Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — Page 7

DO YOU LIKE CHILDREN?

Millions of the little Tots Dwell in Heaven. Thou Shalt be Missed Became Thy Seat' Is Empty—Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Lakeside, Ohio, Sunday. Subject, -**The Vacant Chair.” Text: I Samuel xx, lj?. He said: In almost every house the articles of furniture take a living personality. That picture—a stranger would not see anything remarkable either in its design or execution, but it is more to you than all the pictures of the Louvre and the Luxembourg. You remember who bought it and admired it. And that hymnbook —you remember who sang out out of it. And that cradle —you remember who rocked it. And that Bible—you remember who read out of it. And that bed—you remember who slept in it. And that room — you remember who died in it. But there is nothing in all your house so eloquent as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of winepitchers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voice that came up from the vacant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Quincy Adams’ vacant chair in the House of Representatives, and at Henry Wilson’s vacant chair in the Vice-Presidency, and at Henry Clay’s vacant chair in the American Senate, and at Prince. Albert’s vacant chair in Windsor Castle, and at Thiers’ vacant chair in the Councils of the French nation; but all these chairs are unimportant to you as compared with the vacant chairs in your awn household. Have these chairs any lesson for us to learn? Are we any better men and women than when they first addressed us? First, I point out to you the father’s vacant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and in the same chair. They somehow feel more at home, and sometimes when you are in their place and they come into the room you jump up suddenly and say, ‘Here, father, here’s your chair.” The probability is it is an arm chair, for he is not so strong as he once, was and he needs a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty, his gums a little depressed, for in tiis early days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chad; and old-fashioned apparel, for though you may have suggested some improvement, but father does not want any of your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for your newfangled notions.

But your father’s chair was a sacred place. The children used to climb upon the rungs of it for a goodnight kiss* and the longer he stayed the better you liked it. But that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furniture dealer would not give you fifty cents for it, but it is a throne of influence in your domestic circle. Igo a little further on in j’our house, and I find the mother’s chair. It is very apt to be a rocking-chair. She had so many cares and troubles to soothe that it must have rockers. I remember it well.. It was an old chair, and the rockers were almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the chair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as it moved: but there" was music in the sound. Jt was just high to allow us children to put our heads into her lap. That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. Ah! what a chair that was. It was different from the father’s chair; it was entirely different. You ask me how? lean not tell; but we all felt it was different. Perhaps there was about this.chair more gentleness, more tenderness, more grief when we had done wrong. When we were wayward father scolded, but mother cried. It was a very wakeful chair. If the sick days of children other chairs could not keep awake; that chair always kept awake —kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies and all those wordless songs which mothers sing to their sick children —songs in itfhieh all pity, and compassion, and sympathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may be set up in the loft or garret, but it holds a queenly power yet.

When at midnight you went into that grog shop to get the intoxicating draught, did you not hear a voice that saiat “My son, why go in there?” And louder than the boisterous encore of the place of sinful amusement, a voice saying: “My son, what do you do heres?” And when you went into the house of abandon meat, a voice saying: ‘ ‘ What would your mother do if she knew you were here?” And you were provoked with yourself, and you charged with superstition and fanaticism,and your head got hot with your own thoughts, and you went home and you went to bea, and no sooner had you went to bed, and no sooner had you touched the bed than a voice said: “What! a prayerless pillow? Man! what is the matter?” This: You are too near your mother’s rock-ing-chair. ' I go on a little further, and I come to the invalid’s chair. What! How long have you been sick? “Oh, I have been sick ten, twenty thirty years.” Is it possible? What a story of endurance. There are in many of the families of my congregation these invalid chairs. The occupants pf them think they are doing no good in the world, but that invalid’s chair is the mighty pulpit from which they

have been preaching all these years trust in God. The first time' I preached here at Lakeside, Ohio, among the throngs present there was nothing that so much impressed me as the spectacle of just one face—the face of an invalid who was wheeled in on her chair. I said to her afterward: “Madam, how loflg have you been prostrated?” for she was lying flat in nerchair. “Oh,” she said, I have been this way fifteen years. ’ ’ I said: “Do you suffer very touch?” “Oh, yes, I suffer very mrch; I suffer all the time; part of the time I was blind : I always suffer.” I said: “Can you keep your courage up?” “Oh, yes,” she said, “I am happy; very happy, indeed.” Her face showed it. She looked the happiest of any on the ground.

Oh, what a means of grace to the world, these invalid chairs. On that field of human suffering the grace of God gets in its victory. Edward Payson, the invalid, and Richard Baxter, the invalid, and Robert Hall, the invalid, and the ten thousand of whom the world has never heard, but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God’s eye and the eyes of the angels to rest on is not a throne of earthly power, but it is the invalid’s chair. Of these men and women who are always suffering but never complaining—these victims of spinal disease and neuralgic torture, and rheumatic excruciation will answer to the rolleall of the martyrs, and rise 40 the martyr’s throne, and will wave the martyr's c ,palm. But when one of these invalid’s chairs becomes vacant how suggestive it is! No more bolstering up of the weary head. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more use of the bandage, and the cataplasm and the prescription. That invalid’s chair may be folded up, or taken away, or'set away, but it will never loose its queenly power;* it will always preach of trust in God and cheerful submission. Suffering all ended now. With respects to that invalid the woi-ds of my text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt bo missed because thy seat willbe emp ty.” I pass on, and I find oue more vacant chair. It’s a high chair. It is the child’s chair. If that chair be occupied,l think it is the most potent chair in all the. household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it. It means more than David’s chair and Saul’s banquet. At any rate it makes more racket.

That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it. How that child breaks up the hard worldiness of the place, and keeps you young to 60, 70 and 80 years of age. If you have no child of your own,adopt one; it will open heaven to yourj soul. It pays its way. Its crowing in the morning will give the day a cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. You do not like children! Then you had better stay out of heaven. For there are so many there they would fairly make you crasy! Only about 500,000,000 of them! The old crusty Pharisees told the mothers to keep the children away from Christ. “You bother him,” they said: “you trouble the master.” Trouble him! He has filled heaven with kind of trouble. A pioneer in California says that for tne first year or two after his residence in Sierra Nevada county there was not a single child in all the reach of one hundred miles, but the Fourth of July came and the miners were gathered together, and they were celebrating the Fourth with an oration, and poem and a boisterous brass band. And while the band was playing an infant’s voice was heard crying and all the miners were startled, and the swarthy men began to think of their homes on the Eastern coast and of their wives and children far away, and their hearts were thrilled with homesickness as they heard the babe cry. But the music went on and the child cried louder and louder, and the brass band played louder and louder, trying to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarthy miner, with the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his fist and said: “Stop that noisy band and give the baby a chance.” Oh, there was pathos in it as well as good cheer in it. There .is nothing to arouse, and melt, and subdue the soul like a child’s voice. But when it goes away from you the high Chair becomes a higher chair and there is a desolatioh all about you. In three-fourths of the homes of this congregation, there is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it. There is no one to put to bed at night; no one to ask strange questions about God and heaven. On, what is the use of that chair? It is to call you higher. What a drawing upward it is to haye children in heaven!

And theq, it is such a preventive against sin. If a father Is going awayjiato sin he leaves bis living dm dren with their mother; but if a father is going away into sin, what is he going to do with his dead children floating about him, and hovering over his every wayward step? Oh, speak out, vacant high chair, and say: “Father come back from sin: mother come back from worldliness, lam watching 'you. I am waiting for you.” With respect to your child. The works of my text nave been fulfilled: “Though sbalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.” v Mv hearers, I have gathered up the voices Of your departed friends and tried to intone them* into one invitation upward. I set in array all the vacant chairs In your homes and of your social circle, and I bid them cry out this morning ‘‘Time is short.

Eternity is now. Take mv Savior. Be at piece with my Godi- Come up where! am. We lived together on this earth,oome let us live in heaven.” We answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us, as Sato kept a seat for David, but the seat shall not be empty. And oh! when we are all through with this world' and we have shaken bands all around for the last time, and a 1 oar chairs in the home circle and in the outside world shall be vacant, - may we be worshiping God in that place from which we shall go out no more forever.

—Lthank God there will be no vacant chairs in heaven. There we shall meet again and talk over our earthly heartbreaks. How much you have been through since you saw them last! On the shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches; the loneliness; the sleepless nights; the weeping until you had no power to weep, because the heart had withered and dried up. Story of empty cradle and little shoe only half worn out, never to be worn again, just the shape of the foot that once pressed it. And dreams, when you thought the departed had come, back again, and the room seemed bright with their faces, and you started up to . greet them, and in the effort the. dream broke and you found yourself standing amid-room in the midnight —alone. Talking it all over, and then, hand in hand, walking up and down in the light. No sorrow, no tears, no death. On, heaven! beautiful heaven! Heaven where our friends are. Heaven where we expect to be. In the East they take a cage of birds and bring it to the tomb of the dead, and then they open the door of the cage, and the birds, flying out, sing. And I would to-day bring a cage of Christian consolation to the tomb of your loved ones, and I would open the door and let them fill all the air with the music of their voices. Oh, how they bound in these spirits before- the throne! Some shout with gladness. Some break forth into uncontrollable weeping for joy. Some stand speechless in tneir shock of delight. They sing. They quiver with excessive gladness. They gaze on the temples, on the palaces, on the waters, on each other. They weave their joy Into garlands, they spring it into triumphal arches, they strike it on timbrels, and then all the loved ones gather in a great circle around the throne of God—fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, lovers and friends, hand to hand around about the throne of God —the circle ever widening —hand to hand, joy to joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory, until the day break and the shadows flee away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young heart upon the mountains of Bether.

Tough Old Zulu Chiefs.

TJje old chiefs in South America know nothing about trekking, and on several occasions became so impatient that they started off on foot ahead ol the wagons, writes a correspondent ol the London Telegraph. One day they had to walk thirty-seven miles before reaching water, and then had to wait two days on scant rations before we came up with them. One of these men is seventy-five years old, but the tough old Zulu’(the Matabele rulers are of Zulu origin) was none the worse for the escapade. On another occasion, in spite of our warnings, they left us. armed only with assegais, in the worst part of the lion country. When we followed a few hours afterward we saw to oar horror that their footprints in the sand had been partially obliterated by the spoor of a lion.’ Fortunately, however, he had followed them only for some hundred yards, and then, probably not being hungry, he wandcrod off toward a pool of water. Such vagaries were to us a source of constant anxiety, for how could we face the king without bringing back his Indunasr Our own lives would not have been safe. We should have been claimed as impostors or accused ol witchcraft. However, we managed to divert their minds and keep them employed at the wagons by shooting twen’.v-six gray monkeys for them. The skips ol this particular species arc only worn by royalty or big chiefs.

A Favored Child of Fortune.

A one-armed printer is as much of a curiosity as the armless man who dexterously handles a knife and fork with bis toes. There came to Cincinnati two day? ago such a wonder, and he is now working as a “sub” in the Enquirer office. His name is Harry Rcnrod, lie is 27 years old, and hails from Washington, where he learned the trade on the Republican. Penrod six years age went on a trip out West, and while gone lost his left arm in a railroad accident. Only a short stump, extending but a few inches from the shoulder, remains. Nothing disheartenod by a misfortune that would have rendered most men- helpless, Penrod set, to work to manage the intricacies of Ms craft with one hand, and be succeeded so well that he now sets as big a “string” as the best printer, and he justifies his own matter and does it well. In “setting” type, Penrod places the itick on the case in front of him and then nimbly shoots tliet 'type into place, working very rapidly a’ud with as apparent ease as a man with twe hands. Penrod has worked as a “sub r on all the great ne\vspa|>«trs of the country and makes a competent livelihood. He is the only one-armed prim ter capable of earning a full day’s wages at the case. The several ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church who were recently deposed by the synod on account of the view they held regarding the right of franchise, have all united with the United Presbyterian Church, from which they have received a warm welcome.

CAMPBELL AGAIN.

. The Ohio Democrats Renominate the Governor. A Little Inharmonious but They Get There Just the Seme—Campbell’s Acceptance—The Platform. The Ohio Democratic convention at Cleveland, on the 15th, opened at 10:30 a. m. Allen W, Thnrman, temporary chairman, spoke at length, reviewing and criticising the policy of the Republican party in raising the average rate of duty from 47 to 57 per cent.; in clothing the President of the United States with unconstitutional powers; in its pernicious class legislation, driving the American marine off the high seas; in assisting England in her attempt to establish monometalism; in adding, In a short time, two thousand names to the iistof office holders; in blocking all legislation for months in an endeavor to enact an infamous, villainous, partisan force bill.

Ex-Congressman Frank Leßland, of Mercer county, was chosen permanent chairman. Gen. Armstrong, of Cleveland, moved that the convention adopt the picture of a victorious rooster as the device to designate the Democratic ticket. “I think,” said the General, “that this convention Bhould adopt, as the emblem of the Democratic party of Ohio, the old game-cock rooster. [Cheers andiapplause.] The Republicans will recognize that as our symbol and every man who ever voted the Democratic ticket can put his mark under the rooster.” [Laughter and applause.] The suggestion struck the convention favorably and the motion was adopted by acclamation. . _ Tho first contest in the convention arose over the report of the committee on credentials. The dispute in the Twenty-fifth ward of Cincinnati and Hamilton county delegation was the subjectof the wrangle, the Hamilton county delegation generally protesting against the report of the committee and supporting a minority report. After some wrangling a vote was taken and the minority report overwheiminlgly defeated. Following this came the reports on the platform. A SPLIT IX THE PLATFORM. The «ommittee on resolutions made two reports. Tho majority report was as follows:

The Democracy of Ohio, In convention assembled, hereby Resolve, That we most heartily endorse the honesty and economy of the admistratlon of Gov. James K. Campbell, and commend the Sixty-ninth General Assembly for Its business qualifications, economy and reform, and especially for having provided for a secret ballot, by which every voter in Ohio can cast his ballot In secret, as he desires, and have his vote counted as past: and we invite attention to the fact that the Republican party, though hypocritically professing to favor “a free ballot and a fair count,” yet opposed and voted against the bill providing for a free and lecret ballot, thus demonstrating its professions to be insincere and for political effect only; and wo cordially indorse and approve the act of the Legislature regulating the compensation of county officers by providing for a fixed salary. We are opposed to all class legislation, and we believe in a tariff levied for the sole purpose of producing a revenue sufficient to defray the legitimate expenses of the Government, economically administered. We accept the issue tendered us by the Republican party on the subject of the tariff, as represented by the so-called McKinley tariff act, confident the verdict of thp people of Ohio will be recorded against the iniquitous policy of so-callei protection, championed by the Republican party in the interest of favored classes against the masses. We favor a graded income tax. We denounce the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the party then in power as an iniquitous alteration of the money standard in favor of creditors and against debtors, tax payers and producers, and which, by shutting off one of the sources of supply of primary money, operates continually to increase the value of gold, depresses prices, hampers industry and disparages enterprise; and we demand the reinstatement of the constitutional standard of both gold and silver, with equal right to each of free and unlimited coinage. We denounce the Republican billlondollar Congress, which by extravagant expenditures exhausted a surplus in the national treasury, left thereby a Drmocratlc administration, and created a deficit; which substituted despotic rule for free discussion in the House of Representatives, and we congratulate the people on the defeat of the odious force bill, demanded by a Republican President and championed by the Republican party for the purpose of perpetuating its rule by perverting the constitutional powers of the Government, destroying free elections and placing the ballot-box in the hands of unscrupulous partisans, in order, as declared by SpeakReed. "to register the voters, supervise the elections, count the ballots and declare the result.”

We are opposed to the enactment of all laws which unnecessarily Interfere with the habits and customs of our people, which are not offensive to the moral sentiments of the civilized world, and we believe that the personal rights of the Individual should be curtailed only when it Is essential to the maintenance of the peace, good order and welfare of the community. We favor the paanige of such laws by the General Assembly as will give us a system for the government of municipalities uniform throughout the State, as the constitution requires, in which the executive and legislative power shall be separated, the former to be lodged in a mayor and the latter in acounell, noth to be elected by the people.thereby realizing the principle of home rule, safe from the dangers and evils of special legislation. We favor closer commercial relations with our Canadian neighbors and the removal of the embarrassing and annoying restrictions which only vex our people without yielding any substantial revenue to the Government. We favor liberal and Inst pensions to deserving and disabled soldiers and sailors who fought for the maintenance of the Government, and like pensions totheir widows and orphan children. The persecution of the Jewish people by tho Russian government justly deserves and receives unqualified censure. We extend to them our sincere sympathies and believe that this Government, in connection with the enlightened governments of Europe disposed to unite with us, should take proper steps to alleviate the wrongs thus Inflicted on this long-suffering and oppressed people. The majority report was received with much appl&use, and the reading was followed by that of the minority report, as follows: We, the undersigned members of the committee on resolutions, recommend the adoption of the following resolution as a substitute for the plank In the platform on thafree and unlimited coinage of silver: We balieve In honest money, the coinage

of gold and silver, and a circulating medium convertible into snch money without loss: and we oppose all legislation which tends to drive either gold or silver out of circulation; and we believe in maintaining the coinage of both metals on a parity. We also recommend that the resolution declaring for a graduated tax on income be stricken from the platform, The yeas and nays were demanded, and on roll-call of counties being called, the minority report was rejected by the very close vote of 300 X yeas to 399J< nays. Tho platform as reported by the majority of the committee was then adopted by acclamation. " ‘ CAMPBELL’S RE-SOMIATION In the balloting, when Hamilton comity was called she cast four votes for Campbell and fifty-five for Neal amid great excitement. The official vote was announced as follows: Campbell, 508 7-16; Neal, 133 9-16; Kline, 56; Johnson, 1. —The Governor was sent for and greeted with cordial enthusiasm. GOVERNOR CAMPBELL’S ACCEPTANCE. In accepting the nominatian Governor Campbell said:

While gratefully accepting the nomination from the Democratic party of Ohio, my thoughts naturally .revert to the record and achievements of that party since the memorable Dayton convention. Victorious In the ensuing election, the Ohio Democracy has legislated for the State and administered its affairs for eighteen months. In that short period it has destroyed every vestige of” the'dangerous centralization which has made the office of Governor a menance to the liberties of the people. It has restored to seventeen cities the control of their elections. It has provided new and better forms of government, in conformity with popular desire, for several of the larger cities. It has devoted time and care to the perfection of a law, securing secrecy of the ballot, thereby assuring an unbiased and unbought verdict of the people at the polls. This essential reform was frustrated at the first session of the Genera} Assembly by the unanimous vote of the Senators, belonging to a political party which recently gathered In convention at Columbus, ana prated, with hollow mockery of a “free ballot, and a fair count.” The Democratic party has done more to advance the cause of higher education by its legislation for the Ohio State University, and appropriations for the universities, than has been accomplished in all the long history of the State; and It has also been mindfnl of general education by enacting a salutary law for the cheapening of school books to the children of the poor. It had the courage to attack the odious fee system, whereby public officials were excessively compensated, and institute a system 01 just and reasonable salaries. It has especially looked after the welfare of agriculture, which has been continuously imposed upon by Republican congresses. Sixty thousand dollars were appropriated in one item to provide farmers with the results of agricultural experiments, and in their interest laws were passed with respect to oleomargarine and other products. The great laboring class, which hopelessly appealed to the Republican party, has not been forgotten either, as the Institution of “Labor Day,” important laws for the protection of railroad employes anjl the establishment of free employment agencies will show. The Democratic party has done what lay in its power to rectify our iniquitable tax laws and to provide for their improvement through an amendment to the constitution. It has decreased taxation more than SSOO per year by the repeal of the sinking fund levy. It found a deficiency in the treasury of more than $900,030, which was subsequently slightly decreased by it. The timely receipt from the Federal Government, from the direct tax refunded, was all that prevented the startling spectacle of an empty treasury--a direct legacy from former administrations. It has been charged that our, appropriations have exceeded those of our predecessors. Without stopping for detailed explanation, merely stating that we have not exceeded our income, let us inquire which of the new appropriations our enemies would curtail. I have already named the expenditures In, behalf of agriculture and education: do they attack these? The largest new Item of our appropriations was the sum of $200,000 for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home; do they deny the propriety of this? When we came Into power the helpless orphans of men who had given all to their ’ country were dying at a rate which shocked and alarmed the public. The administration of that institution had been one of the most personal and partisan in the State. High-minded trustees had been stricken by the chief executive because they did not prefer his interests to those of their dead comrades’ children. To restore the health and Save the lives of these orphans, we were glad to make unprecedented appro - priations; and if there be one spot in Ohio where a citizen of the State will feel a mingled Joy and pride It is there, in the midst of the nine hundred happy and healthy children, for whom a Democratic administration has freely expended its money. We have built some new and

roomy cottages at the soldiers and sailors* home. Do our Republican brethren begrudge the old veterans this additional comfort? We have made large appropriations for completing the new reformatory, in the hope of reclaiming young convicts before age and bad associates have hardened them beyond redemption. Does the Republican party criticise the expenditure of money for the prevention of crime? We have provided for an epileptic asylum, and have added to the capacity of tne insane asylums and to other benevolent and penal Institutions. We are proud of them all. Their management is economical, kind, firm and efficient We invite from the tax-payer and the humanitarian searching Investigation and thoughtful comparison. The electors of Ohio have other reasons for voting with us this year besides such as solely affect this State. The battle before us Is essentially a national one. Not only Is this ture because the result must seriously affect next year’s Federal elections, but also because the Republicans of Ohio have unreservedly identified themselves with every phase of the iniquitous legislation accomplished or attempted by the Fifty-first Congress. In the platform they have reaffimed their adherence to the infamous force bill—the Republican lost cause—a measure so obviously designed to destroy free elections that Republican Senators, unwilling to violate their consciences and their oaths, refused to inflict it upon the country. The Republican party of Ohio appears as the defender of that arbitrary disregard of minority rights, which disgraced the last House of Representatives. It u pholds the fraudulent unseating of lawfully elected members; the steal Montana by the Senate and all other high-handed outrages by which that party hassought to perpetuate its power against the wishes of the people. It represents the reckless extrav agancc and astounding profligacy which nave dissipated the splendid Democratic surplus, forced the extension of. • national bonds and com polled an Ohio Secretary of the Treasury to resort to tricks of bookkeeping and subterfuges unworthy of his office. In order to conceal a deficit, and deceive the people. Pre-emlently also does the Republican leader in Ohio, whose high character and conspicuous career but emphasize his advocacy of bad legislation, stand for that pemlcions tariff measure, which was rejected at the polls last year by the people of the entire country—a measure indent!fied with his name, saturated with his Ideas and wrought by his hands; a measure designed, as has been well said, tb the interest "of monopoly; a measure which TS bringing shout the worst of all central!-

rations—the centralization of wealth with its debasing and destractive results; • measure which has already in many cases made less work and lower wages for productive labor; a measure which has foreeA the farmer of Ohio to sell his wool in some instances as low as 20 cents a pound, and that, too, in a market where he pays more dearly for hundreds of necessary articles, which are but insufficiently sweetened with the humbug of bounty-produced sugar; a measure which forces from the labor of th« country $14,000,000 each year for the benefit of prospective tin mines, owned by capitalists who live in England and prospective tin-plate workSjto be operated by labor imported from Wales; a measure which, as it came from the hands of its author, did not, in the Opinion of an eminent Republican, “open the market for another pound of pork or another bsntt of flour:” a measure which could not be forced down the throat of a reluctant Senate until sugar-coated with the old Democratic doctrine of reciprocity—a dochrino finally, though feebly, embodied In the Mil in spite of opposition from the great Ohio ' protectionist. In his recent speech of acceptance this same champion of higher protection said: “We follow the tariff teachings of Washington and Hamilton, of Clay and Webster, of Lincoln and Garfield,” Let ns seehow wide of the mark this statement is. The tariff of to-day is at the rate of 57J£ per cent. • the tariff of Washington was 7% percent.: the protection sought by Glajr was for the benefit of “infant” industries; the tariff to-day increases protection upon Industries which have been coddled for more than ninety years; the protection of Garfield was, to quote his- own words, “that kind of protection which leads to ultimate free trade.” —— Let the Republicans of Ohio who have not gone mad on protection come over this year and start with us upon the backward march toward the tariff of Washington; or, better yet, enroll themselves under n banner inscribed with those burning’•'ords of Garfield. Let the well-meaning men. who train under the names of the “Farmers’ Alliance,” or of the “People’s Party," and who seek to remedy real grievances brought about by Republican legislation, remember that no third party can succeed, but that with us, and as a part of us, they can help swell the joyous hosanna that will peal to haven from the tax-burdened people of the country, when the glad tidings go forth next November that wo am yet in possession of the old Republican citadel now the Democratic Buckeye State. [Great applause.] Nominations for Lieutenant Governor were delared in order. For this offic’ there was but one candidate, Hon. W. N. Marquis, the present incumbent, who was renominated by acclamation, The rest of the ticket was completed as follows: For Auditor of State, Hon. T. E. Pecklnbaugh, of Wayne county; for Attorney General, John P. Bailey, of Potnam county; for State Treasurer, C. El Ackerman, of Mansfield; for Judge of tlwr Supreme Court, Gustavus H. Wald, of Hamilton county; for Commissioner of Common Schools, Charles C. Miller, of Erie county; for member Board of PublicWorks, John McNamara, of Summit bounty; for member of Food and Dairy Commission, H. S. Trumb, of Lawrence coanty. The managers of the Briceville, Tenn., mines have putin convict labor, and they now ask the Governor to send them troops to protect them from the assaults of in* labor. The Russians will compete in furnishing; pork to the European countries.

A Cat in a Cattle Camp.

Speaking of intelligent cats, says m Writer in the New York Tribune, w* owned one when we were camped os the Big Sandy river who knew a thing' or two. The Doctor was not handsome; none of us thought that, but in » .country where one saw only Indians ami coyotes week in and week out a cat was a good companion for a man who had to watch the camp when the others wore away with the cattle. The most noticeable thing about the Doctor at first blush was his face and eyes There was a white spot over one eys and hall of his face, which made hits look like a bald-faced horse. To add to the odd effect caused by this blotch the Doctor’s eyes were of different colors. One was green and the other was a sort of brown. But if the Doctor was not noted for his beauty he was much respected ou the Big Sandy, and no little consideration was shown hire in looking after his wants. It is certain that as far as provisions went be always fared better than any man in camp. If there was one thing which the Doctor and the rest of us took a lively interest in it was the killing of a yearling to get fresh meat. It may be supposed that fresh meat wa3 not Scarce in a cattle camp, but this was not truck It was not often that the few men who watched the herd found time to do any slaughtering. So when it was decided to kill a yearling there was an unusual stir of interest among the men. The Doctor in a Bliort time got to know so much about this operation that at the first sign of preparation he gave expression to the wildest glee. As soon as one of the men began to sharpen his knife the Doctor climbed a fence-poet andjon top of it began a series of crazy antics. He raised his back, with hair standing up like porcupine quills, and' howled till the men started to lasso the yearling. Then the Doctor because a four-legged fiend. With a wild soreaos he leaped from the post and ran before the horses, tumbling over and over., clawing at the ground and tangling himself up with the horses’ feet But when the yearling was caught the Doctor became still more violent and his actipns were simply demoniac*l. Not till the yearling was killed did bet become calm and then the contrast startling. He walkod around the prostrate animal with an air of the kestwet delight, always ending his celebrati-H» by leaping lightly to to back and sitting there, purring softly and looking contented with the world and everything on its surface. - *J ' :i ‘ ' Of all the giddy pieces of feminine wearing apparel the blouSh is the giddiest, tlt appears decked out la the most startling tones, and the more pronounced it grows the more it is sought after.