Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 August 1891 — Page 4

—Work has been began at Bridgeport, Ct, on. putting the telephony •wires under ground, and it is expected that the job will be finished early next fall. —Barsting balloons in the sky by means of electricity to produce rain, and for destructive purposes in time of war, is said to have proved successful in recent experiments mode in Washington. —A powerful electric light is to be placed on the summit of Mount Snowden, in Wales, where it will be risible not only over a great part of Wales agd England, but far over Ireland aha —Certain Baltimore capitalists, it is reported, have formed a project to build n direct elevated sailway, to be operated by electricity, between Chicago and Milwaukee, a distance of 90 miles, to be completed previous to the World's fair. ^ —The Commercial Union Telegraph ) Co. is now planning to mount several i of its Maine linemen on bicycles These will prove of valnc in tracing a break, and will enable the men to make quick work. It Is also proposed to utilize several wheels in the messenger service at Bar Jiarbor. ( •—Electricity is the force that causes all storms, and the sun and nil the planets throw an electric force into space over their equators, as does the \ electro dynamo, and consequently when any planet passes its equinoctical the electric tension of the sun and of that planet are disturbed, and simultaneously the electric force of every planet in the solar system is unbalanced, which affects the electric currents of the earth.—Washington Star, i —A method of preventing the decomposition of corpses and animal tissues in general by the electro-deposition of metals on the same has been going the rounds of the scientific press of this y and other countries. This is not by / any means a new idea. A correspondent has called attention to the number of times that history has repeated itsell in this process of turning corpses into ipetallic statues, and in doing so has unearthed a patent of about forty years ago in which the process is set forth. —There are few electrical appliances that elicit such widely varying opinions from electricians as the storage battery. Some stoutly hold that for traction purposes® the accumulator will never be reduced to a commercial basis, while others just as emphatically maintain that it will inevitably be the almost universal source of power for city electric lines a few years hence. Be this as it may, the storage battery will unquestionably come into general use for lighting in the near future and it has already found a place in the plant of many electric light stations As a reserve when machinery- is at rest, as regulators when running, it insures that the consumer is never left ip the dwk, and in cases of breakdowns in n^khinery it is indispensable. , —Philadelphia scientists are preparing to find out how fast an electric" current travels. "An experiment will be made, probably from the Franklin institute, by connections over the Atlantic cable to Liverpool and return. A recent test appeared to show that an electric current shnffied over to Europe and back in something like a second, or at the rate of only some 400,000 miles a minute, while light ambles along at a ten-million-mile-a-minute gait. American scientists are not willing to give up the record to sunlight. The most recent experiment was tried at McGill college, Montreal, to Liverpool and return. The distance traversed was 8,000 miles. Time, 1 second and 1-30 qf a second. The conditions were not good. Hence the necessity for another experiment Some enthusiastic electricians claim that a current will speed around the world in a trifle over 3 seconds, or cover the distanee to the sun, 90,000,00f miles in 3% minutes.

TOO UGLY TO LIVE. A Tout Canadian Who Sought Ills Fortune Bat Found His Death on the Pa. cldc Coast. Among my early acquaintances on the Pacific slope, writes a correspondent, was Bob Marshall, who for a number of years was a well known character in and about San Francisco. He was much below the average in height, his nose was prominent, abnormally so; his head was unusually large, and altogether he was about as unattractive a person to look at as one could well imagine. His eyes, however, which were of steel blue and large and bright, were the sole redeeming features in his general make up. He was a very bright fellow, though, and his clever witticisms and genial mannei won for him hosts of friends. He hailed from a small town in Canada, near the border line. “My father," said he, “had nothing to give me when 1 left home but a piece of advice. ‘Bob, said the old man, ‘remember this— never tease a dog when he has you by the seat of the trousers. ’ ” When Bob left the paternal roof—he was then twenty-three years of age— he beaded direct for the Pacific coast j He had no money, but managed tc work and beat his way west as far ac Virginia City, Nev. There he earned enough money as a mine laborer to buy himself an outfit of clothing and othei necessaries and to pay for his passage to San Francisco. At the latter place be secured a remunerative clerkship in the freight offices of the Central Pacific railroad Co. Bob soon became very popular among his associates. Until he met Misswhich happened about a year after hfa arrival, he was the cheeriest fellow 1m aginable. Then he became morose and melancholy. He never confided hit troubles to any one, but it was whispered about that Bob had proposed tc Misa-and been rejected. For near ly four years after that Bob was nevei seen to smile. We all tried to cheei him up, but it was useless. Some greal sorrow had entered his heart and he was inconsolable. A number of us were seated togethei at the qlnb one day when Bob appeared before us. There was a sad smile oi his countenance. “Boys,” said he, "1 was taught by my parents that 1 owed every thing to the Lord. I have jns1 been standing before a mirror and have come to the conclusion that I don’t ow< Him a cent Good bye, boys and good luck to you,” he said as he left the place* On the Sunday afternoon following the same party mentioned above were strolling through Golden Gate park. 1 among the rest noticed a strange object under a clump of bnshes some distance from the road. “Why, boys,” I exclaimed,’ “It’s a dead body.” There it lay, the body of a man. A tightly clasped in tb* right hand an ugly bullet hole in the temple told the story. Pinned to the lappel at man's coat was a scrap of pa* tali?*"

A Life of St* Bit > Poor Capitol with Which to Berta the Other Life la fcteraltj-Release Only Through ttie Blood of Christ. The following discourse was delivered by Her, T. DeWitt Talmage ton large congregation at Topeka, Kot, on e recent Sabbath, The text waat Te linVo sold yoorselvcs for nought; and ye ■hall be redeemed Withunt uiolsty.—Isaia# 111., L The tiOfrd'h people bad gdhe headlbng Into mn, hnd ns "a punishment they had been carried captive to BaUJrMfl. They fonnd that iniquity did not pay. Cyrns seized Babylon, and felt so sorry for these poor captives that, without a dollar of com pensation, he let them go heme. So, that literally, my text was fulfilled: “Ye bave sold yourselves for bought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.” There is enough Gospel in this text for fifty sermons. There are persons here who have, like the people of the text, sold out You do not seem to belong either to yourselves or to “the world, the flesh, and the devil,” but the purchaser never paid up. “Ye have sold yourselves for nought.” When a man passed himself oyer to the world he expects to get some adequate comjiensation. He has heard the great things that the world does for a man, and he believes it He wants two hundred and fifty thousand .dollars. That will be horses and honses, ancTs summer resort and jolly companionship. To get it he parts with his physical health by overwork. He parts with much domestic enjoyment. He parts with opportunities for literary culture. He parts with his son]. And so he makes over his entire nature to the world. He does it in four installments. He pays down the first installment and one-fourth of his nature is gone. He pays down the second installment and one-half of his nature is gone. He pays down the third, and three-quarters of his nature are gone; and after many years have gone by he pays down the fourth installment and lot his entire nature is gone. Then he comes up to the world and says: “Good morning. I have delivered to yon the goods. I have passed over to yon iny body, my mind, and my sonl, and I have come now to collect the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” “Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?” says the world. “What do you mean?” “Well,” you say, “1 come to collect the money yon owe me, and I expect yon to fulfill yonr part of the contract.” “But,” says the world. “I have failed. 1 am bankrupt. 1 can not possibly pay that debt. 1 have not for a long while expected to pay it.” “Well,” you then say, “give me back the goods.” “Oh, no,” says the world, “they are all gone, 1 can not riive them hack to you.” And there you stand on the confines of eternity, your spiritual character gone, staggering under the consideration that '.‘you have isoid yourself for nought.” I tell you the world is a liar; it does not keep its promises. It is a cheat, and it fleeces everything it can put its hands o^Pfeis a bogus world. It is a six thonsand-year-old , swindle. Even if it pays the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for which you contracted, it pays them in bonds that will not be wor^any thing in a little while. Just as a nuR may pay down ten thousand dollai-s in hard cash and get for it worthless scrip, so the world passes over to you the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in that shape which will not be worth a farthing to you a thousandth part of second after yon are dead. “Oh,” yon say, “it will help to bury me, anyhow.” Oh, my brother, yon need mot worry about that. The world will bury you soon enough from sanitarv considerations.

Post-mortem emoluments arc of no use to you. The treasures of this world will not pass current in. the future world, anti if all the wealth of the bank of England were put in the pocket of your shiroud, and you in .the midst of the Jordan of death were asked to pay three cents, for your ferriage, you eould not do it. There comes a moment in your existence beyond which i|ll earthly values fall, and many a man has wakened up in such a time to find that he has solid out for eternity, and has nothing Jo show for it. 1 should as soon think of going to Chatham street to buy silk pocket-handkerchiefs with no cotton in them, as to go to this world expecting to find any permanent happiness. It has deceived and deluded every man who has ever put his trust in it. History tells us of one who resolved that he would have all his senses gratified at one and the same time, and he expended thousands of dollars on each sense. He entered a room, and there were the first musicians of the land pleasing his ear, and there were fine pictures fascinating his eye, and there were costly aromatics regaling his nostril, and there were the richest meats, and, winery and confections, pleasing the appetitie, and there was a soft couch of sinful indulgence on which he reclined; and the man declared afterward that he would give ten times what he had given if he could haye one week of such enjoyment, even though he lost his soul by it!. Ah! that was the rub! He did lot* his soul by it! Cyrus the Conqueror thought for a little while that he was making a fine thing out of this world, and yet before he came to his grave he wrote out this pitiful epitaph for his monument: “I am Cyrus. 1 occupied the Persian empire. 1 was king over As:a. Begrudge me not this monument.” But the world in after years plowed up his sepulcher. The world clapped its hands and stamped its feet in honor of. Charles Lamb; bul, what does he say? “I walk up and down, thinking I am happy, but feeling I am not.” Call 'the roll, and be quick about it. Samuel Johnson, the learned! Happy? “Now I am afraid I shall some day get crazy.” William Hazlitt, the great essayist! Happy? “No. I have been for two hours and a half going up and down Paternoster row with a volcano in my breast.” Smollet, the witty author! Happy? “No. 1 am sick of praise ami blame, and 1 wish teg God that I had such circumstances around me that 1 could throw my pen into oblivion.” Buchanan, the world-renowned writer, exiled from his own country, appealing to Henry VIII. for protection! Happy? “No. Over mountains covered with snow, and through valleys flooded with rain, I come a fugitive.” Moliere, the popular dramatic author! Happy? “No That wretch of an actor just now recited four of my lines without the proper aecent avd gesture.-* To have the children of my brain so hung, drawn and quartered tortures me like a condemned spirit” I went to see a worldling die. As I went into the hall I saw its floor was tessellated, end its wall was a picture gallery. I found his death-chamber adorned with tapestry until It seemed as if the clouds of the setting sun had settled in the room. The man had given forty years to the world—his wit, his time,

carriages in a row; but the departed man appreciated not the obsequies. I want to persuade my audience that this world is a poor investment; that it does not pay ninety per cent, of satis* faction, nor eighty per cent., nor ttven* ty per cent, nor two per cehi, nor ttnej that it gives no solace when * dead babe lies on your lap) that it givfes Bo peace When conscience Hugh its alarm; that it gives BO explanation in the day of dire tronble; and at the time Of y'Onf tiei&fcSe it takeh hold ttf your pillOvrCasC, and shakes Oht the feathers, and then jolts dowh in the place thereof sighs, and groans, and execrations, and then makes you put your head on it. Oh, ye who have tried this world, is it a satisfactory portion? Would you advise your friends to make the investment? No. “Ye have sold yourselves for nought." Your conscience went. Your hope went Your Bible went Your Heaven went Your God went When a sheriff tinder a Writ from the courts sella a man out, the officer generally leaves a few chairs and a bed. and a few enps and knives! but in this awful vendue in which you have been engaged the auctioneer's inallet has come down upon body, mind and soul. Going! Gone! “Ye have sold yourselves for nought-” M»W Could you do so? Did yon think that your soul Was a mere trinket which for a few pennies yon could buy a toy shop? Did yon ever think that your soul, if once lost might he found again if you went out with torches and lanterns? Did yon think that your soul was short-lived, aud that, panting, it would soon lie down for extinction? Or had you no idea what your soul was worth? Did yon ever put your forefingers on its eternal pulses? Have yon not felt the quiver of its peerless wing? Have yon not known that, after leaving the body, the first step of yonr soul reaches to the stars, and the next step to the farthest outposts of God's universe, and that it will not die until the day when the everlasting Jehovah expires? Oh, my brother, what possessed you that yon should part with your soul so cheap? “Ye have sold, yourselves for nought,” , But 1 have some good news to tell you. 1 want to engage in a litigation for the reewery of that soul of yours, 1 want to show that yon have been cheated Ottt of it. I want to prove, as I will, that you were crazy on that subject, and that the world, under such circumstances, had no right to take the title deed from you; and if you will join me 1 shall get a decree from the High Chancery Court of Heaven reinstating you into the possession of your soul. “Oh,” you say, “I am afraid of lawsuits; they are so expensive, and 1 can not pay the cost." Then have you forgotten the last half of my text? “Ye have sold yourself for nought; and ye shall he redeemed without money." Money is good for a great many things, but it can not do anything in this matter of the soul You can no! buy your way through. Dollars ami pounds sterling means nothing at the gate of mercy. If you could buy youi salvation. Heaven would be a great speculation, an extension of Wall street. Bad men would go up and buy out the place, and leave ns to shift for ourselves. But as money is not a lawful tender, what is? 1 answer: Blood! Whose? Are we to go through? Oh. no; it wants richer blood than ours. It wants a king's blood. It must be poured from royal arteries. It must t>e a sinless torrent. But where is the king? I see a great many thrones and . a great many occupants, yet none of them seem to be coming down to the rescue. But aftei awhile the clock of the night in Bethlehem strikes twelve, and the silver pendulum of a star swings across the sky, and I see the King of Heaven rising up and He descends and steps down from star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lower and lower, until He touches the sheep-cov-ered hills, and then on to anothei hill, this last skull-shaped, and there, at the sharp stroke of persecution, a rill incarnadine trickles down, and wt who could not be redeemed by monej are redeemed by precious and imperial blood.

HU UQIU III «UIO U»J pi vivwvu vuiiu tiaus who are so rarefied and ethereal' lied that.the; do not want a religion ol blood. What do they want? You seem to want a religion of brains. The Kible says: “In the blood is the life.’ No atonement without blood. Ought not the apostle to know? What did. ht say? “Ye are redeemed not with cor ruptible things, such as silver and gold, but by the precious blood of Christ.’ Yon put your lancet into the arm ol our holy religion and withdraw the Wood, and you leave it a mere corpse, fit only for the grave. Why did Goc command the priests of old to strike the knife into the kkl, and the goat, «tid the pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb? It was so that when the blood rushed out from these animals on the floor of the ancient tabernacle the people should be competed to thin! of the coming carnage of the son ol God. No blood no atonement. 1 think that God intended to impress us with a vividness of that color. The green of the grass, the blue of the sky, would not have startled and aroused us like this deep crimson. It is as if Got had said: “Now, sinner, wake u{ and see what the Saviour endured foi you. This is not water. This is nol wine. It is blood. It is the blood ol My own Son. It is the blood of the Immaculate. It is the blood of Uod.” Without the shedding of blood is no remission. There has been many a mat who in courts of law has pleaded “nol guilty,” who nevertheless has been condemned because there was blood found on his hands, or blood found in his room; and what shall we do in the last day if it be found that we have recruci£ed the Lord of glory and have neves repented H? You must believe in the blood or die. No escape. Unless yot let the sacrifice of Jesus go in youi stead you must yourself suffer. It is either Christ’s blood or your blood. “Oh,” says some one, “the thought ol blook siekens me.” Good. God intend ed it to sicken you with your sin. Ik not act as though you had nothing U do with that Calvarian massacre. Yov had. Your sins were the implements of torture. Those implements were nol made of steel, and iron, and wood, sc much as out of your sins. Guilty ol homieide, and this regicide, and thi: deicide, confess your guilt to-day. Ter thousand voices of Heaven bring in the verdict against you of guilty, guilty Prepare to die, or believe in that blood. Stretch yourself out for the sacrifice 01 accept the Saviour’s sacrifice. Donoi Ding away your one chance. It seems to me as if all Heaven wen trying to bid in your soul. The flrsi bid it makes is the tears of Christ a< the tomb of Lazarus; but that is not i high enough price. The neat bit Heaven makes is the sweat of Geth semane; but it is too cheap a prioe. The neat bid Heaven makes seems t< be. tlie whipped back of Pilate’s hall but it is not a high enough price. Cat it be possible that Heaven can not buj you in? Heaven tries once more. It says ‘‘1 bid this time for that man’s soul ib* tortures of Christ's martyrdom, thi Bis temple, the blood on Hit - “ ■ the blaoc

the cross; the blood that wet the Ups of the soldiers’ spears; the that plashed warm in the faces of His 1 Glory to God, that bid wins it! The highest price that was ever paid for anything was paid for your sodf: Nothing eottid buy it hot Mood! tM estranged property hi brought bacfc Take it; “Yon hare sold yonrISelveS for nought; and ye shall be re1 deemed without money.” tt atoning blood; cleansing blood, life-giving biood; Sanetiiyih|J bldod, glorifying WOod Of Jesus! Why not burst into tears st the thought that for thee He shed it—far thee the hard-hearted, for thee the lost? No.” says some one; “I will have nothing to do with it except that, like the enemies of Christ, 1 put both my hands into that„ carnage and scoop np both palms fall, and throw it on my head and cry: ‘Bis blood be on ns and on onr children!’ ” Can yon do such a shocking thing as that? Just rub your handkerchief across yobr brow and iook at ii It is the biood of the Son of Hod whoid yott have despised and drived back all these years! Ob, do not d<} that arty longer! Come out boldly and frankly and honestly, and tell Christ yon are sorry. You can not afford to sd roughly treat Him upon whom everything depends. 1 do not knew how yon will get away from this subject. You see that you are sold out, and that Christ wants to buy yon back. There are three persons who come after you to-day:God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghcst. They unite their three omnipotences in one movement for your salvation. Yon will not take np arms against the Triune God, will you? Is there enough muscle in your arm for such a combat? By the highest throne in Heaven, and by the deepest chasm in hell, I beg yon look out. Unless you allow Christ to carry away your sins, they wlil carry you away. Unless you allow Christ to lift you up, they will drag you down. There is only one hope for you, and that is the blood, Christ, the sin-offering, bearing your transgressions. Christ, the surety .paying yOttr debts. Christ, the Divine Cyrus, loosening your Babylonish captivity, Would you like to he free? Here is the price of yOhr liberation—not money, hht blood. 1 tremble frotil head to toot, not because I fear your presence, but because I fear that yon will miss yonr chance for immortal rescue. This is the alternative divinely put: “He that hclieveth on the Son shall have everlasting life, and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life, hut the wrath of God abideth on him.” In' the last day, if you now reject Christ, every drop of that sacrificial blood, instead of pleading for your release as it would have pleaued if you had repented, will plead against you. O Lord God of the judgment day avert that calamity! Let us see the quick flash of the cimeter that slays the sin hut saves the sinner. Strike, omnipotent God, for the soul’s deliverance! Beat, O eternal sea, with all thy waves against the barren beaeh of that rocky soul and make it tremble. Oh! the oppressiveness ofthc hour, the minute, the second, on which the soul’s destiny quivers, and this is that hour, that minute, that second! Some years ago there came down a fierce storm on the sea coast, and a vessel got in the breakers and was going to pieces. They threw up some signal of distress and the people on shore saw them. They put out in a lifeboat. They came on, and they saw the poor sailors, almost exhausted, clinging to a raft, and so afraid were tho boatmen that the men would give up before they got to them, they gave them three rounds of cheers, and cried: “Hold on, there! hold on! We’ll save you!” After awhile the boat came up. One man was saved by having the boathook put in the collar of his coat, and some in one way and some in another*; hut they all got into the boat. “Now,” says the eaptain, “for the shore. Pull away now, pull!” The people on the land were afraid the lifeboat had gone down. They said: “How long the boat stays. Why, it must have been swamped and they have all perished together.” And there were men and women on the pier-heads and on the beach wringing their hands; and while they watched and watched, they saw something looming up through the roisL and it turned out to he 'the lifeboat. As soon as it came within speaking distance the people on the shore cried out: “Did you save any of them? Did yon save any of them?” And as the boat swept through the boiling surf and came to the pier-head, the captain waved his hand over the exhausted sailors that lay flat on the bottom of the boat, and cried: “All saved! Thank God! All 'saved!” So may it be to-day. The waves of your sin run high, the storm is on yon, but I cheer von with the Gospel hope. God grant that within the next ten minutes we may row with you into the harbor of God’s mercy. And when these Christian men gather around to see the result of this service, and the glorified gathering on the pier-heads of Heaven to watch and to listen, may we be able to report all saved! Young and old, good and bad! All saved! Saved for time. Saved for eternity. “And so it came to pass that they all escaped safu to land.”

Lukewarmness. There does not seem to be much use for lukewarmness in this world. Nobody wants it nor admires it, and the colorless people who are lnkewarm themselves are not attracted by others of the ilk. A lukewarm dinner is a horror; a lukewarm drink is nauseating; a lukewarm friend is far worse than a l red-hot foe; and lukewarm praise can successfully damage the most virtuous character. So may we have grace to be cold or hot, but at least one of the other; to like a person or th ing, and say so, though we disagree with the world; to believe heartily and bravely, and bo not ashamed to give reason for the faith which is in us; to have the “courage of our convictions,” and if we have not got it, to get it as fast as possible. For there is little time to wait, and none to parley. Choose ye this day, and with a stout heart stick to your choice when made, and be not afraid to unfurl your flag.—Harper's Baser. How Talmafe Was Converted. Yon ean take any man for Christ if yon know how to get at him, writes Dr. Talmage in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Truman Osborne, one of the evangelists who went through the ' country many years ago, had a wonder* ■ ful art in the right direction. He came to my father's house one day, and i while we were seated in the i room, he said: “Mr. Talmage, are all ■ your children Christians?” Father said: “Yes, all but De Witt.” Then Truman Osborne looked down into the fireplace, and began to tell tk story of a storm that came on the mountains, and > all the sheep were in the fold; bnt there was one lamb outside that perished in the storm. Had he looked me in the eye I should have been angered when he told that story; but he looked into | the fireplace, and it was so pathetically and beautifully dona that 1 never found any peace until I was sure I was inside the fold, wfewt tb« othur

Arid SHEET iflori J ict of the Tin Plato Ituty It to Help the Sheet Iron Men—Teettnuny There are in the United States twenty manufactories of sheet iron and steel, with a capacity of 830,000 Urns per y*ir. The greater P»r‘ these sheets are used for roofing and other building parposes, s dch hs artistic cornice work, shades, etc., tad for manufacture into pails. Coal scuttles, refuse cam, and for other domestic purposes. It is for jnst such purposes as these that tfefne plates are used. The great fall id terite plates abroad has daring the past fed yCars stimulated the use of such plates for the purposes jnst named: As a result,even under a duty of one cent per pound, terne plates are cheaper than galvanized and often sheet iron, and have begun to drive out the use of such iron, since, besides being cheaper, terne plates are better. The sheet manufacturers long since recognized the competition between their products and the imported terne plates. For combine as they would they cottld not sell their galvanized sheets at high prices when consumers Could get teTne plates. Thus in 1883 they persuaded the tariff commission to fix the duty upon terne plates alfi.3 cents per pound, and congress refused to ratify this action. In 1888 they tried it again when the Mills bill was sent to the senate, and persuaded Senators Aldrich and Allison to put a dnty of 3.3 cents per pound on* the imported article. The strongest reason which Senator Aldrich could offer for his action was, as he says in his report: “The free admission of all thicknesses and widths, coated with tin or lead, would cause a substitution of imported tin or terne plates in most cases for roofing and other building purposes and for domestic uses where galvanized or .other sheet iron or steel is now used.” He meant that he imposed the duty of 3.3 cents per p >und on tin plate to prevent the farmers from using it, and to compel them to use galvanized iron. Had he introduced a bill to compel the wheat growers to give up nsing the harvester and to go baek to the use of the old-fasioned cradle, or even the sickle, and had he offered as an excuse for so doing that harvesting machines were destroying toe manufacture of cradles or sickles, this eminent protectionist statesman could not have acted more reasonably than he did in the matter of the tin plate duty. How long will it be before the farmers will wake up to see the troth that protection is old fogy ism run to seed? THE FUNNY MAN. What a Comic Tariff Talker Sara About Window Glass. Mr. R. O. Ilorr, the comic tariff talker, says in the New Yo k Tribune that “the price of common glass has been cheapened in this eountry, so that the window glass for a cottage or ordinary house does not cost one-half what it did in former years.” Jnst what Mr. Horr means by “former years” he does notoxplai v but if we go back to I860, theyear beK're the dnty on glass was raised to a highly protective point, we shall doubtless give him a long enough time in which to make good his claim. If there, has b<en a fall Of more than one-half inthepi’ce of glass in these thirty years of hijth. protection the fact can certainly lie shown by comparing current market prices with those of 1 StV). ® Here is such a composition: Szca 8xi<> inches ..., bx;» ■* . ittxlt lx.4 12x18 12x18 18x21 22x18 Total S boxesQuality. id ... UU ... Jd ... *1 ... 1st ... i*l ... £::: Price B of 50 Ft. I960 fL9» 1 83 2.10 L. 10 a. do 2 40 &6» a.ft> |!0« 18311 $19“ L*ft 2 0» Li* 2.7» 231 H. 1.4 3 S $19 121

' “ The price has fallen only 8 per cent, 'during the past thirty years of continued high protection; and there is no ground whatever for the boast of the comic tariff talker. His boast was evidently made without any acquaintance with the facts and from mere force of the old protectionist habit of claiming everything. Mr. Harr has a great deal to say about glass, but he maintains a deathlike silence about the great glass trust. If be had told his readers something about that child of the tariff his article would have lost value very perceptibly with his protectionist readers. WHY POTATOES ARE TAXED. A Protection Organ Gives It Avar—It Wn to Reduce the Price of Our Potatoes. The average protection organ has a hard time of it grinding out matter suitable for consumption in both city and country. In trying to convince one ‘part of the public thut the high McKinley duties were> imposed for the purpose of increasing prices and another part that they were to reduce prices, snch organs have a very delicate task to perform. No wonder that they often print tariff fancies for the city public which would not be relished among farmers; and that they try to stuff the farmer with cheap and easy proofs of how the McKinley agricultural duties will help him by raising the prices of what he produces—all which would be very unpopular talk in the large cities. Thus one of the readers .of the New York Press, who is a city working man, writes to that protection sheet asking to be enlightened about the potato duty. As we did not raise enough potatoes lji>t year for our own use it became necessary to import considerable quantities from Scotland, Canada and other countries, before the present crop came upon the market, McKinley raised the duty of potatoes from 15 cents a bushel to 35 cents; and our eity workingman points out how he has had to pay higher prices for his Scotch potatoes by reason of the dnty. He therefore asks the Press: “Wherein am I and other wage earners benefited by protective duties on our food supply?” In reply to this the Press asks: “Have we had one full farming or potato season since the McKinley bill became a law last October? Of course not How then can you reasonably expect an increased duty, intended to increase home production and reduce prices, to do its work before the first harvest under the new law?” Listen, oh ye farmers! The duty on potatoes was intended to reduce the prices of your potato crop! That is what they tell the city people. Do they dare to tell you the same? * ' Let Them Kzplala. A London market report says that • sale of American sugar has just been made there at from 3 to S 3-5 cents a pound for refined white. This is about one cent below the wholesale price of similar sugar in New York. The sale of American sugar in London is now a thing of frequent occurrence, and the prices over there are always cons' -rably below onr home market wholesale prices Does not this mean that our refiners make a special discount for export? Those republican organs which waxed wroth last year and denounced the “export discount'' charge as falsa ought to turn their attention to this matter. Let thorn explain, too, whj W9 90*4 h 99 reiMtfd

MMi AND Mt NOTES. i. WiixibK, the actor, say* he laid claim to the authorship of the play “Alabama.’* The receipts of the Paris salon for 1891 were 815,000 francs, against 988,000 in 1890 and 189,000 in 1889. Is proportion to population, Buenos Ayres has the largest number of daily Papers of any city in the world, via., twenty‘three. J5l The Chicago public library »ls opening free reading rooms in the different parts of the city, hoping that they may bb ad antidote to the saloons. Tail highest pried for a modern print, S125i was paid tot the first state of Meryon's etching. “L’Absklc de Notre Dame,” at the fceent auction of his works in Paris. .> Kefekring to, the unpublished address of Horace Greeley in tho last Century Magazine, Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper says: “The Arctic explore er's portrait figures a% frontispiece." Fact! Harry Furxiss, the gif tel London artist, has a grievance. Another artts^ whose name is Ilarold Fnrniss, has been signing “H. Fnrniss” to some inferior drawings. This is Harry Fmfniss’ signature. ' Literary society in London has been showing marked attention to Mrs. Gen. Custer during her visit there. She has made a favorable impression on everyone, which Is not singular, considering her popularity In America. Queenly women. The late Duchess de Croy-Dulmen was one of the last of,the grandes dames of the second empire. She was a beautiful woman, and in the forest of Ardennes she was famous as a huntress. Mme. Alice Le Plongeox, the Yucatan explorer, goes about small, dark, bright eyed, piquant, with a large pale green brooch at her throat, an arrowhead chipped by dead and forgotten Indians. Mrs. Harrison don't take many sea baths down at Cape May. She likes to look at the salt water and is possionatei ly fond of sketching sea and shore, but she does not enjoy actual contact with i the billows. “Sarah” Bernhardt was named Bosine by her parents, who were French and Dutch respectively. Her first appearance on tho stage was at the Theater Francaise in “Iphegene.” She Is forty-seven in years, but dates back, spiritually at least, as far as Cleopatra. Since Cabase*., the French portraitpainter, has pronounced Miss Mattie Mitchell, the Oregon senator's daughter, the most beautiful woman ever seen in Paris, the claim of her admirers that she is the prettiest girl in Washington will probably be no longer disputed._ SCHOOL AND CHURCH ITEMS. Yassar's most popular instructor is Miss Mary W. Whitney, the professor of astronomy. During last year Cambridge university matriculated nine hundred and fif-ty-two students. The Scottish mission, which has its headquarters at Jerusalem, reports the conversion of six Jews to Presbyterianism. At tho university of Pennsylvania, where women are strivingto gain full admission, certificates were granted this year to five women students in biology and to five in music. England is to have free education after September 1. It has taken our British cousins some time to set their feet in our steps, but they are coming along quite handsomely. A Young Women’s Christian association, similar in all its workings to the Young Men’s Christian association, has been organized at Dayton, O., with one hundred and three members. The Irish Presbyterian Zenana mission has now seven missionaries in India and three in China, all of whoiji are doing good work, and its income list year was about three thousand threa hundred pounds sterling.

The St. Louis Exposition. The Eighth Annual. St. Louis Exposition will open Wednesday, September 2, and dose October IT. The past history of this great industrial Exposition is one of interstate pride, and its marked success for the past seven years is the guarantee that this year will equal in every respect and exceed in many ways the varied exhibits of the Arts, Mechanics and Sciences. The departments will have displays from every line of industry and business. The Art Department will have the best examples, to which will be added a fine collection of oriental musical instruments, lacquers, ivories, and other works of merit from China and Japan. Gilmore's celebrated band will be in attendance each day, and furnish music in the afternoons and evenings. America’s general progress will be faithfully portrayed, and the revelations in all branches of industrial achievements will be unusually complete and instructive. All the railroads will give reduced rates. “161TBS3,” said the street-car dagger, who reads the market reports, as he reached for his whip, "that 1 will have to do something to overcome this stagnation in stock.”— Washington Star. The complexion becomes clear, the skin free from eruptive tendencies, the appetite and digestion improved, aches and pains cease, the body grows stronger, sound sleep at night a habit, and the general health every way better when Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla is made use of. The minister who prepares thwpooreet sermon is generally the best composer — —Binghamton Leader. Mr friend,look here! you know hour weak and nervous your wife is, and yon know that Carter’s Iron Pilis Will relieve her. Now why not be fair shout it and buy her a box! Tnoioii not catchy, the song of the back fence warbler is undoubtedly cat-chin.—In-dianapolis Journal " wj i I 1 THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, August 10.1891. CATTLE—Native steers ... * 3 35 ® 6 00 COTTON—Middling. ® SB) FLOUR—Winter Wheat. » t-5 9 * » WHEAT—No. 9 Red. 981%* I 01t» ( OltS—So, *. 704»® *1 OATS—Western Mixed. 38 ® 43 PORK -New Mess. 13 60 * 13 50 8T. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. Tit® BEEVES—Fancy Steers. 5 9> « Shipping. 5 60 a HOGS— Common to Select.... 5 35 9 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 3 75 a FLOUR—Patents .. 4 15 W Fancy to Extra Do. 3 8) 8 WHEAT—No. 2Red Winter.. 651s® CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 54*4® oats-no, a. ar a ryk-no. a.. ?a « TOBACCO—Lugs. 1 10 ® Leaf Burley. 4 50 a HAY—Clear Timothy. 9 00 a BUTTEK-Cboiee Dairy. 13 » EGGS-Fresh,... » PORK- Standard Mess. 10 6ltS» 10 75 BACON—Clear Rib.'.. 74k® 71S LARD—Prime Steam......... 6 WOOL—Choice Tub... .... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping... 3 50 HOGS—Good to Choice........ 4 50 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 3 75 FLOUR—Winter Patents.. 4 80 744 6 00 5 85 8 60 3 00 4 35 3 95 85% 55 r.>i 71 5 10 7 01 14 00 15 ltlS 616 31 6 20 5 80 5 43 4 90 5 10 8844 GO 37% Spring Patents. 4 75 ® WHEAT—So. 3 Spring.. 8848® CORN-No. 3. • OATS—No. 3. • PORK—Staudard Mess. 10 40 « 10 45 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers .. 3 00 • 3 8) HOGS—All Grades:. 3 75 « 5 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. . 79 • 794% OATS-No. 3. 35 ® 35ft CORN—No. 3. ... 9 31 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-High Grade.. 4 35 • 4 60 CORN—Xo. 3. m 88 OATS-Western . 9 41 HAY—Choice. 17 00 • It PORK—New Mess BACON—Clear Rib.. COTTON—Middling. LOUISVILLE. 5 WHEAT—No. 2 Bed... ~ " CORN—No. 2 White... OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. iBK-2b . 17 00 • 18 80 . • U » , .. 9 I* .. 9 * k flSVlLLE. 2 /

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