Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 August 1894 — Page 6

“AN ONLY SON/ Kg 9-r Barr. Dr. T aim age On the Miracle at the City of Nain. Mm Apt Mlastratlon of Christ'* Sympathetic Nats re. Which West Forth to AU Whom He Found - la Distress. The following serfhon by Rev. T. De Witt Taimage is selected for publication this week. Its subject, “An Only Son/* is based on the text: Now when he came nigh to the gate of the «itj, behold, there was a dead man carried out. 'She only son of hts mother, she was a ’widow; and much people of the city was with r*er. And when the Lord saw her He had comfwmlini on her, and said unto her: ‘ Weep not” And He came and touched the bier: and ethoy that bare him stood still. And He said: “Yoon* man, I say unto thee, arise." And he rthat was dead, sat up and began to speak. And He delivered him to his mqther.—Luke vii., .12-1*. The text calls us to stand at the gate •of the city of Nain. The streets arc at-rnsh with, business and gayety, and the ear is deafened with the hammers •of mechanism and the wheels of traffic. Work, with, its thousand arms and tiionaand eyes and thousand feet, fills all the street, when suddenly the crowd parts, and a funeral passes, lietween the wheels of work and pleasure there comes a long procession of mourning people. Who is it? A trifler says: “Oh, it’s nothing but a funeral. It may have come up from the hospital of the city, or the almshouse, or some low place of the town;” but not so ssj's the serious observer. There are so many •evidences of dire bereavement that we know at the first glance some one has keen taken away greatly beloved; and to our inquiry: “Who is this that is .carried ottt with so man}’ offices of kindness and affection?” the reply comes: “The only son of his mother, and she a widow.” Stand back and let the procession pass out! Hush all the -voices of mirth and pleasure! Let every head be uncovered! Weep with tiie passing procession; and let it be told through all the market places and kazars of Nain, that in Galilee to-day the sepulcher hath gathered to itself “the only son of his mother, and she a

widow. - There are two or three things* that, in my mind, give especial pathos to this scene. The first is, he was a young man that was being carried out. To f.he aged, death becomes beautiful. * 'The old man halts and pants along the road, where once he bounded like the Trurp- From the midst of immedicable ^ailments and sorrows he cries out: "“‘Mow long, oh Lord, how long?” Foot.sore on the hot journey, he wants to ,.f*et home, lie sits in the church, and sangs, with a tremulous voice, some 'tone he sang forty yearsago, and longs to join the better assemblage of one hundred and forty and four thousand, and the thousands of thousand who haw passed the flood. How sweetly ihe sleeps the last sleep! Push back •the white locks from the wrinkled • temples; they will never ache again. Itakt the hands over the still heart; they will never fold again. Close •fpently the eyes; they will never weep Bat this man that I am speaking of urns a young man. lie was just putting 011 the armor of life, and he was •exulting to think how his sturdy tdows would fing out above the clamor of the battle. I suppose he had a young man's hopes, a young man’s amliitions. and a young man's courage. He said; “If I lire many years, I will feed the hungry and clothe the naked. In this city of Nain, where there are so nanny bad young men. I will be sober and honest, and pure, and magnanimous, and my mother shall- never tie ashamed of me.” llut all these prospects are blasted in one hour. “There he passes lifeless in the procession. Behold all that is left on earth of the high-hearted young man of the city of Nain.

There is another thing that adds -very much to this scene, and that is, lie was an only son. However large the family flock may be, we never could think of sparing one of the lambs. 'Though they may all have their faults, they all have their excellences that «ounncnd them to the parental heart; .and if it were peremptorily demanded yoo to-day that you should yield up • one of -your children out of a very large family, you would be confound* • «d, and you could not make a selection. Hut this was an only son, around whom t jpathered all the parental expectations, llow much care in his education! How . much caution in watching his habits! 11c would cairy down the name to -other times. He would have entire control of the family property long after the parents had gone to their last re* -ward. He would stand in society a thinker, a worker, a philanthropist, a -Christian. No, no. It is all ended. ! Behold him there. Breath is gone. Life is extinct. The only son of his mother. There was one other thing that added 'to the pathos of this scene, and that 'uras, his mother was a widow. The main Hope of that home had been broken, mud now he was come up to be the staff. The chief light of the household had been extinguished, and this was the only light left. 1 suppose she often said, looking at him: “There are only two of us.” Oh, it is a grand thing to usee a young man step out in life and maj to his mother: “Don't be down--hearted. I will, as far as possible, "take father's place, and as' long as I live yon shall never want anything.” flt ds not always that « way. ;Sotncftu»es the young people get Ttured **f the old people They t say they are queer, that they have so -.many ailments; and they sometimes wrish them out of the way. A young man and his wife sat at the table, their .little son on the floor playing beneath : the table. The old father was very t old, cad his hank shook so, they said; • “You shall no more sit with us at the -fcahie.” And so they gave him a place in the corner, where day by day he ate out of an earthern bowl—everything put into that bowl, One day his hand trembled so much he dropped it and it tfcrjke; and the son, seated at the ele

gant table in mid-floor said, to his | wife, “Now, vre'll get father a. wooden bowl, and that he can’t break.” So a wooden bowl was obtained, and every day old grandfather ate out of that, sitting in the corner. One day, while the elegant young man and his wife were seated at their table, with chased silver and all the luxuries, and their little son sat upon the floor, they saw the lad whittling, and they said: “My son, what are you doing there with that knife?” “Oh,” said he, “I— I’m making a trough for my father and mother to eat out of when they are old.” Now, my friends, it was upon this scene that Christ .broke. He came in without any introduction. He stopped the procession. He had only two utterances to make: the one to the mourn- j ing mother, the other to the dead. He cried out to the mourning one: “Weep not,” and then, touching the bier on which the son lay, He cried out: Young man, I say unto thee, arise!” And he that was dead sat up. I learn two of three things from this subject, and, first, that Christ was a man. You see how that sorrow played upon all the chords of His heart. I think we forget this too often. Christ was a man more certainly than you are, for He was a perfect man. No sailor ever slept in ship's hammock more soundly than Christ slept in that boat on Gennesaret. In every nerve, and muscle, and bone, and fiber of His bodjr; in every emotion and affection ‘of His heart; in every action and decision of His mind, He was a man. He looked off upon the sea just as you look off upon the waters. He went into Martha’s house just as you go into a cottage. He breathed hard when He was tired just as you do when you are exhausted. He felt tired after sleeping out a night in the storm,Ajust like you do when you have been exposed to a tempest. It was just as humiliating for Him to beg bread as it would be for you to become a pauper. He felt just as much insulted by being sold for thirty pieces of silver as you would be if you were sold for the price of a dog. From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot He was a man. When the thorns

were twisted for Ills brow, tney hurt Him just as much as they would hurt your brow if they were twisted for it. He took not on Him the nature of angles; He took on Him the se^d of Abraham. “Ecce homo!”—Behold the man! — ' * Hut I must also draw from this subject that He was a God. Suppose that i a man should attempt to break up a funeral obsequy; he would be seized by the law, he would be imprisoned, if he were not actually slain by the mob before the officers could secure him. If Christ had been a mere mortal, would He have a right to come in upon such a procession? Would He have succeeded in His interruption? He was more* than a man, for when He cried out: “ ‘I say unto thee, arise!' He that was dead sat up.” What excitement there must have been thereabouts! The body had lain prostrate. It had been mourried over with agonizing tears, and yet now it begins to move in the shroud, and to be flushed with life; and, at the command of Christ, he rises up and looks into the faces of the astonished spectators. Oh, this was the work of a God! I hear it in His voice; I see it in the flash of His eye; I behold it in the snapping of the death's shakels; I see it in the face of the rising slumberer; I hear in the outcry of all those who were spectators of the seenef If, when I see my liord Jesus Christ mourning with the bereaved. I put my hand on His shoulder, and say, “My brother,” now that I hear Him proclaim supernatural deliverances, 1 look up into His face and say with Thomas: “My Lord and my God.” Do you not think He was a God? A great many people do not believe that, and they compromise the matter, or they think they compromise it. They say He was a

very good man, but He was not a God. That is impossible. He was either a God or a wretch, and 1 will prove it. If a man professes to be that which he is not, what is he? He is a liar, and impostor, a hypocrite. That is your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ professed to be a God. He said over and over again He was a God, took the attributes of a God, and assumed the works and offices of a God. Dare you now say He was not? He was a God, or was He a wretch. Do you think that I can not prove bv this Bible that He was a God? If you do not believe this Bible, of course there is no need of my talking to you. There is no common data from which to start. Suppose you do believe it? Then I can demonstrate that He was Divine. I can prove He was Creator. John i, S: ‘‘All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” lie was eternal, Rev. xxii, IS: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” I can prove that He was omnipotent, Heb. i, 10, “The heavens are the work of Thine hands.” I can prove lie was omniscient, John ii, 35: “He knew what was in man.” Oh, yes. he is a God. He cleft the sea. He upheaved the crystalline walls along which the Israelites marched. He planted the mountains. He raises up governments and east down thrones, and marches across nations and across worlds and across the universe, eternal, omnipotent, unhindered, and unabashed. That hand that was nailed to the cross holds the stars in a leash of love. That head that dropped on the bosom in fainting and death shall make the world quake at its nod. That voice that groaned in the last pang shall swear before the trembling world that time shall be no longer. Oh, do not insult the common sense of the race by teUing us that this person was only a man, in whose presence the paralytic arm was thrust out well, and the devils crouched, and the lepers dropped their scales, and the tempests folded their wings, and the boy’s satchel of a few loaves made a banquet for five thousand, and the sad profession of my tent broke up in conjnratulatioirsftd ho&annal

Again, I learn from this subject that Christ was a sympathizer. Mark yon, this was a city funeral. Iu the country, when the bells toll, they know all about it for fire miles around, and they know what was the matter with the man, how old he was, and what were his last experiences. ‘They know with what temporal prospects he hasp left his family. There is no haste, there ia no indecency In the obsequies. There is nothing done as a mere matter of business. Even the children come on', as the procession passes, and look sympathetic, and the tree shadows seem to deepen, and the brooks weep in sympathy as the procession" goes by. But, mark you, this that 1 am speaking of was a city funeral. In great eities the cart jostles the hearse, and there is mirth, and gladness, and indifference as the weep* ing procession goes by. In this city of Nain, it was a common thing to have trouble and bereavement and death. Christ saw it every day there. Perhaps that very hour there were others being carried out; but this frequency of trouble did not harden Christ's heart at all. lie stepped right j out, and He saw this mourner, and He had compassion on her and He said: “Weep not.” Now. I have to tell you, 0 bruised souls, and there are many everywhere (have you ever looked! over any great audience and noticed how many shadows of sorrow there are?). I come to all such and say: “Christ meets you and He has compassion on you, and He says‘Weep not.’” Perhaps with some it is financial trouble. “Oh,” you say, “It is such a silly thing for a man to cry over lost money.” Is it? Suppose you had a large fortune, and all luxuries brought to your table, and your wardrobe was full, and your, home was beautified by music and sculpture and painting and thronged by the elegant and educated, and then some rough misfortune should strike you in the face and trample your treasures, and taunt your children for their faded dress, and send you into commercial circles and underlining where once you waved a scepter of gold, do you think you would cry then? I think you would. But Christ eomes and meets all such

^to-day. He sees ail the straits m which you have been thrust. He observes the sneer of that man who once was proud to walk in your shadow and glad to get your help. He sees the protested note, the uncanccled judgment, the foreclosed mortgage, the heart-breaking exasperation, and he says: “Weep not, I own the cattle on a thousand hills. I will never let you starve. From my hand the fowls of Heaven peck all their food. And will 1 let you starve? Never —no, my child, never.” Or perhaps this tramp at the gate of Nain has an echo in your own bereft spirit. You went out to the grave, and you felt you never could come back again. You left your heart there. The white snow of death covered all the garden. You listen for the speaking of voices that will never be heard again, and the sounding of feet that will never move in your dwelling again, and there is a heavy, leaden pressure on your heart. God has dashed out the light of your eves, and the heavy spirit that that woman carried out of the gate of Nain is no heavier than yours. And you open the door, but he comes not in. And you enter the nursery, but she is not there. And you sit at the table, but there is a vacant chair next to you. And the sun does not shine as brightly as it used to, and the voices of affection do not strike you with so quick a thrill, and your cheek has not so healthy a hue, and your eye has not so deep a j finp. Do I not know? Do we not all^ know? There is an uplifted woe on your heart. You have been out carrying your loved one beyond the gate of the city of Nain. But look yonder. Some One stands watching. He seems waiting for you. As you come up He stretches out His hand of help. His voice is full of tenderness, yet thrills with eternal strength. Who is it? The very One who accosted the mourner at the gate of Nain, and He

says: “Weep not. Earth hath no sorrow That Heaven can not cure. I learn, again, from all this that Christ is the master of the grave. Just outside the gate of the city, death and Christ measured lances; and when the young man rose, death dropped. Now, we are sure of our resurrection. Oh, what a seene it was when that young man came back! The mother never expected to hear him speak again. She never thought that he would kiss her again. How the tears started, and how her heart throbbed, as she said: “Oh, my son, my son!” And that scene is going to be repeated. It is going to be repeated ten thousand times. These broken family circles have got to come together. These extinguished household lights have got to he rekindled. There will be a stir in the family lot in the cemetery, and there will be a rush of life at the command. “Young man, I say unto thee, arise!” As the child shakes off the dust of the tomb and comes forth fresh and fair and beautiful, and you throw your arms around it and press it to your heart, angel to angel will repeat the story of Nain: “He delivered him to his mother.” Did you notice that passage in the text as I read it? “He delivered him to his mother.” O, ye troubled souls! O, ye who have lived to see every prospect blasted, peeled, scattered, consumed! wait a little. The seed-time of tears will become the wheat harvest. In a clime cut of no wintry blast, under a sky palled by no hurtling tempest, and amidst redeemed ones that weep not*, that part not, that die not, friend will come to friend and kindred will join kindred, and the long procession that marches the avenues of gold will lift up their palms as again and again it is annunced that the same one who came to the relief of this woman of the text came to the re- | lief of many a maternal heart, and re- ; pea ted the wonders of resurrection and “delivered him to his mother.” Oh, | that will he the harvest of the world, i That will be the coronation of princes I That will be the Sabbath of eternity.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL. REVIEW. The New Tariff BUI, When Strn«<l *»7 the rmklnt, Will Provide • Definite BwU for Bulom—MeiuiwhU* the Serious injury to Corn and Some Other Conditions Exercise a Kestmining: Influence—A Great Boom Not Probable. Nkw York. Aug. 18.—It. G. Dun A Co.*s weekly review of trade, issued today. says: The new tariff bill, if signed by the president as expected, provides a definite basis for business. No supplemental legislation is thought possible until next year at least. Large improvement has been expected from any settlement, the more because of a vast amount of business deferred from week to week in the hope of more definite conditions. The rush of such business, or even a part of it, might easily double transactions for a time. It is not to be overlooked that the effect of new’ duties upon many branches of industry and trade is problematical, and may be determined only after some months of experience; and meanwhile the serious injury to corn and some other conditions exercise a restraining influence. While it is not wise to look for a great ^boom,” there is warrant for a reasonable and prudent hopefulness. It is too early to look for effects of the new situation in the great industries, but the gradual recovery which has appeared for some time is seen in a better demand for products. Speculation in wool has been stopped, and the sales, which have been 6,929,750 pounds for the week, and 14,553,150 for two weeks of August, against 3,397,400 last year, and 16,385,300 in 1892, naturally diminished on Wednesday and Thursday, as it is expected that the recent advance may be lost, though no change yet appears. As woolen manufactures has the old duties, with free wool until January 1, orders are expected to be governed by the consuming powder of the people, with the accumulated business so long deferred, and while recent trade has been enough to crowd the mills at work on some specialties, it has been far short of the capacity of all the works in the country. Makers will be pressed within the next week to put prices on spring goods, of which a few lines are opening. Cotton manufacturers have been carrying extraordinary stocks of goods for the country, and the strike threatened at New Bedford will not alarm them, but the reduction of wages seems likely to be accepted at Fall River. A smart increase in transactions is reported, buyers and sellers having at last a common basis for judgment. Resumption by iron and steel works which was stopped by the strikes, continues to depress prices of some finished products, but with more furnaces operat ing, prices of pig iron are not lower. Comparisons given today show a fall in prices ranging from 90 to 44 per cent, in iron and its products since October, 1890. which sufficiently accounts for the idleness of more than a third of the works. The demand for structural forms seems smaller, does not increase for railroad use, though

traffic improves, but for some other products is better. The boot and shoe industry leads all others in recovery from depression, and shipments from Boston for two weeks are 47 per cent, larger than last year. Demands for speedy delivery and numerous sales from stock indicate that jobbers are carrying short supplies. Speculation in corn has been very active, the price falling 4 cents, rising 3X and falling 2, with varying reports of injury, which iu some of the great f corn states is undoubtedlv severe. While western receipts in two weeks have been only 2.426.573 bushels, against 4.373,101 last year, the high price explains imports of only 541,685 bushels, against 3,031.908 in the same weeks last year. Pork has advanced 50 cents and lard 35 cents per 100 pounds, with justification in the Injury to corn. Wheat is about 1 cent lower, western receipts be*ng, very heavy for two weeks, 10,680,:*18 bushels, against 5,940,581 last year; and it is claimed that Minnesota and the two Dakotas will yield 125,000,000 bushels, the second largest yield in their history. Unless exports increase speedily and largely, the financial situation may grow difficult. In July imports exceeded exports $12,537,914, mainly because of the heavy sugar movement. With lower duties the arrival of merchandise to meet the long-delayed demand will be large, while even phenomenally low prices do not take out products freely at present. In July $12,801,030 gold went abroad to balance importation of goods, but the outgo has ceased, not because exports materially enlarge. The treasury has been taking in large sums—$8,642,188 from internal revenue already this month, mainly from the tax on whisky, so that with only $6,166,953 from customs, the total receipts exceed last year's; but receipts of gold ere insignificant, and the reserve in the treasury is but slightly oyer $53,000,000.

Liabilities of the firms failing in the week ending August 9 are a little larger than of late, 83,294,689, of whieh $1,041,491 were of manufacturing, and 8608,198 of trading concerns. Full returns for July show an aggregate of 511.291,805. The failures during the past week have been 226 in the United States, against-455 last year, and 43 in Canada, against 27 last yeay. “Sweet Little AUx” Wins a Race “By Far the Fastest Ever Trotted.” Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 17.—Alix is to-night the most interesting trotter in the world, and she is expected to lower Nancy Hanks’ record. She went the third and last heat in the free-for-all trot to-day in 2:05*<, equalling the race record made by ]>irectum; but she had won the first two heats in 2:06 and 8:06J£> making an average of 2:05 f-6, which is by far. the fastest ever trotted. After it was aM over and “Sweet little Alix” was being cooled out, she was full of life and showed no sign of exhaustion

THE END OF THE FIGHT. Hr. TUm'i Closing Words In tin OnM Tariff Skiinlt. Upon the acceptanoe of tire senate tariff bill by the house on Monday. August 13, Mr. William L. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means com** mittee, spoke briefly upon the passage of the bill as follows: ' v “Mr. Speaker. I hare made the motion which I hare seat to the cleric's desk, not on my own responsibility or from my own roUtloa. hut as the official organ of the caucus of my associates on this side of the house and by their direction. 1 shall say re ry little myself on this occasion in sdrocacy of the motion, and I shall be sincere and frank in what I shall submit to this house. “X do not pretend that I am gratified at the outcome of this prolonged controversy. I don’t pretend that up to the very last moment I had not oberishsd the hope and the faith that we should reach another and a better and a more satisfactory conclusion of this conflict between the two houses of the American congress. I had hoped and believed until there r seemed to be no ground scarcely for hope and belief that in such a contest this house, backed by the American people and enthusiastically sustained by the democratic party, would be able to achieve some honorable compromise between the two houses which we could hare accepted not from a sense of duty, but with s sente of satlafaction and s feeling that we had responded to the mandates of the American people. “But. Mr. Speaker, we have simply realised In this great figh t the fact so well stated by the great leader of the tariff reform fight In Great Britain—that when the people have gained a victory at the polls they must have a further stand-up and knock-down fight with their own representatives. And we hare realised. If nothing else, the salutary lesson of the tntrenchment of the protective system in this country under thirty years of class legislation until the mere matter of tariff schedules Is a matter of insignificance, and the great question presents itself, is this to be a government by a seif-taxing people or a government by trusts and monopolies? [Applause on the democratic side.] If we have taken out of this j fight no othex, lesson than that It has been to us a great, an inspiring and valuable lesson. If we have not been able to get all that the mandates of the people told us to get. all that the high enthusiasm of the people expected us to get. we have brought this dangerous fact face to face with American freemen, and we have made some breach In the protective system through which the boats of American freemen will continue to march. [Applause on the democratic side.] “My attention has necessarily been so coneonstantly and so steadily directed to their demerits that It would require some experience to learn what the merits are. [Laughter and applause. | But whatever the measure of shortcoming of this bill In its present form—whatever be its demerits in mere schedules—this I ! do know, that it Is better than the MoKlniey bill, [Loud applause on the democratic side.] This I do know, that tn a part of It It does afford some belief to the taxpayers of this country and does clip the wings of the gigantlo monopolies that are now oppressing them and blocking legislation. “Take even those portions of the bill over which this contest between the two houses has been waged; take iron ore and coal upon which we hare confronted, and to a certain extent unsuccessfully confronted, the great railroad syndicates of the country; yet we have reduced them both nearly 60 per cent, below the McKinley bill. [Applause.] Take the sugar schedule, over which the greatest of all the contests between the two houses has been waged. Vicious as It may be. burdensome to the people as It may he, favorable to the trust as It may. It Is less vicious, less favorable to the trust, less burdensome to the people than is the MoKlniey law, under whloh this trust has grown so great as to overshadow with its power the American people. [Applause.] “If for no other reason, then, those who believe that when they cannot take the full step which they desire, when they cannot do that which the people commissioned them to do, they must take the heat they oan and step as far as they oan, may find some Justification tor an unhesitating choice between the two

bills.” Mr. Hudson (pop.) of Kansas—I should like to ask the gentleman whether he hasinveatigated fully »o as to be able to state definitely that this bill as amended by the senate will furnish sufficient revenue to meet the entire expenses of the government? Mr. Wilson—That Is a Question, which no man. perhaps, certainly not I. can answer In definite language. But I have no difficulty whatever In saying that when the schedules of the bill with the senate amendments get into normal operation It will produce sufficient and more than sufficient revenue for the support of the government. “1 should add to the answer that perhaps In the beginning the bill will not produce as much revenue as will result from It later on under its ordinary working, because, I am Informed, whether it be true or not, I don't know, that the sugar trust. In anticipation of the passage of the bill, has imported about tlUO,UOO.OOO worth, or, it has been said, even in excess of that Quantity, of raw sugar." Mr. Hudson—Will the passage of this bill, in your judgment, save the country from the further issue of bonds?” Mr. Wlh,on—I think I have already covered that Question in my previous answer, it may be in the first few months of the operation of the bill, because of this great accumulation of raw sugar to which 1 have just referred, that the revenue of the government will not be sufficient to meet the expenditures of the government; but it Is my belief, in view of the large amount of Imported goods in bond and also in view of the fact that there will be larger Importations. when the tariff rates are definitely known and fixed, that If the necessity does not exist to-day it will not exist after the passage of this bill? Mr. Dlngley (Me.)—Will the gentleman pardon me just on that point? I understand him to say that the sugar trust has already imported §100.000,000 worth of sugar. If so, inasmuch as only 2101.000.000 worth of sugar was Imported last year, will not all the revenue that we get from sugar under the operation of this bill tor the first year be missing? Mr. Willson—I did not Intend to gKe the figures that §100.000.000 of raw sugar had been Imported. 1 stated that 1 had been Informed the sugar trust had Imported that amount, and I have even heard it stated that It was in excess of that amount. It has been put at MS,000 tons by gentlemen who pretend to know. Mr. Heard tdem.) of Missouri—Is it not true that whatever may be this bonus to the sugar trust in view of the passage of this law. would not the trust reap a still larger bonus under the operation of the MeKlaley law If that were still left in force? Mr. Wilson—They would not do so immediately. but under the operation of that law from year to year they would certainly reap a larger sum. “M& Speaker, in answer to all of these questions I have simply to say that under the rule just adopted by the house Immediately following the passage of this bill we propose to present and pass a bill putting sugar on the free list. The question la now raised as to whether this is a government of the American people for the American people or a government of the sugar trust for the benefit of the sugar trust. And this house will show the people, I doubt not, what Its position Is on that question. and the senate will show the people Its position. 1 will reserve the residue of my time.” __

OPINIONS OF SENATORS. Tkwi of Represent* tiros on the Panaia of the Sonsto Bill. “I have always maintained that only the senate bill could pass and the house has shown wisdom in accepting the situation. ’’—Edward Murphy. “I was for a tariff hill, and although the sen* ate bill does not meet fully the demands of the party, it is a substantial measure of reform.”-* William IX Bynum. “The house could hare secured many concessions if they had not demanded things which could not under any circumstances hare been granted. Our confenees hare been blamed for not deserting the agreement made among democratic senators as to what could be conceded. but there is ho justice in this.”—J. K. Jonan.

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LITERARY NOTES. OSX.T one of George Meredith’s books has thus far been translated into & foreign language. This is “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,” which has appeared in Italian. A JrovEi. series which is to be brought ont in London will be called the “Pioneer,” and will be concerned, it is said, “with the development of the New Woman.” The title of the first story will be “Joanna Traill, Spinster.” Mb. Stanley J. Wetmax has completed a series of twelve stories, all dealing with the period of Henry of Navarre. They are to be called “From the Diary of a Minister,” and will be published in the English Illustrated Magazine. A sew monthly publication, Science Progress, has made its appearance in London. From the names of the editor’s counselor’s, announced on the title page, and from the first table of contents, it is evident that the magazine will seek to cover the most advanced phases of investigation in chemistry, geology, zoology, botany and other physical sciences.

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