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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by W. S. MG.NTGOMEUY.

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POLITICIANS and patriots in Cen tral America, who organize rebellions and revolutions "while you wait," ostensibly from motives the reverse of mercenary, and who often pose as benefactors of the ignorantand degraded natives of that part of the world, if latest reports are trustworthy, are turning out to be very much like ward heelers and "bosses" in our own enlightened land. They are "not in it" "for their health", and "freeze" to all the 'swag" that the mad waves of internecine strife may cast at their feet. The President of Nicaragua, in his recent war on Honduras, gave the world to understand that he engaged in the conflict from a purely chivalrous desire to give the conquered commonwealth a better government. The President of Honduras, seeing that he was beaten, looted the treasury and escaped, leaving nothing for the conquering hero. The President of Nicaragua cow demands pay, and says he

United States. Its equipment is already superior to Yale or Harvard. Its picture gallery, its librar}', its museum, its great telescope, its scholastic course—all attest the far reaching sagacity of its great benefactor who is quite as well qualified to equip a college as he is to squeeze the millions out of the oil trade wherewith to carry out his laudable ambitions.

TIIE very latest phrase resulting from the constant evolution of slang is "the fellow wears rubbers," and it is synonymous with saying that a man-is a low down sneak. It originated in police circles on account of the almost universal habit of sneak thieves, who wear rubber sole shoes in order that they can approach their victims without being heard. Another "up to date" expression is, "he doesn't cut any ice," and it means that he is "not in it." "Not in it" means that he "don't get any of the swag." "Swag" means "boodle" and "boodle" means profit in a general sense. Trusting that we have made ourselves sufficiently clear for the "gumption" of the average reader, we will "come off" until the progressive and irrepressible American population shall find it necessary to cast the foregoing "out of sight" into the junk heap of forgotten piirases, and substitute for them more mystifying and expressive ejaculations wherewith to "knock 'em silly." "We are no hog" and "don't haf to" rob any one of the credit of adding to our already limitless vocabulary, and hope our readers will kindly "catch on" and "give us a rest" till we "hear from New York."

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By a of William and Mary, passed in 1690, every householder who resided in certain parishes, or in the city of Westminster, \vho.so house adJ joined or was near the street, "from Machaelmas unto Our Liidy's Day yearly, shall every nijjht set or han* out eundles or lights in lanthorns on the outside of the house next the street, to enlighten the same for the convenience of passengers, from time to time, as it shall grow dark, until 12 of the clock in the night, upon the pain to forfeit the sum of two shillings for every default.11 Arrangements might, however, be made with two or more justices of the peace for the establishment of lamps in the streets at certain intervals.

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He gets it. The only way that he can get pay is by the confiscation of the property of the unhappv citizens whom he "saved" from a tyrant's clutches. Accordingly the Honduras rebels, under the direction of the President of Nicaragua, are seizing everything they can lay 'their hands on. The war may be reopened. Evidently the poor people of Honduras have "jumped out of the fr}'ing-pan into the fire." Their rebellion was successful, but •they will have to pay roundly for it, 'besides enduring all the evils of a bloodv war.

EVERYBODY knows that there is nothing small about Chicago, but everybody does not know that one of the biggest of all the gigantic enterprises, that go to make up the colossal total known as the World's Fair City, is the reorganized University of Chicago, which has of late 'years been moved from the site long occupied in the neighborhood of the :Douglas monument, and endowed :wit.h the millions of John D. Rockejfeller. The advantages offered by ^such an institution in the heart of the Mississippi valley should not be treated lightly, as is the disposition evinced in some quarters- In fact this great University is destined in time to outrank all others in th«

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EOYFTIM SLAVERY

Sin a Taskmaster as Cruel as the Pharaohs. The Psalmist'* Ke:iutiful Simile, and tlie

Lessons Drawn Therefrom—Dr. Talmage'a Sermon.

There was the customary large audience at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. .Dr. Taimage spoke from the text, Psalms lxviii. 13— "Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as "the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold."

I suppose you know what the Israelites did down in Egyptian slavery. They made, bricks. Amid the utensils of the brickkiln there were also other utensils of cookery—the kettles, the pots, the pans, with which they prepared their daily food, and when these poor slaves, tired of the day's work, lay down to rest, they lay down among the implements of hard work. When they arose in the morning, they found their garments covered with th2 clay, and the smoke, and the dust, and besmirched and begrimed with the utensils of cookery. But after awhile the Lord broke up that slavery, and he took these poor slaves into a laud where they had better garb, bright and clean and beautiful apparel.

Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters. Worse than Phoraoh. it keeps us drudging in a most degrading service, but after awhile Christ cornes and He says, "Let my people go,'" and we pass out from among the brickkilns of sin into the glorious liberty of the gospel. We put on the clean robes of a Christian profession, and when at last we soar away to the warm nest which God has provided for us in heaven v/c shall go fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold.

But how is it if a young man becomes a Christian? All through the club-rooms where he associates, all through the business circles where he is known, there is commiseration. They say: What a pity that a young man who had such bright prospects should so have been despoiled by those Christians, giving up all his worldly prospects for something which is of no particular present worth." Here is a young woman who becomes a Christian her voice, her face, her manners the charm of the drawing-room. Now all through the the fashionable per goes. '"What a bright light should guished, that such should be crippled, that such woridl.y prospects should be obliterated." Ah, my friends, it can be shown that religion's ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace that religion, instead of being dark and doleful and lachrymose and repulsive, is bright and beautiful, fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold.

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See, in the first place, what religion will do for a man's heart. I care not how cheerful a man may be naturally before conversion, conversion brings him up to a higher standard of cheerfulness, I do not say he will laugh any louder I do not say but he may,stand back from some forms of hilarity in which he once indulged, but there comes into his soul an immense satisfaction. A young man not a Christian depends upon worldly successes to keep his spirits up. Now he is prospered, now he has a large salary, now he has a beautiful wardrobe, now he has pleasant friends, now he has more money than he knows how to spend—everything goes bright and well with him. Bui-trouble comes— there are many young men in this house, this morning, who can testify out of their own experience that sometimes to young men trouble does come—his friends arc gone his salary is gone: his health is gone he goes down. down. down. Ke becomes sour, cross, queer, misanthropic, blames the world, blames society, blames the church, blames everything, rushes perhaps to the intoxicating cup to drown his trouble, but instead of drowning his trouble he drowns his body and drowns his soul.

But here is a Christian young man. Trouble comes to him. Does he give up? No! He throws himself back on the resources of heaven. He says: "God is my Pat her. Out of all these disasters I shall pluck advantage for my soul. All the promises are mine Christ is mine Christian companionship is mine heaven is mine. What though my apparel be worn out? Christ gives me a robe of righteousness. What though m}' money be gone? 1 have a title deed to the whole universe in

the promise, 'All are yours.' What though mv worldly friends fall away? Ministering angels are my bodyguard. What though my fare be poor, and my bread be scant? I sit at the king's banquet!"

You and I have found out that peo pie who pretend to be happy arc not always happy. Look at that young man caricaturing the Christian religion, seofTinir at everything good, going into roistering drunkenness, dashing the champagne bottle to the floor, rolling the glasses from the bar-room counter, laughing, shouting, stamping the floor. Is he happy. I will go to his midnight pillow. I will see him turn the gas off, I will which low sleeps, his pve$^ •Id be

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young man who retired at night saying his prayers, invoking God's blessing upon his own soul and the souls of his comrades and father and mother and brothers and sisters fat away? No, no! His laugh will rin^ out from the saloon so that you heai it as it is the snapping of heartstrings and the rattle of prison gates. Happy! that young man happy?

Oh, do you know of anything, my hearers, that is more beautiful than to see a young man start out foi Christ? Here is some one falling: he lifts him up. Here is a vagabond boy he introduces him to a mission school. Here is a family freezing to death he carries them a scuttle ol coal. There are 800,000,000 perishing in midnight heathen darkness by all possible means he tries to send them the gospel. He may be laughed at, and he may be sneered at, and he may be caricatured, but he is not ashamed to go everywhere, saying: "I atn not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation." Such a young man can go through everything. There is no force on earth or in hell that can resist him. [show you three spectacles:

Spectacle the First—Napoleon passes by with the host that went down with him to Egypt, and up with him through Russia and crossed the continent, on the bleeeing heart of which lie set his iron heel, and across the quivering flesh of which he went grinding the wheels of his ?un carriages—in his dying moment asking his attendants to put on his military boots for him.

Spectacle the Second—Voltaire, bright and learned and witty and eloquent, with tongue and voice and stratagem infernal, warring against God and poisoning whole kingdoms with his infidelity, yet applauded by the clapping hands of thrones and empires and continents—his last words, in delirium supposing Christ standing by the bedside—his last words, "Crush that wretch!"

Spectacle the Third—Paul—Paul, insignificant in person, thrust out from all refined association,scourged, spat on. hounded like a wild beast from city to city, yet trying to make the world good and heaven full announcing resurrection of those who mourned at the barred gates of the dead speaking consolations which light up the eyes of widowhood and orphanage and want with glow of certain and eternal release, undaunted before those who could take his life, his cheek flushed with transport and his eye on heaven with one hand shaking defiance at all the foes of earth and all the principalities of hell, and with the other hand beckoning messenger angels to come and bear him awav. as he says: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight I have finished my course I have kept the! faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me."

Which of the three spectacles do you most admire? Oh, if religion does so much for a man on earth, what will it do for him in heaven? That is the thought that comes to me now. If a soldier can afford to shout "Huzza!" when he goes into battle, how much more -jubilantly he can afford to shout "Huzza!" when he has gained the victory! If religion is so good a thing to have here, how bright a thing it will be in lieaven! I want to see that .young man when the glories of heaven have robed and crowned him. I want to hear him sing when all huskiness of earthly colds is gone, and he rises up with the great doxology. I want to know what standard he will carry when marching under arches of pearl in the army of banners. I want to know what company he will keep in the land where all are kings and queens for ever and ever. If I have induced one of you, this morning, to begin a better life, then I want to know it. I may not in this world clasp hands with you in friendship. I may not hear from your own lips the story of temptation and sorrow, but I will clasp hands with you when the sea is passed and the gates are entered. "Oh," you say, "religion I am going to have. It is only a question of time." My. brother, I am afraid that "you may lose heaven the wa}r Louis Phillippe lost his empire. The Parisian mob came around the Tuileries. The national guard stood in defense of the palace and the commander said to Louis Phillippe "Shall I fire now? Shall I order the troops to fire? With one vollev we can clear the place." "No,"'said Louis Phillip "not yet." A few minutes on, and then Louis Phillippe, seeing the case was hopeless, said to the general: "Now is the time to fire." "No," said the general, "it is too late now. Don't you see that the soldiers are exchanging arms with the citizens? It is too late." Down went the throne of Louis Phillippe. Away from the earth went the house of Orleans, and all because the king said, "Not yet!" May God forbid that any of you should adjourn this great subject of religion and should postpone assailing j^our spiritual foes until it is too late, too late— you losing a throne in heaven the way that Louis Phillippe lost a throne on earth.

The old-time plan was to broad cast one year and use hoed crops the next. By this method the weeds were kept down and the crops varied some, but no system of rotation at the present day is considered correct that does not include one crop to be owed, under, clover being the best or thai

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Pertinent Paragraphs From Various Sources.

Shorts.

Indianapolis Journal. #.

The Journal fears that Mr. Cleveland is lapsing into a condition which shows him no better than his party.

The title of the Voorhees bill should read: "An act to enable the confederate brigadiers to avenge the lost cause."

The slump in wheat in Chicago. Satuaday, was due to the report of the appearance of the weevil. The worst weevil is the Voorhees bill.

The Whisky Trust has more zealous Democratic Senators than all the industries of the North—one from Indiana aud two from Kentucky.

It should bs remembered that Senator Voorhees has postponed the calling up of his tariff bill two weeks, after his committee, has had it in charge seven weeks.

It looks very much as if the apriations of the House will come up to those of the last fiscal year, despite the cutting of the pension appropriation $16,000,000.

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Those politirhi'is in Washington who are acting upon the assumption that the seigniorage bill will save the Democracy from defeat in the Congressional elections are taking counsel of themselves.

One-Man Power.

Chicago Inter-Ooea.ii.

The Democratic theory is that Republican policy tends toward too great concentration of power in the hands of the executive. But when the Democrats get into power they seem to throw their theory out of the window. Never under Republican administration, never in any En-glish-speaking country enjoying a popular form of government, have such displays been made of what the Democratic party, when out of office,loves to denounce as "one-man power," as since the last election.

For the first time we have seen the President of the Republic of the United States sending a messenger styled as "My Personal Commissioner" to a deposed monarch, without the advice, and even without the knowledge, of Congress, striving to precipitate a revolution in favor oi:' rovaity in a country friendly to the United States, and seeking still closer relationship with it. We have seen this President trying to force upon an unwiUing Senate the confirmation of officials devoted to his personal interests, and we have seen Democratic Senators forced into successful opposition to his autocratic methods.

We have seen in Colorado a Governor, Populist in name, but elected b,y Democrats, provoke the people to the verge of civil war by his exercise of "one-man power."

We have seen the Democratic Mayor of Chicago meddling so offensively with the the local affairs of the wards and townships as to excite the spirited leaders of his own party into successful revolt against his attempted nomination of a ticket for the West Town.

We have seen a Democratic Governor of Illinois discharging Democratic trustees of charitable institutions of the State because of their refusal to appoint his creatures—one of them a drunken incompetent—to administer to the wants of the sick and insane, and we now see him striving to oust Democratic commissioners of Lincoln Park because of their unwillingness to dismiss well tried and well proven employes and to put his camp followers in their places.

Never was such an era af autocratic interference with the affairs of the people as under the Democratic revival in Washington, Colorado, Illinois and Chicago.

The Republican party now smiles at the false charges of tendency toward the centralization of power, though sadly, for it suffers as a part of the people whose rights are invaded by Democratic officials. The Republican party never has permitted bosses of national, State or civic renown to act as dictators. It has been a party in which the plain people have been prompt and powerful in the rebuke and suppression of self seeking and domineering aspirants.

It is for the Democratic party to demonstrate ability to make successful resistance to those who should be its servants but who act as its masters. The result as yet is in doubt.

Bad Oilor of Tariff Reform. Indianapolis Journal. The New York World is a very wicked paper. Its latest exhibition of wickedness, or, more properly, "cussedness," was on Tuesday. In the first column of the first page is a picture of a most reprehensible cur, upon which is placed the head and face of Senator Voorhees, now wearing an expression of extreme dejection. Under this cartoon are the words: "A watch dog of tariff reform." Two years ago this label would have won for Mr. Voorhees, in certain quarters, the title of statesman, and enthusiastic freetraders would have taken his measure for a halo. But things have changed. Still, with all the change, the World could have been pardoned had it stopped its artist at that point. It did not. It permitted him to put a collar about the neck of the dog with the Voorhees head to that collar is fastened, by firm

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cask is labeled on the side, "Whisky, §1.10," and on the end "$1.10," which is the tax which has been placed upon whisky, the correspondents declare, by M. Voorhees to please the Whisky Trust. Time was when a Democratic paper which would thus parade Mr. Voorhees tc the world would be denounced in every Democratic meeting. Now tiie cartoon is the object of glee in tiie offices of the Indianapolis Sentinel, the Evansville Courier and the Terre Haute Gazette, judging from their editorials criticising the Voorhees bill and the Senator himself.

On the same page is a three-col-umn cartoon representing rooms about the Senate chamber. "Senate chamber" is erased and "Board of Trust, Combine & Co.. sole agents of tariff reform," substituted. On the window are such notices as "Dickers of all sorts made on the dead quiet," "Specialties of sugar, whisky and lead." In consultation inside the committe room are seers the faces of Senators Gorman and Vest while outside the room, leaning against the wall as if Hsteninp and much amused, stands Senatoi Br ice.

This, in the judgment of a leading Democratic paper, is the situation in the Senate. Senator Voorhees, the most zealous of free-trade advocates and the one who would have decorated the trees in Greene county with pendent monopolists, is paraded as the champion of the Whisky Trust, while Senator Vest, the most vehement foe of protection, is pilloried as dickering with the lobbyists of the Suirar Trust. 11 is not a Republican slander, but the criticism of a Democratic newspa per of free-lance proclivities.

U. S. Grant Post of the Grand Army in Brooklyn declares that the flag for which H65.000 men gave their lives is the flag of the country, and while the Grand Army welcomes all the liberty loving who come to our shores it declares that thc shall give our flag unqualified and undivided salutation, and recognize over all, without seeming rivalry from any flag whatsoever, the one flag o! the free. This is the response of one post to the Slay or of Brooklyn, who refused to officially display the flag of Ireland on St. Patrick's day, and what one post has said it is probable that the rest of the four thousand will indorse. The old chaps of the G. A. R. are clannish and awfully "sot" about a few things.— Journal.

State Aid For Good Koads. irpcr's Weekly. State aid to localities for any purpose is of course open to grave objections. It should be seldom vouchsafed, and never except in ex igent case but, after years of agitation, good roads in New York have slim prospects save as the State assists them. Massachusetts has found that State aid and supervision are th# only feasible methods. New If ora will find the same, unless present signs are defective. Certainly ii time be a factor in the problem ii good roads are soon to be begun— State aid most be gived. While the press has been almost a unit in tlieii behalf, the highest economic authorities have approved them, and the splendid highways of the old Worlc have been constantobject-lossons tc the New, compara-tively little has been accom-plished. There has beet much agitation, with small results. The argument is concluded. Action should ensue and under the circumstances—the need of prompt, comprehensive. arid intelligent action the proposition for State aid is entitled to consideration.

A 5-icn Si'Oiii (Jal'.vay. Courier-Journal. George Diei'enback has a game hen from county Galway. Ireland, that is better than a rat terrier. Yesterday morning a large rat tried to get at the hen's nest. Instantly the hen was all feathers. When the rat tried to run under her, she pecked at hire viciously. The rat jumped at her and tried to catch her by the neck. Every time the rat came at the hen she dropped her wings and met him more than half way. Once the rat pulled out a little bunch of feathers, but his jump was short, and he failed te catch the hen's neck. This made the lien more angry. She went at the rat in earnest.' The two fought for half an hour, and the hen killed the rat. The rat weighed three pounds.

A Man of Zeal.

Chicago Tribune.

"The weather is s® bad, Brothei Gibbons," said one of the pillars ol the church, "that we can't expecf an audience this evening."

Evangelist Gibbons, reformed prizefighter, rose to his feet and looked over his small, but faithful congregation. "I'm not in business for the gat« monev these days, brethren," h« said, taking his place in the pulpit. "There's nearly a dozen of us here and we'll pull off the sermon anyhow."

What the Anjjels Eat.

PudcVnhead Wilson's Calendar.

The truth Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this worM's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was uot a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

Tosti, the great song writer, is an accomplished amateur upholsterer He spends his leisure in making sofas and cushioned chairs.

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TROUBLES.

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He has tried it in ov :r eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two case3 (both thunder humor). Me '"as now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, aii within twenty rr.iies of Bos:on. 1 curd ior ok. /-. benefit is nl v^.vs experienced from the first battle, ana a'pertect cure is war-, ranted when tlie ^l.t quantity is taken.

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