Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 March 1899 — Page 7

SPRINGTIME OF LIFE. A Sermon on the Scenes of Youth lp| , - by Dr. Talmage. Max’* True Character Will Oat Beside the Fireside—Heme Should Be the Briahteat =. . , Plaee on Earth.

(Washington. Feb. 26. Copyright, 1899.) Many tender recollections are stirred 4>y Dr. Talinage's discourse, and scenes -of boyhood -and girlhood days will be lived over again; 'test, I Timothy, v. 4: ■“Let them learn first to show piety at liome.” During the summer months the tendency is to the fields, to visitation, to foreign travel and the watering places, and the ocean steamers are thronged, but in the winter it is rather to gather in domestic circles, and> during these months we spend many of the hours within doors, and the apostle comes to us and says that we ought to exercise Christian behavior amid- alii such circumstances, “Let them learn* first to show piety at home.” ^ There arc a great many peopltSLpnging for seme grand sphere in "which to serve Cod. They admire Luther at the diet of Worms and only wish they had some such great opportunity in which to display their Christian prow--ess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, anti they only wish that they had some such grand occasion in which to preach righteousness, • temperance and judgment to come. All they want is an opportunity to exhibit their '■Christian heroism. Now, the apostle practically says: “I will show you a place where you can exhibit all that is grand and beautiful and1 glorious in Christiaffcchorticter, and that is the • domestic circle. Let them learn first to show pietWat home.” If one is” not faithful in an- insignificant sphere, he will not be faithful in* a resounding sphere. If Peter will not help - the cripple at the gate of the temple, he will never be able to preach 3,000 into the kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul -will not ^take pains to instruct ft* the ' way of salvation the jailer of the Philippian dungeon, he Will pever make Felix tremble. He who is not faithful ‘ in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon, The fact is. we are - all placed in just the position in ^hich we can mest grandly serve God. and - we ought rot ,to be chiefly thoughtful .about* soir sphere of usefulness which we may after awhile gain, but the all.absorbing question with you and with m# ought to be: “Lord. what wyt,thou ' , have ine now and here to do?*)/ ' j There is one word in St. Paul’s adJjurr.tior. around which the most of our thoughts will revolve. That word is '“home.” Ask ten different men the meaning of that word, and they will .give you ten different definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, plen-ty'.n^the-table, industry at the work- ^ stand, intelligence at^tlie books, devojg ilon at the altar. In that household discord never souifds its warwhoop and • deception never tricks with its false face. To him it means a greeting at the door ard a smile at the chair, peace hovering like wings, joy clapping its -hands with laughter. Life is a tran<quil lake. Pillowed on the ripples sleep 1lie shadows. Ask another man what home is. and he will tell j ou it is want looking out of a .cheerless fire grate, kr.eadir.g hunger in an empty bread ■tray. The damp air shivering with •curses. No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers und murderers in embryo. Obscene songs their lullaby. Every face n picture of ruin. Want in the •background and sin staring from the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over that doors ill. Vestibule of the pit. :Shadow of infernal walls. Furnaee ior forging everlasting chains. Fagots for ;an unending funeral pile. Awful \vord. It is spelled with curses, it weeps with ruin, it chokes with woe, it swears with the death agony of despair. The word “home” in the one case means everything bright. The word “horae”^n the .other case means everything terrific. I shall speak now of home as a test -of character, home as a refuge, Ijbja^ as a political safeguard, home as a school ahd home as a type of Heaven. And In the first place home is a powerful test of character. The disposition in public may be in gay costume. if while in private it is dishabille. As play actor* may appear in one way on the . iStage and may appear in another way behind the sceues, so private character may be different from public char•f ;acter. Private character is often public character turned wrong side out. ■ A man may”receive you into his parlor as though he were a distillation of smiles, ..and yet his heart may be a swamp of nettles. There are business men who : all day long are mild and courteous and genial and good natured in commer«eial life; damming back their irritability and their petulance and their dis--•content. but at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding pours forth in ^floods altad freshets. "Tleputotion is only the shadow of -character, and a very small house sometimes will cast a very large shadow. •The lips may seem to drop'with myrrh .and cassia and the disposition to be as bright and warm as a sheath of sunbeams. and yet they may only be a magnificent show window for a wretched stock of goods. There is many a man who is affable in publig life and amid commercial spheres who in a •cowardly way takes his anger and his petulance home and drops them in the •domestic eircle. The reason men do not display their bad temper in public as because they do not want to be ocked down. There are men who e their petulance and their irritably just for the same reason that y do not let their notes go to prolest—it does not pay—or for the same reason that they do not want a man in ei.r stock company to sell his stock a*elow par lest it depreciate the value. As at- sunset sometimes the wind they

rises, so after a sunsh iy day there may I be a tempestuous n 'hi. There are ! people who in publit act the philan- | thropist who at home iet the Nero with respect to their slippe $ and theirgown. Audubon, the greato ailhologist, with gun and pencil went Airough the for-f ests of America to b mg down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and* after y&ars of toil and ei icsure completed his manuscript and rat it in a trunk in,, Philadelphia anti went off for a few days* recreation nd rest, and came back and found that be rats had utterly destroyed the tpai jscript. but without any discofanposur and without any fret or bad temper be again picked up his gun and his >encil and visited all the great forests . f America and reproduced his irr.raort il work. And yet there are people with the tets-thou-sandth'part of that 1 ss who are utterly irreconcfilable. who at the loss of a pencil or an article of raiment will blow as long and k id and sharp as a northeast storm. Now, that man who is affable in public and who is irritable in private is making a fraudulent and overissue of stock, and he is as bad as a banc that might have $400,000. or $500.00C of bills, in circulation wi th no specie i n the vault. Let us learn to show pity a home. If we have it not there, we ha e it not anywhere. If w*e have not gt luine grace in the family circle, all our outward and public plausibility merely springs from the fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid pool of our awn selfishness. I tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at home you are everywhere, v hether you demonstrate it or not.

Again, home is a refuge. Life in the United States army on the national road to Mexico—a long t narch, qith ever and anon a skirmish ard a battle. At eventide we pitch our tent and stack the arms; we hang up the war cap, and, our head on the kuaj sack, we sleep until the morning bugli calls us t^ march to the action. How pleasant it is to rehearse the victories and the surprises and the attacks cjf the day. seated by the,‘still campfire of the home circle! Yea, life is a stormy sea. YVlith shivered masts and torn sails and hulk aleak, put in a t the harbor of home. lilessed'harbor! pairs in drydock. There we go for reThe candle in the window is to the toiling man the lighthouse guiding him into port. Children go forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the Narrows tike the hand of ships. The doorsill of the home is the wharf where heavy life! is unladen. There is the place where we may talk of what we have done v ithout being charged with self adulat i >n. There is the plaee where we may lounge without being thought ungrace ful. There is the place where we may xpress affection without being thoug it silly. There is the place . wh#re w<; may forget our annoyances and exasperations and troubles. Forlign earth pilgrim, no home?" Then die. That is better. The grave is bi ghter and grander and more glorious t. ian this world with no tent from man king, witlirnq barber from the storn with no place of rest from this scene pf greed and gouge and loss and gain. God pity the man or the woman who has no home! Further, bon e is a political safeguard. The safety of the state must be built on the safety of the home. Why cannot France come to a placid republic? Mac Mahon appoints his ministry, and all 1'rance is aquake lest the republic be smothered. Gambetta dies, aud there are hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen w ho are fearing the return of a morarchy. The Dreyfus case is at this moment a slumbering earthquake under Paris. France, as a natiou, has not the right kind of a Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is the only hearthstone for a republic; The virtues cultured in the family circle are an absolute necessity for the state. If here be,not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, there will Aot#be enough political principle to make the., state adhere No home means the Goths and Vandals, s-the Nomads of Asia, means the NumnUajap of Africa, changing = from place io place according as the pasture JhjM9t>ens ro change. Confounded be all those ba >els of iniquity which would overpower and destroy the home! The same storm that upsets the ship in which the family sail will sink the frigate cf the constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and armies and navies are aot our best defenses. The door of the home is the best fortress. Household utensils are our best artillery, and the chimneys of our dwelling houses are the grandest monuments to safety tnd triumph.4 No home, no republic!

iurt »er, Home is a scnooi. uia ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, t.nd it must be harrowed and reborrowed, and then the crop will not be as large as that of the new ground with less culture. Now, youth and childhood are new ground, and all the influences thrown over their heart and life wi 1 come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you have given a smile of approbation all the good cheer of your life will come up again in the genial ty of your children. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontrollable display of indignation will be fuel to their disposition 20 or 30 or 40 yets rs from now—fuel for a bad fire a quarter of a century from this. You praise the intelligence of your child too much sometimes when you think he is lot aware of it, and you wijl see the result of it before ten years of age in his annoying affectations. You praise his beauty, supposing he is not large enough to understand what you say, End yon will find him standing on a high chair before a flattering mirror. Words and deeds and examples are the seed of character, and children are very apt to be the second edition of their parents. Abraham begat Isaac, so vir ue is apt to go down in the an cestrsi 1 line, but Herod begat Agchela us, so iniquity is transmitted. Oh, make your home the brightest place in earth if you would chain vour m-sL

children to the lfgh path* of virtue and rectitude and religion! Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way., Let the light, which puts gold on jbe gentian and spots the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to keep step to a dead march. Do not cover up ydur walls with such pictures as West’s “Death on a Pale Horse” or Tintoretto’s “Massacre of the Innocents.” Rather cover them if you have pictures with “The Hawking Party.” and “The Mill by the Mountain Stream.” and “The Fox Hunt.” and the “Chilidren Amid Flowers.” and the “Harvest Scene," and “The Saturday Night Marketing.” Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grasshopper’s-leap and lamb’s frisk and quail's whistle and garrulous streamlet, which from the rock at the mountain top clear down to the meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep comes looking to see where it can find the steepest place to leap off at and talking just to hear itself talk? If all the skies hurtled with tempest and everlasting storm, wandered over the seat and every mountain stream were raving mad, frothing at the mouth with mud foam, and there was nothing but simooms? blowing among the hills and there were neither lark’s carol nor humming bird’s trill, ndr waterfall’s dash, but only bear’s bark and panther’s scream and wolFs 'howl, then you might well gather into your homes only the shadows. But when God has strewn the earth and the heavens with beauty and with gladness, let us take into our home circles all innocent hilarity, all brightness and all good cheer. A dark home makes bad boys and bad girls in preparation lor bad men and bad women. Above all. my friends, take into your homes Christian principle. Can it be thatin, any of the comfortable homes whose inmates I confront the voice of prayer is never lifted? What! No supplication at night for protection? What! No thanks giving in the morning for care? How, my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the day of judgment with reference to your children? It is a plain question, and therefore I ask it. In the tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says He will pour out His fury upon the families that call not upon Ilis name. Oh, parents, when ’you are dead and gone, and the moss is covering the inscription of the tombstone, will your children look back and think of father and mother at family prayer? Will they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of tears of contrition and tears of consoling promise wept by eyes long before gone out into darkness? Oh. if you do not inculcate Christian principle if the hearts'of your children., and you do not warn them against evil, and you do not invite them towholiness and to God, and they .wander off into dissipation and into infidelity and at last make shipwreck of their imtnoral soul, on I their deathbed and in the day of judgj ment they will curse you!

Seated by the register or the stove, what if, on thfe wall, should come out the history of your children? What a history—the mortal and immortal life of your loved ones! Every parent is writing the history of his child. He is writing It. composing it into song, or pointing it with a groan. My mind runs back to one of the best of early homes. Prayer like a roof over it. Peace like an atmosphere in it. Parents personifications of faith in trial and comfort in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly home long crumbled to dust. But shall I* ever forget that early home?; Yes, when the flower forgets the sun tVat warmed it. Yes, when the mariner forgets the star that guided him. Yes, when love has go$e out on the heart’s altar, and memory has emptied its urn into forgetfulness. Then, the home of ray childhood. I will forget thee! The family altar of a father’s importunity and a mother’s •tenderness, the voices of affection, the funeral of our dead, the father and mother with interlocked arms like intertwining branches of trees making a perpetual arbor of love and peace and kindness—then I will forget thee— then, and only then! You know, my brother, that a hundred times you have been kept out of sin by the memory of such a scene as I have been describing. You have often had raging temptations, but you know what has held you with supernatural grasp. I tell you a man who has had such a good home as that never gets over it. and a man who has had a bad early home never gets over it.

Again, home is a type of Heaven. At our best estate we are only pilgrimsand strangers here. “Heaven is our home.” Death will never knock at the door of that mansion, and in all that country there is not a single grave. How glad parents are in the holidays to gatheT their children home again 1 But I have noticed there is almost, always a son or a'dalighter absent—absent from home, perhaps absent from the country, perhaps absent from the world. Oh, how glad our Heavenly Father will be when He gets all His children home with Him in Heavep.! Ann how delightful it will be for brothers and sisters to meet after long separation! Once they parted at the door of the toonb. Now they meet at the door of immortality. Once they saw only “through a glass darkly.” Xow it is face to face, corruption, incorruption, mortality, immortality. Whereare nowall theirsinsand sorrows and troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red see of death, while they' pass through dry shod. Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, thrones of dominion do not stir my soul so much as the thought of home. Once there, let earthly sorrows howl like storms and roil like seas. Home! Let thrones rot and empires wither. Home! Let the world die in earthquake struggle and be buried’ amid profession of planets and lasting ages roll in irresistible sweep. Home! No sorrow. No crying. No tears. - No death. But. home, sweet home, beautiful home, everlasting home, home with each other, home with fnsreJs. home with God!

AMERICA'S MISSION. The Patriotic Theme of Mr. Bryan at Washington.

Vlie Fkitau Xcbraiku Makes a Vlgorani Attack oa Imperialism—A Very VaU Synopsis of Hta Addreaa. •- Following is an abstract of the address of William J. Bryan before the" Virginia association. Washington. D. C.. Wednesday evening, February 22. His subject was “America's Mission.'* He said, m part: “When the advocates of Imperialism find it impossible to reconcile a colonial policy with the principles of our government or with the canons of morality: when they are unable to defend it upon the ground pf religious duty or pecuniary profit, they fall back in helpless despair upon the assertion that it is destiny. 'Suppose It doe9 violate the constitution,’ they say: “suppose it does break all the Commandments; suppose it1 doe3 entail upon the nation an incalculable expenditure of blood and money; it is destiny and we must submit.* ‘The people have not voted for imperialism; no national convention has declared for it; no congress has«passed upon it. To whom, then, has the future been revealed? Whence this voice of authority ? *We can all •prophesy, but our prophesies are merely guesses, colored by our hopes and our surroundings. Man’s opinion of what is to be is half wish and half environment. Avarice paints destiny with a dollar mark before it, militarism equips it with a sword. “He is the best prophet who, recognising the omnipotence of truth, comprehends most clearly the great, forces which are working out the progress, not of one party, not of one-nation, but of the human race. “History is replete with predictions which once wore the hue of destiny, but which failed of fulfillment because those who uttered them saw' tod small an arc of ♦he circle of events. When Pharaoh pursued the fleeing Israelites to the edge of the Bed sea he was confident that their bondage would be renewed and that they would again make bricks without straw, but des- , tiny was not revealed until Moses and his followers reached the further shore dry shod and the waves rolled over the horses and chariots of the Egyptians. When Belshazzar, on the last night of his reign, led his thousand lords Into the Babylonian banquet hall and sat down to a table glittering with vessels of Oliver and gold, he felt sure of his kingdom for many years to come, but destiny vias not revealed until the hand wrote upon the wall those aweinspiring words: ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin.* "When Abdertahman swept northward with his conquering hosts his imagination saw the crescent triumph throughout the world, but destiny was not revealed until Charles Martel raised-the cross above the battlefield of Tours and saved Europe from the sword of Mohammtdanism. When Napoleon emerged victorious from Marengo, from Ulm and from Austerlitz he thought himself the child of destiny, but destiny was hot revealed until Blucher’s forces joined; the army of Wellington and the vanquished Cor&eian began i his melancholy march to St. Helena. When the red coats of George III., routed the New Englanders at Lexington and Bunker Hill, there rose before the British sovereign visions of colonies taxed Without representation and drained of their wealth by for-eign-made law's, but destiny was not revealed until the surrender of Cornwallis completed the work begun at Independence hail and ushered into existence a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. “We have reached another crisis. The ancient doctrine of imperialism, banished from our land more than a century ago, has recrossed the Atlantic and challenged democracy to mortal combat upon American soil. Whether the Spanish war shall be known in history as a war for liberty or as a war of conquest; whether the principles of self-government shall be strengthened or abandoned:.whether this ration shall remain a homogenenev.s republic or, become a. heterogeneous empire—these questions must be answered by the American people—when they speak, and not until then, will destiny be revealed. “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a mattter of choice; it is not a, thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. “No one can see the end from the beginning, but everyone can make his course an honorable one from beginning tc end, by adhering to the right under all circumstances. Whether a man steals much or little may depend upon his opportunities, but whether he steals a.t all ! depends upon his own volition. “So with our nation. If we embark upon a career of conquest, no one can tell how many islands we may be able to seize or how many races we may be able to subjugate; neither can anyone estimate the cost, immediate and remote, to the nation’s purse and to the nation's character, but Whether we shall enter upon such a career is a question which the people have a right to decide for themselves. “Unexpected events may retard or advance the natio'n’s growth, but the nation’s purpose determines its destiny. “What is the nation’s purpose? That ptirpose is set forth clearly and unmistakably in the first sentence of the constitution; f‘ ‘We, the people of the United States, in | order to farm a more perfect union, rstabj lish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, , provide for the common defense, promote the geher&l welfare, and secure the bless* j tags of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.’ “It will be seen that one of the main purposes of the founders of our government was to secure for themselves and for posterity the blessings of liberty. That purpose has been faithfully followed up to this time. Our statesmen have opposed each other upon economic questions, but they have agreed in defending self-government as the controlling national idea. They have quarreled among themselves over tariff and finance, but they hasp been united ir their opposition to an entailing alliance With any European power. “Under this policy our nation has grown in numbers and in strength. Under this policy Its beneficent influence has encircled ihe globe. Under this policy the taxpayers have been spared the burden and the menace of a large military establishment and the young men have been taught the arts of peace rather‘than the science of war. On each returning Fourth of July our people have met to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence; their hearts have renewed their vows to free institutions and their voices have prsfised the forefathers whose wisdom and courage and patriotism make* it possible for each succeeding generation to repeat the words: ‘My country, *tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.’ “This sentiment was,well universal until a year ago. It was to this sentiment that the Cuban insurgents appealed; it was this sentiment that impelled our people to enter into war with Spain. Have the people so changed within a few short months that they are now willing to apologize-for the war of the revolution and force upon the Filipinak the same system of government against which the colonists protested with fire and sword? “The hour of temptation has come, but temptations do not. destroy, they merely test the strength of individuals and nations; they are stumbling blocks or stepping stones; they lead to infamy or farce, according to the use made of them. “Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allan served together in the continental army and both were offered British gold. Arnold yielded to the temptation, and made his name a synonym, for treason; Allan resisted and lives In the affection of his countrymen. “Our nation is tempted to depart from its standard of morality* and adopt a policy

of ‘criminal aggression.’ But. will It yield* If I Mistake not the sentiment of the American people I hey will spurn the hrlhe of imperialism, and, by resisting temptation. win each a victory as has not been won since the battle of Torktown. Let it be written of the* United States: Behold a republic that took up arms to aid a neighboring people, struggling to be free; a republic that, in the progress of 'the war, helped distant races whose wrongs were not in contemplation , when hostilities began; a republic that, when peace was restored, turned a deaf ear to the clamorous voice of greed and to those borne down by the weight of a foreign yoke spoke the welcome words: Stand up, be tree. Let this be the record made on history's page and ^he silent example of this republic- true to Ijs principles In the hour of trial, will do more to extend the area of self-govern-ment and of civilisation than could be done by all the wars of conquest that we could wage in a generations" “The forcible annexation of the Philippine islands is not necessary to make the | United States a world pow^r. For over ten decades our nation has been a world power. | During its brief existence it has exerted | upon the human race an influence more potent for good than all the other nations | of the earth combined, and It has exerted [that influence without sword or Gatling ^gun.- Mexico and the republics of Central ' and South America testify to the benign influence of our institutions, while Europe ! and Asia give evidence of the working'of ; the leaven of self-government, in the ; growth of democracy we observe the triumphant march of an idea—an idea that would be weighted down rather than aided by the armor and weapons proffered by imperialism. “Much has been saiefof late about Angto- [ Saxon civilisation. Far be it from me to | detract from the service rendered to the | world by the sturdy race whose- language we speak. The union of the Angle and the | Saxon formed a new and valuable type, but the process of race; evolution was not ! completed when the Angle and the Saxon j met. A still later type has appeared which i is suprelor to any which has existed here- ! tofore; and with this new type come a j higher civilization than any which has preceded it. Great has been the Greek, the Latin, the Slav, the Celt, the Tuton and the Anglo-Saxon, but greater than any of these is the American. In whom are blended the virtues of them all. " “Civil and religious liberty, universal education and the right to participate, directly or through representatives chosen by themselves, in all the affairs of government—these give to the American citizen an opportunity and an inspiration which can be found nowhere else. “Standing upon the vantage ground already gained the American people can aspire to a grander destiny thanjaas opened before any other race. “Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights. American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. “Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to take care of himself. Amerir can civilization, proclaiming the equality of all before the law, will teach him that his own highest good requires the observance of the commandment: Thou shait love thy neighbor as thyself. f “Anglo-Saxon civilization has, by force of arms, applied the art of government to other races for the benefit of Anglo-Sax-ons. American civilization will, by the influence of example, excite in other races a desire for self-government and a determination to secure it. . “Anglo-Saxon civilization lias carried its flag to every clime, and defended it with forts and- garrisons. American civilization will imprint its flag upon the hearts of all who love freedom. } “To American civilization, all haij. “ "Time’s noblest offspring is the last.’ ”

Tax on Ho^klnsmca. The industrial classes, who by their labor must create the wealth and pay the. interest on bonds and dividends! .on the enormously watered stock 'of these combines, are expeeted to toil and sweat to keep in luxurious idleness the horde who profit- by this iniquitous, financiering. As an example: The newspapers say that the promoters of the tin plate trust, just organized, get $10,000,000 worth of the bonds of the trust as their share for their services , in effecting the organisation. This f $10,000,000 is undoubtedly what is called “watering;” not stock but bonds. The balance of the bonds are supposed to represent a fair valuation, of the property. The extra $10,000,000, there^ fore, becomes unearned increment, tq pay the interest on which the workingman of the “dinner pail,” about which we heard so much during late campaigns, will be mulcted to pay in th* higher price of tin for many generations to come. ;• - • 1 Nothing: But the Truth. In. dealing with public affairs we should be neither pessimists nor optimists. In order to prove that bimetallism should be restored it is not necessary to claim that the country ik in any worse condition than it is in. Neither should be be blindly optimistic and jump at- the conclusion that we have a grand era of prosperity before us merely because wheat has gone up, and some factories have resumed work. We should look at the situation exactly as it is. Wheat has^risen because crops are short ia other countries. Factories have resumed partially to -replenish stocks exhausted by a long period of idleness and partially in anticipation of a demand which may oi may not be realized. But there is nothing in the situation to prove that the gold standard is a good thing or that bimetallism is a bad one. * -

——We are not- in the least likely to make American states of the Philippines, or American citizens of the Filipinos; but neither are we going tostand brutally by add watch unmoved the destruction of a people through the operation of conditions which we ourselves have helped to create* This is what the ratification of the treaty means; this is all it means.—Syracuse Post-Stand arfi. -A thick-and-thin supporter of McKinley says that “(Sen. Miles is no soldier; his uniform ought to be stripped from him.” Th£ only true soldiers, it would appear; are Alger, who was court-martialed for desertion r€orbin, whose horse ran away with him out of the reach of danger,and Gen, Faistaff Shafter, who fought the battle of Santiago eight miles in the rfar.—rN. Y. World._; •. * ■ *; -From now on the people must be prepared for entanglements and broils with foreign powers, and fathers and mothers must be prepared to give their sons to'the nation, that its influence, powe^and position may be maintained, no matter what the cost shall be fin batman life and treasure. It costs a great deal in blood and gold to play the game of empire. — Kansa* City Time*

WftM Hash of DtMMied Stive**. Mods hare been discovered in Jar** quaatilws, and it is feared that many wfil low their lives is the mad struggle iorrieiwBt. la this country the rush for gain »'M ' ' [ many ether men to break dew® and strength. Nervousness, sk loss of flesh and appetite and genera! debility are the common symptoms. Ho*tetterV' ach Bitters will cure them ail. i “Beloved,” he cried, throwing himself a* his wife's feet, “we have lost all saveitoaror! ” The woman pressed her hand to her were breaking. flow awwwanjjv* ■ she* sobbed. “Just the thing We don't need if were got to dead-beat!’^ Yerilv, it seeomf that a relentless fats pursued them.—Detroit Journal. -TSsS#'---———-Wm-- * " Catarrh C annot Be> «.;«*«« With Local Applications, m they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and i t? HF* ** -vou must ^ke interna! Hall » Catarrh Cure is taken internally, at acts directly on the blood «S*d mucous surface*- Hairs Catarrh Cure i# not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of tho best physicians in this country for yearsLand w a regular prescription. It j* com>!>®sfd of the best tonics fenowngmwbinedi with the best blood purifiers, acting-direct^5 ly on the mucous surfaces. Tho perfect ’ combination of the two ingredient* ar what produces soeh wonderful remits tic coring Catarrh. Send Kor testimonialsSlfe^ £4 SK'Toledo, a druggists, price <oc. Hall s family Mis arothe bestj|p i The trouble with so many people is they know so much that does them no "good.— jWashington (la.) Democrat.

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