Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 August 1897 — Page 6

TALMAGE’S SERMON. ft. Ddfceoourse on the Personal Magnetism of Christ. is* W»»<»w of HI* Chsroeter Th# Or ponitin ud Hwolac Anto»«nU«n of HI* Motor*.* HU Sorrow* mod HU Ylctortes. Brt. T. Du Witt Tnlinsge, in the foliovitt* sermon, holds up Christ to view Crow »m unusual standpoint. The text

Mh auie shall be eallea wonaerrai.-isaian **,« . The prophet lived in a dark time. For amne a,000 years the world has been getting worse. Kingdoms had oriaeo aad perished. As the captain of » rrawl in distress sees relief coming arraai the water, so the prophet, amid tkv stormy time in which he lived, pot the telescope of prophecy to his eye sod saw, 750 rears ahead, one Jesus advancing to the rescue. 1 want U) ahow that when Isaiah called Christ .the Wonderful he spoke wisely. fa most houses there is a picture of 'Christ. Sometimes it represents Him with face effeminate; sometimes with m face despotic. 1 hare seen West's grand sketch of the rejection of Christ; 1 have seou the face of Ch cist us eut on ma emerald, said to be by the mainland of Tiberius Caesar; and yet i tiu convtncnl that I shall never k. ov how .Jesus looked until, on that sweet SabiNtth morning. 1 shall wash the last steep from my eyes in the cool river of tirsvea. 1 take up this book of Divine photographs and l look at Luke's sketch, at Mark's sketch, at John's sketch and at Paul's sketch, aud 1 say. with Isaiah: “Wonderful!'’ f think that you are all interested in the story of Christ. You feel that lie da the only one who can help you. You 0M»s unbounded admiration for the cinotmaader who helped his passengers ashore while he himself perished, but lustre you no admiration for Him who w««ed our souls. Himself falling buck into the waters from which lie had saved ui? Christ was wonderful in the magnet’.*;n of 11 *s person. After the battle of Antietatn. when m gtaneral rode along the lines, although the, soldiers were lying down «txluiu»;rd. they rose with great euthuand huzzaed. As Napoleon retaurard from bis captivity his first step on the wharf shook all ttie kingdoms, wud S53,bd0 men joined his standard. It look ^,00^ troops to watch him in fan* exile. So there have been man of wonderful magnetism of person. lint hear me while 1 tell you of a poor you a g roan who came up from Naxart*#k to produce a thrill such as has never been excited bv any other. Kiafnlmu bad around him the memim us of Austcrlitz and Jeua aud B&dajos, but here was a man who had fowght no battles; who tvoye no epaule* U sL w ho brandished no sword. He « ao titled man of the schools, for He never went to school. lie had probably never seen a prince, or shaken rsaads with a nobleman. The only ex* * raordiftary person we know of as 1kt in' His company* was His own jwotke.r. aad she was so poor that in

tke most delicate aud solemn hour that ever conies to a woman's soul she was wuJigcd to lie down amid camel drivers £ i-odwtiu# the beasts of burden. I imagine Christ one day standing in the streets of Jerusalem. A man descended from high lineage is standing brdde him, and says: “My father was a merchant prince; h«* had a castle on the beach at Cali lee. Who was your father?" Christ answered, “Joseph, the carpenter.” A man from Athens is standing there unrolling his parchment of graduation, and says to Christ, •“Where did vuu go to school?** Christ answer's 1 never graduated.** *.\ha! the idea of such' an unheralded young nut attemptiag to command the attention of the world! As well some little h-«^ia<r village on Long Island shore attempt to arraign New York. Yet ao sooner does he set foot in the towns or cities of Judea than everything is in commotion. The peopb* go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for the day. vet are so fascinated with Christ that, at the risk of atarving. they follow Him out into the wilderness. A nobleman falls down Oat before lliui. an.i savs; “My daughter ia deal.” A beggar tries to rub the dimness from hi* eves, and says: “Lord, . that my eves may be opened.” A poor, wic*k, panting woman pressing through the. crowd, says. “1 must touch the - ’»«» of His garment.” Childrens. who love their mother Metier than any one else, atruggle to get into His arms, and to hiss Ills cheek, and to run their fingers through His hair, and for all time putting Jesus so in lore with the little ones that there ia hardly a nursery in Christendom from which He does not *take one. saying: “1 must have them: 1 will fill Heaven with these; for everv onlar that 1 plant in Heaven I will have40 white lilies, in the hour when I was a poor man in Judea they were wot ashamed of Me. and now that 1 have come to a throne 1 do not desoise them, Hold it not back, oh weeping another; lay it on My warm heart. Of nidi is the kingdom of Heaven.” What is this coming down the road? . 4 triumphal proeessiou. He is seated, wot ia a chariot, but on an ass; and yet r the people take of their coats and throw them in the way. Oh, what a time Jesus made among the children, among the beggars, among the fisheranew, among the philosophers! You > may boast of self-coo trol. but if you 1 lusd eeea£Him you would have put your armaaronnd His neck and said: “Thou art altogether lovely.” Jesus was wonderful in the opposites sad seeming antagonism of His nature, t’oo want things logical and consistent, aud you say: “How could Christ • he God und man at the same time?” John says Christ was the Cre- . ator: “All things were made by Him. and without Him was net anything made.” Matthew aays that He was omnipresent: “Where two or three are met together in My name, there . nun l in the midst of them ” Christ 4e

! elares His own eternity: “tam Alpba and Omega." How can He be a itoa. ' onder HU foot crushing kingdoms, and yet a lamb licking the hand that slays Him? At what point do the throne and the manger touch? If Christ was God. why flee into Egypt? Why not stand HU ground? : Why. instead of bearing the cross, not j lift up HU right hand and crush His ; assassins? Why stand and be spat; upon? Why sleep on the mountain j j when Ho owned the palaces of eternity? | ! Why catch fish for HU breakfast on ' i the beach in the chill morning, when : | all the pomegranates are ills, and all j

VUU VUlCJt WIU9 UI9y OUU Who can? I am eouPaul said Ilia, and all the partridges His? Why walk when weary, and His feet stonebruised, when He might have taken the splendors of the sunset for His equipage and moved with horses and chariots of fire? Why beg a drink from the wayside, when out of the crystal chaliees of eternity He poured the Euphrates, the Mississippi, aud the Amazon, and dipping llis hand in the i fountains of Heaven, and shaking that hand over the world, from the tips of His fingers dripping the great lakes aud the oceaus? Why let the Roman regiment put Him to death, when He might have ridden down the sky followed by all the cavalry of Heaven, mounted on white horses of eternal victory? You can not understand. You try to confound me. founded before you speak, it was nn search able. lie went climbing up from argument to argument, aud from antithesis to antithesis, and from glory to glorv, and then sank dowu in exhaustion as lie saw far above him other heights of divinity unsealed, aud exclaimed, "that iu all things he might have the pre-eminence." Agaiu: Christ was wonderful in His te&chiug. The people had been used to formalities and technicalities;Christ upset all their notions as to how preaching ought to be done. There was a peculiarity about His preaching: The people knew what He meant. His illustrations were taken from the hen calling her chickens together; from salt, from caudles, from fishing-tackle, from a hard creditor collaring a debtor. How few pupils of this day would have allowed Him entrance? He would have been called undiguified and familiar iu llis style of preaching. And yet the people went te hear Him. Those old Jewish rabbis might have preached on the side of Olivet 50 years and never got an audience, The philosophers sneered at His ministrations and said: “This will never do!" The lawyers caricatured, but the common people heard Him gladly. Suppose you that there were any sleepy people iu Ills audiences? Suppose you that any woman who ever mixed bread was ignorant of what He meant when lie compared the kingdom of Heaven with leaven or yeast? Suppose j'ou that the sunburned fishermen, with the fishscales upon their hands, were listless when He spoke ' of the Kingdom of Heaven as a net? We spend three years in a college studying ancient mythology, ami three years in the theological seminary learning how to make a sermon, and then we go out to

I save live wonu; anu u we can uui uu 11 | according to Claude's “Sermonizing,” | or “Blair's Rhetoric.*' or Kane's “CritI icism,” we will let the world go to per* | dition. If we save nothing else, we will save Claude and Blair. We see a wreck in sight. We must go out and 1 save the crew and passengers. We wait until w# get on our tine cap and coat and find our shining oars, aud theu we push out methodically and scientifically, while some plain shoresman, in rough fishing smack, and with brokeu oarlocks, goes out and gets the crew and passenger^ aud brings them ashore iu safety. We throw down our ! delicate oars aud say: “What a ridie- | ulous thing to save men in that way! ‘ You ought to have douc it scientifically ! and beautifully.'' “All!" says the ’ shoresman, “if those sufferers had ! waited until you got out your fine boat | they would have gone to the bottom.” j The work of a religious teacher is to save men, though every law of grammar should be snapped in the under- | taking, and there be nothing but awkwardness and blunders in the mode, all hail to the man who saves a soul. Christ, in His preaching, was plain, earnest, and wonderfully sympathetic. We can not dragoon tuen into Heaven. We can not drive them in with the butt^end of a catechism. We waste ‘ our time in trying to catch dies with ' acids instead of the sweet honeycomb of the Gospel. We try to make crabapples do the work of pomegranates. Again: Jesus was wonderful in His sorrows. The sun smote Him, aud the | cold chilled Him. the rain pelted Him, ; thirst parched Him, aud hunger ex- ' hausted Him. Shall l compare His sorrow to the sea? No; for that is sometimes hushed into a calm. Shall < I compare it with the night? No; for that sometimes gleams with Orion, ' or kindies with Aurora. If one j thorn shonld be thrust through your temple you wonld faint. Hut here is a whole crown made from the Rhamnus or Spina Christi— small, sharp, stinging thorns. The mob mtifes a cross. They put down the long beam, and on it they fasten a shorter beam. Got Him at fast. Those i hands, that have been doing kindness and wiping away tears—hear the hammer driving the spikes through them. Those feet, that have been going about on ministrations of mercy—battered against ! the cross. Then they lift it up. Look! look! look! Who will help Him now? Come men of Jerusalem—ye , whose dead He brought to life; ye whose sick He healed; who will help Him? Who will seize the weapons of j the soldterh? None to help! Having j carried sue h a cross for us, shall we refuse to take our cross to Him? Shall Jesus bear the cross alone. And all the world go free* So; there * a cross tor every one. And there's a cross for meTou know the process of ingrafting. You bore a hole into a tree, and put in the branch of ahother tree. This tree of the cross was hard and tough, but into the hales where the

nails went there hare grafted branches of the Tree of Life that now bear fruit for all nations. The original tree was bitter, but the branches ingrafted were sweet and now all the nations pluck the fruit and lire forever. Again: Christ was wonderful in HU victories. First—Over the forces of nature. The sea U a crystal sapulehere. It swallowed the Central America, the President, and the Spanish Armada as easily as any fly that ever floated on it. The inland lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath. Galilee, when aroused in a storm, is overwhelming; and yet that sea crouched in His presence auddioked

ills ue iqimt au me waves, and winds. When He beckoned, they came. When He frowued, they lied. The heel of His foot made no indent*' tion on the solidified water. Medical science has.wrought great changes in rheumatic nimbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered no human power can restore them, and when a limb is once dead, it is dead. But here is a paralytic—his hand lifeless. Christ says to him: ‘•Stretch forth thy hand!" aud he stretches it forth. . In the eye infirmary how many diseases of that delieote organ have been cured! But Jesus says to one born blind, “Be open!" and the light of Heaven rushed through gatek that have never before been opened. The frost or an ax may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry can do many wonderful things, but what chemist, at a wedding, when the refreshments gave out. could chauge a pail of water into a cask of wine? , . What human voice could command a school of fish? Yet here is a voice that marshals the sealy tribes, until in the place where they had let down the net and pulled it up with no fish iu it* they let it down again, aud the disciples lay hold aud begin to pull, when, by reason of the juultitude of fish, the net broke. Nature is His servant. The flowers— He twisted them into His sermons; the winds—they were His lullaby when He slept m the boat; the ruin--it hung glittering.ou the thick foliage of the parables; the . star of Bethlehem—it sang a Curls toms carol over Ills birth;, ! the rocks—they beat a dirge at His | death. Behold llis victory over the grave! i The hinges of the family vault become ! very rusty because they are never I opened except to take another iu. j There is a knob oa the outside of the sepulcher, bat a oil • ou the inside. Here ■ comes the Conqueror of Death. He I enters that realm and says: “Baugh- ! ter of Jairus, sit up;" aud she sat up. ! To Luzirus. “Come forth;" and he came . forth. To the widow's sou lie said: “Get up from that bier;" and he goes home with his mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of death, and hung them on His girdle, aud cried until all the graveyards ou earth heard Him: “O Death! 1 will be thv plague! O Grave! I will be thy destruction!" But Christ's victories have only just beguu. The world is His, and He must have it. What is the ,matter in this country? Why all these financial troubles? There never will be permanent prosperity iu this land until Christ rules it. This land was discovered for

Christ, and until ou>* cities shall be civilized, and north, south, east and west shall acknowledge Christ as King or Redeemer, we cau not have permanent prosperity. What is the matter with Spain? with France? with i all of the nations? All the eougresses of the nations cau not bring quiet. When governments not only theoretically, but practically, acknowledge. the Saviour of the world, there will be peace everywhere. In that-day the sea will have more ships than now, but there will not be one “man-of-war.” The foundries of the world will jar with mightier industries, but there will | be no molding of bullets. Printing I presses will fly their cylinders with i greater speed, but there shall go forth j no iniquitous trash. In laws, in eonI stitutioas, on exchange, in scicutitie laboratory, on earth as in Heaven, Christ shall be called Wonderful. Let that work of the world’s regeneration begin in your hearts, oh hearer! A Jesus so kind, a Jesus so good, a Jesus so loving—how can you help but lov« lliiu? It is a t>eautiful moment when two persons who have pledged each other, j heart and Hand, stand in church, and j have the banns of marriage proj claimed. Father and mother, brothers aud sisters, stand around the altar, j The minister of Jesus gives the counsel; the ring is set; earth and ! Heaven witness it; the organ ! sounds, and amid many congravu- | lations they start out on the path of life together. Oh, that this might be your marriage day. Stand up, i immortal soul. Thy Beloved comes to get His betrothed. Jesus stretches forth His hand and says: “I will love thee with an everlasting love,” , and you respond: ‘ Mv Beloved is mine, and 1 am His.” 1 put your hand in His; henceforth be one. No trouble shall part you—no lime cool your love. Side by side on earth—side by side in Heaven! Now let the blossoms of Heavenly garden till the house with their redolence, and all the organs of i God peal forth the wedding march of ! eternity. Hark! “The voice of my | beloved! Behold. He coineth ieaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.” Crown of Glory. We see the fruits of Buddhism in India, of Confucianism In China, of Mohammedanism in Turkey. We see tfhe fruits of Christ's teachings in England and America. Then let Him take the crown of glory and honor.— Rev. Lncian Clarke. Methodist, Washington, D. C. Waiting. The earth is something a good deal ; more than a waiting room, amt. in fact. ; those who do nothing here but wait will be the last in condition to go aboard the train when the signal bell 1 sounds.—C. H. Park hurst, Presby(terian. New York City.

HE STRUCK A MATCH tad tli* Fame* of Gasoline to the Room out the Rest—Hasfeand, Wife and Child Bornod— Pitiful Rewlh of the Ignorant Use of a Dangerous Fluid—The Wife, the Moat Seriously Injured, Will Probably Recover. Chicago, Aug. 9.—Three persona composing' the family of Peter Veth, at »37 East Huron street, were seriouly burned Saturday, in a fire caused by i an explosion of gasoline. Mrs. Veth was more seriously injured than her I husband and child, but she will probably recover.

iur& vein wens 10 me ruuuis ui G. H. Solomon on the second Hoot, from whom she had rented the rooms, and procured a small quantity of gasoline in a coffee cup to clean a brass bedstead. Taking it to her rooms she used the stuff in cleaning the bed, and with a brush applied it to the woodwork, while the cup containing the oil stood on the floor beside her. Her little boy. with bare feet and weariug but little clothing on him, was playing on the floor.. It was not noticed that the gasoline had tilled the room with vapor and Mr. Yeth struck a match for the purpose of lighting a cigar. In an instant there was an explosion aud the room was filled with flames. The clothing on the child caught tire. The husbaud caught up the child aud ran down stairs. A few moments later he was followed by his wife, who was screaming aud enveloped in tlames from head to foot. ' All her clothing was bt nipg. and the wrapper she wore fe: from her iu blazing strips. At the .andingon the second floor she met Mrs. Soloman, the landlady.and the frantic woman threw ; her arms around Mrs. Solomon aud I begged her to save her. Mrs. Soloman ! disengaged herself oulv to be grasped again about the neck by the agonized woman. She succeeded iu shaking her off. and orderiug her to remain, j standing where she was ran into one of her own rooms aud procured a pitcher of water which she injured on ; Mrs. Yeth. This was repeated by the ; landlady and then the latter threw ! around Mrs. Yeth a large quilt from ! one of her beds and the flames were subdued. The boy's injuries were not serious. After giving the boy to an officer, Mr. Yeth ran up stairs and found ids wife iu the rooms of Mrs. Soloman. In all her paiu Mrs. Yeth cried out for her child and could with difficulty be made to believe that his injuries were comparatively light. The mother was removed at once in the East Chicago-avenue ambulance to the German hospital. There the physician, after dressing her burns said she would probably recover. Mr. Yeth was taken to the same hospital. His hands and arms are severely burned aud his hair and evebrbws sigued.

BODY OF FIREMAN MONAGHAN Found Floating In the Chicago River In a Uatlljr Mutilated Conditlou. Chicago, Aug. 9.—The dead body oi Fireman Thomas Mouaghau, Chief : Sweuie’s driver, came to the surface of the river yesterday morning, and the crew of a tug which was passing at the I time towed it to the Indiana street i bridge, where it was taken on shore I and removed to Rolston’s morgue at 11 ; Adams street. The tug Frank R. Crane steamed slowly up the north branch of the »iver yesterday morning. Capt-A. R. Knaggs,ehief engineer of the Independent TugCo., and Capt. John Hennessey, in charge of the tug. were standiug in the bow of the boat and both were watching the murky water intently. Near the Indiana—>treet bridge the i body of a man arose to the surface. ! The tug towed it to the bank. Auum- ! ber of firemen were present aud when ! the body was turned face upwards they at once recognized the features of the chief’s late driver, Thomas Monaghan. The dead driver, to all appearances, received the full force of the explosion in the Northwestern elevator Thursday evening. The body came to the surface in the middle of the river, and when an examination was made of the f remains it was fouu.l that both of Monaghan’s legs were broken below the kuee, and his left arm was broken. His uuiform was torn into shreds in plaees, | and his faee bore evidence of having i beemseveroly burned. VENTURESOME BUT WISE ! And Ulil Sot Propose to Commit Suit-Ids with HU AfropUurt | Colorado Springs. Col., Aug. 9.— | William B. Feltz did not take his jump from Pike’s Peak yesterday, but it was { not his fault. With the conditions of j cloud and fog it would have been a j blindfolded leap to certain destruction. Feltz went up to the summit of the j peak carrying his immense aeroplanes with him. Two hours were required * in adjusting the big wings, but. heavy clouds gathered and a slight snow fall* ing at the time convinced him that a I leap from the peak would have been suicidal. The leap was postponed, but Feltz ! is still on the peak, and it is said he will remain there until conditions are j favorable, when he will sail down into Colorado Springs. 13 miles distant. Great crowds went up the peak yesterday to witness the leap of the dar- ! ing aeronaut, and field glasses and telescopes were in great demand. The crowds were greatly disappointed on account of the postponement. Klondike Has No Attraction* for Xlaor Renton. Sxattle, Wash., Aug. 8.—G. B. Benton has reached this city with over f 1,000 worth of gold nuggets, the result of tea days’ work on a Williams Creek placer claim in the Swank district, Kittitas county. One nugget was worth 9260, another 91:10, others $53 and 960, and down to very small pieces. He has been working the ciaim since January, and since that time has taken out S\000. The Swank placers are old and well-known, bat have been worked only in a crude way. He says the Klondike has no attraction for him.

THE* EMPERORS MEET. II Strong Untuse They Pledge Hatttt Frlcnd.hlp To Preserve the Peoce of the 'World Will he Their Chief Aim Co til on Opportunity Offer* to Geln Somethin* by W »r—An Unexpected Honor Bestowed. St. Petersburg. Aug. 9.—At the state banquet given by the Russian emperor and empress to Emperor William and Empress Augusta Victoria last night, Emperor Nicholas, toasting his imperial majesty said: “The presence of your majesties among us causes me very lively satisfaction. I desire sincerely to thank you for the visit, which is a fresh manifestation of the traditional bonds unitiug us and the good relations so happily established between our two neighboring empires^ It is, at the same time, h precious guarantee of the

EMPEROR NICHOLAS IL Czar of Ail the Ruvsias.

maintenance of tue general peace, which forms the object of our most^ fervent wishes. I drjuk to the health of Etnperor-lving William and Em-press-Queeu Augusta Victoria, and to the health of all the members of their august family.” ' *■ > Emperor William shortly afterward raised his glass to. his host and said: “l thank your majesties with a warn* heart, speaking also in the name of th* i empress, for the cordial and magnifi1 cent reception you have accorded and for the gracious words with which your majesty has so affectionately welcomed us. I especially desire W | lay at the feet of your majj esty my most sincere and mbsjf . grateful thanks for the renewed mark of distinction which come* as such a surprise to ine. I mean the enrollment of myself in your majesty’* glorious navy. This is au especial honor which I am able to appreciate to. its full extent, and an honor whieh^at the same time, confers a particular distinction upon my own navy. It is a fresh proof of the continuance of our ; traditional intimate relations, Found- | ed upon the unshakable basis of your j majesty’s unalterable resolution to ' keep your people in peace in the ! future, as in the past, it ; finds in “ me also the gladdest j echo. Thus we will pursue the same j paths and strive unitedly, under the blessing of peace, to guide the intellectual developement of our peoples. 1 can. with full con tide nee. lay this promise anew in the hands of your

EMPEROR WILLIAM IL. King of Prussia an-l Emperor of Germany, majesty, ^pd I know I have the support of my whole people in doing so, that I stand by your majesty's sid« with my whole strength in this great work of preserving the peace of the nations, and I will give your majesty my strongest support against anyonfe who may attempt to distui4> or break this peaee. I drink to the welfare ol your majesties.'* The sentence in which Emperor William pledged Emperor Nicholas his support against any attempt to break the peace of the nations was spoken in | Russian. The whole city and the ships lying j in the NeTa have been splendidly decorated with flags and flowers, and the streets were crowded, although the sky was overcast. Emperor William and the empress arrived at the lancing stage at 11 a. 91., where the municipal authorities presented them with bread and salt on specially constructed dishes, as tokens of the hospitality of the city. With the Peterowski regiment as guard of honor, they visited the fortress of St. Peter and St Paul and placed.a wreath upon the tomb of Alexander 111. Everywhere they were greeted with tremendous cheers. Subsequently they opened the new wing of the German Alexander hospital. from which they proeeded to the Winter palace. During the afternoon Emperor William received visits from the ambassadors and returned them. BUTCHERED HIS WIFE, Bat HU Slaters are Responsible for the Horrible Crftasa. Hordextown, N. JM Aug. 9.—A wife murder was committed tome time during Saturday night at the village of Fieldsborongh, near here. While Anna Robinson, aged 31 years, was sleeping in her bed with two children nestling on her bosom. sher crazy husband, James Robinsopf cat her throat. Then he drew the‘[ razor across his own throat, cutting a deep but not fatal gash. Robinson was removed to a hospital at Trenton.

UNDER THE WILSON LAW. Th* Manatee taring Exports for im Were tile largest la the Country’* HUtorjr—The Result of International Trade* Encouraged by Low Import llatiee at United States Forts. □ St. Louis, Aug. 5.—A Washington special to the Republic says: The complete record of manufacturing exports for the fiscal year ended J une SO shows that un der the demo oratic tariff, the Wilson law, that class of expoFM has been the largest in the history ofv&he country. The manufacturing exports for June were $35,878,804, and for the entire year they amounted to $376,S57,S61. The record for June has been surpassed only twice in the commercial history of the country—in March last, when the figures were 835,874,481*, and in May, 'when the figures were $36,457,443. Under the last year of the demo cratic tariff the record for the fiscal year is $48,000,000 higher than any previous record, representing an increase of neUrly 50 per cent, over the manufacturing exports of $188,51*5,748 in the fiscal year 1S95, and more than 20 per cent, over the manufacturing exports of $238,571,178 for the fiscal year 1S96.

auc iuioi iur tuc taicuuai jew was $253,683,527, but the fiscal year 1397 surpasses even this total by $23,000.000. and the rate of increase indicated for the first six months of lSOT over 1896 would afford a total for the present calendar year of $286,000. The actual increase during six months has been about $23,000,000, The details of those increases have not yet been compiled fully by the bureau of statistics, but they prol>ably will show, like the similar figures up to the end of May, a large increase in American exports of bicycles, electrical apparatus, machinery and like arti- : eles. The growth of manufacturing exports has been uninterrupted during | the last four years. The figures for June, 1S97, show an increase of about ; $0,000,000 over those for June, 1S95, or more than 50 per cent., and show an j increase of $4,000,000 over June, 1S96, j or nearly 20 per-cent. The record by fiscal years shows manufacturing ex- { ports of Sl5Si510,9ST in 1392, $153,033,113 | in 1S93^**$3,728,S0$ in 1S94, $193,595,743 | iu 13fC $223,571.173 in 1396, $276,357,381 ; iu 1397. The protectionists, no doubt, will seek to explain away this growing exj port trade on the ground of low prices : and need of a foreign market for the surplus of American production, even at some .sacrifice. But that “explanaI tiou” is not at all satistactory. As | stated above, a large part of these ex- | ports have been on bicycles, which maintained a standard market priee in | flie home market until July 1. There ' has been no stagnation of the bicycle i trade in the American market, and, as everyone knows, the price of the wheel ; has not been so low in this country as j to compel the manufacturer to sell his ; product abroad at a loss. On the contrary. the manufacture of bicycles has I been extended under the democratic j tariff until there are many makers doJ ing a large business in nearly every state.

[ v. uov. Vi V.A^V/4 W ItiaUG 19 UUC) unquestionably, to the lower rates of import duties imposed in the Wilson act. As was stated in these dispatches- yesterday, the exports of southern pine already arec beginning to decrease, owing to the $2 tariff on lumber in the Dingley bill. The reason for this is that the Canadian pine, being excluded from the Amerii can market, is thrown into sharp comI petition with the southern product in ; the foreign markets. And this rule i will be found to apply to the export of 1 articles in general on which higher ; duties are fixed by the new tariff. The | enormous export trade of the last four ! years undoubtedly will show a marked ' falling off under the high Dingley tariff, and the export figures given above afford, if proof is neeessary, ample evidence of the wisdom of a low tariff for the building up of our foreign trade. ANYTHING TO WIN. The Secret of the Appointment of Geo. B. Hamiett as Chief Poet Office Inspector. Washington, Aug. 5.—The Ohio campaign is on. George B. Hamlett, of Ohio, a supporter of Mark Hanna, is made chief post office inspector, and the present incumbent is reduced to a ! position as inspector in the field. The chief post office inspector has under his command nearly 1U0 inspector who are directly subject to his orders assigning them to duty. He can put 20 or as many of them as are desired into the state of Ohio, with a gentle hint to see to it that the postmasters there are -looking out for the interests of Mark Hanna; if not in a positive, then in a negative, way. Wheeler, the incumbent, is a republican, but he is not a politician, j and, being from the state of New York, I would not be serviceable in Ohio at this time. Hence his reduction to an unimportant position, and the selection of a Hanna man to take control of the force of inspectors. If the democrats will watch the game closely from this time on there will not be wanting ample signs of the change in this office. l>oubtless the Body of Jamw K. Epu. „ Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. <5.—There is no reason to doubt that the body foond on the railroad track at Lakeview, Wednesday night is that of James K. Egan, of Sacramento, Cal. A dispatch received from Sacramento yesterday correctly described articles found upon the dead man. A Perilous Leap Twice Performed. Clinton, Ind., Aug. d.—Hugh White, s coal miner, on a banter made the perilous leap from the summit of the railroad bridge to the water, 100 feet. Alter the leap he swam 150 feet in his' heavy clothing, climbed to the top of the bridge again and repeated his feat. Customs Reforms for Culm Modified. Madrid. Aug. 0.—As a result of s conference between the minister for the colonies, Senor Castelano, and the premier, Senor Canovas del Castillo, the scheme for the customs reforms for Cub* has been modified.