Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

ENCOURAGING EXPORT FIGURES In 1880 the exports of agricultural products comprised 83.25 per cent, of the entire exports of the United States. The shipments of products of mines, fisheries aud the forest swelled this percentage to 87.52, and in the same year the exports of domestic manufactures aggregated 12.48 per cent, of the total. In 1890 all exports other than of manufactures had fallen to 82.13 per cent., and the shipments of manufactured products had increased to 17.87 per cent. In 1892, after ♦ nearly two years of the McKinley tariff, manufactured exports had shrunk to 15.61 per cent, of the total, while other exports, by reason of the phenomenal crops in this country and partial famine abroad, increased to 84.39 per cent. Last year the exports of manufactures comprised 23.14 per cent, of the country’s sales to foreign markets —a total never before equaled in the history of the United States. Yet even this increase has been surpassed by the record of the first eight months of the present fiscal year, when the total of manufactured exports rose to 24.41 per cent. If this be the sort of prostration of domestic industries that has resulted from the enforcement of the Wilson tariff, the American people can stand a great deal more of it. The agricultural exports will rise or fall with the needs of Europe and the capacity of domestic producers to supply them. But manufactured exports must be pushed hard against rivals who have long held the field without contest from the industries of this mountry. It is an encouraging sign that within a year and a half since the tariff fetters were partially relaxed the manufacturers of the land should have increased their proportion of its exports even as much as 3.27 per cent. The movement will grow as American ingenuity and enterprise shall become more familiar with their newly found field of exercise.

McKinley and His Prophets. The belief of the savage that his fetich, a snake or stone, can bring rain or drive away a pestilence, is no more superstitious than that of the McKinleyites that their idol can change natural laws and bring prosperity by the mere fact of his election to the Presidency. In the enlightened State of Massachusetts it might be supposed that men intelligent enough to manufacture goods would know better than to suppose that a mere change of office-holders could alter economic conditions. But the published statements of Mr.’Samuel Chapen, of Lowell, woura seem to indicate otherwise. Mr. Chapen is a stockholder of the Lawrence Manufacturing Company, which has recently decided to close down part of its great textile works and sell part of its plant. The reasons given are the increasing competition of the new cotton mills of the South, ■which undersell the Lowell mills because of the lower wages and longer (hours of their operatives; their lighter local taxation, and the advantage of cheaper power and lower freight rates on their raw materials. To an ordinary mind these conditions would seem to be beyond the power of national legislation to change. But Mr. Chapen is not an ordinary man. He is a true-blue protectionist Republican. So, instead of his agreeing with his fellow-stockholders that under the circumstances the wisest policy was to shut down the part of the mlil making goods which could be made cheaper in the South, he said: “In a short time, you know, we shall have a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican President, and then things will be different.” It is true that things may be different if the Republicans buy their way back into power. But how does Mr. Chapin propose to equalize the conditions of manufacturing in his State and the South? If wages are now too high in Massachusetts, will Republican success pull them down? Will hours of labor in the North be longer when McKinley is President? Will local taxation in the South be higher after 1897. Unless these changes take place, bow will the cotton mills of Massachusetts be enabled to compete wilh those of the South ? And if the Republicans put down Northern wages and raise Southern taxes, will that be a benefit to the American people?

Protected Starch. A McKinley newspaper, which is continually complaining that the tariff duties now in force are not high enough for protection, publishes a story about fin inquiry made in England and else- “ where by an agent of the German manufacturers of starch, who wanted to know why American starch was preferred in England to their product. At the conclusion of his investigation the agent told them that American starch was driving German starch out of the English market for the simple reason that the price of the American product was lower. Turning to the official reports, we find that our starchmakers exported 11,788,990 pounds last year, selling 6,053,666 pounds in the United Kingdom and 4,070,375 in The Netherlands. They also sold nearly 400,000 pounds in Canada. , Now, what is the bearing of these facts upon the tariff question? Do they show that our starchmakers need to be protected here in their home market against a “flood” of starch from Europe? If they can undersell the Germans in England and in The Netherlands, can they not undersell them here at home? Under the McKinley tariff, however, they were protected by a duty of 2 cents a pound, equivalent to 91.88 per cent., and under the present tariff the duty is lty cents a pound, which is equivalent to 76.29 per cent., and which the Republican House recently increased to 57.73 per cent, so far as it could do this by passing the Dingley bill.—New (York Timei. All There Is of Protection. The luminous Post states for the information of the Chronicle that the protectionists are in favor of free trade with such countries as we can trade

with advantageously. But we do not trade with any country unless we can trade with it advantageously. The very fact that we trade with a country proves that we find trading profitable. When Congress steps in and assumes to say that it is not advantageous to us to trade with a certain country it meddles with what is none of its business. Besides, it makes knowingly false statement. And, furthermore, it insults us when it says we are such fools as to trade to our own hurt. When it comes in anu interferes with our trade by putting taxes running from 25 to much more than 100 per cent, on certain imports it by so much diminishes the profits of trade, if it does not put a stop to the trade altogether, aud it does this at the behest and for the enrichment of a few persons who want a monopoly of the home market, and the, power, backed by government, to fleece their own countrymen. This is all there is of —Chicago Chronicle. Political Potpourri. The Allison button says: “I am for Allison: who are you for?” Better send that button to some good district school. When St. Louis calls Indiana a deep, jubilant, resonant voice will answer: “Lo, I have married a wife and cannot come.” There are still several delegates at large, but with the aid of the police Mark Hanna hopes to round them up before the convention meets in June. Boss Platt pauses in the midst of the game long enough to call Mark Hanna’s attention to the dog which chased the rabbit so hard that it was soon ’way ahead of the rabbit. The New York World says: “Reed represents an itch.” Thomas ought not to try to run any skin game at St. Louis. But what is Mark Hanna running for? “The New York delegation is not for sale,” calmly asserts Governor Morton. Then how did Mark Hanna manage to pick up that Buffalo joblot of two? Why should a man who looks like Lincoln be afraid of one who looks like Napoleon, or one who looks like Grant, or one who looks like a full cream cheese? A correspondent writes from China that “there is a giant living within a hundred miles of Canton who is ten and one-half feet tall. This we think is the ijiost absurd statement thus far put out by the McKinley boomers. vne of the specifications of the plans for the new wigwam in St. Louis for the Republican convention calls for “an abundance of pure drinking water.” Wonder what they propose to do with it? We notice that very few gentlemen nowadays are inquiring “What’s the matter with Hanna?” A great many of them have found out. “Now let’s all pull together,” says Boss Platt. We advise Governor Morton to keep his legs out of reach. Speaking of Southern delegates, it will be noticed that Major McKinley lias passed up his plate for a little more erf the dark meat, please. “Politics is merely a game,” remarks John J. Ingalls. And it may be added incidentally that Mr. Ingalls himself hasn’t held anything higher than deuces lately. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says that “the favorite son idea has received some disfiguring shocks lately which have been felt In Nebraska and Illinois.” A slight disturbance is also reported in Columbus, Ohio.

A McKinley Kindergarten Lesson. Who is the world’s greatest statesman, poet, orator and wit?—McKinley. Who sends spring rains and sunshine, and causes the crops to grow?— McKinley. Who sustains and preserves all the country’s industries?—McKinley. Who mines the coal, smelts the iron, saws the lumber and builds the houses? —McKinley. Who runs the railroads, the trolley cars, steamships, the lake schooners and the canal boats?—McKinley. Who makes the sheep eat grass so that they can grow protected wool? McKinley. Who feeds, clothes and shelters the seventy million American people?—McKinley. Who is it puts prices up by shutting out foreign cheap goods with a high tariff?—McKinley. Who makes prices fall by increasing domestic competition with a high tariff ?-McKinley. Who made everything, knows everything, does everything, and wants nothing?—McKinley! McKinley!! McKinley!!! Political Pleasantries. What is the use of looking up McKinley’s financial views of many years ago? Is the Major suffering with vocal paralysis now? An Ohio paper remarks that ‘‘Reed can hardly be reckoned among the big fishes this year.” No; that isn’t the kind of czardine he is. The Springfield convention confirmed Benjamin Harrison’s judgment that this is a first-rate year for a bridegroom to remain in private life. Senator Sherman says that “McKinley is all right on the money question.” “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?” And let him do likewise. During the year 1895 the number of sheep in Australia diminished to the extent of 9,000,000. Did that result from the repeal of the McKinley act? A button dealer in Indianapolis claims to have disposed of 17,300,000 Harrison buttons within the last three months. It may be a pretty hard Job to unbutton that boom. In a recent interview Mr. Platt remarked: “There isn’t a thing in Morton’s record to criticise; there isn’t a spot upon him.” We begin to suspect that Levi isn’t even a two-spot. There is a deficit of $500,000 in the Ohio State Treasury. Governor Bushnell says that the deficit is inherited from Governor McKinley’s administration. At this rate of deficiency for one State, how much shortage would McKinley have In the national treasury if he should be elected President?

WORDS TO CONGRESS.

REV. DR. TALMAGE ON "BEFORE THEY ADJOURN." He Wants Some Things Done and Some More Undone —A Grand and Hopeful Sermon of Interest to National Legislators. Our Washington Pulpit. Never was a timelier or more appropriate sermon than that preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage last Sunday morning. The subject was “Before They Adjourn.” having reference to the early dissolution of Congress, and the text selected was Psalms cv., 22, “Aud teach his senators wisdom.” Senators in this text stand for lawmakers. Joseph was the lord treasurer of the Egyptian Government, and, among other great things which he did, according to my text, was to teach his senators wisdom, and if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom it is senators, whether they stand in congresses, parliaments or reichstags or assemblies or legislatures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Lawmakers are sometimes so tempted by prejudices, by sectional preferences, by opportunity of personal advancement, and sometimes what is best to do is so doubtful that they ought to be prayed for and encouraged in every possible way, instead of severely criticised and blamed aud excoriated, as is much of the time the case. Our public men are so often the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted, but could not reach, that more injustices are hurled at our nutional legislature than the people of the United States can possibly imagine. The wholesale belying of our public men is simply damnable. By residence in Washington I have come to find out that many of our public men are persistently misrepresented, aud some of the best of them, the purest in their lives and most faithful in the discharge of their duties, are the worst defamed. Some day I want to preach a sermon from the text in 11. Peter: “They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusations against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not.” So constant and malignant is this work of depreciation and scandalization in regard to our public men that all over the land there are those who suppose that the city of Washington is the center of all corruption, while, what with its parks, and its equestrian statuary, and its wide streets, and its architectural symmetries, and its lovely homes, it is not only the most beautiful city under the sun, but has the highest style of citizenship. I have seen but one intoxicated man in the more than six months of my residence, and I do not think any man can give similar testimony of any other city on the American continent. God in the Constitution.

The gavels of our two houses of national legislature will soou fall, and adjournment of two bodies of men as talented, as upright, and as patriotic as ever graced the capitol will take place. The two or three unfortunate outbreaks which foil have noticed only make more conspicuous the dignity, the fraternity, the eloquence, the fidelity, which huve characterized those two bodies during all the long months of important and anxious deliberation. We put a halo around great men of the past because they were so rare in their time. Our senate and house of representatives have fire such men where once they had one. But it will not be until after they are dead that they will get appreciated. The world finds it safer to praise the dead than the living, because the departed, having a heavy pile of marble above them, may not rise to become rivals. But before the gavels of adjournment drop and the doors of Capitol hill shut there are one or two things that ought to be done, and let us pray God that they may be accomplished. More forcibly than ever before congress has been implored to acknowledge God in our constitution. The Methodist Church, a church that is always doing glorious things, has in its recent Wilmington conference requested our congress to amend the imnJortal document, which has been the foundation and wall and dome of our United States Government, by inserting the words, “Trusting in Almighty God.” If that amendment is made, it will not only please all the good people of the country, but will please the heavens. It was only an oversight or a mental accident that the fathers who made the constitution did not insert a divinely worshipful sentence. They all, so far as they amounted to anything, believed in “God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus’Christ, his only begotten Son.” The constitution would have been a failure had it not been for the divine interference. The -members of the convention could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Franklin’s request that the meetings be opened by prayer, the Lord God was called on to interfere and help, and then the way was cleared, and all the States signed the document, a historical fact that all the rat terriers of modern infidelity cannot bark out of existence. I know that there was an exception to the fact that the prominent men of those times were good men. Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot, did not believe in anything good until he was dying, and then he shrieked out for God’s mercy. And Ethan Allen, from one of whose descendants I have received within a few days a confirmation of the incident I mentioned in a recent sermon, as saying to his dying daughter that she had better take her mother’s Christian religion than his own infidelity.

The article sent me says: “The story has been denieu by some of the Allen family, but the Bronson family, some of whom were with the dying girl, affirm that it is substantially true. In such a matter one confirmation is worth more than many denials.” So says the article sent me. There is no doubt that Ethan Allen was the vulgarest sort of an infidel, for, sitting in a Presbyterian church, his admirers say he struck the pew in front of him and swore out loud so as to disturb the meeting, and no gentleman would do that. Ido not wonder that some of his descendants are ashamed of him, but of course they could not help it and are not to blame. But all the decent men of the Revolution believed in God, and our American congress, now assembled, will only echo the sentiments of the fathers when they enthrone the name of God in the constitution. As a matter of gratitude to Almighty God, gentlemen of the American congress, be pleased to insert the four words suggested by the Methodist conference! Not only because of the kindness of God to this nation in the past should such a reverential insertion be made, but because of the fact that we are going to want divine interposition still further in our national history. This gold and silver question will never be settled until God settles it. This question of tariff and free trade will never be settled until God settles it. This question between the East and the West, which is getting hotter and hotter and looks toward a republic of the Pacific, will not be settled until God settles it We needed God in the 120 years

of past national life, and we will need him still more in the next 120 years. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates of our glorious constitution, and let the Kitfg of Glory come in! Make one Hue of that immortal document radiant with omgipo T tenee! Spell at least one word with thrones! At the beginning, or at the close, or in the center, recognise him from whom as a nation we hare received all the blessings of the past, and upon whom we are dependent for the future. Print that word “God" or “Lord” or "Eternal Father” or “Ruler of Nations” somewhere between the first word and the last. The great expounder of the constitution sleeps at Marshfield, Mass., the Atlantic ocean still humming near his pillow of dust its prolonged lullaby. But is there not some one now living who, in the white marble palace of the nation on yonder hill not ten minutes away, will become the irradiator of the constitution by causing to be added the most tremendous word of our English vocabulary, the name of that being before whom all nations must bow or go into defeat and annihilation—“ God?” Solemn Scenes. V Again, before the approaching adjournment of our American congress, it ought to be decidedly and forever settled that no appropriations be made to sectarian schools, and that the courtship between church and state in this country be forever broken up. That question already seems temporarily settled. I wish It might ire completely and forever settled. All schools and all institutions as well as all denominations should stand on the same level before American law. Emperor Alexander of Russia, at his Peterhof palace, asked me how many denominations of religion there were in America, and I recited their names as well aa I could. Then he askedf me the difference between them, and there I broke down. But when I told him that no religious denomination in America had any privileges above the others he could hardly understand it. The Greek church first in Russia; the Lutheran church first in Germany; the Episcopal church first in England; the Catholic church first iu Rome; Mohammedanism first in Constantinople. The emperor wondered how it was possible that all the denominations in America could stand on the same platform. But so it is, and so let it ever be. Let there be no preference, no partiality, no attempt to help on:> sect an inch higher than another. Washington and Jefferson, and nil the early presidents, and all the great statesmen of the past, have lifted their voice against any such tendency. If a school or an institution cannot stand' without the prop of national appropriation, then let that school or that institution go down. On the other side of the sea the world has had plenty of illustration of church and state united. Let us have none of the hypocrisy and demoralization born of that relation on this side of the Atlantic. Let that .denomination come out ahead that does the most for the cause of God and humanity, men, institutions nnd religions getting what they achieve by their own right arm of usefulness and not by the favoritism of government. As you regard the welfare and perpetuity of our institutions keep politics out of religion. But now that I am speaking of national affairs from a religious standpoint, I bethink myself of the fact thnt two other gavels will soon lift and fall, the one at St. Louis and the other at Chicago, nnd before those national conventions adjourn I ask that they acknowledge God in the platforms. The men who construct those platforms are here this morning or will read these words. Let no political party think it can do its duty unless it acknowledges that God built this continent and revealed it at the right time to the discoverer and who has reared here a prosperity which has been given to no other people. “Oh,” Bays some one, “there are people in this country who do not believe in God, and it would be an insult to them.” Well, there are people in this country who do not believe in common decency, or common honesty, or any kind of government, preferring anarchy. Your very platform is an insult to them. You ought not to regard a man who does not believe in God any more than you should regard a man who refuses to believe in common decency. Your pocketbook is not safe a moment in the presence of an atheist. God is the only source of good government. Why not, then, sny so and let the chairman of the committee on resolutions in your national conventions take a penful of ink and with bold hand head the document with one significant “whereas,” acknowledging the goodness of God in the past and begging his kindness and protection for the future. Why, my friends, this country belongs to God, and we ought in every possible way to acknowledge it. From the moment that, on an October morning, 1492, Columbus looked over the side of the ship and saw the carved staff which made him think he was near an inhabited country and saw also a thorn aud a cluster of berries (type of our history ever since, the piercing sorrows and cluster of national joys) until this hour our country has been bounded on the north, south, east and west by the goodness of God. The Huguenots took possession of the Carolinas in the name of God. William Penn settled Philadelphia in the name of God. The Hollanders took possession of New York in the name of God.' The pilgrim fathers settled New England in the name of God. Preceding the first gun of Runker Hill, at the voice of prayer all heads uncovered. Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. “Oh,” says some infidel, “the northern people prayed onone side anil the southern people prayed on the other side, and so it did not amount to anything.” And I have heard good Christian people confounded \yith the infidel statement, when it is as plain to me as my right hand. Yes, the northern people prayed in one way and the southern people prayed in another way, and God answered in his own way, giving to the north the re-establishment of the government and giving to the south larger opportunities, larger than she had ever anticipated, the harnessing of her rivers ’in great manufacturing interests, until thp Mobile and the Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee are southern Merrimacs, and the unrolling of great southern mines of eoal and iron, of which the world knew nothing, and opening before her opportunities of wealth which will give 99 per cent more of affluence than she ever possessed, and instead of the black bands of American slaves there are the more industrious black hands of the coal and iron mines of the south, which are achieving for her fabulous and unimagined wealth. And there are domes of white blossoms, where spread the white tents, And there are plows in the track where the war wagons went, And there are songs where they lifted up Rachel’s lament. God’s Country. ( Oh, yon are a stupid man if you do not understand how God answered Abraham Lincoln’s prayer in the White House, and Stonewall Jackson’s prayer in the saddle, and answered all the prayers of all the cathedrals on both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line. God’s country alt the way past; God’s country now. Put his name m your pronunciamentos; put his name on your ensigns; put his naine on your city and State and national enterprises; put his name in your hearts. We cannot sleep well the last sleep until we are assured that the God of our American institutions in the past will be t6e God of our American institutions in the days that

ire to com* 06, when all the river* that empty into Atlantic and Pacific sea* shall pull on factory bands; when all the treat jninea of gold and silver and iron and ebar shall 'be laid bare for the nation; when the last swatnp shall be reclaimed, and the last jungle cleared, and the last American desert Edeniied, and from sea to sea the continent shall be occupied by more than 1,200,000,000 sonls, may it be found that moral and religious influences were multiplied in more rapid ratio than the population. And then there Shall be four doxologies coming from north and south and east and west, four doxologies rolling toward each other and meeting midcontinent with such dash of holy joy that they shall mount to the throne. And heaven’s high arch resound again With poacs on earth, good will to men. I take a step farther and say that before the gavels of our senate and house of representatives and our political conventions pound adjournment there ought to be passed a law or adopted a plank of intelligent helpfulness for the great foreign populations which are coming among us. It is too late now to discuss whether we had better let them eonje. They are here. They are coming ’’this moment through the Narrows. They are this moment taking the first full inhalation of the free air of America. And they will continue to come as long as this country is the be*t place to live in. Now, I say, let the Government of the United States so commanded by one political party or both political parties, give to every immigrant who lands here a volume, in rood type and well bound for long usage—a volume containing the Declaration of Independence, the constitution of the United States and a chapter on the spirit of our government. Let there be such a book on the shelf of every free library in America. While the American Bible Society puts into tho right hand of every immigrant a copy of the Holy Scriptures, let the Government of the United States, commanded by some political party, put into the left hand of every immigrant a volume instructing him in the duties of good citizenship. There are thousands of foreigners in this land who need to learn that the ballot box Is not a footstool, but a throne—not something to put your foot on r but something to bow before. Word* of Hope. But whether members of the national legislature or delegates to one of the national conventions or private citizens, let us cultivate Christian patriotism. Oh, how good God has been to us as a nation! Just open the map of the continent and see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperities. Navngablo rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, rolling down all sides into the sen, prophesying large manufactories and easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains, timbered with wealth on the top and sides and metaled with wenlth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal! One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron! The iron to pry out the coal. The coal to forge and smelt the iron. Tho laud so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three days—extreme beat or extreme coJd, Climnte for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn nnd brain. All fruits. All minerals. All harvests. Sceuery displaying autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No English fogs. No Egyptian plagues. The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has truveled abroad. For the poor more sympathy! For the industrious more opportunity! Ob, how good God was to our fathers, and how good God has been to us and our children! To him—blessed be hi* glorious name! To him of cross and triumph be consecrated the United States of America!

There are three great reasons why you anil.l should do our best for this country —three great reasons: Our fathers’ graves, our cradle, our children’s birthright. When I say your fathers’ graves, your pulses run quickly. Whethpr they sleep in city cemetery or country graveyard, their dust is very precious to you. I think they lived well and that they died right. Never submit to have any government over their tombs other than that government under which they lived and died. And then this country is our cradle. It may hnve rocked us very roughly, but it was a good cradle to.be rocked in. Oh, how much we owe to it! Our boyhood and girlhood, it was spent in this blessed country. I never have nny patience with a man who talks against this country. Glorious place to be born in, and a glorious place to live in. It has been our cradle. Aye. It-hr’to be our children’s birthright. You and I will soon be through. We will perhaps see n few more spring blossoms, and we Will perhaps see a few more summer harvests,, and we will perhaps gather a few more autumnal fruits, but we are to hand this Government to our children ns if was'handed to us—a free land, a happy land, a Christian land. They are not to be trampled by despotism. They are not to be lacerated by cruelties. They are not to be frightened by anarchies. We must hand this Government to them over, the ballot box, over the school desk, over the church altar, as we have received it, and charge them solemnly to put their life between it and nny keen stroke that would destroy it. And thou, Lori God Almighty, we put, with a thousand armed prayer, into thy protection this nation. Remember, our fathers’ bleeding feet at Valley Forge; remember Marion and. Kosciusko; remember the cold, and the hunger, and the long march, and the fever hospital; remember the fearful charge at Bunker Hill; remember Lexington and Yorktown and King’s Mountain and Gettysburg; remember Perry’s battle on the lake, and Hampton Roads, where the Cumberland went down; remember Washington’s prayer by the campfire; remember Plymouth Rock, and the landing amid the savages; remember Independence hall, and how much it cost our fathers to sign their names; remember all the blood and tears of three wars —1776, 1812, 1862—and, more than all, remember the groan that was mightier than all other groans, and the thirst that stung worse than'all other thirsts, and the death that was ghastlier than all other deaths, the mount on which Jesus died to make all men happy and free. For the sake of all this human and divine secrifice, O God, protect this, nation! And whosoever would blot it out, and whosoever would strike It down, and whosoever would turn his back, let him be accursed 1 Go home to-day in high hopes of the future. The Eternal God is on the side of this nation. Our brightest days are yet to come. He hath sounded forth the trumpet that will never call retreat, He is sifting otit the hearts of men before the judgment seat. Be swift, my soul, to answer him, be jubilant feet! Our God is marching on. Much of life is only fragments-un-finished things, broken sentences, interrupted efforts, pictures left uncompleted, sculptures only half hewn, letters only party written, songs only begun and choked In tears. But not one of these fragments Is lost If It has love’s blessed life in It—J. R. Miller, When you find a father who worship* his ancestors you don’t have tolook.far ‘for a son who doasn’t-sTn^ge.

WHERE PRESIDENTS LIE BURIED

Twenty-one Tombs Contain All that Is Mortal of American Executives. 1. George Washington died from a cold which brought on laryngitlis; buried on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va. 2. John Adams died from senile debility; buried at Quincy. Mass. 3. Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhoea; buried off his estate at Monticello, Va. 4. James Madison died of old age; burial on his estate at Montpelier, Va. 5. James Monroe died of general debility; buried in Marble cemetery, New York City. C. John Quincy Adams died of paralysis, the fatal attack overtaking him in the House of Representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass. 7. Andrew Jackson died of consumption and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn. 8. Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the throat and lungs; burled at Kinderhook, N. Y. 9. William Henry Harrison died of pleurisy, induced by a cold taken on the day of his inauguration; buried near North Bend, Ohio. 10. John Tyler died from a mysterious disorder like a bilious attack; buried at Richmond, Va. 11. James K. Polk died from weakness, caused by cholera; buried on his estate in Nashville, Tenn. 12. Zachary Taylor died from cholera morbus, induced by improper diet; buried on his estate near Louisville, Ky. 13. Millard Fillmore died from paralysis; buried In Forest Hill cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. 14. Franklin Pierce died from inflammation of the stomach; buried at Concord. N. H. 15. James Buchanan died of rheumatism and gout; buried near Lancaster, Pa. 16. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth; buried at Springfield, Ill. 17. Andrew Jackson died from paralysis; buried at Greenville, Tenn. 18. Ulysses S. Grant died from cancer of the throat; buried in Riverside Park, New York City. 10. Rutherford B. Hayes died from paralysis of the heart; buried at Fremont, Ohio. 20. James A. Garfield, assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau; buried at Cleveland, Ohio. 21. Chester A. Arthur died from Bright's disease; buried in Rural cemetery, Albany, N. Y.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

THREE OF A KIND.

Bteer tliot Hate Three Horna, Tlirea Kjrea anil Three Noatrlla. There were many strange animals at Madison Square Garden, Now York, during the recent animal show, but tlio strangest of them all was a steer with three horns, three eyes nnd threo nostrils. He Is the atrungest animal In the counfry, In fact. His owner calls him a “three time winner." Each of the quocr animal’s throe horns Is perfectly formed. Two of them are where tho horns of a perfect steer should be and the third Is abont midway botween tlio others. Two of his eyes are like those of an ordinary steer. Tho third Is not fully developed, but It Is an eye nevertheless. Each of

THE STRANGE STEER.

,iho trio of nostrils la well proportioned and the animal breathes and smells with all of them. The extra horn, eye and nostril are in a straight line from the top of the head down, each being a little to the left of the middle. The amount of hooking and snorting that can be done by this marvelous beast can easily b« Imagined.

FLOOD OF INVENTIONS.

Patents for Wheelmen’* Sundries Are Constantly Applied for. The patent office at Washington has been flooded during the last year with Inventions relative to the bicycle. It is estimated that the ambitions of

500 persons gre displayed in the Invention of bicycle sundries submitted to the patent office every month. It Is estimated that 80 per cent, of the Inventions sent to the patent office are of no use to the rider. Something over 100 "toe clips” have been invented. A dealer said the otb-

er day that very few of the clips were of any consequence, but that all had ready sales. The dealer was asked if all the bicycle sundries found ready sales. He said: “No, not by any means. There are many things that are meant to be blessings to riders that are comparatively unheard of. They are Just the things that the makers claim are necessary to make a bicycle complete. Why,

there are things in the store-, to-day that we never expect to get rid of. To tell the truth, there are many of them that I would < not sell if I could.' I could not look the buyer in the face an hour later If I

did.. If a bicycle rider were to supply himself with everything that is claimed to be necessary to make his outfit complete, he would find It extremely difficult to put them all In an averagesized wheelbarrow. There are bicydle sundries and there, are bicycle bub-. , '/

BARON DE HIRSCH'S BENEFACTIONS WERE BOUNDLESS. Hla Death Will Not Interfere with Manx of Hie Plana for the Amelioration of Hla Race—Hi* Fortune Wae Largely Self-Made. ‘13143 « - „ , Lived Like a Prince. The death ot Baron Maurice da Hlrs.-b will not put an end to his princely benefactions. Many millions of the fund dedicated to the amelioration 0 f the condition of the oppressed Jews la

Europe, and to other charitable pur poses upon the death of his son, still remain for disbursement in years to come. The Baron’s title was inherited from his father, not bestowed in recognition of his philanthropy, as many have supposed. The greater portion of his enormous wealth was won by his own efforts. It was while traveling through the rich countries bordering on he Black Sea that he conceived the idea of the vast enterprise which laid the foundation for perhaps the greatest individual fortune In Europe. This was the building of a railroad from Varna, on the Black Sea, to Buda-Pesth. It is roughly estimated that Baron Hirsch died worth $200,000,000. In 1883 he retired from the business of moneymaking and married Miss Bischoffsheim, the daughter of one of his partners, who brought him as a dowry 100,000,000 francs. This money was invested apart from the husband’s wealth. Husband and wife gave themselves up to the business of distributing their money among the poor, and vied with each other in good deeds. He founded free schools In Egypt, Asiatic Turkey, and in the countries of Europe. These charities were chiefly beneficial to the poor of the Jewish race. The Hebrews of Poland and the country of the Danube were his favorites. Four or five, years ago lie gave the Government of Austria 12,000,000 francs for the establishment of non-sectarian schools in that country. About the same time he donated a similar amount for the education and Americanizing of Russian Jews emigrating to the States, Baron Hirsch lived like a prince. He maintained In the most elegant fashion magnificent residences in London, Paris and Berlin. His country estates were rich and princely, more especially his largest estate in Moravia. He resided chiefly in Paris, and in that city he had a great office filled with recorders, clerks and managers, whose only occupation was that of carrying on the charitable work of the benefactor. Personally the Baron was a very handsome mnn. He was of medium height and gracefully but compactly built. Gentleness and Intellectuality were strongly marked in hts face. His eyes were large, dark and soft as a woman’s. His continental life gave him a thorough knowledge of most of the languages of Europe. He spoke English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, and was familiar with many of the obscure tongues of Europe. He was a man of polish, and his knowledge of political, social and economic questions was broad and deep. It is said that his gifts to charity summed up more than £12,000,000.

He Becomes Speechless When He Sees a Woman In Bloomers, A New-Yorker named J. J. Walsh has a parrot named “Don Caesar,” a green and red bird of South American birth, which goes bicycle riding every day with Mr. Walsh. “Don” is a familiar Bight along the boulevards, and, according to his owner, becomes speechless with rage at the sight of a woman in bloomers. He sets up a fierce, hoarse shriek, which he keeps up for several minutes, at the end of which he is in danger of falling off the handle-bars. “Don” does not push the pedals. He perches In the middle of the handlebars, on the spot where some enthnsiiastic bicyclists place their babies. There he stands and vociferates and scratches himself. Now and then he ducks his head down-to see how the front wheel is going. It is a wonder that he has never punctured the tire and dislocated his beak, but that has not happened yet. Occasionally he leaves the handlebars and takes a fly Into the air. For

a parrot he is a good flyer. Having taken a view of the crowd, of the river, or whatever may be in sight, he returns faithfully xo the wheel. Mr. Walsh slackens his speed slightly when the bird goes flying. The real polite menfber of a family is the one who does the most lying wheix guests are present

HAND ALWAYS OPEN.

BARON HIRSCH.

PARROT RIDES A WHEEL.

PARROT RIDES A BICYCLE.