Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

MC KINLEY THE CANDIDATE. The probability that Maj. McKinley Will be the Republican nominee for President gives sincere pleasure to all , Democrats. No other candidate stands so clearly for the odious policy of protection, uor would any other Republican leader incur the same deep-rooted hostility which the American people Showed toward the author of the tariff law of 1890. Viewed in the light of past history there is every reason why the Democrats should welcome the choice of the Ohio Major as the standardbearer of the party of trusts and monopolies. Six years ago the tariff bill, to which the accident of his selection as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means fastened Mr. McKinley’s name, was passed through Congress. The new measure was extolled as the embodiment of all protection wisdom and Wonderful results of prosperity and political success were predicted by its friends. Both prophecies were doomed to signal failure. ■ Instead of becoming more prosperous the country began to show signs of business depression. Prices of goods advanced, and with dearer goods consumers could not afford to buy as much as formerly, so manufacturers found the demands for their products decreasing. ,The people grumbled because they had to pay higher prices, and wherever it .was possible they bought less. Thus Instead of a business boom the McKinley law brought decreased consumption, the first step toward industrial stagnation. The political results of the new tariff were no less discouraging to the protectionists. In the fall elections, held the same year in which it was passed, a House of Representatives was elected In which there were only eighty-seven. Republicans. The Republicans lost the States of Connecticut, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and even the high-tariff stronghold of Pennsylvania. Kansas was carried by the Populists, and the States of Minnesota, lowa and Mr. McKinley’s own Ohio were carried by very narrow Republican majorities. In New York State only eleven Republican Representatives were elected as against eighteen in the preceding Congress, and in Ohio only seven Representatives instead of sixteen as before. Maj. McKinley was among the defeated candidates. This showed what the people thought of MeKinleyism. In 1891 there was a repetition of the Democratic victories in the various State elections. The Republicans who Shad been claiming that their defeat in 1890 was due to a failure on the part of the voters to understand the new tariff law began to invent other excuses. In 1892 the whole country was again called to vote on the square issue of the McKinley law versus tariff reform. The Republicans insisted that each vote for the Democratic candidates was a vote against protection. The Democrats accepted the issue and everywhere denounced the tariff of 1890 as a fraud and robbery. Once more the American people expressed their opinions in emphatic form by triumphantly electing a Democratic President, House and Senate. As the result of their swindling tariff scheme the Republicans lost control of the entire administration of the Federal Government. These are the plain facts of recent history. What reason is there for supposing that the policy of MeKinleyism, so obnoxious in 1890, 1891 and 1892, will be regarded with more favor in 1896? Has Earned His Hire. Republican anti-McKinley organs are indignant at the lavish use of money in behalf of protection’s candidate. The country, they think, is menaced with a new danger and they are warning the Republican party to beware. There is nothing new in the situation, unless it is that new hands are distributing the funds. McKinley has earned all and more than the barons of protection will expend in his behalf. They are supplying him with money from the motive which has always led them to equip the Republican party. As long as this fund was utilized for the defeat of Democrats the organs of Allison, Reed and Morton saw nothing censurable in it. Only a short while ago these same organs now berating the manufacturers were advancing arguments to prove that Republicans who grow rich off the tariff were not only justified in making large campaign contributions, but should be applauded for their patriotism. McKinley is now getting the boodle because he will give the barons more for their money than the other candidates. He will be nominated in June because he is the logical candidate of a party which has been supported by the men whom it has enriched at the expense of the people. Clarkson, Platt and Quay are, after all, only sub-bosses. The real bosses are the protection barons, who will use any one or all the little bosses if it becomes necessary to do so in order to nominate McKinley. Surely the laborer is worthy of his hire.—St. Louis Republic. Did McKinley’s Tariff Make Yon Ri;h? Major McKinley’s high taxation scheme for making everybody wealthy by taxing everything they used, was In full operation for four years. It certainly had a fair trial, and there is no doubt but that it enriched a few protected trusts and monopolies. But did It make the millions of farmers rich? Did the workingmen in the mills, factories and mines become capitalists through a policy which increased the cost of the goods they used? It would be only fair that at the coming elections the votes of eleven million citizens should be cast in proportion to benefits received. Those who were made rich by MeKinleyism should vote the Republican ticket. All the I rest should support the Democratic candidates. Did protection make you rleh? New Southern Cotton Mills. President Dwight, of the Nashua Manufacturing Company, Nashua, N. p.. recently visited Cordova, Ala., and

selected a site on which his company will at once erect a $600,000 cotton mill. The new factory will be the largest of Its kind in Alabama, and will be equipped with all the latest and best improvements in machinery. Calamity-croaking McKinleyites will please take notice that their efforts to scare business men from undertaking new enterprises are not meeting with much success. Lying stories of industrial ruin caused by low tariff taxes are of little weight when compared with one fact such as the above.

The Latest Protection Scarecrow. Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota, has joined the McKinleyites, who are trying to scare the American people into voting for protection by holding up the alleged danger of the competition of cheap Japanese goods. In a telegram sent to the Republican convention of his State Senator Davis urged the adoption of a high-tariff platform for the special purpose of shutting out the low-priced products of, Japan. The Minnesota Republicans have never been in favor of high protection, Senator Knute Nelson having voted for the Mills bill when he was a member of the House, but in response to Senator Davis’ appeal they put themselves on record as favoring the policy which has done so much to impoverish the farmers of their State. That the men who four years ago howled for protection against the pauper labor of Europe are now using Japan and China as an excuse for heavier taxation on imports is an encouraging sign. It shows that they realize that the European cheap-goods scare is played out, and that a new dodge must be worked. But their antl-Japanese campaign cry has no better foundation than that of 1892. Its sham is exposed in a recent statement issued by Joseph Nimmo, Jr., a Republican, who was formerly chief of the United States Treasury Bureau of Statistics, who says: “The value of our trade with China and Japan, as compared with certain other countries for the year ended June 30, 1894, was: China and Japan, $51,513,149; Great Britain, France and Germany $803,042,815. “In connection with this it is also Of interest to advert to the total value of our foreign commerce, and to the total value of our internal commerce. The total value of the foreign commerce of the United States during the year ended June 30, 1894, was $1,547,135,194. It is impossible to state with any degree of accuracy the value of the internal commerce of the United States, but from all we know it appears safe to say that it amounts to fully $25,000,000,000 annually. How absurd, then, to attempt to delude the people of this country with the idea that our trade relations with China and Japan constitute a governing condition of a total commerce fully 500 times as great. ‘To assume that American farmers, miners, manufacturers and industrial workers can be reduced to the level of Chinese coolies by a trade of such comparatively insignificant proportions, and consisting, in so far as relates to imports, almost exclusively of tea, silk and other commodities not produced in this country, and which, therefore, does not compete with American farmers, miners, manufacturers and Industrial workers, is a vagary too absurd for serious consideration, even in the conflicts of partisan warfare.” This testimony of an eminent Republican should be conclusive reply to the absurd stories of the threatened flood of cheap goods from China and Japan which are being spread through the country by the McKinleyite orators and press. The so-called “Japanese danger” is merely a fake devised for political purposes. It should not mislead a single voter into supporting the party of high taxation.

Higher Wages for Miners. The companies operating the coal mines in the Clearfield, Beech Creek, Cambria and Gallitzen coal regions, Pennsylvania, have posted notices that on and after April 1 the employes of all the mines will be paid 45 cents per ton for mining. Day labor will receive the same rates as when this price for mining was formerly paid. The new rates mean an advance to miners of 12% per cent, over the wages paid in 1893, and to the day laborers of at least 10 per cent. Several thousand men will be affected. American wage-workers are familiar with the history of wage reductions in the coal regions during the last two years that the McKinley law was in op■eration. Yet in spite of the fact that the companies were everywhere cutting down the wages of their miners, the agents of the coal trust in Congress declared that the McKinley tariff of 75 cents per ton on coal was ffecessary in order to keep wages up. Since the Wilson law lowered the coal duty about 50 per cent, there has been a general advance of wages in all the important collieries, that above recorded bringing the number of miners whp have received increased pay up to nearly 50,000. And this is only a saim pie of the way in which wages have been Increased through the revival in industry which followed the repeal of the McKinley bill.

What Was Done with the Wool? A tariff-mongering organ in Boston asserts that “the worst injury” which the Wilson tariff has inflicted upon the woolen manufacturers of this country is in “compelling” them “to turn thel■' attention to the manufacture of low stock and the production of cheap and inferior fabrics to compete with the shoddy goods sent in such huge quantities from abroad.” There is not an honest and Intelligent manufacturer who will indorse this assertion. The best answer to it is in the enormous importations of the finest fleeces which formerly found their way in extremely small quantities to this country. What use do American manufacturers make of all this fine wool, if they do not convert it into fine fabrics to clothe the American people? Do they eat it, or do they let it lie idle for the consumption of moths in the warehouses of import ers?—Philadelphia Record.

STARTING FOR HOME.

REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A RADICAL SERMON. The Prodigal's Return Furnishes the Theme for a Powerful Discourse —A Divine Cure for the Ills of the World—A Glorious Invitation. The Capital Pulpit. A most radical gospel sermon is the one •f last Sunday by Dr. Talmage. It runs up and down the Whole gamut of glorious invitation. His text was Luke xv., 18 “I will arise and go to my father.” There is nothing like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen nor band nor foot. There has been many an army defeated not so much for lack of ammunition as for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out any man's life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A traveler tells us that iq Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit looking yery much like the long bean of our time. It is called the carob. Once in awhile the people, reduced to destitution, would eat these carobs, but generally the carobs, the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine, and they crunched them with great avidity. But this young man of my text could not even get them without stealing them. So one day, amid the swine troughs, he begins to soliloquize. He says: “These are no Clothes for a rieh man’s son to wear; this is no kind of business for a Jew to be engaged in, feeding swine. I’ll go home; I’ll go home. I will arise and go to my father.” I know there are a great many people who try to throw a fascination, a romance, a halo, about sin, but notwithstanding all that Lord Byron and George Sand have said in regard to it, it is a mean, low, contemptible business, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is a very poor business for men and women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, and when this young man resolved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises large wages if we will serve him, but he clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the blopdhounds of hell. Satan comes to us to-day, and he promises all luxuries and emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! “The wages of sin is death.” Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution, “I will arise and go to my father.” In the time of Mary, the persecutor, a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house for the Lord’s sake one of Christ’s servants, and the persecutor said, “Where is that heretic?” The Christian woman said, “Yon open that trunk and you will see the heretic.” The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of th* trunk he saw a glass. He said, “There is no heretic here.” “Ah!" she said, “yov look in the glass and you will see tho heretic.” ,

Seeing Ourselves. As I take up the mirror of God’s word to-day, I would that, instead of seeing the prodigal of the text, we might see ourselves—our want, our wandering, our sin. our lost condition—so that we might be aSwise as this young man was and say, “J will arise and go to my father.” The “resolution of this text was formed in a disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man had been by his employer set to culturing flowers, or training vines over an arbor, or keeping an account of the pork market, or overseeing other laborers, he would»not have thought bf going home—if he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say: “I have SI,OOO now of my own. What’s the use of my going back to my father’s house? Do you think I’m going back to apologize to the old man? Why, he would put me on the limits. He would not have going on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged in. I won tgo home. There is no reason why I should go home. I have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings. Why should Igo home?” Ah, it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He had to go home. Some man comes and says to me: “Why do you talk about the ruined state >of the human soul? Why don’t you speak about the progress of the nineteenth century and talk of something more exhilaratItig? It is for this reason: A man never wants the gospel until he realizes he is in a famine struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your home, and you are in good, sound, robust health, and I should begin to talk about medicines, and about how much better this medicine is than that, and some other medicine than some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician. After a while you would get tired, and you would say: “I don’t want to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians? I never have a doctor.” But suppose I come into your house and I find you severely sick, and I know the medicine that will cure you, and I know the physician who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: "Bring on all that medicine, bring on that physician. I am terribly sick, and I want help.”

Ruined by Sin. If I come to you, and you feel you are all right in .body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have need of nothing, but suppose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you the worst of all sickness. Oh, then you say, “Bring me that balm of the gospel, bring me that divine medicament, bring me Jesus Christ.” “But,” says some one in the audience, “how do you know that we are in a ruined condition by sin?” Well, I can prove it in two ways, and you may have your choice. I can prove it either by the statements of men or by the statement of God. Which shall it be? You say, “Let us have the statement of God.” Well, he says in one place, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” He says in another place, “What is man that he should be clean, and he which is born of woman that he should be righteous?” He says in another place, “There is< none that doeth good—no, not one.” He says in another place, “As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned.” “Well,” you say, “I am willing to acknowledge that, but why should I take the particular rescue that you propose?” This is the reason: “Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” This is the reason: “There is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may be saved.” Then there are a thousand voices here ready to say: “Well, I am ready to accept this help of the gospel. I would like to have this divine cure. How shall Igo to work?” Let me say that a mere whim, an undefined longing, amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, a tremendous resolution like this young man< of the text when he said, “I will arise and go to my father.” “Oh,” says some man, “how do I know my father wants me? How do I know if I go back I would be received?” “Oh,” says some man, “you don't know where I have been; you don’t

know bow far I have wandered; you wouldn’t tall that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have committed.” What is that flutter among the angels of God? What is that horseman running with quick dispatch? It is news, it is news! Christ has found the lost. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire. The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre. God's Infinite Mercy. When Napoleon talked of going into Italy, they said: “You can’t get there. If you knew what the Alps were, you would not talk about it or think about it. You can’t get yonr ammunition wagons over the Alps.” Then Napoleon rose in his stirrups, and, waving his hand toward the mountains, he said. “There shall be no Alps!” That wonderful pass was laid out which has been the wonderment of all the years since—the wonderment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such mountains of sin between your soul and God there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving his hand toward the mountains. I hear him say, “I will come over the mountains of thy sin and the hills of thine iniquity.” There shall be no Pyrenees; there shall be no Alps. Again, I notice that this resolution of the young man of my text was founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that he had so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child. That is Shakspeare. “A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” That is the Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! Three times a day has he fed thee. He has poured sunlight into thy day and at night kindled up alj the street lamps of heaven. With what varieties of apparel he hath clothed thee for the seasons. Whose eye watches thee? Whose hand defends thee? Whose heart sympathizes with thee? Who gave you your children? Who is guarding your loved ones departed? Such a Father! So loving, so kind. If he had been a stranger; if he had forsaken us; if he had flagellated us; if he had pounded us and turned us out of doors on the commons, it would not have been so wonderful—our treatment of him; but he is a Father, so loving, so kind, and yet how manw of us for our wanderings have never apologized! If we say anything that hurts our friend's feelings, if we do anything that hurts the feelings of those in whom we are interested, how quickly we apologize! We can scarcely wait until we get pen and paper to write a letter of apology. How easy it is for any one who is intelligent, right hearted, to write an apology or make an apology! We apologize for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us perhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized. An Irreparable Loa*. I remark still further that this resolution of the text was founded in a feeling of homesickness. Ido not know how long this young man, how many months, how many years, he had been away from his father’s house, but there is something about the reading of my text that makes me think he was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant—plenty of friends—you have said, “I would give the world to be home to-nigkt.” Well, this young man was homesick for his father’s house. I have no doubt when he thought of his father’s house he eaid, “Now, perhaps father may not be living." We read nothing in this story, this parable, founded on everyday life—we ‘ read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had gene into dissipation from the fact that he could not remember a loving and sympathetic mother. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her, but he is homesick for his father’s house. He thought he would just like to go and walk around the old place. He thought he would just like to go and see if things were as they used to be. Many a man after having been off a long while has gone home and knocked at the door, and a stranger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door. He finds out father is gone and mother is gone and brothers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to himself, “Perhaps father may be dead.” Still he starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any here to-day homesick for God, homesick for heaven?

God Is Walting. A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; went out into the sea, went out too far, got beyond his depth, and he floated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took Mm on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one gave him a cap and another gave him a jacket and another gave him shoes.. A gentleman passing along on the beaoh at Liverpool found the lad’s clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken, at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning .for the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the mourning arrived. He knocked at the door. The father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh, my friends,- have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down into sin ? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back, will you come in the rags of your sin or will you come robed in the Saviour’s righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He is waiting for you. G 6 home! To Be Almost Saved Is to Be Lost. There is a man who said, long ago, “If I could live to the year 1896, by that timq I will have my business matters' all arranged, and I will have time to attend to religion, and I will be a good, thorough, consecrated Christian.” The year 1896 has come. January, February, March. April—a third of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? “Oh,” says sow man, “I’ll attend to that when I get my character fixed up, when I can get over my evil habits; I am now given to strong drink.” Oh, says the man, “I am given to uncleanliness.” Or, says the man: “I am given to dishonesty. When I get over my present habits, then I'll be a thorough Christian.” My brother, you wilt get worse and worse, until Christ taksu you in hand. “Not the righteous, sinners Jesus came to call.” Oh, but you say, “I agree with you in all that, but I mast put it off a little longer.” Do you know there were many who came just as near as you are to the kingdom of God and never entered it? I was at Easthampton. and I went into the cemettry to look around, and in that cemete* there are twelve graves side by side—fae graves of sailors. This crew, some yean ago, in a ship went into the breakers ati Amagansett, about three miles away. 1 My brother, then preaching at Easthi npton, had been at the burial. These nin of the crew came very near being savi 1. The people from Amagansett saw the ressel, and they shot rockets, and they mt ropes from the shore, and these poo fellows got into the boat, and they pul d mightily for the shore, but just bel re they got to the shore the rope snap 1 sd and the boat capsized, and they w< e lost, their bodies

afterward washed upon the beach. Oh, what a solemn day It was—l have been told of * by my brother—when these twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit, and he read over them the funeral service. They came very near shore—within shouting distance of the shore, yet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men who come almost to the shore of God’s mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be almost saved is to be lost! Two Prodigala. I wilt tell you of two prodigals—the one that got back, and the other that did. not get back. In Richmond there is a very prosperous and beautiful home in many fespects. A young man wandered off from that home. He wandered very far Into sin. They heard of him after, but he always on the wrong track. He would not go home. At the door of that beautiful home one night there was a great outcry. The young man of the house ran down to open the door to see what was the matter. It was midnight. The rest of, the family were asleep. There were the wife and children of this prodigal young man. The fact was he had come home and driven them out. He said: “Out of this house! Away with these children! I will dash their brains out. Out into the’ storm!" The mother gathered them up and tied. The next jporning the brother, the young man who had staid at home, went out to find this prodigal brother and son, and he came where he was and saw the young man wandering up and down in front of the place where he had been staying, and the young man who had kept his integrity said to the older brother: “■Here, what does all thw mean? What is the matter with you? Why do you act in this way?” The prodigal looked at him and said: "Who am I? Who do you take me to be?" He said, “You are my brother." “No, lam not. lam a brute. Have you seen anything of my wife and children? Are they dead? I drove them out last night in the storm. I am a brute' John, do you think there is any help for me? Do you think I will ever get over, this life of dissipation?” He said, “John, there is one thing that will stop this." The prodigal ran his fingers across hl* throat and said: “That will stop it, and I will stop it before night. Oh, my brain! I can stand it no longer." That prodigal never got home. But I will tell you of a prodigal that did get home. In England two young men started from ihelr father’s .house and went,down to Portsmouth—l have been there—a beautiful seaport. Some of you have been there. The father could not pursue his children- for some reason he could not leave home—and so he wrote a letter down to Mr. Griffin, saying: “Mr. Griffin, I wish you would go and see my two sons. They have arrived in Portsmouth, and they are going to take ship and going away from homo. I wish you would persuade them back.” The Pardon of the Gospel. Mr. Griffin went and tried to persuade them back. He persuaded one to go. He went with very easy persuasion because he was very homesick already. The other young man said: “I will not go. I have had enough of home. I’ll never go home.’’ “Well,” said Mr. Griffin, “then if you won't go home I’ll get you a respectable position on a respectable ship." “No, you won’t” said the prodigal; “no you won’t. I am going as a private sailor; as a common sailor. That will plague my father most and what will do most to tantalize and worry him will please me best.” Years passed on and Mr. Griffin was seated in his study one day when a messenger came to him saying there was a young man in irons on a ship at the dock—a ' young man condemned to death—who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. Griffin want down to the dock and went on shipboard. The young man said to him, "You don’t know me, do you?” ..♦‘No," he said, “I don't know you.” “Why, don’t you remember that young man you tried to persuade to go home ’and he wouldn’t go?” “Oh, yes,” soid Mr. Griffin. “Are you that man?” “Yes, Inm that man," said the other. “I would like to have you pray for me. I have committed murder and I must die, but I don’t want to go out of this world until some one prays for me. You are my father’s friend and I would like to have you pray forme.”

Mr. Griffin went from judicial authority to judicial authority to get that young man’s pardon. He slept not night nor day. He went from influential person to influential person, until in some way he got that young man’s pardon. He came down on the dock and as he arrived on the dock with the pardon the father came. He had heard that his son, under a disguised name, had been committing crime and was going to be put to death. So Mr. Griffin and the father went on ship’s deck and at the very moment Mr. Griffin offered the pardon to the young ngin the old father threw his arms around the son’s neck and the son said: “Father, I have done very wrong and lam very sorry. I wish I had never broken your heart. I am very sorry I’’ “Oh,” said the father, “don’t mention It. It won’t make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you, my son.” And he kissed him and kissed him and kissed him. To-day I offer you the pardon «f the gospel—full pardon, free pardon. I do not care what your crime has been. Though you say you have committed a crime against God, against your soul, agaihst your fellow man, against your family, against the day of judgment, against the cross of Christ—whatever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pardon, and the very moment you take that pardon your Heavenly Father throws his arms around about you and says: “My son, I forgive you. It is all right. You are as much in my favor now as if you had 'never Sinhefl."*' 6h, there is joy on earth and joy ini heaven. Who will take the Father’s embrace?

Intoxication in Denmark.

The police of Denmark have a curious ■wny of dealing with the drunk and incapable found in the streets. They gammon a cab and place the patient •{palde ItJ then drive to the station, where he gets'sober; then hame.where he arrives sober and sad. the egenfn never leave him till they have seen him safeJy tn the family bosom. Then the cabman makes his charge and the police surgeon makes his, and the agents make their own claim for special duty, and this bill is presented to the host of the establishment where the culprit took bls last overpowering glass. The publicans, however, have In several towns protested against this system. They say the proofs are ofter Insufficient and the police surgeons too summary In their examination; further, that many notorious evil-doers Sham drunk In order to get the landlord Into trouble. They therefore claim that they shall have their own doctor to examine certain cases and defend the publican interest. Irish soldiers fought In King Philip’s war, which broke out In 1675, and some even earlier, in the Pequod war. Historical evidence exists of Irish settlers in New England within twenty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock. As early as 1634 Massachusetts granted land near Newburyport to certaln.lrlsh and Scotch comers, and In 1636 arrived the ship St. Patrick, belonging to Sir Thomas Wentworth, deputy.of Ireland. The prodigal son may later on support the whole family.

BISMARCK IS NOW 81.

TIME HONORS AND SPARES THE IRON CHANCELLOR. Hearty Congratulations Received by the Great German Statesman—Ha Makes a Speech to Thousands, Who Come from Hsmbnrg. Crowds Pay Tribute. Prince Bismarck was 81 years old Wednesday and in honor of his birthday bands of music played in the Schloss park, at Freidrichsruhe, all the morning. Prince Bismarck entered the salon at 11:30 and found displayed on a table his birthday presents. He was affectionately greeted by his eon, Count Herbert Bismarck, and by hie daughter, Countess Rantzau. After Dr. Schwenninger had congratulated the prince the latter closely examined his

TIME HONORS AND SPARES HIM.

portrait painted by Lenbach, who appeared later, whereupon Prince Bismarck greeted him with a “good morning.” Among the presents was a collection of articles from Madagascar, sent by Eugene Wolf. Emperor William's present to Prince Bismarck was a photograph of the imperial family, in a group, inclosed In a handsome frame. Count Von Waldersee and a deputation from the Halberstadt dined with Prince Bismarck. Thousands from Hamburg. Special trains from Hamburg brought some 3,000 persons, including 300 torchbearers. After dinner was over Prince Bismarck appeared on the balcony and the assembled bands played a choral. Replying to an address of congratulation, Prince Bismarck said that the good will of his neighbors was a necessity to every Ohristian*’German. He was pleased at having enjoyed the constant sympathy of tihe Hamburgers, which he had never 13st, as he had lost several other sympathies. Expressing then a desire for the commercial prosperity of Hamburg, he declared that he was no fanatical agrarian, but that, after all, the agrarians were not without grounds for their opinions. In conclusion he called fur cheers for Hamburg and its rulers. In response to this prolonged cheers were given. There was then a brilliant torchlight procession, which occupied forty-five minutes in passing. Prince Bismarck stood most of that time, continually expressing his acknowledgments to those passing. He observed that he was no longer able to move as they did, but that his heart went with them.

WINTER WHEAT AND RYE.

Tho Farm er a' Review Receives Reporta from Ton States. Reports have been received from tho correspondents of the Farmers’ Review ta (en States on the condition of winter traeat and winter rye. In Illinois winter wheat is in fair shape, but has been Injured extensively by the late thawing and freezing weather. The percentage of damage runs all the way from sto 50. Fortunately, there are not many reports of the latter amount or near it. A like condition exists in Indiana. In Ohio the loss is still greater, and the present condition is bclo;v fair. Michigan reports great loss, but the condition, taking tho State as a whole, is a little above fair. In Kentucky the crop is in a very uneven condition, some counties having good prospects, but others expecting little more than half a crop. The loss from freezing and thawing does not seem to be much of n factor. Missouri also has an uneven crop at this time, and the conditions have been various. Some counties have a good start, and no freezing and thawing has taken place. Other countries have lost half of the present stand from this cause alone. We may summarize by saying that the loss for the State has been considerable, and that the present conditions of the crop are fair. In Kansas and Nebraska the crop is in fair to good condition. Little loss has been experienced from freezing and thawing, in fact some of the correspondents complain that they have not had as much cold ns they would like. In lowa there has been small loss on account of recent changes of weather, and the crop in the State is in fair condition. In Wisconsin the'crop is reported quite poor, and the recent losses have been great. Winter rye is in much better condition than wheat, and is generally reported at an average of fhir to good.

Notes of Current Events.

The wall of a building recently destroyed by fire fell upon a residence at Cleveland, 0., killing Mrs. F. O. Bradford, fit Olmstead Falls, 0., a visitor in tho-Mouse, and seriously injuring Miss Emma Deltrichs, a domestic. James W. De Ormond, the counterfeiter, who has just completed a two years' sentence in the< Kings County (N. Y.) penitentiary for that crime, was handed over to officers of Paris, Tex. When he readhes there he will be tried on a charge of murder committed in 1891. On the Chancellor’s seventy-seventh birthday Emperor William sent to Prince Hohenlohe as a memento a bronze bust of himself. Most of the German sovereigns, Prince Bismarck and the German imperial ministers, telegraphed birthday congratulations to the Chancellor. Mrs. Hiram Smith and family, of Coburg, Ore., are the innocent victims of an unknown person's hatred and live in daily fear. Repeated attempts have been made to poison the woman and her children, and of late the would-be poisoner has grown bold in his attempts. It is announced that a large car factory, to be known as tie Union car works and to be run on the co-operative plan, will be put into operition in North St. Louis Mo., during the ioming summer. It will be a large concern and expects to cut quite a figure in he manufacturing World. The Treasury Department has evidence tending to show that the steamship Commodore, which recently cleared from the port of Charleston, S. C., with arms and ammunition, did not lose her cargo in * storm at sea, os reported by her cap tn I w but landed it or ths coast of Cuba.

SHOT IN COLD BLOOD.

FEARFUL CRIME COMMITTED AT CLINTON, ILL. Ed Polen Kills His Wife and Mother-in-Law Women Slaughtered While Fleeing Frenzied Man Then Attempts Suicide to Escape Lrnching. Caused by Domestic Tronbles. Domestic infelicities in the family oi Edward Polen culminated Friday afternoon at Clinton, 111., in the murder of Mrs. Polen and her mother, Mrs. William McMullen;'by Polen. After he had committed'the crime Polen ran to the Illinois Oentml yards to escape the crowd of excited pursuers who intended to lynch the murderer. To avoid this fata he ■threw himself in front of a train, btil was not fatally injured. He was removed from the scene of his attempted suicide without molestation. Then the crowd collected about the jail, and for a time it looked as if the lynching would take piac?. The desperate nature of the man’s injuries delayed the attempt, and thb crowd retired. It appears from the most reliable information tfliat there has been trouble in the Polen household for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Polen had been in Creston, lowa, for about six weeks, where Polen had secured employment, but all did not go well in the lowa home, and Mrs. -polen left there and returned to her mother’s homo in Clinton a week ago. Friday Polen returned and met his wife on the street, and they held an animated discussion. After leaving his wife Polen returned to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. McMullen, where his wife was, and it is supposed the discussion of their troubles was again renewed. Polen became frenzied during the discussion, and, rushing to where a doublebarreled shotgun was standing, he seized the weapon and turned toward the now thoroughly frightened and defenseless women, who attempted to escape. They were not quick enough, however. They were within about fifteen feet of the house when Polen threw the gun to his shoulder and pressed the trigger. Mrs. Polen fell on her face without a groan, dying instantly. Her mother stopped nt the report of the gun, and, turning, saw her child fail heavily forward, cold in death. As the mother gave a cry of anguish at the terrible deed of her infuriated son-in-law he Again pressed the trigger, and with the second report the sou] of the mother was ushered into eternity. The murderer then ran cast through the outskirts of the town; thence along the railroad track, stopping to reload Ms weapon. An alarm was given immediately by the neighbors, and soon the streets were thronged with the excited populace, hurrying to the scene of the tragedy. A posse was soon formed and started in pursuit of the murderer. In the meantime Polen had been fleeing east on tho railroad track. He got about a mile nnd a quarter from town when he saw a freight train approaching. Turning, ho beheld his pursuers following, and realizing the impossibility of escape, he waited until tho train had approached almost to where he stood and then suddenly threw himself in front of the engine. Ho was doomed to disappointment, however, for the pilot of tftio engine was too low. It struck and threw him to the side of tho track unconscious. The train was quickly stopped and the injured man picked up and brought to the city, where he was lodged in jail. A crowd soon collected nnd the talk became ominous. Tito officers feared an attempt to lynch the murderer would be made, and to quiet tho crowd, the announcement was made from the porch of the jail that Polen was fatally Injured and would probably die In a few minutes. This resulted in the dispersion of the crowd. Marshal Mofflt. with Ms prisoner, drove from Clinton to Maroa in a cab. Polen apparently is not badly wounded, as he was able to eat lunch at Maroa and was sitting up in a restaurant, He is now in jail at Decatur.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Mrs. Minnie F. Payne, of Fort Scott, Kan., has brought suit for divorce against Albert Bigelow Payne, an author and poet. • John Maguire, of Butte, Mont., has discovered records that lead him to believe that the Chinese knew how to use cathode rays centuries ago. The Governor of Missouri granted a stay of execution to Thomas Punshon, who was sentenced to bo hanged in St. Joseph April 3, until May 0. The Union cor works, to be operated on tho co-operative plan, will put up buildings at North St. Louis at once. The capital is $50,000 and the president is H. W. Rocklagc. James 0. Barber, of Richmond, Va., secretary and treasurer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, died in a sanitarium at Indianapolis of a tumor on the bruin. A bridge across San Francisco from San Quentin to Oakland is contemplated. It is a magnificent project and was made public by Col. Lyman Bridges on behalf of the Terminal company. The Northern Pacific Railroad will run two transcontinental trains instead of one. The time between Tacoma and St. Paul will be shortened eight hours by putting on a fast mail train.

At a meeting of the passenger agents of the roads affected it was decided to abolirii the Cincinnati and St. Louis Passenger Association and to merge it into the Central Passenger Committee of Chicago. Terms of office of thirty-four preridential postmasters will expire during April. Appointments to several of these have already been announced. The largest office in the list is Harrisburg, Pa. Twin sisters and twin brothers were married at Burbank, O. Rev. Nathaniel Lewis performed the ceremony that made Irene V. Repp wife of Vernon R. Stair, and Idena V. Repp wife of Vertal R Stair. Williams Hills Yale, aged 85, died at Meriden, Conn., of blood poisoning. He was the.pioneer manufacturer of tinned ware in New England. He retired from business several years ago, having amassed a fortune. E. Wilding and J. F. Gilmore, representing a London syndicate, are negotiating for the purchase of the Chino ranch in southern California. The ranch consists of 40,000 acres and the price offered is said to be $2,000,000. Four steamers arrived at New York having on board 3,484 immigrants. The Massilia, from Marseilles and Naples, brought 1,183; the Patria, from Hamburg, 961; La Bretagne, from Havre, 690, and the Bonn, from Bremen, 650. When the remains of Michael Hart, who was' killed at Hammond, Ind., by an Erie passenger train, were sent to his home at Newburg, Conn., the entire force of the Illinois Steel Company followed the body to the station. / Gov. L. C. Hughes was assaulted on the street by P. J. Clark, correspondent at Phoenix for the Denver Times. Clark, who tnld criticised the Governor’s official Conduct, claims that the executive was instrumental in securing his (Clark’s) discharge fropq another paper.