Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 June 1890 — Page 4

THE STORY OF ORPAH Diecourse by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal / mage in Brooklyn. The Tender-Hearted sinner, Who, Meet*»t Ohelaeiea In HU Path, Tama he the More Attractive Allurements of Sin. • The -following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in th« Brooklyn Academy, founded upon an incident in the beautiful story of Ruth. His text was: And they lifted up tbelr voices and wept and Orpah kissed lier mother-in-law, bul Both clave into her.—Bull) L, 11.

Moab wits a heathen land. Naomi it about to leave it and go into the landol Bethlehem. She had two daughters-in-law, Ruth antf Orpah, who conclude tc go with lier. Naomi tells them the; had better not leave their native land and underbake the hardships of the journey, but they will not be persuaded. They all three start out on their journey. After awhile Naomi, although she highly prized the company of her twodaugh-lers-ln-lavr, attempted again to persuade them to go back because of the hardship and self-denial through which they would be obliged to go. Ruth responds In the words from -which 1 once discoursed to you: “Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to return from following aftor thee, for where tbou goost I will go, and where thou lodgest 1 will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried; tbe Lord doso to me and more alsoof aught but death part thee and me.” Not so with her sister Orpah. Her determination bad already been shaken. The length and peril of the journey began to appal her, and she had worshipped the gods of Moab so long that it was hard to givo them up. From that point Orpah turned back, the parting being described in the words of my text: “And they lifted up their voices and wept again.and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law;, but Ruth clave unto her.” Learn froip this story of Orpah that some of those who do not leave the Moab of thoir iniquities are persons of fine susceptibility. It was compassion for Naomi in her widowhood and sorrow that led Orpah to start with her toward Bethlehem. It was not because of any lack of affection for bertbat she turned back. We know- this from the grief exhibited at parting. I do not know but that she.had as much warmth and ardor of nature as Ruth, but she lacked the courago and persistence of her sister. That there are many with as fino.suscoptibility as Orpah who will not take up their cross and follow Christ is a truth which noods but little demonstration. Many of these who have become fho followers of Jesus have but very little natural impressibility. Grace often takes hold of the hardest heart and the most unlovely character and transforms it It is a hammer that breaks rocks. In this Christ often shows His power It wants but little generalship to conquer a flat country, but might of artillery and heroism to take a fort manned and ready for raking cannonade. The great Captain of our salvation has forced His way into many an armed castle. I doubt not that Christ could have found many a fisherman naturally more nobiehearted than Simon Peter, but there was no one by whoso conversion He could more gloriously have magnified His grace. The conversion of a score Johns would not have illustrated the power of tbe Holy Ghost as much as the conversion of one Peter. It would have beep easier to drive twenty iambs like John into ,the fold than to tame ono lion like Peter. God has often made some of His most efficient servants out of men naturally unimpressionable. As men take stiff and unwieldy timbers, and under hugehanded machinery bend them into the hulk of great ships, thus God has often shaped and bent into His service the most unwieldy natures, while those naturally impressionable are still in the uncharged state. Oh,' bow many, like Orpah, have warm affections, and yet never become Christians! Like Orpah, they know how to weep, but they do not know how to pray. Their fineness of feeling leads them into the friendships of the world, but not into communion with God. They can love every body but Him, who is altogether lovely. All other sorrow rends their heart, but they are untouched by the woes of a dying Christ Good news fills them with excitement but the glad tidings of great joy and salvation stir not their soul. Anxious to do what is right yet they rob God. Grateful for the slightest favors, they make no return to Him who wrung out the last drop of blood from His heart to deliver them from going down to the pit They would weep at the door of a prison at the sight of a wicked captive in chains, but have no compassion for their own souls ovei which Satan, like a grim jailer, holds the lock and key. \Vh«n repulsive, grasping, unsympathetic natures resist the story of a Saviou r's love,it does not excite our surprise; but it is among tbo greatest of wonders that so many who exhibit Orpah’s susceptibility also exhibit Orpah’s impenitency. We are not surprised that there is barrenness in a desert, but a strange thing is it that sometimes the Rose of Sharon will not grow in a garden. On a summer morning we arc not surprised to find a rock without any dew on it, but, if going among a flock of lilies, we saw in them no glittering drops, we would say: “What foul sprite has been robbing these vases?” We are not surprised that Herod did not become a Christian, but how strancro that the young man Jesus loved for his sweetness oi temper should not have loved the Redeemer. Hard-hearted Felix trembled; proud ^Nebuchadnezzar repented, and cruel lifanasseh turned unto the Lord; but many a nature, at

fectionate and gentle, has rought successfully against Divine influences. Many a dove has refused to come in the window of the ark. although finding no rest for the sole of her foot. Again the history of Orpah impresses upon mo the truth that there are many who make a good starting, but after a while change their minds and turn back. When these three mournors start for their home in Moab there is as much probability that Orpah will reach Bethlehem as that her sister Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi will arrivo there. But while these continue in the journey they commenced, Orpah after awhile gets discouraged and turns back. This is the history of many a soul. Perhaps it was during a revival of religion they resolved upon a Christian life, and made preparations to leave Moab. Before that they were indifferent to the sanctuary; churches were necessary evils The minister almost always preached poor sermons, because they had not the heart to hear them. They thought the bread was not good because their appetite was poor. Religion did very well for invalids and the aged, but they had no desire for it Suddenly a change came upon their soul. Thoy found that something must be done. Every night there was a thorn in their pillow. There was gall in their wine. They found that their pleasures were only false lights of a swamp that rise out of decay and deetb. Losing tbeir self-control, they want startled by tbeir own prayer: It ftfrelfnl fe me » •Inner”

They did not expect it, bat the Holy ' Ghost was in their soul. Without thinking what they were doing, they brushed the dust off their family Bible. The ground did not feel as firm under thorn nor did the air seem as bright. They tried to dam back the .flood of their emotions, but the attempt failed, a nd they confessed their anguish of soul before they meant Ut. The secret was out! They wanted to know what they must do to be saved. With Ruth and Naomi, weeping, Orpah started tor the land of Bethlehem. They longed for the Sabbath to come. Straight as an arrow to the mark the sermon struck them. They thought the minister must bare heard of their case and was preaching right at them. They thought the sermon was very short, nor did they once coil themselves up in their pew with their eyes shut and head averted with an air of un

moved dignity. They Began 10 pi ay with an earnestness that astonished themselves and astonished others. Shoving the plane or writing up accounts or walking the street when you^H|ht have thought thoir mind eDtidHPon the world, they were saying Within themselvoi “Oh that I were a Christian!” Orpah is fully started on the road to Bethlehem. Christian friends observing tho religions anxiety of the awakened soul say: “He must certainly bo a Christian. Thero is another soldier in Christ’s ranks, another sick one has been cured of the leprosy.” The observers turn their attention anoiher way; they say: “Orpah is safe enough, she has gono to Bethlehem.” Alas! Alas! Starting out for Heaven is a very different thing from arriving there. Remember Lot’s wife. She looked back with longing to the place from which sho came and , was destroyed. Half way between Sodom and the City of Refuge that strango storm comes upon her, and its salt and brimstone gather on her garments until they are so stiffened sho can not proceed, nor can she lie down because of this dreadful wrapping around her garments and’ limbs, and long after tier life has gone she still stands there so covered up by the strange storm that she is called a pillar of salt, as some sailor on ship’s deck in tho wintry tempest stands covered with a mail of ice. Ten thousand times ton thousand men have been destroyed half way between Sodom and tho City of Refuge. Orpah might as well never liavo started as afterward to turn back. Yet multitudes have walked in her footsteps. Go among those the least interested in sacred, things and you wilLfind that they were once ont of the land off Moab. Every one of them prayed right heartily and studied their Bibles, and frequented the sanctuary, but Lot’s wife looked back wistfully to Sodom, and Orpah retreated from the company of Ruth and Naomi. It is an impressivo thought that after Orpah had gono so far as actually to look over into the land of Bethlehem she turned back and died in Moab, > Again, let our object impress upon us the truth that those who have once felt it thoir duty tolcavo their natural state can not give up their duty and go back to hardness of heart without a struggle. After Orpah bad thoroughly made up her mind to go back to the place from which she started, she went through the sad scene of parting with Ruth and Nhomi. My text says: “They lifted up their voices and wept” Ah, my hearer, it requires more decision nnd perseverance to stay away from the kingdom of God than to enter it Although she did not knew it, Orpah passed through a greatef struggle in turning back into the land of Moab than would have been necessary to take her clear through to Bethlehem. Suppose you that those porson3 who have remained in their evil ways hove had no struggle? Why, they have been obliged to light every inch of their way. The road to death ‘is toot such easy traveling as some ministers have been accustomed to describe it. From beginning to end it is lighting against the sharp sword of the spirit. 11 is climbing over tho cross. It is wading through the deep blood of the Son of God. It is scaling mountains of privilege. It is wading through lakes of sorrow. It is braking over communion tables and baptismal fonts and pulpits and Bibles. It Is wedging one’s self through between pious kindred who stand before and press us back and hold on to us by their prayers even after we have passed them in our headlong downward career. No man ought to think of undertaking to go back into Moab after having come within sight of Bethlehem unless he have a heart that can not be made to quake, and a sure foot that will not slip among infinite perils, and an arm that can drive back the Son of God who stands in the center of the broad road spreading out His arms and shouting into the ear of the thoughtless pilgrim: “Stop! Stop!” The Bible says, in regard to the place whoro Jesus was buried, “in the midst of the garden there was a sepulchre;” and in the midst of the most flowery en-. joyments of the nnpardoned there is a chilliness of death. Although they may pull out the arrows that rtrike their soul from the Almighty's quiver, there remain a sting and a smarting. If men wrench themselves away from Christ they will bear the mark of His hand by which He would have rescued them. Tho pleasures of tho world may give temporary relief from the upbraidings of conscience, but are liko stupefying drugs that dull tho pain only temporarily. Ahab has a great kingdom, and you would think he ought to by happy with his courtiers and chariots and palaces, yet he goes to bed sick because Naboth will not sell him his vineyard. Haman is Prime Minister of the greatest nation in the world, and yet one poor man who will not bow the head, makes him miserable. . Herod monopolizes the most of the world’s honor., and yet is thrown into a rage because they say a little child is horn in Bethlehem who may after awhile dispute his authority. Byron conquored the world

with bis pen, ana yet saia that he relt more unhappiness from the criticism of the most illiterate reader than ho experienced pleasure from the praise of all the talented. In the last century in England lived the immortal Shenstone. Portions of his life were given to the writing of poetry, but this was not evidently the field for which nature had equipped him. Ills name will never be forgotten, because of the home which he adorned and beautified, until there probably never has been so bright n, spot since the Garden of Eden as what he loved to call “the Leasowes.” In addition to the marvels which nature hail wrought, he added the perfection of art Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and urn and foun tain here bad their crowning. Oak and yew and haxel put on their glory of vendure. What the greenness of deep grass and the foam of cascade, and the glitter of still lake could give of beauty were added. No life was more diligent and no soul more ingenious than those of Shenstone, and all that genius and diligence were directed to the adornoment of that treasured spot What more could one want to make borne happy? Yet there is one man who sits sighing in those bowers, and casting gloomy 1 dipks upon those parks, and the mirth of leaping waterfalls makes no melody in his ear. It is Shenstone. the owner of the Leasowes. ‘'I hare host my road to happiness,'’ says the despondent man. “I am angry and envious, and dejected and frantic, and disregard *11 -

things, just as it becomes a madman to do." My friends, there is no solid happiness in any thing but religion, I care not how bright a home; Orpsli has her Moab—when she turns away from duty she turns away from peace. Amid the bacchanalia of Belshaaaar’s feast and 'the glitter of chalices there always will come out a handwriting on the wall fearfully ominous: “Tekel—weighed in the balance and found wanting.” When you reap harvests off bare rocks and gather balm out of night-shade, and make sunlight sleep in th e heart of sepulchers, and build a Ann house on a rocking billow, then can an unpardoned soul find firm enjoyment amid its transSressions. Then can Orpah go hack to ioab without weeping. Again: This subject teaches that a religious choice and the want, of it frequently divide families. Ruth and Orpah and Kaomi were tenderly attached. They were all widows, and their life had been consecrated by a baptism of tears. In the fire of trial their affections had been forged- To

gether they were so pleasantly urn tea, you can hardly imagine them separated. Yet a fatal line is drawn dividing them from each other, perhaps forevor. Naomi can not lire in a hea then country. She must go into Bethlehem, that there, amon^ the pious, she may worship the true God. Ruth makes a similar Choice, but Orpah rebels. “And they lifted up their voice and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.” The history of this family of Elimelech is the history of many families of this day. How often it is that in a circle of relatives, while they look aliko, and walk alike, nnd talk alike, there is a tremendous difference. Outwardly and united in the affectional relations of this life, they are separated in the most important respects. Some now are the children of light, and others the children of darkness. These are alive in Christ, and those sire dead in sin. Ruth in the land of Bethlehem, Orpah in Moah. Of thesam» family are David and Solomon, worshipers of tho Most High God, and Adonijah and Absalom, who live and die the enemies of righteousness. Belonging 'a the samo family was the holy and devout Eli, and the reckless Phineas and Hophni. Jonathan Edwards, the good, and Pierrepont Edwards, the bad, belong to the same family. Aaron Burr, the dissolute, had a most excelent father. Dying, yet immortal hearer, by the solemnity of the parental, and filial, and conjugal relation, by the sacredness of the family hearth, by the honor of the family name, by the memory of departed. kindred, I point out this parting of Ruth and Orpah. Again: This subject suggests to me two of the prominent reasons why people refuse the Kingdom of Christ There may have been many other reasons why Orpah left her sister and mother-in-law and went back home, but there were two reasons which, I think, were more prominent than the rosb She had been brought up in idolatries. She toved the heathen gods which her ancestors had worshipped, and, though these blocks of wood and stone could not hear, she thought they could hear, and, though they could not see, she thought they could see, and, though they could not feel, she thought they oohld feel. A new religion had been brought to her attention. She had married a godly man. She must often have heard her mother-in-law talk of the God of Israel. She was so much shaken in her original belief that she conclude! *o leave her idolatries, but, coming to the margin of the land of Bethlehem, her determination failed her, and speedily she returned to her gods. This is the very reason why multitudes of persons never become Christians. They can not bear to give up their gods. Business is the American Juggernaut that crushes more mett than the great car of the Hindoos. To it they say their morning and evening prayers. A little of Christ’s religion may creep into the Sabbath, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the days devoted to this American idol. Every hour there is a sacrifice on the altar. Home duties, health of body,0 manly strength and immortal affections must all burn in this holocaust. Men act as though they could take their bonds, and mortgages, and saws, and trowels, and axes, and pay-books with them into the Kiitgdom of Heaven. But it was not only the gods of Moab that made Orpah leave her sister and mother-in-law. She doubtless had a dread of the hardship to which they would be exposed on the journey to Bethlehem, and Orpah was not alone in the fear. Doubtless some of you have. been appaled and driven back by the self-denial of the Christian life. Tho taunt of the world, the charge of hypocrisy which they would sometimes be obliged to confront, has kept many away from the land of Bethlehem. They spend their life in counting the cost, and, because a Christian life declare not begin to build. Perhaps they are courageous in every other respect. They are not timid in presence of any danger except that of trusting in the infinite mercy of Christ. The sheep arc more, afraid of the shepherd than of the wolves. They shrink away from the presence of Christ as though He were a tyrant rather than a friend who sticketh closer than a brother. They feel more sa{e in the ranks of the enemy where they suffer infinite defeat than in the army of Christ, which shall be more than conquerors, through Him that hath loved them. Men shiver and tremble before religion as though they were commanded to throw their life away, as though it were a surrendor of honor and manliness, and reason and self-respect, and all that is worth keeping. What has God ever done that His mercy should be doubted? Was there ever a sorrow of His frailest child that lie did not pi£r? Was there ever a soul that He left unhelped in jthe darkness? Was there ever a- martyr that He did

not strengthen in the flames? Was there ever a dying man to whose relief De did not come at the cry of “Lord leans, receive my soul?” Aye, my soul, what has God done that so basely thou bast doubted Him? ? Did He make the whole earth a desert? Are all the ikies dark and storm-swept? Is life sll sickness? Is the air all plague? Are there nothing but rods sad scorpions and furnaces? God knows how many suspicions and unbeliefs men would entertain in regard to Him and therefore, after making a multitude of plain and precious promises, He places His hand on His own heart and swears by His own existence: “As I live, saith the Lord God. 1 have no pleasure in the death of him that lieth." Why, then, fight against God? Phis day the battle rages. Thou art armed with thy sins, thy ingratitude, thy neglects, and Christ is armed against thee, but His weapons are tears, are dying agonies, are jails to mercy, and the battle-cry which He this day sends over their souls as He rushes toward thee is “save thee from ;-oing down to the pit for I have found i ransom.” I would not envy tby viclory. O hearer, if thou dost conquer, tor what wilt thou do with the weapons shou hast snatched from the armed Beleemer, what with the tears, what with His dying agonies, what with His calls » mercy? Would God that Orpah would get tired of Moab! Would G04 feht Orpah would go to SotMofeea*

FOREIGN AND HOME MARKET. McKinley Says That No Sanctity About the Fora's* Market—But Our MantMtann An Selling In That Martlet Cheaper Thus at Home-An Investigation Which Proem This. It will be remembered that during tbe brief debate on the Tariff bill in the House of Representatives the charge was made by Congressman Mansur, of M'ssouri, that our manufacturers in many instances sell abroad at a discount irate lpwer than in .the home market. Mr. Smyser, of Ohio, denied this and quoted a high tariff paper of his State, the Cleveland Leader, to prove that it was not true. Then some protectionist statesman sent off a telegram to one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural implements in the country, asking him to send a strong denial at once. This denial it was proposed to read in the House w.th crue ttihg effect and put to confusion the enemies of the holy system of protection. In a short time the answer came, but it was not what was ordered. It read as follows:

ui l yupic w« sun cneiper 10 ioreijners than to Americans. What is'teotcction for?” But this particular manufacturer is uo believer in protection. In fact he has said that the only effect protection has on his business is to make his goods dearer to the American people. He wanted his answer known on the other side in Congress, and so he telegraphed the whole thing to a prominent Democrat, and the Democrats had the Republicans, as it is popularly said, “in a hole.” Some of the protectionist newspapers of the country have tried to deny that these export discounts are made. But these attempted denials have only made matters worse, for the Engineer ng and Mining Journal, a prominent trade paper of New York has settled the question in a way that no longer leaves room to doubt The result of this paper’s investigation is so striking, and is so important to the consumers that the article ishere reproduced entire: DISCOUNTS roa EX FORT CiSLT. “In the House of Represent.itives, on tha 20th inst., in the discussion of the Tariff bill. Mr. Mansur, of M ssonri, br u ht up the qnestion of our manufactureis se-ling their goods for export cheaper than they do lo the home trade, and he eit d the Kx»crt I rice lest, issued every month with the Engineering an I Mining Jouin <1. in p oof of the truth of his stateui-nt Mr. Man-nr, knowing tile ! standing of this Journal, naturally felt assured thut the statements and figures published in our pages are absolutely corre* t and can be relied < n; bur Congressman Srnyser, of Ohio. wi:h whose views these faets clashed, replied, o'otin > the t leveland Lender, to the effect that American manulacturers make lower discounts to the homo trade than to the foreign, a statement which is so e. sily disproved that the Cleveland Leader c in not be ignorant of tbe fae . “In otder to confirm the confidence which Mr. Mansur has shown in our statements, on iceeipt «f the Congressional Record cf the 21st mst., containing the report of thrse speeches, we had a few of the most important manufacturing concerns, with oflle s in this city, Inletviewed, and wo give her© briefly thesnbstnnce of what they say. The names are withheld, though we forward them lo Mr. Mansur for his satisfaction. They are alt firms of high standing, the largest concerns of their c asses, and their statements are easily verified. “The manager of a very prominent iron works said: “‘We tu nufactu e exclusively engines and boilers: we,«f eonise. make a discount for export. As an illustration: The 20-hurse power engine on tile first page of our catalogue Is listed at K09. Our low.-st price for same to il alers or who esale houses of any kind in this country is $525 net;onr export d scran' ran res from 2ts to 7 IS pi-r cenf. better than the home trade, according to the stxe of tbe engine.* . "One of the very largest exporting firms, who l.uin fae tore silver-plated ware, says: “‘We allow an fxport discount of 6i>, 10 and & from our list. The bi-st home discount we ever give is to, 15 and 10 per cent. This, however, is only on large orders.’ “Another of our large silver-plate manufacturers, who does a very large export business, says: “‘Our export discount is St, io and 5 per cent. Our home di count is 50 per cent. Wo sometimes allow an extra 5 per cent., but only with a few firms.* “A slate manufacturi ig concern, doing a Tery large b slness, says: “ “Of course, we have special esport discounts. (See ‘Export Miscounts’ stamped on ou’side of our catalogue).* *‘1he ca'aloguo sle ws these ‘export discounts* to be from *rtj to 50 per cent, and on large lots 5 per cent, lucre. “One of the largest cntlery companies in the c. untry, doing a good export business, says: ‘•■We, of eoursc, make a considerable difference in the discounts on export trade. We object, however, togiring you eur ii .mo discounts, as they fluctuate.* “Ihe export di-e.iunts in thi’casc are 1 per cent, greater than those to the home trade, and the firm writes: ‘Prices are for export only.’ “A large fancy hardware house w. ites: “‘Certain y we make a d ffereaee on export trade, uur discounts, however, fluctuate so much that we will have to make a list out hr you.’ “A very important hardware house answers: “‘Low st price at wh’ch we sell goods, class A or tie:, we allow for export a discount of la per cent.; upon all other goeds we allow 33tj per cent, for dxport and 2> per rent, to large home dealers.’ “One of the largest exporting manufactiir • rs-f paints and varnishes makes the following very important statement. We may say that tbe heads of this concern are, or were at the time of the last Presidential election, very strong Republicans and prot ctionists. Their political and politicoeconomic il Views appear to have been Very greatly modified by the practical working of t)p i trust protection policy now in forre, and by tbe threatened Increase in the tariff: “•We used to make a discount for export It gher than for the home trade, but the trusts have completely destroyed the export trade in pain’s and varnishes. To give an idea of the injury trusts have done us you will read ly see. IJns-ed oil to-day Is selling in England at 31 cents per ga' Lon; we! ■re paying dl cents per gallon to the trust. I This is a difference of SO per cent, in favor oi the English manufacturer. White lead is selling in England at 1 cents per pound; we are paying 614 net, making a difference of 51 per cent, against us. We can not I uy our oil in En land as there Is a tariff of £ eeats per gallon on oil; thus with freight, insurance and other charges, it br ngs tee price of oil the slight st fraction over the price charged by the trust. Thi-ya-e now talking of raising the tariff on liuseed oil. Thiq will enable the trust to again raise their price or it. As an illustration of the injury this trade is receiving, we can assure you that if the McKinley bill were to pass, and could be g mrantced to us for ten years, we could make thousands of dollars each year by removing our p anfcto England, manufacturing there, and imparting the goods; indeed, at the preseat time there are many articles we can buy, paying ail charges of importation, and put into our show rooa;s at less money than we cm manufacture. Ihs Is particularly true in the ease of chrome vellow and ether preparations in which white lead and linseed oil are ingredients. Before tbe format on of the lead and linseed oil trusts we were exporting these goods.* “A manufacturer’s agent, exporting sgrlrultnal tools, bandies, etc., says: The dlff jrenoi between home and export discounts in this lino ranges from ih to 15 per cent.*

A vtticn m an uiam wring company says: “*Tue difference between home an I export price is abont 15 per rent.* “This company threatened to withdraw their advertisement from the Engineering and Mining Journal because we quote their export discount in papers that circulate in the United States. A tool compat y whi h makes picks, hammers, etc., “ ‘Refuse absolutely to give the EnglneerIngandMIninj Journal an advertisement as long as it continues to publish their export discounts.* “The agent for a blower manufacturer sayi they “‘Give a discount on all of their goods of M and 5 per cent, for export, whereas they only give 10 per ce ill for home trade.’ “A company manufacturing water motors, hammers, etc., makes the following discounts: “ ‘On water motors,allow to per cent, forexport. 80 per cent, for home trade: on hammers, to per rent for export and 30 per rent forborne trade; slaters* tools, they give at! and 85 per cent for export, only 30 per cent, for home trade.’ “W ill It be surprising if the people of lb's country who are imposed upon by tariffprotected trusts, and who are taxed so enormously through the operations of a wat tariff, some day arise and sweep the whole protective policy away without considering the Inoaleulab'e Injury that this sadden change of conditions wAs wing ittroq winy inswuat intiiMt*io»f* "T-s

ADJOURNMENT NOT IN SIGHT. tittle Llkeleltood of » Early Adjournment of Confcrem Unless a Tariff Maas* tare Should be Speedily Agreed Upon by the Taro House*—Senator Hale's Reciprocity Amendment Hay Serve to Lengthen Hatters Oat Until the First of September. AtASHisoTox, Juno 33.—There was a rumor current at the Capitol Saturday that a member of tie Republican majority in the House >f Representatives would present a resolution proposing an adjournment of Corgress at an early day: Such a resolution would he introduced without party sanction, for it is the intention of the Republican leaders in both houses, if 'possible, to send a tariff bill to the Prssident before the adjournment of the first session. The comment of Mr. Biitine on the Tariff bill, which has bee » quoted so widely, and the remarks made by Senator Plumb and other Republican Senators in public debate, concerning the measure now pending ir the upper house, make it evident that however near a unit the Republican party may be on the question of passing a tariff bill, it is certainly not a unit on the provisions >f the bill as it passed the House or as St is reported from thf Senate committee on finance. The K ansaa Senators are

freely reported to be in favor of sweeping changes in the bill, and it is currently believed that if such changes are not made their votes will be cast agairst it. Senator Ingalls, particularly, with the fight for re-election now pending in his State, it is thought, is likely to bo rather independent of party demands. Friends of the Kansas Senator have gone so far even as to predict that no tariff bill will pass the Senate a t thi3 session of Congress, but to this proposition neitbor Senator \ Ingalls nor Senator Plumb has been committed. There is an impression that if the Sons te should fail of this duty and Congress should adjourn without sending a t» iff act to the Executive Mansion1, the President will call tho Congress together again immediately in special session to determine this question. Mr. lialo has announced his intention of pressing the Reciprocity amendment to the Tariff bill offered by him in the past week in pursuance of the plan for promotion of the trade with Southern and Central American coun ries suggested by the International Conference and outlined in the letter of Mr. lllaine to the President, which was made pabi lie Thursday. As this proposes a distinct departure from the policy of tho House and of the Senate finance com.mittee in several important particulars, it is likely to lead to extended debate. So the likelihood of an adjournment of Congress before the 1st of Septem ber seems to grow less every day. 11 BLAINE ON FREE SUGAR. The Secretary of State U Opposed to Free Susrar Unless Reciprocal Arrange me fits C m be Made with the Countries Producing It. Washington, June 33.—The United Press is authorized to state in regard to the published statement of Mr. Blaine before the Senate appropriation committee in regard to the McKinley bill, that the whole affair has been greatly misapprehended. The discussion which took place was not in relation to the general schedule of the McKinley bill, but the feature which Mr. Blains so sharply condemned was that of giving a free market in the United States to products of the sugar planters of tho Southern continent and not asking in return free markets tor the produc ts of our own farmers where we can get .hem merely for the asking. Mr. Blaine has been working on this point ever uinco he returned to public life, and h<> always speaks very earnestly when he discusses the question of reciprocity and the South American trade. Mr. Blaine says that nothing could so directly and greatly benefit the American farmor as to open free markets among forty millions of people for breadstuffs and provisions, wMcb can he done by exchanging the duty on sugar instead of giving it away. Mr. Blaine says that corn would not be selling in Nebraska for eighteen cents a bushel if the markets of Latin-America wore opened to our products. Mr. Blaine thinks it would be a great mistake to postpone even for a single month the opportunity now presented to secure the South American trade. TREACHEROUS SHELTER. Five Persons lnjwvtl by a Falling Shed, paring a Storm at Falrvlew Park, Near Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Ind., June 23.—Between fire and six thousand people were present yesterday at the opening of Fairview Park, six miles north of this city. During the afternoon a terrible rain and wind storm came up from the northwest, and a large number sought shelter under a car shed. While they were thus huddled together a violent gust of wind lifted the shed from its supports and turned it around to the southeast, the edg-e falling to the ground and seriously injuring five persons. The injured are: Noah Fisher, colored boy; skull fractured and shoulder injured, Mrs. May McKay, badly bruised and unconscious from fright. Miss Jennie Miller, head and chest injured. Mrs. Clark, se iously injured about the hips. Mrs. D. A. Myers, wife of Councilman Mvers. limbs bruised and hack sprained. The injured were brought to the city and received medical attendance. Fisher Is regarded, as in a very dangerous condition, bul the others are not supposed to be fa- ally hurt.

Carlisle s Successor. Covington, Ky., Juno 23.—A special election to choose a successor to fill John G. Carlisle’s unexpired term in Congress was hold Saturday in the Sixth Kentucky district. The returns indipate the election of Worth Dickerson, the Democratic nominee, by 3,500 majority. He has probably carried every county in the district, although the voting everywhere was the lightest ever known. In some of the precincts the polls were not even opened, and in others the only ballots were cast by the judges and clerks. The Republican candidate was J. Rairden. Not a Bull(ltns Left Standing at Grand , Island, Neb. Lincoln, UNeb., June 23.—A special to the Journal from Grand Island, Neb., says the little village of Swe etwater, fifteen miles distant, • was sw ept by s tornado yesterday afternoon at three o’clock, and not a building is left standing. No one was killed, but a number were seriously injured. , Suicide of a Ninth Ward Politician. New Tonic, June 21.—R. J. Gibson, an old Ninth wardor and well-known politician, committed suicide this morning. Bodice of Niagara Falls Violin s RecureroU. Niagara Falls, June 32.—Twcbodies that had evidently gone over the falls wore found yesterday near Lewiston. They bad apparently bet n in the water for wrecks, and one was so badly decomposed that it was buried at onee. The other sit waits identifiestiot. Killed by Lightning. Conemakib, Pa., June 13.—Mrs. Patrick Slum ton, of Upper hmipept. was struck by lightning last > tight and instantly Irflled. Her husham and son were also iihocked and fatally

SCHOOLS IN GERMANY. II*w Teachers An Trained, Sustained and' Paid la the Vaterland., Teachers must take at least a three' years’ course in a normal school after; completing what would be about oun high school course, must be seventeen years old before entering this normal school, and therefore about twenty before beginning to teach, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Journal. On finishing this normal course thoy have to pass a thorough state’s examination by a board entirely unconnected wdth the normal school, and after passing this examination they are given1 a school provisionally for two years. At the end of this time thoy pass a second examination, in whioh is considered their record for the two years past as to con-, duet and fitness for teaching. On re-; ceiving this certificate they must be at least twenty-two years old, and nowenter their life work. There is no way of entering the profession except through these normal schools, and the demand and supply can bo so regulated that every graduate is sure of a place, and is sure of keeping that place as long Ms he is fit for it. If the graduate has some particular vacancy in vietr, and the directors of that district wish him. lje is assigned there; if not, then he and two'others are sent to a place where there is a vacancy, and the directors have tho privilege of choosing among thwiA rtnAA lmntnlln.1 V ___ V._

moved only on complaint of tho inspector and directors before the superior board, and on full proof of bad character or neglect of duty. The question of competency is settled by his certificate. Ho is stipncaed to get married about this time—a duty seldom neglected:— and tho district furnishes him a comfortable house of about six rooms, with a garden. Oftentimes this house is joined on tho school building or consists of rooms above. If there are several teachers in tho school, then each is provided with a house. Tho school hours are from eight to eleven and ono to four, six days in tho week, with Wednesday and Saturday afternoons free. Tho longest vacation is four weeks in summer, about ten days each at Christmas and Easter, and Sunday holidays, making about two months’ vacation in all during the year. Children are compelled to attend school from the ago of six to fourteen, boys until fifteen, so that every child, with a very few exceptions, gets from eight to nine years of schooling, ton months in the year, in a school under government inspection, and that must come up to a given standard, which is a,high ono. A great deal can be learned in this timo from thoroughly-trained teachers, and this is probably just about double tbo amount of actual schooling that the average country boy and girl of America get, to say nothing of tho hosts in the cities that get none. In theso folk schools the boys and girls are placed together, which is not tho case in any other class of schools here. Tho teachers do not attempt every thing from the alphabet to astronomy, but confine themselves to reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling and composition, goography, history, Bible and drawing. Recitations aro one honr each, oxccpt for the youngest scholars. Grammar is taught in tho form of language lessons, in connection with reading, not as a lot of dry rules that mean nothing to tho scholar, or a system of parsing that is simply slow torture to a child, but by the reading of a story or poem, talks about it, explanations of tho meaning, searching out synonemous words, correction of bad forms of speech, and weaving in of grammar so unconsciously that tbo pupil learns it as a matter of course with no thought of hardship. In our most advaneed city schools, no better teaching of tho mother tonguo will bo found than in theso humble, peasant schools of Germany,’and a most, admirable drill is here given in that very important branch. Tho Bible is taught one hour each day, and if overy young German does not know his Bible thoroughly, it is not for lack of tho opportunity. Men only aro employed as ■teachers, for tbo reason that tbo stato does not wish to (rive so much caro and expense to tho preparation of teachers who do not expect to made a life-work of it, and who, in tho naturo of things, would teach but a few years as a rule. Boys and girls jnst out of tho common schools themselves, and scarcely ahead of Choir oldest pupils, students, working their way through sollego, and young men studying for a profession, find no opportunity hero to try their hand at teaching for a few months or years. This may be hard on poor but ambitious youths, but is a decidod blessing for tho pupils. In all villages and towns under 10,000 inhabitants tho wages of teachors are, on an» average, as follows: For tho first ten years they get all told about $400 a year, tho actual cash salary being about $375, to which aro to bo reckoned tho' house, garden, fuel, etc. After ten years of service and each five years thereafter they rcceivo an addition of $25 a year until they have been thirty years in service, when tho maximum of $535 a year is reached. In the larger cities the pay is increased according to tho proportional greater expense of living. This is not large pay, but there is no time lost while out of work or during long vacations, the cost of living is small, and tho teacher is much better off than most of his neighbors, ranking next to the pastor in importance and public esteem. At sixty years of age ho can retire if he chooses with a pension for the rest of his lifo equal to threofourths of the salary he is then receiving, apd as ho has generally been able to lay by a handsome sum, his old age is comfortable and happy. •_i___

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