Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 June 1890 — Page 4

THE BOW OF PROMISE -- The Covenant of God with Man and Its Lessons. Sermon by Rev. T. DtVIlt Talma** on tin Rainbow and Its Beantle* Contrasted with the U*Uness of Sin. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWi.tt Talmage in the lirooklyn Academy of Music from the . text: There was a rainbow round the throne.— '’Revelations, iv., 8. As, after a night of fearful tempest at sea, one ship, wore stanch than another, rides on undamaged among the fragments of spars and hulks that float about, so old Noah’s ark, at the close of the deluge, floats on over the wreck of a dead world. Looking out of the window of the ark j<u see the planks of houses, and the sheaves of wheat, and the carcasses of cattle and the corpses of men. No tower is left to tell the burial; no mourners to(form in linn of procession; no ground in which to bury the dead. Sinking a line twentyseven feet long, you just touch the tops of the mountains. Ghastliness and horror! The ark, instead of walking the sea, like a modern ship, in majesty and beauty, tosses helplessly; no helm to guide; no sail to set; no shore to steer for. Why protract the agony of the good people in such a craft, when they might in one dash of the wavo have been put out of their misery? But at yonder spot in the horizon we boo colors gathering in the sky; at just the opposite points in the horizon other

colors are- garnering, l nna roar tney nre tbo two buttresses of an arched bridge. ’Ibe fellow, the red, the orange, the blue, the indigo, the vioiet are mingled, and by Invisible hands the whole structure Is hung into the skyi and the ark has a triumphal arch to sail under. An Angel of Light swings his band across the sky , and in the seven prismatic colors he paints with pencil on sunbeam the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature. God lifted up that great arched bridge, and set it over His own head in the Heaven. . John saw it, for he says: “There was a rainbow round about the throne." i I notice that none but the people who were in the ark saw the rainbow, it casts its shadow clear down into the water where the people were buried, and lightod up the dead faces with a strange radiance, hut they could not see it. So only those who are at last found in Christ, tbo Ark, will see overspanning glories of the throne. Hence you had better get into the ark! As you call your family out at the close of the shower to show them the sign in Heaven, ho I want you all at last to see the grander rainbow round about the throne. .“Look there!” says Noah to his wifet “at that, bow in the clouds; and Shbm and Japhet, look! look! the green, the yellow, the red and the orange!” I should not wonder if some of your own children in the good land should after awhile cry out to you: “Look, father! look, mother! there Is a rainbow round about the throne!” You had better get into the ark with all your families, if you want to see it. I notice also that the chief glory of God comes after the rain. No shower, bo rainbow; nb trouble, no brightness of Christian consolation. Weavers are sometimes, by reason of their work, dusty and rough in their apparel; and so it’is the coarse-clad tempest, whose hand and foot swing the shnttle, that weaves the rainbow. Many Christians are dull and stupid, and useless because they have not had disaster enough to wake them up. The brightest scarf that Heaven makes is thrown over the shoulders of the storm. You can not make a thorough Christian life out of sunshine alone. There are some very dark hues in the ribbon of the rainbow; you must have in life the blue as well as the orange. Mingling all the colors of the former makes a white light; and it takes all the shades and - and sadnesses and vicissitudes of life to make the white luster of a poor Christian character. Your child asks you: “Father, what makes the rainbow?” and you say: “It is the sunlight striking through the rain-drops.” Therefore I wondered how there could be a rainbow in Heaven, since there are no storms there; but then X conclude that that rainbow must be formed by the striking of Heaven’s sunlight through the falling tears of earthly sorrow. When we see a man overwhelmed with trouble, and his health goes, and his property goes, and his friends go. I say: “Now we shall see the glory of God in this good man’s deliverance.” As at Niagara Falls I saw, one day, ten rainbows spanning the awful plunge of the cataract, so over the abyss of the Christian’s trial hover the rich-hued wings of all the promises.

I notice that tne most Deauutui tilings of this world are to be preserved in lleaven. When you see the last color fade out from the rainbow of earth, you need not feel sad, for you will see the rainbow round about the throne. That story about the world burning up has given me many a pang, When I read that Paris was besieged I said: “Now the pictures and statues in the Louvre and Luxemberg. will be destroyed; all those faces of Rembrandt, and those bold dashes of Rubens, and those enchantments of Raphael on canvas, and ; those statues of Canova.” Hut is it not a more melancholy thought that ruin is to come upon this great glory of the earth, in which the mountains are the chiseled sculptures, and upon the sky, in which tSe "transfiguration” of sunrise and sunset is hung with loops and tassels of fire? I was relieved when - I found that the pictures had b&en removed from the Louvre and the Luxembourg, and I am relieved now when I think that the best parts of this earth are either to be removed or pictured in the Good Land. The trees must twist in the last fire—the oaks, and the cedars, and the maples; but in Heaven there shall be the trees of life on the bank of the river, and the palm trees from which the conquerors shall pluck their branches. The Hudson, and the 8t. Lawrence, and the Ohio shall boil ip the last flame, but we shall have more than their beauty in the River of Life from under tbg throne. The daisies and the porfulacaa, and the roses of earth will wither in the hot sirocco of the judgment, bnt John tells of the garlands which the glorified shall wear; and there must be flowers, or there could he no garlands. The rainbow on our sky, whiich is only the pillow of the dying storm, must be removed; but then, glory be to Golt "there is a rainbow round about the throne." 1 have but to look up to the radiant arch above ‘the throne of God to assure myself that the most glorious things of earth are to te preserved in Heaven. ' Then let the world burn; ell that is worth saving will ba ■matched out of the fire. I see the same troth set forth in the twelve foundations of the wall of Heaven. St John announces the twelve foundations of this wall to be: the first, of jasper, yellow and red; the second, ’ 'bird, a >urth, fifth, lixth, I IMttt

chrysolite, golden-hued; the eighth, beryl, a bluish green', the ninth, topaz, a pale green mixed with yellow; the tenth, chrysoprasus, a golden bluish tint; the eleventh, jacinth, fiery as the sunset; the twelfth, amethyst. But these precious stones are only the foundation of the wall of Heaven—the most inferior part of it. On the to'p of this foundation there rises & mighty wall of jasper—of brilliant yellow aha gorgeous crimson. Stupendous Cataract of color) Throne of splendor and sub* litnity) You see that the beautiful colors which are the robes of glory to our | earth aro to be forever preserved in j this wall-of Heaven. Our skies of blue, j which sometimes seem almost to drop with richness of color, shall be glorified and eternized in the deep everlasting blue of that fiery stone which forms the second foundation of the heavenly wall. The green that sloops ott the brook's bank, and rides on the seaWave, and spreads its banners on the mountain top. Shall be eternized in the emerald that forms the fourth foundation of the heavenly wall. The fiery gush of tho morning, the conflagration of tho autumnal sunset, the electricity that shoots Its forked toUgilh out of the thundercloud, the flame at whoso breath Moscow fell aiid Etnas bum, shall be eternized in the fiery jasper. It seeds as if all earthly beauty were in oho billow to be dashed up agaittst that wall of Heaven; so that the most beautiful things of earth will ho kept either in the wall, or the foundation, or in tho rainbow round about the throne. *

I notice tho unspeakable attractiveness of Heaven. In other places the Bible tells us of tho floor of Heaven— the waters, and the stoftes, and the fruits; blit how St, iohh tells us t>f the roof—the frescoed arch of eternity, and the raihboW round about the throne. Get r. ticket, and, carefully guarded, you go into the royal factory of Paris where the Gobelin tapestries of the world are made, and see how for years a man will sit putting in and out a ball or colored worsteds through the delicate threads, satisfied if ho can in a day make so much as a finger's breadth of beauty for a king’s canopy. But behold how my Lord, in ono hour, with His two hands, twisted the tapestry, ttoW sWuhg abovo the throne, Into a rainbow of infinite glory. t)h. What a place Heaven must he! YoU have heretofore looked at the floor; this morning take one glance at the ceiling. I notice what must be the feeling of safety among the people of Ile^Ven. Have you ever seen a cloud burst? There have been days when it rained as if it would never stop. You knew if it kept on that way long, all the nations would be drowned, yet you bad no apprehension, for you remember the bow of promise, painted on the cloud in Noah’s time. So the glorified have bat to look to the arch around the throne of tho^King to l,e reassured that the deb uge of trial is forever past. On earth the deluge of sin covers the tops of the highest mountains. I heard an Alpine guide, among the stupendous evidences of God’s power, swear at his mules as ho stumbled in the pass. Yes, the deluge of sin dashes over the top of the highest mountain ranges. Revenge, drunkenness, impiety, falsehood, blasphemy, are hut different waves of a flood that has overwhelmed nations. New York is drowned in it, Brooklyn is drowned in it, Boston is drowned in it, London is drowned in it, St Petersburg is drowned in it—two great homh spheres are drowned in it. But the redeemed, looking unto the “rainbow round about the throne,” see the pledge that all this is ended for them forever. They have committed their last sin, and combated their last temptation. No suicide leaps into those bright waters; no profanity befouls that pure air; novillain’s torch stall fire those temples; no murderer’s hand shall strike down those sons of God. They know that for them tho deluge of sin is assuaged, for “there is a rainbow round about the throne.” Now the world is covered with a deluge of blood. The nations are all the time either using the sword or sharpening; it. The factories of the world are flight and day manufacturing tho weaponry of death. Throne against throne, empire against enlpire. The spirit of • despotism and freedom at war in every land; despotic America against free America, despotic England against free England, dospotic Germany against free Germany, despotic Austria against free Austria. The great battle of earth is being fought—the Armageddon of tho nations. The song that unrolled from the sky on the first Christmas night of “peace and good will to men” is drowned in the booming of the great siege guns. Stand back and let the long line of ambulances pass. Groan to groan. Uncover and look upon the trenches of the dead. Blood! blood! —a deluge of blood!

But the redeemed of Heaven, looking upon tho glorious arch that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over. No batteries are planted on those hills, no barricades blocking those streets, no hostile flag above those walls, no smoke of burning villages, no shrieks of butchered men, but peace! German and Frenchman, who fell with arms interlocked in hate on the field of death, now, through Christ in Heaven, stand with arms interlocked in love. Arms stacked forever; shields of battle hung up. The dove instead of the eagle, the lamb instead of the lion. There shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all God’s holy mount, for there is a rainbow round about the throne. Now the earth is covered with the deluge of sorrow. Trouble! trouble! The very first utterance when we come into the world is a cry. Without any teaching, we learn to weep. What has so wrinklod that man’s face? What has so prematurely whitened his hair? What calls out that sigh? What starts that tear? Trouble! trouble! 1 find it in the cellar of poverty and far up among the heights on the top of the crags; for this also hath gone over the tops of the highest mountains. No escape from it You go into the store, and it meets you at your counting-desk; you go into the street and it meets you at the corner; you go into the house, and it meets you at the door. Tears of poverty! tears of persecution! : tears of bereavement!—a deluge of tears! Gathered together from all tho earth, they could float an ark larger than Noah’s. But the glorified, looking up to the bow that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over. No shivering wretch on the palace step; no blind man at the gate of the heavenly temple, asking for alms; no grinding of the screw-driver on coffin-lid. They look up at^he rainbow and read in lines of yellow, and red, and green, and blue, and orange, and indigo, and violet: ‘•They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Thank God for the glory spanning the throne! In our boyhood we had a superstition that at the foot of the rainbow there was a casket of buried gold, but I have to announce that at the foot of this rainbow of Heaven ther#is a box made oat of the wood of the crosi. Open it, Md you find all the treasure! e1 itatvea. '

Ob. that our eyes may all look upon this lx>w of promise, lifted by Christ’s own hand! We shall trace the separate lines of beauty across the Armament In the line of red 1 shall sea the blood of my Lord; la the blue, the bruises that (Colored His cheek; id the green, the Imshttosa ttf His: grace; In the violet His humility; in all that curve of beauty, thd bend of His right arm ot love 3'wung over all the redeemed. But mind what I told yon at the beginning, and what I tell you at the close —the,t none but Noah’s family in tho ark saw the raintiow, and that only those who are at last in Christ shall discover it am id the glories ot Heaven. 'Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of Hod." LITTlS ciKNluses, *hej nil a Niche or Which The} Ha VS i Reason to BC I’rttiHl. if S than Cab dpt bd S great genius, IS it worth his while to be a little one? Some learned men say not Of the poets who flourished and were famous a hundred years ago, how many are knowri now? Of all the bright volumes that brought fame to their authors, and made the booksellers ftf Old wealthy, how toady bin We find upon tho sholves of the bbdk-stores of to-day? Only a few. And yet their authors, lauded by friends and flattored by reviews, threw all their souls into their songs, and fondly dreamed of earthly immortality. Thefittest survive, and the world has sorted them out without1 unerring judgment. From the good it has take the best, and we are thankful. But these little geniuses-=did they live their lives id vain because they are forgotted now? Was all their music meahinglesd, and did the world never taiss it when their barp3 were silent? They fulfilled their mission; their songs went homo to human hearts and quickened them with feeling. ^They sang as sang the birds—brief, tender songs that made the world glad for a day; and though their names are now unknown, their graves unmarked, their work has not been unrewarded. So let the little geniuses bo of good cheer; their footsteps may not go cchoingdown the ages, but they may sound very pleasantly in the pathways of to-day. IT they feel thijt they must sing, let no man say them nay; there will be ears to listen, Voices td applaud, and hearts to feel. The world needs the low, soft notes of the humble singer, the homely harpings of the little poet, as a rest from the deep bas3 of the bards sublime.—Atlanta .Constitution. •

PUBLIC OMNIBUSES. EatnMtiliiUMit of the First Line In the City of I'llrin. The first line of public omnibuses of which thero is any record was established in Paris. March 18, 160:1. A company had bech formed with the Duko do Rondos ttnd two Marquises at the head for running coaches over established routes for a fixed fare, amounting to about five cents in our money. The royal decree authorizing the establishment; of the enterprise says that the vehicles were to be run “for the benefit of a great number of persons ill-provided for, as persons engaged in lawsuits, infirm people, and others who have not the means to ride in chaise pr carriage. Which can not be hired under a pistole, or a Couple of crowns a day.” At seven o’clock on l:he morning of March IS thd inauguration of the new conveyances took place, and it was a grand and gay affair. Throe of the coachds started from one end of the selected.! route and four from the other. Two commissaries in legal robes, four guards of the grand provost, half a score of city archers and as many cavalry drew jup in front of the people. The commissaries delivered an address on the advantages of tho carriages, exhorted the drivers to preservo good order, and then, turning to t|ie coachmen, covered the body of each with a long blue frcckf with the arms of tho King and the city showily embroidered on the front. The carriages, throughout the day w ere accompanied by guards, who preserved order, and ;kopt the people frpm (overcrowding them. The desire to rido was great for a time, hut when the noreljity had worn off the patronage decreased, and the venture proved a failure. (The enterprise was not renewed in Paris! until 1827.—Chicago Hews. A GIGANTIC STATUE. An. Image of Bmldha Said to lie Eighty Feet In Uelght, Thp Chinese pilgrim, Fa-hien. gives, in the sixth chapter of his narrative, a description of a monster imagine of Buddha, which he tells us was carved in wood! by a clever artificer of the kingdom pf T’o-leih. According to Fa-hien, this artist was thrice taken up to Heavien so that he might observe the height, complexion and appearance of the supreme ruler of the Tushita heaven. Authors who have translated the passage giving dimensions of this colossal figure are strangely at variance with’each other. Prof. Ball’s translation Says: “The height of this wooden monster was 80 feet and its upturned font 8 feet” Prof. Loggo says: “It (the imagine) is 80 cubits in height and eight cubits at the base from knee to knee of the crossed legs.” From the last sentence it is inferred that the image sits cross-legged in true Oriental style. Waters and Giles, two other translators of Fa-hlen’s works, re nder the passage describing the image just as Prof. Ball does, i. e., 80 feet in height and the foot 8 -feet in length. Robert K. Douglas, of King’s College, London, thinks all four of these translations wrongly rendered, or else that this wooden Buddha is a monster strangely out of proportions. In proof of this he measured a perfectly-shaped Greek statue 27 feet high and found the foot to he but 2 feet % inches in length. According to this, a perfectly-formed Greek statue with a foot 8. feet long would be over 100 feet in height, whereas this Maytreya Buddha is but 80 feet to the crown of tho head.—St Louis Republic.

Vermont’s Floating Island. Sadawaga Lake, a large-sized pond in Whilingham, Vt, has one of the most remarkable islands in the world within its borders. The island is larger than any farm in the neighborhood, containing over 150 acres. Its peculiarities lie in the fact that it daily shifts its position, being first on the north, then on the south and again on tho east or west borders of the lake. It is known as “'Hie Floating Island,” c.nd has kept up its aberrant voyage since time out of memory. It has many trees upon its surface, some of which are from 20 to 30 leet in height, besides an immense thickness of cranberry bushes. It is rare that a portion of the island breaks off and sinks to the bottom, and its stability has made it » favorite resort for plcknickers and others seeking an outing. Holes have beer, cut through the crust and fish caught? much after the fashion of catching them through the ice in the winter time.—St. Louis Republic. —We pay and pay dearly for experience; but wc may yet get back both principal and interest if we use it as a light to guide our futuie course. —From tho ruins o’ onr castles in Spain we may lay the foundation of a substantial one nearer home. —Nothing »it* so gracefully upon children as habitual respect e^d dutiful deportment toward* tbtif parents.

WAGES AND TAXATION. How One-Sided Protection Rube the Farmer and the Mechanic. The Philadelphia Press suggests as another name for the McKinley bill: l*An Act id Present the deduction Of the Wages bt American Labor to an European Basis.” Wages are used to buy necessary supplies for the family. Now, wages are to be “protected” by compelling .wage-earners to pay more for all they buy. Whether a man works in the factory or in the field is determined by the price of farm labor. The American manufacturer bids not against the European manufacturer, but against the American farmer. Why is it that -to-day, after thirty years of a protective tariff, it is necessary to go to Congress to get a law tohssed to “Prevent the Reduction of the Wages of American Labor?” What influences are at work reducing wages in America? Plainly the depression of agriculture; When, in America, agriculture prospers, Wages advance; when it is detiressed, wages in every factory in the and decline. Tii 1877, 1878 and 1879 farm products commanded profitable prices and every section had a “boom.” But in recent years the tendency has been otherwise; the chief agricultural crop has been the crop of mortgages, with the result that wages have declined in all industrial centers, .and strikes have multiplied. Now, we are to have a “bill to prevent. the reduction of wages of American iabor to an European basis.” How is it proposed to do this? Simply by increasing taxation. Here is an illustration: A farmer sends some early strawberries to his oity merchant and tells him to send in exchange twelve dozen tin cans for peaches, tomatoes, etc., etc. Heretofore the Government would take for revenue thirty-three per cent.; the farmer would get nine cans instoad of a dozen. He finds that this tax has been increased to five, leaving only seven cans in a dozen,

or seven dozen in a proas. It doos not matter what the farmer hska th exchange for his products* the effect of the McKinley bill is the same. If hC Wants S suit of Clothes, a carpet, household utensils, farming implements, knives, guns, fertilizer, any thing or every thing, he finds that in exchange for his fruits and vegetables, for wheat or corn, for cotton or for cattle, by an increase of taxation he must accept less or he must send more. This is the way farm wages are “increased.” Under the influence of the tariff, agriculture has declined, and wages in the factories and mills have followed. Labor has been imported and Is to-day imported free of any tax, and so between the poorly-paid immigrant and the poorly-paid farmer, the laborer in the cities finds that his wages and tbe wages Of the English laborers approach every year nearer and nearer to a level. Wages come not from capital; jthey come from the products of labor. They are highest when and where production is highest per hand. Any natural or artificial impediment to the highest production; any friction, any taxation, any tariff, lessens the productive power of labor and reduces its rewards. Taxation is always an evil; it is tolerable only when imposed to meet tbe requirements of the Government, When imposed to enrich the rich, to add to the accumulations of the Forty Thieves, it is an outrage to every person, and an especial burden upon American labor in the field or the factory. Deny It as our Republican friends may, the tariff is a tax. — Louisville Courier-Journal.

THE SURPLUS BUSTERS. A Deficit in Flaee of One Hundred Millions In the Treasury. When Grover Cleveland sent his famous tariff-reform message to Congress he drew attention to the fact that the country was confronted with “a condition—not a theory.” That condition was an overwhelming and growing surplus in the -National treasury, due to over-taxation. Mr. Cleveland proposed to reduce this surplus by relieving the people from the burden of unnecessary taxation, and the Democrats in control of the popular branch of Congress responded to his demand by a bill which supplied in small part the remedy which he proposed. This measure— the Mills bill—was defeated in the Senate under the control of the Republicans. » It is only a little more than a year since Grover Cleveland went out of office. And now it is reported from Washington that the ensuing year will probably show a defifet of $103,000,000 instead of a surplus of 8100,000,000. How has this remarkable change been brought about? Not by reduction of taxation, because the taxes have not been reduced. Not by any increased necessities of the Government, for there has been no war nor s great National calamity demanding extraordinary expenditures. There has been no vast scheme of National improvements to drain the treasury of its resources. What is the explanation? The process of converting a huge surplus into an appalling deficit within two years has been clearly outlined by the legislation which has been passed and which is further projected by the present Congress. The estimates are made on the basis of the extravagant appropriations which are outlined and the projected changes in the revenue system. With the exception of occasional objections to some meritorious bill for a public building, there has been a uniform disposition to swell the appropriations in every possible direction. The plan has been seriously contemplated to absorb all possible surplus revenues by voting dependent pensions, service pensions, back pensions and pensions under various designations. If tbe pension raids do not suffice to get rid pf the revenues, then it is hoped thb McKinley bill will do the business—not by reducing taxation, but by increasing it to such an extent as to prohibit certain importations and transferring the taxes heretofore paid to the Government into the pockets of private individuals and corporations paid in the form of houn

uw> Which is the better plan for getting Tid of the surplus—the Cleveland plan pi reducing unnecessary taxes or the pending plan for increasing appropriations and also increasing taxation on imports to a prohibitory figure? That will be the question for the people to decide.—Kansas City Star. POOR OLD MORTON. The Vice-President Is Very Dignified Bat Doesn’t Know Die Bales. Vice-President Morton is a very fine old gentleman and gifted in many respects. Be is a diplomat of rare qualities and I never saw another who could wear a wig with better grace. But there is one thing he can not do. He can not learn the rules of the Senate. He presides with dignity, in fact lends as much dignity to the position as any man who has ever occupied the chair, but he has to be pro mpted at nearly every stage of the proceedings. Edmunds is chief prompter, Ingalls assistant prompter and Fry sometimes acts as sub-assistant Edmunds occupies the front seat almost under the eyebrows of the presiding officer, and constantly keeps on the watch to see mt fit. Mettoit Sfikes no klutfen.

When some motion is made or a preliminary question asked, the Vice-, President, in a hesitating sort of way,' begins to state the case as nearly as. ha' can get at it, all the time watching tho face of the distinguished Senator fitoni Vermont for signs of approval or correction. If the Vermont sage nods his head the Vioe-Presidant, with a firmer confidence, proceeds to state the question. A look of disapproval will! at' once bring the Vice-President to a, standstill, and then dir. Edmunds with, the least suspicion of a twinkle under, his eyebrows, will rise and state, its if, in argument or suggestion to the chair, what will be the proper statement of the case. The Vice-Presi-dent immediately reproduces this language with grap ophonic accuracy. Sometimes Mr, Morton gets the impression that he knows enough about tho rules jto take care o:! this business for himself, Then he almost invariably falls into error. tViieil he puts himself to this position) Mr, Edmunds and Mr. Ingalls appear in a quiet sort of way to enjoy the situation. Sometimes the one and sometimes the ether will get- up, and lit parliamentary language, and manner of extreme Siiavity, gite the presiding officer a leouure on parliaments ary usage. Some of these discourses are extremely amusing from their assumption of dignity 'and seriousness while dealing with the most trivial, ponit of parliamentary order, which to the Vice-President is as perplexing as the old 15 puzzle. It is understood to bo a very sore point with Mr. Morton that be has constantly to be coached by these two gentlemen; but he can not help himself, for every time he makes a declaration of independence hei gets into trouble, and has to stand the delicate irony of the Senator from Vermont) —N. Y. Commercial-Advertiser. CLARKSON S WftATH. The Iowa Spoilsman. Talks Too Bloch for His Own Good. Mr. J. S. Clarkson, the First Assistant Postmaster-General, is a wonderful man. He has been cutting oft the heads of Democratic postmasters until he is tired of the work, and now he is delivering political lectures at the North by way of variety. He is not only wonderful, hut great. A few years agOj While he was editor of the Iowa State ltegidter, he printed in his editorial columns a statement to the effect that whein the great “star-shower” occurred in 1833 the falling stars could be heard rattling on the leaves of the trees.

This sort of thing is characteristic oi Clarkson. Ho has now quit telling about the stars in order to tell some wonderful’ stories about the South. The star-story was merely an innocent lie, but the lies about the South are told, in order to help the Republican party. These political lies are patent enough to every body except the deluded jjeople who sit and listen to him, and a good many of those must recognize the most of Clarkson’s statements to be lies if they read the newspapers. His. complaint is that Republicans arc not allowed to hold office! in the South, and yet there is hardly a county in any part of the South where Republicans are not holding office. As for the negroes, it is natural that their appointment as postmasters in Communities where there are plenty of white Republicans should cause irritation; but do the Southern people prevent the negro from holding office at the North? Has the Southern bulldozer terrorizedj the President and Mr. Clarkson to such an extent that they are afraid to appoint negroes to office :la the North? If not, Why have no negroes been appointed to office in the fforth? These are very interesting questions. The President and Mr. Clarkson hate not hesitated to appoint negro postmasters in the South, where they knew that such appointments are likely to cause irritation; but why have they hesitated to appoint negro postmasters at the North? Are the Northern negroes unfit to hold office? Would the white people protest against ‘such appointments? There are a great many negroes in Iowa —Mr. Clarkson’s State—and many of them are said to be well educated;'but how many negro officials are there in Iowa? In the whole State has Mr.. Clarkson appointed one negro postmaster? It would seem from this that the gay bulldozer has entrusted his bulldozing operations to the present Administration.—Atlanta Constitution. DRIFT OF OPINION, —r—The McKinley bill ought to be entitled a hill for a perpetual pension to the order of manufacturers.—Indianapolis News. -Quay will order the Administration to disband before he will consent to sue the New York World for libel.— Atlanta Constitution. —It is wonderful how quiet Mr. Harrison keeps about the Quay matter. Perhaps, however, he is preparing a card for publication—Atlanta Constitution. -The pegro w: 11 never amount to any thing so long ivs he is treated as “the ward of the Nation,” and it is encouraging to find that he is beginning to understand thhj.—N. Y. Evening Post. ——Sum way—Whom did the President mean when ho spoke of “tried and true Republicans ” Staggers — No$ Quay and Dudley, anyhow; they haven’t been tried yet—Lite. -The report that Blaine wilt not again try for the Residency, but wilj be satisfied to close his career as Sen, ator from Maine, indicates that the Maine man’s weather eye is as good as ever. The chance fir a Republican successor to Harrison Isr exceedingly slim. —St Louis Post-Eii tpatch.

the whole, we think we entertain more reape : t for a Congressman who sincerely be I i ? ves in .high protective duties, and notes every time to sustain them, than we have for the Congressman who makes fine speeches, in favor of tariff reform and then votes the other way, under the lash of the party whip.—Boston Herald. ——Sbme of the Republican papers are trying to resist, the impression produc3d by Clarkson s speeches regarding the remarkable decline of the Republican press by declaring that his statements are much exaggerated. But Clarkson told nothing but the truth, and that he believes what he says is seen in the fact that he has disposed of his own newspaper property.—Chicago Herald. w -A Union soldier named Herbst was taken prisone:.* and joined the Confederate army. When he Was recapttured he swore that he took arms against his country .because he wished to be released from prison. He should have been shot for desertion, but he was not. His widow asked a pension, and Congress gave it.ta her. Harrison permitted the bill to become a law. What do honorable Union veterans think of this as a specimen of pension legislation, indorsed by the President?—At bany Argus. -It appeal's upon the showing of this representative Republican, Clarkson, based upon Carefully compiled statistics, that the democratic party is pre-eminently the reading, thinking, and. therefore the intelligent party of the country. Undoubtedly, Mr. Clarkson is correct, and it is also true, on. the other hand, that the more the people generally read and think, and study the principles ami purposes of the two jreat parties, the stronger, relatively, the Democratic party becomes,— ppptori H.) fwple M»d Vittriot

Breath'of Sob*. From the minister's organ loft, Floating down the shadowed nar% Comen a strain of music soft, •’ Falling as a weary ware f Falls upon the beach of sand. Murmurous and sweet and bland. Bearing from the mighty sea N Messages of melody. There, alone, the organist Lets his listless fingers g^— lost lla a melodious mist— O’er the key-board, to and fro; There, half-dreaming, in the glooih Sits the weaver at his loom. Weaving with the threads of sound Music-woof the warp around. Ail unconsciously he hides Strains familiar in his theme When a master-spirit glides Thro jgh the doorway of his dream; Mozart, Handel, Chopin, of Harmony's great conjnrerer— Rapt Beethoven I—each Is part Of the dreaming player's heart. Bo the Poet dreams, nor heeds "'S Who may listen, who may hear; Following where Fancy leads, ~ ghe alone to him is dear; Omar, Keats, Theocritus, In hid Voice may speak to us From the realm of ages dim— These are in the heart of hindf Poets in the fields of Timo, Since the world begaq, have sown Wide the precious seeds of rhyme. And to us to-day are blown Odor:* from these poem-flowers— Seedlings of the later hours— Blossoming the Helds along. Breathing the sweet breath of song. —Frank Dempster Sherman, in N, Y. Independent. The Land of Gold. Behind the sunsot’s bars in the wide West, We catch the radiance of th« Land of Gold: The dazzling splendors of its wealth untold Flash through our dreams, and wake to vague unrest The soul—with Life’s dull weariness opprest. Or wrapped in weeds of sorrow, fold on fold-** TiU, with sheer longing and despair grown bold, * We turn to seek that Lund where all ore,blest. But tho Gold fades, and the strong stars arise That look beyond the sunset and the sun' They see our little world hang far below While over it Imperial planets glow— From Heaven they whisper: “Heaven can not be won Until great Death has come to make men wise.” —Louise Chandler Moulton, In Youth's Companion. The Follow Hammer** Tap. When gentle breezes softly play O’er meadows sweet. In fatr-hairod May, And Whisper secrets to the pines In woodlands dense with clamb'ring vines; AY her balmy spring-time fills the air, And scatters sweetness everywhere, * Then there comes the ceaseless rap Of the yellow-hammer’s tip— Tip-top, tap-tap, tip-tap tip— Tipity-tap, Tapity-tip, Tlplty-tap-top; ’Tis tire merry pittcr patter Of the yellow-hammer’s tap. AVhen brown wrens peer through rough-hewn rail. And oft is heard the drum of quail, And thiokets echo thrush’s song, And swollen brooklet bound along; When from the hedge the oat-birds cry. And meadow-larks are soaring high, Then there comes the merry tap Of the yellow-hammer’s rap— Tip-tap, tip-tap, tip-tap-tip— Tipity-tap, Tapity-tip, Tipity-tap-tap; ’Tis the ceaseless pitter-patter Of the yellow-hammer’s tap. When hazy shadows tAowly creep, And lambkins bleat.thorns elves to sleep; AVhen from the pasture’s daisiedplain Echoes the cow.-bellh sweet refrain That t>lend3 with negro teamster's song, As down the road he rides along, Again is heard the merry tap Of the yellow-hammer’s rap— Tip-tap, tip-tap, tip-tap-tip— Tipity-tap, Tapity-tip, Tipity-tap-tap; Tis the plaintive rat-a-tattor Of tho yellow-hammer’s top. —Edward A Oldham, in Gentury Magazine.

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