Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 October 1893 — Page 7

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VEEKLYCOUIIIEII. C. DOANIC, IubllHher. JASPKR. INDIANA.

WHEN SISSY STARTS TO PLAY. Oil! there's sadness In tlie household, and there's eUtvm ujxm thestiuot Wlirti Sissy Murin to Uy on th planner. The rol'iu- nnd ti;o bol-olinUs, thoy lx.-ai uswlft rtlp-at-"Whrn Slnsy Marin to play on tlm planner. Even tlio urtfan-grlnder passe swiftly by tho Kto. Hl tmjity tlucup lu tils hand, Ins eye a-gleatn wtlh hate: Olc t.clgbborhood for bloeUs around Is b t rangoly desolate When Sissy starts to play on the planner. The young man in the parlor la sitting pale at death Wh' u Sl5iy Start to play on tho planner. Wime father thinks tho houso too warm and g i-i to get u "breath" Wlidi Slsuy starts to play on tho planner. The tomcats Jump from off tho fence nnd tly to parts unknown, Where they may charm tho stilly night with music of their own.

And Tow m r Hits nmt bays tho moon out In tho yard iilone Win n Sissy Hurts to play on tho planner. Tlie dishes leave tho pantry shelves" and roll ujion tho Hcor When Sissy starts to play on tho planner. And grandma says she's posltlvu a burglar's at tho door When Sissy starts to play on tho plan nor. Oh' what woe and mental anguish upon my mind descend! What haste and desperation all my movements do nttendl Excuse me 1 must snatch my hat and go to see a friend Ere Sissy starts to play on tho planner. Henry 1). Mulr, In Puck.

RECONCILIATION. Why tho Old Lino Fonco Was Torn Down.

It was a close, sultry summer afternoon, with scarce a breath of air stirring, while the sun poured his scorching rays from a cloudless .sky. All rloiit the old Burton farmhouse a deathlike stillness reigned. There weie no sounds of voices from within, no creaking footstops on the uncarpeted floors; while, without, even the songs of the birds were hushed. The dingy, forlorn-look ing house, with its low unpainted, weather-stained exterior, its low doors

nml its small winduws, was even more di solato and forsaken in appearance than was its wont, and at first glance one would have thought it comnletelv

deserted. Jtut a closer observation proved that such was not the case. Isaac Burton, old and gray, and bent tinder the cares and burdens of years of trial and toil, sat on the doorstep of the house with his face buried in his hands, now and then casting a furtive glance through the open door in the direction of a bed in a corner of the room. While he sat there the nun crawbd down the western .slcj', casting1 its shadow obliquely through tho open door, yet he seemed unmindful of the faet that time was pasing. Uising

irom ine steps, iinnJIy. he stood an inMailt listening to tht slow, regular 'breathing that came from the bed, then walked out across the neglected yard, muttering, half audibly: "She sleeps well, but I don't like the pearance of her face." Reaching tho crooked rail fence that separated the yard from tlie public highway, old Isaac stopped and for a little while stood looking down the hnrd, white road that an through the long, straight lane to the east. The road was deserted, not a living object Wing visible on all the two miles of it that lay within his view. "She ort to have the doctor." 1ii mit.

tered, "yit I don't like to leave her to go and fetch him. She looks motity quare 'bout the face an' eyes, an' I'm nfeerd she's bad tuck." Then, after a short silence: "If only somebody was passin' this way, so's I could send word to the mill an' git the doctor." Then Isaac cast a look in tho diveclion of the ridge, a fourth of a mile to the west, where a small log house, similar to his own, stood, and something like a sigh escaped him. Shale-

k ms iieau sauiy, ne turned away. "Neighbors M be powerful helpin' nn' comfortin' just now," he mused, 'an' I'd give a heap if we had some. I never got lonesome when Lindy was I an' about, but now she's down I wel like half tho world is gone, an' it pears like I hope for somebody to keep me company. Them people," nodding toward tho house on tho opposite ridge, "ain't no neighbors, an no niatter what comes I can't go to them tor nothin'." 1 or sonic time old Isaac walked to

nnu iro m the little path leading from gate to the door, then again he Ywnt aml -vnwl over the fence to look down the road. Instantly his face j'nghtcued and a gladlight came into "Is eyes, for away down the lane he aw m .nan approaching. Nearly a nar(er of un holir passed before the jatter came tip, but Isaac waited for 'im and accosted him at once: "sani, I never was so glad to see anybudy as I am to see you. Are von goin' ovr to the mill?"

es," Sam replied, after eying old mac inquiringly for almost a minute. hat has happened, Ike?'' "Lnuly is bad sick, Sam," Ike said, in lw tone, "an' all night an all day oocii stayin' with her alone. I jiiowed, too, that she ort to have the wctor, but I was afeerd to leave her, an tbere wa'n't nobody to send. You th"mni."imt0 cwn, whon you B,t to J.Ti1?' 1,11 teU him' Ike nn' 5f there's Bn thing dsc I kin do for you I'll do it, o glad to." yo-, that's H. Tell him to come as Mjc as he km, Sam." wm i ,lw,n I,ut J'0" ort to have JJJt'Mv to stay with you, Ike. SomeJi, . p bout ""I'l tm"tendin on wis Burton." ' Unow that," Isaac replied, with a , ml a slow shaking of his head. wl ? ?,a hcaP to ,mv somebody but 1 cnn't JT-t nobody now. "

X ,m'racntnn was silent, casting

-"v.- un lim . . .

law v,- " "ie west Isaac

w auuea tad understood-

"No. Ham." lie khIiI llr ...n..

. t ...... nuiiit, umi vindictively, "I'll never go theru for a

juvur, never: "In a case lü, tili things ought to

ue uuieient, sam suggested, "i'coplu ought to forgive and forget, Ike." "Mebby so, Sam, inebby so; hut they wouldn't feel that way. All thufn been said an done in thirty years can't bo forgot in a day." It was a little while before Sam spoke again. He wished to proceed just right in his kindly purposethat of reconciling two longestrangcd families -and for a time he was at a loss how to do it. Finally he said: "Ike, if lis' Murtin felt inclined to come j-ou wouldn't object, would you?" Isaac shook his head. "Shu won't feel so inclined, Sam. It ain't natural that she should."

l uon i Know," Sam replied. "Mis' Martin has a kind he !ltt fin1 elm

- nur in sympathi.in' with the sick an' the needy. She's a good woman. Ike."

"She may be, hut I ain't ready to sav

so. Its been thirtv

family an' the Martins bnr.. ,.t.,i..

bored. an' in all that time

nas passed between u It's hard to

forget an' forgive after so long, Sam,

an i low .Mis' Martin can't do It. SI...

may be a good woman, but she ain't

goon enough to do that," Sam said no moro. lmi w.nt

the road toward the mill, while Isaac.

returned to his seat on the doorstep. Lindy still slcnt and. :is lur ImulitiTwl

sat listening to her breathing, his

iiiougnts ran over the conversation he had just hud with Sam Gross. "I'd beglad to have M is' Martin here,"

ne inongnt, "but I ain't no right to expect her to come, even if sho wns rhric

tian enough to forgive an' forgit. Three

months ago, when Martin lay ick, I never went about him, an' even

when lie died I kent. imnr (mm ti,..

- ....... u,v House, not so much asseein' him l.n -;,,

I ain't no right to expect her tobe more

jorgivnr tuan myself." When Sam Gross arrived at Mrs. Martin's house he went in and asked for a

ilnnk of water. She gave it to him, then asked him to ston awhile, in r.t

"I'd be glad enough to," Sam replied, mopping thu perspiration from his

brow, "but I'm in too mush of n. bur

ry. Comin' by Hur ton's just now, Ike

ne comes out an' says Lindy is bad tuck, an' that he's afeared she's L'oin' niT. tin'

he asks me to send the doctor up. so at .....

i ii nave to git 'long us peart as I kin. Poor Lindy!" Sam went on, after a

snort pause, "I 'low that doctors an'

medicine an sich likes ain't atmin' tn

do her much good 'less'n she has proper

nu.ssin. nee can't 'tend on her wuth shucks, no matter how hard he tries.

an' if he goes 'bout in sight of 'er w ith

that forlorn, sad look he wears, she'll die shore, jest o' that alone. She needs a good, cheerful woman nuss, Mis' Murtin, scch as you'd be, now." Sam stopped and waited, as if for a reply from Mrs. Martin, but she did not spe.ik, and he went on: "Incases like that," he said, "it's a great pity folks ain't got no neighbors,

ler irooü neighbors ih m ivm-or

fort to the sick an' them as is related ttf

the sick. There's no knowin' what good nussin' would do fer Mis' Hurton, tier how consolin' a word o' sympathy would be to poor old Ike in his lonelincps. I feel fer them poor critters, Mis' Martin, an' I do wish somebody would be neighborly with 'em." Again Sam paused, but Mrs. Martin said nothing, and he saw that he must

speau plainer in order to make the im pression he desired.

"Mis' Martin," he continued, "life is

powerful short, an' if people expect to prepare fer eternity they ain't got no

iimo io waste in useless bickeritra. Them as aspects to be happy in the next world can't afford to spend their

time here in contentions. l er mv part, a . ..... X

ns .Martin, l a hate to let a cross fence atween two farms stnml hof.wivt

me an my neighbors, much less betwixt

mean Heaven, ow fer thirty years

that cros-s fence up there has kept you uns an" the Hnrtons apart, makin' you enemies when you ought to V been friends an neighbors, an' it was all on account of contentiousness. Hither

family would 'a' made up in a minute

if the other would 'a' tuck the fust

step, but neither would budge an inch, an' so it's gone on an' ou, all of you bein' as miserable as sin. Mis' Martin, 'tain't right. People as hopes to be for

give in the next world must forgive in this. I put it to you, now. Mis' Martin, if I ain't right?"

. "Sam, you are right," Mrs. Martin re

plied, i hat cross-fence trouble has

caused me many sorrowful days, and there never has been n tune when I

wouldn't gladly have buried the strife

and maito inetids with the Ilurtons. Hut I thou-'ht the first adva neos tn.

ward a reconciliation ought to come

from Isaac lie was most to blame." "Mis' Martin," said Sam, "I don't know

who was most to blame. I ain't no

call to sneak of that. P.ut this I linmv

If n person is a true Christian an wants to so act. that nerson mustn't

stick at no lino n'ints: an' in a effort, to

fetch about a reconciliation ho must be

wilhu' to go nioru'n half-way to meet t'other party. Scripture says, Mis' Martin, to 'do good to them that despitefully use you,' an' as Christians we're bound to do it." Sam spoke witlt deep solemnity, and it was plain that his words had a great effect on his auditor. Mrs. .Martin was a Christian woman nud she meant well, but, like many other good people, she found it hard to humble herself. There was a long silence, during which a conflict between duty and prido waged within Mrs. Martin's bosom. "Sam." she said, at, last, "do von

think Isaac would not resent my coming into his house?" "1 know he wouldn't," Sam replied, promptly. "More than that, Mis Martin, I know ho'd welcome yon." "Then I'll go, Sam, an' let tho outcome of it be what it may, I know I shall feel tho better for goin'," Sam started on his way, happy in the thoiiL'llt of what he had

and hoping that his efforts might lead to the burial of the differences that had so long kept the two families at en mit j Mrs. Martin went immediately to Burton's, and whan old Isaac fron kl

wat oa the doorstep aw Iter coming vn

ne wus more surprised than he ever hud been in all his ltfe. However, ho composed himself sufllclently to give her a fitting reception and remove from her mind all fear of her visit being considered an intrusion. At first there was an air of restraint iilxmt the actions and conversation of both, but that gradually died out, :md in lime they became easy and natural in their deportment. Thu doctor came, but he could not give Isaac any eneouragcinent, for he found that Lindy was in a dangerous condition, with little prospect of improvement. "She is very low." he said, "and .

can hope for no change for the better. I'm afraid she cannot last long." And the doctor was riirht. for dm-

day the sick woman sank, and after the

inpse oi a week she closed her eyes on earth forever. All through the week Mrs. Martin stayed by the bedside, devoting herself to the invalid as faithfully as ever nurse did, receiving tho blessings of her charge and the hearty felt gratitude of laac. Then, when all was over, she returned to her homo

happier than she had been for thirtv long years. A year passed, and tho people ol

i Ossum uuige, began to wonder if tho cross-fence trouble was to be revived in court again. The time for which a stay of proceedings had been granted had nearly expired, and at thu next sitting of the court the case would be called up for further action. Isaac and Mrs. Martin had become neighborly, but neither of them had over mentioned the cross fence, and the mailer stood just as it had before Lindy's death. People had talked a great deal about it, some conjecturing that old Isaac, would dismiss tlie caso after Mrs. Martin's kindness to his wife, some maintaining that ho would not, and some going so far as to predict that Mrs. Martin, in the forgiving disposition of her heart.

dismiss the case herself. Sam Gross heard all that was said, watched pro

ceedings quietly, and even ventured to

speaK io each oi the nartics senaratelv.

in the hope of having the affair settled

amicauiy. nut still everything remained in doubt, and but a week must

elapse before the coming on of court. Sam shook Iiis head sadlv. feullmr that.

after all, his efforts had fallen far short

of his cherished desired.

Late one afternoon old Isaac donned

his best olothine. and. takitur down his

cane, walked up the road to Mrs. Martin's. The widow received him lt:i-

ciously, inviting him to a scat on the

mng, ramoung porch, and exerting herself to the utmost to make him feel

welcome.

"Mis' Martin." Isaac said, after the

had exchanged a few commonnlncn re.

marks, "you know, of course, that the

eross-tence suit is to come up in court

next week? '

"es: I know it." the widow

answered, sadly, "and I wish with all

my heart that it wasn't. I'm tired oi

it."

"So am I. Mis' Martin." Isaac said.

with a slow shaking of his head. "1

wish now that cross fence had never ex

isted. It's been a source of sorrer till

of us, an' many'a the time Ptc regretted

acepiy mat. the suit was ever brought,

an I've reirrettcu it a thousanT times

more than ever durin' the last year."

so have J, the widow replied. "II we had only been friends an'neitrhborj

while. Martin and Lindy lived. We'vq

missed a great deal, Mr Hurton, by out contentions, an' now that t'other two is gone we ought to try to live bottei an' happier lives. We ought to drof the old suit an' bu our differences. Don't you feel so?" "I do. I've felt it for a long time. Mis' Martin, an' I come h'erc this eveuin' to talk the matter over an' see if wc couldn't agree to a p'an of settlement 1 have a plan to offer, Jane, which, il 'twas agreeable to you, would settle th trouble forever." Mrs. Martin arched her eyebrows in surprise when Isaac spoke her first name, for that was the lirst time in his life that he had shown such familiarity. Yet she did not seem offended at all, nor did she anncar disnlensed when he

drew his chair nearer hers and looked into her face with an unmistakable tenderness.

"Jane," he wenton, in lowsoft tones, "we are gittin old, an' we're al alon in the world. For thirtv years we've

been as strangers, an' we'vo each

helped to sadden the life of tho other.

We can blot out the old trouble, im'

the line-fence witli it, an' I feel that we ought to do it. It's our duty to forgit the past, an' in the future try to make up to each other the hannlnoss

we've missed. We can make tin f;irmj

one, .lane, an then there'll be no need of no cross fence an' we kin make our lives an' interests one, an' then there'll

be no need for no more contentions." Isaac paused. bnt as the widow ilirl

not raise her eyis nor attempt to speak.

ho went on: i

'I'm a louelv oldiman. Jane." besnlil

"an' want somebodi- to keen inn rumivi.

ny through my fewuremaining years, , 1 l. 1.1. I . tu

an noiKMiy tvouiu''Nuii nse jiko you. I love you, .lane, for your kindness to Lindv. an' I want vo'u tifforim-o mo fur

all of the past an' ba.my wife. Wo can be comfortable an' Vre n cheer cneli

other in our declining days. Jane, will

BOGUS VOLUNTEERS.

tfndesrrvci! I'ruiiA Uratiivrcd C'ljon Fraudulent Skulicrr. "Whatever else wo may forgot," said Maj. McKinley to thu Society of tho Army of the Tennessee; "whate'er else wo may blot from our history we can never forget the bravo men who entered the service of their country without hope of reward ami without any Incentive of fame or popular praise, but who, taking their lives into their own hands, gave the best they had. and till they had their life's blood to tho faving of thu freest and best government under the sun." To the volunteer who answers that description every fair-minded man may heartily bay amen. So far as the pension roll has grown out of the war, and tho beneficiaries are such men surviving with wounds or enervated by disease contracted in the line of service, this country may cheerfully pay tho amounts, und tho bcnelits may with applause bo extended to the widow and minor children of such volunteers if those widows were '..ur.Uy war-made.

Hut Maj. McKinley lind l iu-to observation of tho war and of i'.v c w'.ition

uf tin nnrth. and of the plans of enlistment w'tirh came when the struggle hud sctthvl down to one of dead earnestness and it was found by enthusiasts that tho battleileld was not a holiday: and ho knows, ni every man knows who was part or parcel uf that struggle, that there were volunteers who did not fill the description made by Maj. McKinley in his after-dinner speech. There is a nether sido to this story of patriotism. As the war went on resort to draft was neeesaary, and those who an volunteers entered the military service came to be of a class that were not without hopo of reward. They were paid largo bounties, they were purchased us substitutes, they were enlisted by local committees for tho purpose of filling up quotas, and they had merely to give consent to enter the service accredited to n nnrtlcn.

lar congressional district or subdivision thereof to receive u sum of money, sometimes thousands of dollars larger

than they ever had before and than they have ever had since, even under the arrears of pension act. The mercenary spirit cams in strongly toward tho close of the war. Men would not budge as volunteers unless they were paid handsomely, and most of such persons sought short-timo enlistments. In addition to tiieir bountiespaid not by the government of the United States, but by districts seeking to avoid draft they were clothed and fed and cared for, and many thousands of them never heard the report of a hostile cannon. They did not appear upon the scene of war. Their part was one of entire safety to themselves. If there is glory in war, theirs was an inglorious service. They were safely in camps at the north or ventured no'furtlicr south than mere depots of sup

plies, huch volunteers certainly do not deserve the high eulogium bestowed indiscriminately by Maj. McKinley upon all volunteers, lint it is the latter mercenary class, the men who havo no record of actual peril of war, who were never for a moment in personal danger, who gave nothiug of their life's blood or of any material service to the government of tho United States who are now loudest in clamoring for wholesalo

pensions. They wish to hang on to the eoattails of real deservers, men who did participate in battles, men who actu

ally received scars.

It is acrainst undeservers like the;n

that the country cries out. nml .snblteru

of merit, among whom Maj. McKinley

is enrolled, are not true to men whndld

fight and who did bleed and who did make sacrifices when they arc willing to cover with their shield of eulogy masses of mcro mercenaries and skulk-

crs. Chicago Times.

OLD FALSEHOODS REPEATED.

Stork-lu-Tr! Arciiuicnta of High Tart a Itrpuldiraaa. Said Mr. McKinley in his recent speech at Akron: "They say a protective tariff is a tax and a burden upon the people. It is a tax upon the foreign producer, and his welfare is notour first concern." Tliofinftco-il beggars in their supplications bofo.-o the ways and means committee told a different story. They

an ugreeo mat they wanted tho tax on imported coal because without it Nova Scotia coal could be delivered in Now England ports cheaper than their own could be. That is, they wanted the tax to enable them to exact eventyflvc cents per ton more from New Eug-laud'-rs than they could get without the tax. They wanted it as a tax on New Hnglnnd consumers, not ou Nova Scotia producers. Other tariff beggars havo admitted the. same thing, some of them expressly

u; wen as ny necessary implication. Tor instance, George P. Ikcrt, who was heard ou behalf of tho pottery beggars, said in reply to a question from Mr. Heed that "the tariff tax was undoubtedly added to tho price, and tho consumer really paid the duty." Three years atro ex-Gov. Warmnth. of l.nn!ii.

ana, protested against the substitution of a bounty for tho tariff tax "because it would disclose the fact that the tariff is a bounty," and the people wouldn't stand it when they discovered that fact. When Uenjamin Harrison was president his protectionist solicitor general made an argument beforo tho supreme court in which ho said that "the amount of duty levied is a bounty to the domestic manufacturer'" and that "it is with a view to such a benefit for him that it is levied." And so say they all when they are not trying to deceivo people whom they take to bo underwitted. McKinley himself said so when he was defendinir his notorious bill

threo years ago. Speaking of hia ridiculous provision putting the same duties on articles imported for government use as on the same articles imported for private use. he said: "The

government, its officers, agents and contractors will hereafter have to pay the same duties which its citizens generally are required to paj" In his eagerness to fool the people in one waj lie let slip the truth in another way. He admitted that the citizens of this country, and not foreign producers, pay the duties. In tlie same speech, referring to tho free admission of "personal effects" under the old law, ho said: "Tfce Practical cfTect of this provision was that tho wealthy classes who were able to visit distant countries secured exemption from tho payment of duties, while the averasc citizen, unable to bo abroad, was compelled to pay a duty upon tho articles which lio might want to iwe." So it was the "average citizen" who paid tho duties, while the wealthy citi

zen, wno coum go abroad and bring in

a small cargo of "personal effects" free, escaped. And even in his Akron speech, after asserting that the tariff is a tax on the foreign producer, he admits in no less than three places that the home consumer pays it in the form of higher prices. Of course every man who understands tho subject knows that the object of protection is to tax tlie domestic consumers for the benefit of favored producers, and that if this wero not the effect the latter would lose all interest in protection. Hut sinco the protectionists persist in their old attempt to deceive, it is in order to convict them of falsehood out of their own mouths Chicago Herald.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

ECONOMY UNDER MORTON.

ron do It?"

J he widow luted her face, beautiful in spite of its age, and, looking into Isaac's eves with an nnswcrinir tender.

ness, laid her hand in his. "Yes. Isaac." she said. "I will be vnnr

wife, an' will faithfully trv to till Lin.

dy's place in your home."

A few days later the old couple were mnrried. nml Sam Gross, wlm un nrec.

cut at the ceremony, took to himself

much of tho credit for the nappy termination of affairs, and not unjustly,

either.

Isaac immediately threw the old suit

out of court, then put men to work to tear down the old line fence and turn tho two arms into one, just as the owners bad turned their lives and Interests

into one. Thus the lust vestige of the

old trouble was removed, and the two surviving litigants entered on a quiet, happy existence, at p?ace with all tho world. Thomas S. Moatfort, ia Lt he's Weekly.

Lopping Off Espen Crrntrd by Hi K-

IHililWan rrede.crcsur. Secretary Morton's conception of the

democratic doctrine of economic government is workimr cxceediurlv well

in practice. Tho praise bestowed upon

him is deserved He is saving money by loppinc off the useless nnd exnenslve

v - M, . . brancheä of his department from tinio to time. Tho promise of eennnmv In

governmental affairs is being rigidly enforced. Ho has saved thousands of dollars during the seven months ho has held office, and ho has not stopped sav-

iugyct. He is curtailing the expenses of his department without curtailing its usefulness. Doubtless In I Im

pressed with tho nselessncss of the department of agriculture altogether. At tho rate he is going ho will have removed at tho end of his first year all of tho costly bureaus which 'Secretary Husk provided. The last branch to bo lopped off by the blows of Secretary Morton's n I

tho congressional division, which has for many years performed the work of preparing franks for senators and congressmen for the distribution of seeds. In his notice of the change to congress ho says: "In view of the fact that each senator and member is now provided with a clerk to aid him in the

performance of such duties as may bo required in the service of his constituents, it is respectfully submitted that the necessity for tho above-named division has ceased to exist, and, in pursuance of the policy of retrenchment and reform, the congressional division of this department will be abolished." The excuse is btifilcicnt. No one can gainsay it Economy tinder the present administration means economy. It means the saving of dollars, shillings and pennies wherever and whenever tho saving can be made. Secretary Morton is giving nn excellent examplo of democratic economy. Albany ArThe one hopo of the rcpubllcaa managers in the country is to keep iniquitous legislation of their own making in force and charge tho deplorable results to tho party now in power. It is in pursuance of this policy that they are doing all within their ability to block tho wliccla of legislation, toth in the house ani the senate. Detroit rree Prc&s.

COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. A' republican exchange boasts that tho democrats cannot find any new faults with McKinley's speech. If he would give us a new speecli we could accommodate them. N. Y. World. It seems to bo the opinion of interested parties that the removal of tho McKinley duty of two cents a pound on macaroni would ruin the production of the genuine Italian article in this country. lioston Herald. "If tariffs give high wnges, why is it that labor is so much higher m Knglnnd than it is in France and Oer.

many, the latter countries having protective tariffs and England having

none?" Kenton McMillin, on Mills Hill. After reading the calamity screeches of the republican high-protective barons beforo the Wilson tariff committee, one would imagine that this country had been fenced in for their benefit, and they were grumbling borause the fence isn't whitewashed. St, Louis Republic. Gov. McKinley insists upon it that the tariff caused the business depression and has made that the key note in opening his campaign for reelection. Undoubtedly the tariff 1ms

created depression and hard time In

tho business of the republican party. Louisville Courier-Journal. Tho people know what they want, and they are going to havo it They havo not changed their minds since last November. They are not afraid of themselves, and they aro not going to invite Mr. Sherman and Ids tariff-for-plunder-only associates to protect them against themselves. They expect their representatives in

congress to go right on and do what they were told to do with the tariff, as they have begun to do what they were told to do with tho "misnamed" Sherman net Chicago Herald. After reading tho reports of the tariff hearings at Washington wo confess our inability to solve the mystery of protection. Our protectionist friend's say, it observes, that put a high enough tariff on a thing, and instead of an increase of price of tho corresponding thing made in this country resulting, us people Ignorantly think, the price begins to go down for sotno mysterious reuson; at tho name time, the wages of tho men engaged in iti manufacture- begiu mysteriously to go up. And, with lower price for product ond higher wages for labor, the prosperity of tho masters grown grcatorl It ivally does seem too goyd to be true, and wo suspect it hv Indian ay olli Kcw& (Inu.)

IntrrmitlonHl tsoa for October Iff, IMS .Iiutlllcatlon by ralth-Uouiaaaflil-tl. Specially Arranged from I'cloubct'a .Votes.) Gown: TEXT.-V.'hilo wo were yot sinners. Christ died for as. ICom. 6:8. Tur.l'oUHsu of Tiiot'aiiT.-Thus far St Paul has established (b tho need of Justification; nnd H Its equal terms for Jews end Uentiles; und (3) that faith In Christ's blood is Its one uppolntcd condition. And 0) In Abraham wo ho has .Illustrated tho nature and actings of fulth. Now ho Is to deal with the elects of f.lth In lifo and character Cambriduo IJlule. Ho bovin with chanter 6 (5:1-11), but (M beforo ho comjdotbs this picture ho 11In traten (5: 13-2l the .abounding Rraco which reigns "through righteousness unto eternal Ufa' Then (J) ho shown under several figures or symbols how tho redemption in Christ leads to holiness. It U death to sin. but resurrection to righteousness (fl: 114). It Is deliverance from slavery Into tho glorious liberty of tho children of God (G:j-lXH. Itts dlvnron tmm mI on.

rlagotoChrlstfM-a.) (7)Thon follows a description of the buttlo of lira "Tho contllct is a lifo conflict It belongs neither to resencrato nor unrege ncrate nature; but to nature. Paul tortrays It azaln In tho third chapter of Philipplans: .Vot as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow nf ter If that I may apprehend that for which also I nm apprehended of Christ Jesus.' This Is tho lifo strupglo of the Christian. Not till the wa ter of the river of death lares tho feet of tho entering dlselplo can ho say, 'I havo fouht a good fight. I have finished my course.' "Abbott, (8) "The eighth chapter of Komans is not victory after battle, it is hopo and courage and faith in battle; It la a portrayal of tho spirit la which this battlo Is to bo fought." Hut in It aro many foregieams of victory, and tho blessedness that vlotory shall bestow, many Plsgah visions of tho promised latjd. T.ESSOX X0TKS. Pence with God. Vor. 1. After all the gloomy retrospect which fills the preceding chapters, the clouds break.

niiu iigui, sicuis gently over the scene. Ifor is it merely tho subsidence of storm, but an ardent and eager hope that now awakens, and. looks forward to a glorious future. 1. "Therefore being justified by faith:" Acquitted, pardoned, received into God's favor, and with a holy nature implanted In us. "Wo have peace with God:" Wo are in a stato of peace and reconciliation with God; the antagonism was removed when wo were justified. The next step after justification is peace. "Peace with God:" Not "peace from God" (1:7), nor peace of God, but a new relation to God: "Tlirough our Lord Jesus Christ:" This full form gives a tone of triumph to tho verse. Hope of tho Glory of God. 2. "lly whom also we have access:" This word sometimes signifies the art of bringing, or introducing. 15ut the word has also sometimes an intransitive meaning; the right of entering, access. This latter meaning is preferable. The same mediator who gives us pence is tho one who brought us "into this grace," as friends and children, "wherein we stand." "And rejoice in the hopo of tho glory of God:" The irlorions stuf

which God Himself possesses, and into which lie will admit the faithful. Discipline and its Fruits. 3. "And not only so:" but what is still more wonderful, the salvation of Jesus transfigures even our trials and suffering into life and hope and character. "Wo glory in tribulations also:" This word, tribulation, both the English and the Latin equivalent of the Greek, is derived from the Latin "tribulum," which was the threshing instrument, or roller, whereby the Roman husbandman separated tho corn from the husks; and "tribulatio" in its primary signiflctnee was the act of this separation. The Love of God. 0. "For:" Introducing the proof of the greatness and the freeness of God's love. "When wo wero yet without strength:" Unable to save ourselves because of sin.

"In duo iimo:" At tlie right moment. The best time in all tho ages for tho accomplishing ,of His 'work. "Christ died for tho ungodly." sinners "without God in the worldopposcd to God, His enemies. 7. "For scarcely:" This infrequent wonl expresses tho great difficulty of tho c:w, as wc might say: "It would bo very hard to .find a man who would do this." "For a righteous man . . . a good man." Tho difference between tlie words righteous and good is that which in common usage is made between just and kind. "A righteous man," fulfilling all just dtjmands, calls forth respect and admiration: but "tho good man," himself prompted by love, evokes our love, and for him ttraa ona would even dare to die. Salvation from Wrath. 0. "Much more then:" If the greater benefit has

oecn bestowed, the less will not be withheld. "Being now justified by His blood:" W hen the blood of Christ is spoken of in the Xcw Testament, it means the offering of His life as a sacrifice, or His deatli as an expiation. "Wc shall be saved from wrath:" Tho wrath of God, His indignation against sin, and the punishment which He must inflict. Salvation to Holiness by an EverPresent Living Saviour. 10. "We were reconciled kGod:" This expresses the changed relation to God and man effected through Christ, "Wo shall bo saved by His life:" or in His life. Uy participation in His life, by the ltf II bestows, and which wc live in and through Him, ns the branch lives by the life of the vine. Joy in God. 11. "And not only so:" There are greater blessings than in tho mere fact of being saved. Onco $ saved there come vision upon vision of blessings enfolded within that salvation, ns when we climb a mountain, at cacli stato of ascent wo have a wider and more glorious view than was possible at the lower stations. "Hut wo also joy in God:" Kejoice, glory, triumph, in God. God's salvation "i3 full of joy. 1'ItACTICAL BU00r.STIO.V8. 1. Kvery blessing of God contains, as tho seed contains the plant, unexpected fruits. It is a doorway into larger rooms, u stepping atone to higher good. 2. Pence reconciliation to God, Is the basis of the Christian experience. The Grst thing for a wheel that has got out of place in tlm machinery, and thus has becomo broken and useless, is to get into its right place, into its true relations with the factory. a. The Christian hopo is the most glorious In the world. It looks forward to tho very glory f God, in character and in blosscdnaaa,