Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 June 1892 — Page 4

ILL SERMON. Hev. Y. DeWItt Talmnso to His Scattered Congregations. A Sermon Dictated on the Ere or l{ls,Dc» part are for Europe-The Meaning of the Word Departure to the Christian. The following discourse was dictated by Rev. T. RcWitt Talmage for perusal by his vast and scattered congrega tion reaehed l>y the press, on the eve of his departure for Europe. The text is: Tho time’ of my departure is st h“.nd.—Tinlo tbThr..#. Departure! That is a word Used only twice in all the Hible. llut it is a word often used in the court-room, and means the desertion of one course of j pleading for another. It is used' in ! navigation to describe the distance between two meridians passing through the extremities of a course. It is a word I have recently heal'd applied to mv departure from America to Europe for a preaching tour to last until September. In a smaller and less signilicant sense than that implied in the text I can say: “The time of my departure is at hand.” Through the printing press I address this sermon to my readers all the world over, and when they read it I will be mkl-oeean, and unless something new happens in my marine experiences 1 will be in no condition to preach. Hut how unimportant the word departure when applied to exchange of continents as when applied to exchange of worlds, as when Paul wrote: “The time of my departure is at hand.”

, oow, departure implies a starting place and a place of destination. When Paul left this world, what was the starting point? It was a scene of great physical distress. It was the Tallinn urn, the lower dungeon of the Mftmertine prison, Home, Italy. The top dung-con was bad enough, it having no means of ingress or egress hut through an opening in the top. Through that the prisoner was lowered, and through that came all the food and air and light received. It was a terrible place, that upper dungeon; but the Tull'annm was the lower dungeon, and that was still more wretched, the only light and the only air coming through the roof, and that roof the floor of the Upper dungeon. That Was Paul's last earthly residence. I was in that lower dungeon in November, 1689. It is made of volcanic stone. I measured it, and -from wall to wall it was fifteen feet. The highest of the roof was seven feet from the floor, and the lowest of the voof five feet seven inches. The opening in the roof through which Paul was let down was three feet wide. The dungeon has a seat of rock two and one-half feet high and a shelf of rock four feet high. It was there that paid spent his last days on earth, and it is there that 1 see him now. in the fearful dungeon, shivering, blue with the cold, waiting for that old overcoat which he had sent for up to Troas, and which they had not yet sent down, notwithstanding he had written for it. r If some skillful surgeon should go into that dungeon where Paul is incarcerated we might find out what are the prospects of Paul's living through the rough imprisonment. In the first place he is an old man, only two years short of seventy. At that very time when he most needs the warmth and the sunlight and the fresh air he is shut out from the sun. What are those sears on bis ankles? Why, those were gotten when he was fast, his feet in the stocks. Every time he turned the flesh on his nkles started. What are those scars on his back? You know he was whipped five times eaeh time getting thirtynine stroke*—fine hundred and ninetyfive brdtses on the back (count them!I nuulq by the Jews with rods of elm wood, each one of the one hundred and ninety-five strokes bringing the blood. Look at Paul's face and look at his arms. Where did he get those bruises? I think it was when he was struggling , ashore amidst the shivered timbers of the shipwreck. 1 see a gash in Paul's side. Where did he get that? I think, be got that in the tassel with highwaymen, for he had been in peril of robliersf and he had money of his own. lie was a mechanic as well as an apostle, and 1 think the tents he made were as good as bis sermons. There is a wanness about Paul's looks. What makes that? 1 think a" part of that came from the fact that he was for twenty-four hours on a plank in the Mediterranean sea, suffering terribly, before he was rescued; for he says positively: “1 was a night and a day in the deep." Oh, worn-out, emaciated old man, surely you must Vie melancholy. No constitution could on, dure this and be cheerful. But I press my way through the prison until T pome up close to where he is, and by the faint light that streams through the opening I see on his faec a supernatural joy, and I bow before him, and I say: “Aged man, how can you keojk cheerful amidst all this gloom?” llis voice startles the darkness of the place as he cries out: “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure Is at hand.” Hark, what is that shuffling of feet in the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an invitation to a banquet and he is going to dine to-day with the King. Those shuffling feet are the feet of the executioners. They come, and they cry down through the hole of the dungeon: “Hurry up, old man. Come, now; get yourself ready.” Why, Paul was ready. He had nothing to paek up. He had i¥> baggage to take. He had been ready for a good while. I see him rising up, and straightening out liis stiffened limbs, and pushing back his white hair from his creviced forehead, and see him looking up through the hole in the roof of the dungeon into the face of his executioners and hear him say: “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.” -Then they lift him out of the dungeon and they start with him to the place of execution. They say: “Hurry along, old man, or you will feel the weight of our spear. Hurry along.” “How far is it,” says Paul, “we have to travel?” “Three miles.” Three miles is a good way for an old man to travel after he has been whipped and crippled with maltreatment But they soon get to the place of execution— Acquie Sal-via—-and he Is fastened to the pillar of martyrdom. It does not take any strength to tie him fast. He makes no resistance. O Paul! why not now strike for your life? You have a great many friends here. With that withered hand just launch the thunderbolt of the people upon these infamous soldiers. No, Paul was not going to interfere with his own coronation. He was too glad to go. I see him looking j np in the face of his executioner, and, { as the grim official draws the sword, j Paul calmly says: “I am now ready to to he offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.’* But I put my band over my eyes. 1 want not to see the last struggle. One sharp keen stroke, and Paul does go to the banand Paul does dine with the t a transition it was! Prom the I of Home to the finest climate in of eternal His ashes were i Rome, but the a his soul the]

wood rods, from the sharp sword of the headsman, he goes Into the most brih llant assemblage of Heaven, a king among kings, multitudes of the sainthood rushing out and stretching forth hands of welcome* fof 1 do really thin k that as on the right hand of God is Christ, so oh the right hand of Christ is Paul the second great in ileaven. He changed kings likewise, llefoi'e the hour of death, and tip to the last moment, he Was titide? KetfO, the thicknecked, the ertiebejred, the fiHh.tr1 lipped; the sculptured features Of that Itibn bvlhgitig down to its this very day the horrible possibilities of his nature —sen ted ns he was amidst pictured ma;~bles of Egypt, under a roof adorned with mother-of-pearl, in a dining-room which, by machinery, was kept whirl* ing day and night with most bewitch* ing magnificence! his horses Statidiugift stalls of solid gold, and the grounds around his palace lighted nt night try Its Victims, Who had iieeti bedaubed With tar rtnd pitch and then set on fire to illuminate the darkness. That was Haul's king, lint the next moment he goes into the realm of Him whose reign is love, and whose courts are paved with love, and whose throne is set on pillars of love, and- whose scepter is adorned with jewels of love, and whose palace is lighted with love, and whose lifetime is a n eternity of love. When l*au 1 was leaving so lunch on this side the pillar of lnnrtyrdom to gain so much on the other side, do yon wonder at the cheerful valedictory of the text! "The time of my departure is at hand?” Now, why can not all the old people have the kune holy glee as that aged man had. Charles I., wheri he Wftst combing his head, found a gray half , and he sent it to the tjneeti Hs ft joke; but old age Is really no joke nil, Cor the last forty years you have been dreading that Which ought to have been a n exhiln fa tion. Yon say you most, feaf the struggle when the soul and body part. Hut millions have endured that moment, and may not we as well? They got through with it, and so can we. Besido this, all medical men agree in saying that there is probably no struggle at the last moment—not so much pain as the prick of a pin, the seen!ing sign of distress being altogether involuntary, lint, yon say: “It is the uncertainty of the future.” Now, child of God, do not play the in - fidel. After God has filled the Bible till it can hold no more with stories dif the good things ahead, better not tail: about uncertainties. lint you say: “I can not bear to think of parting from friends here.” If you are old you have more friends in Heaven than here. Just take the census. Take some large sheet of paper and begin to record the names of those who have emigrated to the other shore: the companions of your schooldays, your early business associates, the friends of midlife and those who more recently went away. Can- it be that they have beer gone so long you do not care any more about them, and you do not want their society? Oh.‘no. There have been days when you have felt that you could not endure another moment away from their blessed companionship. They have gone. You say you would not like to bring them back to this world of trouble, even if you hud the power. It would not do to trust you. God would not give you resurrection power. Before to-morrow morning you would be rattling at the gates of the cemetery, crying to the departed: "Come back to the cradle where you slept! Come back to the hall where you used to play! Come back to the table where you used to sit!” and there would be a greet burglary in Heaven. No, no, God will not; trust you with resurrection power; but He compromises the matter and says; “You can not bring them where you are, butyoueango whore they are.” They are more lovely now than ever. Were they beautiful here, they sire more beautiful there.

Besides that, it is more healthy there for yon than here, aired man; better climate there than these hot summers and eold winters and late springs; 1 letter hearing, better eyesight, more tonic in the air, more perfume in the bloom, more sweetness in the song. l)o you not feel, aged man, sometimes as though yon would like to get your arm and foot free? Ilo you not feel as though you would like to throw away your spectacles, and canes, and crutches? Would you not like to feel the spring, and elasticity, and mirth of an eternal boyhood? When the point at which you start from this world is old age and the point to which you go is eternal juveneseeneo, aged man, clap your hands at the antic ipation and say in perfect rapture of soul: ‘"The time of my departure is at hand.” 1 remark, again, all those ought to feel this joy of the text who have a holy curiosity to know what is beyond this earthly terminus. And who has not any curiosity about it? Paul. 1 suppose, had the most satisfactory view of Heaven, and he says: “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” It is like looking through a broken telescope: “Now we see through a glass darkly.” fan you tell me anything almut that heavenly place? You ask me a thousand questions about it that 1 can not answer. 1 ask yon a thousand questions about it that you cun not answer. And do you wonder that l'aul was so glad when martydom gave him a chanee to go over and make discoveries in that blessed country? 1 hope someday, by the grace"of God, to go over and see for myself; but not now. No well man, no prospered man, I think^wants to go now. But the time will come, 1 think, when 1 shall go oye<\ 1 want to see what they do there, and i want to see how they do it, I do not want to be looking through the gates ajar forever. I want them to swing wide open. There are ten thousand things I want explained—about you, about myself: ujfxmt the government of this world, about God, about everything. Wo start.in a plain path of what we know, and in a min: to come up against a high wall of what we do not know. I wonder , how it looks over there. v tjomcbody tells me it is like a paved city—paved with gold; and another man tells me it is like a fountain, and it is like a tree, and it is like a triumphal procession; and the next man I meet tells me it is all figurative. I really want to know, after the body is resurrected, what they wear and what they-eat; and I have an immeasurable curiosity to know what it is, and where it is. Columbus risked his life to find this continent, and sjiaU we shudder to get ont ori a voyageVif discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more brilliant country? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage between icebergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switzerland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn with alpenstock, and guides, and Togkets, ai^i ropes, and, getting halt way* up, stumble and fall down in a horrible massacre. They just wanted to say they had been on the tops of those high peaks. And shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start a thousand miles beyond where stop the highest peaks of the Alps, when in that aseent there is no peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy: “Now, in ten minutes I will know the One minute after the , ceased the little child ,t knew mor» than or St. Paul himself, i

|'W*<*rC he died. Friends; the exit froitt I this tvorld, of death; if LV otiplease to chU it, to the Christian ife glorious explanation. it is demonstration, it is illumination. It is sun-burst. It is the opening of all the windows. It is shutting up the catechism of doubt, and the unrolling of nil the scrolls of positive and accurate information, in* stead of standing at the foot Of the lad* tier and looking Up; it Is Standing at the ; top of the ladiief aiid looking down. It ib the iast mystery taken out of botany, and geology, and astronomy, and theology. Oh, will it not be grand to hare all questions answered? The perpetually recurring interrogation ,point changed for the mark of exclamation. All riddles solved. Who will fear to gd out on that discovery, when all the questions are to be decided which we have beett dibCubsing all ottr lives? Who shall hot clap his hands in the an* licipation of that blessed country, if it be no better than through holy curiosity crying: “The time of my departure is at hand?” 1 remark, again, we ought to have the joy of the text, because, leaving this world, we move into the best society of the universe. You see-a great crowd of people in some street, and yon say: “Who is passing there? What general, what prince is going up there?" Well, I see a great throng in Heaven. I say: "Who is the center of that glittering company?” It is Jesus, the champion of all worlds, the favorite of all ages. Do yon know what is the first question the soul will aRk, When it comes through the gate of Heaven? t think the first questioh will he! “Where is Jesus, the Saviour that pardoned my sin:that carriedMy sorrows; that fought my battles) that Won my victories!” 0 radiant One! , how I would like to see Thee! Thou of the eross,but without its pangs; Thon of the grave, but without its darkness.” The llible intimates that we will talk with Jesus in Heaven just as a brother talks with a brother. Now, what will you ask Him first? I do not know. I ean think what 1 would ask l'aul first if 1 saw him in Heaven. 1 think I would like to hear him describe the storm that came upon the ship when there were two hundred and seventyfive souls on the Vessel. Paul being the only man on board coot enough to describe the storm. There is a fascination silxiut a Ship and the sea that I never shall get over, and I think I would like to hear him talk about that first. llut when I/'meet my Lord Jesus Christ, of whitt shall I first delight to hear Him sprtik? Now 1 think what it is. I shall first want to hear the tragedy of His last hour; and then Luke's account of the crueifixon, and Mark’s account of the crucifixion, and John's account of the crucifixion will be nothing, while from the living lips of Christ the story shall be told of the gloom that fell, and the devils that arose, and the fact that upon His endurance depended the rescue of it race! and there Was darkness in the sky, and there was darkness in the soul, and the pain became more sharp, and the burdens became more heavy, until the mob began to swim away from the dying vision of Christ, and the cursing of themobeame to llis car more faintly, and His hands were fastened to the horizontal piece of the cross, and llis feet were fastened to the perpendicular piece of the cross, and His head fell forward in a swoon as He uttered the last moan and eried: “It is finished.” All Heaven will stop to listen until the story is tlone, and every harp will he put down, and every lip elosed, and all eyes fixed upon the Divine narrator until the story is done; and then, at the tap of the baton, the eternal orchestra will rouse up, finger on string of harp and tips to the mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing, and riehes, and honor, and glory, and power, world' without end!”

What He endured, oh, who can tell; To save our souls from death and hell! When there was between Paul ana that magnificent personage only the thinness of the sharp edge of the sword of the executioner, do you wonder that he wanted to go? O, my Lord Jesus let one wave of that glory roll over us! Hark! I hear the wedding bells of Heaven ringing notv. The marriage of the Lamb hits come,and the bride hath made herself ready. And now fora little while good-by! I have no morbid feelings about the future, lint if anything should happen that we never meet again in this world, let ns meet where there are no partings. Our friendships have been delightful on earth, but they will be more delightful in Heaven. And now I commend you to Ood, and the word of His grace, which is able to build us up and give us an inheritance among all them that are sanctified. The True Remedy for Drmihcnnerfa. > A philosophical contemporary contends that the true remedy fordrunkenness lies not in the law, but in the Gospel. The drink-habit is the product of two sins. Greed stands on one side of the counter and appetite on the other. Law attempts to erect a barrier between the two. The Gospel attempts to take greed out of one soul and appetite out of the other. It is a slow process, but a sure one The longest way round isthe nearest way home. There are two ways of curing sinone by restriction from without, the other by inspiration from- within. The one way forbids the boy to run in the streets at night; the other makes the home so attractive to him that he does not wish the companionship of the street. The one way hedges Sunday round with prohibitionists, the other makes it the most joyous day of the week. Law says thou shalt not steal; the Gospel inspires love for one’s neighbor. The religion of laws is a religion of restraints and regulations. The religion of the Gospel is a religion of inspiration and life. The one is the Ten Commandments; the other is the Sermon on the Mount. Sometimes, however, the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount go very well together.—St Louis Republic.

nope r mramni virtue. An old English writer sets hope st the head of all the virtues, and says that despair is the unpardonablnfin. lie defines hope as “that vigorous principle who sets the head and heart at work, animates the man to do his utmost, puts difficulty outof countenance and makes even impossibility give way." In recent discussions of Christianity in contrast with pagan beliefs, remarks an eminent preacher, the chief superiority of Christianity has been overlooked — it is its farreaching and glorious hope. Hoping for nothing, paralysed by fatalism, the Buddhist, the Brahman, the Moslem change nothing. Hence heathendom is stagnation. Hoping everything for the world and for man, Christianity supplies the basis and motive of modern thought and life. When hope is lost, all is lost. While hope survives hell itself may be converted into Heaven.—St. Louis Republic. —The United States spends cents each year, per capita, for foreign missions, and 118 a head for liquors. Her* is a distinction in dollars and uents V* twetp spirit* ' '

reftsful Business Career Suddenly Cut Short. Chicago, Jtme 19.—Emmons Blaine, Ihe secohd son erf James G, Blaine, eat* fcfecretnry of stale, died at It a; in. yes1 terday, at the MeCormick mansion; 185 Bush street. He had been ill but a few hours, and liis death was wholly unexpected. Septicaemia, which devcloped late Friday night from a bowel ' complaint, was the immediate cause of death. Mm. Emmons Blaine and her son, McCormick Blaine, 3 years old, nhd Mm Chris McCormick tvere the only members Of the family at the bedside when Mr. Blaine passed away. Death came so quickly that there was not time to summon the other members of the family, Mr. and Mm W. G. MeCormick, who were in the house at the time. Ineffectual efforts were made throughout the night to reach James G. Blaine and Mm Blaine to convey the intelligence of their son's condition. The family left Augusta, Me., several days ago for Bar Harbor, Mr. Blaine’s summer residence, but it was impossible to effect the delivery of a telegram either to Mr. Blaine or to anyone who could transmit the message to him. The New York ahd Boston representatives of the McCormick company were instructed to exert every effort to convey the information to some member of Mr. Blaine's family or to Mr, Chris McCormick, who Went to New York some days ago, but up td noon the efforts had availed nothing. Mr. IV. G. McCormick immediately assumed charge of all matters incident to the calamitous event. Representatives of the local press and the press associations were admitted to the house' a few minutes after Mr. Blaine’s death and were given this statement of the attending physicians. Drs. Billings and Alpost, which was as follows: Mr. Emmons Blaine died at 11:15 o’clock of septaeaemia (blood poisoning), due to the disease, of the bowels. It was impossible to obtain fuller particulars from the medical attendants at that time. Mr. McCormick was insistent in his requests that no announcement of the death of his brother-in-law should get into the press dispatches until private advices had reached the Blaine family. “It would be a death blow to them all to receive the dreadful news without preparation,” he said. For this reason all information was withheld until 13 o’clock. Mr. Blaine's death is due, indirectly no doubt, to the ordeal he passed through as the chief director of the interests of his father at the Minneapolis convention. He labored incessantly for several days previous to the opening of the convention and throughout its sessions, nor did he relinquish his labors after the nomination of Mr. Harrison. Mr. Blaine has been nominally general agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. since last fall. IVhen the officials at the general superintendent's office heard the news they were dum- . founded. “Why, only yesterday,” said the chief clerk, “Mrs. lilaine sent word to us that although her husband was unable to attend to any business, she thought he would be at the office in a few days. We are all inexpressibly surprised and shocked.” Prior to his engagement with the Baltimore & Ohio, Mr, Blaine held prominent positions with several other roads. He was a universal favorite among other men. Several years ago he was secretary to the president of the West Virginia Central road, and his better position in Chicago was the reward of a striet attention to the duties of his office there. Prior to his engagement with the West Virginia Central he was assistant freight agent of the AtchisOn, Topeka & Siygta Fe and at other times was with the Chicago & Northwestern road and other corporations. Air. Blaine returned to Chicago from Minneapolis Saturday greatly exhausted. Monday he felt much better, but on Tuesday he was much worse again. Wednesday his symptoms began to alarm him, and Doctors Billings and Alport were summoned. They found the patient already in a semi-critical condition, but it was believed that his exceptionally vigorous constitution would pull him through. Friday noon, however, there was a sudden and alarming rise in temperature, and the physicians knew that the danger was imminent and required heroic treatment. It was agreed that nothing hut a surgical operation could save the sufferer's life, and preparations were made to perform it. The temperature was so high, however, that it was put off until to-day, the patient meanwhile being subjected to refrigerant and antiseptic treatment to prevent, if possible, the absorption of ichor from the gangrened segment of the alimentary tract into the circulation. All efforts were unavailing, however, and when the hour for attempting the operation arrived, Mr. Blaine was dead. Air. Blaine was a graduate of Harvard and a member of the Chicago and Calumet clubs of this city. He was a member of the bar, having studied law after his graduation from eollege, but had never practiced his profession. A Stricken Family. Bar Harbor, Ale., June ID.—The first intimation that Emmons Blaine was ill was a telegram saying he was ill Wednesday, but was out Thursday. At noon Saturday a dispatch stated that he whs growing worse and the doctor stated that unless there was a change in twenty-four hours there was no hope. Upon the first news of his serious illness, preparations were made to leave on the first train. Between t and 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon word came of his death. Mrs. Whine was frantic with grief, and the whole family was greatly prostrated.

Cholera In Persia, Afghanistan and Burmah. Calcutta, June 20.—The cholera is raging with increased mortality in Persia and Afghanistan. In Turhatyshan the streets are said to be strewn with corpses. Mollahs parade the streets reading aloud the Koran and leading thousands who believe by such means they can be kept from disease. In the jail at Moulmein, Burmah, there have been already several deaths from cholera and the 700 prisoners have been removed to Kyauktan. In Meshed, Persia, there have been 560 deaths in two days. Pl*a»ur«-8*ek«r* Drowned. Dkthoit, Mich., .Tune 20.—About 5:80 y clock yesterday afternoon the yacht Caprice, with twenty-seven people on board, was capsized near Peche island, several miles above this city, near the Canadian shore. All of the party were thrown into the water, and Carrie Bicber, aged 10, and Minnie Mock, aged 17, were drowned. The yacht Duke, when going to their assistance, attempted to turn, and Henry Pathow, Jr„ was knocked overboard by a lioom Cd also drowned. All of the bodies vc been recovered. Of the party on * “ ‘ ladies 1

Wages and COST of living. rhe rm Trmde Countries Ahead of Pr.v tectlonUt Countries. We publish in another column a most Interesting report from Carroll 1). Wright, the commission*r of labor, on wages and the cost of living in certain industries of the United States, Great Britain and several other countries The following tabid shows the average wages and cost of living per family irt the cotton add woolen industries ac* cording to his statement: United States— Colton. ITroten Inc-ime ...«... ICS $>6I Expenditures. 6it 3Bi is» 1518 433 Net incotno.... Brest Britain - Income,..... Expenditures,..... Net income..,..,,„ Rernluuy— income. Expenditures.... Net income. France— Income... Expenditures. Net income..'_ Switzerland— Income .. Expenditures,.. Net income... •Dcflicnor. $ « *»6 501 t 51 I 31 mi sa tin *19 *4 f ms SM is 1358 347 Tii Hit 381 t 40 There Is apparently an errc_ in the cost of living for families engaged in the American woolen industry, as their expenses are doubtless about as great as for those engaged in cotton manufacturing, The net results of the cotton trade are, however, interesting. The surplus earnings in the United States are $47 per year; in Great Britain, $54: in Germany, $19; in France, $33, and iu Switzerland, $11. It is also worthy of note that in this industry the annual amount spent per family for amusements is $9.8(1 in the United States; $18.03 in France; $19.33 in Germany, and $30.03 in Great Britain; and that the British cotton operative spendsL/dnoro for intoxicating liquors than any-eiher. So far as the cotton trade is concefr»d, the net results are more favorable to operatives in Great Britain than to those of any other country, a faet supported by the light immigration of that class to this country.—N. Y. Daily Commercial Bulletin, May 13, 1893. And yet our high tariff neighbors will go right on telling us about the hjgh wages and other blessings of high tariffs! All of the countries mentioned, except Great Britain, are “protected"’ by tariffs, and yet Great Britain is much better off than any other country, with the exception of the United States, and this country is really no exception because it is the biggest free trade country or section on the globe. Between the Atlantis and Pacific oceans and the gulf and the lakes is carried on the greatest free commerce known to history. The people of Maine and of California ean trade with each other without paying tribute to anybody. Billions of dollars worth of goods cross our state lines without being overhauled and taxed by customs collectors. If continental Europe would free herself of the numerous tariff walls that annoy and obstruct trade between her little countries, the people there would make as good a showing as does Great Britain now. But the road to commercial freedom, like the road out of human slavery, is a long one and ean not be traveled in a day.

IN SPITE OF THE TARIFF, We Supply the World With Stoves, But Must Import Pore-Multi Goods* “About two years ago I was telling a friend what iaa outrageous measure I thought the McKinley tariff bill was, when I used my own warehouses as an illustration of the fact that the tariff question is largely one of self-interest," said Jordan L. Mott, president of the Mott stove works, to a Times reporter yesterday. “Some newspaper writerhas just heard the story, and has quoted mo as saying things which are not only wide of the facts, but which have no bearing on the tariff." Mr. Mott had just been reading an article from an evening paper in which he was represented as pointing to soma of the stoves in one of his warehouses and saying: “If it were not for the tariff on these we would still be importing stoves from abroad. We export them now instead of imparting them.” This was supposed to show that Mr. Mott was at that moment a supporter of a protective tariff. In the same article Mr. Mott was represented as pointing to some imported porcelain goods with this remark about the duty on them: “It is nothing short of an outrage. We can’t import these at anything like the price we used to, yet they have to be sold at the old schedule.” This was supposed to indicate that when speaking of porcelain Mr. Mott was opposed to a protective tariff. “Now," said Mr. Mott, “all this goes to show nothing as to the effect of the tariff on stoves. The pore’tain goods art* higher to the consumer because of the duty, and all the duty in the world will simply add to the cost, without any benefit to the American workman or the American consumer. These porcelain goods are not made in this country and they will not be. They require peculiar material, and the demand is so small that no one would build a plant to manufacture them. The few factories in existence now can supply the entire demand. So that the tariff on these is bad for the buyer. “Now, as to stoves,” continued Mr.. Mott, “How can a tariff on them hr re lead to their export if, as the article indicates, free trade would have supplied our market from England? Why talk of importing stoves? Stoves were never imported into this country except, perhaps, now and then one ns a curiosity. All England uses stoves of American pattern. We never imported any and we never would if there was no duty on them. I don’t even know whether there is any tariff on them or not, for it makes so little difference to my business that I never took the trouble to find out. The idea that a' tariff on stoves has prevented us from importing and built up our export trade! ( A tariff of 100 per cent wouldn't keep one stove out of the country. This country is the supply point for this claas of goods. You can’t build any protective tariff argument on that article.”—N. Y.

How's This, McKinley? “The idea that wages are high in protected industries because the tarift enables manufacturers to obtain large profits, is one of the worst fallacies connected with the whole tarift discussion. Employers do not raise wages merely because profits are large Wages are not increased,, except in rare cases, through the generosity of employers, but through the pressing demands of laborers. Every laborer knows, and every journalist and statesman ought to know, that wages in protected industries are governed by the same principle as those in non-protected industries. * * * The truth is, a protective tariff does not affect wages in any such manner. Wages are not determined by influences that operate upon the employera’ profits, but by those which affect the laborers’ social life and character.” -•George Gunton, at Protective Tariff League Dinner, April 89, 1891. —What sort of political ethics is Maj. McKinley preaching when he asserts that we can compel foreigners to pay our cost of government by tariff taxation. If true and we do so, the Sermon on the Monnt is knocked into « protectcocked hht, \y4i<?h would grace a ad. - .-■ - - - *

IN THE REALM OF MUSIC. . Beatrice VeHon, a Chicago girl of French parentage, has just achieved a notable triuniph as a sidget at the Royal Court theater in Stockholm. Walter Damrosch is engaged in writing an opera whose subject is to be Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter." Mr. G. P. Lathrop is writing the libretto for him. George W. Estes, who died recently in Salerflj Mass;, at the age of eightyseven, was said to be the first man who ever played a snare drum by dote. He officiated as drum major at the funeral of President William Henry Harrison in 1841. The age at which a “child wonder” ceosea to be such has not yet been determined. But Josef Hofmans, the boy pianist, seems to have reached it. Late reports from abroad say that his fingers are losing their suppleness, his ear its delicacy and his soul its love of music. In twenty-four days Handel wrote “The Messiah.” Dr. Johnson wrote “Rasselas” in the nights of a single week. Schubert sometimes wrote four oi five immortal songs in a single day. He was born in 1797 and died in 1828, yet he set to music six hundred and thirty-four poems by one hundred different authors, in addition to writing other musical works. CURIOUS FACTS. The site of the city of Boston was sold in 1*35 by John Blackstone for f 130. This is a big country. It contains land enough to give every person in it a farm of 160 acres. Wellsyillk, Mo., has nearly twice as many dogs as inhabitants. It has 1,740 residents and 3,400 dogs. In a cave in the Pantheon the guide, by striking the flaps of his coat, makes a noise equal to that produced by firing a twelve-pound cannon. A piece of wood one inch long and one-half inch thick was removed1 from tho cheek of a Reading (Pa.) young man. The splinter entered his cheek six years ago in a coasting accident. While three woodcutters were sitting on a bcneh in their lodging house near Everetts, Va., recently, singing “The Old Ship of Zion,” the house was struck by lightning and all three were killed. On Sunday, May 22, when the apple trees in Franklin county, Me., were in blossom, snow from six to nine inches in depth covered the Rangeley district, and G. E. Rideout rode in his sleigh through the streets of Phillips. SOME SENSIBLE SAYINGS. Convince the masses that you love them, and you've got them. Some people never feel religions except when they get in a tight place. There isn’t a bit of religion in going without sleep at night to talk about your neighbor^. When in line of battle no soldier ever finds mnch fault with the bowlegs oi the man in front of him. There are people who think their neighbors’ houses need painting, because they do not wash their own windows. For a wife to get zfgion so that she never slams the dom^nymore will hit her husband hard" than a dozen sermons. It doesn’t help a man much at home to shout in church, if lie makes his wife get up and kindle a lire the next morning. What a difference there is between the kind of headache the people have on rainy Sundays and the kind they have when the circus is in town.— Ram's Horn. THE WRITERS’ WASTE BASKET. The poet Burns speUed his name Burness (his family name) until the publication of his poems in 17SG. It is said to be a fair indication of Shakespeare's popularity in Germany that 1,703 copies of a cheap edition of his works were sold in that country last year _

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