Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 December 1889 — Page 4

ton Delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Tabnago at Joppa. H<niE OF DORCAS; ■ *t»« life and Work of the I’lonwr In I n. Wtratillon Kteemosjrnwrjr Work ■•viewed—Her InHuenw » l'erennlal One. | During his visit to the Holy Rind, V Joppa, the home of Dorcas, was visited lujfcy Kev. T. DfeWitt Talmage, and wliile |Bke{o he delivered the following scryjBmon. taking for his U*xt: Sgl And all the willows ..I l.y him weening, IfHand showing the mat* and icnriiients wWfli ■Hjtweaa nude while slu- was with them.—V is is., w. ' Christians of Joppa! Impressed as 1 ■gM- am with your mosque, the first l ever I OSw. and stirred as I am with the faet H that your harbor once snak'd the great i';:| rafts of Lebanon cedar from which tin Ha temples at' Jerusalem were tmilded, H Solomon's o ven drawing the logs through ■ this very town on the w ay to Jerusalem, n nothing can make me forget that this ■ Joppa was the birthplace of the sewing H oocicty that has blessed the poor in all I lands. The disasters to your tow n when H Judas Moocaideua net it on lire, and X'a- ■- polcon had live hundred prisoners masII sacred in your neighlwrhood, can not make me forget tliat one of the most magnificent charities of the (-juries I was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a I woman with her needle embroidering her name Ineffaoeably into the bcneflI oenee of the world. .1 see Iter sitting in 1 yonder home. In the doorway.and around nhout the building, and in the room I where she sits, are the pale faces of the poor. She listens to-their plaint, site pities their woe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit the bent form of this Invalid woman, and to the cripple that comes crawling on his hands ind knees. She gives a coat to this one, she gives sandals to that one. With the giftswhe mingles prayers and tears and^'Christlon encouragement. Then sheJves^Ut to he greeted on the street carrier* by those whom site has blessed, and all through the street the | cry is hears!: “Dorcas is coming!" The i sick look up gratefully in her face as I she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the .lost and the abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gentle voice. I as though an angel had addressed them: antf as she goes out the lane, eyes half put out with sin think they see a h-lo of light about her brow and a trail of glory in her pathway. That night a ! half-paid shipwright elimtw the hill j and reaches home, and sees his little j boy well clad and says: “Where did j these clothes conic from?" AinJaghcy j toll him. “Ikm-as has been liei^r In ; another place a woman is trimming a 1 lamp; Dorcas bought the oil. in another place, a family that had not been at table for many a week are gathered now, for Ibirras has brought

Hut there In a sudden pause tha* woman's niininlry. They say: “Where 1h Domui? Why, wo haven’t Mi n her for many a day. Where is Dorcas?" And one of these t«s>r people goes up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. A11 through the haunts of wretchedness the hews comes. “Dorcas la Sick!" No bulletin flashing frodPthe palace gate. telling the Mages of a King’s disease. is more anxiously waited for than the news from this siek benefactress. Alas for Joppa! there is wailing, waiting. That voice which has uttered mV many cheerful wonts Is hushiil; that hand which has made so many garments for the poor is cold ami still: the star* which had pounsl light Into the midnight »>f wretchedness is dimmed hy the blinding mists that go up from the river of death. In every (iod-forsaken plan* in this town; wherever there is sick child and no balm; wherever there is guilt and no commiseration; wherever then- is a broken heart and no comfort, then* an- despairing looks and streaming eyes and frantic gesticulations as they cry; “1 tore as is dead!1' They semi for the apostle Peter, who happens to be In the suburbs of this place, stopping with a tanner—Simon by name. Peter urges his way through the crowd around the door and stands in the presence of the dead. What expostulation and grief aH about him! Here stand some of the poor people, who show the garments which this j**or woman had made for them. Their grief can not be ap|N-ascd. The aposlle Peter wants to perform a miracle. He will not do it amidst the excit'd crowd, so he kindly orders that the whole room lx- clcatssl. The door is shut against the populace. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh. it is a serious moment, you know, when you are alone with a lifeless lsidy! The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the lifeless form of this one all ready for the sepulcher, and in the strength of Him who is the resurrection he exclaims: “Tahiti)a, arise!’ There is a stir in the fountains of life; the heart flutters; the nerves thrill; the cheek flushes; the eye opens; she ails up! ; We see in this subject Oorcas the disciple, Dorcas the benefactress, Dorcas the lamented, Dorcas the resur

nrwa. If I had not soon that word disciple in in; to XL 1 would havo known this woman was a Christian. Suoh music as that never oatno from a heart w hiolt is not ohordod and strung by Divine grace. before l show you the needlework of this wiuuan 1 want to show nti her regenerated heart, the source nt’a pure life and all Christian charities. 1 wish that the wives and mothers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate Dorcas in her disciplcahip. before you cross the threshold of the hepital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of to-morrow. ! charge you, in the name of (!od, and by the turmoil ami tumult of the judgment day, oh, woman! that you attend to the Brat, last ami greatest duty of your life—the seeking for (Sod ami being at peace with Him. When the trumpet shall sound there will be an uproar, and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Amidst the rising of the dead, and amidst the boiling of yonder sea. and amidst the live, leading thunders of the flying heavens, cairn and placid will he every woman', heart who hath put her trust in Christ; calm notwithstanding ali the tumult, as though the Are in the heavens were only the gildings of an autumnal sunset, as though the peat of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as though the awful voices of the sky were hut a group of friends bursting through a gateway at eventime with laughter, and shouting “Dorcas, the diariple!” Would Hod that every Mary and every Martha would this day ait do' at the feet of Jeans! Further, we see Doiras the benefactress. History has told the story of the crown; the epie poet has sung of the aword; the pastoral poet, with his verses full of the redolence of clover tops, and a rustic with the silk of the corn, has suag the praises of the plow. I tell you the praises of the needle. From the flgleaf robe prepared la the garden of Eden to 'the lest stitch taken on .the garment for the poor, the needle has ht wonders of kindness, generosIt adorned the high prlmt; it fashioned I the ancient taberttaele; chariot* of King Sol

l<*w places. by the Ore of the pioneer's back lop and rnder the flash ot the chandelier, everywhere, it has clothed nakedness. It has preached the Uospel. it has overcome hosts of penuyr and want with the war cry of “Stitch, stitch, stitch:" The operatives hare found a livelihood by it, and through it the mansions of the employer hare been constructed. Amidst the greatest triumphs in all ages and lands 1 set down the conquests of the needle. 1 admit its crimes; I admit its cruelties. It has bad more martyrs than the fire; it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; it has sent madness into the brain: it has Ailed the potter's field; it has pitched whole armies of the suffering into crime and wretchedness* and woe. Hut now that I am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor 1 shall speak only of the charities of the needle. This woman was a representative of all those women who make garments for the' destitute, who knit socks for the barefooted, who prepan* bandages for the lacerated, who Uc up boxes of clothing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suffering 1 and destitute, bearing that (Jospel which is sight for the blind, and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man leap like a liarl. and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between the practical benevolence of this woman and a gn-at deal of the charity of to-day! This Oilman did not spend her time idly planning how the poor of your city of Jippa wen* to Is* relieved; she took her needle and relieved them. She was not like those persons who sympathize with imaginary sorrows, and go out In the street and laugh at the boy who has u-pset his Iwisket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the benevolent platform; and goes out to kick the lteggar from the step, crying. "Hush your miserable howling!!' The sufferers of the world want not so much theology as practice; not so much tears as dollars; not ao much kind wishes as loaves of bread: not so much “Ood hless yous!" as Jackets and frocks. 1 will put one earnest Christian man. hard-working, against five thousand men* theorists on the subject of charity. There are a great many who | have line ideas about cliun*h an’hitectun* who never in their life helped to build a church. Then* an* men who can give you the history of Iluddhism and | Mahommedanism who never ‘spent a j farthing for their evangelization. Then* I an* women who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world, who never had the courage, like Dorcas, to lake the needle and assault it. ,

I am glad that there la not a i>«gv or (hi* world'* history which Is not a record of female benevolence. (iod says to all lands and people, come now and hear the widow's mite rattle down Into the poor box. The PriMCM of t'onti sold at’ her jewel* that she might help the famine stricken, tjueen Itlanclie. the wife of laiuls VIII. of France, hearing that there were some persona unjustly incarcerated In the prisons, went out amidst the raldde and took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prison disu and otit came the prisoners, tj'iis n Maud, the w ife of llenr.v went down amidst the pour and washed their sores and administered to them cordials, Mrs. lletMiq,at Matagorda. appeared on till' hat tie Hold while the missiles of death were flying around, and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of the civil w ar in America who has not heard of the w omen id the sanitary and Christian eommHsiot*^'or''Hv fact that, before the smoke had (tone up from tiettysburg and South Mountain.the women of the North met the women of the South on the battlefield, forgetting all their animosities w hile they bound up the wounded, and closed the eyes of the slain. IVm-att. the benefactress. 1 come now to speak of Dorcas the lamented. When death struck down that good woman, oh. how much sorrow there was in Ibis tewnof Joppa! I suppose then* were women hen* with larger fortunes; women, perhaps, with handsomer fail's: but then* was no grief at their departure like this at the death of Itoreas. There was not more turmoil and upturning in the Mediterranean sea. dashing against the w harves of this sea port, than there were surging* to and fro of grief because Dorcas w as dead. There are a great many who go out of life and are uiunisaed. There may la* a very largo funeral: then* may lie a great many carriages and a plumed heart**; then* may la* high sounding eulogiums; the ls*ll may toll at the eemeterv gate: then* may Is* a very fine marble shaft rear**! over the resting place; hut the whole thing may lie a falsehood and a sham. TheChup’h of^iod has lost nothing, the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated; it Is only a grumbler ceasing to find fault; it is only an Idler stopped yawclng; it Is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his wine cellar: while, on the other hand, no useful Christian leaves this world without being missed. The ChuP'h oft Hod cries out like the prophet: "Howl, fir tree, for the i*cd»r has fallen.” Widowhood comes and shows the gap menus which the departed had made. .Orphans an* lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the stp*ets of Joppa there is mourningmourning because Dorcas is dead. When Josephine of France was cap ried out to her grave, there were a great many men and women of pomp and prido and position that went out after her: but I am most affected by the story of history that on that day there were ten thousand of the poor of France who followed her coffin, weeping and wailing until the air raug again, because, when they lost Josephine, they lost their last earthly friend. Oh, who would not rather have aueh obsequies than all the tears that were ever poured in the lachrymals that have been exhumed from ancient cities. There may he no \nass for the dead: there may he no. costly sarcophagus; there' may he no elalwrate mausoleum; but in the damp cellars of the city,- and through the lonely huts of the mountain glen, there will be mourning, mourning, mourning, because Dorcas is dead. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.”

1 spcaK to you 01 jrorcas. ip resurThe apostle came to where ahe I wss. and said: •'Arises and she sat up!" j In what a short compass the (treat writer : put that—“She sat up!” Oh, what a time there must hare been around this : town, when the apostle brought her ont. among her old triends! How the tears of I joy must hare started! What clapping of I hands there must hare been! What sing- j ing! What laughter! Sound it all through 1 that lane! Shout it down that dark alley! j let all Joppa hear it! Dorcas is resur-! reeled! i You and I hare seen the same thing ! many a time: not a dead body reenact- j tated, but the deceased coming up again ’ after death in the good accomplished. If a man labors np to fifty years of age, serving liod. and then dies, we are apt to think that his earthly work is done. No. llis influence on earth will continue tilt the world ceases. Services rendered for Christ never stop. A Christian aromas toils for the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties, through many self-denials, with prayers and mm, m4 tow rtt* !*••? Jito

years since she went away. Now tho spirit of Uod descends upon that church; hundreds of souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ. Has that Christian woman, who went away fifteen years ago, nothing to do with these things? 1 see the flowering out of her noble heart. 1 hear the echo of her footsteps in all the songs over sins forgiven, in all the prosperity of the church. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is resurrected. After awhile all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After making garments for others, some one will make a garment for them: the last robe we ever wear—the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy. I do not know where you will sleep, nor what your epitaph will be, but there will be a lamp burning at that tomb and an angel of Uod guarding it. and through all the long night no rude foot will disturb tho dust. Sleep on. sleep on! Soft bed. pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose! Sleep on! Asleep In Jeans! Blessed sleep! Kmui which none ever w*ke to weep. Then one day then' will lie a sky rending, and a whirl of wheels, and the flash of a pageant; armies marching, chains clanking, lianners waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, and she will be suddenly surrounded—surrounded tyr the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surrounded by the wounded souls to whom she had administered! Duughter of Uod. so strangely surrounded. what means this? It means that reward has come, that the victory is won, that the crown is ready, that the banquet is spread. Shout it through all the crumbling earth. Sing it through alt the flying heavens. Dorcas is resurrected! In 18M. when some of the soldiers came hack from the Crimean war to lxmdon, the Queen of England distributed among them beautiful medals, cant'd Crimean medals. Galleries were erected for the two houses of 1‘arliamont and the royal family to sit in. There was a great audience to witness the distribution of the medals. A Colonel who had lost both feet in the battle of Inkerman was pulled in on a wheel qhair; others came in limping on their crutches. Then the Queen of England arose liefore them in the name of her government, and uttered words of commendation to the oflieers and men, and distributed these medals, tn-tt-rilx-d^vith the four great battlefields, Alma, llalaklava. Inkerman and Sebastopol. As the Queen gave these to the south'd no# and the wounded oflieers, the lutmlsof music struck up the national air. and the people, with streaming eyes, joint'd in the song: *

«»UI uinv HMtp- «• Lmhk live tinr nohit* tjueen! «i«Ml »»YC lilt* yilWll ’ And then they shouted “Huzza! huzza!” Oh. it was a proud day for those returned warriors! Hut a brighter, (tetter and gladder day will come when Christ shall gather those who have toiled in liis service, good soldiers of Jesus Christ, lie shall rise before them, anti in the presence of all the glorified of Heaven He will say: “Well done, good and faithful servant!” anti then He will distribute the medals of eternal victory, not inscribed with works of righttHitisness which we have donefl^^ with those four great battle-fields/ dear to earth and dear to Heaven—Hethlehetn! Nazareth! Oethscmanc! Calvary! DRUDGING "AND WORKING. Thf lilffrroirr la the Spirit In Which ItlOfercnt Men Do Their Work. There is no greater difference between men than that which exists in the spirit in which they do their work. There is always a large contingent of drudges; men who an* driven to their tasks either by a sense of duty or by the lash of necessity. These men are often hard, conscientious workers; sometimes they are successful workers: but it is doubtful if their work ever really represents the moral expression of their own energy aud purpose. True work of all kind must have a large element of play in It; must, in other words, be spontaneous a natural outflow and overflow of a nature which finds in work the real expression of itself, ’.'hose who have looked at the immense and almost countless pieces of canvas on which Rubens stamped himself must have been conscious of the tremendous current of the man's nature; making all deductions for work which he did by proxy, enough remains to testify to the love, no less than the fixed purpose, behind hit pencil. Men of great executive force, who are the centers of immense organizations, arc invariably lovers of work, not simply because work means money and position and influence, but tier*use work affords n channel through which they can pour themselves into the great current of the world's movement. It Is not possible for all of us, with lesser talents and opportunities, to feel constantly the Inspiration of this great impulse, hut it is possible for all of jia to share it in some degree. God works incessantly, hut HU work is pervaded by that element which we call play, because It represents the natural flow of Ills energy, and there is in it the joy of the Divine nature finding adequate expression. Man's work, if it Is to be real and true and to embody hU character, must partake of this same element of joyousneaas. We have not done ftur whole duly when we have finished the day and left no part of our task undone; there U something in the complete dojng of a work which is more than the merely mechanical element; something which gives that mechanical element its moral quality; and thU something is onr personality. If our work is to tell we must put ourselves in it. must be to us a language through which we speak to the world and in which our souls express themselves. Work comes hard always to those who do it from a sense of duty or under the lash of necessity; work is always a joy to those who do it because it gives them the one great' means through which they can express their deepest purpose and their truest self.—Christian Union.

VALUABLE DISCOVERY. ftMrk Sanah Tnllai Uac Nature at Sait by the Cuter of riaah. M. George* Ville, a French scientific agriculturist, after almost thirty years of assiduous researches on the experimental farm at Vincennes, has made a remarkable discovery of a relation existing between the color of plants and the richness of soils in fertilising agents. His conclusions, recently reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences, deserve consideration by all farmers and horticulturists. Re Bnda that the color of the leaves ot plants undergoes marked change whenever the soil is lacking in phosphate potash, lime or nitrogen. The color remains light green or turns to yellow when the soil is deficient in phosphate potash or nitrogen. When none ot the fertilising elements are wanting the oolor is dark green. By his experiments M. Ville furnishes agriculturists with positive indications by wbioh they oaa determine with the greatest facility what kind of fertiliser the soil needsmost or in what elements ot fertility it abounds. His experiments should be repeated by our Department of Agriculture and the results published. The practical information which might thus be supplied to American farmers would enable many of them to “make two blades Of grass grow abort oat «ww gro^o.’*-#. J, B»nU.

CHEAP JOHN’S POLICY. [N. Y. Sun.] My name U Cheap or Holy John, I'm good, O, mighty good. And the lay that I am on Can't be misunderstood. 1 keep the sabbath holy, I roll up pious eyes; I am sweet as roly-poly. And how 1 advertise! I teach the Phlladelfy youth In Bethany Sunday-School; And when It pays I toll the truth, Such Is my simple rule. 1 would discharge or dock my clerks It they should dare to swear; My specialty Is, pious works. Dress goods and underwear. The country P. M.’s comprehend, 'Tts told them o'er and o'er. If they would prosper they must send Their orders to my store. My duty as the P. M. G. Is this; 1 must Insist To make the P. M.’s buy of ms And order from my list. One large and tallowy smile Steals o’er me o'er and o’er; This Cabinet is but an aisle I . And transept of my store; Let sinners kick against the pricks And ribalds rage and roar, So my annex of politics Brings business to my store. My policy is C. O. D.: No trouble to show goods; One price for all, and that to me Sums all beatitudes. Send in your orders early, gents. By telegraph or mail: Roll in the dollars and the cents To Wanamaker's sale. I've worked the Cabi net to a man. And 1 gave special rates The other day to all the PanAmerican delegates. My stock of politics is small. But I've goMs by the acre; Republican Postmasters all. Come buy of Jobs Wakamawbi.

FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLE. rtio Part the WmI WUl Take In the Slnifilr Against lllgh Tn«e». It is said that Frank Hatton, onco a Postmaster-General, and now the editor I >f tlie Administration organ in Washington. was so affected by the returns of the election in his native State of Iowa that he bandaged his head with a wet towel and sat by a pall of ice-water ail night To a friend who called during the evening to condole with him M?. Hatton said: “This is terrible. Two more years of Harrison and even Pennsylvania will not be safe.” The sketch of Mr. Hatton's prostrated condition is possibly overdrawn, and it ! is equally probable that Mr. Hatton himself had a worse case of the dumps than he would now be willing to admit when he despaired of holding JVnnsylrania in the protection column. lVnnsylvania is there to stay. A State that can submit to being bossed by Don Carnewn and Matt Quay will not be nauseated by a dose of Harrison. Pennsylvania's protection stomach is not of the squeamish order, to be made sick by the little emetics that are worrying the Western end of the Republican party. Even if the protection diet lay hard ! on the Pennsylvania stomach there is no hope of Pennsylvania going Democratic as long as the Pennsylvania Democracy continues to be dominated by Randall and Wallace. They are sworn enemies and fight each other with intense bitterness as long as there is no prospect of Democratic success in the State, but whenever the leaven of tariff reform shows signs of working in ’ the Pennsylvania lump Mr. Randall and Mr. Wallace forget their old-time antagonisms and immediately join hands in their endeavor to swing the State back to the Republicans. No. indeed, Mr. Hatton need not worry about lVnnsylvania going Democratic as long as Randall and Wallace are on deck to help the Administration along. ltut the very things that are making lVnnsylvania the Gibraltar of protection are the very things that are solidifying the Western States in support of tariff reform. The things that suit the coal harons, the oil kings, the iron monarchs and the railroad magnates of Pennsylvania are not the tilings that suit the sunburnt, horny-handed grangers of the West. Our Western farmers are willing to render unto the Pennsylvania Caesars the things that are theirs, hut they are equally determined to retain for themselves the things that belong to themselves. A Western fanner performs more honest work in one day than a Pennsylvania coal baron or iron king performs in a lifetime. And yet the Government taxes tho Western farmer’s labor to support the Pennsylvania coal baron and iron king in their luxury. This is the kind of tribute that the Western farmers are tired of paying. Human nature is human nature the. world over. As long as our tariff laws ] enable the lVnnsylvania coal and iron masters to live in baronial splendor they are not going to renounco their allegiance to the party which provides these luxurious conditions, even though the Harrison Administration is making a mess of the party machine. The same human n-afire that is operating in lVnnsylvania is also manifesting itself here in the West- but in a ! different direction. The Western farmers are tired of their condition of serfdom, imposed by the tariff laws, it Isn't in human nature that they should like it: and being human beings I they are organising to regain their freedom. The first blows of the great revolution were struck in Ohio and Iowa, and they will be followed up until the shackles of this tariff slavery are rent from the limbs of the producing classes. Let Pennsylvania be joined to its high-tariff idol. The farmers of the West are wedded to the Goddess of Liberty, and under her banner they have arrayed themselves. "No more tribute to monopoly” is their war-cry. In hoc signo vinces.—St. Paul Globe.

ALLISON INSTRUCTED. Wh»t the I’voplr of the Hiwkrye DM* Klpect from Their KrpretertillTM. .Senator Allison, speaking at Dubuque the night before the election, said that the issues in Iowa were the same this year as they were last, and added: “U there were Rood reasons why the Republican party should succeed last year, the same reasons hold good this year. Our opponents say In their platform and on the stump that the protective tariff is wrong. The vote in Iowa will be taken as an instruction to its Representatives In Congress. Mr. Allison said this, no doubt, with the expectation that the Republicans would carry the State. He expected that the Representatives in Congress front Iowa would he instructed that the protective tariff is right The instruction was different from that which Mr. Allison desired, but there is no reason why it should bo disregarded. Iowa has spoken. She has pronounced against the protective tariff as it now exists. Mr. Allison should use his influence with the Representativeseleet from Iowa, of whom ten out of eleven are Republicans, to induce them to obey the instructions of their State. Mr. Allison said nothing of the vote of the State as an instruction to its Senators. This reticence may have been the effect of modesty, or he may have used the worn "representatives” in a general sense, to include members of both houses of Congress, and not In the more restricted sense in which H is generally ased to denote members of the lower house. A Senator is usually considered as more especially representative of the whole State than s membeh H# fWm IaWM hOUttA. is Vf v v w ““ ** TrW**

the voters ot s single district If the lste vote in lows is an instruction to anybody it is certainly such to Senator Allison. The country has not been wont to regard Senator Allison as a man who will ignore after the election the statements and pledges made to the people before their ballots were cast Having signified in advance his willingness to be instructed, he will now see, as we may fairly assume, good reasons for going no farther with that tariff bill of his which was intended to reduce tho surplus by increasing taxation to such a point as to check importations. This was in accordance with the ‘Republican platform of 1888; but Iowa has already seen the folly of that plan, and has issued later instructions, which her Senators should not feel at liberty to disregard. The election in Iowa means, as Senator Allison intended in advance that it would mean if the Democrats succeeded, that, hot an advance, but a reduction of the tariff is desired by the voters of the State.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

APTLY ILLUSTRATED. Mow Protection •• ll.iirtlu" the People end the Government. In order to make a general principle luminous, let us follow a simple illustration. Suppose hats can be made and sold in Europe at 91. Suppose, further, that in order to protect the American maker of hats a tax of 50 cents is laid by Congress on every hat imported. As soon as this is done no European hat can be brought to the United States unless it ean be sold here for Sl.SA If the priee here be above that figure the tariff is no obstacle to importation, since the higher the price the greater is the profit realised by the European manufacturer. The “floods'’ pour in with increasing volume in spite of ail that “advanced statesmanship’’ can do to koep them out. A positive^premium is put upon importatioiiiJ*ro|g,otion signally fails to proteet/ln this case it is evident the foreigner pays none of the tax, since he becomes rich by importation, and finds here the highest market in the world. The man who wears the imported hat bears every ounce of the tax burden. * * * It will thus appear plain that see long as the importation of foreign hatk continues the American consumers nrw paying the full amount of the tariff tax, not only upon all those imported, but upon the entire volume of our own productions also. But if importation stops, as it must when the domestic price has touched a figure even a shade less than that dictated by the tariff (81.50), then all revenue ceases, and the protection of the home manufacturer is complete, since he has an absolute monopoly of the market. But the tax burden of the hat-wearer is almost as great as before, and the whole of it goes as a bonus to the domestic manufacturer and not a eentof into the till of theOov eminent.—1’rof. Edward Taylor. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. -No consideration would induce those States which have adopted the Australian system of voting to return to the old method.—Troy Telegram. -Mr. Puwderly hasoome to the conclusion that “the great mass of people who need protection will never get it under the so-called policy of protection.” -Foraker refuses to fix the responsibility for his defe^ We are inclined to think, as B. Harrison would say, that “Tho Lord did it."—Indianapolis Sentinel. -If Idaho and every other Republican rotten borough were admitted for the Presidential count in 1S92 it would still be far from offsetting what the Republican party lias lost and will lose in the Central West.—Nt Louis Republic. -The Republicans of Montana have celebrated the entrance of that State into the Union by trying to make a big steal. They evidently want tho rest of the country to know that they are genuine Republicans. — Atlanta Constitution. -Senator Allison discussed the tariff in his closing speech in the late campaign and declared that “the vote in Iowa will be taken as an instruction to its representatives in Congress.” The j vote favored the Democratic platform, and the Iowa delegation will please note the instructions.—St. Louis Republic. -If the contention of Republican journals l>e admitted, that National issues were not considered at the late elections in ten States of the Union, the signal gains of the Democracy must show that.on StatQ issues there has becna one-sided deliverance very dangerous to the future supremacy of the party in power. No matter from what point of view Republican reverses may be considered, the prospect for the grand old party is decidedly blue.—Philadelphia Record.

Death of an Honorable Man. George 1L Pendleton, the ex-Unlted States Minister to Germany, and for so many years a prominent figure in American polities, has at last passed away, after his long illness. Mr. Pendleton, like the late Mr. C-oX. was a gentleman and scholar in politics. Ills great wealth gave him ample opportunities for j leisure, which he improved by following many different lines of culture. In his Congressional career he will be longest remembered as the author of the present Civil-Service bill, and he also was a strong advoeatc of a bill allowing members of the Cabinet seats upon the floor of Congress <*■ ojlfeio. As Minister to Germany h$ was very popular and made an excellent record. While not a great statesman, Ms career has been an honorable and useful one, and his demise -will be mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances who were attracted toward him by his gentlemanly qualities, his dignified bearing and his unspotted personal character.—Chicago j Tribune (Kcp.). The Federal Steel Company. A great trust, under the name of the Federal Steel Company,- with a capital of $13,000,000. has been formed. It includes establishmwu in all the great iron centers of the West. It takes in every form of steel, from the wire of the farm fences to the girders of the great city warehouses. Of course its main ob- i ject is to raise prices and restrict home i competition, those especial advantages j which the tariff is claimed by its advocates to confer. The tariff puts a tax i of over 104 per cent, on steel girders and j 45 per cent, on steel wire. Yet it is not ; sufficient to satisfy the greed of these steel men. They now conspire together - to form a federal steel company—the j word trust is eschewed because of its un- } popularity—for the purpose of burking | that competition which the tariff was - ostensibly created to foster.—Chicago , News (Ind.). irhn to Klect Congressmen. la the light of the recent elections new emphasis is given the suggestion that the members of Congress should be elected just before the meeting of «m- j gross, rather than thirteen months in I advance. Had Congress been elected this I month, there would be a large majority for the Democrats. The popular mind has undergone a marked change since the elect’on of- Harrison. The body elected at that time does not represent the present views of the people. Either Ohio, Iowa, New York or Massachusetts would have wiprd out all the Go- - publican majority in the House had the choice of Congressmen been had Ah is > year. It is desirable that they come to { the work of legislation fresh from tfe* : Moulft. 'fit. Paul Qlobfli ♦ "tt VfVWl

Tin Soldiers u Tnehers.^ Orest artistic excellence 'tats been reached in Eurowi in the m^fetfacture of tin soldiers. lfeerman mi oer has found it possible military operations on a lai their means. He has colli tin soldiers, belonging to evsS IHlRh of the service and comnletel-Mb uiPned. and has displayed them on a jRtform in the Kempton barracks to illustrate a siege conducted in accordance "•sith the best teaching of modern tactics. The scenery and other appurten%pces 'have ail been supplied by toys in common use, and the picture is said to be marvelously perfect. A French garrison, of course, occupies the fortress and naturally is compelled to surrender.—London Times. Wires we associate witijjhe good something of their spirituaflRssession becomes ours, even though we,do not at once feel it. pdHhg over Mbs all the while is that, which tnakepJtom what they are, and whleh, in its flEfeure, will change us|j£t<ttheir likeness—United PrcsbyterE^v •. ^1 » « —. Ejjpt and Jerusalem; via Gibraltar, Naples and ltomr. Jf Gea May Powell, ot Philadelphia, Is act iog as specialmanager for organizing a trip for ladioa and. gentlemen wishing to»isit the East The Ooean Steamer Circassian 4.374 tons has been chartered to start with the party from New York, February 19th. Ketura through France, England and Scotut June 7th. The mam trip will than #.'>U0. Radiatory excursions . Constantinople, Vienna, etc., ,ed to the route for small increase ense. Floyd, the most famous of Svrian en, will havo charge of the Oriental and Messrs. Gaze A Son, of I-ondon. >cn engaged to manage the European ou. Rev. Dr. C F. Thomas an experienced director of such excursions, will have general charge. This wilt be by far the most for the money ever before offered in this line. A number of young ladies are already booked, as Mrs. Thomas will have care of a department for them. For further particulars ad.dress,'iI ircasaian,‘* P. 0. Box 700, PhUa>!etpb<a|)V_ • A modest person seldom fails to gain the good will of those bo converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not uppdmAo be pleased with himself. A woman is never so badly in love that she does not try to ilud out the post of her engagement ring.

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