Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. fc. G»o». E. Mam-all, B-ma. - -———— - —— RENSSELAER - INDIANA

"Charity suffereth long and is Mnd” and sometimes “sets’em up.” «»■■£■ ■!”!■■ ...U. .' ,HB» “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power ot thine hand to do it* Ths Columbian Museum at Chicago, the movement for which was inaugurated by Marshall Field, is receiving maqy gifts of great value from departing exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Somk people will joke on the edge «f the grave. Even the horrible anarchistic massacre of the happy theater goers at Barcelona, Spain, has furnished the American punster with material for his absurd mind to work with, and he has startled the public with the statement that the dynamite bombs thrown among the wretched victims were “Lap-laud-

• A Lomdom burlesque company has incurred the displeasure of the SubIme Porte —otherwise known as the government of the Sultan. The Turkish Ambassador at the Corirt of St. James has objected to the burtesquing of his imperial master and the Lord Chamberlain of London has wielded the authority of his office and dipped the character of the Sultan bodily from the play. There K does not appear to be a super-abund-ance of, freedom ‘ ‘over there. ”

A prominent young banker of Lafayette, not especially known as an authority on horse flesh, recently purchased a hag which he imagined would soon become a rival o f Maud 8. in the records of the turf. While expatiating on’the merits of his “critter” he made the statement that he could “go” seventeen miles an hour. “What,” exclaimed a jockey standing near, “seventeen miles an hour! la that all you can get out of •f that horse? Why, when he was a eoltthe lightning killed the old mare and chased the colt all round the pasture, and never got within ten rods of him.”

The courts of Michigan and Now York have recently rendered de«sions adverse to the hopes of ardent advocates of womans’ alleged . right to vote. In other States the •ourts have been acting in a similar •old-blooded and ungallant manner. Yet female suffragists are not disheartened, and comfort themselves with the thought that the passage of the laws which have been annulled ; - by the courts was of itself a sign of ■ a great change in public sentiment, j They recollect that constitutions ■ can be changed in this conn try when a publicsentiment sufficiently strong has been created, and to that end their labors in the future will be directed.

The French love variety and •hange— even in scan dels. The Panama business became stale. The' “rascals were all turned out” —of, prison and fought duels to amuse the populace as long as they could invent excuses f6r so doing. Now . the French government has secured ’ the popular attention by the pardon . of the traitor Turpin, who was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for selling the secret of the manufacture of melinlite to foreign gouernments. The dispatches state that the French people are astonished and indignant, and at this distance it looks as though that was the end desired by the powers in control in order to distract attention from the corruption in high places which the Panama scandal disclosed to view.

Thi sandbag as a weapon of oftense and means of highway robbery j is celebrated in the records of police courts everywhere, but it has been reserved for a cituen of Indianapo- ' Ms to introduce an innovation in weapons of defense. A gentleman! bearing the distinguished name oil Le Marr through the obsctfre streets •f that city was ordered to ‘‘Hold up your hands!” by an enterprising thug. while returning home from the meat market. Instead of complying with the modest req-iestof the highwayman, he threw the 10-ccnt porkchop intended for the family breakfast square into the scoundrel’s £-ce. This sudden action so disconcerted the thief that he took to his heels and was pursued bv the valiant Le at the rule, hastily ket and lev>f, instead ol rayman was b station as was subso eent to thr grand jury

TYPICAL FROST.

The Breath of God Made Visible by Cold. Fruita An . i>( MWHlty-lt’ Sanitary Mluioti—Dr. Tai. nuagt'a Svrinnii. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject---“ The Mission of the Frost.” Text--Job xxxvii, 10, “By the breath of God frost is given.” As no one seems disposed to discuss the mission of frost, depending on divine help I undertake it. This is the first Sabbath of winter. The leaves are down. The warmth has gone out of ti e air. The birds have made their winged march southward. The landscape has been scarred by the autumnal equinox. Thehuskers have rifled the cornshocks. The night sky hits shown the usual meteoric restlessness of November. Three seasons of the year are past, and the fourth and last has entered. Another element now comes in to bless and adorn and instruct the world. It is the frost. The palaces- of this king are far up in the arctic. Their walls are glittering congelation. Windsor castles and Tuileries and winter palaces and Kenilworths and Alhambrasof ice, temples with pendant chandeliers of ice, thrones of iceberg on which eternal silence reigns, theaters on whose stage eternal cold -dramatizes eternal winter, pillars of ice, arches of ice, sepulchers of ice, mountains of ice. crowns of ice, chariots of ice, dominions of ice—eternal frigidity! From those hard, white, burnished portals King Frost descends and waves his silvery scepter over our temperate zone. You will soon hear his heel on the skating pond. You already feel his breath in the. night wind. By most considered an enemy coining here to benumb and hinder and stay, I shall show you that the* frost is a friend, with benediction divinely pronounced, and charged and surcharged with lessons potent, beneficient and tremendous. The bible seven times alludes to the frost, and we must not ignore it. “By the breath of God frost is given." Next I speak of the frost as a physician. Standing at. the gates of New York harbor autumn before last, the frost drove back the cholera saying, “Thus far shalt thou come and no farther.” From Memphis and New Orleans and Jacksonville he smote the fever plague till it reeled back and departed. The frost is a physician that doctors cities, nations and continents. He medicines the world. Quinin? for malaria, an-ti-febrile for typhoids, sulphonal for sleeplessness, antispasmodic for disturbed nerves, bpt in all therapeutics there is uo remedy like the small pellets prepared by the cold, and no physician so successfull as the frost. thank God for the frost! It is the best of all germicides. It is the only hope in bacteriology. It is the medicament of continents. It is the salvation of our temperate zone. It is the best tonic that God ever gave the human race. It is the only strong stimulant which has no reaction. The best commentary on it I had wljile walking near here one cool morning with my brother John who spent the rnest of his life as a missionary in China, and in that part of it where there are no frosts. He said there was a tingling gladness in his nerves indescribable, and an almost intoxication of delight from the fact that it was the first time for years he had felt the sensation of frost. We complain of it, we scold it, we frown upon it, when we ought to be stirred by it to gratitude and hoist it on a doxology. But I must go farther and speak of the frost as a jeweler. As the snow is frozen rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God transforms it from a liquid into a crystal. It is the dew glorified. In the thirty-eighth chapter of that inspired drama, the book of Job, God says to the inspired dramatist with ecstactic interrogotion, “The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?” God there asks Job if he knows the parentage of the frost. He inquires about its pedigree. He suggests that Job study up the genealogical line. A minute before God had asked about the parentage of a rain-drop, in words that years ago gave me a suggestive text for a sermon, “Hath the rain a father?” But now the Lord Almighty is catechising Job about the frost. He practically says: “Do you knovrits father? Do you know its mother? In what cradle of the leaves did the wind rock it? ‘The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?’ ”.

First I think of frost as a painter. He begins his work on the leaves and continues it on the window panes. With palette covered with all manner of colors in his left hand and penoil of crystal in his right hand, he sits down before the humblest bush in the latter part of September and begins the sketching of the leaves. Now he puts upon the foliage a faint pallor, and then a touch of brown, and then a hue ,pf orange, and last a flame of fire. The beech and ash and oak are turned first into sunrises and then into sunsets of vividness'and splendor. AU the leaves are penciled one by one, but sometimes a whole forest in the course of a few days shows great velocity of work. Tired of working on the leaves the frost will,soon turn to th£ window panes. You will soon waken on a cold morning and find that the windows of your home hafvc during the night been adorned with curves, with coronets, with exquisiteness,

with pomp, witn almost supernatural spectacle. Then you will appreciate what my text says as it declares, “By the breath of God frost is given.” You will see on the window pane, traced there by the frost, whole gardens of beauty— ferns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes, china asters, fountains, statues, hounds on the chase. roebucks plunging into the stream, battle scenes with dying and dead, catafalques of kings, triumphal processions and as the morning sun. breaks through you will see cities on fire and bombardment with bursting shell, and illumihations as for some great victory, coronations aud angels on the wing. Standing here between the closed doors of the pictured woods and the opening doors of -the transfigured window glass, I want to cure my folly and your folly of longing for glorious things in the distance, while we neglect appreciation of glorious things near by. “Oh, if I could only go and see the factories of lace at Brussels!” says some one. Why, within twenty feet of where you awaken some December tnorning you will see richer lace in terwoven for your window panes by divine fingers. “Oh, if I could only go and see the factories of silk at Lyons!” says some one. Why, without leaving your home on the north side of your own house on Christmas morning you may see where the Lord has spun silken threads about your windows this way and that—embroideries such as no one but God

can work. Oh, these regalias and diadems of beauty flung out of heaveq! Kings and queens on celebrative days have come riding through the streets throwing handfuls of silver and gold among the people, but the queen of the winter morning is the only queen rich enough to throw pearls, and the king of frost the only king rich enough to throw opals and sapphires and diamonds. Homer describes a necklace of amber given to Penelope, but the frost necklaces a continent. The carcanet of precious stones i given to Harmonia ha 1 pinions of orange iaspergnd white moonstones and Indian agate, but it was a misfortune to any one who inherited it, and its history, generation after generation, was a history of disaster, but the regalia of frost is the good fortune of every morning 'hat possesses it. But I go a step farther and speak of the frost as an evangelist, and a. text of 'scripture is not of much use to rue unless I can find the gospel in it. The Israelites in the wilderness breakfasted on something that resembled frozen dew. The ma’nna fell on the dew and the dew evaporated • and left a pulverized material, white and looking like frost, but it was manna, and bf that they a»c. So now this morning, mixed with the frozen dew of my text, there is manna on whith we can breakfast our, souls. You say the frost kills. Yes, it kills some things, but we have already seen that it gives life and health to others. The gospel is the savor of life unto life and death unto death. Mild doses of medicine will do for I mild sickness, but violent pains need strong doses, and so I stand over you and count some drops that will alleviate you’ 1 worst troubles if you will only take the medicine, aud here it is: “in the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.” “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Thank God for frosts! What helped make Washington the greatest of generals? The frosts of Valley Forge. What made it appropriate for one passing John Bunyan’s grave to exclaim. “Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers!” The frosts of imprisonment. The greatest college from which we can graduate is the college of frosts. Especial trial fits for especial work. Just now watch and you will see that trouble is preparative and educational. That is the grindstone on which battle axes are sharpened. I have always noticed in my own case that when the Lord had some special work for me to doit was pi eceded by especial attaek upon file. This is so proverbial in my own house that if for something I say or do I get poured upon me a volley of censure and abuse, my wife always asks: “I wonder what new opportunity of usefulness is about to open. Something good and grand is surely coming."

For many years poets and essayists have celebrated the grace and swiftness of the Arabian horses. The most wonderful exhibition of horsemanship that I ever witnessed was just outside of the city of Jerusalem—an Arabian steed* mounted by an Arab. Do you know where these Arabian horses got their fleetness and poetry of motion? Long centuries ago Mohammed, with 30,000 cavalry on the march, could find for them not a drop of water for them. Coming to the top of a hill, a river was in sight. With wild dash the 30,000 horses started for the stream. A minute after an armed host was seed advancing, and at Mohammed’s command 100 bugles blew.for the horses to fall in line, but all the 30,000 continued the wild gallop to the river except five, and they, almost perishing with thi ret, wheeled into line of battle. Nothing in human bravery and self-sacrifice excels that bravery and self-sacrifice of those five Arabian war ho-ses. Those five splendid steeds Mohammed chose for his own use, and from those five came that race of Arabian horses'for ages the glory of the equestrian world. And let me say that in this great war of truth against error, of holiness against sin and heaven against hell, the best |war horses are descended ■ .

from those who, under pain and selfdenial and trouble, answered the gospel trumpet and wheeled into line. Out of great tribulation, out of great fires, out of great frosts, they came. And let me say it will not take long for God to make up to you in the next world al! you have suffered in this. As you enter heaven He may say: “Give this man one of those towered and colonnaded palaces on that ridge of gold overlooking the sea of glass. Give this woman a home among those amaranthine blooms and between those fountains tossing in the everlasting sunlight. Give her a couch canopied with rainbows to pay her for all the fatigues of wifehood and motherhood and housekeeping, from which she had no rest for forty years.

Cupbearers of heaven, give these newly arrived souls from earth the costliest bevciuges and roll to their, door the grandest chariots and hang on their walls the sweetest harps that ever thrummed to fingers seraphic. Give to them rapture on rapture, celebration on celebration, jubilee on jubilee, heaven on heaven. They had a hard time on earth earning a livelihood, or nursing sick children, or waiting on querulous old age, or battling falsehoods that were told about them, or were compelled to work after they got short breathed and rheumatic and dim sighted. Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers of the King’s robes! Banqueters of eternal roi’alty ! Make up to them a hundredfold, a millionfold for all thev suffered from swaddling clothes to shroud, and let all those who, whether on the hills, or in the temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wall, wore helped and sanctified and prepared for this heavenly realm by the mission of the frosts stand up and wave their scepters!” And I looked, and behold! nine-tenths of the ransomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenths of the. scepters"swayed to and fro in the light of the sun that never sets, and then I understood far Petter than I ever did before that trouble comes for beneficent purposes, and that on the coldest nights the aurora is brightest in the northern heavens, and that “by the breath of God frost is given.”

Food For the Tiger.

Detroit Free Press. The teacher in a New York sltqn Sunday school was instructing the kids in a f°w questions, with pictures to match. <'L -E-'W “Now, Johnny,” she said to a kid as she held up the picture of a royal Bengal tiger, "what is that?" Johnny took one squint at it. “Dat’s Tammany," be replied,with pride and confidence. »yhe teacher frowned. “No,” she said,' “that’s a tiger. Do vou know what a tiger is?” Ho shook his head. “It s a fierce animal,” she explained, “t hat loves to eat up tender little boys like you. ” !’ “Huliy gee!" he exclaimed, “you i bet it don’t want to cat me.” “Yes, it docs: it would only be too glad to get such n tondor morsel." “Come off." contended Johnny, “I wouldn’t be in if a minute if it likes dat kind; my mudder says I’ni de toughest kid on de block.” and Johnny settled ba<}k and called for “de nex’.’’

Gets There Just the Same.

It would seem that the grip should have completed its travels long before this, but news comes from Onnalaska, one of the largest and must important of the Aleutian Islands, that the strange disease only reached there a few weeks ago. Two-thirds of the population have been down with it. but the epidemic was not of a virulent type, and the only deaths from it were of okt, feeble people. Moro than half of the crew of the United States revenue cutter Bear were prostrated by grip while she was at the island, and she had barely enough well men to work the ship when she startctl on her last visit of the reason to the islands of-St, Paul and St. George a '.-vn.

He Wondered.

ln<llann,polli» Journal. Yabslev— You ought to take more sleep. Mudge. Don’t you know that siccj.i is a great conservator of beauty? Mudge—l wonder if that is the reason the women are so fond of attending church? *

They Quarreled.

WnshfnSWr. Star. -- “Dey has done bruk the engagement.” “You doan say so?” “Yassin deed." “What foh?” . “She done tas’ed a persimmon dat warn’t ripe, an Be misconstrued de pucker and kissed h-r."

At the Gino.

Texas Siftings. . .A - Mr. Murray Hill--You here. Uptown? Why. I understood your daughter was to l:em.»rried to-night. Mr. Uptown—So she is; but I make it a rule never to mix in other people’s affairs. .

The illness of Sir Andrew Clark,

the distinguished English physician, recalls to London newspapers the story of how, when some forty years ago he was a candidate for his first post at the'London hospital, he was helped bv his delicate, appearance His qualifications were above ques tion, but other candidates were also well qualified, and young Clark was finally chosen only when one of the managers said, “Give it to him. It will please the poor devil and he won’t livelong."

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Judah is a suburb of Bedford. trreenneia streets neea scraping. Burglars vex the town ot Marshall. A basket factory at Butler employs fifty hands. James Yost was killed by the can at Knox. . "L The Frankfort police are raiding the gamblers. . Muncie now has an epidemic of la grippe for a change. >.. J. N. Huston's’bank at Connersville, resumed business, Monday. The New Albany woollen mills will resume operations immediately. The tin plate works at Atlanta, closed for several months, will soon resume. A South Bend man is joyfully bellowing over the possession of a two-headed calf.

The jury In the Tucker-Hyatt breach-of-promfce suit at Peru gave the plaintiff J<>,(oo. John Shrader of New Albany, gave SS,CQJ loaves of bread to the poor, Thanksgiving. N. P. H. Proctor, well known attorney at Crawfordsville, has mysteriously disappeared. A lamp exploded in the hands of Mrs. Fannie Stuart, of Dayton, and she was burned to death. Seventy-five conversions was the result of the Friends’ revival which has just closed at Kokomo. The suicide mania broke out at Indianapolis, again, Sunday. Three cases—two successful, one failure. John Sollenberger, of Kokomo, a wellknown young man. has been mysteriously missing for three months. Itis rumored that the Columbus street railway company is to abandon the electric system and go back to mules. Dick Goodman, leader of a notorious gang and who was shot while attempting to rob a store, is dying at his home at Dundee. Dr. John Seater, wife and daughter, of Fort Wayne, had a narrow escape from death, Thursday. They ate oysters that had been kept too long. A cherry orchard of 125 fine young trees belonging to Wliliam Cummings, south of Brazil, was cut' up by a vandal, a few days since, and ruined. Col. J.- F. Wiley, who raised the first grafted peaches in Indiana, is dying of old r.go at his home at Flower Gap, Clark county. He is nearly ninety years old. ' Reuben Pedon, a well known and highly respected businessman of Knightstown, was killed by the fast mail train at that place, Friday. He was shockingly mangled.

The Indiana Coal Company, whose representativcs’have been in session at Brazil, have organized a big trust and it is thought that the price of coal will now go up. The Foster family, murdered by Clinton Jordan, were buried in one grave by Marling Post, G. A. R., of Crothersville. The body of Jordan was taken to Seymour by his father. ■ At Elwood, Wednesday evening, a terrific explosion of natural gas occurred at the plant of the Electric Light Company. The power house was wrecked and four men were dangerously injured. Thieves entered the woods pasture of Nelson Johnson, a farmer who lives near Washington, and killed, dressed and carried away two fine steers. This was done in the night. The pasture was close to the house. . The contest for the football championship of the State between teams from Purdue and Depauw, at Indianapolis, Thursday, resulted in a victory for Purdue The game was witnessed by 5,000 people. Seiberling & Schrader’s brick-works, at. Gas City, were destroyed by fire, originating from a natural gas explosion, which occurred while an employe was heating his noon day lunch. The loss is 815,000 with small insurance. _ Gas experts state that the pressure in nearly ail the gushers in hancock county is increasing in a remarkable manner of late. Several wells have blown out their tubing and much difficulty is experienced in anchoring the pipes. The “Long Distance Telephone Company” opened communication from Indianapolis to the outside world, Tuesday. Gov. Matthews was present and sent messages to New York and Chicago. The enterprise is an entire success*. Professor Snyder, ex-superintendant of the Washington county schools, becoming convinced that the tobacco habit was wrong, concluded to reform it and to invest the money spent for tobacco in a Building and Loan Association. He has now 8000 invested, which otherwise would have teen dhslpated in smoke. Two prisoners escaped from the county jail at Bloomfield, recently, by knocking down the sheriff’s son while he was taking breakfast into the prison. But they were not at liberty long. James Dickson, a farmer living a mile and a half southwest of Bloomfield, stopped them in their flight and at the muzzle of a gun marched them both back to jail. * b James Barnes is a walker from Walkertown. He lives in Harrison county, so the story goes, and teaches school over in Kentucky, boarding at home. Every morning he walks to Bosswood, a distance of ten miles, where he takes a skiff and crosses to the Kentucky side, and then he walks three miles further to his school, returning to Elizabeth in the’eVening.— Paoli Republican. Barney Brannin, a jolly Irishman living near Wabash, is lying at the point of death, the result of his inordinate appetite for whisky. Wednesday morning ho got up, having been on a protracted spree, went to the barn and took a big drink of horse medicine, probably thinking it was whisky. Doctors have been working over him, but he is a doomed man. The State of Indiana won the. suit against the Tolleston Club, of Chicago, at Valparaiso, Monday, involving the title to a vast tract of swamp land. The suit has been pending for a long time. The clnb claimed a title to the lands under a patent from Congress, and have built club houses on the tract and inclosed the same by a barbed wire fence. Patents wore granted to the Indiana inventors. Tuesday, as follows: 8. M. Brundage, Indianapolis, deflector for droning machines; T. Decker, Charlottes- . Ville, assignor of one-half to T. Roberts, 1 Arlington, harness; J. A. Grove, Bluffton, wire fence; G. I. Haswell, Fort Wayne, folding chair; J. I. Bloke, South Bend, harrow: Henry Stacey, assignor of ono--1“

half to M H. Cain, Indianapolis, oßburner. tl Clouchek’s soap facto at Michigan City, which had°teen filled with nearly one thousand pounds of Caustic soda, and upon which the steam had been turned, exploded with terrific every direction. T. S. Davis, foreman of/ the establishment, and Joseph Clouchek, the proprietor, were seriously scalded. Lyford has but three hundred population, and the people are nearly all interested in mining. On pay days there is much lawlessness, and fights are frequent. Last Saturday night the miners assembled as customary, and hostilities opened with a fight between Gus Kline and a man named Huskmann over some broken window panes. Two hours later Huskman bombarded Cline’s residence with stones, and when Cline came to the door he was shot in the bowels. Huskman was arrest- - ed and turned over to the Parke county authorities. Jacob Schudel started to walk from Ligonier to Albion during the night time, but when about three miles from his destination he waa halted by three masked men and taken to a school house, where he was stripped of his clothing, which was distributed among thomselves. Bchudel was then knocked down and left lying unconscious on the floor. When he recovered he.was so frightened that ho bounded out of doors and started to run, yelling at the top of his voice. He wjis found by the superintendent of the county asylum, badly frozen and delirious, and it was several days before he recovered his normal condition. ' - 5 \ Alexandria is reported as having a taits of the anarchical element. Many Bohemians have flocked there to work in the factories, and seemingly they are showing • little regard for law. Neighboring farmers have been terrorized by their excursions. Cattie are killed in broad daylight, and when the owners undertake to protest they are driven away by these ignorant and anarchistic foreigners. A few days ago they deliberately seized upon a flock of geese, cutting off the heads.of the fowls as fast as caught, and piling the bodies in the yard to await convenient removal. It is oven said that they, are killing horses and living off the flesh. The farmers arc orgar.iz.ing for mutual protection. L. L. Ambro«, of Cei-ter Point, claims that the following is the proper treatmenwf the grip: First administer a hot foot b.v.h, u«ing salt or soda, with mustard or caycnuii pepper in the water. Rub the feet and legs thoro .gbly, then give a full dose of physic. When this has taken effect give four grain dose? of powdered assafetlda nyorv three hours for a whole day, followed by quinine in full doses till the disease gives way. Should kidney trouble develop a few drops of turpentine or sweet spirits of nitre will relieve. To relievo attendant headache apply mustard to spinal column. The patient should remain in doors and lake only light nourishment. L 1 Edwin R. Niles, of Laporte, some wooks ago was called to his door after nightfall in response to an apparently friendly summons. Whereupon he was seized by masked men and dragged to a convenient locality, where he was cruelly scourgbd. Still -later ho received a letter making threats that his' life would be forfeited If he did not leave the neighborhood. Mr, Niles invoked the interference of tho law. Four arrests followed and a preliminary hearing was appointed for Saturday afternoon before ’Squire King. Owing to faulty affidavits the defendants were discharged. This created quite a scone in the court room, Mrs. Nilas, wife of the harassed man. denouncing thb American courts and American juries for tho manner in which the law is evaded. Niles was formerly an active minister in the Christian church. He uUo served in the late war and was promoted for gallantry. There is fear that both he and his wife are mentally affected because of the strain to which they have been subjected

THE F. M. B. A.

The F. M, B. A. met in annual session at Indianapolis, Tuesday. -Resolutions were adopted favoring higher education: condeming Secretary of Agriculture Morton; reiterating adherence tn. the fundamental prlnclpl !S of the order!

UNCLE SAM'S NAVY.

Secretary Herbert Favor* It* Further Development. Secretary Herbert, tn his annual report, just issued, says: We have not even in commission a ‘single vessel of war that could keep the seas . against a tir<t-class vessel of any foreign power,’ although we have four such In "processof construction. If our govern- ' * ment in the future is to have naval strength enough to command the pea co and be in condition to ‘enforce the terms dictated by its sense of right and justice’ it must have more battleships ana must build a reasonable number of torpedo boats. No one can value economy more than I do, and its practice is certainly necessary at this time, when the government expenditures are likely to be more, than its receipts, but the safety of the country, its honor and Its dignity, must rise above every other consideration. And it is respectfully submitted that the programme of authorizing the building ot at least some vessels at each session u Congress ought not to bo interrupted now. 1 recommend that the construction of at least one battleship and six torpedo boats be authorized by Congress at the coming session. ,

THE PUBLIC DEBT.

The public debt statement issued Friday shows an Increase In the public debt tor November of 86,030,000; decrease in cash balance for the month, 17,,0M,t174; net gold reserve, 888,959.(X0; cash In Treasury. 8734,820.435; the expenditures under the head of “war” this year have been 86,162,133. and under the head of “navy,”-81.913,-189 greater than for the first five months of last year. The total amount of national bank circulation outstanding, Nov. 30, was 1203.850 888, anlncrease in circulation since Nov. 20 1893, of 835,339.930, and a dolz zrs culatlon outstanding against bonds"..deposited therefor November 30 was s°t?fiptao” ber, 1892, and 87.537,388 during Octobe-, 1893. The total gold in the trdfeury, coin and bullion, is 8161.123,128; the gold certificates in treasury cash, 8149,090; gold «“ del mid Id u. tteuln’.