Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1889 — Page 6

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THE I XI) I AK A STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 188U.

"13IUST ALSO SEE ROME."

OR. TALMAGEIN "THEETERNALCITY." Bit Firs! Seronen Abroad Why lie and Paul TTanted t Visit Home, and Its Many AVonilr Foil Text of the Discourse. Rome, Nov. 10. Special. The Kev.T. Dg Witt Talmage, D. D., Mrs. Talmage and Mißa Talmage, with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Klopsch, arrived in Rome Saturday, Nov. 9, and last Sunday the groat Brooklyn divine preached to a large congregation from the text, Acts xix.. 21 : "I must also fco Itome." A full report of the sermon follows: Here is Paul's itenerary. He was a traveling or circuit preacher. He had been mobbed and ineulted, and the more pood be did the worse the world treated him. Bat he went right on. Now he proposes to go to Jerusalem and says: "After that I must also see Koine." Why did he want . to visit this wonderful city in which I am to-day permitted to stand? "To preach the gospel," you answer. No doubt of it, .but there were other reasons why he wanted to see Rome. A man of Paul's intelligence and classic taste had fifty other reasons for wanting to pee it. Your Coliseum was at that time in process of erection, and be wanted to see it. The Forum was even then an old structure, and the eloquent apostle wanted to see that building in which eloquence had so often thundered and wept. Over the Appian Way the triumphal processions had already marched for hundreds of years, and he wanted to Ree that. The temple of liberty was already an antiquity, and he wanted to see that. The architecture of the world-renowned city, he wanted to tee that. The places associated with the triumphs, the cruelties, the disasters, the wars, the military genius, the poetic and the rhetorical fame of this great city, he wanted to eee tLem. A man like Paul, so many sided, so sympathetic, so emotional, to full of analogy, could not have been indifferent to the antiquities and the splendors which move every rightiy organized human being. And with what thrill of interest he walked these streets, those only who for the first time like ourselves enter Rome enn imagine. If the inhabitants of all Christendom were gathered into one plain, and it were put to them which two cities they would above all others wish to see, the vat mai'ority of theia would viit Jerusalem and lome. o we can understand gomething of the record of ruy text and its surrounding when it e.iys, Paul purposed in the spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and Ichaia to po to Jerusalem, paying: "After that I also must eeo Rome." As some of you are aware, with my family and only for the purpose of what we can learn and the good we can get, I am on the way to Palestine. Since leaving Brooklyn, I. Y., this is the first place we have stopped. Intermediate cities are attractive, but we have visited them in other years, and vre hasten on, for I &aid belore starting that while I was poing to oe Jerusalem I must also eee Rome. Why do I want to see it? Because I want, by visiting regions associated with the great apostle to the Gentiles, to have my faith in Christianity confirmed. There are those who will go through large expenditure to have their faith weakened. In my native land I have known persons of very limited means to pay 50 cent3 or a dollar to hear a lecturer prove that mir Christian religion is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a lie. On the contrary, I will give all the thousands of dollars that this journey of my family will cost to have additional evidence that our Christian religion is an authenticated grandeur, a solemn, a joyous, a rapturous, a stupendous, a magnificent tact. So I want to see Rome. I want you to show me the places connected with apostolic ministry. I have heard that, in your city and amid its surroundings, apoftles suffered and died for Christ's sake. My common sense tells me that people do not die fortheakeof a falsehood. They may practice a deception for purposes of gain, but put the sword to their heart, or arrange the halter around their neck, or kindle the lire around their feet, and they would say my life is worth more than anything I can gain by losinc iL I hear you have in this city Paul's duDgeon. Show it to me. I must pee Rome also. While I am interested in this city because of her rulers or her citizens who are mighty .in history lor virtue or vice "or talents, Romulus, and Caütruli, and Cincinnatus, and Vespasian, and Corolanus,and P.rutus, end a hundred others whose names are bright with an exceeding brightness, or black with the deepest dye, most of ad am I interested in this city because the preacher of Iars bill, and the defier of Agrippa, and the hero of th shipwrecked vessel in the breakers of Melita, and the man who held higher than any one that the world ever saw the torch of resurrection, lived and preached, and was massacred here. Show me every place connected with His memory. I must also see Home. But my text suggests that in Paul there was the inauinitive and curious spirit Had my text only meant that he wanted :o preach here he would have said so. Indeed, in another place, he declared: "I im ready to preach the gospe 1 to you who are at Rome "also." But my text "suggests a eight-seeing. This man who ha leen under Dr. Gamaliel had no lack of phraseology,and was used to paying exactly' what he meant, and he Faid: "I must alwj 6ee Rome." There is euch a thing as a Christian curiosity. Paul had it and some of us have it. About other people's business I have no curiosity. About all that can confirm my faith in the Christian religion and the world's salvation and the soul's future happiness, I am full of an all absorbing, all compelling curiosity. Paul had a gn at curiosity about the next world, and eo have we. I hope some dav, by tho trrace of God, to guover and see for myself; but not now. No well man, no prosperous man, I think, wants to go now. Rut the time trill come, I think, when I hall go over. I want to gee what they do there, and I want to see how they do it. I do not want to bo looking through tho gates ajar forever. I want them to wing wido open. There are 10,000 things I want explained about you, about myself, about the govehiment of this world, about (iod, bout everything. We Btart in a plain path of what we know, and in a minute rome op against a high wall of what wo do not knw. I wonder how it looks over there. Somebody tells me it is like a paved city paved with gold; and another man tells me it is like a fountain, and it is like a tree, and it is like a triumphal procession ; and the next man I meet tells me it is all figurative. I really want to know, aft,(-T the body is resurrected, wrLat the)' wear and what they eat; and 1 have an immeasurable curiosity to know what it is, and how it is. Columbus risked his life to find the American continent, and shall we shudder to go out on a voyage of discovery which ahail reveal a vaster and more brilliant country? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage retween icebergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switzerland travel up the hichu of the Matterhom, with alpenstock, and guides,

and rockets, and ropes, and, getting half way up, stumble and fall down in a horrible massacre. They just wanted to say that they had been on the tops of those hiph peaks. And ebali we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start a thousand miles beyond where stop tho highest peaks of the Alps, and when in that ascent there is no peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the pcaßbld and said in joy. "Now, in ten minutes I know the ereat secret." One minute after the vital functions ceased the little child that died la't niuht knew more than Paul himself before he died. Friends, tho exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it, to the Christian is glorious explanation. It is demonstration. It is illumination. It is sunburnt. It is tho opening up of all the windows. It is shutting up the catechism of doubt, and the unrolling of all the scrolls of positive and accurate information. Instead of stand ing at the foot of the ladder and looking up, it is standing at the top of the ladder and looking down. It is the last mystery taken out of botany ar.d geology arid astronomy and theology. Oh, will it not be grand to have all questions answered? The perpetually recurring interrogation point changed for the mark of exclamation. All riddles solved. Who will fear to go out on that discovery, when all the questions are to be decided which we have been discussing all our lives? Who shall not clap his hands in the anticipation of that blessed country, if it be no better than through holy curiosity ? As this Paul of my text did not suppress his curiosity, we need not suppress ours. Yes, I have an unlimited curiosity about all religious things, and as the city of Rome Mas so intimately connected with apostolic times, the incidents of which emphasize and explain and augment the Christian religion, you need not take it as an evidence of a prying spirit, but as the outbursting of a Christian curiosity when 1 fay 1 must al?o see Rome. Our desire to visit this city is also intensified by the fact that we want to be confirmed "in the feeling that human life is brief, but its work las! s for centuries, indeed forever. Therefore, show us the antiquities of old Rome, about which we have been reading for a lifetime, but never seen. In our beloved America we have no antiquities. A church eightv years old overawes us with its age. We have in America some cathedrals hundreds and thousands of years old,, but they are in 'Yellowstone p3rk, or California canon, and their architecture and masonry were by the omnipotent God. We want to see the buildings, or ruins of old buildings, that were erected hundreds and thousands of years ago by human hands. They lived forty or seventyyears, but the arches they lifted, the paintmjrs they penciled, the sculpture they chisled, the roads they laid out, I underhand, arc yet to bo seen, and wo want you to show them to us. I can hardly wait until Monday morning. I must also see low We want to be impressed with the fact what men do on a small scale or large scale lasts a thousand years, lasts forever, that we budd for eternity and that we do so in a very short, space of time. God is the only living presence. But it is an old ace without any of the infirmities or limitations of old ace. There is a passage of scripture which speaks of the birth of the mountain?, for there was a time when the Andes were born, and the Pyrenees weve born, but before the birth of the?e mountain?, the bible tells us, God was lorn, aye was never born at all, because He always existed. Psalm xc, ii, "Before the mountains were brought forth, or even thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." How 6hort is human life, what antiquity attaches to its worth! I low everlasting is tiod ! Show us the antiquities, the things that were old when America was discovered, old when Paul went up and down these streets sight-seeing, old when Christ was born. I mut, I must go and bog Rome. Another reason for our visit to this city is that we want to see the places where he mightiest intellects and the greatest natures wrought for our Christian religion. We have been told in America by some people of swollen heads that the Christian religion is a pusillanimous tuine, cood for children under seven years of age and small-brained people, but not for the intelligent and swarthy-minded. We have heard of your Constantino the mighty, who pointed his army to the cross, saying: "By this, conquer." If there be anything here connected with his reign or his military history, ßhow it to us. The mightiest intellect of the ages was the author of my text, and, if for the Christian religion ho was willing to labor and sutler and die, there roust be something exalted and sublime and tremenduous in it, and ehow me if you can where he was tried, and which o"f your roads leads out to Odtia, that I may see where he went out to die. We expect before we finish this journey to see Lake Galilee and the places where Shimon Peter and Andrew fished, and

erhaps we may drop a net or a hook and ine into those waters ourselves, but when followine the trac k of those lesser apostles wdl learn qnite another lesson. I want while in this citv of Rome to study the religion of the brainiest of the apostles. I want to follow, as far as we can trace it, the track of this great intellect of my text who wanted to sec Rome also. He was a logician, lie was a metaphysician, he was an all conqueringorator.he wusapoet of the highest type. He had a nature that could swamp the leadine men of his own day, ana, hurled against the Sanhedrim, ho made it tremble. Ho learned all he could eet in the school of his native village, then he had gone to a higher school, and there he mastered the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himself in belles lettres, until in after years, he astounded the Cretans, and the Corinthian?, and the Athenians, by quotations from their own authors. I have never found anything in Carlyle, or Goethe, or Herbert Spencer tint "could compare in strength or beauty with Paul's epistles. I do not think there is anything in the writings of fc-ir William Hamilton that shows such mental discipline as you find in Paul's argument about justification and resurrection. I have not found anything in Milton finer in the way of imagination than I can find in Paul's illustrations drawn from the amphitheater. There was nothing in Robert Kmtnet pleading for his life, or in lMmund Rurke arraigning Warren Hastings in Westminster hall, that compared with tho keen' in the court-room when, before robed olficials, Paul bowed and began his ppeecb, Baying! "I think myself happy, King A crip pa, because I diall answer for myself this day." I repeat, that a religion that can capture a man like that must have some power in it. It is tiine our wii-carres stopped talking as though all tho brain of the world were ojposed to Christianity. Where Paul leads, wo can a (lord to follow. I am glad to know that Christ has, in tho different ages of tho world, had in His diseipienhin a Mozart and a Handel in muic; a Raphael and a Reynolds in painting; nn Angelo and a Canova in sculpture; a Rush and a liar vey in medicine; a Grotius and a Washington in statesmanship; a Blackstone, a Marshall and a Kent in the law; and the time will come when the religion of Christ will conquer all the observatories and universities, and philosophy will, through her telescope, behold the morning star of Jesus, and in her laboratory see that "all things work together for go'od," and with her geological hammer discern the "Rock of Ages.' Oh, instead of cowering and ehivering when the skeptic stands before us and talks of religion DS though it were a pusillanimous thing instead of that, ht us take out our new testament and read the itory of Paul at

Rome, or come and see this city for ourselvee, and learn that it could have been no weak gospel that actuated such a man, but that it is an all couquerinar trospel. Aye I for all jtges ti power of God and the widom of God unto salvation. Men, brethren and fathers! I thank you for this opportunity of preaching the gospel to you that are in Rome also. The churches of America salute you. Upon you who are, like us, strangers in Rome, I pray the protecting and journeying care of God. Upon you who are residing here, I pray grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. After tarrying here a few days we resume our journey for Palestine, and we shall never meet again, either in Italy or America, or what is called the Holy Rand, but there is a holier land, and there we may meet, saved by the grace that in the same way saves Italian and American, and there in that supernal clime, after embracing Him who by His euöering on the hill back of Jerusalem, made our heaven possible, and given salutation to our own kindred whose departure broke our hearts on earth, we shall, I think, seek out the traveling preacher and michty hero of our text, who marked out His journey through Macedonia and Achaia to Jerusalem, saying: "After I have been there, I must also see Rome." WHEN YOUR HEAD IS OFF.

What raises In the. lira n of a Decapitated Tinman Itcing. Pall MU Gsrette. In the second part of his interesting volume, which treats of the decapitation of human beings, Dr. Loye says: "What masses in the head of a decapitated human eing?" Is there anv fact in the oft-repeated story that the hertd lives for some moments alter it has been separated from the body?" and in connection with this belief Dr. Loye quotes a terrible story told by M. Petitrand alout an Anamite who was beheaded by the 6word, in 1S5-S at ?aigon. The place of execution was the Plain of the Tombs, a vast sandy tract serving as cemetery to the Anamites and the Chinese. Four Anamite pirates, taken with their arms in their hands, were to be beheaded. The chief of the band, a man in the prime of life energetic, muscular, brave, without boasting, and firm to the last, bad attracted my special attention, and I decided to make my observations on him only. His bead fell down at the distance of about a yard and a quarter from where I stood. It did not roll in the usual way, but stood with the surface of the wound resting on the sand a position by which the hemorrhage was accidentally reduced to a minimum. At thi3 moment I was terror-struck at seeing the eyes of the doomed man fixed frankly on my eyes. Not daring to believe in a confccious manifestation, I went quickly to one side of the head lying at my feetand I found that the eyes followed me. Then I returned to my first position ; still the eyes went with me for a 6hort distance, and then quitted mo quite suddenly. Tho face expressed at that moment a conscious agony, the acony of a person in a state of acute asphyxia. "The mouth opened violently as if to take in a breath of nir, and tha head, thrown oS its equilibrium by the motion, rolled over. This contraction of the maxillarv muscles was the last sign of life, fince the moment of decapitation, from fifteen to twenty seconds had passed. Dr. Loye also relates the following strange story, taken from the archives of an Austrian police officer, and relating to an execution Faid to have taken place in Vienna in 16S0: A well-known bandit named Schavenburg was caught, together with four of his associates, and they were all condemned to death. They were already on their knees, ready to submit to their fate, when Schavenburg addressed the judge, nskinjr that his four companions might be ranged in single file in front of him "at a distance of eight feet from each other. "If," he said, "after I am beheaded, I get up and walk to the first of my comrades, will you pardon him?" The judge thought he was pretty safe in complying with the request. "But if I walk up to the second, the third and the fourth, will you pardon those also?" The judge replied that he would obtain their pardon from the emIeror. The partisan was satisfied, bent lis head, received the mortal blow, and his head rollen down ; but to the great surprise of the judge and the spectators, the body got up, walked alone, passed the first, second, third and fourth of the condemned men and fell down. The occurrence was told to the emperor, who, according to promise, pardoned the four criminals. COB LINCOLN'S FIRST FEE. The Minister To Kdr nod XJkes To Tell One rartl' ular Hory. Washington Post. Mr. Robert T. Lincoln likes to tell the story of his first fee as an attorney. Old Judge Logan, under whom he read law, had alwavs told him not to be afraid to charge big fees for his services. "People don't respect a cheap lawyer," said the judge. One day soon after Mr. Lincoln had been admitted to practice, he pat alone in his otiieo when a messenger brought a note from the Chicago agent of one of the wealthiest insurance companies in America, asking to have tho title to a certain piece of property looked up. The voung lawyer spent about half an hour looking into the title, and then sent his report to the insurance oflice. Pretty soon the messenger came with another note. This one requested Mr. Lincoln to Fend his b 11 by the bearer. The young lawyer had no idea what to charge. At tirht he thought it would be good policy not to charge anything, "for," he said to himself, "I should like "to get that company's work regularly." Uut he knew Judge Logan would not approve that sort of thinir, and he didn't want the judsre to think that he was heedless of his advice. So he figured it that, sines he had worked only half an hour, SI 0 would bo a good, stiff price; for it would bo at the rate of fl'OO for a day of ten hours. The words of Judge Ln?an, however, raner in his ears, and with a stroke of audacity that almost frightened him, Mr. Lincoln finally made the bill for S2". He felt that this was an outrageously high fee, and was hestitating as to whether ho would give it to the boy or make out another for $10, when Jude Logan chanced to come in. ' "You arc just the man I want to see," said Mr. Lincoln, and he told him of his dilemma. Judgo Logan took tho bill and tore it up. "I knew it was outrageously hijrh," paid Mr. Lincoln, "but, judge, you always told me to make big bills, and I did this more to please yon than myself." "Nonsense," said tho judge, "give me a pen." He pat down, wrote another bill, and gave it to the boy. In a few minut'-s tho boy returned with the insurance n gent's check for $i'.")0, and a litte note to Mr. Lincoln thanking him for his promptness, and faying the company's other work of this character Mould be sent to him. "(ireat Scott!" said the young lawyer to the old one, "did you make out a "bill for l'.SO?" "Of cou .3 I did," answered tho old judge; "you don't want to be a d d eieemosynarv institution for insurance companies, do you?" Ii Had a Pellracy. I Puck. J "Lt to look at your winter tinderwer, please," ald the htylish young lady, ei ch tond at the counter of a dry -good store. "Excuse me, madam." aoiwered the obliging clerk, ai he hivared uoconcioury; "but f am tili wmiag my summer clothe."

WASH niM AND FEED IIIM.

PROBLEM OF POSSIBILITIES. I low to Llv Cheaply Tb Co-Opcrativ Plan Appl ed to Lanndnea and Housekeeping-Why Not th K:tehen? Of Interest to tho Economical. A student of sociology, says Elizabeth Birland in the CosHi0o.7rtan,whohad6pent the best years of his life in endeavoring to find the correct answer in the great catechism of life to the question, "What is my duty to my neighbor when he is very poor?" declared, at the close of much tiaje given to books on the subject in several languages, that the one practical treatise ho knew the only one that threw light on the matter was the work of the famous Mr. Dick. It will be remembered that when David Copixrficld had, during the process of his journey to Jit Trot' '(vf, reduced himself to the condition characterizing the generic poor, even that strong-minded lady was unable to cope with the problem, and appealed to Mr. Pick for assistance. That worthy person, with a promptitude which proves beyond a doubt that he muft previously have given much secret consideration to the question, replied succintly, but suggestively, "Wash him!" Th i s f eat s u ccessi vel y accom pi ish ed , Mr. Dick further counselled, "Feed him!" and his immortal treatise on "What Shall We Do With the Toor?" was so completed and rounded that later social economists have only been able to expand and annotate it; for, washed and fed, the problem of David was solved. Summer baths along the river fronts are provided in New York and in almost all large cities with water facilities; but for at least seven months in the year a very large portion of our population never know the luxury of an entire bath, and have the most meager opportunities for cleansing their clothes. In Taris public laundries are provided where the poor can wash their own clothes. In London similar laundries are provided, with drying and ironing rooms attached, on equally reasonable terms. The dwellers in the New York tenements have nothing of the sort within their reach, and are not only without any opportunities for baths, but must depend, for laundry purposes, upon the common hydrant in the hall or in the courtyard frequently frozen and raut furnish the heat to make this water available for washing. This problem of the possibilities of cooperative cleanliness has been to a certain extent solved in the building put up by the inproved dweling association in 1S81. Bayard Cutting was made president of the association anil Cornelius Vanderbilt contributed largely. Seven other millionaires took part in the experiment, and half the block between Seventy-first and Seventy-second-ets., facing on First-ave., was purchased. A building, six stories high, entirely fire proof, and eo arranged around a great interior court that every room had a large window opening to the eun, was then erected. The apartments are ample in size, containing from three to four eobdfiized rooms, with Feveral closets. These rent from $.25 to $13 a month, and have water, a coal and .rbage elevator, and an ash chute. On the ground floor in each of the four divisions is a large bathroom divided into closets, each containing a zinc-lined tub quite as good as. those in the private homes of wealth. These have both hot and cold water, and are open to the women and children from 10 to 5, and to the men from 5 to 7. They are quite free, the only rule being that every one, after using a tub must wash it carefully, and provide his own soap and towels. In two of the houses are general laundries on the first floor, and from these the clothes are dried in the court, while the other two have theirs on the top floor and utilize the roof for drying, thus giving ample room to all. These laundries contain stationary tubs and an excellent arrangement for the injection of steam instead of hot water, by which the clothes can be boiled in the tub itself. Upon payment of the rent the tenant receives four tickets which entitle him to entrance to the laundry one day in each week, either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, as he may prefer. The cost of supporting these laundries is not great; the coal required for pumping water throughout the entire establishment, for heating water for the baths and laundries, and heating the halls, amounts to only nine tons a month about S-30 the laundry and baths being the smaller portion of the expanse, as the power to send water through ro large a house is very considerable. 1 he cost of laundering the clothes of each is only a few cents a month. The first suggestion of cooperative housekeeping as a solution for many domestic ditücultiea was made nearly twenty years ago by a New England woman. Mrs. Melusina Fay Pierce, who published a series of articles under that title in the At'antir Monlhhf, in 1808, and afterward collected them into a volume. Mrs. Pierce has, in her little book, some 6harp things to say to women. The wrongs and oppression ot women, of which so much is heard in these later days, are, in large measure, due to the very fact of her having failed to keep step with the tendency of modern civilization. She has learned no lessons of organization as to her labor or methods of spending tho money which the man earns for the support of the family. Labor in this country, at least is well paid, and if families do not live in comfort it is largely because the money earned is not carefully and wisely spent. Here is an illustrative cas?: A family of three grown women and four children in Jirooklyn earned $1(5 a week a week. Their food cost them SO a week, or SI cents a day, and consisted ofthreedaiiy meals, of which two were composed entirely of tea, without milk or sugar, and bread without butter. The third was of potatoes, meat and pie. At one of the cheap restaurants the owner undertook to feed five 'longshoreinen for Sl.2 a day, and gave them for breakfast two cups of coffee (with milk and Bugar) apiece, bread and butter, potatoes and two eggs each. Dinner consisted of roast beef, soup . with vegetables and barley, potatoes, bread and pudding. Supper was of steak, potatoes, onions? bread anl butter and tea. This was using the mot expensive kinds of meat, roast and steak being far more costly than meats for boiling and stewing, providing for the appetites of laboring men, and taking into calculation the restaurateur's profit on his business, the cost of rent, coal, service and general plant; yet it is not all thin double what it costs to feed in the meanest way three women and four children. The dilTcrence is, to a great extent, in the advantage to be had by the purchao of food in quantity; for the tenement house poor, having no place to store their purchases, but in infinitesimal quantities. What this difference is in the mere matter of nurchase of the food the following figures, collected from the retail chops in the tenement districts, will show when compared with wholesale price lists. Tea which is quoted at fair and medium qualities, the same grade that tho retail dealers sell at 15 and IS cents a ound in quantities sells to the tenement iouso purchasers at 3 centa an ounce, the quantity iu which they usually buy it, making it 48 cents a pound. Jiutter for which they par 2h cents an ounce, can bo

bought by the quantity at prices varying from 10 to IS cents a pound, iugar for which they pay 10 and 11 cents is to be had at wholesale for 7 and J. Soap retailing at 5 cents a bar can be had by the box at about 3. Starch by the box is 4 cents a pound, and at retail 8 ceuta. Oil is 13 cents the gallon at retail, and from 8 to 9 by the barrel. Molasses is (X) cents a gallon wholesale, and SO to 00 retail. Flour, by the barrel is from 3 to 3 J cents a pound, and at retail is 5. Lard is, in bulk, y cents; at retail 1.1. Rice is 9 cents when bought by the pound, C when purchased by the barrel. Codee is CO cents a pound when bought by the ounce, and from 17 to 21 for the same grade iu sacks. Turnips are $1 a barrel and 7ö cents a bushel. The question of price is, however, but one-hall of the extravagance of individual housekeeping. A knowledge of the best food to buy, and the most nutritious and economical method of preparing it, is far more important than the money originally spent. For example, it is most uncommon to find in this city any conception of the values of soups as a cheap and palatable food any idea of the superior saving in boiled meat overroast or fried meat. Oat and corn meal will almost entirely take the place of meat, are cheap and easy to cook, agreeable, wholesome, and the most sustaining of all cereal food. The Scotch and the negroes do the hardest of manual labor upon very little else than these two varieties of meal, and are for the most part stalwart and healthy people, liice is another one of the cereals upon which hard-working life can be sustained at the lowest cost, and is also scarcely known among the poor of this city, although the Chinese, whom the bitter competition of over-population has taught the last possible food economies, have known its value for centuries. As has been shown, washing can be done co-operatively to the best advantage ; and while cooking and marketing would be more difficult to arrange satisfactorily, and experiments would have to be made with the natural mistakes incident to all new undertaking?, there is no inherent reason why it might not be made a working success. come one experienced in feeding numbers at the lowest possible cost might make the estimates, and the sum required to be contributed at the end of each week by a sufficient number of families to make the purchase of supplies at wholesale possible, adding a certain amountforthe iabor of those preparing the food. A model tenement might contain a kitchen with all the latest conveniences of domestic science, as do the afore-mentioned laundries; and this could be saved out of the space necessary for kitchens in the apartments, making them smaller and consequently cheaper, but at the same time equally spacious to the occupants. Some one or two persons, selected for their knowledge and ability, would devote their entire time to the work; and, their wages being paid by a hundred people, they might get excellent remuneration for their skilled labor, and yet the hundred people pay only half a dollar a month each for a competent and trained cook. In the same way their food would be reduced in cost by the purchase of supplies in bulk; and, the attention of a capable person being entirely concentrated upon marketing to the best advantage, preparing the best and largest amount of food in the best way for the lowest price, the co-operative families would get double the value of their money as now expended, and not surfer the numberless ills resulting from improperly nurtured bodien.

PATTI AND MARY ANDERSON. The Diva's Succcm in South America "Our Mary's" Krutoration to Health. "I met Henry E. Abbey, and he tells me that Tatti has completed her South American tour," Kays the referee in the Philadelphia Times. "That is not what he told me either, for she made no tour. The great pong bird never left Buenos Ayres; but in that city she sang thirty performances, and what do you think the reeiptswere? $610,000, or an average of $17,000 for each appearance. Certainly no city in America, liberal as we are in amusements, would contribute any such sum as that to the box-office. She is now back in Wales after this wonderful triumph, and Mr. Abbey has arranged a few concerts for her in England before bringing her to this country. She opens her season in the United States at Chicago in December, her introductory opera being 'Sonnambula.' She made a" big hit in this opera in South America, singing it there for the first time in four years. Hence she selects it for her opening in this country. It is certainly wonderful how this marvelous woman holds her reign in the hearts and purses of the civilized world. Marcus Mayer, Mr. Abbey's lieutenant, brought me some good news yesday. lie says that they have just received a letter from Mary Anderson, and that she announces herself as perfectly restored to health. She writes, says Mr. Mayer, that she was never better in her life than she is at this moment and is ready to resume her professional work. But Mr. Abbey agrees with Miss Anderson that she shall still remain at rest for another season, and the will not act again until she appears at the Broadway theater in New York November a year. Great preparations are to be made for that event, and this plucky American girl will appear before her countrymen and countrywomen with renewed powers and a new play." "When th Wild Cooe Wlngeth Southward And tu Leavrs Iirglu To Fall." I love the gushing priogtinie and tumraer't llstleos Lours, When warm of bees hum busily la ?ai of blooming flowers. And the latighii? brook gooa leaping on its long and pt bbly w.'iT, And we hear thu red-birds' mellow long through all the sunny day; . But ruwt autumn to my mind is fairer than them all. When tha wild goose wlngeth southward and the leaves tcgia to fall. The swallow chirped his last farewell so many days The rt.blnn took th' ir southward flight in brown October's glow, The chipmunk hoards his store of nuts beneath yon rottenln? Mil, And the woodrhuck difs his winter's homo in the side of yonder hill, Tho crows aro eawluR noslly from that leaflet oak tree tall. And the wild froose wlnjteth southward and the loaves brgin to full. IU-neath these clouds that lazily float o'er the azure sy I ice, as a epeck In the etlor sea, the journeying ducks go by, Tb coro tops rustle in the wind, the wheat field bleak and dr ar, The mralows brown, the orchards itrlpt, the pas tures brown and sere, The forests docked in srreen and prold, a variegated wall, When the wild rooso wingeth southward and the l.aves begin to fall. And yon gray dotard fitting In hit cozy old arm chair, The Norember wind across his porrh tangles his siWery hair, ' The autumn of his life has come with its sad, sweat, sored gr'.ef, Ills youth's day-dreams have fallen like the sere and yellow leaf. rtls hopes and dreams hare Down away to some younger beck and rail. While the wild goose wlngeth southward and the leavea begin to (all. Charles Matrum Cäattost. 2jDoro, Äot. ll. Prelljr flood for m Gares. (Chicago Advance. "Who wu the first man. Tommy" asked the Sunday school teacher, alter explaining that our first parents were made from the dual ol tüe earth, "Jieary Clay, niA'am."

IMPORTS PAY FOR EXPORTS

WHY LOW TARIFF HELPS FARMERS. lbs Importer Always the Exporter Pro. tertlon Needed by the Mill Owner Only .Against the Tanner's Surplus " Kart to Ponder Over. The increase in the valua of our farms between 1S50 and 1SG0 was as follows: 'a!u of farm. $,!. 5,04. V07 3,871, 575,421 isr.o.. 1S50.. Total increase, ten years S3,33,4(iD,.8rt Average yearly increase 337,340,958 This was the free-trade era, the ten years of a democratic low tariff. Contrast those with the past twenty vears of high tarilf: 1880 18G0..... ,..10,107.096,77 .. 6,ü43,0i.,007 Total Increase, twenty years J 3,552,0.11, 7B9 Arerage yearly increase 17 1,GOi, 58 In other words, farming was 90 percent, more prosperous under a democratic low tarilf than it has been under a republican hijrh tariff. In exact figures the increase was 18.-Otol8RO (ten years 3. 373,469,58 1861 1 1X80 (nineteen years) 3,374,449,181 When we consider that the population more than doubled and the wealth of the country increased more than five-fold between 1850 and 1SS0, the significance of these figures cannot be over-estimated. That farming paid under a low tariff is shown by the capital invested in it: mo. i.vwi. S3,71,5?5,421. Sr,643,045,007. Yearly iucrease, 10, ter cent. That it has not paid under protection needs but a glance at the census figures: 180. 1'81. 6,613,045,007. 10,197,036,776. Yearly increase, Vi Pr cent. In ten years of low tariff our farms have doubled in value. In twenty years of protf ction they have only increased 54 per cent. No other explanation is needed why farming no longer pays, why the farm lands of Vermont are for sale at $2 per acre, and why industry is peeking other fields. During the "free-trade era" 123,029 firms were engaged in manufactures, and the census shows the following capital invested : mo. mi. 533,14 15.351. 1,009,853,715. Veariy increase, 9 per cent. The farmer and the mill-owner were then on equal terms, and both prospered. Manufacturing was confined to what would pay. In 1S61 the cotton-mill owners of New Kngland, the woolen-mill owners of New York and the iron-moneers of Pennsylvania about 3,000 in number obtained control of the legislation of the United States, and this is how they protected themselves : 1S60. iwn. C1,00UI8."5I715. 3,790,-472,606. Yearly increase, 8 per cent. These figures are the totals of all manufactures, protected and non-protected. Some industries, like our ship-yards, have been "protected" out of existence, others have been crippled, and these brinp down the average, for only a small proportion of our manufacturers are protected, and they have prospered not only at the expense of the farmer, but at the expense oi the un protected manufacturer. In ISÖO-IS'30 the American farmer had the whole world for a market. He could eell anywhere and bring his payment in foreign goods into the country. If his payment v.-s taxed, it was only properly taxed to bear its fair share of the expenses of government. He was then, and is today, the importer of 80 per cent, of the foreign poods coming into the country. He was then the only competitor of the unprotected, a.? he is to-day the only competitor of the protected mill-owners. Imports are the payment we receive for our exported surplus products. Not one dollar's worth of foreign goods can be imported in the country except in payment lor American labor and our products exported. The protected mill-owner has no other "competitor'' than the American farmer, w ith the exception of a few unprotected American manufacturers who may be left out of the question. No human being outride of the United States can enter into competition with the American miilowner, and inside the United states the farmer who imports 80 per cent is the only one whom he fears, or the only one whose competition can affect him. It we had no Biirplus to fell abroad not a merchant ship would enter our ports. Selling is buying ; buying is selling. They are the two fides of one transaction. If we bad nothing to sell, we could buy nothing. Trade would stop. Great Britain forced open the ports of China because the Chinese merchants had tome-thing to eell, and their government would not let them import the payment. The bui-ers, who could not pet what they wanted" to fell without paying for it, had to deliver the payment through the use of force the teller, the Chinese merchant, could not bring to bear upon his government. If China had bad nothing to sell, her ports might have remained wide open for a thousand years without one dollar's worth of foreign goods goine into them, or even a tramp vessel calling at one of them for anything except water. It is a physical and logical impossibility for a mill-owner outside the United States to enter into direct competition with a mill-owner inside the United States. He must buy our surplus products to get his coods into American ownership, and once in American ownership they become the product of American labor. There can be no competition between the buyer and the seller, or the seller and tho buyer, and the foreign mill-owner mut be on one or the other side of all transactions with Americans. All individual competition of every kind, in any country, must be confined to the inhabitants of that country. This tariff fiht is between two Americans the American exporter on one side and the American mill-owner on the other. The farmers of this country sold lat year in foreign countries $."00,ooo,ooo worth of surplus farm products. They took in exchange, or brought back, or the buyer sent back, in payment, foreign goods. These foreign goods, tough t with our farm products, were, leforo they entered the country and while still on the high peas, the property of our farmers. The minor details of trade and the agencies employed in the exchange simply befog the question. The protits on them were profits for the farmers. If foreign mills "sold" more cheaply "competed," they call it than our nulls, they competed only with other foreign mills in their own country to get our surplus farm products, and the profit of the competition went to the American farmer or should have gone. These foreign goods do not enter into competition with the American mill-owners' goods until after the American farmer or his agentjj have received them in payment for hi surplus exported until ho was the owner of them, and they were the fruit of his toil. Competition the only competition possible with the American mill-owner begins when the American farmer desires to dispose of the foreign payment for his exported product, exchanging it with his countrvmen for other products of iabor. . The "farmer and the mill-owner are rivals in business; in open, active competition. The farmer has f.'xTO.OOO.CXK) worth of foreign manufactured goods, the payment for his labor, to eil to his countrymen. The protected mill-owner has, perhaps, between three and four times as much. The farmer has exchanged each day's labor on his farm for products that will take two da ye' or three days' labor in an American xnilU

The former eelis dear or buys cheap, whichever way it may be put. He has th whip-hand of the protected mill-owner in business ruider fair plav, and can under sell him. The mill-owner howled for protection in ISol. Protectica from wheat and from whom? Protection from the American farmer. Protection from the American farmer's surplus. Protection from the American tanner's payment fvr his surplus. Irotection from the American larmer's !isposal to his countrymen of the pavment for his surplus. Protection frojn the American farmer's competition in the disposal to his countrymec of the pavment for his surplus. There was no other human being on this green earth from whom the American mill-owner could be protected, or frota whom ha wanted protection. There was no other human being who entered into competition with him, or who could enter into comjetition with him, except the American Urmer. He was protected but protected from the Americai farmer only. The American farmer was forbidden to take in payment for hi Furp'tis anv refined sugar, under penalty of i. fine of three and one-hai cents per pound to protect forty-nine rfiners. . The American farmer was forbi s take in payment woslen cloth, ur.'.t.fenalty of a fine of sixty to nin. tv r r cent. tojrotect cloth weavers! The American farrrcr was forbidden in take in payment cottcn cloth, under penalty of a "tine of fortv to 220 per cent. to protect 1,005 cotton sjvnner?. The American farmer was forbidden to take in payment iron or steel, under penalty of forty per ceLt, to protect 1,00 iron workers. The American farmer was forbidden tr take in payment silk goods, under penaltv of a fine of fifty per cent. to protect eilk weavers. And so on, and so on. Every line in the tariff that prefect? 8ny. body or anything is levelled directly al the American farmer, forbidding him in so many words to take in payment oi his farm products sold abroad "whatever is made by the person "protected," heraus the farmer might, or cou. i, or would sell it again, at a profit, to his countrymen at a lower xrice than the protected millowner. The yearly product of over two mi! Hon farmers must be sold abroad. There aro 2,000,000 more in the fsrmir.g busine than are required to supply our f.000,0i people. There are less than thirty thousand establishments protected from their competition, and the highest estimate cf the persons employed men, women and children in these protected establishments is fW.000. The 30,000 mi.l-owners, who make large fortunes wnen times are good through the protection they enjoy against the competition of the 2,0 k) farmers, wax fat; but the latter wax leaner and leaner. From 1SÖ0 tolSOOthesemilJ -owners wer not protected against the farmers and farming paid. The value of our farms increased lOj per cent, yearly, or more than double the rate of increase" of population. From 1S)0 to 1$$0 these "(',0 0 were protected against the farmer and fanning has not raid. The value of our farms is

increasing only 2J per rent, yearly, or less than the rate of increase of jonulation. In 1SÖ0 our farms represented 46 per cent of our national wealth, and in 1S1 they represented only 23 per cent., a decline of one-bait". Ymr IV';' rf Formt. 1Ä.V) S-V272..S75.421 1)0 6.64Mi,fn7 1S50 10,197,Wö,7;6 T 111 ir,a!:h. T(r ft. 7. 15.7 4. :.l")i'.fil,m 41 Cl.bJilwi.uGJ 23 And the American tamer votes solidlr. votes blindlv. and vrill oontinne to vnta every year to protect the mi J-owner against competition ny cimscii am oniy m;nseu T. E. 1LLPOK. UNTRUE AND UNWARRANTED. William Hnr narrinon Smith's Fat. K" port of a Grand Intitnticn. John G. Elake, iuperintendent of the 7h diana school for the feeble-minded children, was in town recently. Mr. Blake wj &kel if he had seen "V. II. S.'s" recent attack upon his institution in the Commercial-Gajite. The question provoked an outburst of eloquenci from Mr. Blake. "Why," he said, "there wai not one solitary word of truth ia Smith! letter from beginning to end. He did not even giri the rijrares of the appropriation made by the legislature last fpring correctly. I thought first I would make a reply to his attacfc, but concluded that it was not worth while, as I understand what V. II. S.' says does no count. "We shall very shortly more into oar ne buildings at Fort "Wayne, wbeo we shall ban 270 inmates. There are 120 applications now or oar files which enn not be granted till we e& into our new buildincs. The last report of th' state bureau of statistic snows that there an some 1,800 of these feeble-minded children ir Indiana, and this means that our institution it juct as iieceo'-ftry as any oi the other charitie maintained by the state. "Our new buildines at Fort Warne will cost including land and everything, SJSr.SOO. Oar trustees and architects are under bonds, anc we shall hare buildings equal, if not superior, to those of any similar institution ia the t. The deaf and dumb institution, with SIS pupi s, has property invoicing $.")l,00, and h.is a maximum capacity for patients. It will be s eu that the school for the feeble-minded will cost the state less in proportion to the number o. , iu intnab s than other institutions. We fed very proud of our school and find that, al though there has been considerable prejuJic against it. every one who investigates it be comes its firm friend at once. "Got. Gray used to express doubts of the usefulness of such an institution, but after he had inquired into the matter, he became thoroughly couvinced that it was a necessity." GOODLOE BURIED. Honors Paid tbe Second V ictim of the Le lnp;to:i TrnRcdy. Lexington', Ky., Nov. 12. Sunshine nhered in the day for Col. Goodloe's funeral. Sunshine looked oddly out of place on this Xhm city'i prime (hy of mourning when the was to lay within narrow walls of clay one of her best loved citizens. The city was full of people from every part of the United States, chief among them being ex-President Hayes, who was one of the stanchcbt friends of ths deceased politician. The revenue office bera is cloned as is also the Fayette national bank, out of respect for the revered memory ot thi lioncr.'d ueaJ. The reverue cilice of MbjsTille sent an elepnnt fbral d'sin to be put on the crave. The nrlicer her howed their love in a column of flowers fourfeet hipli, on lop of which ft snow-white dove with outspread winifs hits like a meisencer of joy. At 2 o'clock the funeral services bepmn at Christ's church, Tney were conducted by the l:ev. 11 II. Ward. No sertuon was prononnred. J he regular innerai renames oi me episcopal church were rendered. The interment occurred at the lexinpton cemeiory. where Henry Clay is buried, about 3:.) o'clock. Those, who carried the casket were John Ataw.n Hrow n rf Iyouisville; Judge J. It. Morton, 1 homns .1. lluh of rhila-lelphia; II. Winslow Ihnüry; L. 1'. Tarlton of Frankfort. Ky.; 1). T. Saöarrana, Cabesby Woodford of Paris, snd T. M. Miaw. The body was consigned to the prave ar;: 1 the frantic and plainly exhibited prief of the widow and children. Thus ends the terrible tragedy of two lives. The most remarkable eures of serofuUon record have been accomplished by Ilood'a Sarsaparilla. Try it. Sold by all drupgists. Ttit yT Ri.'APt Fk For Infants & Invalid IM MflU . Illil - M l prepared Frv. nisptrd to ft, Mk,f ,trmf h 4IMrn iu every litxu 'oJaw 7c Ef'rLOV LED" 0H1TS

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