Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

TALKS ON WOMAN’S WRONGS AND HER OPPORTUNITIES. Vashti the Veiled, the Silent and the Righteous—The Bold Woman and the ‘ Modest Wonian— Waiting for this Bi* vine Hand to Soothe. * Woman Sacrificed, In his sermon last Sunday, starting from a brilliant Bible scene, Dr. Tab mage discoursed upon woman's opportunities and the wrongs she Sometimes suf? fers. His text was Esther i.. 11,,12: "TO bring Vashti Jhe queen befoj-e the king with the crown royal to show the people and the princes her beauty, for she was fair. to look on. But the queen Vashti refused- to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains, therefore was the king very wroth, und his anger burned ip him.” We stand amid the palaces of Shushan. -The-pinnacles are aflame with the morning light. The columns rise festooned and ■wreathed, the wealth of empires flashing frqm the grooves, the ceilings adorned with images of bird and beast and scenes of prowess and conquest. The walls ate hung with shields and emblazoned He til it seems that the whole round of splendors is exhausted. Each arch is a mighty leap of architectural'achievement. Golden stars shining down on glowing arabesque. Hangings of embroidered work in which mingle the blueness of the sky. the greenness of the grass,-and the.whiteness of the sea~foiim: . Tapestries thungon silver rings, welding together the pillars of marble. Pavilions reaching out in every direction. These for repose, filled with luxuriant couches, into which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is submerged. These for carousal, where kings drink down a kingdom at one swallow. Amazing spectacle! Light of silver dripping down over .stairs of ivory on shields of gold. Floors of stained marble, sunset red and night black, and inlaid with gleaming pearl. Why. it' seems as if a heavenly vision of amethyst anil jacinth and topaz and chrysoprasus had descended and alighteu upon Shushan. It seems as If a billow of celestial glory had dashed clear over heaven’s battlements upon this metropolis of I’ersia. In connection with this palace there is a garden where the mighty men of foreign jnndy KQ'ited at aba uquet. Under the spreail' of oak and linden and acacia the tables are arranged. The breath of honeysuckle and frankincense fills the air. Fountains leap up into the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling in crystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs, then rolling down through channels of marble andwidening out here and . there into podlFswirling iviftrthe'tinny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones* hyperiettms and many colored ranunculus. Meats of rarest bird ,and beast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases tilled with apricots and almonds. The baskets piled up with apricots -and ‘dates and figs and oranges and pomegranates. Melons tastefully twined with loaves of acacia. The bright wnters of. Eiilno-us- tilling the Urns and sweating outside the rim in flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine from the royal vats, of Ispahan and Shiraz in bottles of tinged shell and lily shaped cups of silver ■ and flagons and tankards of solid gold. The music rises higher, mid the revelry breaks out into wilder transport, and the wino has flushed the cheek and touched the brain, and louder than all other voices are tho hiccough, of the inebriates, the gabble of fools-and the song of the drunkards.

Vashti the Sacrificed. Tn another part of the palace Queen Vashti is entertaining the princesses of Persia at a banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to his servants, “You go out and fetch Vashti from that banquet with the women and bring her to this banquet with the men and let tne display her beauty.” The servants immediately start to obey the king's command, but there was a rule rh oriental society that no woman might appear in public without having her face veiled. Yet here was a mandate, that no one dare dispute, demanding that Vashti come in unveiled before the multitude. However, there was in Vnshti’s soul a principle more regal than Ahasuerus, more brilliant than the gold of Shushan, of more wealth than the realm of Persia, which commanded her to disobey this order of the king, and so all th? righteousness and holiness and modesty of her nature rises up into one sublime refusal. She says, “I will not go into the banquet unveiled.” Of course Ahasuerus was infuriate, and .Vashti, robbed of her position and her estate? as driven forth ItT poverty and riiin to suffer the scorn of a nation, and yet to receive the applause of after generations who shall rise up to admire this martyr to kingly insolence. Well, the' last vestige of that feast is gone, the last garland has faded, the List arch has fallen, the last tankard has been destroyed, and Shushan is a ruin, but iu long as the world stands there will bo multitudes of men and women familiar with the Bible who will come into this picture gallery of God and admire the divine portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent. Nobio Women. In the first place, I want yon to look upon Vnshti the queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with white, drawn* around her foyhead, indicated her queenly position. It was no small honor to be queen in such a realm as that. Hark to the rustle of her robes! See the blaze of her jewels! And yet. my friends, it is not necessary to have palace and regal robe in order to be quegnly. When I see a woman with strong faith iu God putting her foot upon, all meanness and selfishness and godless display, going right forward to serve Christ and the race by a grand and glorious service, I any, "That woman is a queen,” and the rinks of hytivcn look over the battlements upon the coronation, and whether ahi' eoinestp from the shanty on the commons or the mansion of the fashionable square 1 greet her with the shout: "All hail! Queen Vashti!” What glary was there on the brow of Mary of Scotland, or Elizabeth of England, or Margaret of France, or Catherine of Russia compared with the worth of some of our Christian mojjhers, many of them .gone into glory; or of that woman men*Woned in the Scriptures who put all her money into the Lord's treasury; or of ■Tephthah's daughter, who made a demonstration of unselfish patriotism; dr of Abigail, who rescued the herds and flocks of her huabandt or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical aim for poor, old. helpless Naomi; or of Florence Nightingale, who went nt midnight to stanch the battle wounds' of the ('rtmeai or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights of salvation amid the darkness of Burma; or’of Mrs. Hemnus, who poured out her holy soul in words which will forever be associated with hunter's horn, and captive's chain, nnd bridal hour, and lute's throb, and curfew's knell nt the dying day, and scores ami hundreds of women unknown on earth who have given water to the thirsty and ( bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick and smiles to the discouraged—their footsteps heard along dark lane Hid iu government hospital nnd In almshouse corridor and by prison gate? There may be no royal robe; there may be a* palatial surrounding*. She doe* not

need them, far all charitable men .jyill unite with the crackling lips of fever struck hospital and plague blotched lazaretto ia greeting her as she passes: ’‘Hail! Hail! Queen Vashti!” Vashti Veiled. —Again, ! want you to consider A asbti the Veiled. Had sire appeared before Ahasuerus and his court on that day with her face uncovered she would have shocked all the delicacies Of oriental society, and the ygry me-. who in their intoxication demanded that she come in their sober moments would have despised her. As some flowers sebm to thrive best in the -dark lane and ia the shadow and where the sun docs not serin to reach them, so God appoints to most womanly natures a retiring and unebstrusive spirit. God once in awhile does call an lsabella to a throne, or a Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front of a host, or a Marie Antoinette to quell a French mob, or a Deborah to stand at the front of an armed battalion, crying out: “Up! Up! This is the day in which tiie Ijord will deliver Sisera into thine hand.” And when women are called to stfcli putdoor work and to such he-. roic positions, Gqd- yjopiires them for if.' mid they have iron in their souls and lightning in their eye, and whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed strength of tho Lord omnipotent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though thpy were hedges of wild flowers and cross seas as though they were shimmering sapphire, and all the harpies of hell down to their dungeon at the stamp of her womanly indignation. But these are the exceptions. Generally Dorcas would rqther make a garment for the poor boy, llebecca would rathe* till the trough for the Camels, Hannah would rather make n coat for Samuel, thd Hebrew maid would rather give a prescription for Naathan’s leprosy, the wonian of Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for famished .Elijah, Phebe would rather ertrry a letter for the inspired apostle, Mother Lois would rather educate Timothy in the Scriptures. When I see a woman going about her daily duty—with cheerful dignity presiding at the table, wjth kind and gentle but firm discipline presiding in the nursery, going opt ihto the world without any blast of trpmpets, following in the footsteps of him who went about doing good—l say, “This is Vashti .with a veil on.” But when I see a woman ot unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue Of infinite clitter clatter, with arrogant look, passing through ths, streets with the step of a walking beam, gayly arrayed in a very hurricane of millinery, 1 cry out, “Vashti has lost her veil!” When I see a woman of comely features, and of adroitness of intellect, and endowed with all that the schools can do for one, and of high social position, yet moving in society, wjth superciliousness and hauteur, ns though she would have people know their place, and an undefined combination of giggle and strut and rhodoniontade, endowed with allopathic quantities of talk, but only homeopathic infinitesimals of sense, the terror of dry goods clerks and railroad conductors,- discoverers of significant meanings in plain Conversation, prodigies of badinage and innuendo, I say: “Look! Look! Vashti has lost her veil!”

A Broken Heart. Again, I want you to consider Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this 1 see coming out of that palace gate of Shushan? It seems to me that I have seen her before. She comes homeless, houseless, friendless, trudging along with a broken heart. Who Is she? jt is Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what a change it was from regal position to a wayfarer’s crust! A little while ago, approved and sought for; now, none so poor as to acknowledge her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice! Ah, you and 1 have seen it many a time! Here is a home impalaeed with beauty. All that refinement and books and wealth cap do for that home has been done, but Ahasuerus, the husband and the father, is taking hold on paths of sin. He is gradually going down. After awhile he will flounder and struggle like a wild beast in the hunter’s net—farther away from God, farther away from the right. Soon tho bright apparel of tho-children will turn to rags; soon the household song will become the sobbing of a broken heart. The old story over again. Brutal centaurs breaking up the marriage feast ot Lapithae. The house full of outrage and cruelty and abomination, while trudging forth from the palace gates are Vashti and her children. There are homes that are in danger of such a breaking up. Oh, Ahasuerus, that you should stand in a home by a dissipated life destroying the peace and comfort of that home! God forbid that your children should ever I save to wring their hands and have people point their finger at them as they pass down the street and say, “There goes a drunkard’s child.” God forbid that the little feet should ever have to trudge the path and uproot that garden and with a lasting, blistering, all consuming curse shut forever the palace gate against Vashti and the children! During tho war I went to Hagerstown to look at the army, and I stood in the night on a hilltop and looked down upon them. 1 saw the camp fires all through the valleys and all over the hills. It was a weird spectacle, those camp fires, and 1 stood and watched them, and the soldiers who were gathered around them were no doubt talking of their homes and of the long march they hnd taken and of the battles they were to fight, but after awhile I saw these camp fires begin to lower, and they continued to lower until they -frere all gone out and the army slept. It was imposing in the darkness when I thought of that great host asleep. Well, God looks down from heaven, and lie secs the firesides of Christendom nnd the loved ones gathered around those firesides. These are the camp fires where we warm ourselves at the dose ot the day and talk over the battles of life we have fought nnd the battles that arc yet to come. God grant that when at Inst these fires begin to go out and continue to lower until finally they are extinguished and the nsheS of consumed hopes strew the hearth of the old homestead it may be because we have

Gone to sleep that last long sleep From which none ever wake to weep. Now we are an army on the march of life. Then we will be an army bivouacked in the tent of the grave. A Hope and Its Fulfillment. Once more 1 want you to look nt Vashti the silent. You do not hear nay outcry from this woman as she goes forth from the palace gate. From the very dignity of her nature you know there will be uo vociferation. .Sometimes in life it is necessary to resist, but there are crises when the most triumphant thing to do is to keep silence. The philosopher, confident in his newly discovered principle, waiting for the coming of more intelligent generations, willing that men should laugh at the lightning rod and cotton gin and steamboat, waiting for long years through the rootling of schools in grand and magnificent sllenc*. Galilei, condemned by mathematicians and scientists, caricatured everywhere, yet waiting and watching with his telescope to seethe coming tip of stellar reinforcements, when the stars in their courses would fight for the Copernican system, then sitting down in complete blindness nnd deafness to wait for the coming on of the generations who would build his monument and bow at his grave. The reformer, execrated by his contemporaries, fastened in a pillory, the alow

fires of public contempt burning umlei him. ground under the cylinders of the printing press, yet calmly waiting for the day Khen purity of soul and heroism-of character will get the sanction of earth ahd the plaudits of heaven. Affliction, enduring without any complaint the sharpness of the pang and tho violence of the storm, •and the heft of the chaiq, and of the of night. Waiting until a divine hand shall be put forth to soothe, the pang audjiush the stortn atitl release the captive. A wife abused, persecuted and a perpetual exile from every earthly comfort;—waiting, waiting until the Lord shall gather all his dear children in a heavenly hop»e and no poor Vashti will ever be thrust out from the palace gate. Jesus, in silence., and answering not n word, drinking the gall, bearing the cross, in prospect of the rapturous consummation when Angels thronged his chariot wheel And bore him to his throne, Then swept their golden harps and sung The glorious work is done. O woman, does not this story of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the Sacrifice. Vashti the silent, move your soul! My sermon converges intfi the one absorbing hope that hone of you rnayT>e shut out- of the palace gate of heaven. You can endure the hardships and the privations and the gravities and the misfortunes of this life if you can only gain admission there. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant, you go through these gates or never go at all. God forbid that y at .last, bc-banished-from. the society of- angels and banished from the companionship of your glorified kindred and banished forever. Through therich grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may yon be enabled to imitate the example ot Rachel and Hannah and Abigail and Deborah and Mary and Esther and Vashti. Amen.

THE OLD HOME.

Well Worth the Recollections of an Occasional Hoar, Boys, do you ever sit down and talk for an hour over the scenes, the adversities and the successes of childhood? Do you’ ever take time to look back over the hill of life and call up the days of ye olden tirnps when you were at home under the. protecting <*are of a fond father and a. devoted mother? Do the early days, spent possibly in a, pioneer home, ever occur to you as the happiest home of your eventful life? These questions are for the “Old Boys,” those who have passed the meridian of life and now on the down slope, as it were, and who, from natural causes will soon pates into the unknown beyond, where they are to enjoy the rewards that come of a well directed life. Boys, think of the old home where were father and mother and the charming sisters and brothers whose whole aim was to keep home happy and make life a pleasure rather than a burden: You remember father's corner behind the great fire-plqce, do you not? See him as he sits and nods in the twilight of the dim fire and dreams of the days when his boys will be , Senators and not have to stand the bitter trials of the dark forest or tho treeless prairies. Perchance lie has toiled all-day in the clearing vigorously battling with nature for the ascendency of the arts of man. lie did these things you know and all for you, too. His trials were bitter.' His aims were noble. His ob ect was happiness prompted by a motive of love. The home was crude as compared with the gorgeous palaces of these days. But joy was there because father was, and love because mother was.- Yes. see her as she sits at her work over in the other corner. She is the perfect embodiment of happiness. Her boys and girls are all at home. They are yet in their innocency and she knows their every thought and observes with pride their every act.

Father and mother, brothers and sisters. The Old Home. What depths of meaning lie in those words. There is comfort in them. They recall all that builded up into noble men whose lives are an honor to tho hearth made happy by our presence. They recall the innocent prattle of younger brothers and sisters and the kindly directed efforts of the seniors to secure the joy and peace that comes from the fraternity of home with its bonds of affection. The dim old forest and the wide expanding prairie are there, too. The low murmuring rill with its beautiful song is there. What is not there? We were all there when we were young, but now we are old and all that -we can do is to recall, recall, recall. Do this, boys, and see if you do not appreciate more fully all that you are and have. It Is but just that you should affectionately look upon the past.

Sympathy that Was Wasted.

A tired-looking little woman, with her thin cape spread out to protect her burden from the rain, splashed through the mud and entered a street car the other night. The car was crowded with men who could not find a seat, but they made way for her and helped 'her into the packed car. She stood unsteadily In the aisle, trying to preserve her balance and the car went along. “Keep still, dear!” she sighed, in a weak, tired voice, when a slight disturbance under the cape was observable. "Why don’t some of you fellows give that woman with a baby a seat?” growled a fat man who was hanging to a strap. Two or three men sprang up. and each Instate! that she should take his seat. She sank into one of the vacant places, thanked the man who had made way for her, and a frowsy-headed terrier sprang from under her cape and sat in her lap while he barked at the fat man.

Belief in Omena.

In former times belief in omens was an article of religious faltb and belief in them exists to a considerable extent in some countries to-day. When the plofis mother of James 1. of Spain wished to select a name for her child, she surrounded his cradle with twelve lighted tapers, each bearing an apostle’s name; it was decided that the saint whose taper burned longest was the one who would thus signify his intention of becoming the Infant’s special patron. St. James’ light outlasted that of his brother apostles, and to St. James was the child tiierffldre dedicated. This was in the century, but the same spirit of pious superstition survived Inng afterward. The Puritans believed in casting lots, nnd In opening the Bible and receiving as an oracle the first words <Jn which their eyes fell and the early Methodists practiced the same description of divina lion.

WILLIAM MC KINLEY.

William McKinley became a national character when, in 1861, a little more than 17 years old, he .enlisted as a private soldier in defense of his country. The record of the war shows the impression he made upon those w(io came in contact with him. His manliness and courage attracted attention. In action he was alert and vigorous, in manner cordial and considerate. His mind was strong, clear and comprehensive, correct in judgment and energetic in expression. The physical and mental qualities which then won confidence and distinction have been illustrated and confirmed by his subsequent career. In public and private life, in social and official relations, he is genial and sympathetic. A master in debate, he carries conviction mainly by the earnestness, sincerity and directness of his thoughts and by uniform courtesy toward his opponents. Patriotic by birth, by association and by* copviction, the glory of his country and the welfare oMts people are the touchstoneof his principles and his conduct.’By this standard he gauges opinions, measures and men. / Conservative, yet liberal in his views, he welcomes criticism and shows the same regard for the opinions of others that he claims for his own. He is conscientious and laborious in forming, and candid .n expressing, his conclusions. He is efficient and courageous in maintaining the right and in rebuking wrong, but without malice or prejudice. He is unswerving in devotion to duty, affirming by the dignity of his bearing his own self-respect, and commanding the respect of others. He presents a signal example of the best type of the American citizen in public service. The traits which distinguished the soldier boy on the battlefields of Virginia and Maryland marked also the young lawyer in Stark County,, Ohio; the private citizen in domestic and social life; the statesman In committees and in debate framing and advocating measures for the public good; the chief magistrate, of his native State, exercising power and clemency; the leader in national conventions, refusing for himself honors believed due to others: the popular camaplgn speaker, Inspiring men with confidence and enthusiasm; the polished orator, exalting in glowing words, heroic deeds and memorable events, or with earnest expressions advancing tiie cause of religion and education. Born of the people, every fiber of his being thorough# American, rising step by step at the summoift of Mis fellow men to higher and higher stations, never falling to respond to the hopes of his friends to do honor to the positions to which he was chosen; recognized in all parts of the country as a leader In whom confidence was never tplsplaced; In external features noble and commanding: in intellectual and moral constitution of unsurpassed Integrity, sagacity, purity and strength; an Ideal embodiment and an indefatigable advocate of Republicanism; honored by’ all men, even by his antagonists, and loved by4he people everywhere, William McKinley stands forefront of American statesmen. ’ ,

Farmers’ Meat Markets.

It has always seemed to me that it was infinitely better that the farmer should have a market at home, a market at his very door, than to be compelled to seek a market in distant countries and among distant populations. As long as there Is a demand at home it is a self-evident proposition that it is better than to seek consumers abroad, and that the home demand is safer, more reliable and mere profitable than any foreign market can [>ossibly be. American buyers are the l>est in the world.— - Hon. Wm. McKinley.

Why Prices Are Low.

When the Wilson tariff cut down the laborer’s wage It reduced his power to purchase meat and other farm producU, and with reduced demand for them the price of them went down. The idiocy of the Democratic story that England would pay higher price* for American

meat and grain, provided that the Amen lean farmer would buy more goods from her and less from his own countrymen, soon was demonstrated. As soon as it was plain that the United States demand for farm products was lessened, the English had the American farmer by the throat. What he could not sell to Americans he had to sell to Englishmen. And -when a man has to sell he has to take what he can get.— Chicago Inter Ocean.

British Clamor for Protection.

The clamor for protection in the United Kingdom is now becoming universal. It is spreading from one manufacturing industry to another, the last being the iron and steel trades. British agriculture has been ruined by free trade. British manufacturing is being ruined thereby. We can tend to check ‘Any further advance toward our own ruin by dropping every insular Bullish idea and adopting those best adapted for the American continent. American legislation will do this, especially protective tariff legislation, including some protection for American shipping, without which we are far too; dependent, for our own welfare, upon the British bulldozer. What Americans need is another day of Independence. That will be unmistakably decided on Nov. 3, 1890. And the new day of independence will be March 4, 1897. Then neither Mr. John Bull nor his Democratic servitors will be ‘in it.”

The Currency Question.

Total treasury receipts first twentyone months of the Wilson law, compared with first twenty-one months of the McKinley law: ? e f el P t 8 Receipts McKinley law Gorman law flr3t 21 moli - first 21 inos. ISDO. Dollars. 1894. Dollars. October , , 39.222.174,5ept . 22.621.228 November 28,678.674 October ... 19,139,240 December . 27,646,515 November . 19,411,403 1891. December , 21.368,136 January . . 36,810,283' 1895. February . 29,273,173 January ... 27,804,399 Marcb.... 29,427,455[February .. 22,888,057 April .... 25,465,231 March .... 25,470,575 May 27,631,849! April 24,247,830 June 31,289,205; May 25,272,078 July 34,158.244 Jun 025,015.474 August ... 28.773,981 July 29,009.697 Sept 27,565.4541 August ... 28.952,096 October .. 28.448,562, Sept 27,549,678 November 26,804,887; October ... 27,901,748 December .27,646,515, November . 25.986.503 1892. 'December . 20,288,937 January .. SO.SSS.IJS' 1896. February . 30,698,944;January .... 29,207,670 March .... 29,836,696; February . 26,059,228 April 2*1,971,224 March .... 26,041.149 May 28.228,398'April 24,282,893 June 30,958,017; May Totals .$026,106,019; Totals ..$330,350,111 Loss In 21 months under Democratic “tariff tor revenup 0n1y.”.595,755,908

England Is Worried.

The almost assured displacement of Cleveland and his deficit producing tariff by McKinley and protection is causing much concern in England and is therefore a consummation devoutly to be wished for by every American.'— Grand Rapids Herald.

That Tired Feeling.

The people are tired of the pi'esfeat distressing conditions. They yearn for relief, and they turn to the Republican party as the only political exponent of those factara that will bring back the good times.—Burlington Hawk-Eye. < <

Fight Them Out.

The battle of the Bills. The McKln loy bill against the Wilson bill.

Mary and Her Lamb.

(With apologies to the San Francisco Call.) And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. . .'

SOUNDS THE SLOGAN.

M’KINLEY IN RINGING WORDS ACCEPTS HIS NOMINATION. Takes a Square Position on the St. Louis Pla.tform—Tells the Rcpublican Notification Commitcc It Has His Unqualified Approval. Declares His Stand. [ i' Ta language too plain to be misunderstood and-too emphatic to be forgotten, Williaiu McKinley, at home in Canton, Ohio, expressed his unqualified approval of the platform adopted by the national [Republican convention. His words, ringing with the eloquencte of sincerity, fell upon the waiting ears of appreciative citizens from every commonwealth of the Union, ; the chosen messengers appointed to notify him of his nomination as the presidential candidate of the party. There was more in i his speech than a mere formal approval of the platform adopted at St. Louis. There was a demand for the restoration of the nation’s financial honor and commercial prosperity; for a money as good as the best in the world; for a revenue sufficient to protect the material interests of the people with the least drain upon their resources; for a aeopening of foreign trade that, he asserted, had been ruined by adverse national legislation, and for the encouragement once more of what was styled a

true American policy. These demands came as the notes of a bugle call come to soldiers about to enter a battle. They were the first formal utterances of Mr. McKinley since his nomination. Mr. McKinley received the message from the convention at his home, while his wife and his mother listened and friends and neighbors applauded. He heard the eloquent Thurston give him the assurance that his nomination Was the Indorsement of the purity and simplicity of his private life as much as it stood sos a protective tariff and honest finance; that his nomination had been in compliance with h popular demand and that his candidacy would be accepted by the country as a guarantee of Republican success. ‘‘‘God give you strength,” said Senator Thurston, as he concluded, “to bear the honors and meet the duties of that great office for which you are now nominated and to which you will be elected, that your administration will enhance the dignity and power and-glory-of the republic and secure the safety, welfare and happiness of its liberty-loving people.” The cheers that greeted these sentiments of Senator Thurston were eloquent in themselves. They came from the throats of women as well as the visiting committee, and were given with tremendous vigor/btit? there was a tribute far more eloquent that escaped general notice. It was a glistening tear that hung tremulously in Mrs. McKinley's eye and then fell unheeded down her smiling face. Keiponae of Major McKlnfay*. Mr. McKinley’s response to Mr. Thurston filled every member of the committee with delight over its outspoken and unequivocal declaration of Republican principles. When he turned to deliver his -speech of acceptance there was an OUtburst of cheering that prevented his making himself heard for several minutes. When the crowd became quiet he said: Senn tor Thurston and Gentlemen of the NoI ?!!k Coln !? ttee of the Republican Natlonal Cuhventfont To be selected Presidential candidate by a great party convention, representing so vast a nutnoer <rf the people of the United States, Is amost distinguished honor, for whleh I would not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great responsibilities of the trust and my Inability to bear them without the generous and constant support of my fellow countrymen. Great as Is the honor conferred, equally arduous and Important is the duty imposed, and In accepting the one I assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of the people to the best interests of our beloved country and the sustaining care and aid of Him without whose nippport all we do Is empty and vain. Should the people ratify the choice of the great convention for which you speak my only alm will be to promote the public good, which in America la always the good of the greatest number, the honor of our country and the welfare of the people. The questions to be settled In the national tontest this year are as serious and Important as any of the great governmental problems that have confronted us In the last quarter of the century. They command our sober Judgment awl a settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, beneficial to ourselves and befitting the honor and grandeur of the republic. They touch every Interest of our common country. Our industrial supremacy, our productive capacity, our business and commercial prosperity, our labor and Its rewards, our national credit and currency, our proud financial honor and our splendid free citizenship—the birthright of every American—are all involved in the pending campaign, and thus every home In the land is directly and intimately connected with their proper settlement. Great are the Issues Involved In the coming election, and eager and earnest the people for their right determination. Our domestic trade must be won back and our idle workingmen employed In gainful occupations at American wages. Our home market must be restored to its proud rank of first in the world, and our foreign trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse national legislation, reopened on fair and equitable terms for our surplus agricultural and manufacturing products. Protection and reciprocity, twin measures of a true American policy, should again command the earnest encouragement of the government at Washington. Public confidence must be resumed, and the skill, the energy and the capital of our country find ample employment at home, sustained, encouraged and defended against the unequal competition and serious disadvantage with which they are now contending. The government of the United States must raise enough money to meet both its current expenses and Increasing needs. Its revenues should bo so raised as to protect the material Interests of our people, with the lightest possible drain upon their resources, and maintain that high standard of civilization which has distinguished our country for more than a century of its existence. The Income of the government. I repeat, should equal its necessary and proper expenditures. A failure to pursue this policy has compelled the government to borrow money in a time of peace to sustain its credit and pay its dally expenses, This policy should be reversed, and that, too, as speedily as possible. It must be airparent to all regardless of past party tics or affiliations that it is onr paramount duty to provide adequate revenue for the expenditures of the government economically and prudently administered. The Republican party has heretofore done this and I confidently believe It will do it in the future when the party is again Intrusted with power in the executive and legislative branches of our government.

The national credit, which haa than far fortunately resisted every assault upon It, must and will be upheld and atrengthened. If sufficient revenues are provided for the support of the government there will be no, necessity for borrowing money and Increasing the public debt. The complaint of the people Is not against the administration for borrowing money and Issuing bonds to preserve the credit of the country, but against the ruinous policy which has made this necessary. It Is but an Incident and a necessary one to the policy which has been inaugurated. The Inevitable-effect of such a policy la seen Id the dcflclency of the United States Treasury, except as It is replenished by loans and In the distress of the people who are suffering because of the. scant demand for cither tnelr labor or the products of their labor. Here la the fundamental trouble, the remedy for which la Republican opportunity ind duty. During all the years of Bepnbllcpn control following resumption there was a steady reduction of the public' debt, while the gold reserve was sacredly maintained and our currency and credit preserved without depreciation, taint or suspicion. If we would restore this policy that brought us unexampled prosperity for more than thirty years, under the most trying conditions ever known In this country, the policy by which we made and bought more goods at home and sold more abroad, the* trade balance would be quickly turned In our filvor- and the gold would come to us and not go from us In the settlement of all suCh balances In the future. The party that supplied by legislation the vast revenues for the conduct of our greatest war and promptly restored the credit of the country rg Jta close and that from Its abundant revenues paid off a large share of the debt Incurred In this war, and that resumed specie payments and placed gar paper currency upon a sound and sa-

during basis, can be safely trusted to preserve both dur credit and currency ; with honor, stability and Inviolability. The American speople hold the financial honor of our government as saertd as our flag and ran be relied upon to guard It with the same sleepless vigilance. They hold it» preservation above party fealty and have often demonstrated that party ties avail nothing when the spotless credit of our country is threatened. The money of the UnitedStates, and every kind or form of It, whether of paper, silver or gold, must be aw good a» the best In the world. It must not only bo current at its full face value art home, but It must be counted at par In any and every commercial center of tlie globe. The sagacious and far-seeing policy of the great men who founded onr government, the teachings and acts of the wisest financier at every stage In our history, the steadfast faith and splendid achievemehts of the great party to which we belong and the genius and Integrity of our people have always demanded this' and will ever maintain it. The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage-earner and the pensioner must continue forever equal in purchasing and debt-paying power to the dollar paid to any government creditor. The contest thia year will not be waged upon lines of theory and speculation, but In the right of severe practical experience an,d new and dearly acquired knowledge. The great body of our citizens know what they want, and that they Intend to have. They know for what the Republican party stands, and what its return to power means to them. They realize that the Republican party believes that our shopwork should be done at home, and notabroad. ' and everywhere proclaim their devotion to the principles.of a protective tariff, Whtek» while supplying adequate revenues for the government, will restore American production and serve the best Interests, of American labor and development. Our appeal, therefore, Is not to a false philosophy or vain theorists, but to the masses of the American people—the p.laln, practical people, whom Lincoln loved aud trusted and whom the Republican party has always faithfully, striven to serie. The platform adopted by the. Republican national convention has received my careful consideration, and has my unqualified approval. It Is a matter of gratification to me, as I am sure It must be to you and Republicans everywhere and to all our people, that the expressions of Its declaration of principles are so direct, clear and emphatic. They are too plain and positive to leave any chance for doubt or as to their purport and meaning. Bqt you will not expect me to discuss its provisions at length or In any detail at this time. It will, however, be my duty and pleasure at some future day to make to you, and through you to the great party you represent, a more formal acceptance of the nomination tendered me. No one could be more profoundly grateful than I fee manifestations of public confidence, of .which you have so eloquently spoken. It shall be my alm to attest this appreciation by an unsparing devotion to what I esteem the best Interests of the people, and In this work I ask the counsel and support of you, gentlemen, and of every other friend of the country. The generous expressions with which you, sir, convey- the official notice of my nomination are highly appreciated and has fully reciprocated, and I thank you and your associates of the Notification Committee and the great party and convention, at whose Instance you come, fer the high and exceptional distinction bestowed upon me. ■When he had finished Mr- H. H. Smith,— of Michigan, with n few well-chosen words, presented him the gavel of the convention, made of wood taken from a. cabin in which Abraham Lincoln once lived at Salem, 111. The words of acceptance having been spoken, Gov. McKinley bowed in acknowledgment of the applause, and, offering his arm to his mother, led the way into the parlor; Gen. Osborne following with Mrs.'McKinley. Gen. Osborne then returned and announced that the committee would be received indoors. Mr. Hanna led them in and presented them, one after another, to the presidential candidate, who in turn introduced them to, his mother and his wife, who occupied seats beside him. When this pleasant little "ceremony was over the committee sat—down with their host at a long table spread under a tent on the lawn. There a typical American lunch was served, sandwiches, salad, coffee, ice cream and. cake, in the same simple fashion that characterized all the proceedings.

He Knew How.

Because a man is rich and can hire other men to work for him, It does not follow that he may not enjoy being able to do things for himself. Even a rich man cannot be really happy unlew he is employed, and if he Is born, say; with a gift for mechanics, he will find his enjoyment in exercising that gift. The New York Sun reports that when a party of New York gentlemen were returning from the Atlanta exposition last summer the engine broke down. It was in the neighborhood of Manassas, the day was fearfully hot, with no. air stirring, and the passengers were in Imste to get on. But the engineer could not repair the break, aud a long watt seemed inevitable. Among the passengers was Col, John Jacob Astor. He joined the crowd about the engine, and presently got down on his knees and crawled under it. There he worked for a few minutes. and then came out and bade the engineer drive on, as lie-had repaired the injury. The engineer demurred, but a trial showed that the engine was in running order. “Do you know wlio that man IsV said the Sun correspondent to the engineer, pointing to Col. Astor. “Some official of the road, I reckon,” was the answer. “No, It Is John Jacob Astor.” “Oh, go on,” said the engineer, who couldn’t believe that an Astor could' mend an engine. “Col. Astor told me.” adds the correspondent, “that he knew enough about locomotive engines to build one.”

Prize Mean Men.

Tlie prize mean man bobbed up tn Paterson yesterday. Two men entered a Broad way cigar store. The shorter of the two said to the man behind the counter: “Give me a couple at good cigars.” The cigar man reached down to a box marked three for 25 cents and laid a handful of them on the counter. Each man took one and lighted it. An they were passing out after the short man had laid down two dimes the taller man turned and said: “Say, those are three for a quarter ain’t they?” “Yes.” “Well, give me the other one” and, laying down a nickel for the extra cigar, he got It and -went out to join his companion.—New York Sun.

Hats or Wocd.

An inventive genius has patented a machine which Is supplied with fine planing teeth. A leg of wood cut square is fed to it, and when the tog passes through It has furnished one hundred delicately thin strips of wood. Their length, of course, is that of the log. It is claimed that these when moistened can be woven much more readily than straw and nuke,aa durable a hat. . The Inyentof saysit ig twice as light as straw, and that, because of its easier manipulation and. cheaper cost, it will supersede the straw now used for the construction of headgear. r

And Few Are Becoming.

There are 12,000,000 silk hats made annually in the United Kingdom, worth >20,000,000: t

Appropriate Leap Year Item.

The population of the world 100 wqmen to every loo me*.