiation of the human countenance. One of the sharpest and most destructive of those chisels of the countenance is cynicism. That sours the disposition and then sours tbe face. It gives a contemptuous curl to the lip. it draws down the corners of the mouth and inflates the nostril as with a malodor. What David said in ( haste they say in their deliberation, ‘’All men are liars,” everything is going to ruin. All men and women are J bad or going to lie. Society afhd the ! church are on the down grade. Tell them of an act of benevolence, and they say he gave that to advertise f himself. They do not like the present 1 fashion of hats for women or of ecats tor men. They are opposed to the adttHnistration, municipal and state and

national. Somehow food does not taste as it used to. and they wonder why there are no poets or orators or preachers as when they were boys. Even Solomon, one of the wisest and at one time one of the worst of men, falls into the pessimistic mood and cries out in the twenty-first chapter of Proverbs, “Who can find a virtuous woman?” If he had behaved himself bettor and kept in good associations, he would not have written that interrogation point implying the scarcity of good womanhood. Cynicism, if a habit, as it is with tons of thousands of people, writes itself all over the features; hence so many sour visages aU up and down the street, all up and down the church and the world. Ono good way to make the world worse is to say it is worse. Let a depressed and foreboding opinion of everything take possession of you (or twenty years, and you will be a sight to behold. It is the chastisement of God that when a man allows his heart to be cursed with cynicism his face becomes gloomed and scowled and lachrymosed and blasted with the same midnight. Angelo’* Bum*. But let the Christ inn cheerfulness try its chisel upon a man’s countenance. Feeling that all things are for his good, and that God rules, and that the Bible being true the world’s floralization is rapidly approaching, and the day when beer mug and demijohn and distillery and bombshell and rifle pit and seventy-four pounders and roulette tables and corrupt book and satanic printing press will have quit work.the brightness that comes from such anticipation not only gives zest to his worK, but shines in his eyes and glows in his cheek and kindles a morning in his entire countenance. Those are the faces I look for in an audience. Those countenances are sections of Millennial glorv. They are Heaven impersonated. They are the sculpturing of God’s right hand. They are hosannas in human flesh. They are halleluiahs alighted. They are Christ reincarnated. Ido not care what your features are or whether you looklike your father or your mother or look like no one under the heavens, toGodandman you are beautiful. Michael Angelo, the sculptor.visiting Florence, some one showed him in a back yard a piece of marble that was so shapeless it seemed of no use, and Angelo was asked if he could make anything out of it. and if so was told he could own it. The artist took the marble, and for nine months shut himself up to work, first trying to make of it a statue of David with his foot on Goliath, but the marble was not quite long enough at the base to make the prostrate form of the giant, and so the artist fashioned the marble into another figure that is so famous for all time because of its expressiveness. A critic came in and was asked by Angelo for his criticism, and he said it was beautiful, but the nose of the statue was not of right shape. Angelo picked up from the floor some sand and tossed it about the face of the statue, pretending he was using his chiselto make the improvement suggested by the critic. “What do you think of it now?” said the artist. “Wonderfully improved,” said the critic. “Well,"said the artist, “I have not changed it at all.” My friends, the grace of God comes to the heart of a man or woman and then attempts to change a forbidding and prejudicial face into attractiveness. Perhaps the face is most unpromising for the Divine Sculptor. But having changed the heart it begins to work on the countenance with celestial chisel, and into all the lineaments of the face puts a gladness and an expectation that changes it from glory to glorv, and though earthly criticism may disapprove of this or that in the appearance of the face Christ says of the newly jp.reated countenance that which Pilate said of him, “Behold the man!" Here is another mighty chisel for the countenance, and you may call it revenge or hate or malevolence. This spirit having taken possession ot Abe heart, it encamps seven devils under the eyebrows. It puts cruelty into the compression of the lips. You can tell from a man’s looks that he is pursuing some one and trying to get even with him. There are suggestions of Nero and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumbscrews and racks all up and down the features. Infernal artists with murderers’ daggers have been cutting away at that visage. The revengeful heart has built its perdition in the revengeful countenance. Disfiguration of diabolic passion! But here comes another chisel to shape the countenance, and it is kindness. There came a moving day and into her soul moved the whole family of Christian graces, with all their children and grandchildren, and the command has come forth from the heavens that that woman’s face shall be made to correspond with her supurb soul. Her entire face from ear to ear becomes the canvas on which all the best artists of Heaven begin to put their finest strokes, and on the small compass of that face are put pictures of sunrise over the sea, and angels of mercy going up and down ladders all aflash, and mountains of transfiguration and noonday in Heaven. Kindness! It is the most magnificent sculptor that ever touched human countenance. Here comes another chisel, and that belongs to the old-fashioned religion. It first takes possession of the whole soul, washing out its sins by the blood of the Lamb and starting Heaven right there and then. This done, deep down in the heart religions says: “Now let me go up to the windows and front gate of the face and set up some signal that I have taken possession of this castle. I will celebrate the victory by an illumination that no one can mistake. I have made this man happy", and now I will make him look happy. I will draw the corners of his mouth as far up as they were drawn down. I will take the contemptuous curl away from the lip and nostril. I will make his eyes flash and his cheeks glow at every mention of Christ and Heaven. I will make, even the ' wrinkles of his face look like furrows plowed for the harvest of joy. I will make what we call the ‘crow’s feet’ around his temples suggestive that the dove of peace has been alighting there.” There may be signs of trouble on that face, but trouble sanctified. There may be scars of battle on that face, but they will be scars of campaigns won. Power of » Face. “Now,” says some one, "I know very good people who have no such religion in their faces.” My friend, the reason probably is that they were not converted until late iii life. Wor’.dliness and sin had iwen at work with their chisels on that face for thirty or forty years, and Grace, the divine sculptress, has been busy with her chisel only five or ten years. Do not be surprised that Phidias and Greenough with their fine chisels cannot in a short while remove all the marks of the stone mason a crowbar, which has been busy there for a long while. Isay to all the young, if you would have sympathetic face, hopeful face, courageous face, cheerful face, kind face, at tbe earliest possible moment by the grace of Goa nave planted in your soul Sympathy and hope and courage and good cheer ana kindness. No man ever indulged » gracious feeling or was moved by a righteous indignation or was stirred by a benevolent impulse but its effect

was more oriess indicated In the coun-1 tonanoe, while David noticed thophysi- I ognothtd effect of a luid disposition when he said, “A wicked man hardeneth his face,” and Jeremiah must have noticed it when ho said ot the cruel, “They have made their faces harder than a rook." Oh, the power of the human face! I warrant that you have known faces so magnetic and impressive that, though they vanished long ago, they still hold you with a holy apeU. How long since your child went? “Well,” you say, “if she had lived she would have been 10 years old now, or £0 or 30 years.” , But doca not that Infant face still have tender aupremacy over your entire nature? During many an eventide does it not look at you? In your dreams do you not see it? What a sanctifying, hallowing influence it has been in your life! You can say in the words of the poet, “Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Or it may have been a sister’s face. Perhaps she was the invalid of the family. Perhaps she never went out except on very clear days, and then she had to be carried down the stairs to the piazza or for a short ride, but she was so patient and cheerful under it all. As that face looks at you through the years with wnat an elevated and heavenly emotion you are filled. Or was it a father’s face? The storms of life had somewhat roughened it. A good deal of the brightness of the eye nad been quenched, and the ear was turned with the hand behind it in order.to hear at all. But you remember that face so vividly that if vou were an artist you could put it on canvas, and it would mean to you more than any face that Rembrandt over sketched. That face, though long ago veiled from human sight, is as plain in your .memory as though you this moment saw it moving gently forward and backward in the rocking chair by the stove in the old farmhouse. Or was it your mother’s face? A good mother’s face is never homely to her boys and girls. It is a "Madonna" in the picture gallerv of the memory. What a sympathetic face it was! Did you ever have a joy and that face did not respond to it? Did you ever have a grief and no tears trickled down that maternal cheek? Did you ever do a bad thing and a shadow did not cross it? Oh, it was a sweet face! The spectacles with large, round glasses through which she looked at you, now sacredly thev have been kept in bureau or closet! Your mother’s face, vour mother’s smile, your mother’s tears! What an overpowering memory. Though you have come on to midlife or old age. how you would like just once more to bury your face in her lap and have a good cry! But I can tell you of a more sympathetic and more tender and more loving face than any of tbe faces I jiave mentioned. "No, you cannot,” says some one. I can, and I will. It Is the face of Jesus Christ as he was on earth and is now in Heaven. When preparing my life of Christ, entitled " From Manger $6 Throne.” I ransacked the art galleries and portfolios of the world to find a picture of our Saviour’s face that might be most expressive, and I saw it as Francesco Francia painted it in the sixteenth century,and as the emerald intaglio of the sixth century presented it, and as Leonardo da Vinci showed it in “The Last Supper.” and I looked in the Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican, and the Dresden, and the Berlin, and Neapolitan, and London galleries for the most inspiring, face of Christ, and many of the presentations were wonderful for pathos and majesty and power and execution, but although I selected that by Ary Scheffer as in some respects the most expressive I felt as we all feel—that .our Christ has never yqt been presented either in sculpture or painting, and that we will have to wait until we rise to the upper palace,where we shall see Him as He is. What a gentle face it must have been to induce the babes to struggle out of their mother’s arms into His arms! What an expressive face it must have been when one reproving look of it threw stalwart Peter into a fit of tears! What a pleading face it must have been to lead the psalmist in prayer to say of it, “Look upon the face of thine annointed!” What a sympathetic face it must have been to encourage the sick woman who was beyond any help from the doctor to |puch the hem of His garment! What a suffering face it must have been when suspended on the perpendicular and horizontal pieces of the wood martyrdom, and His antagonist slapped the pallid cheek with their rough hands and befouled it with the saliva of their blasphemous lips! What a tremendous face it must have been to lead St. John to describe it in the coming judgment as scattering the universe when he says, “From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.” The Face Omnipotent. O Christ! Once the Nazarene, but now the celestial! Once of cross, but now of throne! Once crowned with stinging bramble, but now coroueted with the jewels of ransomed empires! Turn on*us Thy pardoning face and forgive us,Thy sympathetic face and console uS,Thy"sufferlng face and have Thy* atonement avail for us. Thy omnipotent face and rescue us. Oh what a face! So sacred, so lacerated, so resplendent, so overwhelmingly glorious that the seraphim put wing to wing and with their conjoined pinions keep off some of the luster that is too mighty even for eyes cherubic or angelic, and ■ yet thia morning turning upon us with a sheathed splendor like that with which He appeared when He said to the mothers bashful about presenting their children, “Suffer them to come,” and to the poor waif of the street, “Neither do I condemn thee,” and to the eyes of the blind beggar of the wayside, “Be opened.” I think my brotner John, the returned foreign missionary, dying summer before last at Bound Brook, caught a glimpse of that face of Christ when in his dying hour my brother said, “1 shall be satisfied when I awake in his likeness. ” Aud now unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen and amen! Amen and amen! Monkeys and Their Sick. Monkeys, with some notable exceptions, are some degrees worse than savage men in their treatment of the sick. Un the new Jumna canal, at Delhi, they sWarm in trees upon the banks, and treat tbeir sick in true monkey fashion. The colony by tbe canal, being overcrowded, and as a consequence unhealthy, did and probably does still suffer from various unpleasant diseases. When one monkey is so obviously ill as to offend the feelings of the rest, a few of tbe larger monkeys watch It, and, taking a favorable opportunity, knock it into the canal. If it Is not drowned at once, the sick monkey is pitched in again after it regains the trees, and either drowned or forced to keep aloof from tbe flock. • Carefully olmerve a wan who Is particularly bright, acd you will catch him at something particularly weak.

DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS AT ' Hoodlum, attempt U> Howl Down . Tariff lt.form Bp«,k.r-Tb. Fr.. LUI Should B. Let Aloae—Meoatag of the Majority for the Wlleon BUI. In«tl<*ted by Republleam. We freed the bodies of our black slaves thirty years ago. We have not, however, freed either their labor or the labor of our more numerous white slaves. We will not have done so much until we have changed the conditions which make them, both as producers and consumers, subjects and creatures of monopoly. One of the chains that bind them is the “protective” tariff. This chain was forged and is held in place by protected manufacturers. The elections of 1800 and 1802 loosened their hold, but they are now becoming desperate and refuse to slacken their monopoly grip. The Reform Club, of New York, has been holding meetings In various Eastern cities where so-called Democratic representatives have refused to do the bidding of their constituents and have sold out to the manufacturers ot their districts. In Paterson, N. J., in Providence, R. 1., and in Amsterdam, Troy and Cohoes, N. Y., these meetings have been most successful in winning back to tariff reform those workingmen who have waverod when their wages have been reduced because of the shadow of the Wilson bill, as they were told. In only one case did the workingmen fail to respond to true Democratic principles. This was at Glovorsville, N. Y., and here are the circumstances: An audience of over 2,000 had crowded into the opera house at Gloversville to hear Mr. Thomas G. Shearman. As in other meetings three-fourths attended to listen to tariff reform arguments. They might be skeptical, but they were open to conviction. In the gallery, however, there were about 500 men ana boys, including a well-organized gang of 200 mon who had been primed with liquor. The Republicans who primed them gave them to understand that they were to make it unpleasant for the speaker and, if possible, to break up the meeting. It has since been asserted in the local papers that a liberal supply of stalo eggs was on hand for expected use. No police were there, as the Mayor was opposed to the meeting. Republican papers had for several days been slyly preparing the way for what followed. Gloversville has 15,000 Inhabitants and is the center of the glove industry in this country. Nine-tenths of the gloves made need no protection, and in iact the manufacturers would thrive better without any, but that does not now concern us. As often happens in protected industries, nearly all ot the best paid workers are imported foreigners. Glove cutters are practically all foreigners. Many of the recent importations are Huns and Italians. It was these who were relied upon to disturb the meeting. “Before I had talked for fifteen minutes,” said Mr. Shearman, "the opposition to me developed. I announced that at the close ot my talk I would answer any questions that any one present might want to ask. A man who was sitting In the body of the bouse arose and asked me a question. When I started to answer it he continued to talb> This was a signal for bis friends in the gallery. They hooted, hissed and stamped. They shouted all Korts of questions that were wide of the subject. This man on the floor led them. The Chairman ot the meeting told me that he was a low kind of fellow, and he really was a low fellow and very vulgar, tome ot the remarks wore obscene.” Mr. Shearman tried to quiet the audience and go on with his speech, but the mob in the gqllery didn't a ant a free trade speech. ’ They jeered every remark he made. They commented on his personal appearance— Mr. Shearman Is a small man, physically—and then they began a steady stamping of their feet‘.hat aas very annoying to the speaker. “1 did not fear personal violence,” said Mr. Shearman, “for the mon lu a mob are always cowards. I called their attention to the fact that Garrison, Lovejoy and Phillips had Leen hooted and jeered in the same way when they advocated abolition of the black slaves, and 1 was willing to stand It in tbe cause of advocating abolition ot the white slaves. The respectable part ot the audience wanted to listen to what I had to say. I kept on my feet for two hoars. I wasn’t able to say much that could be heard. Then I took a chair and sat down, telling these rowdies that they couldn’t tire me out. They swarmed down from the gallery, and as there ware no ■eats in the body of the house, they stood In a gang around the front of the stage, threatening to to do me Injury. But when I had them right under my eyes, where I could talk to them, they subsided a little. One man told me I was a rebel and a traitor. I said to him: 'Two of my brothers went to the front during the fight for the Union, and 1 wanted lo go, but they would not take me. 1 have spent $25,000 supporting the families ot men who were killed In that war. Now. sir, what have you done? Did you go to the front? Did you spend any money for tbe families of those who did!* That turned the laugh on him. At the end of two houre and a half ot •Sort to talk free trade, Mr. Shearman declared that the present hard times were not due to fear of tariff changes, and that under the Influence ot the new tariff bill times would again become prosperous. This so angered tbe mob that they broke out afresh. The> called Mr. Shearman names, they hooted, and when their throats got tired they made all the noise they could with their feet. It was very distressing. Logic is a very good thing in Its way. Mr. Shearman thinks that his free trade logic Is irresistible, but It doesn’t count against a mob of unemployed wageearners such as attended tbe Gloversville meeting. By this time the Chief of Police had reached tbe scene of the agitation with all the available night force of police. The curtain was rung down and the meeting was adjourned. Mr. Shearman and the officers of the meeting started for the hotel. There were enough police to station one on each side of Mr. Shearman, who walked in front, followed by the officers of the meeting, who were protected in the same way. This procession was followed by an angry mob, who would have been even more rude If they had not feared the police. At tbe hotel Mr.. Shearman turned sarcastically and thanked every one for his kindneis and courtesy. Then he started back to Brooklyn. Macbeth’s Frank Statements. Mr. Geo. A. Macbeth, of Pittsburg, is the largest individual manufacturer of glass in this country. He is a wideawake man who keeps "up to date" in improvements and who, in spite of “protection* on many of his raw materials, and the fact that he pays higher wages tMhn are paid by either domestic Or foreign competitors, can export large quantities of glassware to all parts of the world. He believes in being independent of tariffs and is aching for the time when he can compete with all comers without being handicapped by protection. Here is what he said to a representative of the National Glass Budget, after the passage of the Wilson bifi in the House: The bill is rlg h ‘ In lu way. but It doesn’t weigh much. In other words, It Is good enough as far as It goes, but 15 doesn’t go far enough. I believe In free trade simply and absolutely. Free trade is inevitable. It is In the air. No amount es tariff dickering can alter the fact. Will

turners of window glass? It rloh day. And these poor mon centrlbu to their mite so that the window glass worker dai Jf] make 914 a day end loaf four months oidUr of tbe yean Why should the United. W States lie asked to perpetuate tble ona particular body of men lu this sinecure? Bow, much arc the carpenters making thwsa times? 1 don’t think they are making any more than J 2.25 a duy. But these same, carpenters have- to pay for the window, gloss It you'protect’ one body Os workmen you will have to •protect* another.' ’ When they are all 'protected* where Is’ the advantage? This business of 'fixing*things at Washington, thia fooling with the tariff. Is absurd. Free trade Is inevitable;, sooner or later It will come: the sooner tbe people of tbe United States adapt them-, selves to the Inevitable the better it will be for all concerned.” A Decisive Majority. The Wilson bill passed the House of Representatives-by a vote of 204 to 140, a majority of 64. This is the largest majority given for a tariff bill since the war. In 18S3 the bill which was known as the tariff commission bill passed the House by a majority of 48, the vote being 128 to 80. In 1884 the vote to strike out the enacting clause of the Morrison bill was 159 to 155. In 1888 the Mills bill was passed by the House by u vote of 162 to DO, a majority of 13. The McKinley bill received a majority of 22 in 1890, tne vote standing 164 to 142. The large majority obtained by the Wilson bul is of great significance. The Democratic 'Representatives were charged by their constituents with the duty of lowering tariff taxes. They have performed this duty. They have voted to reduce duties, and. more than; that, they have expressed themselves decidedly in favor of the form and. method of reduction embodied in the Wilson bilL A bill obtaining such a majority in the branch of Congress having the sole power.to originate revenue bills ought not to be materially changed by the Senate. The House has come recently from the people, and such an expression ot opinion as it has given in behalf of the Wilson bill ought to be conclusive on Democratic Senators. — New York World. - ■ ' i Lst the Free List Alone. . With coal, iron and sugar on the dutiable list the tariff bill offered to the Senate will ba simply a tree-wool bill. Do Senators imagine that free wool will be accepted by the country as an adequate or satisfactory fulfillment of the oft-repeated Democralio promise of free raw materials? Free, wool with reduced duties on woolens will be a great gain, and we have no desire to belittle it: but would it be regarded as a redemption of Democratio pledges? Would it satisfy the people; who have thrice voted by overwhelming majorities for a reduction of tariff, ARV The Wilson bill is a carefully matured measure. It passed the House, by a majority such as no tariff bill had had for a third of a century. The loss of revenue by reason of its free list ana reduced duties on imports is more than! made up by its internal revenue schedule. It should not be i adjcaliy changed by a body which has no constitutional right to originate a revenue hUI. Moreover, the House will not Consent to a practical abolition of the free list which was framed so laboriously and fought for so desperately. Especially if there is good ground for the sus-i picion that the free list is tampered with in order to defeat the income tax. —New York World. Mills on the Wilson Bl IL ' The bill of Mr. Wilson, like the one of 1888, has only gone a Sabbath's day journey on thj line of march. In both cases there is a long distance between what they are and what they ought to be, and the intervening space is filled up by insurmountable obstacles. This bill should be amended in some particulars and then passed, and the country will see and feel the benefits of larger and freer trade, and better employment and more earnings for its labor, and then it will advance with a bolder and longer step. The sugar bounty should be stricken out. Ad valorem should be substituted for specific duties wherever they occur, except on articles bearing internal taxes. With these and some minor changes the bill should be passed by the House at the earliest possible day. Before it reaches the Senate the rules of that body should be changed, so that, after fair debate and full opportunity for amendment, it can be passed and sent to the President in the early spring. When that is done, the country will again spring forward, and enter upon a career of prosperity; and the measure of its prosperity in the future will be marked by the extent to which its trade shall be liberated and its labor employed.—Senator Mills, in North American Review. Senator Gorman Oat of Line. The Annapolis correspondent of thcj Baltimore Sun (Dem.), writing about the resolution of the Maryland Senate; indorsing the Wilson bill, says: “It i» stated that Senator Gorman wrote to one or two persons in Annapolis strongly deprecating any instructions that would express favor of the Wilson tariff bill. These letters were shown to Senators when the movement began, to cause a stampede from the Bennett resolution. From what can be gathered about this correspondence without seeing it, the senior Senator at Washington not only deprecated any. mention of the Wilson bill by name,: but expressed preference for something like the bld Mills bill—a thing of the' past However this may be, every effort to stop expression failed.” The. resolution finally adopted differs from the Bennett resolution only in substituting for instructions to the Maryland Senators a general request to the Sen- „ ate to vote for the Wilson bill. AU Protected ConntrlM Except England, V Social unrest, stimulated by Indus- | trial and financial depression, amounts wfeU to a problem in many Countries of Europe. It is notably so in Germany,) Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Norway and even in England. In portions of Russia discontent is organized and determined, but M is restricted to certain classes and can hardly be said to have permeated the masses.—Minneapolis Timos. AN organ of the tariff-protected trusts solemnly assures the country that “the Democrats will get no help from the Republicans of the Senate in passing their bill.” The Democrats will not be greatly surnrised'by this announcement. Men who drive hogs out of the trough do not as as a rule get much assistance from the swine. There is no need of it in this case.— Chicago Herald. In the Senate's consideration of the Wilson bill procrastination is the thief not only of time but of a good many millions of money. Business is waiting on the Senate all over the oosuatry, * ' MLf? -a- ••• ■ ■ •■•wxVr