Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 July 1890 — Page 4

“WIDE-OPEN DOOR” Dr. Talmage Discusses St. John's Vision. The Doorway or lleovon I* an *Sntr»nro for rraver* and an K|rre«« for Blewlngr*—The Chr>*ti»nV Marl Entrance Into the llleaaed I'lace. Rev. T. DcWitt -Talraago took for the subject' of a recent sermon at Brooklyn Tabernacle the “Wide-Open Doer,” preaching from the following text: And b hold, a door was opened in Ueavcn. —Kev.lv., 1. John had been the pastor of a church In Ephesus, .lie has been drivon from his position in that city by an indignant populace. Tbe preaching of a pure and earnest gospel had made an oxcitement dangerous to every form of iniquity. This trill often lx) the result of pointed preaching. Men will flinch under tbe sword strokes of truth. Yon ought not, to be surprised that the blind man makes an outcry of pain when the surgeon removes the cataract from his eye. It is a good sign when you see men uneasy in the church pew and exhibiting impatience at some plain utterance of truth which smites a pet sin that they are hugging to their hearts. After the patient lias boen so low that 8 for weeks.he said nothing and^ noticed nothing, it is thought to be a sifen when • he begins to be a little cross. And so I noticed that spiritual invalids are in a fair way for recovery when they become somewhat irraseible end choleric under the treatment of the truth. But John had so mightily inculpated public iniquity that ho had been banished from his church and sent to Patmos, a desolate island, only a mile in breadth, against whose rocky coasts the sea rose and mingled its voice with prayers and hymnings of tho heroic oxilfe. You can not but contrast tlm condition of this banished apostle with that of another famous exile. Look at the apostle on Patmos and the great Frenchman onSt. Helena. Uoth were suffering amongdesolation and harrennoss because of offenses committed. Both had passed through lives eventful and thrilling, tftoth had been honored and despised. Both were imperial natures. Both had been turnej off to die. Yot mark the infinite difference—one had fought for the perishable crown of worldly author- ' l ity, the other for dne eternally lustrous. The one hail marked his path with the bleached skulls of his „ followers, tho other had introduced peace and good will among men. Tho one bad lived chiefly for self-aggrandizement and the other for tho glory of Christ. The successes of tho one were achieved amid the breaking of thousands of hearts and the acute, heaven-rending cry of orphanage and widowhood, while the triumphs of the other made joy in lleavon among the angels of Cod. The heart of ono exile was filled with remorse and despair, while the other was lighted up with thanksgiving and inextinguishable hope. Over St Helena gathered the blackness of darkness, clouds lighted up by no sunrising, but rent and fringed and heaving with the lightnings of a wrathful God, and the spray flung over the rooks seomed to hiss with the condemnation: “The way of tho ungodly shall perish.” But over Patmos the heavens were oponed, and the stormy sea beneath was forgotten in the roll and gleam of waters from under the throne-like crystal, and tlje barrenness of the ground under the apostle was forgotten as above him he saw the trees of life all 1 lending under the rich glow of heavenly fruitage, while the hoarse .blast of contending elements around his suffering body was drowned in the trumpetng of trumpets and the harping of harps, the victorious cry of multitudes like Iho voieeof many J ' waters and the hosanna^ of hosts in number like the stars.

As we take our stand upon somo high point, single objects dwindle into such insignificance that we cease to see them in the minuliie, and we behold only the grand points of the scenery. But not so with God. Although standing far up in the very tower of Hoaven, nothing by reason of its smallnes escapes hi3 vision Every lily of the field, every violet under the grass, the tiniest heliotrope, aster and gentian are as plainly seen by him as the proudest magnolia, and not ono vein of color in their leaf deepens or fades without His notice. From this door in Heaven God sees all human conduct and the world’s moral changes. Not ono tear of sorrow falls in hospital or workshop or dungeon but Ho sees it and in high Heaven makes record of it3 fall. Tho world’s iniquities In all their ghastliness glower under his vision. Wars and ' tumults and the desolations of famine and earthquake, whirlwind and shipwreck, spread out before Him. If there were no being in all the universe but God. He could be happy with such an outlook as tho door of Heaven. But there Ho stands, no more disturbed by the fall of a kingdom titan the dropping ofaleaf, no more excited by the rising of a throne than the bursting of a bud, the falling of a deluge than the trickling of a raindrop. Earthly royalty clutches nervously its scepter and waits in suspense the will of inflamed subjects, and tho crown is tossed from ono family to another. But above all earthly vicissitude and the assault of human passions, in unshaken security stands the King of kings, w-atching aU thq affairs of His empire from tho introduction of an era lo the counting of tho hairs of your head. Again: 1 learn from the fact that a door in Heaven is opened, that there im a way of entrance for our prayers and of egress for divine blessings. It does not- seem that our weak voice has - strength onough to climb up to God’s ear. Shall our prayers bo lost in the Clouds? Have words wings? Tho truth is plain. Heaven’s door is wide open to receive every prayer. Must it not be loud? Ought it not to ring up with tho strength -of stout lungs? Must it not be a loud call, such as drowning men utter or like the about of some chieftain in the battle? No; a whisper is as good as a shout, and the mere wish of the soul in profound silence is as good as a whisper. It rises just as high and accomplishes just as much. What a dull spot upon which to stand and have such a glorious vision! Had I’atmos been some tropical island, arbored with tho luxuriance of perpetual summer and drowsy with breath of cinnamon and cassia, and tcsselated with long aisles of geranium and cactus, wo would not have been surprised at the splendor of the vision. But tho last yoh would go to If you wanted to find beautiful visions would be the Island of Patmos. Yet it is around such gloomy s ots that God makes the most wonderful revelations. It was looking through the awful shadows of a prison that John Bunyan saw the gate of the celestial city. God there divided the light from the darkness. In that gloomy abode, on scraps of old paper picked up about his room, the grand drama was written. It was while John Calvin wa» u refugee from bloody persecution, and was bid in a bouse at Angouleme, that he ooneetved tbo idea of writing immortal “Institutes.” Jacob had many a i breaking through the them into shafts ffet

= be saw soared through a gloomy over the wilderness. The night Of trial and desolation is the sceno of 'tlio grandest heavenly revelations. From the barren, surf-beaten rock of Ifatmos, John looked up and saw that a tfioor was opened in .Heaven. * Again, the announcement of such an opened entrance suggests the truth that (Sod is looking down upon the earth and observant of all occurences. If we would gain a wido prospect, we climb up Into a tower or mountain, The higher up we aro the broader the landscape we behold. Yet our most comprehensive view is limited to only a few leagues—hero a river and thero a lake and yonder a mountain peak. But what must bo the glory of the earth in the oye of Him vrlia from' the door of Heaven, beholds at one glance all mountains and lakes and prairies and oceans, lands bespangled with tropical gorgeousness and arctio regions white with everlasting snows, Lebanon majestic with cedars and American wilds solemn with unbroken forosla of pine, African deserts of glistening sand and wildernesses of water unbroken by ship's keel, continents covered with harvests of wheat and rice and maize, the glory of every zone, the whole world of mountains and seas and forests and islands taken in a single glance of their great Creator. But ought net prayer to be made up of golden words if it is to enter such a splendid door anil live beside soraphim and archangel? Ought not every phrase be rounded into perfection, ought not the language be musical and classic, and poetic, and rhetorical! Np, the most illiterate outcry, the unjointed petition, the clumsy phrase, the sentence breaking' into grammatical blunders, an unworded groan is just as effected if it be the utterance of the sours ; want. A heart all covered up with garlands of thought would be no attraction to God, but a heartbroken and contrite, that is the acceptable sacrifice. “I know that my Redeemor liveth,” rising up in the mighty harmony of a musical academy may overpower our ear and heart, but it will not reach the ear of God like the broken-voiced hymn on some sufferer amid rags and desolation looking up trustfully to a Saviour’s compassion, singing amid tears and pangs: “I know that my my Redeemer liveth.” I suppose that there was more rhetoric and classic elegance in the prayers of the Pharisee than of the publican, but you know which was successful. You may kneel with complete elegance on some soft cushion at an altar of alabaster, and utter a prayer of Miltonic sublimity, but neither your graceful posture nor the roll of your blank verse will attract heavenly attention, while over some dark celler in which a Ciiristian pauj>er is prostrate in the straw, angels bend from their thrones and cry one to another: “‘Behold, he prays!” 'l'h rough this open door of Heaven what a long procession of prayers is continually passing! What thanksgivings! What confessions? What intercessions! What besoeeliings! “And behold a door was opened in Heaven.” Again: The door of Heaven is opened to allow us the opportunity of looking in. Christ when He came from Heaven to Bethlehem left it open, and no one since has dared to shut it. Matthew threw it still wider opon when he spoke of the glory to b§ revoaled, and John in Revelation actually points us to the harps and tho waters, and the crowns, and the thrones. There are profound mysteries about that blessed place that wo can notsolve. But look through this wide • open door of Heaven and sec what you can sec. God means us to look and catch up now something of the rapture, and attune our hearts to its worship.

It is wide opci) enough to s eo Christ. Behold Him, the chief among ten thousand, all the bannered pomp of Heaven at Ilis feet. With your enkindled faith look up along those ranks of glory. Watch now their palms wave and hoar how their voiftea ring. Floods clapping their hands, streets gleaming with gold, uncounted multitudes ever accumulating in number ever rising up into gladder hosannas. If you can not stand to look upon that joy for at least one hour, liow could you endure to dwell among it forever? You would wish yourself out of it in three days and choose the earth again or any other place where it was not always Sunday, s My hearer in worldly prosperity, affluent, honored, healthy and happy, look in upon that company of the redeemed, and see how the poor soul in Heaven is better off than you are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate, higher in power. Hearers, afflicted and tried, look in through that open door that you may see t<? what gladness and glory you aro coming, to what life, to what riches, to what royalty. Hearers pleased, to fascination with this world, gather up your souls for ono appreciative look upon riches that never fly away, upon health that never sickens, upon scepters that never break, upon expectations that are never disappointed. Look in and see if thoire aro not enough crowns to pay us for all our battles, enough rest to relieve all our fatigues, enough living fountains to quoneh all .our thirst, enough glory to dash out forever and ever all earth's sighing and restlessness and darkness. Battles ended, tears wiped away, thorns .plucked from the bosoms, stabs healed, the tomb riven— what a scene to look upon. Again: The door of Heaven stands open for the Christian’s entrance. Death to the righteous is not climbing high walls or fording deep j-i-vers, but i t is entering an open door. If you ever vlSit tiro oRfiiomostead whore you were born, and while father and mother are yet alive, as you go up tbo lane in front of the farm house and you put your band on the door and lift the latch, do you shudder with fear? No, you are glad to enter. So your last sickness will bo only the lane in front of your Father’s house from which you hear the voice of singing before you reach the door. And death, that is the lifting of the latch before you enter the greetings and embraces Of the innumerable family of the righteous. Nay, there is no latch, for John says the door is already open. What a company of spirits have already entered those portals, bright and shining. Souls released from the earthly prison house, how they shouted as they went through! Spirits that sped up from the flames of martyrdom, making Heaven richer as they went in, pouring tholr notes into the celestial harmony. And that door has not begun to shut If redeemed by grace, we all shall enter it This side of It wo havo wept, but on the other side of it we shall never weep On this side we may have grown sick with weariness, but on the other side of it we shall be without fatigue. On tils side we bleed with the warrior’s wounds, on the other side we shall wave tine victor’s palm. When you thinkof dying what makes your brow contract, what makes you breathe so deep and sigh? What makes you gloomy in passing a graveyard? Follower of Christ, you have been thinking that death is something terrible, the measuring of lances with a powerful antagonist, the closing in of a conflict which may be your everlisting defeat You do not went much to think of dying. The step beyond this life seems so mysterious you dread the taking of it Why, who tau*fht "* '.iof horrors? Heaven’s n, end you step out ot

Net as. long as a ml.iute will eliip3« between your departure and your arrival there. Not half so long a& the twinkling of an eye. Not the millionth part of an instant There is no stumbling into darkness. There is no plunging down into mysterious depths. The door is open. This instant you are here, the next you are there. When a vessel struck the rooks of the French coast while the crow were clambering up the beaoh, a cago of birds in the ship’s cabin, awakened,, began to sing most sweetly, and when the last man left the vessel they wore singing yet Even so in the last hour of our dissolution, when driven on the coast of the other world may our disembarkation from this rough, tossing life be amid the eternal singing of a thousand promises of deliverance and victory. For all repenting and believing souls the door of Heaven is now wide open, the door of mercy, the door of comfort for the poorest as well as the worthiest for tho outlaw as well as for the moralist for Chinese coolie as well as his Emperor, for the Bussian boor as well as the Czar, for the Turk as well as the Multan. Richer than all wealth, more refreshing than all fountains, deeper thah all. depths, higher than all heights, and broader, than all breadths is tho salvation of Jesus Christ which I press upon your consideration. Come all ye travelers of the desert under these palm-trees. Oh, if 1 could gather’ before you that tremendous future upon which you are invited to enter—dominions and principalities, day without night, martyrs under the throne and the four and twenty elders failing before it, stretching off in great distances, the hundred and forty and four thousand, and thousands of thousands host beside host, rank beyond rank, in infinite distance, nations of the saved beyond nations of the saved, until angelic visions coaso to catch any thing more than the faint outline of whole empires yet outstretching beyond the capacity of any vision save the eye of God Almighty. Then after I had finished the sketch, I would like to ask you if that place is not grand enbugh, and high enough, and if any thing could be added, any purity to the whiteness of the robes, any power to the acclaiming thunders,of its worship. And all that may be yours. THE OFFICE OF SORROW. The Most Important of AH the Conditions Affecting Spiritual ltcvelopmmt. The most important of all the condi ■ (lions affecting the spiritual development of mankind has been sorrow. In death, the common lot of all, even the rich and the strong have beheld the despoiler of all their vain shows. Against the inevitable calamities which 'Shatter or dissolve the works of man’s 'hand—earthquake and tempest and flood —no human power has availed. Those lessons of nature. Who is no respector of classes or persons, as to the frailty of all human power and possession, have profoundly impressed all hearts. Loss has led to precious gain. But the greatest of human sufferings, those which irobitter all life, have been of human infliction. The situatian of the great majority of mankind in ancient times—those of which wo have any definite record—was one of abject wretchedness. Arcady existed only in the pot<li fancy. In a state of barbarisin men's wants were few and simple, but their passions v/ero violent, and for the weak there was no security. Every desirable garden on the earth was a b3it to the rapacity of conquest, the arena of invasion following upon invasion, like the waves of a hungry sea. Civilization, on the other hand, was organized selfishness, and its peace was. for the great body of tho people, a level desolution. Their lot was one of humiliating drudgery, of do pressing, hopeless poverty. But it was especially unto the poor that tho Gospel of the Eternal Word was preached. To such the voice of God comes nearer, because it is more willingly and gladly heard. The broken heart is open; there is no pride to close the way thereunto. An angel whispers in tho ear of every slave, and upon him who hath nothing all Heaven waits. .Sorrow, too, lies near true repentance, even as the broken becomes readily the contrite heart; pride has no place in its chastened and subdued mood. The soul, weary of struggle and of its own discontent, receives tho l>ivine - voice and is comforted. Even one’s ignorance may help him hero, in this soft, unresisting altitude, making him more readily the recipient of the Divine wisdom, more pliant to tho counsels of the Spirit of Love.—God in His World.

The Sexton. The sexton, remarks Rev. Wm. K. Griffis, is a church,servant to whom, in the average congregation, little is given while much is required. As custodian of the sacred edifice ho may make or margood work in frightening off or attracting hearers. Ila is expected to understand tho mysteries of heat and ventilation, the personal convenience of the minister and the idiosyncrasies of at least thfi important pewholder, to bo temple guardsma.n and warn and expel tho unruly, to be an usher With the manner of a Chesterfield and able to read at once by face or coat alone the exact qualifications of a stranger to sit in this or that pew, and, though living in tho vestibule, to know the" exact requirements, physical and psychical, of tho auditorium. In tho country towns, and in most places, he must add tho duties of the Ncthlnira to tboso of Obed 'Edam, take charge of funerals, cemeteries, the digging and filling of graves, and must attend to the sacred vessels and their replenishing and cleansing at communion and baptismal seasons. In short, the modern sexton must unite in one person the complete dntloBof sacristan, beadle, pew-openor, undertaker, funeral director and manager of church weddings. Rarely is the sexton praised. While the relation of the pastor to' tho people is that of a bride bolovod, the sexton's is too often that of the mother-in-law—of the humorists. Ail Underpaid Calling. The ministry Is tho most underpaid of callings. It is true that it shonld not be a money-making avocation, attracting hirelings, not shepherds. But the servants of Christ aro entitled to a docent support. A certain English church seat to Mr. Spurgeon asking him to recommend an ablo and gifted man, who must ba married, for their pulpit. They promised to pay sixty pounds a year—about $300 in ohr money. “Why,” wrote Mr. Spurgeon, “how can a man with a family live on that pittance?" The reply was; “We thought ministers preached to save souls.” Whereupon the great preacher responded: “So they do, but it would require somo thousand of souls of your sixo to furnish one good breakfast!”__ —It has been well said that “to every man bis work is a lesson forcibly emphasised by Scripture opd by experience as well. God has fitted us for a peculiar work along the line of out possibilities, and, if we bold ourselves aright, of our desires. So Jonah was born a preacher, but he refused that call to Ninevah, until at last he was glad to go, But he would have fared better had be gone sooner. The, proper time to begin (Jod's sarvlae la at onoe. The late laborer reaches Heareit, but iM e^erwiet i» net the Mat."

-■ -i THE COMMERCIAL WORLD. It. G. I>an * Co*. WwHy Review Takna a Hopeful TtfW of the I'rwot Ontlook for Finance an I Trade, jNkw York, July 19.—R. O. Dun <fc Oa’s weekly review of trade says: Tho Silver b!U has been passed and is signed by tlife President, but hns bud scarce* ly any effect in the markets a-* yet, except* lug the advance in bar silver to sasid, followed by a decline to 5'jd, In Loudon. No change appears hi money market?, and for* eign exchange remains steady at a pr»int which admits export* of gold, engagements to-day being $5 0,010 for Germany. The Bank of England lost $1,5) >,0)3 durinz the week, and the later advices from South America are less encouraging. The industrial outlook Is not improved hr delays in Congress, nor by drought in some Western State*, which seem* likely to cut down the yield of wheat, but the volume of business s ill continues very largo for the season, and the prevailing t ine in almost every department of trade is confident and hopeful. Western hides are higher, and there is a good retail trade in summer goods, though wholesale trade is quiet. Cotton goods are strong, hut wool favors buyers. The Chicago Board of Trade statistics continue to show a great increase over last year ! in - movement of all grain and flourj and in meats, the increase in dressed beef being • three-fold, and In lard, clieesa a*»d butter large, with cohs.derablu gain in live-stock, wool and hides. Boot and shoe sales are a little slack, bat in dry goods and clothing last year’s sales are surpassed and payments arc good. Cleveland notes larger trade^ than last year, though reasonably quiet at' present, and substantially tbe same i9 reported front Detroit and St. Paul. Minne-» apolis increases its week’s output of fl'»ur* above 10J.000 barrels, and reports a strong lutfiber market. Trade is good at Omaha and Denver, but dull and inactive at Jacksonville. The live-stock movement < at 'Kansas City is large, but at low prices. A rather better tone is reported in tbo Philadelphia Iron market. Shipments for six months have been 713,201 tons, and sales made already cover about three months more of production. Large consumption of copper sustains the price at 17 cents, *y»d manipulation ha* placed tin at 21.(5 cents, but lead is dull at 4.52 cents. Coal is lower. Wool is dull and in limited demand. No definite improvcinant is seen in the woolen good9 market Littlo is doing at present in knit goods. The speculative markets have been curiously variable. Wheat is more than Va cent lower than a week ago, notwithstanding some evidenco of injury from drought The stock carried Srcr from the last crop year is estimated at 60,000,000 to 70,030,000 bushels, which, with a yield even smaller than Is now expected, will more than meet all probable requirements. Cora has advanced nearly half a cent higher again, in 9. rite of favorable crop prospects. Hogs aud pork products are weakor, and coffee unchanged, though the distribution.]^ very moderate. Raw sugar lias boon advanced a 1-16 *, though refined is lower and the Sprocket's product is offered below that of the trust. The general average of prices qt commodities is nearly 1 per cent, lower than a week ago, and with no set-back in crop prospects considerably lower quotations seem probable. The treasury lias taken in $2,100,000 more money than it has paid out during the past week; although it has purchased 525,000 ounces of silver at a pried not muck below 11A Foreign trade continues unsatisfactory, as respects the monetary future, because iho merchandise exports from New YQfk for half of July fell 23 per cent, bslow those off the same weeks last year, while there appears a remarkable increase in imports here, for two weeks the gain being over 40per cent The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 207, as compared with a total of 197 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 238. A FIGHT AND A FOOT RACE. Four Mon Killed and Forty Seek Safety in Flight—Lively Times at a rolltic.il Aleet n g. LouiKvnj.fi, Ky., July 31.—Another outbreak of the Smith-Mosser feud is j reported from Knox County. The bat- | tlo occurred Thursday evening, at Hub- i bard’s Mill, on Sinking^.creek, one of j tbe most lawless section^n the Stalo. | There was a political. gatl^pjdng there, i the candidates for Via various county oBlces being advertised as speakers. Both the Smith and Messer factions were on hand, wearing their Winchesters and forty-fours. It is not known just how the trouble liegan, but about three o'clock the shooting commenced, and when the smoke had cleared away four men were found to have bitten the dnst, while the rest had scattered aad disappeared. Eighteen men were arrayed on one side and about twenty-live on the other, i Those killed woro two of the Mills I hoys, belonging to the Messer faction, I and both llurchett and John Howard, ; belonging to the Smith crowd.

A FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. Ten Toni* or Molten Mettle Scattered Among a Room-full of Workmen. Nkw Yoisk, July '20.—A frightful ac- j cident occurred yesterday aftornoon in [ Cassidy & Adler’s iron foundry No. 533 ! West Fifty-fifth street The cupola in ! which the iron is melted exploded ; shortly before two o’clock. The molten ’ iron flow in all directions among the workmen employed in the foundry. Sixteen men in all were burned by the molten metal. Eighty men were at work in the room where the cupola is when the explosion occurred. The cupola contained ten tons of refuse metal, which in melting generated gas. The moulders'were getting ready to cast the metal, and bad taken out two ladlesful when the bottom and side flew out of the cupola, with a horrible crash, -scattering the hissing mass in all directions. CranuM In a Burning Wreck. Middletown, N. Y., July 20.—At nine o’clock last night extra engine No. 78 was run into by freight train No 29 on the Ontario & Western road near Cook’s Falls, N. Y. Engine No. 78 and a number of freight cars wore wrecked. The wreck caught fire and it is thought that Engineer Fuller, who is missing, was burned to death. A brakeman and a fireman, names unknown, were seriously injured. Author or “Beautiful Snow” Dead. Nkw Yoiik. July 21.—John Whittaker Watson, the real author of “Beautiful Snow” and other poems, which have given him a world-wide literary reputation, died in this city yesterday, aged sixty-eight He had been living at No. 69 Bank street for some time past in obscurity and poverty. Will be Forced to Attend. Chicago, July 21.—The Federal authorities have taken steps to force the attendance of the officers of the Genesee Oil Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., at the inquest into the Tioga explosion. A Missing Man. New Yokk, July 21.—William P. Adams, thirty-eight years of age, an electrician residing at No. 48 Madison street, has been missing since Friday last, and it is feared he is wandering about in a demented condition. Mr. Adam w»s a native of Buffalo. A Call for the Wyoming Election. Cheyenne, Wya, July 21.—Governor Warren has issued a proclamation calling the forthccmlngeleotion for September 11. The Democratic and Republican State conventions are called for August 11 in this city. Shot the Wrong Mao. Bikminuham, Ala., July 21.— Friday night Detectives Morgan and Patten undertook to arrest Mart Thrasher, a notorious moonshiner, at his home in Bibb County. The officers fired on a mas whom they supposed to be the outlaw, killing him. The victim proved to be one Rarnfather. A Foutoon Bridge. St. Louis, July 19.—An ordinance has been introduced in the municipal assembly granting privileges to oonttruot • pontoon bridge across the MlsslMippi rim km ;

A NEW TRUST IN SIUHT. The flate-OUs* Men Dallying V’lth EnflMimfn to Form a Trnut—Tfc<' Senate. Committee Help* the Scheme By In-1 creased Dil ios—Enormou Profits of the* InMnetry, and Its Enormou Oort to theCountry. ~ * One fact by itself may not be interest-, ing; but two facts which are related to one another may be of high interest to* us. Especially if these two facts are brought to our notice at the same time; from independent sources. Here is a striking example in point. The Senate Finance Committee makes its report giving reasons for the changes in the Tariff bilL In regard to the increased duty on plate-glass the committee says: ‘‘The additional duty imposed by the provisoTn this paragraph is made necessary to encourage the domestic, manufacture .of a more expensive class of goods which is now being imported." That is one fact It goes into the newspapers; but on the very day when it appears other papers are printing a dispatch from1 Pittsburgh about “A Big Plate-Glass Syndicate”—which is only i another name for a trust The dispatch says: “John Pitcairn, of the Pittsburgh Plate-Glass Company, is in England ne-i | gotiating for the close of options on all the plate-glass concerns in the 'United States.” The dispatch then goes on to enlarge upon the highly prosperous condition and rosy outlook of our plate-glass industry: “The business has assumed enormous proportions and the profits of the Pittsburgh concern alone are not far from $l,000,000a year. Besides seeking to control existing factories, the Englishmen have also joined in the erection of a new plant at Irwin, Pa., for which a site was secured on Monday. Irwin is about eighteen miles from Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania railroad’s main line. This plant will be the largest of the kind in the world and its erection is necessary to supply the demand for plate glass. The Pittsburgh company, whoso output last year was about 15,000,000 feet is still working on orders received last year, and is behind on its contract at that so that it is considered that the future of the trade in America is full of promise.” Put those two fact^ogether and they become extremely interesting—the Senate committee bolstering up an industry at the same time that a single factory of that industry is clearing almost 51,030,030 a year, and when that industry is carrying on negotiations with English capitalists in order to form a trust and add still further to their enormous profits! Tariff making is verily a curious game! We imported last year $1,113,480. worth of plate-glass, not including silvered plates for mirrors In other words, our importations were but slightly in excess of the net profits of his single Pittsburgh establishment The high tariff on plate-glass crushed out several years ago the last of the fore ign houses in Now York which imported it; and the Senate .comes forward wi sh its humbug pretense of increasing the duty in order to give more effective protection to'this thriving American industry. This Pittsburgh concern, which is the largest plate-glass establishment in the country, cleared 34% per cent on its capital. With the existing tariff, which gives it 144 per cent protection on the largo sizes, it is not remarkable that h‘gh profits should be realized. What is remarkable is that the Senate committee should offer to pamper this rich and promising concern by granting add tional protection. The peculiarity about tariff makers is that they never know where to stop. It is.no wonder that wo sometimes hear the more cautious protectionist say: 'Our people are carrying this thing too lar." But this dispatch contains another statement which is worthy of attention. The writer of the dispatch was evidently a protectionist, for he pus the following observation into it: ‘ Until a few years ago very nearly all of the plateglass used in America was imported and was sold at about $1.50 a foot. Now the home manufacture has grown to such a degree that importations have ceased almost completely and the price has come down to 65 to 90 cents a foot, according to trade,” which means, what a glorious thing protection i&! The point he wants people to see is that plate-glass has fallen from $1.50 a foot to 65 to 90 cents as the result of

prowsuun. But was it protection^ The Treasury £ Department reports that last year 3,039,80? square feet of “tinsilvercd”—i. e. polished—plate glass was imported and that the total value of it was $983,316, which is slightly less than 33 cents a square foot. Now if (he tariff reduced the domestic glass from $1.50 a foot to '35 to 90 cents, what was it, pray, that reduced the prica of the foreign glass? % This dispatch says there are nine factories which it is proposed to combine into this trust, and that their total output is 35,009,009 feet. Let us take the writer’s statement of the cost of this'glass as from 65 to 90 cents a square foot and it would seem that an average cost?of 75 cents a foot would be a very reasonable estimate. What, then, on this basis, does the output of these nine factories cost the country? $18,750,000. Now, making the liberal estimate of 33}jf cents as the price of foreign plateglass laid down in New York, what then would the same quantity cost the country? $8,300,000. That is to say, a difference of more than $10,000,000 a year. Query: Is the country any better off by having those nine gl ass factories? iKKeraoll Not an Orthodox Protectionist. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll has always been one of the war-horses in tho protectionist ranks. Ho made his share of high protection speeches in the last campaign and said his share of foolish things in support of bin party's polioy. But now McKinley’s high-flying tariff biU has moved even Ingersoll to speak out against the extreme protection which that sm-opllod statesman is trying to saddle t^pon the country. Ingersoll says: ‘T believe in protecting what are called the infant industries, hut after these ‘infants' ge; to be six feet h gh ani wear. No. 13 hoots it is about time to stop rooking the cradle, especially when the ‘infant’ tells you that if you stop rocking he will get out of the cradle and kick: your head off.” But Ingersoll is badly out of gear with the orthodox: protection of this year of grace 180). The grandbld party has long ago abandoned this “infant industry” argument; and protection instead of being milk for babes, is henoeforth to be the strong meat on whioh full-grown industries fatten. His party has quit talking altouk “encouragement to our struggling Industries for a . few years.” Henry Clay believed in that sort of protection; but it is now more than fifty years since Clay said that ‘‘eight years and a half” ought to be a long enough period to feed the “infants” on the milk of protection, Colonel Ingersoll Is not orthodox—not even in protection. —-McKinley says foreign manufacturers steal the brands of our goods in order to palm off a pmoior quality of goods as American. But it our manufacturers have become bo.far superior to those abroad why do they need protection any longer? _ —The Senate committee indorse* Mo Kinley's tin-plate Dwindle. The tag no* i» $7,000,000 ItNMM'QMb ) a jur MeRinty m*kw

FRESH FAOT8 AHP FANCIES, j Aluminum Is said .to answer very well tor sextants, mining Instruments and sther similar purposes whore strength, accuracy and lightness are desirable qualities. 5 A Piec* of leather in a {lew York store marked “walrus-hide” weighs forty pounds, is one inch thick and is as hard as an oak plank. Circular pieces are cut from it to make wheels with which metals are polished. Wal-rus-hide retails for two dollars a pound. By saturating bullets with vaseline they may he easily seen in their course from the rifle to the target; their trajectory course is marked by a beautiful ring of smoke, caused by the vaseline being ignited on leaving the muzzle of the gun, .the smoke being suspended for seme time in the air if not too windy. Milch better scores result when grease of some kind is used, bullets are not so apt to split, the recoil is not so great, and it is believed the course of the missile is more true. Recent writers on Greenland say the Eskimos have become so crossed by frequent intermarriage with tho Danes that Scandinavian faces are as frequently met as Eskimo in the native huts. At the present rate the native race of Greenland bids fair to disappear entirely within the next century unless it is preserved in its purity by the isolated peoples of Smith's sound or the cast coast. It is the old story of the stronger race absorbing the weaker, just as some of our Indian tribes are now more nearly white than red, and will doubtless disappear entirely, not by annihilation, but through absorption by the white race around them. - Sable Island is one of the mpst dangerous points along tho Atlantic seaboard. Wrecked men have sometimes been stranded on the island for weeks' without .being able to inform the world of their condition. It is now proposed to import carrier-pigeons from Belgium for use in the coast service, and quarters for tbeir reception are being prepared in Halifax. Somo of tho pigeons, having become accustomed to Halifax, will be taken to Sable Island, and - when a disaster occurs one will bo set at liberty with a message attached to it. The pigeons to be used in this service are vigry rapid birds and will require but a short time to bring messages from that point to the city. In a recent lecture on "Flamelesa Combustion,” Mr. T. Fletcher said: “The appearance of flame is misleading, and the greater the flame the smaller the work done, other things being equal. I have been asked by a wellknown engineer if I could explain why certain boilers gave such an exceedingly small duty for the fuel consumed when the flues were, as ho said, ‘filled from end to end with magnificent flame.* The fact was that his so-called magnificent flame was a delusion, hollow and cold inside; and not coming in contact with bis boiler at all. When the same fuel was burnt witn a very small flame, hardly visible over the bridge, the duty increased some over thirty per cent.” Thousands of Southern negroes wear the cast-off cloth itog of New Yorkers. Such cllotbing is bought for little or nothing by peddlers, who sell it to wholesalers in the central European quarter. The wholesalers clean, patch and press the garments, arrange them according to sizo in dozens and await the Southern merchants. The latter come from Washington, Richmond. Charleston, Mobile and half-a-dozen other considerable cities and buy as best.they may. The wholesalers sell on ninety days’ credit, and if one merchant does not offer fair prices they await the coming of others. - Nobody’s profits are,, extraordinarily large, but those of the Southern retailer are probably the best ON THE SIDE OF SCIENCE. Tub sun yields eight hundred thousand times the light of the moon. Blacksmiths can start a fire by pounding violently a rod of soft iron, first spreading on the anvil a layer of powdored coal dust.. This is a good illustration of the conversion of force into beat. M. Laborde, a French scientist, has announced his discovery of a now anaesthetic, which he calls crystal ized narcoin It: is said to bo superior to other anaesthetics, inasmuch as no digestive disarrangement follows the sound sleep into which it carries the patient.

Watch Tour Health. When you feel chilly and feverish, take warning. An ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure. A dose or two of Smith’s Tonic Syrup, made.Jby Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky., taken at this time may ward oft a daugerous or probably fatal illness. It has an immediate beneficial effect upon the mucous membrane and circulatory system. Its timely use will frequently ward off an attack of pneumonia. A Slight cold will be gone in the morning if a dose of this remedy is taken at night. It is truly a household necessity and no family can afford to be without it. It tastes good and children will ask for it It ii in fact a great discovery, having all the good effects of quinine nnd none of its evil qualities. It is harmless to the most delicate invalid and will not derange the system. It is a certain cure for chills and fever, colds, Influenza, la grippe and ail other effects of malarial influence. IA queer thing about a strike is that it aT ways comes to an end as soon as it gets Into working order.—Bingbampton Republican. An Enemy with the Rheumatism May be safely pooh-poohed. He is seldom active. Look out, for him, though, when he has used Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for a while, for ten chances to one that beneficent restorative will make him well enough to corqp down upon you like a thousand of brickB when you least expect it Dyspepsia, constipation, neuralgia, kidney complaints and malarial maladies are among the bodily afflictions completely “knocked out” by tho Bitters. Tbe man who keeps getting deeper and deeper in debt is naturally a person of more owes tendencies.—Washington Rost. THE MARKETS. NEW York. July 21,1893 CATTLE—Native Steers.... ..* 4 00 * 4 90 COTTON—JI idd 1 i n g. 1216® Hit FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 2 15 9 5 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 95 ® CORN-No. 2 .... 44*6® OATS—Western Mixed.. 97 PORK-Mess..... 12 75 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling..* BEEVES—Export; Steers. 4 40 Shipping. 4 00 HOGS—Common to Select.... 8 50 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 8 75 FLOUR—Patents. 4 6j XXX to Choice. 2 15 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter.. 87 CORN-r-No. 2 Mixed. . ....... 3H4® OATS-No. 2.;. 3214® 9716 4514 40 13 50 KYE-No. 2.. 50 1'ORACCO—Lugs (Missouri)- 1» Leaf, Burley...... 3 35 liAY—Choice Timothy. 12 00 5*4® 5*6® . e BUTTER—Choice Dairy SGG8-Fresh............ PORK—Standard Mess. HACON-Clear Bib.........., LARD-Prime Steam.. .. WOOL—Oho Ice Tub. CHICAGO. 3 40 « Choice.. 3 70 ® illkEP—Good to Choice.. .4 25 « FLOUR—Winter Patents...... 4 75 ® Spring Patents.. ... 5 no ® WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. 86*6 » 11*4 4 65 4 25 3 70 5 03 4 70 3 00 87« 36’,8 31 52 • 1 80 « 650 « 14 50 « 12 • 816 • U 25 5% 516 35 CATTLE-Shipping.. HOGS—Good to Gltoi CORN—No. 2 JATS-No.2 White .. PORK—Standard Mess.... II 25 KANSAS CITY. 3ATTLE-Shlpplng Steers... 3 25 HOGS—Sales at.. 3 00 WHEAT-No. 2 Red.... JATS-No. 2. 30RN-NJ.2.. .... NEW ORLEANS. FL°UR—High Grade. i 00 ;ORN—White:. JAYS—< lr loo Western..... HAY—Choice—.. 17 03 POKE—New Mess. 12 03 3ACON—Clfcar Rib 5 00 8*5 5 15 5 21 5 23 874 3816 33 11 3716 4 40 3 55 79*6 27*4 3616 4 93 30TTON—Middling.. 4 LOUISVILLE. AT—No.2 Red....... • No. 2MI*ed,...,.,,. « Ko. i Mixed.. « .. II T3 :Ul4 * 444 1666*1* l|> »■ i f t it rti 41 17 50 12 50 W 614 1116® 11*6 86 8 m

---——- C .nCrased. The favorable lioprCAsiaft jt?e^.8oedOB She first appearance of the ojjpeeablf) liquid fruit remedy-Syrup of Figs a ftflf years ago ba» been more than confirmed by the pleassait experience of all who have wed it, and the success of the proprietors tad majiufacterers the California Fig Syrup Company. Ws sneer st tbe Siamese for worshiping the elephant; but this’s of. tfee money that Is paid here annually ‘ait to seeiW|'he Jester. Great mistakes are often mode ic tryk.g to economize. It is a safe role to follow that the best is always ttod«ia«i. Aeheapahysician may cost you your life. If you nave Malaria in your system.: you will not only be miserable, but unfit to work. Lost time Is money lost One dollar spent for Snallenberger’s Antidote wlli aw you in twentyfour hours. Sold by Druggists. Great Britain hat a court officer cubed ‘•Keeper of Seals.”. Could wo borrow him end send him up to Behring seal—Albany Press. Have you erst fr.-sd Dobbins’ Electric Soap! It don’t coat much for you to setose bar of your grocer, and see for yourself why it is praised by to mar,after 24 years steady sale. Be sure to get no imitation. There are lots of them. He—‘"You never call me ‘Birdie’ anymore.” She— “Btlli 1 thick you are Just as much of a jay as ever."—Terre Haute Express That bright aud lively little boy used to be sickly and delicate before his mother gave him Dr. Bulls Worm Destroyers. He calls them “good candies.” The reason that the tide Is so slightly feit In the Mediterranean is that the ebl> and How are checked by the Gibraltar strait sod the Sicilian ridge, Ir yoware tired taking the large old fashioned griping pills, try Carter’s i.itile Liver Pills and take some cemfort. A man can’t stand everything. Ona pill a dose. Try them. The Chinese carry their devils with them wherever they go. They are great imp porters.—Texas Siftings. The ancient Greeks always marched to battle singing a hymn, (t was their tight lng chants.—Bing-hampton Republican A sallow skin acquires a healthy clearness by the 113 c of GJean’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and W hisker Dye, 50 cents. The man who finds music in a clarionet is doubtless of the opinion that Apollo was a tootio-ary divinity.— Washington Post. 8pith’s Tonic Syrup gives perfect satisfaction wherever tried!—J. iE Cochran, Bottoille, Inti. Ammipown is a man's given name, sug gestive of an interrogation point, and the proper response frequently is: “1 am.” Those who wish to practice economy should buy Carter's Little Liver Pilis. Forty pill3 in a vial: only one pill a dose. A Chicago doctor says railroad conduct ors are liable to on affection of the spinal cord. Doesn’t he mean bell cord) Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Fiso’s Cure for Consumption. -<*•- The man who ts trylug to climb up finds lots of heels altove him and lots of fista bo hind him —Atchison Globe. Hall’s Catarrh Curb Is a liquid and is taken internally. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Costrart to some people's supposition, coal oil is not found in quartz.—Terre Haute Express.

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