Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — Page 3

THE PEOPLES'S MONEY

PAYING GOLD DEBTS. THE gold men are claiming that freo coinage would drive all the gold out of circulation and bring us to a silver basis. Then those who have prohirsed to pay in gold'would be unable to get it except at a high premium and would be ruined. We ate told that under free coinage the great banks and trust companies could pay of their>d«positors with 50-cent dollars. Still rite bankers, as a class, are fairly frantic in their opposition to a measure which they claim Is going to give them ■a profit of 50 cents on each dollar of their enormous deposits. Their pious souls revolt at the idea. Again, it is claimed that those owing ■debts payable in gold would be ruined liecause of the high premium they would be compelled to pay for gold, and yet, strange to say, the holders of gold mortgages are wild with fear at the thought of being paid In gold dollars at a premium, or, failing to get the gold, be compelled to foreclose and take tlie mortgaged property at half its value. Their Christian sensibilities are shocked at the thought. WTiat nonsense! If the great banks could double their money as a result of free coinage, does anybody doubt that they would jump flt the chance? If the holders of gold irfortgages could increase their value ’liy forcing gold to a premium, would they let such an opportunity go by? By every trick and scheme of manipulation known to finance, they are working to add to their accumulated millions. all the time pretending that they oppose free coinage in the interest of the laltoring man, the savings bank depositor. and the down-trodden debtor. It ought to be apparent to any person of usual intelligence that they are looking out strictly for themselves; that the gold standard gives them certain advantages which they might lose under free coinage, and hence their opposition. :

I.4keall other claims of the gold standfl rd people, this one involves many assumptions and absurdities. It assumes that several hundred millions of dollars in gold are to be driven out of circulation, milking money scarce and at the sumo time cheaper. It assumes that the United States, the greatest and richest of nations, is going to stop using gold, and still gold become dearer and more difficult to get. The ridiculous character of the first has been repeatedly exposed. Let us now glance more specifically at the latter. Suppose that a free coinage law were enacted, gold were to retire from circulation, and our silver and paper money vycre to drop to 50 cents on the ■ dollar. Such a result would be impossible, but we will supose'it. What would that mean? Simply this, that it would take two silver or paper dollars to equal one gold dollar.. In other words gold would stand at a premium of 100 per cent, over other forms of money. But if a silver dollar is only worth half as much as a gold dollar, then mhuifestly it is only half as hard to get it. If a bushel of wheat is worth 50 cents in gold, it will be worth $1 in silver. Now, if a farmer owes a gold debt of SSOO he must sell 1,000 bushels of wheat in order to get it. If we were on a silver basis and silver dollars were only worth 50 cents in gold, his 1,000 bushels of wheat would bring him 1,000 silver dollars. With these he could pay his debt as before. His 1,000 silver dollars would be the precise equivalent of 500 gold dollars, and he would neither gain nor lose. Tin- gold standardists assume that the silver dollar is going to drop to oneI'.ilf of its present value, and still it will require the same amount of labor and the products of labor to procure it. Then it is further assumed that it will require two- of these silver dollars to procure a gold one. If these assumptions were true, it would follow that the free coinage and increased use of silver, and the disuse of gold in this country had in no way affected the value of silver, but had doubled the value of gold. This assumption shows an ignorance of the-meaning of the word “value,”.as well as of the principle of supply and demand. Tlie reverse would be the case. With the American mint open, silver would be worth more than it is now, and gold less. This would he trud even though parity were not restored and gold went to a premium. 'y'f

Suppose that under free coinage silver went to $1 an ounce in goid. This would, make the silver dollar worth 77 eeuts. in gold. The gold dollar would stand al a premium (over silver) of 30 yr cent. But it-would not take as much wheat or cotton or any other product to buy a gold dollar as it does siow. Why not? Because the most of the gold forced out of circulation here, would go to Europe. The annual product of the mines would do the same. As; ’a result gold would become more plentiful* on that continent, and the prices there would rise. Our wheat and cotton and breadstuffs of all kinds would go up in fife European market, and that would carry them up here. Thus we would be confronted by the paradox of gold at a premium, and at the same time cheaper. A man with a gold mortgage on bis farm could pay it ibore easily than he can now. A farmer does not manufacture money for himself—he buys it with this products, and the higher their price the more,money he can get whether It be gold or silver or paper.' The creditor classes by forcing the gold standard upon the people, have driven the debtor classes to extremities. milking it almost Impossible for .them to pay their debts. Having creI®ted these conditions, leaving the debtors almost hopeless, they now unblushIngly declare that if they (the debtors) attemiit to relieve themselves, other and worse donditlons will arise whereby they will not lie able to pay at all and consequently will be ruined. In short they now have the unfortutate dbbtor fn a ditch from which he' Is* struggling desperately to extricate himself, and they left him that if he

does not stop Lis struggles he will be pushed in still deeper. If such argument as that were to prevail no evil could ever be remedied. ‘ ... Precisely the same principle applies to foreign debts payable in gold. We often hear it said by way of objection to free coinage that if gold should go to a premium, and retire from circulation, while we eould use silver or paper for local trade, our foreign creditors would tnke nothing but gold, and we would have no gold to give them. The answer to that objection is very simple. Even if gold should go to a premium and retire from circulation it does not follow that we could not get gold. Any nation can get gold if it has anything to buy it with. Russia has been a silver standard country nominally, but with a paper currency. Nevertheless Russia has succeeded in storing away in her war chest something like $400,000,000 in gold. India is a silver standard country and she is supposed to have from $600,000,600 to $1,000,000,000 in gold hoarded awayJ So with other silver countries. If we were on a silver basis to-morrow it would not make our command over gold any the less, but on the contrary greater. In the first place every dollar that was expelled from the United States would add just so much to the stock of Europe, where our surplus commodities must be largely sold. This would, as has been frequently stated, raise prices there, and give us more gold for our wheat, cotton, petroleum and breadstuffs. Our mines would go on producing gold just the same, and if we were to stop using that metal for money at home, every ounce that we could get from any source would be available for the payment of our foreign debts. t?hder existing conditions, we have to provide gold both for home use and to satisfy the foreign demand as well. When the foreign demand becomes unusually strong and a heavyexport of gold follows, the cry of “danger” is raised, and the whole country is nearly or quite thrown into a panic. That is because we are attempting to maintain a gold standard with an insilfficient supply of gold. I» we were upon a silver basis or a paper either, 1t would make no difference to us whether there was much gold or little gold in New York. The most of us can remember back to the time when our currency was exclusively’ paper, depreciated below the gold and silver level all the way from 1 to 60 per cent. But we paid our gold debts far more easily than we can now. Our mines continued to yield, our products brought good prices in gold in the European market, while an abundant supply of “greenbacks” did our internal business and filled the entire country with the hum of well-paid industry. So it would be again. If free coinage restores and maintains parity, that of course -meets every objection. If It Showld not restore parity, and gold should rise to a premium, it would give ns just the same advantage as the silver standard countries now enjoy in the European market, and our foreign gold debts could be paid far more easily than they can now.—National Bimetallist.

English Authority, Aneditorial in the London Commerce, a recognized trade authority, champion of monometallism for England and claiming the largest circulation in the world, has caused considerable talk among business men. From it the following extract is taken: Leaving the question of tariffs for a moment, let us consider what a bimetallist America will mean for us. In the first place it will mean an immediate premium upon United States exports. The effect of mining silver at the proposed ratio would in all probability bring about a great boom in •manufacture of all kinds. Wages might rise considerably, but the experience of other countries goes to show that they would not rise in proportion to the advantage which exporters would derive who send their goods to a gold-using country, to wit, the United Kingdom. The manufacturers of the States would not be quite in the same position of vantage as the agriculturists of the ArgenUtU, nor the exporters in India, but thty would have a sufficient leverage over the manufacturers here to turn the scale in every trade where now there is a doubt which way the market trends. In tin plates, many kinds of machinery, including some of the very heaviest, in leather, and in many sundry manufactures where the British producer can with difficulty hold his swni ihe effect of the change would be decisive. Then this policy is also a bribe to the farmers. American dead meat—live cattle being prohibited—wheat and all farm produce suitable for exportation would come over in greatly augmented quantities, for the difference in the exchange would mean such an addition of profit that an immense stimchfs would be given all along the line. As to silver mining, all that can be said is that there would be a rush. The dimensions of the movement would depend upon many things Impossible to foresee. These anticipations oi what has become possible are not, be it remembered, based on mere theory. We tnow already too well what to expect from foreign traders In a country where silver is the standard currency. India, Japan and Argentina are all bearing witness to the insidious effect on British trade of conditions similar to those now in perspective in the United States. Meantime, we cannot too soon face the possibilities and realize the true significance of the position as it is. Among our local business men thia is considered a substantial acknowledgment that free silver coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 would give us the markets of the world, both for our manufactures and our agricultural products.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Recording to the beliefs of the Arizona Indians, the cliff dwellers built along the bluffs because they-feared another deluge.

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

PREACHESON PROCLIVITIES DUE TO ANCESTRY. Bnt, No Matter What Our Birthright May Be, We Can Be Sons and Daughters of God and Heirs of Immortality —A Glorious Inheritance. Power of Heredity. This sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage on heredity will bring all the family ryeords into requisition and lead people to study their own proclivity toward good or evil. The text chosen was 1. Samuel, xvii. SS. “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” Never was there u more unequal tight than that betwon David and Goliath; David 5 feet high. Goliath 10; David a shepherd boy brought up amid rural scenes, Goliath a warrior by profession;’ Goliath a mountain of braggadocio. David a marvel of humility; Goliath armed with an iron spear, David armed with a sling with smooth stones from the brook. Hut you are not to despise these latter weapons. A Mighty Weapon. There was a regiment of slingers in the Assyrian army, .and a regiment of slingers in the Egyptian army,"nnd they made terrible execution, and they could cast a stone with as much accuracy and force as now can be sent shot or shell. The Greeks in their army had slingers who would throw leaden plummets inscribed with the irritating words, “Take this!” Sp it was a mighty weapon David employed in that famous combat. A Jewish nabbi says that the probability is that Gojiath wns in such,, cop tempt for David that in a paroxysm'of laughter fie bis bead back and his helmet fell off, •nd David saw the uncovered forehead, and his opportunity had come, mid taking this sling and swinging it around his head two or three times and aiming it at ttisfet uncovered forehead crushed it in like an eggshell. The battle over, behold the tableau: King Saul sitting; little David standing, his fingers clutched into tha hair of decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David standing there holding in his hand th£ ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, evidence of the complete victory over God’s enemies, the king wonders what parentage was honored by such heroism, and in my text be asks David his pedigree, “Whose son art thou, thou young man ?”

The king saw what you and I see, that this question of heredity is a mighty question. Tlie longer 1 live the more I believe in blood—good blood, bad blood, proud blood, humble blood", honest blood, thieving blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood. The tendency may skip a generation or two, but it is sure to come out. as in a litttle child you sometimes see a similarity to a great-grandfather whose picture hangs on the wall. 'That the physical nnd mental and moral qualities arc inheritable is patent to any one who keeps his eyes open. The similarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, regal or literary, nre apt to have the characteristics all down through the generations, and whut is more perceptible in such families, may be seen on a smaller scale in all families. A thousand years have no power to obliterate the difference. The large lip of the house of Austria is seen in all tlie generations and is called the Hppsterg lip. The house of Stuart always means' in all generations cruelty and bigplry arid sensuulh,v.. Witness (Jueetjr-jpf Scots, witness Charles I. nnd Charles 11., witness James I. and James 11. and all the other scoundrels of that line. Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea, Indian blood means roaming disposition. Celtic blood means fprvidity. Roman means conquest. The Jewish facility fur accumulation you may trace clear back to Abraham, of whom the Bible says “he was rich in silver and gold and cattle,” and to Isaac and Jacob, who hnii the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by longevity, and they have a tenacity of life positively Methuselish. Others are characterized by Goliathian stature, and you can see it for one generation, two generations, five generations —in all the generations. V igorous theology runs down in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs on in the family of the Kembles. Literature runs on in the line of the Trollopes. Philanthropy runs on in the.line of the Wilberforces. Statesmanship runs on in the line of the Adamses. You see these peculiarities in all generations. Henry and Catherine of Navarre religions, al! their families religious. The celebrated family of the Casiui, all mathematicians. The celebrated family of the Medici, grandfather, son and Catherine, all remarkable for keen intellect. The celebrated faultily of Gustavus Adolphus, all warriors. This law of heredity asserts itself without reference to social or political condition, for you sometimes find the ignoble in high place and the honorable in obscure place. A descendant of Edward 111. a doorkeeper. A descendant of the Duke of Northumberland a trunkmaker. Some of the mightiest families of England are extinct, while some of those most honored in tlie peerage go back to an .flneestry of bard knuckles and rough exterior. Whose Son Art Thou?

This law of heredity is, entirely!i independent of social or political conditions. 7%en yon find avarice and jealousy and sensuality and fraud having full swing in some families. The violent temper of Frederick William is the inheritance of Frederick the Great. It is not a theory founded by worldly philosophy, but by divine authority. Do you not remember how the Bible speaks of a chosen generation, of the generation of righteousness, of the generation of vipers, of an untoward generation, of a stubborn generation, of the iniquity of the fathers visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation? So that the text comes to-day witn the force of a projectile hurled from mightiest catapult, “Whose son are thou, thou young man?” “Well," says some one, “that theory discharges me from all responsibility. Born of sanctified parents, we are bound to be good, and we cannot help ourselves. Born of unrighteous parentage, we are bound to be evil, and we cannot help ourselves.” Two inaccuracies. As much as if you should say, “The centripetal force in. nature has a tendency to bring everything to the center, and therefore nil come to the center. The centrifugal force in nature has a tendency to throw everything) to the periphery,, and therefore everything will go out to the periphery.” You.know as well as I know that you can make the centripetal force overcome the centrifugal, and you can make, the centrifugal overcome the centripetal, as when there is a mighty tide of good in a family that may be overcome by determination to evil —as in the case of Aaron Burr, the libertine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as in the case of Fierrepont Edwards, the scourge of New York society eighty years ago, whe bad aChristian ancestry—while, on the-.other hand, some of thb'fcest men and women of this day 1 are thpse who have come of an ancestry of which it would not be courteous to speak in their presence. The practical and useful object Of this sermon is to yqu that,: Iff/on have eorbe of r a Christlanancestry, 'then You are solemnly bound to preserve

•nd develop the glorious inheritance, or, if you have come of depraved ancestry, then it -da you* duty to bmv yoiirselt-against-thWevil tendency by all prayer • •■ti Christian determination. And you •re to find out the family frailties, and in arming the Rustle put the strongest guard at the weakest gate. With these smooth stones front the brook 1 b<»i»c to strike you. uot whore David struck Goliath, in the head, but where Nathaji struek David, in the heart. “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” There is something in al! winter holidays to bring up the old folks. I think many of our thoughts at such times are set to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne.” The i old folks were so busy at such tihi'Vs'Hh making us happy, and perhaps on less resource made their sons and daughters happier than you on larger resources are able to make your sous and dnughtyps. The snow lay two feet above their graves, but theytsbook off the white blankets and mingled in the holiday festivities —the same wrinkles, the same stoop of shoulder under the weight of age. the same old stylo of dress or coat, the same smile, the same tone of vpityx 1 hope you remontlxw them before they' went away. If not. 1 hope there are those who have recited to yoit'what Iliey were, nnd that there may •be in your house some article of dross or furniture with which yon associate their memories. 1 want to arouse the most snored memories of your heart while I make the tmpas«ioned interrogatory in regard to your T*dligtVe. “Whose sou art thou, thou younfe* tiiirti''”

Ancestry. First. Imccost t..ose who are descended of a Christian ancestry. Ido not aak>if your parents were perfect. There are no perfect people now. and 1 do not suppose there were any perfect people then. Perhaps there was sometimes too much blood in their eye when they chastised you. But from what 1 know of you, you got no more than you deserved, and perhaps a little more chastisement would have been salutary. But you nre willing to acknowledge, 1 think, that they wanted to do right. From what you overheard in conversations, and from what you saw at tlie family altar and at neighborhood obsequies, you know that they had invited God into their heart and their life. There was something that sustained those old people supernaturnily. You have no doubt about their destiny. You expect if you'ever get to heaven to meet them as you expect to meet the Lord Jesus Christ. That early association lins Iteeu a.ybarin for yon. There was a time when you got right up from n house of iniqaity and walked ont into the fresh air because you thought your mother was looking nt you. You have never been very happy in sin because of a sweet old fgee that would present itself. Tremulous voices from the past accosted you until they were seemingly audible, and you looked around to see who spoke. There wns an estate not mentioned in the last will and testament. a vast estate of prayer and holy 'example and Christian entreaty and glorious memory. The survivors of the family gathered to boar the will road, and this was to be kept and that wns to be sold, and it was “share and share alike.” But there was an unwritten will that read something like this: "In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mjnd, bequeath to my children all niy prayers for their salvation. 1 bequeath to them; all the results of a lifetime’s toil. I bequeath to them tlie Christian whiehhns been so much comfort to, ipe, and I hope .may be solace for them. I bequeath to them a hope of reunion when the partings of life nre over. ’Share and share alike’ may they inherit eternal riches. 1 bequeath to them the wish that they may avoid my errors nnd copy anything that may have been worthy. In the name of God, who made me, nnd the Christ, who redeemed me, and the Holy Ghost, who sanctities me, I make this my Inst will and testament. Witness all you hosts of henveu. Witness time; witness eternity. Signed, sealed ami delivered in this our dying hour. Father and Mother."’ You did not get that will proved nt the surrogate’s office, but I lake it out to-day and I read it to you. 1 take it out of the alcoves of your heart. 1 shake the dust off it. I ask if you will accept that inheritance, or will you break the will? Responsibility.

Oh, ye of Christian ancestry! Yon hn'vfi a responsibility vast beyond all measurement. God will not let you off with just being as good as ordinary people when you had such extraordinary advantakvj Ought not you, my brother, to lx- better, having had Christian nurture, tbaii'lhd man who can truly say this morning, “The first word 1 remember my'father speaking to me was an oath; the first time I remember my father taking hold of me was in wrath: I never saw a Bible till I was 10 years of age, mid then 1 was told it was a pack of lies; the first twenty years of my life 1 das associated with thg vicious; I seemed to be walled in by sin a nd’death ?” Now, my brother, ought you not •! leave it as a matter of fairness with you—ought you not to than those who had no early Christian influence? Standing as yon the generation that is past an<| the generation that is to come; are you to pass the blessing on. or are you .going io have your life the gulf in which that tide of blessing shall of sight forever? You are the trustee, of piety in that ancestral line, and are you going to augment Or squander that solemn trust fupd? Are yon going to disinherit yopr sons and daughters of the, heirloom .yyliich your parents left you? Ah, that 'cannot be possible—it cannot bo possible that you are"going to take such a position ns that! You are very careful about the life insurance, and careful about the deeds, and careful about the mortgage, and careful about the title of your property, because when you stop off the stage you want your children to get it ail. Arc. you making no provision that they shall get grandfather's or grandmother’s religion? Oh, whnt a last will and testament yon are making, my brother! “In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mind, make this my last will and .testament. I bequeath to my children all the money I ever ninde nnd nil the houses I own, but I disinherit them, I rob them of the ancestral grace nnd the Christian influence that 1 inherited. I have squandered that on my own worldliness. Share nnd share alike must they in the misfortune and the everlasting outrage. . Signed, scaled nnd deliverer! in the presence of God and men nnd angels and devils, and all the generations of earth and heaven aud hell, July, 181M1.” The Blessed Mother. Oh, ye of highly favored ancestry, wake up this mbraing to a sense of yoar opportunity and responsibility! I think-there mast be an bld cradle or a fragment of a cradle somewhere that could-tell-a story of ’midnight supplication in your, behalf. Where is the old rocking,chair in which you were sung to sleep witk the holy . nursery rhymes? Where is the old clock that ticked away the moments of, tbitt sickness on that awful night when„thette were but . three of you awake—you aud God and mother? Is there not an),old staff in some closet? We beg you over a new leaf this very day. Oh, the .power of ancestral piety, well illustrated by a young man of New York who attended a prayer meeting one night and asked for prayer and then went home and wrote down these words: “Twentyfive years ago to-night my mother went -to heaven, my beautiful, blessed mother, and. I 'ha ve been alone,, tossed up and down-upon the billows of life’s tempestuous ocean. Shall 1 ever go tb heaven? She

told me I must meet her in heaven, WTiea she took my hand in hern and turned her gentle, loving eyes on me, and gaaari earnestly and long into my face, ami then" lifted them to heaven in that Inst prayeb. she prayed that 1 might meet her in heaven. 1 wonder if 1 ever shall? My motfi- | er’s prayers! Oh, my sweet, btFssixi | mother's prayers! Did ever a boy htive such a mother as 1 had? For twenty-five years 1 have not beard her pray until i<V night. 1 have heard all her prayers Ws'r again. They have had, in faet, a terrible resurrection. Oh, how she was wdnt to I pray! She prayed as they hrajied to'-taiglit -—So earnest, so importunate,. so believing. Btqjti l be a Christian? She. was.a (>Q. hW'briiftit‘khd pure and happy was'lier life?* She was a cheerful and happy Christian. There Is my niother’s- bible. I'bate fttff-opencd' it' for years?. Did she believe I could ever neglect her precious Bible? She surely thought 1 would read it much and often. How often has she read it to me! How did ithe cause nie to kneel by my Ujtlei ,and put my little hands up in the attitude of prayer! How has she |ti>£lt by me and over me. mid 1 have felt her warm tears raining down upon my hands and fact?! "Blessed mother, did you pfny in vain for your boy? It shall not bo in vain. Ah, no. no; it shall not be in vain! I will pray for myself. Who has sinned against so ,miK-h instruction as 1 have—agaiaaf so many precious prayers pqt up to heayen for me by one of the most lovely, lender, pious, confiding, trusting of mothers in her heavenly Father’s care nnd grace? She never doubted. She believed. She always prayed as if she did. My Bible, vny mother's Bible and my conscience teach what 1 am and what I have made myself. • Oh, the bitter pangs of an accusing conscience! 1 need a Saviour mighty to save. 1 must seek him. 1 will. lam on the sea of existence, and I can never get off from it. lam afloat. No anchor, no rudder, no cpmpass, no book of instructions, for I have put them nil away from me. Saviour of the perishing, save or 1 perish;” Do you wonder that the next day he arose in prnyer meeting and said: “My brethren, I stand before you a monument of God's amazing mercy nnd goodness. borever blessed be bis holy, name! All 1 have nnd all 1 am 1 consecrate to Jesus, my Saviour and my God.” Oh, the power of ancestral prayer! Hear it! Hear it! Heirs of Immortality.

But 1 turn for a moment to those who had evil parentage, and 1 want to tell you that the highest thrones in heaven and the mightiest triumphs nnd the brightest crowns will be for those who had evil parentage but who by the grave of God conquered—conquered. As good, as useful, as splendid a gentleman ns 1 ever knew had for a father a man who died blaspheming God until the neighbors had to put their fingers in their ears to shut out the horror. One of the most consecrated and useful Christian ministers of to-day was the son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide of evil is treipendous in some families. It is like Niagara isipids, and yet men have clung to a rock and been rescued. It this world is ever to be Edenized—and it will be—all the infected families of the earth are to lie regenerated, and there will sptne one arise in each family line and oiH'it a now genealogical table. ,There will be some Joseph to arise y,i the line and reverse the evil hoboam, and there will be some Njary/io arise in the line and reverse the influence of Bathsheba. Perhaps the>atar of hope may point down to your manger. .Perhaps you are to be the hero or the heroine that is to put down the brakes nnd stop that long line of genealogical tendencies and switch it off on another track from that on which it Inis been running for a century. You do that, a|)||, l will promise you ns fine a palaeo ns the architects of heaven can build, the arehway inscribed with the words “More than conqueror." But whatever your heredity, let ini' say you may be sons and daughters of t..e Lord God Almighty. Estranged children from the homestead,, come back through the open gate of adoption. There is royal blood in our veins. There/uro crowns on our escutcheon. Our Father is king; our Brother is Mng; we may be kings and queens unto God forever. Come and sit down on the ivory bench of the •piilaxsc.- .Come nnd wash in the fountains that fall into the btH*i;im«»f erystnband alabaster. Come and look out Of the upholstered window upon gardens of azalea and amaranth. Hear the full burst of the orchestra while you banquet with potentates and victors. Oh, when the text sweeps backward; let it not stop nt the cradle that rocked the first world! And waen the text sweeps forward lot 4t not stop at your grave, but at the throne on which you may reign ■ forever mid ever, "Whose son art thou, young man?” Son of God, heir of imihortaiity, take your inheritance!

FUNERAL OF PIUS IX.

The Body Lay in btate Four Day* in the Chapel of lht> Sacrament. I t was la the Chapel of the Macruineut that the body of the good Pope Pius IX. was laid la state for several days. That was a strange a'ntl solemn sight, too. The gaty.n>£. the church were all shut hut one, and that was pnly.ji little opened, so that the people passed in one at a time from the great, wedgeshaped crowd outside—a crowd that began at the foot, of Um broad steps in the Piazza, and struggled upward all the afternoon, ddser and closer toward the single entrance. For in the morning only the Roman nobleib and the prelates and high ecclesiastics were admitted, by another way. Within the church the thin stream of men and women passed quickly between a double tile of Italian soldier*. That was the first and last time since IN7O that Italian troops were under arms within the consecrated precincts. It was still winter, and the afternoon light was dirn, and It seemed a long way to the chapel. The good man lay low, with his slippered feet between the bars of the closed gate. The people paused as they passed the embroidered cross and looked at the still features before they went on. It was dim, but the six tall waxen torches threw a warm light on the quiet face, and the white robes reflected It around. There were three torches qn each side, and on each side, too. there werfe* three Noble Guards In full dress, motionless. with drawn swords, as though on parade. But no ode looked at-them. Only, the marble .face, with Its kind, ’far-away sipile, fixed itself In” each man’s eyes, and its memory remained with each whpn he had gonq .away. It was very solemn and simple, pud 9 There were no other lights in the church save the little lamps about the. Confession and before the altars/" Tli,e long, thin stfream of people WtfttOon swiftly, and out by the all the short afternoon, till it was'flight, and the rest of the unsatisfied crowd was left outside as the single gate was closed.—Century. , \ -a 1.. i Some people are never contented ’unless in controversy.. Like tHe f <tormy petrel, they are ever flying ifVs&rttpii of a tempest. it \ ‘ V 9

GREAT LUCK OF A MINER.

For Was ?oor a* a Panoer; Now He la Rietanan Prince. John fierce Is ’a Tombstone; Ari., miner who, up to a year and a half ago,' Lad difficult work to provide the necessaries of life for himself and f#/t>Ily. He is now in San Francisco with $250,000 In gold coin to-bls credit «It is another story of a lucky find of rich gold and silver bearing quartz. Plerpe is the name of the new eamp, just coming;lnto proinlnetibe, about thirty miles northeast of Tombstone. ]f bl. made more conspicuous because, in addition to its great ore richness, it is about the only gold camp in the territory. .. Already there are 500 peol4e there, and empty houses from TotnMtnne are being taken there bodti/,' 1 AH'English syndicate has secured the Pierce ledge, and has organized with $1,500,000, apd,/it is said that there Is a prospect ,of the new camp rivaling Cripple Creek in Colorado. Fierce about four years ago took up n claim about thirty miles northeast of Tombstone. There was a water hole In the mountalilk, and he took the place in prder to get. the .water so he could raise a,.few heas ot stock. One day, about eighteen months ago, he picked up a piece of stone to throw at one of the cows when he noticed how henvy It was. “L'pon closer examination,-” says Fierce, “I saw what looked like good quartz and I took home several pieces of the rock and horned It out The result showed considerable gold. I went back and got more rock and took It Into Tombstone the next day and au assay showed me that I bad found a rich mine. The ledge whore I picked up the rock was not over 400 feet from a road that had been traveled for years.” It was just luck I found It." Fierce had no money himself, so he had to do all the developing work on a small scale. He managed to take out several tons of ore nnd ship It away. The result from this shipment was over $.”>,000. With this amount of money he sunk a shaft and opened his claim so Hint It possible to ascertain the extent of the ledge. After

JOHN PIERCE, THE ARIZONA MINER.

this work had been accomplished some parties from Silver Cllty, N. M., camo nlpifg and bonded the property for $200,000 on a year’s time. Before the year had expired they sold the bond to the English syndicate for an advance of SIOO,OOO and when flip year was up, which occurred lost week, Mr. Pierce got a draft on San Francisco and he at once came to the city to get his coin. Prior to two years ago Pierce was a brokefidloWh 1 miner, a man who had nbver had to exceed $lO at one time, and Who was having a hard struggle tq wake both ends meet. Now he Uasi.s2so,ooo, all In gold coin, and, like most.men In similar circumstances, dM'k'Uot know how to spend his money. His wife, before he made the strike, had to to to Tombstone and help out the family exchequer by doing such odd jobs of house cleaning as shecpuld find, while the son, a young man, now 20, herded cattle on the ranges. ‘ Besides One son, he has a daughter, who was given the advantage* of the public schools of Tombstone.

HISTORY OF THE A, B, C.

Tho Horn Book Wti the First Alpha* •< bet Card, inn •»<«; •: The horn book, which wart tho 'flHt alphabet card, is described by, a recent truthor os “a board Of oak about nine Inches long, and five or six wide, on which was printed the alphabet, the nine digits and sometimes the Lord's prayer. It had a handle and was covered in front with a sheath of thin ’torn to prevent its being soiled, and the backboard was ornamented with a rude sketch of St. George and the Dragan.” This'board and its horn cover were held together by a narrow frame or border of brass. The oldest horn books were undoubt* cdly frequently used In the schools and common-rooms of the great monasteries. In the earliest specimens the let-

AN OLD HORN BOOK.

ters are arranged in the form of a Latini cross, with the A at the top and Z at the vottbidr 4 ' _ . !L1 —U The people who go to hell ought to hpve wiags so t£ey,would have some- . thtog to brush the hearths with. ... I ,

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF -EVENTS OP THS PAST WEEK. Grant County Farmers Will Fore® toll Gate* and Fight in CAurt— Tramps Fore* Bo ya Into a Life at Beggary and Crime. Farmers Fight Toll Boada. The farmers of Grant County are i» open rebellion against toll roads, and ax a meeting 120 of the most prominent entered into a league to ignore tollgate ketqicrs nnd fight the payment of tolls to the bitter end. I'nder a system adopted by the County Commissioners the countybought a number of gravel rqpds, built others and was to open them to the the jieople being taxed to pay for them. As nil or nearly nil of the roads load into Kokomo, it was supposed that that city would receive the benefit, but’ no protest was made by the' fnrmers.and the roads passed into'the isMsession of the county. The cost of keeping them up to the standard of toll roads proved a heavy one, and the commissioners concluded to establish tollgates and uinke the people pay toil. This raised the ire of the farmers along the Barnersville road and they entered into a solemn league nnd covenant to resist payment, to force the gates open if passage was refused and defend themselves In person und In the courts, it necessary. Bays Abducted from Home. While rounding up a gang of tramps supposed to have had a hand in the robItery of Zeitner'a hardware store at Boutte Bend, the police ran itcross ten men accompanied by two bqys; aged 12 and 13 years. They sai<l thug,.were the sons of ixior parents and had tu>en abducted by Bennett and Stephens apd compelled to accompany them on lagging tours mound the country. When the two men were searched s•> was found upon Bennett’s person and $27 upon Stephens'. The bojs said the men hail about s.'loo secreted on their persons.' Chief Cassidy compelled Bennett to take off n wooden log wore. In it was found a compartment containing n letter box. and in this was $335. Chief Cassidy will write to the boys’ parents nnd endeavor to secure the money for them, as they earned it by lieggiag. The ‘‘Ghost” Given Forty Lashes. The ghost which hits been creating a sensation in Benton township, Elkhart County, was captured by a crowd of fa l iners mid proved to la* an unknown tramp. It was finally decided to administer forty lashes, mid four men provided themselves witli long hickory switches mid tlie tramp's back was bared to his , waist. Tiie blown were administered nnd the num was released mid left with hin back bleeding from every stroke. AU Over the Rtnta. Alex Anderson, of Petersburg, was shot and killed near Elizabethtown, Ky., by the marahnl of the place, who suspected him of horse stealing. Near Lowell, Lnller Bartley, a young farm hand in the employ of Peter Miller, robbed his employer of $75 and made good' his escape. Bartley arrived recently from I'pper Sandusky, 0., mid ho is a nephew of .Mayor Ingnrd of that city. J. W. Mertduint nud' fmnily, consisting of five, persons, wore poisoned at. Frankfort by eating "uebmierkaesr.” Ada, the 10-ycar-old .daughter, died in terrible agony, but the remainder of lite family, while dangerously sick, will probably recover. Lon Dale, who was to have made a balloon nseoiisioii und parachute leap nt the lltissiuville bicycle races, fell from a tree where he was fastening the guy ropes. The injury is fatal, Dale's buck being broken in the full. He is 20 years old and this was his first attempt to make an ascension. ‘

Fanner Burkhart, of Kokomo, hns n. sagacious hen. Hogs roblied its nest in tjh<» orchard. It continued to lay eggs and cackle, but the nest could not be found. Finally Mr. Burkhart set a wntch on the wary fowl, and was surprised io see it fly up into the top of a tali tree. There, in I lie forks of the topmost branches, was found a nest containing silicon eggs. This is the only case known of n domestic fowl making a nest in n tree,’ A portion of Fort Wayne was submerged Wednesday l>y the waters of a flood nt Shawnee Run, a creek which rum through tlic southern part of the town. Tlie cause of the flood was a deluge of rain which poured dowp from midnight until almost noon. Mnpy of the houses along the sides .of Shawms 1 Run wore completely surrounded liy water, and th<* people moved out of them in boats. About 300 cellars were tilled ‘with water am! in sonic cases the foundation walls wort* weakened, allowing the buildings, to sag. There was good boating on many of tly> streets. The sun came out hot after the rain and ruined thousands of acres -.f thrifty corn in that vicinity. The St. Mary’s, Sr. rivers nre out pt their banks and filled with driftwi'iod. A terrible tragedy occurred in Floyd County Monday morning, in Greenvitle towpiship. Edward, Miller, a well-to-do farmer, educated ,tuid greatly respected, ns wore all his family, became angry at his wife over some domestic misunderstanding. Both ho irffdttiis wife were high tempered, ami in his'rt.liger he went out of the house, proeirrt-d a heavy cltflS,’ nnd, returning to the house, struck his wife a terrible blow, kno<*lring''ber senseless on tie? floor. He then Tift&f her to,a chair, and, ordering his little son of 12 years from the house, took down his Winchester rifle and shot his wife through the back of the head, the ball coming out st her mouth ami dropping into her lap. Miller then left the hpuse, taking his Winchester with him, and, going into the woods about a quarter of a mile from home, took the shoe from bis right foot, placed the gun between his eyes, aud discharged it with his foot, literally teattag off the top of his head, dying instantly. Excitement is running high over the discovery of a large snake of unknown species on a farm near Waterloo. About two years ago a mammoth snake was seen in that vicinity and it is.believed to be the same one. 11. I). Smith, - a Rockville coal dealer, killed himself with a revolver, the ball passing entirely through his head. Mr. Smith was once a, wealthy coal operator in Clay County, and later a res-dent of Terre Haute. .He,was about 70 years old. , Suffering induced by un attack of grip is assigned as the cause of the suicide. ■ Rev. Alexander Posey, a minister of the colored Methodist wort stricken. with paralysis while preaching' ■a sermon at Rushville/ and wjlkdie. He was carried from the church to his hemo and the services brought to a sudden shd The Woman’s Club of Muncie hos passed resolutions condemning Cheap adwertUwmeuWbjr merchants placed,bn piodte and on fences And ‘Will take steps to It.” They also <leriounee-jaMtenal.pibtms» ' as posted by show and theatrical companies and will try to stop their display v iuMjuwie. The club b the ■nost ( influential nociaUorga*iiaatwm' Muppe and .thjt.pldest fcpwaTs club ta Wks*. ,