Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 27, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 March 1894 — Page 3

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INDIANA IN MEMORY'S HEAVEN. Cm there fall, In l'unulUc, Stoti r lU'lit from deathless eye, Than nonius my pathway fell Once liy ItuiU'V mlriflo, jn tue ironiing of my days, When my heart llrxt met her ßazot pay wa iiiültin Into von, Crimson was the dying heuven; Overhead, In depths nfnr, A fiilut atid holllary stur , .pped asldo Itn nlry voll, t .1 uiWnwou'ii. anil with palo jMiirors tlippmt In silver iluw .Si t its taper In the blue. rr 'in whatHllll, enchunted place ( amo tue mar vol of that fueo? llrauty mich as Heraphs wcur In illumined realuiH of air, Or th dead, whim o'er their deep, I'lundonlc, eternal sleep ideals a glory that transcends Tarthly loveliness and lends To bove'H heart and Sorrow's eyes (.Impse- of oelfHtlal akl es. In a vesture snowy white, jl;c an angel form of light, Thus In radiant grace shu stood. In the dawn of womanhood. Fora moment's dreaming spaca I had vision of her fuco: Then ho turned, und, with a last Farewell gleam of beauty, passed Snout 11 a star might fall FromltH heights empyreal bho as gone, und I no word From thoxo sacred Hps had hoard: What wa loft, by hoavenly chance, Ai my heart's Inheritance, Was a look ttat time can never With durU disenchantment sever From my memory forovcr. Wilbur DuboU. In N. V. Independent ROMANCE OF A PLAY. A Plot From Itoal Lifo and tho Results. "Hut what put the idea into your hfatl"" asked the lending man of the raniatist, as they .stood together dür fen the rehearsal of tho new play. The dramatist was a lady, a tall, t pht woman of perhaps thirty, with ll.i.... l!.-l.t...l 1... r. ...it. .ark blue eyes. The beauty of those tes made people sometimes faney y,r Havering was beautiful, but she was not; she was intellectual, she was rtarmmg and sympathetic, and she suHVred you could see that in her face. Perhaps, then, she was, in a dm, beautiful. The leading man was ned to think so, and he liked very is jih to talk to her. As for her, she t. ught him "a nice fellow," and admired hts acting, but that was ail. She gained at his question. "Oh! I hardly know," she said, with an absent look in her blue eyes. "Don't yuti like it?" "Like it? Yes, of -. ursc I do; it's tehing, very telling; a bit romantic, you know." "Oh, yes! not like real life; but real life is sometimes too prosaic for the taje. i often tninK tnesc pessimists de iiu.io nu Hillen u iiuv. iiiiijiiji try little trouble. They arc too fond of dabbling in the miseries of existence." The leading man gave the speaker a qaicK iook; out ins cue. came jusi men -.n fact, he had missed it and he hud to run forward to take his place. Mrs. Havering was a novelist who hau not been very long in London, bavin? spent most of her life abroal. She V- 1 1. . . . , . au written two or tnree one-act pieces, which had been well received; n l now she had launched into a threeact piece ami was going to produce St at a trmtlnm. If ivnj n ihvnr !nv well put together and well written, but not calculated to set all the town talkin?, though superior to a good many plays that do set the town talkIn?. What the leading man alluded to was as it were, the motif of the piece. The hero, in the first act, cast off his IV. T. 'iti.1 I..r I.am .ln h itra B... -v in,,, luii. ui;iv uuuiaini 4iu ..unit. lvo as he chose, she hampered him, sn.lv MM.. - 1 1. - wan who was so cruel to her, declared 1 o. uld not shake her off. "1 shall be Ith you," she cries, "whether you tiornoi i ou shall hear me call to T'JU will. t).i. ..Iri.ct 1i.-i,,t iif Iff.. iiiui ii i cannot win you oacu 10 li'Vo I will, at least, keep you from enme." In the second act the hero is about to tarry a rich girl; the wedding guests .V II1.111 il .aid tnin.i .ii. .... A l : . .... 11 1 -'.v V.1II1II1I ui HUH, IIU l.t UIMiailUlI, iuuce-stricKen; no coniesses nis mtendod crime. In tho third act maters have reached a climax; the hero, ruined socially and in purse, is about tO COIIlinit Hliiciiln? miin tiinfn tlin tvarn. voice arrests him. he flintrs the niswi away, and as he does so his wife enand the two are completely recon- . "A charming idea," said the leadintr - i' me autnor, "out aon i you I don't kn ntv ClraViam t& hni line. "'That makes it harder." "Oh! no; I think It makes it easier." 'Do you?" aloud but to heraelf: 'r husband was one of the ffood ?. or she wouldn't talk so. It's all "Sht to forgive like that in a play; "j reallifo thu husband would go the ul WAV TUTO I,i In .1 Im. ... ll II ... uu v.at.v V tl. "Yes," said Mrs. Claverimr. IIr TOll 1 . . ... ,ny llllshntiilT" 1 he leading lady r n In.l.1lll raised her brows. . "'"ccui nut; li trw. . said, "llrownlng "ocp ior me, "A II Vnn . ... . . .J . 1 t .1 Tile Stnrr.. i. .1 f" uiaiiniici vaiiiu nil iu .n int. T 1 l,roPs-'d "cut," and the lcadl!ldy turned away to ask the leadtf "an whether Mrs. Clitverlng was a wldnu .it , . . " 1 ".vnrceu or senarateci. . - . Mire i uon't know," was the answer' ...1 ... . ... In 'uwj in uiu. emu iivcu Pent,,ai,UnUntS DCRr n0 of lho WcSt com i 1"aroB nu was always weia J,e, ,ln We literary and artistic circles i1. "u fli nd, thoufrh It was u , allyrid that her huslmnd iMu.! tt . . ...... . 1 . vuuiu no oe rccai.ea mat rer laid so; ajkd iomctlm Im

thefiu days it isn't wise to bo curious about people'H absout or noiwst. husbands. Wiieu you come to think at it, indeed, it would bo dillicult to assert positively that flavoring was her real nuini'. Her novels wcro published as by Alix flavoring, und when liu ciuitu to Loudon sho culled her.self Jlrs. Clavering, which might or might not be a nom du guerre; for it was hor publishers who lirst introduced her into London literary society, and it was not their business to disclose her real name, supposing tiiat sho hud another name than that under which she chose to appear. The rehearsal was over und Mrs. Clavering went home. Shu hud a few alterations to make in the second and third acts, and after u slight luncheon she settled herself 10 tho task. Settled? She seemed very restless and worked litfully. Sometimes, for minutes together, she sat with her face hidden in her hands and more than once tears trickled through her lingers.

"They say the piece is likely to catch on," haid a gentleman, who, in truth, was a backer of a West Knd theater. He was one of a group of men in the smoking-room of u rather llohemian club, mid his remark was in continuation of a desultory chat between himself and a well-known actor manager. "Yes," answered the other, carelessly, as he knocked tho ashes off his cigar. "They say that of so many of these matinee shows, and they're generally such rot," "What play is that, if I may ask?" inquired a man who had just caught the last words. The speaker was an uncommonly handsome man, apparently, about thirty-six or thirty-seven, but he had a reckless look, not pleasant- to see. A cautious man would think twice before introducing this gentleman into his home, for, besides his . personal good looks, he had u sweet-toned voice and an attractive address, ami with these weapons of attack he could easily conquer women's hearts, breaking them afterward at his leisure. The "backer" answered him. "A piece written by .Mrs. Clavering. the novelist She's not a 'prentice hand. Some one-act plays of hers have been done already." "I remember reading one of her novels; it was clover," said Mr. Leslie. "What's the day about?" You noticed, when he spoke, that his English was slightly tinged with foreign accent. That was natural enough, for his life, i.ince his youth, had been passed abroad, and he had only come to L'nglnnd about a month ago. "I can't teU you; story out of the beaten track, they say, again. I shall be able to send you a stall, if you care to go; you needn't sit it out if you're too much bored." Wilmot Leslie was already a favorite with the men who knew him. In this topsey-turvy world it often happens that tho least worthy arc the most attractive. "Thanks," Leslie answered. "I shall be very pleased to go. A trial matinee is something of a novelty to me, you know. One doesn't have them abroad." "No, thank Heaven!" groaned the actor manager, and Leslie laughed, but his laugh was not mirthful; it would not strike you that he was a happy man. Perhaps, like a good many, he was trying to live down his conscience. Some one suggested cards, and a move was made to the cardroom. There Leslie proved a "plunger." but he generally Avon, nnd a keen observer of human nature might have noticed that tlicre was something fictitious in his excitement as if he were keeping up the steam, as it were, to prevent his "inner self asserting itself. At three a. m. he walked through the growing dawn to the chambers, but the ghostn that llitted along by his side all tho way followed him in nnd kept their silent watch, ghosts of evil deeds and misspent hours. There was one ghost than came nearer to him than the others and looked at him with eyes of unutterable pain anil sorrow. He covered his face, but he saw these eyes all the same; he called himself a fool and cursed his "nervous mood," but the specters never stirred, and tho sad eyes grew sadder that was all. "I have done with it all!" he cried, with a reckless laugh. "I'm getting sentimental. Pouf! I'll settle accounts with a six-shooter if I can't get rid of those fancies any other way. It's too late to hark back." The day of the matinee came. The play was called "Opal," from the legend of that beautiful stone that it glows bright while the love of the wearer for the gircr burns clear and strong and grows dim when love falters and falls. Leslie's stall wns iu the last row, nnd he know none of the people near him; his acquaintances in Kngland were at present not many. He looked carelessly over his pro gramme, and bit his Hp for n moment with a quick-drawn breath; his tongue almost whispered the name of the heroine. Margaret. Hut the name is common enough. He listened to the chatter of the people about him mostly professionals not because it had any interest for him, but because he hailed anything that took his attention away from retrospection anything that drove the ghosts a little farther away. The curtain rose; the play began. Leslie listened at first with the languid Indifference of the blase playgoer. Hy and by ho became interested; he watched and listened intently. He held Iiis breath when the hero flung his wife from him and went out It was the close of the act, and the people in front applauded, all except Wilmot Leslie. He did not stir. In the second act tho interest deepened; the man in the stalls with the handsome, reckless face was enthralled. Tho fellow in the play was haunted so was he, Wilmot Leslie. He scarcely heard the applause; never lifted a hand how could ho? For this was not a play It was reality. Margaret loves her husband through allthrough unfaith and desertion, and all his piled up sins against her. ltahl it ka play a woman's aeBtlmanUl ac

tions. Lot the author bo tried, film would not keeii the opal bright The

man wasn't worth one tear ofhurs. Let him be east out nnd forgotten, as he deserved. Ami now came the third an.l last act, where the husband in prevented from committing the crime ho meditates; mid in the end, in it be.-futifully written scene which alone, said the critics afterward, ought to make the fortune of theplayMargaret forgives the man w-lio has so bitterly wronged her. Wilmot Leslie, white us deathyet otherwise masking, for pride's sake, the agony in his heart listened to tho words every one of which stabbed him with fatal blows. A play ves, only a play!- but oh! that there could be for his wasted, sinful life such a last act as thW The curtain was down nnd the house applauding and calling for the author. Wilmot Leslie, eager to see the woman who could write like this, lingered, and presently Mrs. Clavering appeared at the wing to bow her thanks. Tho face Hashed for a second upon Leslie's stnrtled gaze; the next, his eyes wcro blinded by a scarlet mist he saw nothing, heard nothing, knew nothing. He groped his way out to the lobby; some one spoke to him; he gave no nnswer; ho had not heard. He reached his own rooms going on through the streets in the same dazed way and there he Hung ihitnself down, and with n great and exceedingly bitter cry: "Margaret? Margaret!" "A gentleman, ma'am, asks to see you." "What name, Janet?'' said Alix Clavering, putting aside a pile of morning papers, all of which, more or less, praised the new piny, though some said that Margaret's love was too.nearly divine to be possible in real life. "Ho said you would not know it, ma'am. He would not detain you long." "Still, I suppose he has a name. Well, show him up." The servant retired and in a minute opened the door again. A tall man came in, just a step beyond the threshold, and paused there, the door closing behind him. Mr.i Clavering rose to her feet, trembling, and they stood face to face after seven years husband and wife; seventy times seven years of wrong between them. The man spoke find, his head bent, his voice hoarse and broken, the sentences falling from his lips in disjointed fragments. "I have been in England for a month past I did not know that you called yourself Clavering. No matter 1 should not have troubled 3011 only " He paused. It might have helped him if he had seen her face; but he did not sec it; he dare not lift his eyes to hers. He went on with an effort: "I saw your play yesterday, and 1 saw you. '1 he woman Margaret that was not you yon? Only a beautiful play isn't that it?" "No," she said, slowly. She did not move, but clasped her hands tightly, over her laboring heart "The woman Margaret is my heart She loved hira all through though his sins were scarlet he was her husband! And he loved her once! So when ho came back to her, casting all the evil years behind him, she forgave!" "No. no!" the man cried, trembling in every limb, "She could not forgive such wrong! The message was not for me, Margaret; it was only a play!" "It was deep calling unto deep," sho said; "it was my lieart calling to yours!" She stretched out her hand toward him, and he looked up nnd saw tho light in her eyes. He staggered forward, with a broken cry, and fell down at her feet, nnd she laid her arms about his neck and drew his head against her. "My husband," she said. Lon don Sketch. FOR A UTOPIA IN AFRICA. SnrlitllnU to Found Thrrr n Ilrnthrrhooil of Man, nnil Maintain It with Minim 5im. It is stated by the Manchester Guardian that negotiations are proceeding for the establishment of the "free land" colony in Kast Africa, where it is intended to make an attempt, on a scale never before contemplated, to carry out the idea of a socialistic community. It is in Austria that the idea originated, and the district selected for the experiment is Lykipin, near Mount Kenia, in the Ilritish sphere of influence, llepresentations have been made to the llritish foreign oflicc nnd an offer made to purchase a large tract of country on the condition that while the community shall be subject to any general laws which the Hritish government may make, they shall have absolute freedom to regulate their internal affairs on a socialistic basis. The experiments made In America and elsewhere have failed, it is said, becnuse they were tried on too small a stage and on too small a scale, and the highest hopes are entertained that, remote from the bad cxnmple of society as at present organized, and with ample elbow room for development, the new community will show to the world what may Iks donu by men and women devoted to the socialistic ideal. The Hritish government is averse to giving absolute rights of ownership over tho large tract of land in question, but the organizers of the new movement are apparently very much in earnest. They have secured a leader of the expedition to the new promised land in the person of Herr Deuhardt, who is well known on the east coast of Africa, nnd part of the equipment of tho new community is to be a Maxim gun and a supply of rifles. "Crank came in my ofllce to-flay. Demanded ten thousand dollars. Threatened dynamite If he didn't got it," said Callow. "And you did whnt?" "Gave him the money right off." "So you nre out ten thousand, eh?" "Nope. When I'd given him the money, I induced him to put it up on a tip I had." "Yes?" "He did It, and I won my pile back on a turn of the market" Harper's Bazar. It Is supposed that a hen lay aa egg because she can't stand it oa eai. Taxas Siftinfi

HOVTHE FARMER IS PROTECTED

H'hat 9IrKluleyUm IM Dolus tor tho Af rloultiiritl CIuk. Tho American manufacturer asks for protection from the American farmer's competition, and that tho American farmer .hull bo confined exclusively to the American market for farm products; that ho shall bo prevented by law from trading his surplus for foreign manufactures from importing profitable payment The American manufacturer fins 110 other competitor except tho Standard Oil company, our silver kings and our fishermen whose competition is too small to trouble him. No foreign manufacturer can "compete" with the American manufacturer except through the American farmer, unless the foreign manufacturer gives us the foreign goods. If tho goods are not given to us we must cither steal them or exchnngo for them surplus farm products of equal value. We can only "buy" them with metals, oil or farm products or a promise of them. "Cash" must bo either product of labor or tho promise of it Congress grants the mill owner this protection by levying a tax on each exchange of surplus American farm products for foreign manufactured products. This tax ranges from 40 toSJÖ per cent, according to tho article, and it is imposed upon the only party to it that congress can get hold of the American farmer. It is levied upon the final product of his labor our imports. It is not imposed and cannot be imposed until after the goods have been exchanged, until the foreign goods have become tho product of American labor. Not even the pretense of a tax can be levied on the foreigners because the constitution of tho United States expressly forbids any tax on exports, and the foreigner has his untaxed goods exported as the final result of his labor. 1'rotection, "to make tilings even," offers the American farmer sawdust protection against the mill-owner's invasion of tho farmer's "home market" The farmer does not need even genuine protection. Ho has his own 'home market" al ready, and he has a slice of the "home market" for manufactured goods as well. Protection takes away from him this slice of tho mill-owner's market, and, while pretending to give him what he has already, his own "homo market," tries to deprive him of that also. That the mill-owner may be nble to export his mill surplus, exchange his mill products for foreign farm products and then bring these hero in competition with tho products of our larms, protection pays to the millowner, when he exports, 00 per cent, of any revenue taxes imposed on imported raw material, and then admits the foreign farm products the mill-owner imports cither free of duty or subject only to a very low revenue duty. Of the 50 leading farm products 10 arc admitted free of duty, 5 arc taxed ouly from 0 to S per cent, oa "0 it is 10 per cent or less, on 25 it is under 10 per cent On only 0 does it exceed 20 per cent, and on only 5 Items wool, hops, rice, cane-juice and peanuts is there even a pretense of sawdust protection. Cotton is free. Wheat is taxed only 10 per cent, corn 19, cormncal 10, rye 17. buckwheat 10, poultry 10, pork 10, beef 14, llax 7, hemp 0, milk 10, and so ou with all general farm products. The manufacturer is protected against tho competition of farm labor by average taxes of 60 per ccut; the farmer is protected against mill labor competition hy average taxes of 10 per cent To discourage American farming and make it unprofitable a tax is levied on every exchaugo of farm products for foreign manufactures, ranging from 40 to 255 per cent and averaging nearly 80 per cent On exchanges that can be Etill made at a profit it averages 4S per cent; but how high it is on those that cannot be made and some can be and are made on which 203 per cent tax is paid no man knows or can guess. Here is how it has discouraged farming generally and how it has made wheat farming unprofitable in the central states: Farm l'roducti Hr(adituf$ Exported. KxporttU. IVor. IbL'L Jetii Ua 6ll,-.6i.l!) -UJ.OI0.bW MJ,i,15,.-iI3 lC.Mt.T15 ÖJU,17S.yJ 100,37 J,8:l 48l,Vj4,rtt 1Ä.M0,!C8 ..SJJ.SiW 154.VC5,VS7 0V.',?&I.344 lautH.c&o IbeSi ltäi. KW 1(01 ibli The mill-owners do not wish to compete with the American farmer at present They have a bonanza in the home market, a gold mine they arc satisfied to work. If they can get rid of the farm competition how they do not care aud supply tho people at their own trust prices, they can "make enormous fortunes when times are good," to quote Senator i'lutnb. Hut no trust, no selling agreement, no combination uf cjty kind is possible among the millowners while the farmers arc free to produce a surplus of cotton or wheat, export it, trade it for mill goods, bring it back, and dispose of it in competition. If they can drive one-fourth the farmers out of business or prevent them from exchanging their surplus, then they havo the- people by tho throat N. Y. World. Says a protective tariff organ: "For all Intents and purposes, bo far as domestic industries arc concerned, the Wilson bill is in force now." Indeed! The mere suggestion of a protective tariff bill docs not answer all the intents and purposes of the bounty beggars, however. They want something substantial. They want a real law in force not one in embryo. Tho McKinley law is uow in force, every word and letter of it, while no one can yet tell in what form tho Wilson bill will become n law. The monopoly newspapers which presume to toll the people of America that the troubles inflicted upon them by tho infamous McKinley law are duo to a "law" which is not yet fully written, and which cannot be in forco for weeks to come, may be honest in their folly, but they .will not deceivo many intelligent readers. Chicago Herald McKinley's workers are already ndlng it a hard task to keep it before the country that he has a presidential boom. It appears to have been sprung aot wisely bot too soon. Detroit Free-Preaa,

M'KINLEY'S STATESMANSHIP. On of Hin Sinallrit l-olltlrlnni Vhu Kvcr Itraritrtl Nutluiinl DUt InrtloH. llov. Villiam McKinley is Hying from one part of tho country to the other on a speech-making tour, and is showing himself to the people with as much industry as a ward candidate for ofilco displays in the spring campaign. He is keeping himself Wforo tho public with the persistence of a patent medicine advertisement on dead walls and board fences. Evidently he does not mean that the voters shall forget him for a day. Gov. McKinley is one of tho smallest politicians who ever reached national distinction in this country. He is not a statesman. He is not a scholar. He is not an orator. Accident, that is, his luck, has boosted him into a conspicuous pluce, and has "blazed" for him a truck through the political wood toward the presidency. Gov. McKinley was not the real author of tho tariff bill which bears his name. Tho bill was framed, in substance, by the agents of the protected monopolies for their own benefit McKinley simply presented them a form a skeleton of tho measure, and each protected interest filled in the figures for itself. "How much do you want?" was, iu effect, the question asked of each monopoly, and according as it was answered the tariff was fixed. The completed bill, as it received McKinley's name, was a mere indication, in tho various scheduled items, of the extent and intensity of monopoly greed in establishing the amount of "protection" that it was to eujoy. There is no measure of government, except the higkest and most unconscionable tariff ever adopted by a civilized nation, with which McKinley's name is associated. His only title to eminence is that he was tho putative author of an enormous and extortionate tax on tho people of tho country, levied for tho benefit of the limited class of bäron manufacturers cloth barons, iron barons, glass barons and other monopoly barons of all degrees. He is not identified with the cause of a sound currency, with an3' great national policy, except the pernicious tax policy, with any great public reform, with any great improvement, with any work of progress aud American development. The chapter of accidents gavo his name to nu outrageous tariff bill which he did not frame, and it has become his stock in trader his capital in business trafficking for the first offices in the nation. It may as well bo admitted that early in this year, ISO, after twelve months of power, the democrats havo not made as much progress as they ought to have made in securing a successful issue to the presidential campaign of liW. A victory then, which ought to havo been a certainty now, has been placed in peril. Hut tlicre is abundant time and there will be plenty of opportunities to retrieve the errors that havo been mado and to enter upon a winning campaign. To that end it Is probably best that the republicans should notninato McKinley for president The republican platform, properly interpreted, reads: "Up with taxes; deatn to commerce," and a man should stand upon it who represents that principle. Chicago Herald. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Mr. Cleveland did well to put an end to the unseemly wrangle in which the supreme court was a football. As for New York, the state must make the best of a situation that is unfortunate from whatever point it may b viewed. N. Y. World. Secretary Gresham's name is on the pension roll, but the government Uu't any poorer on that account Iiis idea of keeping his name on the roll of honor and declining to draw his pension is worthy of the consideration of other pensioners who do not need the money. Hostpn Herald. In thinking over the Hawaiian matter, it is well to keep in mind that of tho thirteen thousand legal voters of Hawaii, eight thousaud have signed a petition for the restoration of the government which was overturned a year ago by the iirm of Stevens, Marines & Co. Detroit Free Press. The president has done the sensible thing in leaving the New York wrangle and going as far away as Louisiana for a supreme court justice. The democratic party will follow his example and take its presidential nominees from other states than NewYork. Louisville Courier- Journal. Gov. McKinley's boom is out of all proportion to the circumstances that evolved it It will be only a cose of history repeating itself if tho governor discovers between this and 1890 that a double track business cannot be safely conducted on a single-track road. He is likely to experience a head-end collision with the sober second thought of the people of even the republicans. Chicago Herald. It Is evident from the movements of the republicans oa the national republican committee that McKinley, who has been crucified in two national campaigns, is to have his garments divided among the centurions. It remains to be seen whether the parallel will be carried to the point of McKinley's resurrection. At any rate, his clothes arc too large for any of tho men who are now trying to put uhera on. St Louis Kepublic. It is plain that tho ad valorem or "according to value" style of duty is much more equitable than tho fixed or specific stylo of duty. Rich people naturally like the specific style of duty more than they like the other, as under it they are not required to pay their proper share of taxation. It is to the great advantage of the poorer classes to havo ad valorem duties on everything, as then they aro not required to pay their own share of taxation and a considerable slice of the rich mea's share as well. The inferior qualities of goods which poor people buy are not any longer to be taxed two, three or four times as highly as the Mae qual ities of goods ia the same line which aillloaalrea bay. -N. a TUaaa-Dtas

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. laternntloiMl Iuu fur .March IS, 189 Wlno n Morkrr-rrov. UOU-7. Specially Arrnnsetl from I'cloubct's Note.) Goi.Di::f Ti:xt. WIr.o U a mocker, tror.g Grink Is-ragtag: aud whosoever U deceived theritiy li not tax I'rov. -J-l. NoTii Tito flrat vcrto aVone refers dln ctly to Intemperance, but t&at vice leadi to and In-teiiülll-all other bleu Including thoeu denounced la the following vvreen Xotu Of nil the vice lnteaiperancn la tho best xau.ito and type of all bin. It shown In a common, concrete, visible, form the temptation to sin, tho course of sin, tho barrlorj to sin, the wH-raultlpllcatlon of In, tho hanlenlnffof tho heart, lho confirmation of character, tho physical, mental, moral aad fecial evtU of sin, and iu awf ul punishment LKSeo.V NOT ICS. Us Deceptive Nature. V. 1. "Wine is a mocker:" Wine is hero personified as a sort of evil demon who excites to frivolous wantonness, or to wild and boisterous action. It is represented as doing what persons do under its influence. Thus inebriated persons scoff at what is holy, reject reproof, ridicule all that is serious. Wine leads people into trouble, and then mocks at their calamity, and gives them no relief. "Whosoever is deceived thereby:" For the whole course of strong drink is a deception, promising pleasure and giving pain, promising paradise and bestowing hell, appearing as an angel, but revealing itself a demon. "At the first it is the wine of pleasant fellowship; at the last it is the 'wine of the wrath of Almighty God, poured out without mixture.' At the first it is the agreeable excitement of an evening; at tho last it is the long-drawn agony of an endless iwrdition. At the first it is the grateful stimulus of an hour, at tho last it is 'the worm that never dies, and the fire that never shall be quenched.' " Its Terrible Power. V. 1. "Strong drink is raging;" It. V. "a brawler." Renders men noisy and boisterous, no longer masters of themselves or restrained by the laws of morality or decency. Septuagint: "Drunkenness is insolent." It is an Enemy to Prosperity and Success. V. 4. One way in which strong drink prevents success is shown in this verse. It leads to idleness, neglect of duty, imperfection in work. 4. "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold," when the plowing is more dillicult than in warmer weather. He makes the most of tho least excuses. Anything will do for un excuse from that we do not wish to do. "He shall beg in harvest and have nothing." Not "shall beg of others," but he shall seek for food in his fields, and will find no harvest. Note that the most failures in life are the fault of sin. Some fail of outward success through misfortunes and sickness, but they can always bo successes as men and women. Hut look at so many young men that do not take aii3' fair place in life, and you will find that idleness, carelessness, selfishness, bad company, strong drink, neglect of duty are the chief causes. Illustration The Alcoholic Serpent. Some time ago a party of sailors visited the zoological gardens. One of them, excited by the liquor ho had taken, and as an act of bravado to his companions, took hold of a deadly serpent. He held it np by the nape of the neck ia such a way that it could not sting him. As he held it, the snake (unobserved) coiled itself around 'his arm, and at length it got a firm grasp, and wound tighter and tighter, so that he was unable to detach it. As the pressure of tiie snake increased, the danger grew, the sailor was unable to maintain his hold on the neck of the venomous reptile, and was compelled to loose it. What did the snake then do? It turned around and bit him and he died. So it is with the appetite of strong drink. Preacher's Analyst Sin is the most terrible thing in the universe. It has filled the earth with pain. Illustration In the Hoston Herald of January 0, 1$'J3, are given the following statistics by Edward Atkinson, the famous statistician: STAN'DAlin or COMPARISOX. The Production and Consumption of Liquors. Spirits withdrawn, including fruit brandy sallons 84,551,910 Lcs 12 per cent used In tho arts.. 10,74fl,5t-9 Consumed as beverage 7i, 8)9,331 Valuation splrlu 78,S03,XW gallons, at f 1.80 t3M,er,SS Valuation beer PTJ.2i7,K3 gallons. at 50 cents.... 487,133,931 Domestic wines 25,oa,00ü pallons, att2 50.000.000 Imported beer 3,051. CVS Imported wines .' 40,K),000

Total In mi 934.S13.3U Estimated Increase spirits in 189-.'.. 35.ujo.000 Actual Increase beer 21,070,963 Increase domestic and imported wines 10.000.000 Total. 1S9C Jl.0U0.aM, 277 Authority, F. N. llarrctt Consumption of liquors per capita in 1S92. Expenditures of the United Slates govern meat, ItWi. V.27 MkBHHBHBHsl Cost of government, aside from pensions aaa debt, 12.63 m Spirits, wine and beer per day per person. 4- -ccntn. Alt gorerBBient expenditures, 1892, per day per person, l--cenu. THE riJCDOE. We hereby pledge ourselves to abstala from all intoilcatlag liquors as a beverage. Let those who win, add: From the use of tobacco and from all profanity. CHURCH AND CLERGY. There aro four women missionary physicinns in Persia. Tub Kpworta league has now eleven thousand two hundred chapters and two thousand junior chapters. It n.7.iL has'twclve million of unevangelized people among her fourteen million. There is about one missionary to every one hundred and aevcnty.five thousand bouIs. Tub Presbyterian Theological Semiaary of the Pacific will receive the greater part of the estate of the Ute Alexander Montgomery, of San Fraebeo, eatUMUA at tare arillloa dol

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