Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1889 — Page 4

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SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1889.

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(Lotered t the I'ostofflce t IndUnspoli M cond cI&m matter. TF.KMS PKH YKARt finite copy (Invariably In Advance.). ....81 OO Wesnk democrats to boar in mind and wlwt their rwn state paper when they come to take aubcript ions and make up club. , .Agents making up club send for any Information ceMred. AddessTHE 1M'1ANA10LIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, lnd. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. Thk public debt increased $7,304,000 during the months of July and August. During the correfponding months of the four years of the Cleveland administration the decrease was as follows : if 1 ASH..... fll.511.fl42 9,ti.M,371 ll,4Ül,9;i 1M8 There was a time when the pension roll M as a roll of honor. Since Tanner has decided that a dishonorable discharge from the eervice is no bar to a pension, it cannot be so considered. Self-respecting veterans can get little satisfaction from being placed on this roll along with men who were kicked out of the service for ekulking, cowardice, disobedience of orders and other like offenses. . a . The tariff reformers of northern Indiana propose to hold a rnas meeting at Miami, Miami county, Sept. 14. Elaborate preparations are being made for the entertainment of a large number of people. Senator Ti kpie and other prominent gentlemen well informed in tariff discussion will make addresses. All who are interested in this matter are cordially invited to come to the meeting at Miami, Sept. 14 The intelligence that B. Harrison and V. S. Treasurer HrsTox have kissed and made up diffuses a genial warmth throughout the political atmosphere. Now that these great men are again in harmony and illrsTox has removed his family from the classic village of Connersville to the city of magnificent distances, we see no reason why peace and joy should not prevail throughout the ranks of the g. o. p. in Indiana, and the hungry hustlers of Evansville and Torre Haute stop their kicking. In the words of the poet, "Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high." "What shall it be all around ? When B. Harrison was a candidate for president he was a civil service reformer. Ass president ho is an unconscionable ppoilsman. When he was a candidate he : denounced the policy of keeping a part of the treasury surplus in national banks. TJut as president he keeps not only the surplus, but also a part of the working balance of the treasury, in the banks. The difference between President B. Hakt.isox and Candidate Ii. Harrison is about as great as the difference between His Satanic Majesty, when ill and aspiring to be a monk, and the same illustrious personage when in his usual vigorous health. . The Shelbyville Itrpvblicnn sagely remarks: We would rather have our merchandise selling in our markets at a high price, with our laboring men 8 1 work at good wages, than to be able to buy them as cheap as in England, with our laboring men begging- the mercy of life from poverty. When he referred to "our laboring men at work at good wages," the writer of the above probably had in mind the protected coal miners of Illinois and Indiana, the protected cotton-spinners of Fall River, the protected silk-workers of Xew Jersey, the protected glass-makers of Pennsylvania and other states and Mr. Carneoie's protected iron and steelworkers. The negroes all over the North are becoming restless under the indignities and insults heaped upon them by the leaders and organs of the republican party. The Cleveland World, an intelligent organ of the colored men, serves notice upon the republican managers that "we care nothing for what the republican party has iw, it is what it is doing to-day. We are citizens of to-day and not of a quarter of a century ago. The republican party has become so thoroughly confident of our undivided support for 'past favors' that it has wholly forgotten us. It has taken it for granted that we are republicans and must needs be because of these 'past favors.'" The World proceeds to say that the negro proposes to be his own political master hereafter. The colored press all over the country is - talking in this vein. Evidently, the g. o. p. no longer owns the colored voters of the country, body and soul, as in times past. From the official treasury statement of Sept. 1: JpiM in national bank $ls,rU2,n; 47 J.'vt ciii l-!ur;.la) on hand- 4:;,4,rH 64 Kxcess of deposits OTersurplus 3 4,H.-;l,C08 S3 Trom Candidate B. Harrison's letter of acceptance: The surplus now in the treasury should be Tjsed in the purchase of bonds. The law authorizes this use of it, and, if it is not now reeded for current or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the brinks in vhich it hnj lern should have the advantage of its use by stopping interest on the public debt. From the Indianapolis Journal: His professions of personal honesty are entitled to no more weight than his civif service reform professions. We judge men by their acts and their live, not by their professions. A president who has shown himself to be thoroughly unscrupulous and untrustworthy in politics has no right to complain if, under suspicious circumstances, his personal honesty is questioned. If the president is directly or indirectly a party to the transaction by which favored banks are profiting to the extent of $3,000,000 a year by these enormous deposits of government funds, he is personally dishonest. That able republican paper, the EvansTi lie Journal, says: Both political parties ought to be very careful next year, in nominating candidates for superintendent of public instruction, not to nominate persona under par of the octopus. There is reason to believe that for many years this malign influence has dictated the nomination and election of men who, while nominally serving the state of Indiana, were really the ?aid agents of the school-book monopoly, he people are aroused on this subject, and if either party nominates such a man there is likely to be in explosion. There are republican papers, for instance, who will not support ucb a nomination on their side of the political household, and on the democratic side the tame result will follow. Indiana has had nough of this kind of tactics. No man even suspected of sympathy with the school book octopus will stand the ghost of a chance of a nomination for the state superintendency by the democratic convention next year. Nor do we believe the republican convention will dare to nominate an octopus candidate for the svCke. The pcoulo cf Indiana have had

enough agents of the Pthool book trust in this position, and will have no more of them. The party managers of loth sides realise this. Neither party will care next year to hazard the nomination of a candidate who is not outspoken against Vio trust. JlArriMon'N Ria to the Hanks. Benjamin Harrison has shown himself to 1) politically dishonest, untruthful and currupt. Is he personally honest? The legal maxim, "False In one thine, false in all," holds in regard to character. Vices generally go in groups, and a roan who is devoid of conscience in one respect is apt to be bo in others. Such a character is not above suspicion, and when its possessor has shown himself to be untruthful, insincere and dishonest in public affairs we have a right to question bis personal honesty. We do not suppose . the president would profit directly and pecuniarily by a corrupt transaction, but if he permits others or his party to do no he is open to the charge of pergonal dishonesty. Either the president, or his party, or personal friends of his are profiting: very largely by the enormous government deposits now and for some time past carried by national banks. These deposits amount to about fifty million dollars. Six per cent, on $00,000,000 is 3,000,000 a year, which these deposits aro worth to the favored banks. If a democratic administration had dono this, the republicans in congress would have moved the impeachment of the president. The interest on these deposits amounts to $250,000 a month. This is a gift to the banks. Out of it they can well afford to make a largo donation to the republican campaign funds. They could well afford to cash the president's check for $10,000, and nothing in his character or antecedents forbids the supposition that he would accept that favor. His professions of personal honesty are entitled to no more weight than his civil-service reform professions. We judge men by their acts and their lives, not by their professions. A president who has shown himself to be thoroughly unscrupulous and untrustworthy in politics has no right to complain if, under suspicious circumstances, his personal honesty is questioned. If the president is directly or indirectly a party to the transaction by which favored banks are profiting to the extent of $3,000,000 a year by these enormous deposits of government funds, he is personally dishonest. A man of his habits and loose principles, who L..8 brought himself to believe that his re-election is necessary to the welfare of the count-, could very easily go aBtep further and justify himself in accepting a campaign donation of $10,000. to" be made in his name, by banks that were profiting by his generosity with the public money. The above is the substance of an editorial article which appeared in the Indianapolis Journal on the 13th of last October. Its publication occurred immediately after Mr. 15laies visit to this city and was understood at the time to have been the result of a conference between Mr. Elaine, Mr. Harkimin and the editor of the Journal, and present private secretary of the president. We reprint the article without material change, except to substitute the name of Harrison' for that of Cleveland, and to transpose the words "democrat" and "republican." We reproduce this article lor the purpose of inviting attention to the wicked demagogisni and assassination of character resorted to by Messrs. Harrison and Elaine and their newspaper organs in the last campaign as emphasized in the light of the record which the present administralion is making. When Messrs. Blaine and Harrison began their indecent crusade against the Cleveland administration for depositing a portion of the treasury surplus in national banks throughout the country, they were well aware that this policy had been adopted under protest, and because it was

literally forced upon the administration by the refusal of the republican senate to consent to a reduction of taxes. In his last message President Cleveland had said : "The proposition to deposit the money held by the government in banks throughout the country, for use by the people, is, it seems to me, exceedingly objectionable, in principle, as establishing too close a relationship between the operations of the government treasury and the business of the country, and too extensive a commingling of their money, thus fostering an unnatural reliance in private business upon public funds. If this scheme should be adopted, it ehould e done only as a temporary expedient to meet an urgent necessity. Legislative and executive effort ehould generally be in the opposite direction, and should have a tendency to divorce, as much and as fast as it can safely le done, the treasury department from private enterprise." Yet Ui.aixe, Harrison and their creatures not only denounced Mr. Cleveland for placing the public money in banks, but charged, as above, that he was actuated by corrupt motives in so doing that the banks divided the profits of theso deposits with him. When they did this their miserable campaign of fraud, forgery, false pretenses and boodle touched perhaps its honest level. Harrison, in his letter accepting the Cbicazo nomination, said: The surplus now in the treasury should be nsed in the purchase of bonds. The law authorizes this use of it, and, if it is not now needed for current or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the banks in which it has been deposited, should have the advantage of its use by stopping interest on the pubho debt. In his memorable financial deliverance from his front door-steps for the edification of a visiting Sunday-school he explained that this is "exactly what every merchant does" when he discounts his own paper out of the profits of successful trade. During the last sixty days of the campaign the changes were rung, by all the republican spell-binders from Jim Blaine down to Grikfiths, and by the organs from the New York Tribune down to the New Castle Courier, upon the cry of corrupt government favoritism to the national banks. It is now six months since Benjamin Harrison became president. And he has not yet dared to change the treasury policy for whii'h he condemned G rover Cleveland one year ago, and for which his dirty newspaper organ accused Mr. Cleveland of personal corruption. If the banks divided profits with Mr. Cleveland, as the Journal charged last fall, in An ar

ticle written by the present private secretary of Ben ja mi v Harrison, perhaps it will state how largo a per centage of tho proIts on treasury deposits theso banks are now paying Benjamin Harrison. Tho official treasury statement, made public yesterday morning, shows that tho government now has on deposit in national banks the enormous sum of is,342,00),47. On Dec. 31 last these deposits amounted to $02,390, 103.7 ). The reduction has been only the nominal amount of 1,000,000, although during the same period the total cash in the treasury has been reduced 78,375,421.3''.. Thus, Svcy. Wisdom could, in the course of ordinary disbursements, have drawn out every dollar of the money deposited in the banks and 6tili have drawn on his sub-treasury funds for about $30,000,000. Honest men, whatever their political views, cannot contemplate this record of the administration, in the light of the Harrison-Blaine pronouncements of last fall, without feelings of utter disgust and contempt for the wretched hypocrite at its head.

As to Monopolies In School Rooks. The organ of the school book trust says: The argument just concluded in the U.S. circuit court furnished some illustrations of the absurd conclusions to which the supporters of a vicious principle are sometimes driven. In arguing the monopoly feature of the question, Mr. Harris aid that if the legislature could require a particular kind of school-books to be used in the schools, and grant to a few individuals the exclusive right to sell them, it could do the same thing with road-scrapers compel all the road supervisors in Indiana to use a particular kind of scraper, and grant to some person or persons the exclusive right to furnish them. The able counsel on the other 6ide was compelled to admit that this was so, and actually maintained that the legislature might, if it chose, enact a compulsory law in regard to road-scrapers, compel supervisors to use a particular kind, and grant an exclusive right to deal in them. Mr. Harris, able lawyer though he is, talked nonsense when he said that the legislature required a particular kind of books to be used in the schools, and granted to a few individuals the exclusive right to sell them. One would infer from this that the legislature had passed a law specifying certain books for the use of our schools to the exclusion of others, and naming also the persons who were to furnish them. It is possible that the legislature has the power to do this. The Minnesota legislature did it, and the courts of the state sustained it. But what our legislature did was precisely the opposite. Under the old law local school boards creatures of the legislature "required a particular kind of school-books to bo used in the schools, and granted to a few individuals the exclusive right to sell them." This power was arbitrarily exercised. It was not required that there should be competition or any pretense of any. There was no legal limit as to the prices which might be charged for books. There was no appeal from the decision of these boards. They might be ignorant or corrupt, but patrons of the schools had to buy such books as these boards selected, at such prices as they eaid should be paid, or their children were denied the privileges of the schools. It was a vicious system. It led to all kinds of abuses to widespread corruption in our school management, to the creation of an unprincipled and odious monopoly which, according to Gov. Hovey extorted from 300 to 000 per cent, profit from the people on school books, and to other evil consequences. Finally the legislature decided to change this system. It did not attempt to Belect the books, nor did it give any one exclusive license to furnish them. What it did was: (1) to clothe the state board of education, composed of the leading educators of the state, with power to adopt text books for all the schools, under certain conditions; (2) to fix a standard, below which the books to be adopted must not fall, 6uch standard being the best of the text books which had been obtained under the old law; (3), to name a limit above which the prices for books should not go, such limit being about 50 per cent, of the average prices theretofore charged; (4), to provide for full and free competition for the furnishing of such books by requiring the board to advertise for tenders for twenty-one consecutive days in the leading papers of all the large cities of the country. The law did not' create, it destroyed, a monopoly. It gave nobody the exclusive right to sell books. It opened the doors to the entire world and invited publishers, authors and compilers everywhere to compete. It limited the duration of contracts to five years. It provided for the fullest, fairest and freest competition, to the end that not only the cheapest but the best text-books should be secured. If most of the school-book publishers of the country entered into a combination not to bid, and to prevent others from bidding, and if, in so doing, they overreached themselves and left tho way clear for Indiana enterprise and capital to supply Indiana children with school-books, we see no reason w hy any honest citizen or newspaper of Indiana should take it to heart. Since B. Harrison became president the total cash in the national treasury has been reduced nearly SSO.000,000. Some of this money, however, has been drawn from the national banks, although B. Harrison, Jim Blaine and their fellow demagogues last fall condemned, in the very strongest terms, the policy of keeping tho public funds on deposit in the national bankB, and the Indianapolis Journal, then conducted by the present private secretary of tho president, asserted that President Cleveland was actuated by corrupt motives, and derived illicit gains from such disposition of these funds. A more striking commentary upon the duplicity and demagogism of B. Harrison', president of many prayers, could not be imagined than is afforded by these facta. Sorrow over the appalling loss of life in the disaster at Antwerp, Belgium, will be the more poignant because of the fact that the sacrifice is due to criminal recklessness on the part of the authorities. It appears that the factory in which the explosion occurred had been condemned by the common council, notwithstanding which the officials permitted it to continue operation. In all probability, the dignitaries responsible for this shocking disaster will be made to suffer for their criminal negligence. People who triflo with human life do not, as a rule, get off bo lightly in Europe as in this country, when their heedlessness involves serious

consequences. Next to the loss of life and limb, and the human suffering entailed by the explosion, the fart of the daniago to the great Antwerp cathedral will occasion the widest regret. The press dispatches say that the stained windows are smashed, and that the steeple will probably collapse. Tho cathedral is one of the most famous Gothic edifices in Furopo, and contains tho master works of Bui-ens and other great Flemish painters. There is a deep disgust among tho republicans of the stato over President Harrison's discriminations in favor of Indianapolis in distributing the spoils. The prevailing temper of the outside republicans is illustrated by the. following from the Terre Ilaute llrfrtfn: The reports from Washington say that Marshal Hansdell has appointed a member of deputies, and name several of them as "hading from Indiana." The writer of this news report is eminently correct in one sense, but we are afraid that lie has fallen into making the same mistake so commonly made in Wellington, that is in taking it for granted that Indianapolis is synonymous with Indiana. The Kvansville Journal reproduces tho above and comments as follows: This is the same old; story. The capital "hogs" nearly everything, as usual. If President Hariuson thinks he can be renominated by Indianapolis, let him go abend as he has commenced. About three years from now he will wish that he had given the other parts of the state a fair share of favors. Marshal UansDELL follows the fashion and gives his brother-in-law a common Indianapolis ward officeseeker and "fine worker" ihe chief deputyship under himself. Those politicians up there believe in the scriptural injunction and take care of their own household. This is "Slick Six" tactics. If this sort of Harmony keeps up in the republican ranks, there will be fun alive in the next state campaign. The Madison Courier, one of the most extreme republican papers in the 6tate, pronounces Supt. LaFollette's recent circular a "remarkable" document, and adds : Why the superintendent should take npon himself to interfere with the operations of the new law, which provides for the exchange of books, is a query that will arise in the publio mind. The circular is in the face of the recent proposition made by a Chicago firm to buy the old books at a cash value, which is looked upon by many as fair. Among those who wanted to see the new law given a fair trial the circular is looked upon as another of the many movements in the interest of the book monopoly. Chicago announces to the world that the entire $.5,000,000 guarantee fund for the world's fair is pledged. Meantime New York is discussing ways and means of raising the desired fund in ten-dollar subscriptions from her country cousins. The difference between the two cities finds a very striking illustration. New York talks but does nothing else. Chicago is not exactly tongue-tied, but her actions speak louder than words. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. McG., Franklin, Ind.: The ffatement that Secy. Xoble, as soon as he wan installed in office, bought a span of Kentucky carriagehorses for his personal use, paying $1,000 for them out of the contingent fund of his department, has never been authoritatively denied to our knowledge. We have no positive information on the subject, but believe the statement to be true. Strscriijer, Franklin: Marion county's vote last fall was: Cleveland, 17.S17; Harrison, 17.13G. City, Cleveland, J 2,970; Harrison, 13, 323. Harrison's ward Second), Cleveland, 350; Harrison, 1,050. r-" PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The finest diamonds visible at the shah's visit to the Paris exhibition are said to have been worn by Mrs. Whitelaw Keid. A SALESGIRL employed by a New York dry goods house was polite and agreeable to an aged customer, who has just died, leaving her $0,500. John Templeton of Adams county, Pennsylvania, seventy-six years of age, has a jackknife that he has carried since he was sixteen years old. P. Myett, accompanied by a dog, has driven in a buggy from California to Pennsylvania, lie reports that the "going" is more or less miscellaneous. EX-SENATOE rtlDDLEREROER is flocking by himself in old Virginia. He refuses to be a republican and the democrats won' have him, while the prohibitionists and IUddleberger are natural enemies. Miss Anna Dickinson is out wit'n a denial of the rumor that she is in ill health, and announces that she will soon return to publio life, "probably on the platform and certainly on the theatrical stage." The death is announced of the Lancashire poetess, Fanny Forrester. She belonged to the working classes, at an early age developing a taste for poetry. She was a frequent contributor to journalistic literature. Ex-Pkesipent Cleveland is still undecided as to his European trip next winter. His wife is anxious to go across and spend a few months in the south of France. Mr. Cleveland's intimate friends assert that his disinclination for the trip lies in his lear that he would be wofully seasick. "The London home of Jean Ingelow," says the New York Telrjram, "is in Kensington. The house is built of light-colored brick and is surrounded by a pretty garden, in which flowers are kept blooming even in the winter. Inside the house there are more flowers in pots and in vases. Miss Inirelow is so fond of flowers that she writes oftener in her conservatory than anywhere else." Gen. Crook, the famous Indian fighter, wonders how so great a fraud as Sitting Bull could be made such a hero of. He says that the old Indian is an arrant coward, but so full of conceit that he impresses people with his importance. "And no wonder he is conceited," adds Gen. Crook, "for he has had offers of marriage from white women, and endless requests for his photograph." Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist, one of whose plays has been the sensation of the summer in London, was born and bred, fays the New York Tribune, at the small seaside town of Skien. Before obtaining admission to the university of Christiana, after a youth of hard study he had given evidence of classical knowledge if not literary skill by a tragedy called "Catalina." The tragedy was published by the generosity of a friendly apothecary, but only thirty copies were sold. Ibsen now lives quietly at Munich. Gen. N. P. Basks has had a varied career. He was a "bobbin boy" in a factory, an actor fifty years ago, having played the part of Claude Melnotte in the "Lady of Lyons" at the old National theater, lioston. Later on he was a lawyer, and still later a general in the army, governor of the state of Massachusetts and speaker of the house in the same state. He was also a member of congress and speaker of the house of representatives. Gen Hanks is now seventy-three years ot age, and is the oldest living ex-governor of Massachusetts. Edward Bellamy, speaking of his "Look. ing Backward" in the Nationalist, says that he had at the outset do idea of attempting a serious contribution to the movement of social reform. The idea was of a mere literary fantasy, a fairy tale of social felicity. Originally the date of the story was 3000 A. D., and the romance was of an Meal world instead of, as finally, a nat'on. After many recastings the story became the vehicle of a definite scheme of industrial reorganization, the scheme having worked itself out in the mind of Mr. Bellamy while he was trying to fashion his fairy romance. The ltrst la Tlie hvntinel." To The EniTon Sir: You say The Sentinel is the best democratic paper in the state. That, I believe, for I have been a reader for forty years. 1 feel lost without it. The stamp act before the Revolution was odious to the Eeople, and now the tariff is equally so. I do ope to see the democrats in oower again in lc!'3. ' A. Boxlv. L'ojly, lad,, Aug. 31.

WEIGHED IX THE BALANCE.

DR. TALMAGE PREACHES IN OMAHA. Churches PhouM Hilst For th SoU lur. ! of Kftvlnfc Souls sml Net For Artutlo j;nct The Sermon tn Full. Great interest was manifested at Omaha last Sunday, tho Rev. T. DeWitt Talrnage, I). D., being tho attraction, and preaching to an immense congregation. His text was : "Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." Daniel v, 27. Tho preacher said: Babylon was tho paradise of architecture, and driven out from thence the grandest buildings of modern times aro the only evidence of her fall. The nite having been selected for the city 2,000,000 men were employed in the rearing of her walls and the building of her works. It was a city eixty miles in circumference. There w as a trench all around the city from which the material for the building of tho city had been dii. There were twenty-five gates on each side the city; between every two gates a tower of defense springing into the skies; from each cato on the one side a street running straight through to tho corresponding street on the other side, so that there were fifty streets fifteen miles long. Through the city ran a branch of the river Euphrates. This river sometimes overflowed its banks, and to keep it from the ruin of the city a lake was constructed, into which the surplus water of the river would run during the time of freshets, and tho water was kept in this artificial lake until time of drought, and then this water would stream down over the city. At either end of the bridge spanning this Euphrates there was a palace the one palace a mile and a half around, the other seven and a half miles around. The wife of Nebuchadnezzar had been born and brought up in the country, and in a mountainous region, and 6he could not bear this flat district of Babylon ; and bo, to pleaso his wife, Nebuchadnezzar built in the midst of the city a mountain 400 feet hieh. This mountain was built out into terraces supported on arches. On tho top of these arches a layer of flat stones, on the top of that a layer of reeds and bitumen, on the top of that tw o layers of brick, closely cemeDted, on the top of that a heavy sheet of lead, and on top of that the soil placed the soil so deep that a Lebanon cedar had room to anchor its roots. There were pumps worked by mighty machinery fetching up the water from tne Euphrates to this hanging garden, as it was called, bo that there were fountains spouting into the eky. Standing below and looking up to it must have seemed as if the clouds were in blossom, or as though the sky leaned on the shoulder of a cedar. All of this Xebuchadnczzar did to please his wife. Well, she ought to have been pleased. If that wouid not please her nothing would. There was in that city also the temple of Belus, with towers one tower the eighth of a mile high, in which there was an observatory where astronomers talked to the stars. There was in that temple an image, just one image, which would cost what would be our $02,000,000. O, what a city ! The earth never saw anything liks it, never will pee anj'thing like it. And yet I have to tell you that it is going to le destroyed. The king and his princes are at a feast. They are all intoxicated, l'our out the rich wine into the chalices. Drink to the health of the king. Drink to the glory of Babylon. Drink to a great future. A thousand lords reel intoxicated. The king, seated upon a chair, with vacant look as intoxicated men will stared at the wall. But soon that vacant look takes on intensity, and it is an affrighted look; and all the princes begin to look and wonder what is the matter, and they look at the same point on the wall. And then there drops a darkness into the room and puts out the blaze of the golden plate, and out of the sleeve of the darkness there comes a finger a finger of fiery terror, circling around and circling around, as though it would write ; and then it comes up and with sharp tip of flame it inscribes on tlje plastering of the wall the doom of the king: "Weighed in the balances and found wanting." The bang of heavy fists against the gates of the palace are followed by the breaking in of the doors. A thousand gleaming knives strike into a thousand quivering hearts. Now death is king, and he is seated on a throne of corpses. In that hall there is a balance lifted. God swung it. On one side of the balance aro put Belshazar's opportunities and on the other side of the balance are put Belshazzar's sins. The sins come down. His opportunities go up. Weighed in the balances found wanting. There has been a great deal of cheating in our country with false weights and measures and balances, and the government, to change that state of things, appointed commissioners whose business it was to stamp weights and measures and balances, and a great deal of the wrong has been corrected. But still, after all, there is no such thing as a perfect balance on earth. The chain may break, or some of the metal may be clipped, or in some way the equipoise may be little disturbed. You cannot always depend upon earthly balances. A pound is not alwaj-s a pound, and you may pay for one thing and get another; but in "the balance which is suspended to the throne of God a pound is a pound, and right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul, and eternity is eternity. Ood has a perfect bushel and a perfect pck and a perfect gallon. When merchants weigh their goods in the wrong way, then the Lord weighs the goods again. If from the imperfect measure the merchant pours out what pretends to be a gallon of oil and there is less than a gallon, God knows it, and He calls upon His recording angel to mark it: "So much wanting in that measure of oil." The farmer comes in from the country. He has apples to sell. He has an imperfect measure. He pours out the apples from this imperfect measure. God recognizes it: lie says to the recording angel: "Mark down so many apples too few an imperfect measure." We may cheat ourselves and we may cheat the world, but we cannot cheat God. and in the great day of judgment it will be found out that what we learned in boyhood at school is correct; that twenty hundred weight make a ton, and 120 solid feet make a cord of wood. No more, no less, and a religion which does not take hold of this life aa well as the life to come is no religion at all. But, my friends, that is not the style of " balance I am to speak of to-day; that is not the kind of weights and measures. I am to speak of that kind of balances which can weigh principles, weigh churches, weigh men, weigh nations, and weigh worlds. "What!" you say, "is it possible that our world is to be weighed?" Yes. Why, Vou would think if God put on one side the balances suspended from the throne the Alps, and the Pvrenees, and the Himalayas and Mount Washington, and all the" cities of the earth they w ould crush it. No, no. The time will Children Cryfcr j

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come when God will sit down upon the white throne to see the world weighed, and one side will be the world's opportunities and on the other side the world's sins. Down will go the sins and away will go the opportunities, and God will say to the messengers with the torch : "Burn that world ! Weighed and found wanting!" So God will weigh churches. He takes a great church. That great church, according to the worldly estimate, must be weighed. He puts it on one side the balances, and the minister and the choir and the building cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars. He puts them on one 6ide the balances. On the other side of the scale He puts what that church ought to be, what its consecration ought to be, what its sympathy for the poor ought to be, what its devotion to all good ought to be. That is on one side. That side comes down, and the church, not being able to stand the test, rises in the balances, it does not make any difference about your magnificent machinery. A church is built for one thing to save souls. If it eaves a few souls when it might save a multitude of souls, God will spew it out cf His mouth. Weighed and found wanting. So God estimates nations. How many times He has put the Spanish monarchy into the scales and found it insufficient and condemned it. The French empire was placed on one side the scales and God weighed the French empire, and Napoleon said: "Have I not enlarged the boulevards? Did I not kindle the glories of the Champs Elysees? Have I not adorned the Tuilleries ? Have I not built the gilded opera-house?" Then God weighed the nation, and he put on one side the scales the emrxTor, and the boulevards, and the Tuilleries, and the Champs El j sees, and the gilded opera-house, and on the other side He puts that man's abominations, that man's libertinism, that man's selfishness, that man's Godless ambition. This last came down, and all the brilliancy of the scene vanished.. What is that voice coming up from Sedan? Weighed and found wantinc:! But I must become more individual and more personal in my address. Some people -ay they do not think clergymen ought to be personal in their religious addresses, but ought to deal with subjects in the abstract. I do not think that way. What wou' ' you think of a hunter who should go tf .he Adirondacks to shoot deer in the abstract? Ah! no. He loads the gun, he puts the butt of it against the breast, he runs his eye along the barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash go the antlers on the rocks. A-ftdso, :i we want to be hunters for the Lordwe must take sure aim and fire. Not in the abstract are we to treat things in religious discussions. If a physician comes into a sick room, does he treat disease in the abstract? No; he feels the pulse, takes the diagnosis, then he makes the prescription. And if we want to heal souls for this life and the life to come, we do not want to treat them in the abstract. The fact is, you and I have a malady which, if uncured by grace, will kill us forever. Now, I want no abstraction. Where is the balm? Where is the physician ? f eople say there is a day of judgment coming. My friends, every day is a day of judgment, and you and I to-day are being canvassed, inspected, weighed. Here are the balances of tho sanctury. Tiiey are lifted, and we must all be weighed. Who will come and be weighed first? Here is a moralist who volunteers. He is one of the most upright men in the country. He comes. Well, my brother, get in get into the balances now and be weighed. But as ho gets into the balances, I say: "What is that bundle you have along with you?" "Oh," he says, "that is my reputation for goodness, and kindness, and charity, and generosity, and kindliness generally." "U, ray brother! we cannot weigh that; we are going to weigh you you. Now, stand in the scales you, tho moralist. Paid your debts?" "Yes," you say, "paid all my debts." "Have you acted in an upright way in the community?" "Yes, yes." "Have you been kind to the poor? Are you faithful in a thou sand relations in life?" "Yes." "So far. so good. But now, before j-ou get out of this scale, I want to ask you two or three questions. Have vour thoughts always been right?" "No," you say; "no." But down one mark. "Have you loved the Lord with all your heart, and soul, and mind, and strength?" "No," you 6ay. Make another mark. "Come, now, be frank, and confess that in 10,000 things you have come short have you not?" "Yes." Make 10,000 marks. Come, now, get me a book large enough to make a recordot that moralist suencits. My orotner, stand in the scales; do not fly away from them. I put on your side the 6caIos all the good deeds you ever did, all the kind words you ever uttered ; but on the other side the scales I put this weight which God says I must nut there on the other side the scales and opposite to yours I put this weight: "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh livingbe justified." Weighed and found wanting. still the balances of the sanctuarv are suspended, and we are ready to weigh any who come. Who shall be the next? Well, here is a formalist. lie comes and he gets into the balances, and as he gets in I see that all his religion is in genuflex ions and in outward observances. As he gets into the scales I say: "What is that vou have in this pocket?" "Oh !" he eays that is Westminster assembly catechism." I say: " erv good. What have you in the other pocket?" "Oh !" he says, "that is the Heidelberg eatecnism. "ery good. What is that you have under your arm, standing in this balance of the sanctuary ?" "Oh !" he says, "that is a church record, "very gooa. nat are tnese books on your eide the balance ?" "Oh !" he says, "those are 'Calvin's Institutes.' " 'My brother, we are not weighing books; we are weighing you. It cannot be that you are depending for your salvation upon vour orthodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds and the forma of religion are merely the scaffolding for the building? Y'ou certainly are not going to mistake the scaffolding for the temple. Do you not Pitcher's Castoria.

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clears the complexion of Bimplcs, Blackknow that men have gone to perdition with a catechism in their pocket?" "But," savs the man, "I cross myself often." "Ah! that will not save you." "But," says the man, "I am sympathetic for tho poor." "That will not save you." Says the man, "I sat at tho communion table." "That will not save you." "But," says the man, "I have had my name on the ehurch record." "That will not save you." "But I have been a professor of religion forty years." "That will not save you." Stand there on your side the balances and I will give you the advantage I will let you have all the creeds, all the church records, all the Christian conventions that were ever held, all the communion tables that were ever built, on your side the balance. On the other side the balances I must put what God says I must put there. I put this one-million-pound weight on the other side the balances: "Having the form cf godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such turn away." Weighed and found wanting! Still the balances are suspended. An there an' others who would like to be weighed or who will be weighed? Yes, here comes a worldling. He gets into the scales. I can very easily see what his whole life is made up of stocks, dividends, per centages, "buyer ten days" "buyer thirty days." Get in, my friend ; pet into these balances and be weighed weighed for this life and weighed for the life to come. He gets in. I find that th two great questions in his life are, "How cheaply can I buy these poods'." and "How dearly can I sell them?" I find he admires heaven because it is a land of gold and money must be "easy." I find from talking with him that religion and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vulgar interruption, and he hopes on the way to church to drum up a" new customer! All the week he has been weighing fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing coals, weighing confections, weighing worldly and perishable commodities, not realizing the fact that he himself has been weighed. On your side the balances, 0 worldling! I will give you full advantage. I put on your side all the banking-houses, all the store-houses, all the cargoes, all the insurance companies, all the factories, all the silver, all the gold, all the money vaults, all the safe deposits all on your side. But it does not add one ounce, for at the very moment we are congratulating you on your fine house and upon your princely income, God and tho angels are writing in regard to vour soul: "Weighed and found wanting!1 But I must go faster and speak of tho final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends, we are moving on amid astounding realities. These pulses which now are drumming the march of life may after awhile call a halt. We walk on a hair-hung bridge over chasms. All around us are dangers lurking ready to spring on us from ambush. We lie down at night not knowing whether we shall rise in the morning. We start out for our occupations not knowing whether we shall come back. Crowns being burnished for thy brow or lolts forged for thy prison. Angels of light ready to shout at thy deliverance or fiends of darkness stretching out skeleton hands to pull thee down into ruin consummate. Suddenly the judgment will be here. The angel, with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, will swear by him that liveth forever and ever that time shall be no longer: "Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him." Hark to the jarring of the mountains. Why, that is the setting down of the scales, the balances. And then there is a flash as from a cloud but it is the glitter of the shining, balances, and they are hoisted, and all nations are to be weighed. The unlorgiven get in on this side the balances. They may have weighed themselves and pronounced a Mattering decision. The world may have weighed them and pronounced them moral. Now they are being weighed in God's balances the balances that can make no mistake. All the property gonef all the titles of distinction gone, all the worldly successes gone; there is a soul, absolutely nothing but a soul, an immortal soul, a "never-dying soul, a soul stripped of all worldly advantages, a soul on one side the scales. On the other side the balances are wasted Sabbaths, disregarded sermons, 10,0iX) opportunities of mercy and pardon that were cast aside. They are on the other side the scales, and there God htands, and in the presence of men and devils cherubim and archangel, He announces while groaning earthquake, and cracking conflagration and judgment trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat it: "Weighed in the balances and found wanting." BLOWN TO ATOMS. Two Men Killetl ltjr the Premature Explosion of DrnnmlU. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 5. A terrible explosion occurred this morning at the mouth of St John's river by which two men were killed and several injured. Capt R. G. Ros., in charge of the government work at St. John's bar, has been engaged far seTeral days in blowing up the submersed wreck of the old Iutch brig Neva, which has for years obFtructed the channel off Mayport He had in his employ a lighter in command of Capt. A. Moore with a crew of twelve me. Two of the men, IL T. Moore, a?ed twenty-two, son of the captain, and a colored man named Powell, were soldering; a twentr-five-pound can of dynamite when it exploded with a terrific report and blew both men to atoms. The only portion of Moore that wa found after the ei llrsion was one toe. Knciner I Minn, of tho lighter, was badly wounled in the side and arm. Capt. Monre was b'ackened by the explosion and badly shaken up, but is not seriously injured. He is, however, almost insane with grief over the terrible fate of his son. The explosion was heard for miles around and caused an upheaval of water and a tremor, of the earth which created considerable alarms The machinery of the Jetty lighter and enging was completely demolished, a big hole beins found on the deck of the lizhter. A search was at once instituted for the remains of the men but without further success. Moore's vest and trousers were subsequently found among the floating wreckage, torn completely in shreds. Warm weather often causes extreme tired feeling and debility, and in the weakened condition of the system, diseases arising from impure blood are liable to appear. To gain strenrth, to overcome disease, and to purify, vitalize and enrich the blood, take Hood's Sar-aparilla.