Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — Page 7

EFFECTS OF THE SILVER LAW.

Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, Thinks It I the Best Legislation Passed forbears; Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who was one of the leading free coinage pdvocates during the discussion of the' silver bill, says that with the advance of prices for silver bullion there will Le a steady increase in price, for farm products, silver bullion being one of the standards of value. “It will nat*, orally lead the way to higher prices for all kinds of American products. When we began the discussion of the bill some months ago bullion was worth 94 cents an ounce. It is over II .10 to-day, and it is stated that it will continue to rise until it reaches, at least, ft.ljjj and probably $1.20 before it stops. This is an increase already of about 25 per cent, in the price of bullion, and from what I learn throughmy ir.ails and the telegraph, farm products,taking the country over, are increasing proportionately. “I have no doubt that when the full effects of the silver coinage law are distributed over the country the farmers will find themselves receiving anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent more for their produce than they got a few months ago. The silver law turns loose more than $50,000,000 now lying idle in the treasury, and contemplateputting into circulation about $55,000,000 annually. “Of course, silver coinage is to cease after the Ist of next July, except when the -Secretary of the Treasury finds that there is demand for the silver dollars. The bullion is to be purchased and stored away, and certifis cates issued to represent it. This talk by the Democratic press all over the country of there being a cessation of silver coinage, and that this law will not have a better effect than the old one, is all buncombe and intended to mislead the public. There will be a continuance of silver coinage whenever there is a demand for the standard dollar. When there is no demand certificates representing the silver will be issued to represent the hard money, and those certificates are made a full legal tender for private debts, and. therefore, are just aa good as gold, nr legal tenders, or silver coin, as the holders can secure any of theta in exchange when they demand redemption. “I see that the effects of our now coinage law are being felt in England, where the Minister of agriculture says that a decided rise in the price of farm produce is felt, and that it is owing to the new American silver law. The new silver coinage law will prove thoroughly satisfactory to every element. It will make money plenty and times better. It will increase prosperity, and prevent the slightest possibility of a panic or stringency in the money market, Every safeguard is thrown out to stop the schemes of speculators in bullion, and at the same time the people are guaranteed that no arbitrary action of the Secretary of the Treasury or the administration in general can cut off the supply of silver dollars or the certify cates representing them which will be put out monthly, “To my mind it is by far the most important legislation we have had in many years, and will go further toward the prosperity of the country and the people than anything we have had.” These are said to be also the views of Senator Jones of Nevada, who is out of the city,

Before and After.

Lafayette Courier. There is not an article in builders hardware which enters into the construction of a house that is not cheaper thjtn it was before we had a protective tariff, when we depended upon the manufacturers of Europe for these things. Let us submit a few items by way of comparison: Price before Price now. the farlifi Shingle nails 10 to i2e per lb. .05 Other nails Bto 12c. per lb. .03 to .04 Door locks, extra..- $1.40 each. .50 Common.... 7i V .v>s Window class, 10x12 10 *• .07 Sash weights leper lb. .0.,% Bash cord 60 Door bolts 85 each. .15 Wood screws ~sl'so per gToss .4Yet, in the face of these facts, the demagogue continues to howl about the tariff being a burden upon everybody, but the manufacturer, and appeals to the farmer aS the object of his greatest sympathy, and tells him that he is being ruined by the tariff. But the farmer knows bettor. He knows that every mechanio and laborer engaged in manufactures in this country is his customer for the products of his farm. He knows that every man, woman and child who is engaged in any kind of productive employment in this country is a consumer of his wheat, corn, beef and pork. He knows that the prosperity of his millions of persons thus employed is the prosperity, and that any calamity which may overcome them means his own distress. The intelligent farmer knows that the 66,000,000 people of the United States are better buyers of all the necessaries of life than any 160,000,000 of people anywhere else on the globe. He knows that the best market for him in the world is a home market. He knows that every implement of machinery which he uses on his farm, every article of furniture in his house, every item of clothing he wears, every utensil in his kitchen, pvery piece of queensware, every plate, cup, dish, spoon, knife, fork,,,and all plated ware, costs him less now than it did under a tariff for revenue only. And he knows another thing quite as important to him, that everything he has to sell brings a better price on the average than he used to get under. Democratic free trade. <>t Hr. Whitney’s Creation at ill. .<>w York Pre«. A Democratic contemporary which much given to imagining things ) -true and' then asserting them

facte, commenting on the return of the squadron of evolution and the demonstrated excellence of the vessels that cbm pose it. declares that, “the new cruisers constitute a fitting memorial’' to ex-Secretary Whitney’s “efficient and unselfish labors. ” The only part Mr. Whitney has in the construction of these vessels was to carry out plans made by a Republican Congress, a Republican Secretary of the Navy and a Republican President. It was under Republican auspices that the new navy was inaugurated, and Mr. Whitney was an accidental incident in their construction. He sought to make the country believe that contractor John Roach was swindling the government ip their construction and delayed their on that pretext, but all the world knows now that it was only a pretext. There is no credit for Mr, Whitney in the squadron of evolution.

A Preliminary Dose.

Terre Haute Express. ' We are told that a preliminary dose of 100,000 copies of Senator Voorhees’ East effort'has been unloaded cm a stricken community, and that a million more of this “sound and fury” will follow. Think of the mental desuetude of the primitive homes where Ayers 1 Almanac and Daniel Yoorhees’ speech make the library. If any object to the coming of the Russian Jews, they might have Daniel’s speech translated into Hebrew or Russian to show them that according to Mr. Voorhees, the American laborer is a miserable object, worse off than serf or peasant. Still, in spite of the free trade calamity shriekers, the doors to this continent swing inward. Everybody want 9to come in, but nobody wants to go out.

Where Does the Robber Tariff Come I.

Philadelphia Record (I)em ) « Farmers who have been unlucky enough to settle in western Kansas are suffering from their annual visitation of drought. The hot winds over the treeless plains burn the corn until it is fairly cooked in the ear, while the grass is iso scorched it will not make hay. These adverse meteorological conditions are of almost annual recurrence in the western section of Kansas, and ii is surprising that farmers could have been induced to settle in that well-nigh rainless region. There, however, they are; and there they will have to stay, without even the poor satisfaction of having corn to burn for fuel next winter.

The Button Business.

Terre Haute Express. The button business flags a little By the time every free trade importer has marked up his stock on hand he will be ready to emit a fresh groan as ho feels a pang, rakes in his extra, profit and mourns for the factories over in Vienna which are going to lose their trade one of these days. Put it down as a safe prophesy that these same importers will be putting money into Jersey button factories as soon as they are sure the protection will stick, for they can buy shells in the Pacific and Southern oceans as well as tho Viennese.

Hard to Please.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is hard to please Democratic organs, Twenty-five years ago “the immense public debt would never be paid-” Later they groaned because it was being “paid too rapidly.” Last year they united in a prolonged groan about “the evil of a great surplus in the treasury!” Now they are combining in the whjn&over • the certain deficit.” In the meantime the party which saved the uation and inaugurated nil its prosperity is at the helm and the public will feel safe,

The Lottery in Congress.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The field of the real fight against the lottery evil is now in Congress, and there are strong signs that the lottery managers realize this fully and and are massing their corrupt forces there. The conduct of Congressmen in the progress of this fight should have the close scrutiny of all respectable citizens. There can be no honest* defense of the lottery swindle.

Their Statements Do Not Consist.

San Francisco Chronicle. The tariff and trust question is getting awfully mixed. During the campaign we were told by the Democratic press that the protective tariff croated trusts. Now we find the same papers heaping abuse on the Republican party because it proposes to take the tariff from sugar, at the same time charging that it is done in the interest of the sugar trusts.

A Lesson In Cause and Effect.

Boston Journal. The Democratic fpee trade papers are exulting over the fact that the census returns" indicate large growth in Southern cities. But these papers omit to mention the r act that the chief growth has been in i he cities in which manufacturing industries have been boomed, and that without the protective tariff the establishment of these industries would have been impossible.

Gave Him His Death.

New Albany Tribune. If there had been Federal supervisors at the polls in Arkansas in 1888. Clayton would not now be in liis bloody grave, and his motherless children doubly orphans. It was in seeking just such Information ns the Lodge bill designs to give that Col. Clayton met his death by a Democratic assassin! . - ~~ Purchasers of home products ar< sure to retain capital for the wap fund of laboiers in tlieir own counti and keep it in in circulation; but wh< purchases are ma ;e jij : r- ad. the ei ini goes to a Von u whence itueve rt tarns,—Senator Mo; rill -

KEMMLER IS EXECUTED.

One of the Most Remarkable Cun of Criminal Punishment. The execution by electricity of Wm, Kemmler, who murdered his mistress, Tillie Zeigler, at Buffalo, N. Y., March 29 1889, took place at 7 o’clock, Wednesday morning at the State’s prison at Auburn, N. Y. The murder was the first that had been committed in that State after the law to kill murderers by electricity had become operative, and great interest was taken in the execution. About 6 o'clock Wednesday morning the witnesses began to arrive at the prison, and by 6:30 o’clock all were present and seated in a little circle around the execution chamber waiting for the appearance of the Warden and his charge. At 6:38 the' door at the right of the execution chamber leading toward the execution roonl opened, and Warden Durston’s figure appeared in the doorway. Behind him walked a spruce looking, broad-shouldered little man, full bearded, with carefully arranged hair clustering around his forehead. He was dressed in a suit of new clothing, a sack coat anefvest of dark gray"material, trousersofmixe3" yenow pattern, a whits' shirt, whose polished front was exposed directly below a little bow of lawn of a black and white check pattern. This was William Kemmler, the man who was about to undergo the sentence of death. Behind him walked Dr. W. E. Houghton and Chaplain Yates. Kemmler was by far the coolest man in tho party. After taking off his coat he sat down in the electric chair as though he was sitting down to dinner. Warden Durston and George Vialing, of Albany, immediately began to adjust the straps around Kemmler’s body, the condemned man holding up his arms so as to give them evory assistance. When the straps had been adjusted about the body the arms were fastened down, and the warden leaned over and parted Kemm*. ler’s feet so as to bring his legs near the legs of the chair. While the straps were being arranged Kemmler said to the Warden and his assistant: “Take your time. Don’t be in a hurry. Be sure that everything is all right,” repeating the phrase two or three times. He seemed to have a greater interest in its success than those who had made the preparations for it, and who were watching its progress to its final fatal eonvlnaion. ~- The dynamo in the machine shop was running at good speed and the volt meter on the wall registered a little more than 1,000 volts. At 6:43 the electric current was turned on. There was a sudden conn vulsion of the frame in the chair. A spasm went over it from head to foot, confined by the straps and springs that held it firmly so that no limb or other part of the body stirred more than a small fraction of an inch from its resting place. The twitching that the muscles of the face underwent gave to it for a moment an expression of pain. But no ery escaped from the lips, which were freeto move at will. The body remained in this rigid position for sevens teen seconds, and then the current was turned off. □As the index finger of his hand curved backward as the muscles contracted, it scraped a small hole in the skin which began to drop blood. “Turn the current on -instantly. This man is not dead,” cried Dr. Spitzka. Faces grew white and forms fell back from the chair. Warden Durs. ton sprang to the doorway and cried: “Turn on the current.” But the current could not beturned ou. When the signal to stop had come the operator had pressed the little button which gave the sign to the engineer to stop the dynamo. The operator sprang to the button and gave a sharp, quick signal. There was a rapid response’ but quick as it was, it was not quick enough to anticipate the signs of what may or may not have been reviving consciousness. The dynamo was run up to it 3 highest speed, and again and again the full current of 2,CQ5 volts was sent through the body in the chair. As the anxious group stood silently "Watching the body suddenly there arosr from it a- white vapor, bearing with it a pungent and sickening odor. The body was burning. Again there were cries to stop the current, and again the warden sprang to the door and gave the quick orde.' to his assistants. The current stopped, and again there was the relaxation of tae bony, No doubt this time' that the current had dong its work—if not well, at least corns pletely. Others, and among them Dr. Spitzka, stated with equal positiveness the conviction that the first shock killed Kemmler instantly. Dr. Daniel and Dr. Southwich (father of tho system of electrocidej, be lieve that Kemmler was dead, but they think that the current should have been continued longer than seventeen seconds, which was the official time of the contact. There is no way in which a positive determination of this question can be made. It will always remain unsolved. An autopsy began at 9 o’clock.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate, on the 6th, after routine business of little importance, proceeded to the consideration of the tariff, thepending question being on Mr. Morgan’s amendment. Mr. Morgan finally withdrew his amendment in urdor to allow Mr. Gonpan to offer one, but the Senate adjourned without disposing of the amendment. The House, ou the 6tb, voted on the con feren'ce report of the “original package” bill—yeas 120, nays 98—almost a strict party vote. Ihe House then went inte committee of the whole, Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair, on the general deficiency bill. Without disposing of the bill the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the ?tb, the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was presented. The House transacted no business. In the Senate, on the Bth, the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was taken up, which was agreed to. In the House, on the Bth, the general deficiency bill Was taken up again, the pending question being on the amendment granting a month’s extra pay to employes of the House and Senate. The amend-, ment was lost—yeas, 78; nays, 104. 1

THE SUMMER RESORTS

TEMPTATIONS STREWN IN THE PATHS OP IDLENESS. Danger* BMettfagThese Who Would Boat —An Artificial Lifo, who o Ut« la Do throned—Dr. Talma ge'i Sermon. Rev. Dr.Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text: Mark vL, 31. He said: Here Christ advises his apostles to take a vacation. They have ueen li ing an excited as well as a useful life, and He advises that they go out into the oountry. lam glad that, for longer er shorter time, multitudes of our peo- > pie will have summer vacation. The ■ railway trains are being laden with passengers and baggage on their way to tbb mountains and the seashore. Multitudes of our citizens are packing their trunks for a restorative absence. Tho city heats are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long-silent halls of sumptuous hotels arekll abuzz with excited arrivals. iThe erystalline aurfaoe of/Rinnipisoogee Is shattered with the stroke of Bteamers laden with excursionists. The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle under the shot of eity sportsmen. The trout makes fatal snaps at the hooks of adroit anglers and toss their spotted brilliance into the game basket. Already the baton of the orchestral leader taps the music stand on the hotel green, and American life puts on festal array, and the rumbling of the tenpin alley, and the crack of the ivory balls on the green-baized billiard tables, and the jolting of the barroom goblets, and the explosive uncorking of champagne t bottles, and the whirl and the ru9tle of the ballroom dance, and the olattering hoofs of the race courses, attest that the season for the great American watering place*, ia fully inaugurated, Music—flute and drum and cornet-a-pis ton and clapping cymbals—Will wake the echoes of the mountains. Glad am I that fagged out American life, for the most part, will have an opportunity to rest, and that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Bethssda. I believe in watering places. Let not the commercial firm begrudge the clerks, or the employer the journeyman, or the patient the physician, or the church its pastor, a season of Inoccupation. But I have to declare this truth today, that some of our fashionable watering places are the temporal and eternal destruction of “a multitude that no man can number,” and amid the congratulations of this season and the prospect of the departure of many of you for the country I must utter a note of warning—plain, earnest and unmistakable. The first temptation that is apt to hover in this direction is to leave your piety all at home. You will send the the dog and cat and canary bird to be well eared for somewhere else; but the temptation will be to leave your religion in the room with the blinds down and the door bolted, and then you will come back in the autumn to learn that it is starved and suffocated, lying stretched on the rug stark dead. There Is no surplus of piety at the watering places. I never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the fashionable summer resort. It is generally the case that the Sabbath is more of a carousal than any other day, and there are Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excursions.

Elders and deaeons and ministers of religion, who are entirely consistent at home, sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the White Mountains take the day to themselves. If they go to the church, it is apt to be a saored parade, and the discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to be what is called a crack sermon—that is. 6ome discourse picked out of the egusions of the year as the one most adapted to exeite admiration; and in those churches, from the way the ladies hold their fans; you know that they are not so much impressed with the heat as with the pioturesqueness of half-dis-closed features. Four puny souls stand in the organ-loft and squall a tune that nobody knows, and worshipers, with $2,000 worth of diamonds on the right hand, drop a cent into the poor-box, and then the benediction is pronounced and the farce is ended.

The air is bewitched with -‘the world, the flesh, and the devil.” Thera are Christians who in three or four weeks in such a place have had suoh terrible rents made in their Christian robes that they had to keep darning it until Christmas to get it mended! The health of a great many people makes an annual vißit to some mineral spring an absolute necessity; but, take your Bible along with you, and take an hour for secret prayer every day, though you be surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, though they denounce you as a bigoted Puritan. Stand off from these institutions. which propose to imitate on this side of the water the iniquities of old-time Baden-Baden. Let your moral and your immortal health keep pace with your physical recuperation, and remember that all the waters of Hathorne and sulphur and chalybeaten springs can not do you so much good as the mineral, healing, perennial flood that breaks forth from the “Rock of Ages.”

Another temptation around nearly all our watering-places is the horse* racing business. We all admire the horse. There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king of beasts. I knock off Its coronet and put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or sagacity or Intelligence or affeotion or usefulness. He is semi-human, and knows how to reason on a small soale. The centaur of olden times, part horse and part men, as—as to be a suggestion of the

fact that Hie hone is something more than a beast But we de sot think that Die speed of the horse should be cultured at the expense of human degradation. Horse races, in olden times, were under the ban of Christian people, and in our day tire same institution has come up under fictitious names, and it is called a “summer meeting,” almost suggestive of positive religious exercises. And it is ealled an “agricultural fair,” suggestive of every thing that is improving in the art of farming. But tinder these deceptive titles] are the same cheating and the same betting, the same drunkenness and the same vagabondage and the same abominations that were to be found under the old horsey-racing system. I never knew -a man yet who oould give himself to the pleasure of the turf for a long reach of time, and not be battered in morals. They hook up their spanking team, and put on their sporting cap, and light their cigar, and take the reins and dash down the road to perdition. The great day at 1 Saratoga, and Long Branch, and Cape May, and nearly all the other water-.

ing places is the day of the races. The hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of equipage is taken up at an almost fabulous price, and there are many respectable people mingling with jockeys, and gamblers, and libertines, and foul-mouthed 1 men and flashy women. The bartender »tirs up the brandy smash. The bets run high. The greenhorns, supposing all is fair, put in their money soon enough to lose, it. Three weeks before the race takes place the struggle is decided, and the men in the secret know on which steed to bet their money. The two men on the horses riding around long before arranged who shall beat. Ah! my friends, have nothing to do with horse racing dissipations this summer. Long ago the English government got through looking to the turf for the dragoon and light cavalry horse. They found that the turf depreciates the stock, and it is yet worse for men. Thomas Hughes, the member of Parliament and the author, known all the world over, hearing that a new turf enterprise was being started in this covrmtry, wrote a letter in which he said: “Heaven help you, then. For of all tho cankers of our old civilization there is nothing in this country approaching in unblushing meanness, in rascality bolding its head high, to this belauded institution of the British turf.” Another famous sportsman writes: • ‘How many fine domains have been shared among these hosts of rapacious sharks during the lasjlSjQO years; and unless the Bystem yKkaltered, how many more are doonpa.mFfell into the same gulf !" The fluke of' Hamilton, through his horsefracing proclivities, in three years his entire fortune of $350,000, will say that some of you are being Undermined by it. With the bull fights of Bpain and the bear baitings of the pit, may the Lord God annihilate the infamous and accursed horse racing of England and America.

I go further, and speak of another temptation that hovers over the watering places; and this is the temptation to sacrifice physical strength. The modern Bethesda was meant to recuperate the physical strength; and yet how many come from watering places, their health absolutely destroyed! New York and Brooklyn idiots boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses of Congress water before breakfast. Families accustomed to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night gossipping until 2 o’clock in the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their health, mingling ice creams and lemons and lobster salads, and cocoanuts until the gastric juices lift up all their voices of lamentations and protest. Delicate women and brainless young men chassezing themselves into vertigo and catalepsy. Thousands of men aud women coming back from our watering places in the autumn with the foundations laid for ailments that will last them all their life long. You know as well as I do that this is the simple truth. Another temptation hovering around the watering place is to the formation of hasty and life-long alliances. The watering places are responsible for more of the domestic infelicities of this country tbaß all other things combined. Society is so artificial there that no sure judgment of character can be formed. Those who form companionships amid such circumstances go into a lottery where there are twenty blanks to one prize. In the severe tug of life you want more than glitter and splash. Life is not a ball room where the music decides the Btep, and bow and prance and graceful swing of long trail can pot make up for lack of strong common sense. You may as well go among the gaily painted yachts of a summer regatta to find war vessels as to go among the light spray of a summer watering place to find character that can stand the test of the great struggle of human Hie. Ah, in the battle of life you want a stronger weapon than a laee fan or a croquet mallet* The load of life is so heavy that, in order to draw it, you want a team stronger than one made up of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly.

If there is any man in the co mmunity that excites my contempt, and that excites the contempt of every man and woman, it is the soft-handed, softheaded fop, who, perfumed until the air is actually sick, spends his summer in taking killing attitudes, and waving sentimental adieus, and talking infinitesimal nothings, and finding his heaven in the set of a lavender kid-gloves. Boots as tight ah an Inquisition, two hours of consummate skill exhibited in the tie of a flaming cravat, his conversation made up of “Ah's and “Oh’s” and "He-hee's.” ft would take 600 Of them stewed down to make a teaspoonful of calf-foot jelly. There Is only one counterpart to

f * such a man as feat* and that t» tha frothy young woman at tho wateringplace, her conversation made up of French moonshine; what she has on her head equaled only by what she has on her back; useless ever since she was born, and to be useless until she is dead, and what they will do with her in the next world J do not know, except to set her upea .the banks of the River of Life for all eternity to look sweet! God intends uS to admire music and fair faces and graceful step, but amid the heartlessnsas and the inflation and the fantastic influences of our; modern watering places, beware how you make life long covenants! Another temptation that will hover over the watering place is that of baneful literature. Almost every one starting off for the summer takes some reading matter. It is a book out of the' library or off the book-stand, or, bought of the boy hawking books: through the cars. I really believe' there is mere pestiferous trash read' among the intelligent classes in July \ and August than in all the other ten' months of the, year. Men and women 1 Who at home would not MaattefiedL’

with a book that was not really sensible, I found sitting on hotel piazzas or under trees reading books, the index 1 of which would make them blush if they knew that you knew what the book was. , Literary poison in August is as bad as literary poison in December. Mark that Do not let the frogs and the lice of a corrupt printing press jump and crawl into your Saratoga trunk or White Mountain valise. Another temptation hovering all around eur watering places is the intoxicating beverage. lam told that it is becoming more and more able for women to drink. I care not how well a woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to flush her cheek and put glassiness on her eye, she is intoxicated. She may be handed into a $2,500 carriage, and have diamonds enough to confound the Tiffany’s—she is intoxicated. She may be a graduate of a great institute and the daughter of some man in danger of being nominated for the Presidency—she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to her that she is “convivial,” or she is “merry,” er she is “festive,” er she is “exhilarated, ” but you cannot, with all your garlands of verbiage, cover up the plain fact that it is an old-fashioned case of drunk. Now, the watering places are full of temptations to men and women to tipple. At the close of the tenpin or billiard game they tipple. At the elese of the eotillien they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling themselves off they tipple. The tinged glasses come around with bright straws and they tipple. First they take * 'light wines.” as they call them; but light wines are heavy enough to debase the appetite. There is not a very long road between champagne at $5 a bottle and whisky at five cents a glass.

My friends, whether you tarry at home—which will be quite as safe and perhaps quite as comfortable—or go into the country, arm your self against temptation. The grace of God is the only safe shelter, whether in town or country, There are watering places accessible to all of us. You cannot open a book of the Bible without finding Out some suoh watering place. Fountains open for sin and unoleaaliness, wells of salvation, streams from Lebanon, flood struck out of the rook by Moses, fountains in the wilderness discovered by Hagar, water to drink and water to bathe in, the river of God which is full of water; water of which, if a man drink, he shall never thirst; wells of water in the Valley of Baca, living fountains of water, a pure river of water as clear as crystal from under the throne of God. - These are watering-places accessible to all of us. We do not have a laborious packing up before we start—only the throwing away of our transgressions. No expensive hotel bills to pay; it is “without money and without price.” No long and dirty travel before we get there; it is only a step away. In California, in five minutes, I walked around and saw ten fountains, all bubbling up, and they were all different. And in five minutes I can go through this Bible parterre and find you fifty bright, sparkling fountains bubbling up into certain life. A chemist will go into one of these summer watering places and take the water and analyze it, and tell you that it contains so, much of iron, and so much of soda, and so much of lime, and so much of magnesia. I come to this Gospel well, this living fountain and analyze the water, and I find that its ingredients are peace, pardon, forgiveness, hope, comfort, life, heaven. “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye” to this watering place 1 Crowd around this Bethesda to-day! Oh. you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying—crowd around this Bethesda! Step hi it! Oh, step in it! The angel of the covenant to-day stirs the water. Why do you not step in it? Some of you are too weak to take a step in that direction. Then we take you up in the arms of our closing prayer and plunge you clean undef the waves, hoping that the cure may be as sudden and as radical as with Captain Naaman, who. blotched and carbunoled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh dive came up, his skin roseate complexioned as the flesh of a little ohild. The annual convention of the National Association of Factory Inspectors will be held in the Aldemnanic Chamber, New York, commencing August 27. Chiefs and deputies will present from New York. New Jersey, Massachusetts. Maine. Rhode Island. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Canada. Rufus Wade, Chief of the Massachusetts Bureau. Is President, and John Franey, of New York, Vloe-Presideak