Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — Page 2

INFLUENCE.

A RIGHT EXAMPLE MAY TURN MANY FROM THEIR SINS. And a Chrintlan Admonition Mnj Make a Con*. rt—Dr. Talmage Pr •«<?•»»» at Wlnfleld. Km. r ' , Rev. Dr. Talmage preached last Sunday at Winfield, Kansas, to an immense multitude al an outdoor meeting. The text was; “They that tupi many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.”—Daniel xii., 3. Subject: “The Constellations of the Redeemed.” Dr. Talmage said: Every man has a thousand roots and a thousand branches. His roots reach down through all the earth; his branches spread through all the heavens. He speaks with voice, with eve. with hand, with foot. His silence often is thunder, and his life is an anthem or a doxology. There is no such thing as a negative influence. We are all positive in the places we occupy, making the work! better or making it worse*, on the ' lord’s side or on the devil’s, making up reasons for our blessings or banishment; and we have already done a mighty work in peopling heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who has burned down a city might as well talk of some evil that he expects to do, or a man who has saved aii empire might as well talk of some good that he expects to da By the force of your evil influence you have already consumed infinite values, or you have, by the power of a right influence, won whole kingdoms for God. It would be absurd for me to stand here, and by elaborate argument, prove that the world is off the track. You might as well stand at the foot of an embankment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail train, proving by elaborate argument that something is out Of order. Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty centuries ago, and the whole race in one Ipng train, has gone on tumbling in the same direction. Crash! crash! The only question now is, by what leverage can the crushed thing be lifted? By what hammer may the fragments be reconstructed ? I want to show you how we may turn many to righteousness, and what will be our future pay for so doing. • First: We may turn them by the thartn of a right example. A child coming from a filthy home..was taught at school to wash its face. It went home so much improved in appearance that its mother washed her face. And when the father of the household came home and saw the improvement in domestic ap]>earances, he washed his face. The neighbors, happening in,saw the change, ana tried the same experiment, until all the street was purified, and the next street copied its example; and the whole city felt the result of one school boy washing his face. That is a fable, by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washed of its sins and pollution is 10 have our own heart and life cleansed and purified. A man with grace in his heart, and Christian cheerfulness in his face, and holy consistency in his behavior, is a perpetual sermon; and the sermon differs in that it has but one head, and the longer it runs the better.

There are honest men who walk down AV all street making the .teeth of iniquity chatter. There are happy men who go into the sick room, ami, by a look, help the broken bom; to knit, and the excited nen es drop to calm beating. There are pure men whose presence* silences the tongue of uncleanness. The mightiest agent of good on earth is a consistent Christian. I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, of calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when in the shape of a man it goes out into the world —a Bible illustrated. Courage is better to read about; but rather would I see a man with all the world against him confident as though all the world wen* for him. Patience is beautiful to read about; but rather would I see a buffeted soul calmly waiting for the time of deliverance. Faith is beautiful to read about: but rather would I find a man in the midnight walking straight on as though he saw everything. Oh. how many souls have been’turned to God bv the charm of a bright example*

Again: We may turn manv to righteousness by prayer, tor no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand bn the shoulder of a man ten thousand miles off. It alights on a ship mid-Atlantic. The little cirild cannot understand the law of electricity, or how the telegraph operator, by touching the instrument here, may dart a message under the sea to another continent; nor can we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Christian's praver shall instantly strike a soul on the other sideof the earth. You take a, ship and go to some other country, and get there at eleven o’clock in’ the morning. You telegraph to New York, and the message gets there at six o'clock in the same morning. In other words, it seems to arrive here five hours before it started. Like that is prayer. God says: “Before they call, I will hear.” To overtake a -loved one on the road, you mav spur up a lathered steed until he shall outrace the one that brought the news to Ghent; but a prayer shall catch it at one gallop. A boy running away from home mav take the midnight train from the country village, and reach the seaport in time to gain the ship that sails on the morrow; but a mother’s prayer will be on the deck to meet him, and in the hammock before he swings into it; and at the capstan before he winds the rope around it, and on the sea. against the sky, as the vessel ploughs on toward it. There is a mightiness in prayer. George Muller prayed a company of poor boys together, and then he prayed up an asvlum in which they might be sheltered. He turned his face toward Edinburgh and prayed, and there came £I.OOO. He turned his face toward London and prayed, and there £I.OOO. He turned his face toward Dublin and proved, and there came £I.OOO. The breath of Elijah’s prayer blew all the clouds off the sky. and it was drv weather. The breath of Elijah's prayet blew all the clouds tbgether, and it Was wet weather. Prayer, in Daniel's time, walked the cave as a lion-tamer. It reached up and took the by the golden bit and stopped it. We have all yet to try the full power of prayer. The time will come when the ■American Church will pray with its face toward the west, and all the prairies and —inland citics wilt surrender to'God;-amF will pray with face, toward the sea, and all the islands and ships will become Christian. Parents who have Wayward sons will get down on their knees and say “Lord, send mv boy home,” and the I boy in Canton shall get right up from!

the gaming-table and go down to the wharf to find out which ship starts first far America. ] Not one of us yet knows how to pray. All we have done as yet has only been pottering, and guessing, and experimenting. A lioy gets "hold of his father’s saw and hammer, and tries to make something* but it is a poor affair that he makes. The father comes and taxes the same saw and hammer, and builds the house or the ship. In tfie childhood of our Christian faith we make but poor work'with these weapons of prayer, but when we come to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then, under these implements, the temple of God will rise, and the world’b redemption will be launched. God cares not for the length of our prayers,or the nunilwr of ourprayers, for the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers: but it is the faith in them that tells. Believing prayer soars higher than the lark ever sang; plunges deeper than diving-bell ever sank; darts quicker than lightning ever flashed. Though, we have used only the back of this weapon instead - 4f the edge, what marvels have been wrought! If saved' we are all the captives of some earnest prayer. Would to God that in desire for the rescue of souls, we might in prayer lay hold of the resources of the Ixird Omnipotent. We may turn inanv to righteousnesss by Christian admonition. Do not wait until you .can make a formal speech. Address the one next to you. You will not go home alone to-day. Between this anil your place of stopping you may decide the eternal destiny ofan immortal spirit. Jnst one sentence may do the work. Just one question. Just one look. The formal talk that begins with a sigh and ends with a canting sniffle is not what is wanted, but the heart-throb of a man in dead earnest. There is not a soul on earth that you may not bring to God if you rightly go at it They said Gibralter colild not betaken. It is a rock sixteen hundred feet high and three miles long. But the English and Dutch did take it. Artillery, and sappers, and miners, and fleets pouring out volleys of death, and thousands of men reckless Of danger can do anything. The stoutest heart of sin, though it be rock and surrounded by an ocean of transgression, under Christian bombardment may be made to hoist the flag of redemption. But is all this admonition, and prayer, and Christian work for nothing? Sly text promises to all the faithful eternal luster.

Again, Christian workers shall be like the stars, in the fact that they have a light independent of each other. Look up at the night and see each world shows its distinct glory. It is not like the conflagration, in which you can not tell where one flame stops and another begins. Neptune, Herschell and Mercury are as distinct as if each one of them were the only star, so our individualism will not be lost in heaven. A great multitude—yet each one as observable, as distinctly recognized, as greatly celebrated, as if in all the space, from gate to gate and from hill to hill, 'he were the only inhabitant; no mixing —no mob—no indiscriminate rush; each Christian w orker standing out illustrious —all the story of earthly achievement adhering to each other; his self-denials, and pains, and service and victories published. Before men went out to the last war the orators told them that they would all be remembered by their country, and their names be commemorated in poetry and ip song; but go to the gravevgrd in Richmond and you will find there six thousand graves, over each one of which is the inscription. "Unknown.” The world does not remember its heroes; bur there will be no unrecognized Christian w orker in heaven. Each one know n by all; grandly known; knowrt by acclamation; all the past story of work for God gleaming in check, anil brow, and foot, and palm. They shall shine with distinct light as the stars, for ever and ever.

Again: Christian workers shall shine like the stars in clusters. In looking up you find the worlds in family circles. Brothers and sisters—they take hold of each other’s hands and dance in groups. Orion in a group, the Pleiades in a. group. The solar system is only a company of children, with bright faces, gathered around one great fireplace. Theweridsdo not"straggle off; they go in squadrons ahd fleets, .sailing through immensity. So Christian workers in'heaven will dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. I am sure that some people I will like in heaven a great deal better than others. Yonder is a constellation .of stately Christians. They lived on earth by rigid rule. They never laughed. They walked every hour anxious lest they should lose their dignity. But they foved God; and yonder they shine in brilliant constellation. Yet 1 shall not long to get into that particular group. Yonder is a constellation of small-hearted Christians —asteroids' in the eternal astronomy. While some souls . go.. up from Christian battle and blaze like Mars: tnese asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta. Yonder is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs. Our souls, as they go up to heaven, will seek out the most congenial society. Yonder is a constellation almost mervy with the play of light. On earth they were full of sympathies and songs, and tears, and' raptures, and congratulations. When they prayed their words took fire; when they sangtune could not hold them; whenthev Wept over a world’s woes, they sobbed as "if heart-broken; when thev worked for Christ they flamed with enthusiasm. Yonder they are—circle of light! constellation of joy’! galaxy of fire! Oh! that youand I, by that grace’ which can transfer m the worst into the best, might at last sail in the wake of that fleet, and wheel in that glorious gruop, as the stars forever and ever! •

Again; Christian workers will shine like the stars in swiftness of motion. The worlds do not stop to sliine. The re are no fixed stars save as to relative position. - The star most thoroughly-fixed-flies thousands of miles a minute’. The astronomer, using his telescope for an Alpine stock, leaps from- world-crag to world-crag, and finds no star standing still. The chamois hunt er has to* tty to catch hfe-prey, but not so swift is his game as that wbicli the scientist tries to shoot through the tower of the observatory.: Like petrels mid-Atlantic. that seem to come from no Shore, and be bound to no landing-place—flying,, flying—so these great flocks of worlds rest not as they go—wing and wing—age after age—for etgFgffiTgVei*. The eagfe hastens to its prey.but we shall in speed beat the eagles. You have noticed the velocity of the swift horse, under whose , feet the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, I and as he passes the four hoofs strike ! the earth in such quick beat your pulses

take the same vibration. But all these things are not swift in comparison with the motion of which I speak. The moon moves fifty-four thousand • miles in a day*. Yonder Neptune flashes on eleven thousand miles in an hour. Yonder Mercury goes one hundred and nine thousand miles in an hour. So like the stars the Christian worker shall shine in swiftness of motion. You hear now of father or mother or child sick one thousand miles away, and it takes you two days to get to them. You hear of some ease of suffering that demands, your immediate* attention, but it takes you an hour to get there. Oh! the joy when you shall, in fulfillment of the text, take starry speed and be equal to one hundred thousand miles an hour. Having on eartli got used to Christian work, you will not quit when death strikes you. You will only trike on more velocity. There is a dying child in London, and its spirit must be taken up to God: you are there in an instant to do it. There is a young man in NewYork to be arrested from going into the gate of sin: you are there in an instant to arrest him. Whether with spring of foot, or stroke-of wing, or bv the force of some new law that shall hurl you to the Hirot where you would go, I know not: but my text suggests velocity. All space opens before you, with nothing to hinder you in mission of light, and love and joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion as the stars forever and ever.

Again: .Christian workers, like the stars, shall shine in magnitude. The most illiterate man know-s that these things in the sky, looking flike gilt buttons, are great masses of matter. To weigh them, one would think that it w r uld require scales with a pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high, and chains hundreds of thousands of miles long, and at the bottom of the chains basins on either side hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and that then Omnipotence alone could put the mountains into the scales and the hills into the balance. But puny man has been equal to the undertaking, and has set little balance on his geometry, and weighed world against world. Yea, he has pulled out his measuring line, and announced that Herschell is thirty-six thousand miles in diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand miles in diameter, andAjrrpiter eightynine thousand miles diameter, and that the smallest pearl on the beach of heaven js immense beyond all imagination. So all they who have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude of privilege, and a magnitude of strength, and a magnitude of holiness, and a magnitude of joy; and the weakest saint in glory become greater than all that we can now imagine of an archangel. Brethren, it doth not yet appear what we shall be. Wisdom that shall know every thing; wealth that shall possess every thing; strength that shall circumscribe every thing! We shall not be like a taper set in a sick man’s window-, or a bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a shivering crew; but you must take the diameter and the circumference of the w-orld if you would get any idea of the greatness of our estate when we shall shine as the stars forever and ever, Lastly —and coming to this point my mind almost breaks down under the con-- 1 .temptation— like the stars, all Christian workers shall shine in duration. The same stars that look down upon us looked down.,upon the Chaldean, shepherds. The meteor that I saw flashing across the sky the other night, I wonder if it was not the same one that pointed down to where Jesus lay in the manger, and if, having pointed out His birthplace, it has ever since been wandering through the heavens watching to see Itowthe world would treat Him. When Adam awoke in the garden in the cool of the day he saw coming out through the dusk of the evening the same worlds—that greeted us on our way to church tonight. The star at which the ihariner looks to-night was the light by which the ships of Tarshish were guided across the Mediterranean, and the Venetian flotilla found its way into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright to-night as when, in ancient battle, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. To the ancients the stars were svmbols of eternity. **-v • > * • 1, ’ “— 1 . .

But here the figure of my! textbreaks down—not in defeat, but in the majestiesof the judgment. The star shall not sliine- forever. The Bible says they shall fall like autumnal leaves. It is almost impossible fora manto take in a courser going a mile in three minutes; but God shall take in the worlds, flying a hundred •thousand miles an hou”, by one pull of Iris little finger. As. when the factory band slips at nightfall from the main wheel, all the smaller wheels slacken their speed, and with slower ami slower motion they turn until they come to a nth stop, so this-gri*at machinery of the uniwrse, wheel within wheel, making revolutfon'of appalling speed, shall by the touch of God’s hand slip the band •f present law and slacken and stop. That is what will be the matter with the mountains. The chariots in which they ride shall halt so suddenly that the rings shall be thrown out. Star after star shall be carried out to burial amid funeral torches and burning worlds. Constellations shall throw ashes on their heads, and all up and down the highway of space there shall be mourning, mourning, mourning, because the worlds are dead. But the Christian workers shall never quit their shall reign forever and ever. If,by some invasion from hell, the attempt were made to cai ry them off into captivity from heaven, the souls they have saved w;ould rally for their defense, and all the angels of God would strike with their scepters, and the redeemed, on white horses of victory, would ride down the foe, and all the steep of the sky would resound with the crash of the overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out of heaven.

Contesting His Own Will.

The Rev. Dr. Pridgern some weeks ago preached his own funeral sertqon arid now is about to contest his own will. When asked about it he declared that what had once been done canid not be’undone without sufficient cause, and as he considered himself dead since his 7urieral^OTribn _ He^*ari~bnTy — proceed in the legal way to have his will set aside. He sought to keep his coflin in the .doy&iek his wife, whe-ds-das second mate, objected. The disagreement growing out of this has deepened, until now, the old man deSirfes to recall the will by which he left her his small possessions. Undue influence is the reason he will assign.

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

> Potato*! aud i ha Tniifl. Evening Wisconsin. The farmers of the Uhited States receive from $70,000,000 to $90,000,000 per year for fheir potato crop. The prices they are paid are not large in the average, but are remunerative, else potatogrowing would be abandoned.

For the benefit of those fanners who raise potatoes and make something by jt, vet w-no insist that the protective tariff is of no use to Wisconsin wants topresent a few facts. Between the first di last October and the first of the month there were received by steamer from continental Europe 240,249 bushels of potatoes, against only 19,512 bushels received from the same source last year. During the same period there were received in New York from Great Britain 3.411,840 bushels of potatoes; against only 100,047 bushels dujingthe corresponding months one year ago.

Potatoes in Great Britain are very cheap. Put up in sacks the transatlantic passenger steamers find them a very convenient form of ballast; and for the sake of fostering a traffic from which they hope to reap a future freight profit, they now to carry them for almost the bare cost of putting them into the hold and taking them out again. The present duty on potatoes brought into the United States is fifteen cents per bushel, and this figure phis the nominal freight charges, plus the buying cost in Great Britain, enables shippers to put the tubers down in New York for just about the cost to the American farmer of the home product.

Now the pending Mills bill proposes placing potatoes on the free list. The first result will be to drive the American farmer out of the market, and compel him to give up potato growing. The second result, say the free traders, will be to lower the price to the consumers, and thus much more than compensate for the loss inflicted upon the farmer.

That is the theory; but- here is the practical result, as again and again proved in the tariff history of this country: With the fifteen cent duty removed, the prire to thC T&Tfstnner ' vriirije lowered for just as long a time (and it will be short enough) as is required to teach the American farmer that he can’t grow potatoes except at a loss, and to turn his acres to other uses. Then the shippers from Great Britain, in control of the market, will put up the price, charge the consumer more than he now pays, reap triple profits and ask us, “What are you going to do about it?” By and by the answer will come from the American farmers, who will say: “There is profit in potatoes at the present high rates; and we will return to potato raising once more.” They do so, and instantly the foreign shippers make it hot for them by dropping again down to the pride that prevails to day not only, but to a point fifteen cents per bushel lower, as they can afford to do with the duty removed, and still escape a loss. Thus again they speedily freeze out the competition of the home product; snd when American potato-growing is once more abandoned, these Englishmen once more “put the screws” to the Juckless American consumers, being absolute dictators of our market price. And so on indefinitely. They rob the farmer of his present profit in potato-growing, and, taking one year with another, compel the laboring man whose family eats potatoes, to pay moYe than he pays under the present protective tariff bill. And this trade in potatoesTSTepresentative of the trade in all vegetables from which, by the Mills bill, is is proposed the tariff’shall be now removed.

The T< st mo< yot Figures. The Democratic papers are in the habit of asserting that charges of bulldozing in the South cannot be sustained by appealing to- the registration and election records. As an answer to such talk, the New Orleans Standard gives certain official figures concerning the Fifth District of Louisiana which bear dlfectly and instructively upon the point iirquestion. Said district is composed of fifteen parishes, which had in 1880 a population of 169,251, composed of 117,246 blacks and 52,005 whites —the number of “males over 21” being 37,963. In April, 1888, according to the report of the Secretary of State, the number of registered black voters was 28,183, and of white voters 14,102, or a total of 42,285. The vote in the recent election was 30,893 for Nichols (Democrat) and only 2,737 for Warmoth (Republican). Conceding that all the whites. went to the polls and voted for Nichols, it would st 11 have required the votes of, 16,891 blacks to make up the aggregate which he is said to-have received.. In othef words, we are asked to-believe that more blacks than whites supported him, and that barely 2,737 blacks out of 28,183 cared to vote the Republican ticket. Such a proposition is absurd, of course. No intelligent person can be made to believe for a moment that a miracle of that 1 kind really occurred; and yet that is what the official record showsIt is far more reasonable to believe that for the most part the colored votes w hich seem to have been cast for Nichols were either not cast at all, or were 'counted for him when they were really cast for his opponent. Warmouth is known to be specially popular with the blacks, and it is preposterous to suppose that 16,791 of them voted against him and that only 2,737 of them were willing to vote for him. Taking the figures given by Democratic authority, the conclusion is not to be avoided that the alleged majority for Nichols was obtained by deliberate and systematic fraud. The blacks were allowed to register, it is evident, not that they might vote as they pleased, but that cast Democratic ballots, or that their ballots might be counted for the Democratic candidate whether cast for him or not. As it w-as in this particular district so It was in all the other districts of the' State; and so it is throughout the whole South. It is by such means that the Southern States have been made solid for the Democratic and are kept so in contenipt of justice, honesty and decency. But for that scandalous perversion of the principles and methods of free government, Mr. Cleveland would not now be President; ancTThitfor the advantage thus infamously assured to it, his party would have no hope of 'reelecting him. The situation is not only an outrage in a partisan sense, but it is a national reproach and a national danger. It makes a mockery of popular

elections in one-half of the country; and if not corrected, it must ultimately unsettle the very foundation of our institutions.

\Jhnrinan’» Be<pr<l. - It is easy to say of Mr. Thurman that he is personally reputable and likeable that- he has never been suspected of corruption, and that his ability is of a solid and creditable kind; but it does not follow- that he is a proper man’ to invest with the honor and authority of the second highest office in the Government. He has a record as a statesman by w hich he must be judged in that respect. His personal merits fire good as far as they go; but they do riot go very far in contrast with his political faults arid blunders. He has been a voting Democrat ever since 1834, and in all that time has steadily and unqualifiedly indorsed the course of his party. It never did a thing so mean that he was constrained to opjtose or denounce it. He was faithful to it during all its shameful career as the instrument of the slave power. When it sought to extend the curse of human bondage over all the Territories, he stood by it and worked for it. He endorsed the Dred .Scott decision. He was against the homestead law. When the war came, he resisted the idea of coercion, and froin its beginning to its close, he neither did nor said anything to promote the Union cause.

These facts have to be remembered against him when he is presented as a candidate for a great national office. It is impossible as w-ell as improper to put them aside in consideration of his recognized ability and integrity.

Presidential Ignoramus. N. Y. Tribune. “It is about time to dispose of one Democratic stock cry —that duties are collected upon 4,000 different articles under the existing tariff. Democratic orators and editors are fond of this, because they want to give the impression that this “iniquitous” tariff’ reaches out its arms in every direction, and lays all forms of industry under tribute. Nowthe fact is, as the inquiring reader may find by a reference to the commerce endnavigation report for 1886, the latest detailed figures yet’availgble, that the articles upon which duties were collected during that year numbered only 983, or less than one-fourth of the number claimed. This is a most significant showing. The number of articles on the tree list was increased by the tariff of 1883, a Republican measure, to more than 300, or almost exactly one-third the number of articles tbat'paid duty in 1885, and this latter number does not vary materially from year to year. Another fact of great importance bearing upon this effort of the Democrats to give the impression that the tariff has endless ramifications and inflicts enormous complications upon commerce, may be also briefly stated. The repo t of the Secretary of the Treasury shows that of $212,032,424 custom duties collect ed during the last fiscal year, $147,747,924, or about seven-tenths of the whole, w-ere collected from seven classes of articles—sugar, iron and steel, wool, silk, tobacco, with the manufactures of them, glass and fruit. All the remaining articles produced but $64,284,500. This show;s that a vast proportion of the effect of the tariff is felt upon a small number of articles. If the 4,000 i articles existed they would not have room to turn round in, after seven-tenths of the revenue had been deducted for only seven articles

Mr. Cleveland’s Ken ominatlon. Mr. Cleveland does not possess the confidence of his party. Any person having doubts on this “point” would have had those doubts immediately and thoroughly removed had he been in the convention hall when the nomination was made. Banners and hats were waved, it is true, and cheers were heard in many parts of the hall. But there was a total lack of vigor and heartiness in the demonstrations which was painfully felt by most of those who were present. There was a total absence of the spon-taniet-y and sincerity with which his nomination was greeted four years ago, while the contrast between the spiritlessness of yesterday’s scenes at the Convention and the hurricanes and cyclones of enthusiasm when - nominations were made at former national assemblages of the party was marked and ■ conspicuous. The President -is decidedly weaker with his party and the country than he was in 1884. ' The record of his three years of his administration is before the people, and is not satisfactory. At no time popular with his party, he possesses less of its regard now than he ever did before. His duplicity and hypocrisy have repelled thousands of the decent and most influential Democrats in every State, while his studied and ostentatious violations of his civil service reform pledges-have arrayed against him a majority of the Independent Republicans whose votes in 1884 placed him in the Presidency. The country fit large dislikes and distrusts him- '.d-JL. —_____ -

It is entirely probable that the Democracy could have made a stronger canvass with a different standard bearer than it can under Cleveland’s leadership. With Randall, Carlisle, McPherson, McDonald, Hoadly or Bayard at the head of the ticket the chances of the party for victory would be better than they can be now in the present canvass. Any of the men named would stand for all that is honest, dignified and distinctive in Democracy. The party, however, lacked the sincerity and the courage to place any of them in nomination. With a duplicity and cowardice which is characteristic it passed these men by and gave the candidacy to ®R individual whom a majority of the thinking members of the party can neither honor as a publicist nor respect as a man. The Cleveland fetich is still bowed down to by the Democracy. If the Republicans at their National Convention advantagei of their opportunities this particular object will, after the close of the polls next November, cease to command either adoration or regard.

Good for the Complexion.

TM-Btts. ’ ‘ T" She (of Thompson street)—“Din am -er beautiful spring mawnin J , Jackson.”He—“ Yes, Miss Johnsing, I’se glad fo’ to see yo’ lookin’ so well. De fresh, invigoratin' atmosphe’ do gib yo’ such a lubly collah.”

A GEORGIA EDITOR’S APPEAL.

His Second Letter to an Unresponsive Railway Official. Smithville (G*.) News. To the general passenger agent Savannah, Florida & Western railway, Savannah, Ga. —(Annual pass department.)— Dictated —My Dear Sir: Sopie time since I addressed an open letter to you on the subject of an editorial pass for 1888, in which I threatened to withdraw the influence of my paper from your road unless I received a free pass by return ’mail. lam satisfied that the letter did not reach you, and regret my hasty action in turning the tables on you. But you must admit that I had -great provocation, in that I had voluntarily published your schedule on my inside, or rather, that of the paper—next door to reading matter and the porous plaster notice, and, notwithstanding all this, I was strenously refused the courtesies so commonly bestowed upon schedule publishers in all portions of the State. The board of directors ignored me at every meeting, though they well knew my paper was on file in your office, a mute witness against them; and the president of the road passed through Smithville in a special car, w ithout even leaving his card or inquiring about my health. > *

All this enraged me, as well it might and in a moment of anger I ordered your schedule out of the paper and boycotted the road generally. I am led to regret this now, and will be sorry if I have injured your business by so doingj for I would not willingly throw a cross-tie in the way of the humblest coal-burner on your road. But you know that my patience was sorely tried, and I am only human, after all. I am pleased to inform you that I am making arrangements to publish your schedule once more; and as soon as fairly starred I will send you a marked eppy, just as if nothing had ever happened; for . lam willing to give you a fair trial before sentence is pronounced. And now, my dear sir, I want to go to Jacksonville; and I ask you, as a Christian and a railroad man, if you expect me to walk there. lam young and feeble, and have had three, chills every day this week, and to avoid a doctor bill here, where I am toov’ell known to incur one, I want to place myself under the care of an old friend of mine, who is a dispensary physician in Jacksonville, and has promised to treat me free. I don’t want you tojgo to the trouble of calling a meeting of the directors, as I have suffered too much by them already; but just sit down and think of me for three hours, in the silence of your chamber, and your conscience will tell you what to do.

What Fanaticism Did.

Ex-Mayor Harrison in Chicago Mail. No other ruins in Egypt are so massive as . these of Karnak, though there are others in a better condition. The Nile has done more to bring the mighty temples of old Thebes (Luxor) down than has the hand of man. But religious fanaticism, both Christian, under the eastern empire, and Mohammedan, within a thousand years has done its best to deface all that was purely artistic. Modem, taste would find little to admire in the beautiful sculptures on any of the old temples if the rock had not been too hard for the fanatic hammer, or the elevation too great for a lazy priesthood to reach, or if the massiveveness and multitnde of tiuer Bcttiptures had noibeeu"— too great for indolent muscle to pick away. The temple of Luxor, close to the river, is a grand one but failed to impress me as did Karnak The ruins of Medeenet Aboo, across the river on the west bank, however, in many respects a pleased me more. But it would be waste of space to attempt to describe, this, or even any more of them. Thebes was a mighty city, and left many ruins .to. attest its grandeur. One who would know of the half of these must read of them in books —not in a letter. Baek of the old city in some gorges in the mountains on the west bank are the “tombs of the kings,” whose mummies and payrus rolls have been so valuable to the world of letters. These tombs are cut into the solid stone, all sloping downward and running under the mountains from a hundred to five hundred feet, in long galleries from twelve to twenty odd feet wide and nine to twelve feet deep. In different parts of them are large chambers whose walls as well as those of the long galleries are covered with sculptures in deep relief with hieroglyphic writing beautifully sharp. The sculptures are the figures of the king for whom the tomb was built, of the, kings and peoples whom he.conquered, of his battles and victories, of the spoils of war, in captives and beasts and treasures brought back and offered to the gods, and of the gods themselves receiving the gifts. Many bi these sculptures are tian), and when not defaced are bright in colors as when first painted.

Benjamin Franklin's Bequest Exprics

In 1890 will end the term of 100 years during which the cities of Boston arid Philadelphia have each enjoyed the re venue from a bequest of $5,000 made by Benjamin Franklin. The money was to be loaned out to young married artificers, and thc b ust has been executcd .al ' the lapse of a century requires a new disposition of the funds. It is significant that while in Boston the $5,000 has given nearly $328,000, in Philadelphia the $5,000 has become only $70,000.