Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Page 3

THE STARTING POINT.

HOW REV. OR. TALMAGE WOULD EVANGELIZE AMERICA. Want* an Outpouring of the Bolj Spirit at the National Capital—'Would Be of Incalculable Value to Christianity—A New Awakening. Sermon at the Capital. The andience of Dr. Talmage in Washington is thronged with the chief men of the nation and people from all parts, making this sermon most timely. An hour ami a half before the doors open the people gather in the street, and policemen keep th" way open for the pew holders. The text chosen for last Sunday’s discourse was Luke xxiv., 47, “Beginning at Jerusalem.” “There it is," said the driver, and wc nil instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to catch the first glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, coroneted with temple and palace and radiant, whether looked up nt from the valley of Jehosaphat or gazed at from adjoining hills, was the capital of a great nation. Clouds of, incense had hovered over it. Chariots of kings had rolled through it. Battering rams of enemies had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most interesting city ever built since masonry rung its first trowel, or plumb line measured its first wall, or royalty swung its first scepter. What Jerusalem was to tile Jewish kingdom Washington is to our own country—the capital, the place to which all the tribes come up, the great national heart whose throb sends life or death through the body politic clear out to the geographical extremities. What the resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples when he ordered them to start on the work of gospelization, “beginning at Jerusalem,” it seems to me God says now in his providence to tens of thousands of Christians in this city. Start for the evangelization of America, “beginning at Washington.” America is going to be taken for God. If you do. not believe it, take your hat now and leave and give room to some man or woman who does believe it. As surely as God lives, and he is able to do as he says he will, this country will be evangelized from the mouth of the Potomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands of the Navesrnk to the Golden Horn, from Baffin's Bay to the gulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk 'every lake, whether bestormed or placid, and be transfigured on every mountain, and. the night skies, whether they hover over groves of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier, shall be filled with angelic overture of “glory to God and good will to men.” For God or for Apollyon. Again and again does the old book announce that all the earth shall see the salvation of God, and as the greater includes the lesser that takes America gloriously in. Can yon not see that if America is nSt taken for God by his consecrated people it will be taken for Apollyon? The forces engaged on both sides are so tremendous that it cannot be a drawn battle. It is coming, the Armageddon! Either the American Sabbath will perish and this nation be handed over to Herods and Hildebrands and Diocletians and Neros of baleful power, and Alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled up throne of beer barrels, his mouth foaming with domestic and national curse, and crime will lift its unhindered knife of assassination, and rattle keys of worst burglary, and wave torch of widest conflagration, and our cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting for Almighty tempests of fire and brimstone, and one tidal wave of abomination will surge across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take on more sanctity, and the newspapers will become apdealyptic wings of benediction, and penitentiaries will be abandoned for lack of occupants, and holiness and happiness, twin son and daughter of heaven, shall walk through the land, and Christ reign over this nation eith-j? in person or by agency so glorious thud the whole country will l>e one clear, resounding echo of heaven. It will be one or the other. By the throne of him who liveth forever and ever I declare it will be the latter. If the Lord will help me, as he always does—blessed be his glorious name —I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun at Washington would have a tendency to bring the whole continent to God this century closes. William the Gonqueror ordered the curfew. the custom of ringing the bell at midnight, at which all the fires on the hearths were to be banked, and all the lights extinguished, and all the people retire to their pillows. I pray God that the curfew of this century may not be sounded, and the fires be banked, and the lights extinguished as the clock strikes the midnight hour that divides the nineteenth century from the twentieth century, until this beloved land, which was to most of us a cradle, and which will be to most of us a grave, shall come into the full possession of him who is so glorious that William the Conqueror could not be compared to him, even the One who rideth forth “conquering and to conquer.” Akßattle for Souls. Why would it be especially advaniagepus if a mighty work of grace started here, “beginning at Washington?” First, because this eky is on the border between the north and the south. It is neither northora nor southern. It commingles the two climates. It brings together the two styles of population. It is not only right, but beautiful, that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and brought up. With what loving accentuation the Alabamian speaks of his orange groves! And the man from Massachusetts is sure to let you know that he comes from the land of the Adamses—Samuel and John and John Quincy. Did you ever know a Virginian or Ohioan whose face did not brighten when he announced himself from the southern or northern State of presidents? If a man does not like his native clime, it is because while he lived there he did not behave well. This capital stands where, by its locality, and its political influence’ it stretches forth one hand toward the north and the other toward the south, and a mighty work of grace starting here would probably be a national awakening. Georgia won 111 clasp the hand of New Hampshire, and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and California the hand of New York, and say, “Come, let us go up and worshlpfUie God of nations, 1 the Christ of Golgotha, the Holy Ghost of the' Pentecostal' three thousands.” It has often been said that the only way the north and the south will be brought into complete accord is to have a war with some foreign nation, in which both sections, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be overcome. Well, if you wait for such a foreign conflict, you will wait until all dlls generation is dead, and perhaps wait forever. The war that will make the sections forget past controversies is a war against unrighteousness, such ae. a universal religious awakening * would declare. What we want is a battle for saute, in which about 40,000,000 northerners and southerners shall be on the same, side and shoulder to shoulder. In no o&er city on the continent can such a war be declared SB appropriately, for all the other great cities are either northern or southern. 'This is neither, or rather it is both. Again, it would be especially advantage-

ous if a mighty work of grace started here because more representative men are in Washington than in any other city between the oceans. Of course there areaceidents in politics, and occasionally there are men who get into the Senate and House of Representatives and other important places who are fitted for the positions in neither head nor heart, but this is exceptional and more exceptional now than in other days. There is not a drunkard in the national legislature, although there were times when Kentucky, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts had men in Senate or House of Representatives who went maudlin or staggering drunk across those high places. Never nobler group of men sat in Senate or House of Representatives than sat there yesterday and will sit there to-morrow, while the highest judiciary, without exception, has now upon its bench men beyond criticism for good morals and mental endowment. So in nil departments of official position, with here and there an exception, are to-day the brainiest men and most honorable men of America. Now, suppose the Holy Ghost power should fall upon this city, aud these men from all parts of America should suddenly become pronounced for Christ? Do you say the effect would be electrical? More than that. It would be omnipotent! Do you say that such learned and potent men are not wrought upon by religious influence? That shows that you have not observed what has been going on, Commodore Foote, representing tie navy: Gen. Grant and Robert E. Lee, representing the northern and southern armies; Chief Justice Chase, representing the Supreme Court; the Frelihghuysens, Theodore and Frederick, representing the United States Senate; William Pennington and scores of others, representing the House of Representatives, have surrendered to that gospel which, before this winter is out, will in this capital of the American nation, if we are faithful in our prayers and exertions, turn into the kingdom of God men of national and international power, their tongues of eloquence becoming the tongues of fire in another Pentecost. There are on yonder hill those who, by the grace of God, will become John Knoxes and Chrysostoms and Fenelons and Bourdeleaus when once regenerated. There is an illusion I have heard in prayer meetings and heard in pulpits that a soul is a soul —one soul worth as much as another. I deny it. The soul of a man who can bring 1,000 or 10,000 other souls into the kingdom of God is worth 1,000 or 10,000 times more than the soul of a man who can bring no one into the kingdom. A great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this capital; reaching the chief men of America, would be of more value to earth and heaven than in any other part of the nation, because it would reach all the States, cities, towns nnd neighborhoods of the continent. Oh, for the outstretched right arm of God Almighty in the salvation of this capital! A Cali to Repentance.

Some of us remember 1857, when, at the close of the worst monetary distress this country has ever felt, compared with which the hard times of the last three years were a boom of prosperity, right on the heels of that complete prostration came an awakening in which 500,000 people were converted in different States of the Union. Do you know where one of its cnief powers was demonstrated? In Washington. Do you know on what street? This street. Do you know in what church? This church. I picked up an old book a few days ago and was startled aud thrilled and enchanted to read some words, written at that time by the Washington correspondent of a Now York paper. He wrote: “The First Presbyterian Church can scarce contain the people. Requests are daily preferred for an interest in the prayers offered, and the reading of these forms one of the tenderest and most effective features of the meetings. Particular pains are taken to disclaim and exclude everything like sectarian feeling. General astonishment is felt at the unexpected rapidity with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are beginning to anticipate the necessity of opening another church.” Why, my hearers, not have that again, and' more than that? There are many thousands more of inhabitants now than then. Besides that, since then are the telephone, with its semiominpresence, and the swift cable car, for assembling the people. I believe that the mightiest revival of religion that this city has ever seen is yet to come, aud the earth will tremble from Capitoliue hill to the boundaries on all sides with the footsteps of God as he comes to awaken and pardon and save these great populations. People of Washington, meet us next Thursday night at half past 7 o’clock to pray for this coming of the Holy Ghost—not for a Pentecostal 3,000, that I have referred to, but 30,000. Such a fire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crunching through the snows of Labrador to the Caribbean sea, where the whirlwinds are born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the blank verse poet of the Bible: “O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.” Let the battle cry be Washington for God, the United States for God, America for God, the world for God! Wo are all tired of skirmishing. Let us bring on a general engagement. W e are tired of fishing with hook and line. With, one sweep of the gospel net let us take in many thousands. This vast work must begin somewhere. Why not here? Some one must give the rallying cry. Why may not I, one of the Lord’s servants? By providential arrangement I am every week in sermonie eoinmunicajiioji with every city, town and neighborhood of this country, and I now give the watchword to north and south and east and west. Hear and see it, all people—this call to a forward movement, this call to repentance and faith, this call to a continental awakening!

Work for the Nation's Salvation. This generation will soon be out of sight. Where are the mighty men of the past who trod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake in yonder national legislature and decided the stupendous questions of the supreme judicatory ? Ask the sleepers in the Congressional cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all over the land. Their tongues ate speechless, their eyes closed, their arms folded, their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed. How soon time prorogues parliaments, and adjourns senates, and disbands cabinets, and empties pulpits, and dismisses generations! What we would do we must do quickly or not do at all. I call upon people who cannot come forth from their sickbeds to implore the heavens in our behalf from their midnight pillows, and I call upon the aged who cannot, even by the help of their staff, enter the churches to spend their last days on earth in supplicating the salvation of this nation, and I call upon all men and women who have been in furnaces of trouble, as was Shadracb, and among lions, as was Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as was Jeremiah, to join in the prayer, and let the church of God everywhere lay hold of the Almighty arm that moves nations. Then Senators of the United States will announce to the State legislatures that sent them here, and members of the House of Representatives will report to th,e congressional districts that elected them, and the many thousands of men and women now and here engaged in the many departments of national service will write home, telling all sections of the country that the Lord is here, and that he is on the march for the redemption of America.

Harielnjah, the Lord is coming! I he* the rambling of his chariot wheels. 1 feel on my cheeks the breath of the white horses that draw the Victor! I see the hash of his lanterns through the long night of the world’s sin and sorrow! A New Awakening. We want in this country, only on a larger scale, that which other centuries have seen of God’s workings, as in the reformation of the sixteenth century, when Martin Luther and Philip Melauchthon led on; as in the awakening of the Severn teeiith century, when Banyan and Flavel and Baxter led on; as in the awakening of the eighteenth century, when Teunanl and Edwards and the Wesleys led on: as in the awakening of 1857, led on by Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist, and Bishop Maellvaine, the Ajmslolic Episcopalian, and Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presbyterian, and others, just as good, in all denominations. Oh, will not some of those glorious souls of thfc past come down and help us? Gome down off your thrones, Nettleton and Finney and Daniel Baker and Edward Payson and Truman Osborne and Earle aud Knapp and Inskip and Archibald Alexander —that Alexander the Great of the Christian churches. Come down! How can you rest up there when the world is dying for lack of the gospel? Come-down and agonize with us in prayer. Come down and help us preach in our pulpits. Come down and inspire our courage and faith. Heaven can got along without you better than we can. But more than all—and overwhelmed with reverent emotion we ask it—eong\ thou of the deeply dyed garments of Bozrah, traveling in the greatness of thy strength, mighty to save! Lord God of Joshua! Let the suu of this century stand still above Gibeon and the moon above the valley of Ajalon until we can whip out the five kings of hell, tumbling them down the precipices as the other live kings went over the rocks of Bctlihorom. Ha, ha! It will so surely be done that I cannot restrain the laugh of triumph. Washiugton Needs a Revival. From where the seaweed is tossed on the beach by the stormy Atlantic to the sands laved by the quiet Pacific, this country will be Emanuel’s land, the work beginning at Washiugton, if we have the faith and holy push and the consecration requisite. First of all, we ministers must get right. That was a startling utterance of Mr. Swinnock when he said, “It is a doleful thing to fall into hell from under the pulpit; but, oh, how dreadful a thing to drop thither out of the pulpit.” That was an all suggestive thing that Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should bo a castaway.” That was an inspiring motto with which Whitefield sealed all his letters, “We seek the stars.” Lord God! Wake up all our pulpits, and then it will be as when Venn preached, and it was said that men fell before the word like slacked lime. Lot us all, laymen and clergymen, to the work. What Washington wants most of nil is an old-fashioned revival of religion, but on a vaster scale, so that the world will be compelled to say, as of old, “We never saw it on this fashion.” But remember there is a hjirnan side as well as a divine side to a revival. Those of us brought up in the, country know what is called “a raising”* —the neighbors gathered together to lift the heavy frame for a new house after the timbers are ready to be put into their places. It is dangerous work, and there are many accidents. The neighbors had gathered for such a raising, and the beams had all been fitted to their places except one, and that very heavy. That one, on the long pikes of the men, had almost reached its place, when something went wrong, and the men could hoist it no higher. But if it did not go in its place it would fall back upon the men who were lifting it. It had already begun to settle back. The boss carpenter shouted: “Lift, men, or die! All together! Yo—heave!’’’ With mightier push they tried to send the beam to its place, but failed. Still they held on. all the time their strength lessening. The wives and mothers and daughters stood in horror looking on. Then the boss carpenter shouted to the women “Come aud help!” They came, and womanly arras became the arms of giants, for they were lifting to save the lives of husbands aud fathers and sons as well as their own. Then the boss carpenter mounted one of the beams and shouted: “Now! Altogether! Lift or die! Yo, heave!” And with a united effort that almost burst the blood vessels the great beam went to its place, and a wild huzza was heard. That is the way it sometimes seems in the churches. Temples of righteousness are to be reared, but there is a halt, a stop, a catch somewhere. A few are lifting all they can, but we want more hands at this raising and more hearts, more Christian men to help—aye, more Christian women to re-enforce. If the work fail, it means the death of many souls. All together! Men and women of God! Lift or die! The top stone must come to its place “with shoutings of grace, grace unto it.” God is ready to do his part. Are we ready to do our part? There is work not only for the knee of prayer, but for the shoulder of upheaval.

A CLUB MAN’S CLOCK.

An Invention to Do Away with Curtain Lectures. “A wedding present, eh?” asked the dealer. “Is your friend a clubman?” “Yes; he’s a member of two clubs.” “Are you a married man, sir?” “Yes.” “Well, I’d like tc show you a clock invented by a friend of mine. It is peculiarly suitable for a married man who belongs to a club. But, first, you must give me your word of honor that you will never reveal the secret to any one except a married man whom you khow has reached home not earlier that 2 a. m., twice a week, for three consecutive weeks. If any woman discovers the secret of the invetion, its prospects are ruined.” “I am afraid it is doomed. However, I promise.” “Well, this is the idea. When a man intends to stay out late he presses this little spring—so innocent looking, you see, that it will escape the sharpest feminine observation. The clock at once begins to lose time. The hands move with just half their usual rapidity until 8 o’clock in the morning. Thus, if the spring is pressed at 9 p. m., the hands will show 12 o’clock when the correct time is 3a. m. After 3 o’clock the hands will move with twice their usuar rapidity until the time lost has been regained, and no longer. At 6 a. in., therefore, the clock will be right; and thereafter it will jog along sedately sixty minutes to the hour, just as if it never had been engaged in a conspiracy to deceive a trusting wife.” “Suppose a man gets home at 4 or 5?" “It will be of less service to him, of course. However, we have 4a. m. and 5 a. m. clocks constructed on similar principles, though I think the 3 a. m. clock is best suited for average requirements. My friend is trying to invent a clock which will stop running slowly and begin to regain time, automatically, the moment a man begins to look for the keyhole, but at present the project is little more than an iridescent dreain.” Prudence is a plug to prosperity.

M’KINLEY VS. ALLISON

HE MAKES INROADS ON THE lOWAN’S FENCES. Strange that Western Agricultural Republicans Should Prefer the Notorious Apostle of High Tariff to Allison—Reflects on Their Intelligence. Ohioan Not a Statesman. The distressing news comes from Dcs Moines that a pall of gloom overshadows the space so lately glowing In the prismatic splendors of the Allison presidential rockets. It was confidently expected tvve weeks ago that South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and more occidental States which have been largely populated by emigrants from lowa would spout up responsive showers from Allisonian fountains, which would wax more and more glorious until, the fullness of time in June. But It is nbt so. There were at first some answering spurts from otto another quarter, but it was-painfully apparent that they were Impelled by no high and permanent pressure. They have fallen away. Everywhere there is a discouraging lack of enthusiasm. Even South Dakota, which was regarded as an own daughter of lowa, devotedly attached to her favorite son, Is lukewarm and quiescent. Everywhere the McKinley star pales all other lights. McKinley clubs are planted far and wide, and bud like Aaron’s rod and thrive like willow stumps upon the treeless plains. In lowa itself, the chronicler hath It, there is strange apathy. Every Republican politician talks Allison, Indeed, and not one admits a preference for the Ohio Napoleon. All are mildly loyal to the home statesman, but they do not warm to him, and many of them are somewhat too ready to admit that after Allison McKinley is their first choice. What means it? How comes it that McKinley is the favorite in all these Western States excepting lowa, while he stands second there only because Allison is a favorite son? All there is to commend McKinley to anyone as a presidential candidate is his high-tariff record. Never In his life, either as a Congressman or as Governor of Ohio, has he given evidence of statesmanBhip. Even in the plain routine work of the committees, requiring no more than ordinary ability for its discharge, he has not developed either business capacity or watch-dog courage or extraordinary industry. Even as chairman of the committee which brought forth the measure which bears his name he did not distinguish himself in any way unless it was by making himself a mere passive, nerveless instrument in the hands of those who sought to grasp a share of the taxing power. It is notorious that the protectees and their attorneys who swarmed about the capitol were the real framers of the tariff of 1890, and that McKinley had little to do with It except to assist in registering the schedules concocted by those worthies for the promotion of their own interests.

Allison Is much more of a man. He Is not a great statesman. He js not to be placed in the same category with Clay, Webster, Lincoln and Sumner of the Whig party and its Republican successor. He has not proved himself consistent or courageous In public life. But he is as far superior to McKinley as he Is inferior to Lincoln. He has considerable ability, he has exercised tome Influence upon legislation and bis long legislative experience has not been wholly lost upon him. He Is In experience* ability, Judgment and temper vastly better fitted than McKinley for the office of president. It is strange, indeed, that the Republicans of States west of the Mississippi river, which are almost wholly agricultural, should prefer McKinley to Allison. It is strange that they should prefer a man who in public life is nothing more than the agent and tool of the protected classes in procuring the legislation enabling them to prey upon the agricultural class. The preferenee'of Republicans of the distinctively tural Statfes for such a man fts William McKinley does not speak well for their Intelligence or their appreciation of their own interests.—Chicago Chronicle. r , Chicago Nominations Are Lucky. Lincoln was nominated at Chiqngo and elected. Grant was nominated at

JUST OUTSIDE THE REPUBLICAN CIRCUS.

“Walk up, gentlemen, walk up, and find the pea ! "—New York Journal.

Chicago and .elected. Garfield was nominated at Chicago and elected. Harrison was nominated at Chicago and elected. Cleveland was nominated twice at Chicago and elected. Candidates nominated at St. Louis have not been as fortunate.' .If there Is any advantage In tlio location of the convention It would seem to be with the Democrats this year.—Kdwardsvllle Intelligencer. The Consumer Pays the Tax. In an editorial favoring the abolition of all taxes on alcohol, tihe New York Press makes an admission which Is highly Inconsistent with its usual protectionist teachings. During the right years of Its existence, the Press lias been a prominent advocate of the theory that tlie tariff taxes are not paid by the people who buy and use Imported goods, but by the foreign produeer. It has always denied that the tariff is a tax on consumption, and lias proved to Us satisfaction that the more tilings arc taxed the cheaper they become. As protectionists bate cheapness tills alleged result of high tariffs lias frequently caused trouble In the McKinley camp, some curious people wanting to know' liow the tax system could put prices up, and also make them fall. But the Press lias always avoided the difficulty by declining to attempt an explanation. ! i Now, however, that paper lias put Its foot In It by affirming as a principle of taxation that the tax on nlco : hoi, which it says is “tlie most oppressive and unjust burden of tlie kind Imposed on any necessity,” Is “borne, not by the manufacturers Wiercly, but by all the customers of all tlio products of which alcohol is a constituent.” And, of course, when so eminent an authority on political economy makes a statement, It must be true. It Is now in order for the Press to explain how and why one kind of tax on raw materials is “unjust nnd oppressive,” and is borne by tint consumers of the substance of which the taxed substance is a part; while another tax, just ns direct and certain, levied on raw materials produced outside of our boundary lines, Is wise and Just, and borne entirely by the foreigner. • It is ouly a few weeks since the Press, then and now clamoring for a heavy tux on wool, the raw material for our great w oolen Industries, eln4mcd that tlie restoration of the McKinley duties on wool and woolens would not Increase the cost of clothing. Yet it now directly contradicts its own arguments, by telling the truth In regard to the tax on alcohol. If a tax on the material used in drugs, varnishes, perfumes, etc., falls ou the people who buy the articles Into w'hleh It enters, why does not the w'ool duty fall ou the consumers of clothing, bln ukets, etc., made out of taxed wool''

Voting Themselves Donations. The convention of textile manufacturers which has been held In Chicago, and has had Its resolutions telegraphed over the country, was evidently organized In the Interest of the estimable gentlemen who attend'd It. The action of this convention should have Just as much force In shaping public ©pinion as Wmuld have a convention made up of citizens of the United States who should meet together and vote that, as they were not as well off In tills world’s goods as they would like to be, It was resolved that the United States secretary of the treasury be directed to pay each of them, out of money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of SIO,OOO a year for the rest of their natural lives. In other words, If there was the least probability that the demand would be heeded, any number of persons -couUV be found willing to resolve that their fellow-citizens should tax themselves for their (the resolvers') benefit. This proceeding needs what, In vulgar language, is called gall, but then such protectionists as gathered hi the convention at Chicago have an unlimited! amount of this species of mental and moral audacity. _ I Catanbt Conceal the Truth. The Republican Senators need not imagine f6r a moment that they can divert the attention of the country from their of the country’s business by firing off pyrotechnlcal remarks about Great Britain, Turkey and other foreign countries. The people know that the country is in a hole, and that It was put there by absurd Republican legislation. What they want-1© know, is what the Republican Senate 1$ going to do to get the Out of thp.hble.

That Is what It promised to do. That Is what It was elected to do, nnd that is what It proposes not to do. And It cannot cover up Its purpose by throwing dust.—lndianapolis Sentinel. An Abaurdlty. The Dlngley revenue bill (ao-callod> now pending In the Semite, which was rushed through the House in four hours, raises the tariff duties ou nearly all articles consumed in this country, nnd its effect would be to check or prohibit the very Importations which yield revenue. No more flagrantly absurd proposition was ever made. The Republican arithmetic, by which it is figured out tlint the proposed duties on raw wools would bring In $14,000,000 of revenue, Is based upon the false assumption that If the bill becomes a law and Its high duties on wool take effeot tlio Importations of wool will be art large as they now are under absolute freedom from duty. No sane person can believe that the Imports or wool will not be greatly reduced If It should be taken off the free list and put on the dutiable list. But, even If the restoration of (lie wool duties furnished some revenue, the effort of the Dlngley liVgli “pi'dteetlpulst" duties on two or three thousand oflier articles now Imported would necessarily cheek and cut down tlie volume of these Imports and thus reduce tlie revenue much more than tlie proposed wool duties would enhance It. The whole scheme of the Dlngley tariff 1b “protectionist” lu Its nature. ‘lt is not a revonue hill. It can pot help the treasury, but If It should become a law Its effect, for a year or more at least, would probably be to reduce the revenues of the Government and put the treasury “In a hole."—New York Herald. Candidate Morton’s Mediocre liecord. He lias been Representative In Congress, Minister to France, Vice President of tlie United States and Governor of the Empire State of New York. In no position has he Illustrated capacity for public service. The best that lias ever been truthfully said of him or clulmed for him Is that lie lias been respectable, good tempered nnd dignified. Nothing tlint lie has ever said or done Is remembered ns of public Importance. Until lie became Governor nobody ever suspected that lie was so entirely subservient ns lie has proved to be to Pintt.—Ulien Observer. Burlesque Devotion in the House. There is enough of reverence and religious sentiment In tlie House at Washington to prompt a growing protest at tlie burlesque of devotion which distinguishes the prayers of the chaplain of that body. These prayers are uotb’lng other than stump speeches on public matters, so phrased as to catch the popular drift, and lit one oy two instances apparently Inviting and in oue instan.e actually receiving applause. It is full time tlint these exhibitions of Irreverence nnd laid taste be stopped.— Springfield Republican. Need of an Educational Campaign. The American public needs a new and deep campaign of education upon the great financial and commercial problems which It Is now confronted with. A new order of things lias arisen, which must be Intelligently met by all classes of our voters. The old and wornout theories of flat and inflated money, protectionism, paternalism and free silver coinage must be discarded If a return of prosperity is desired by the American people.—New York Herald. Abusing Bayard and Neglecting Duty. Congress occupies its time in a partisan effort to censure Mr. Bayard for expressing an opinion not shared by a majority of Congress and In Instructing the nations of the earth as to their duty, meanwhile neglecting Its own duty to afford the people of the United States the sadly needed relief which it 1? in the power of Congress alone to afford.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Carries a Dirk Up His- Sleeve. Senator Foraker is looked upon by, his party associates as the man who carries a dirk in his sleeve.- They never knowwhols to be bis next victim, and they are very cautious about trusting him too far. This is not very complimentary to Foraker and he has not been receiving any compliments since his election.—-Davenport Democrat. Beal Meaning of Morton's Candidacy. The fact that Got. Morton is a candidate for the Presidency really means that Tom Platt is a candidate for Secretary of the Treasury,, and expects to - use the New York delegation in the St. Louis convention to promote that ambition.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1

RUSSIAN GOLD.

The War Cheat from Which She Offered * - 'Millions to the United States. Some surprise and a good deal of Incredulity kgs .been expressed over the alleged offer of Russia to lohn tms country a large sum lu gold. The amount has been variously given as $00,000,000 and $400,000,000, and also been stated tliat the loan was not tendered recently, but In 1893. The hlstorl* friendship of Russia for this try Is cited as proof of the truth of tlie story. • lfiiFsia is usually looked upon as a poor country and of limited revenues, iiotwithsfaudinglts great extent of territory and millions of inhabitants. This is a long way from the truth, however. It is true that Its natural resources are largely undeveloped and that It remains still almost wholly an agricultural country. But the people are so frugal aud the resources So well husbanded that the country Is capable of yielding a large revenue. The public income for 1895 is estimated at 1,214,378,030 roubles, having almost doubled since 1883, when the Income wap <>9X,980,983 roubles. The Internal taxes arc collected In paper, but much of the customs dues are paid In gold. The value of the paper rouble is about 50 cents in our money, while the gold rouble is valued at about 77 cents. But as only about one-tenth of the revenue Is from customs, it Is safe to put the yearly income of the government at a little over $000,000,000. It is true that Russia has an enormous public debt, but it Is difficult to estimate the exact amount In 1893 It was computed at $2,750,000,000, or nlKiiit the debt tills country owed at the close of the war of the rebellion. It has increased since, ns the Russian

RUSSIA'S $630,000,000 WOULD MAKE A CUBE OF GOLD TEN BY TEN BY SEVENTEEN FEET.

Ircusury Is constantly meeting any deficit In revenue by making a new loan. But R is !u tlie accumulation ol' Its war chest that the most Interest is felt Just now. When Russia emerged from (lie war with Turkey In 1878, It was with tlie determination never ngtiin to begin a conflict with a foreign power without being amply prepared for it In •i financial sense. The luck of money was her embarrassment In the Crimenn war of 1854, but she failed to prollt by the lesson. Thu second lesson taught her twenty-four years later seemed to have made an Impression on tlie mlml of Russian statesmen, for they at once adopted a policy of accumulation, which lias been persisted lu ever since, l’apcr money might servo the government at home, but It would be of no use Hbrond, especially In case of war. Ro the contents of this war chest are known to consist only of gold und Itn size Is something startling. The amount held at home Is believed to be equal to $475,000,000, while abroad nearly as much more Is safely Invested nnd ready to be called almost at a moment’s notice. It Is from this war chest containing altogether $800,000,000 that Russia probably offered to let this gov•rumeut have n large Hutn.

BEAT OF THE PENDULUM.

A Device for Keeping It Plumb mid True at AH Times. The Illustration represents a leveling device adopted for attachment to a clock mechanism to control the pendulum and verge, whereby they will be iopt plumb, Irrespective of the frame carrying the clock mechanism proper. The clock mechanism may he of any desired construction, and the verge wheel shaft is Journaled In the frame at the back and In a bracket projected at the front, each bearing being formed with a boss having an integral stud, anu on the studs being pivoted the upper members of a U-shaped frame from which depends a weight. The front member of the U-shaped frame is at all times in front of the verge rod, while the rear member is straight. On the Inner fa’ce of the front member is pivoted a block in which Is Journaled one end of the verge spindle, its opposite end being held In tbo usual jprlng. The verge is thus carried by the weighted swinging frame, and the pen-

KEEPS THE PENDULUM PLUMB.

iulum ford at its upiifer end, after passtng througli the" verge, is swtirfed jn the usual manner to a poet, which Is also secured to .the back of the forward member of the weighted frame, whereby both the pendulum and the verge are kept perfectly plumb. The device is very simple and inexpensive.

She Had Him.

Husband—Don’t you know that every tllne a woman gets angry she adds a wrinkle to her face? Wife—Yes; it’s a wise provision of nature to let the world know tbe kind of husband she’s got—Photos and Sketcbm■ : ..