Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 July 1896 — Page 7

wi i:k!.y courier. C. DOA N 1 1 'oidis-her. jAsi'FJt. BtWMMät MYSTERIOUS WILLIAM.

AM considered tolerably truthful c Ii I p i n in 1 1 things Bad K"" rnll speaking I

UiinK 1 inn. Hut huuniii MlttfC 's incapable of rleine, beyond certain Um nations. There ere Ihiws in MM most aerfeel character,

and if I nuf-t eonfeaa 11 I fear I have wamthnee drawn tan loag bow little on the anbjeet of horaefteah. Borae have nlwey been l rwlioir pmalon of my lift?, and who is there who will u't lilate a little to add Interval toa atorj wtu n nacmated upon hla tevorlto hobby. Win-ii ii eontea to tell Inf a borae thai is a different matter. I wonM aot for .I..) iv. u l.l convey a fills.' idea to aa In

tending par ehar, in thia particular cum' 1 mis aa innocent as ihe driven mow, although Wlillkine teemed to feel hurt about it. it wai all Baderby'i fault. aUhouch Im declare ba per fectly blamefeita. Indeed, WlHIklaa for Mime strenge reaaon aeema to bold ma responsible fr the whola affair. Aad this is how it happened; t- ware ridiag borne ona luv after a m 1 c l ; i " s sport w ith Kadnor hounds. wtuikMik. Knderbv and myself. Our

katlnattoa w as Oak Lodge, as I called

i. ...t lit 1 1 huntinffbox m ar ttn a

Mawr. Hew I kepi bachelor't ball dur-

tl... luii.tiiiL' sen-on anil as I it. in a

... . .1 1 ...1.1 II Vlell-stocl.f'l .'I'l"

la i , l never lacked for company. Tb r in for'three or four nu n and a

.miiitiiin In (he table for : 1 1' !l

dozen hunter, tod an, with one thing

and another by booh or erook, a managed to send the time very pleasantly at Oak Lodge. Enderby was in old college ebumof Mine and an cnthnalaatlc hunting man. He hid banted the "foreM part of the Mason with tMQcaaaato bounda, up In v.... .M-k mtmUt. ami DOW be WUS put

ting up with ma for a couple of months with the Radnor, Ha brouglM a couple of bunten don n n Ith him from lew we that never topped for anything with the Rudnor, ami. Indeed, Air i imple rustle member rather looked aal aaea

at this thorottgngoiiig MM" Whose "pink" nnd "leathers" I p lift got-up wi ri equal to Melton form. Indded, wer were not tanking certain paplcioua IndlvWuaU who declared mat Enderby badaa le grind; in other words, botnea tomlhand that be mihi iMii the Radnor country w Ith

boa let pock ibook, while one r two of uur golUble membere hon Id become the owner of his "geee." Of eourte, they would turn out to ! WOftbleM m this ease. TIiIh Hunpieion came to my ear through on of my granine, and I mention it here only to show how an honest mini's motives may 1' impunged by people who really hue nothing about the matter. Confidentially, I iany Wi here thai I ahonldn! care to buy home of Baderby myself. II-' is such a amttal horseman und s. well ui to all the trtcka of the afahnal thai noma tom ..Hi to be unite the other way

in the band ol aoma nna eJae, But i Enderbj Ii not to Mann- for that. He I can't help lM-injJT auch a good boraeman. Now WilliUi-ns was of ciiit- a ditT.-.--..,t s.irt. l have I-now n Wlllikeui sin.v.. rem at aehool and i ni'' bbta hi hin way. imt there are eertaln tralta ahoni Will Ike ni whleb arc obnoxloue and onghl to ! a dlacouraged. He i boaal ful and ba la eelf eonfldenl and. moreover, his sidf-i-onfhh-ni'o iv " founded upon asy good ewuae. Ite n i)torhiui f.,.-t thai Williken only cama Into hla raouey in left-handed sort of nay. l forge) how it was exactly, bul he got it, a cod million ami accrued i.. tbreafc, nhen be renrhed la age of tl. Eor inru then he hai bee trylag to rontino the world of the fac1 ii... he know all tin-re is worth knowing about horaea, and if i':,s been p-bM vx"lk for WUUkena H baa beea eapenalve.

too. for he never would litten to tae idh i-' of n fri.-nd. 1 bare offered Willi fc.-'is tttae and Uaaa again borne which wer worth Ihrac time the emounl i Mked, hut be would never nave thein. lantead of that in- would p otr t sou..da tier ami gal most arerlaatlagly ituck Ctmeaqnrntlj. ba ncr had anything ha his itabhM that could stand on foulICR's. Vc had haw talking of our monnta and Baderby, la spirit of eompnaalon, bad just offered Wllllltena to let him hac, ns a neelal favor, th' hoi-e he WM riilinp for the insignificant Mim of $i..MM. it would put bin to inui ;,....,i.i.-niriicc Enderbv said, as he

MtuM luivc to finish out the season with

am banter or else look around for an

nttw-r mount. I saiil he might ride out

f min in the meantime, bu1 even our

combined aclf anwifia tailed to Impreaa

WlUikena, and so be losi anoinergt r

opixrtiinity. e drew vein at Oali l.ode nlnni' ,-.- time, mid as it was growing leb

we went to our rooms to get OB our

i,i. .. tin .r loirs and dress to-- dinner

Alter dinner Knderhy propoeed that

at,, .i.l.l fa out and line a iook ai i m

...,.. n.-forc the itablen wen- eloaed

for the eight Bnderby and I had been hi

town I couple of aayi oeiore.eow n.iiliff nothii.fr else to do we dropped tot one of UM pla-s where horses are sold at auction. If so happened that they were felling animal. Of trying to ell him rather, lit the time that loohed io be alnaoal ttwmugbbred. We could Fcarcclv see the hat fot the CTOwd Of men which UfTOUnded him. and as Knderhv pressed forward to pet a looli at bin the aucttoaeer looked appeal iiirh towards him. There had not been ... . i , .....- - -.

a lud as vet, ami luniHw n ' ... .... , looked ai Enderbj andl aald "ftt," and Baderby nodded. Ueuveu Knows why,

that settled the natter. It w0 I nderb ' hors,'. And Mich tt horse, lu u the crowd avaved away wa aan that be bad ever) nnaouadanaa u which ecjuine lath ht hair, l told Bnderby be bad better nut him no and sell him oer. I. nt Knl-

nn Bfceufc his head. He hired the boy to rid.- Ii i in mil of iiiK Lodpe, and tie'

hov alter beilip I leU' d oil lour tillUM and rim away with once lmi him m there, much to the horroi of De a ring i my head groom, and hi aiHodetea. We named him Ms- tortoua William, with the nndertitending that wa should cull him Hill for short, and Iben Bnder

by matched ma for him agalnet n bull t. rrier pup. Knderhy knit, and I l"' cunt- the proud poaaaor of My atartoui llllam. I don't Know why I did 'H. or what (maniac prompted am, hut 1 told lh er

lag to have Sfyatcrmue wiiuara inor oughly blanl eted, hooded and bandaged all around, mid then I invited Willikens

to dinner. When w e reached the stahlc we looked over tin' horses and found them la good condition. Bnderby, with the genera itv which conn's of a good dinner. iepeated hla offer to "bet Will ikcaa nave the hunter be didn't say "sell it tO

him" at the ridiculous figttra heformentioned. We were just about lea.-

in" the stahle when W illilo r.s caught

Igb1 of Mysterious William munching bit bay hn an ariitocrntic inanner hue';

In a dark corner of the table. From l h 1 air ol Hyeterloua William and the waj

he was cloih. il w ith blanket and bond

in.es von miL-dit have taken him for I

Henry of Navarre or a Ladas. All mis w is not lost on Wtlllkcaa, and be want h1 io know about him rtohl away. Wa

w t i e both very non-ommittaL bow' er.

Bnderby ref i red him to me, ano i aatu he area Jual a horse I had picked Uj. I v.asn't free to s:.y exactly where. A hit of a bargain that I had ijrreal hopei of In a ateeplecbnelttg way. Williken would understand if I didn't care to

Bay much about him. I had my ou n reaHotis for keeping very dark. "Hut you can let me aee him stripped, at any 'raleV" said Willikens. "Td rather not to night. old man, if you don't mind," I answered. Where npol I amnoged to gel WUUkens and r.Micrby out aide the stable door and closed it behind us.

afterward happened, m motivea were niiscon-i i nod, hut I am not the lint philanthropist w ho hah Im-cii uiitoJiidcr ataad. I had almost (h..-d otT when 1 'M rou -ed b) Bnderby 'a roloe. ".inn," he said. i 'ti make yon a tporttng panplalon

"W I, 1 an w.-ic::, .l. epiiy. "i I s ha it." ni inateh you both my bnatera and a tl mil tu I t or three thousand

in '.ish avain t Myster'uois William.' Do i! for tea ;isii," I rfiled, baH roualng myaelf. We both produced eoina from cur poekrta, while Willlkene looked 00 iu amnaemana, "I'm WOtchiag ou," c ried 1'iulerhy, "and. h ( iMMrea. lv wfn!"

-All Hght," I anawernd, "lie's your borae," upon nhfcch I annk baek leto

my chair and pro ilea to go to Kiep. Willlkem wai paralyjtefl at tbla exhlbh

ti..ii of eoolneaa, but, of course, m

affected nt to not tee it .

Presently 1 heard Eu derby speak to him in a low tone of voice, My ayea had been rkaed far oma time, bat l w as not quite asleep. "I'll tell you what IU 4a, Wlllihena," aald Kuih-rhy. "1 dont want dim to kn. w K, hut the fad is I'm hard i for .ash" the lowering his valee still more "now I don't nnut the borae I just won. I can't afford to keep Hltoh

a good horse. ou OUgnt to have Dim, in your bands 1' wuubl develop into a cracker. You're just, the man to own Mvsteriolis William. Now. if you will

write me your check for live hundred I'll sell him to von just now. before Jim irake up. He will ba mad as thunder about it, bat 1 will make it all right a i' b him. Willikens hesitated. 1 irronned inwardly as I thought of the yarn I had told. But then I bad no intention .f wiling the borae when 1 told it. 1 had almost received to sp'-..k and eoafean

w hen I heard W ilhk. ns ny. You'll gaarantae that pedigree and ihe whole story, won't urn, and, of courae, you'll warrant him sound'.'" "Sh ." whlapered Bnderby, "you will wake Jim, and thai will apoli thewKo-U thing. 1 don't guarantee anything u warrant aaythlug. l II you Mj iter!uns William just t I nun aim just m.w w i l h the hair mi."

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In a recent hpec h in codyrcss Sena-tl.-..f Muiitiiiia. tried to revive

the Chiaeaa cheap t'oods scare and arnraed Aaaeckntaa aajfaiast the danger of Asiatic aompetltton A aa argn mi nt .it favor of rebuilding the McKinley high tariff arall around the ount ry lie said; "The Chinese empire posieitea in prent abeadnvaae and variety every natural resource n, ssary to make her a great prodaelng and amantae turiir.r nation. Her hod audchmate and br ImmenM territory arc btu-h as

IO i nahle her to produce anormova npplleaof cotton and wool, as vCell as otl. r raw material. Her people are

e.iial to tin Japanese in respect to iudustry und in their imitative und ailaptBtivc faealty, and aparior to them hi respect to their powers of application and adaraaee Wagaa In Japna are ridiculously low as compared with Amen, an and Koropeaii standurds, hut la China agan are even lower than in Japan. M

This is a true statement or the conditions which exist in China, but instead of helping the protectionists it

is the strongest possible conaemiintion of their policy. The Chinese are the oldest .f civilized neonle, batlBg reached a high sta'e of enli'h t inen t when our ancestors were savages.

Arts, sciences and letters nourished in the Celeatb&l empire centuries before the Kornaus invaded Pritain. Hafortn natcly for the continued propres of the Chinese there arose in their country ahout 1,001 years aco a pip-tailed, tsipji nt -eyed McKinley, who preached the doctrine that the way to become a rich and powerful nation was to shut out all forebjD trade. Belag a eua King rascal, hu succet'ded in making iu"n..,mli- helieve that they would bo

raor patriotic if they refused to bay poods from the out-ide harbarians, and a royal deprec was accordingly hnnad which absolutely forbade forbjaera tmdlai with the Chinese. This lyatem Of protection to home industry was maintahMd until a recent period, und even now the prcater part of China is closed to outside, eommaroe and enterprise. In view of the fuct that China is thront; eountrv in which protection has been fnUy nd fairly tried for thousands of veurs. the terrible poverty

mi l degradation of its people is surely the beat proof that trade restriction is a failure. With -normous deposits of coal and iron: with immense forests of rateable Umbers with bonadlen ureas of fertile farm lamb, and with a mild and healthful climate, the Chinese are till the poorest of all civili.ed peoples .... onrth. Wa ', s are lower, food is

meaner, and the peneral condition of the masses far w orse than amonp any other people. When tha American workinpmen

are Urged to voto for re-establisliiup in this country the policy which has proved so disastrous in the Chinese empire they should ask: "If protection raises waj-es, w hy has it not done so in China? That country had absolute protection for -.000 years. Why arc the waes of its workers so low? If trade restriction impoverished the Chinese and checked their development, wbv would it not have the same fleet OO the United States? What's the matter with vour conuneree-cxclu-&ion theories in t aina? emoca Gnaa ui.

output of rolling milla and forpe haa also fallen off Ufgely, and in eonaaeeaam amay workers are idle. Thia is due to trust monopoly. Bided by tar.tr duties on foreipn iron anil ,.eL In view of these facts, happening rl'ht under the eyes of the men who in',. .) iseiissititr t he causes of overpro-

Aactioa, Is it not clear that puttinp up pri.es lessens demand, wade reduoiup them itiereases consumption? e. w iL

FAVORS THt FOREIGNER.

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Afterward, in the plow of a blgfirc, with a plentiful supply of hol Hcoteh at each r our elbows and with nur pipes ail lighted, i became annra eeeft deatlal. "You see. WlUikcna," 1 said. "1 don't want all thet fellows to gel on tome this time, for I've pot a pood thing.aure enough. I got this fellow down in Virpinia, and I'm froing to nake a atceplc-

ebsaer of bim. u ta iy i-.oius. oi m Hiawatha, ahe by Iroqoola, so you see prettj well bred." i Ha Baderby getting eery red in

the face, hm I paid do attention io nun. Willikens w is listening with r:tpt attent ion. ".o-.," 1 continued, "he bus won pvervthin" in 111 down in N'irpinhi.

f.iwi he pan lurnn fixe fed without

turahlg a hair. 1 never saw his equal

for bone and conformation, a no as mi

his hps dl you ever aee lege like hla 1 I ashed, appealing to Knderhy. . . . . a

., I i..r did. he rennen, winen

was true enough. 00 doubt, for I don't

l...liev.. miv other horse evt r nan as

many bunips and puffs on his leps as

had Mvateriotta w llllam

Wiiiii,. -Ii n.sKed me aeveral queation

about him. which I nnsw ered to t he beet A -

of mj ability, inventing a history ran William full of loinance and incident

I ran mv I Dili rlnatlon full acope, ami

s.. , ivid -..re ii l I. -script ions t but the J!

almost brought the pii 1 lire of t he Miri-

OUO races William hail won up ociot.- . a a ana

our eves. One when I was teuinii bout a prent avenl with a heart -disease linish, in w bleb Mysterious William b k4 cocne down the atretcb erltb four other horses, and not one of them a nose Imidin! ihe other. Bnderby became eo ox eited that he lumped to his feet ami tried: 'Here they coinc! Here UWJ aoOWl Mvsterious William wins Burrayl by a neee, Bin wbtIM Then he sink Into bis chair again a it h aalgh. "(ireat guna, boys," be Wiiil. "tli.it was a race!" During mi tin- tstcltement WllHkena vat open-mouthed and drank in every word. beaMca considerable ntonnf ,.f i..,t S....t.di. Then I shut up Bd

delllv and ipOKC ROl noon" . MyHterious William. In fact, Im nrai mth nroduced by the tir- and Um

hot Scotch began to make ma rety sleepy, and I found it hard work M keep aw ake. Hipht here let IUC say that 1 bad no mOtlvl but the best in tolling Willikens the little yarn about Mysterious William. 1 mount to do him a kind llt.Ss to see how mmh he would believe and then, by utidee. h i if him. make bim feel conscious ol bis ipno- . and thus relieve him nf nana - bia Ixjautfuluesa and arrogauce. Aa it

which aajton WJmM is HBiR. still Wllllkena bealtatad, if von want the hors.-," Eaderby

whtepried lodlffereatly, "now your chance. You write the check and pet nut before Jim nahma up. and I urltl semi Mvsterious William over U V'OU j the Bml thing in tin- morning." Willi ken- had wltBC td that evening j what be considered to be u sph ndid exhibition of nerve when Enderby and j I man-bed for Myatcrioai William. Htwas not to be Dublone o going over to the table he w rote toil a check for f&OO, and Knderhy ranfl foernniboe. When the door had closed behind bin 1 arose and looked Kiulerby sternly n the ey e. "Yon have s,.id that Inaooenf man a horse." I he pun in iiiMMiaing tones.

"Hut I did not He aliout it. he air a-cred, comfuHy. "I diil nut sdl the horse." 1 said. "lin n we are both clear," cried I'm derby. "Here's tO W illikens and Mj'B terioiis William, ami here's to the high old tinea you and I will have with that. five hundred." Bnderby and I anahad IVllHkeB heck in town the next morninp as soon as the hunk opeewd. Ahaai the mm lima Mysterious William arrived at his new hoiae. We tlitln't p hacktoOnk Lodge for a week, hut tool; a I lag trip COtba smith. When we did return we found thai vVllllbetaa' fmllnga were emewhal in. rt i .nt i don't s.-o ho he can blame

nie. aa I didn't sell him ihe base, and

!"mlerby says he didn't lie about him.

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EFFECT OF PRICES.

Betaamtaam. Tin-re is BO ipnility w hi. li eoiitributefc Ota surely to Hiieeesa in nie', s live thai i buy isb. heurt.v etierpy combined w Ith COnUBOn sens.- ami fOOU judpinent. biographer A Imrd Nlaoa dcehtraa him to h oe b'cn always the raperboy; the ahln in' eoniiiuiiuied was. ahvayat him the best In the navy: his otlit t rsnnd na n the beat la England. This pay entuns ia .in not only helped him to w in Ida i rill hint v letorlea, l mi gave bim t ha der0tc1 hoe of the BnglMh ration. ..lit b's Coinpatiioti.

Why II Wfipl Bb h I nch' I am just going to make mv C'lil, lut I aan afraid vol are mo nint h of a fl thinker. I don't lie-licv-that yOC have any ndipinus seni, menta. Im, et unions Nephew flut, VK de.1l iineif. you are entlrelj mlataken. h.ti.i be nmlaatl for that. You will i. delighted to bear thai I am golag to hat ,11 ni riouey to the chui cU. " Ickbs Sifter.

I neaUNMtan Uan lnc r,iPK C imintipt Ion Baiataa rrte Lmmnm tit Beaaaa, The preat problem in the industrial and business world is the fact of an apparent over prod aetlea of all Made of ' pood a, H makes no difference whether, ps alleged bf soaie, that it is really nadrCOUsuinptha vhi,ti causes aa acclamation of unsold poods, which makes it neeessarv to close down mills and faetoriea and throw the workers act of employment iPheeaadilWea remains the same millions of people who want fTOOd, w hile millions of dollars worth of poods lie unsolil in warehouses or factories. Asa remedy for Ibis undeniable evil, which exists to aome extent in all countries of the world, the McKinleyites are urjrinp the people to try the experiment of

higher tortaouties. "im, ua-y say. "will increase prices und thus make a hrisk demand for poods. ' Whether biplier prices will really stimulate consumption need not be matter of theorizing, it has been tested on a bug scale during the last few HMUfha rigbl in this country and the experiment is still gotag on. The result is to prove beyond a doubt that dearer goo means lessened demand, and t li.s increases the evils of tiverproduction. The Shoe ami heather lb-porter i states that two or thren montiis ago l lu nrinei nal boot ami shoe maiiufac-

turers aoiipbt tooncourage the tleinand

ftir their products by redncinp prices to the lowest possible point. The result was that the boot and shoo industry be came exeeedinply prosperous, most of the large factories having onlers nheatl for two or three months. The shipments from Hoston, the center of the Industry, foot up for May of this year ii.;. . :.7 eases, again .t 133,339 hut year, "so, 4HH in H'.M, -7.1 io, in 189, and L'Vl,jis in 193. It will be noticed that the t -vo preatest shipments were made in vour. when the Wilson tariff was in

tnrmm. thisvear showing 0 im reaseof

mure than Mi.ihki eases over 1113, the banner year of McK inleyism. The other hnW of Iba tapnrhnanl ia furnished by tho irou ami tCCl manufacturers. About the same time that the lioot nn.l shoe makers decided to re.luce prices, the great steel trust, controlling nearly all the iron and steel mills of the country, advanced prices of their product from II to 30 per cent There w a a chance for the protection idea to show its fruits by increasing the demand. Hut. the n -stilta were exactly the reverse of what the McKinleyites claim. Instead of becomirg greater the consumption of Iriin im, I ste.1 nt once rapidly fell off.

Kales decreased, and a large number

,.f f.imiiees have irorve out of l.iast, ami

mni-a .rmllfrtl(l tl) t0D OOn. The

Am. r.. .i I ll fr l AUr.m.l . h at 1 1 ii nie. We referred a few day ago to the. fad that a large shipment of nails was niado last week from 1 leveland to Japan ami that these nails were sold in .Japan at about 1 a keg less than is charped the purchaser in this country. The tariff OO nail, enables the manuf.oil unr In i'l 1 111 bine and without feur

..f foreign compet ition to raise the

price of tlior prouuci aruuuiaoj " they have in the last 13 months. While th. y eherga trust nrteea in the home market they sell to foreigners at much lower figures. The foreign purchaser is faeoreJ by our protected ateel rail mills in the same wav. ltecentlv the Illinois Htoel Co., of Milwaukee, shipped .'00 tons of steel rails to Japan. The same mill

had previously made several larju shipments to that country. T1...S mils are solti in competition

with the Kuplish mills und the price of English rails, free on board. Is S'.'li.OS a ton, while the price of our homemade rails here is ..'. 7.". Tbeterkf ol gf.M PCt ton enables the rail mills to charge this (iriee and

still keep out foreign (Kliw But when they go into foreign markets they aaderaell the Britiah aaaufae turer. Not long ago the Carnegie company sohl 10000 tons of steel rails in Japan. These rails were Carried overland to Haltimore. In spit-' of this expensive transportation and the 1 . i . . . I

hing Voyage to Japan. It pain tn mmmanese purchasers to buy these rails in l'itV.t,rdi instead of in England.

They gOl them about ; a ton cheaper than any purchaser in this "protected" country could have bought tlicm. The cost of shipping rails from Kte gland to Japan is much less than from this eountrv. but our rail makers w h. charpe us '$'.' 7'. a ton were ablet. beat tha Bagllah price. a.oa a ton, and to make up for the difference in the cost of transportation. Thus the protective tariff operates as to maiiv other articles. Its benc

h's are coafined to tha protaetod maa ufactur.r and the foreigner on the other side of the world gets Letter treatment under it than our own aeo nie. Atlanta Journal.

INTERSTATE TRADE. Tim UreiW Wls.loni of the Krniurr of Out t ,111.1 II,.-..: :,l 1.1

About the greatest achievement Id the Una of economics of the founders

of the I'nited Mate- was the provision that there should be no customs turiff between states. Some of the states, notably Rhode Island, reluctantly resigned the right to protect themselves against the pauper competition Of other states. Hut the prosperity of this country is very intimately conno ted with the fact that 0 lag to thiswise stipulation, ami the nbee qacBt additions to the territory of the I'nited States, there ha been freo trade over a region stretching from Ocean to ocean and from the preat lal.es to the Rioiirantle. This absence of interstate tariffs has not resulted in advantage to tha older sections only; it has not doomed the new west to perpetual agriculture on account f the BOmpetltlon of the long established manufacturing interests of the east.

It has resulted to the very great aivontngc of all. Mexico, whose tardy I development is closely connected with j tb protection of each atate agninst ' the competition of the others, has at I . .... , ... . . . , . . - - -

last aliolislietl tue micrsinn- i.i.vs. The states will hove to resort to direct teXAtle probably to make gootl the deficiency in their revaeeea, but they wll be astonished to tlml how much their proaperlty is lacreaaad by removing the obstacles to commerce betwee.i the several parts of the country. China and Turkey will retain for a long time their scheme for promoting the prosperity of each province by levying duties on imports from other provinces. X. Y. Journal of Commerce

WHAT IT MEANS.

!lcKltlvln naM HUjIi Ttl.n, ! t.j..,l hii.I K trlrlr.l I orrlgn Trmlr. Vague promises that if the Ohio major is elected president the country

will in some mysterious way I'ccomc more prosperous, should not blind the American people t; the real nature of M.Kinleyism. Four years ago th.it word was understood to mean a policy of high taxation, dear poods and restricted foreign trade. This was the

form in which it was embotlie.i in me McKinley tariff, and after a full and fair discussion for over two years the people rejected the policy and ordered the tBriff repealed. Nothing lias happened since UN to ehunirc in the slightest legreo the es

sential nature of Mc h'inlevism. It is now as then a tleinand for special tariff privileges for the benefit of a few great trusts and manufacturing m -'nopolists. It is a scheme by which 7'.m0.O0n Aeacrie in consumers are tube

tnved on the goods thev buy. In order

that n -mall number of millionaire

new inaue irrealer fortunes. It means

class legislation in the interest of men who furnish money to buy votes and

corrupt the sources of popular government. I is a b dd assertion of the

right of some r;on to get rich at the exnense of the masses who produce all

wealth. The popular verdict in W; wns thai Me l inleyism was a fraud and robbery. Theft I always theft, no matter vvhnt it aaai I aallada Pour veins ago the

hmerlena aeople voted agalnal stealing BUder the form Of let. Is there any reason why the same people should now vote in favor of high tariff rob bery, merely because the McKinley ite are this year calling their leader "proapenty's advance agent?"

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Ut.r.mllousl Lro for July 1. 1amvM "' ,v'r Ali lrrl 1-13. I rrinRvd trm l'. loulet'a Notes j QoLiiKN Tnarr.-ItevM weat on an.l arew gr, ai. a, .i tt Uord Oed ef lloat.waawttn bJcTw'm uOm ll) the step, by V ,; ImvII '...-am- kins' ol ull Israel ' . " i.iaueuratlon. (3) hla new capital, an u vie dvtoMRot of bta at; s iom aad tm Lt. ..no-Hi. Ti.e parall. hH;"11" JO' ! y'-nTs äl'tir Haul". ,. ,, , 'i'i.tM.r.i.ee.'aiiiiK kinKof Juean. ' ri.AvLL-llv bron l.r-t. ami thi Jaruaa-

" , i -,,N Mill s. l steps to the Largar King'b'ni. Tbc man David v,as now prepaid : for , at work of his life. WhMn Davitl's power wua Increaaing the house of Saul waxed weaker an.t w.ahcr. The new king made no advaaem M a pen. .an nt. ami powerful

organisation, Tae eounwj largely subject to the I'hiliatino mvath is. It was plain that some change must soon be made. Ish-bosh. th UumpjalHld of Abner, his chief captain and mainstay, for marrying bia father Banfa aacoodary wife, Kipah. Thai act WMM regarded iu the east as .1 step towanls the throne. Xbda vi. w was favored by the fact that Abner was a cousin of Saul. Whether Abm r had anv designs UpO thethrono - nt I i liat

in unknown, but be now inimeuuiiejj mined against Ish-hosheth and made overture to DevkL H.ivitl first insisted on the restoration to himself of Ins first w ife, Michal. Saul's daughter, who bad been taken from him by Saul. Thia tested Abner'a sincerity and power, and gave Havid n bold upon the northern people aa an heir of Saul. Both Abner and lah-boehath were fouiiv murdered. David had not

wished for or connived at any wich, deed; but it nei ertheless opened tho w;iy to bis bet kfof king of all Israel, ftir there w is now only one heir to Sa.il, a box lame in both feet, who could not wi ll perform the kingly duties of that time. n. David Choeea Kingof All larafL Verses I-:.. "Then oaaaa all the tribe of larael to David." He did not neck them, but tin y bntl aOBghl hhL He had proved himeslf worthy of the pOMtio. Ha had been Divinely appototed. He bad the right ideas concerning the duties of a king. Ha ne to ie a anstitutlonal king.

for we mo told be mad.- a league with the people. The Iaraellte monarch was an absolute nnd irresponsible deaI otdn. Thi n occurred bis pohllc coronation, with a gret feast lasting threo days. IT!. The New Capita 1. Vere C-9. Hybron nae too far outh to be tho canitai "f the united kingdom, there

fore "the king and bia men went to j Jerusalem." then called .lebus. Political, civil aad military considcrationa pointed to .Jerusah in as the most dt uble capital for the unitetl kingdom. It ! Ktn.i.1 on a rock nlatee urrounded on

three sitles by deep ntvines, forming a natural fortress of almost impregnable rrtrenrfth, ' '"' ehnnih even made the boast (according to tha reading in the margin of the revised version, verse C): "Thou shall not come in hither, but the blind nnd the lame rhall tum theo away." Hut David had quietly noticed that there was one way of reaching tho citedel where few defender would bo watchinp, sinee no one expected an attack in that direction, and that warn by the way of the "gutter," or waterourse. By this means .loab w ilh a few men captured the fortress. After that it became a prorerb that "the bund ami lame shall not come into the house." meaning that those so very confident of their position that they believe it to be as imprepnnbJu as the JebusttOO thought Zlon 1o lie may well look out, for some one will find a wav of conquering them, "So David dwelt in the fort, nnd called it the city of David." iv. Tin- Development of the Kintltun. Vs. 10-1'J. "And David, went on, and grew preat, and the Lord (iod of Hosts w;is with him." The kingdom bursts upon the world in n splendid development of material prosperity and n il ions proprcss. Than was an outWard development In territory; in tho nompaoa of a tingle reiga the bnnaeV

aries of Irel were exteaOed twentyfOld. Thia vas, however, one of tho i Important of the lineeaf develop" ment. There was great proprcss In the reI rioua culture of tbc people. The ark n - taken to ion. Hi ligious wornhip was oipani.ed with choirs nntl orcheatras. Psalms were written nnd sung. ii:ivid reoogabted that all be bad was from iotl. This kept him humble, and enabled him to steer clear of tbe rock of self conceit, on which so mary have Ih-cii w recked. Havid inaugurated commerce with the seaboard jx-ople. Hiram wus king Of Tyre, on the Mediterranean coaat, the capital of the commercial and ent. rprialng Hlus-nicinna. Tyre depended ujkjii Pahmthm for its suppliea of w Lent and oil, and would like a market for ita manufactures. To open up thin friendly commerce Hiram built David a peJaee,

David did one foolish thing irnionr nil his wise ones: and this waa so'niitijr wie according to In prevailing opinions of the day, lie multiplied nlvaa chiefly in the w;iy t,f allianeis with the neighboring nations. Hut the. soua of sonic of these heathen women were r. in. mg the greatest, sourcea of his sorrow in his later da. a.

rift-n and Tfittl-. it lahm more thnn iv crow n to tnAke Wuf, God'i fire on at euer.. y'a head aoon nudts his heart. A pod man will bate a He, no matter l ow w hita it may took. A amnl bathe anni is enough, when it bappaaa to ba the 'right word. The army of (iod alwnya flghta on the -side of the rnan w bo dta right. VhercTei tliero ia i in, it ia mire to le followed by n .sorrtw, unlcfsa It ia at once taken to Christ and given uo, Ram' Horr.