Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Page 7

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

PREACHESON PROCLIVITIES DUE TO ANCESTRY. Bnt,'No Matter What Otrr Birthright May Be, We Can Be Sons and Danghtera of God antTHeira of Immortaliiy -"A Glorious Inheritance. Power of Heredity. -.This sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage on heredity will bring all the'family Records into requisition and lead people to study their own proclivity toward good or evil. The text chosen was I. Samuel, xvii. 58, “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” Never was there a more unequal fight than that bet wen David and Goliath; David 5 feet high, Goliath 10; David a shepherd boy brought up amid rural Scenes, Goliath a warrior by profession; Goliath a mountain of braggadocio, David a marvel of humility; Goliath armed with an iron, spear, David a?med with a sling with smooth stones from the brook. But you are not to despiife these latter weapons. A Mighty Weapon. There was a regiment of slingers in the Assyrian army, and a regiment of slingers in the Egyptian army, and they made terrible execution., and they could cast a stone with as much accuracy and force as now can be sent shot or shell The Greeks in their army—had slingers, who would throw leaden plummets inscribed with the irritating words, “Take this!” So it was a mighty weapon David employed in that famous combat. A Jewish rabbi says that- the probability is that Goliath was in such contempt for David that in m paroxysm ’of laughter he threw his head back'and his helmet fell off, and David saw the uncovered forehead, and his opportunity had come, and taking this sling and swinging it around his head two or three times and aiming it at that uncovered foreheatt crushed it in like an eggshell. The, battle over, behold the tableau: King Saul sitting; little David standing, his fingers clutched into the hair of decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David standing there holding in his hand the ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, evidence of the complete victory over God’s enemies, the king wonders what parentage was honored by such heroism, and in my text he asks David his pedigree. "IVlmse son" art thou, thou young man?” —=Tlie=kiH.g-,ia,W-udpit-you -aiidJ see,, that this question of heredity is a mighty question. The longer I live the more I believe in blood—good blood, bad blood, proud blood, humble blood', honest blood, thieving blood, heroic blood, ,cowardly blood. The tendency may skip a generation or two, but it is sure to come out, as in a litttle child you sometimes see a similarity to a "'great-gram. lin ther whose, picture hangs on the wall. That the physical and mental and moral qualities are inheritable "is pntcntvrn-nny orre—who keeps his eyesopen. The similarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, regal or literary, are hpt to have the characteristics all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in eueh families may be seen on a smaller «cale in all families. A thousand years have no power to obliterate the difference. The large lip of the house of Austria is seen in all the generations and is called the Hapsburg lip. The house of Stuart always means in all generations cruelty and- bigotry and sensuality, Witness- ■ Queen of Scots, witness Charles I. ajid Charles IL, witness James I? and James 11. and all the other scoundrels of that line. Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means, religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sen, Indian blood meanj roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity. Roman blood means conquest. The Jewish facility for accumulation y--q may trace clear back to Abraham. whom the Bible eays "lie was rich in, silver and gold and cattle,” and to Isaac aim Jacob, who had the-same -eh nrmiteris+i-es-.- Some fa m Hies are characterized by longevity, and they have a tenacity of life positively Metlniselish. Others are characterized by Goliathian stature, and you can see it for one generat ion, two genera tions, five generations —in all the generations. . Vigorous theology runs down in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs on in the family of the Kembles. Literature runs on in the line of the Trollopes. Philanthropy' runs on in the line of the Wilberforces. Statesmanship runs oh in the line of the Adamses. You see these peculiarities in nil generations. Henry and Catherine of Navarre religions, all theft families religious. The celebrated family of the Cas.ini, all mathematicians. The celebrated fpmily of the Medici, grandfather, son and Catherine, all remarkable for keen intellect. The celebrated family of Gustavus Adolpjius, all warriors. This law of heredity asserts itself without reference to social or political condition, for you sometimes find the ignoble in high place and the honorable in obscure place. A descendant of Edward 111. a doorkeeper. A descendant of the Duke of Northumberland a trunkmaker. Some of the mightiest families of England are extinct, while some of those most honored in the peerage go back to an ancestry of hard knuckles and rough exterior. Whose Son Art Thou? This law of heredity is entirely independent of social or political conditions. Then you find avarice and jealousy and eensuality and fraud having full swing in some families. The -Violent temper of Frederick William is the inheritance of Frederick the Great. It is nqj a theory founded by worldly philosophy, but by divine authority. Do you not remember how the Bible speaks of a chosen generation, of the generation of righteousness, of the generation of vipers, of an untoward generation, of a stubborn generation, of the iniquity of the fathers visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation? So that the test comes to-day with the force of a projectile hurled from mightiest catapult, “Whose son arc thou, thou young man?" “Well,” says some one, "that thpory discharges me from all responsibility. Born of sanctified parents, we are bound to be good, and wo cannot help ourselves. Born of unrighteous parentage, we are bound to be evil, and we cannot help ourselves.” Two inaccuracies. As much as if you should say. "The centripetal force in nature lias a tendency to bring everything to the center, and therefore all come to the center. The centrifugal force in nature has a. tendency jo throw everything to the periphery, and therefore everything will go-out to the periphery.” You know as well as I know that yon can make the centripetal force- overcome the centrifugal, and you can make the centrifugal overcome the centripetal, as -when there is a mighty tide of good in n family that may be overcome by determination to evil—as in the case of Aaron Burr, the libertine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as in the case of I’ierrepont Edwards, the acourge of New York society eighty yeArs ago, ho hml a Christian ancestry—while, on the other hand, some of the best men and women of this day are those who have come of an ancestry of which it would not be courteous to speak in their presence. The practical and useful object of this sermon is to show you that, if you have come at a Christian ancestry, then yon are solemnly bound to preserve

and develop the glorious inheritance, or, if yori have come of depraved ancestry, then at' is your duty to brace yourself against the evil "tendency by all prayer and Christian determination. And you are to find out the family frailties, and in arming the castle put the strongest guard at the weakest gate. With these smooth stones from the brook 1 hope to strike you, not where David struck Goliath, in the head, but where Nathan, struck I)a----vid, in the heart. "Whose son artjjfnou, thou young man?” ,There is something in al! winter holidays to bring up the old folks. I think many of-four thoughts at such times are set to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne.” The old folks were so busy itt such times An making, us happy, and perhaps on less resource made their sons and daughters happier than you on larger resources-are able to make your sons and daughters. The snow lay twajfeet above their graves, but they shook off the white blankets and * n the holiday festivities —the same wrinkles, the same stoop.of shoulder under the weight -of age, the same old of dress or coat, the same smile, the same tone of voice. 1 hope, yob remember them before they went away. If ndt, I hope there are those who have recited to you what they were, and that there may be in your house some article of dress or furniture with which you associate their memories. I want to arouse the mbst sacred memories of your heart while I make the impassioned interrogatory in regard to your pedigree, “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” , ■ Ancestry. First, 1 accost those who are descended of a Christian ancestry. I do not ask if your parents were perfect. There are no perfect people now, and I do ngt suppose there were any perfect people then. Perhaps there was sometimes too much blood in their eye when they chastised you. But from what 1 know of you, you got no more than you deserved, and perhaps ,a little more chastisement would have been salutary. But you are willing to acknowledge, I think, that they wanted to do right. Fromyvhat yoju overheard in conversations, and from what you saw at the ■ family altar and at neighborhood obsequies, you know that they had invited G,od into their heart and their life. There was something that sustained those old people supernaturally. You have no doubt about their destiny. You expect if you ever get to heaven to meet them as you expect to meet the Lord Jesus Christ. That early association has’Seen a charm for you. There was a time when you got right up from a house of iniquity and walked out into the fresh air because you thoughtyour in other was looking at you! You have never been very happy in sin because qf a sweet old face that would present itself. Tremulous voices from the past' accosted you until, they wore seemingly audible, and you looked around to see who'spoke. There was an estate not mentioned in the last will and testament, a- vast estate of prftyer and holy example and Christian entreaty and glorious memory. The survivors of the family gathered to hear the will read, and this ~was~nr-bc-kopt and: that was to be-sotdr and it Was “share and share alike.” But there was an unwritten will that read something like this: “In the name of God. amen. I, being of sound mind, bequeath to my children all my prayers for their salvation. I bequeath to them all the results of a lifetime’s toil. I bequeath to them the Christian religion, which has been so much comfort to me, aml I hope may be solace for them. , I be-, queath to them a hope of reunion when the partings of life are over. ‘Share and share alike’ may they inherit eternal riches. 1 bequeath to them the wish that they may avoid my errors and copy anything that may have been worthy. In the name of God, who, made ‘me, and the Christ, who redeemed me, and the Holy Ghost, who sanctifies me, I make this my last will and testament. Witness all you hosts of heaven. Witness time; witness eternity. Signed, sealed and-delivered in this our dying hour. Father and Mother.” You did not get that will proved at the surrogate’_s__ofliee, but I take it out to-day and I read it to you. I take it out of the alcoves Of your heart. 1 shako the dust fftTlt: T utsfr if you -wifi- accept' that--in-heritance, or will you break the will? Responsibility. Oh, ye of Christian ancestry! You have a responsibility , vast beyond all meUsurement. Goi will not let you off with just being ns good as ordinary people when you had such extraordinary advantage. Ought not you, my brother, to be better, having had Christian nurture, than the man who can truly say this morning, “The first word 1 remember my father speaking to me was an oath; the first time iTemember my father taking hold of me was in wrath; 1 never saw a Bible till 1 was 10 years of age, and then I was told It was a pack of lies; the first twenty years of my life I was associated with the vicious; I seemed to be walled in by sin and death?”

Now, my brother, ought you not—l leave it as a matter of fairness with you—ought you not to be better than those who had no early Christian influence? Standing as you do between the generation that is past and the generation tha(. is to come, are you going to pass the blessing on, or are you going to have your life the gulf in which that tide of blessing shall drop out of sight forever? You are the trustee of piety in that ancestral line, and are you going to augment or squander that solemn trust fund? Are you going to disinherit your sons and daughters of the heirloom which your parents left you? All, that Cifiinot bo possible—it cannot be possible that you are goiqg.to take such a position as that! You are very careful about the life insurance, nnd careful about the deeds, and careful about The' mortgage, and careful about the title of your property, because when you step off the stage you want your children to get it all. Are you making no provision that they shall get grandfather’s or grandpiother’s religion? Oh, what a last will and testament you are making, my brother! "In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mind r make this my last will and testament. 1 bequeath to my children nil the money I ever made and all the houses I own, but 1 disinherit them, Lrob them of the ancestral grace and the Christian influence that I inherited; I have squandered that on my own worldliness. Share and'share alike must they in the misfortune and the everlasting outrage. Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of God and men and angels and devils, and all the generations pf ean'h and heaven and hell, July, 181M1.” The Blessed Mother. Ob. ye of highly favored ancestry, wake up this morning to a sense of your opportunity and resiMatibility! I think there must be an old cradle or a fragment of a cradle somewhere that could tell a story of midnight supplication in you? behalf. Where is the old rocking chair,jp which you were sung to sleep with the holy nursery rhymes? Where is the old clock that ticked away the moments of that sickness on that, awtuj night when there were but three of you awake-*you and God and mother? Is there not an old staff in some closet? We beg you to turn over a new leaf this very day! Oh, the power of ancestral piety, well illustrated by a young man of New York who attended a prayer meeting»one night and asked for prayer and then went home and wrote down these words five years ago to-night my mother went CO. heaven, my beautiful, blessed mother, and I have been alone, tossed up and down upon the billows of life’s tempestuous oasan. Shall-1 ever go to heaven? She

told me I must meet her in heaven. Whet* she took my hand in hers and turned her! gentle, loving eyes on me, and gazed earn-' estly and long into my face, and then; lifted them to heaven in that last prayer, she prayed that I might meet her in heav-' on. 1 wonder if I ever shall? My mother’s prayers! Oh, my sweet, blessed mother’s prayers! Did ever a boy have such a mother as 1 had? For twenty-five years 1 have notjieard her pray until tonight 1 have heard all her prayers over again. They hare had, in fact, a terrible resurrection. Oh, how she was wont to pray! She prayed as they prayed to-night —se earnest, so importunate, so believing. Shall I _ever be a Christian? She was <* Christian. Oh, how bright and pure and happy was her life! She was a cheerful and happy Christian. There is my mother’s Bible. I have not opened it for years. Did she believe I could ever neglect her precious Bible? She surely thought I would read it much and' often. How often has she read it to me! How did she cause mg to kneel by my little bed and put my little hands up in the attitude-of prayer! How has she knelt by me arid over me, and I have felt her warm tears raining down upon-my hands arid face! “Blessed mother, did you pray in vain for your boy? It shall not be in vain. Ah, no, no; it shall not be in vain! I will pray for myself. Who has sinned against so much instruction ■as I have—against so many precious prayers put Up to heaven for me by one of the most lovely, tender, pious, confiding, trusting of mothers in her heavenly Father’s care and grace? She never doubted. She believed. She always prayed as if she did. My Bible, my mother's Bible and my conscience teach what I am and what I have made myself. On, the bitter pangs of an accusing conscience! I need a Saviour mighty to save. 1 must seek him. I will. lam on the seh of existence, and I can never get off from it. lam afloat. No anchor, no rudder, no compass, no book of instructions, for I have put them all a wiry from me. Saviour of the perishing, save or I perish;”- Do you wonder that the next day lie arose in prayer-meeting .and kaid: “My brethren, I stand before you a monument of God’s amazing mercy and goodness. 1- orever blessed be his holy name! All I hav.e and all I am-I consecrate to Jesus, my Saviour and my God.” Oh, the power of ancestral prayer! Hear it! Hear it! . ‘ Heirs of Immortality, But .1 turn for a moment to those who had evil parentage, and I want to tell you that the highest thrones in heaven and the mightiest triumphs and the brightest erowns will be for those who. had evil parentage but who by the grace of God conquered—conquered. As good, as useful, as splendid a gentleman as I' ever knew had for a father a man who died blaspheming God until the neighbors had to put their fingers in their,ears to shut out the horror. One of the most consecrated and useful Christian ministers of to-day was the son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide Of evil is tremendous, tn some famili<?s. It is like Niagara rapids, and yet men have clung to a rock and been rescued. “ *

If this world is ever to be Edenized—and it will be—all the infected families of the earth are to be regenerated, and there will some one arise in each family line and open a new genealogical table. There will be some Joseph to arise in the line and reverse the evil influence of Rehoboam, and there will be some Mary to arise in the line and reverse the evil influence of Bathsheba. Perhaps the star of hope may point down to your manger. Perhaps you are to be the hero or the heroine that is to put down the brakes.and stop that long lihe' of. genealogical tendbneies and switch it off on another track from that on which it has been running for a century. You do that, and I will' promise you as fine a palace as the architects of heaven’can build, the archway inscribed with the words “More than eonq&eror.” But whatever your heredity, let me say you may be sons and daughters of t..e Lord God Almighty. Estranged children w from the homestead, come back ‘through the open gate of adoption. There is -royal blood in our veins. There are crowns on,our escutcheon. Our Father is’kingv our- Brqther-rs-ki-ugi Tve Tnuy-fie' kings and queens unto God forever. Come and sit down on the ivory bench of the palace. Come and wash in the fountains that fall into the basins of crystal and alabester. Come and look out of the upholstered window upon gardens of azalea and amaranth. Hear the full burst of the orchestra while you banquet with potentates and victors. Oh, when the text sweeps backward, let it uot stop at the cradle that rocked the first world! And wuen the text sweeps forward let it not stop at your grave, but at the throne on which you may reign forever and ever. “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” Son of God. heir of immortality, take your inheritance!

FUNERAL OF PIUS IX.

The Body Lay in State Four Days in the Chapel of the Sacrament. It was-In the Chapel of the Sacrament that the body of the good Pope Pius IX. was laid in state for several days. That was a strange and solemn sight, too. The gates of the church were all shut but one, and that was only a little opened, so that the people passed In one at a time from the great, wedgeshaped crowd outside—a crowd that began at the foot of the broad steps in the Piazza, and struggled upward all the afternoon, closer and closer toward the single entrance. For in the morning only the Roman nobles and the prelates and high ceclesiastlcs were admitted, by another way. Within the church the thin stream of men and women passed quickly between a double file of Italian soldiers. That was the first and last time since JS7O that Italian troops were under arms within the consecrated precincts. It was still winter, and t,he afternoon light was dim, and It seemed a long way to the chapel. . The good man lay low, with his slippered feet between the bars of the closed gate. The people paused as they passed the embroidered cross and looked at the still features before they went on. It was dim, but the six tall waxen torches threw a warm light on the quiet face, and the white robes reflected It around. There were three torches on each side, and onjeach side, too, there were three Noble Guards In full dress, motionless, with drawn swords, as though on parade. Bjut no one looked at them. Oniy the marble face, with Its kind, far-away smile, fixed itself !n each inch’s eyes, and its memory remained with each when he had gone away. It was very solemn- and simple, ami there were no other lights in the church save the little lamps about the Confession and before the altars. The long, thin stream o( people Went on swiftly, and out by the sacristy, all the short afternoon, till It was night, and the rest of the unsatisfied crowd was left outside as the single gate was closed.—Century. Some people are never contented unlece J# coatrovensy. L'ke the stormy petrel, they are ever flying In search of a tempest.

—Chicago Tribune.

ORDER AGAINST ANARCHY.

T HEIR debauch is ended. The howling horde of fanatics, demagogues and anarchists, at Chicago have looted the Democratic party', rioted in the spoil, raised their abhorrent platform, put their ridiculous candidates on it and gone home. They haye made the isue clear for an astounded nation. It is order against anarchy, government against the mob. The great Republican principles of sound money and protection are In no way dimmed or set aside. They will dominate the coming fight, and the mighty hosts of Republicanism will go forth to tight for them under the leadership of McKinley and Hobart, enthusiastic and confident of victory as only a great, united army battling for the right can be. But growing out of those principles, and made clear and distinct and vivid before the eyes of the whole country by the crazed assault of the Chicago nibble on the nation’s integrity and on the very foundations of all law and order, there has come the supreme, crystallized issue on which all patriotic citizens can and must unite—order-against anarchy; ’ Honorable Democrats and their newspapers see this and are'rushing to the standard of McKinley and Hobart by the thousand. There Is no other course for men who place country above party to'take. They realize that the foe is a common one and must be crushed, annihilated absolutely, utterly. Democrats who arq also patriots will vote for -McK-inleyuuid -HolMirt, T>y t.ens_of_iliQii±. sands. Republicans, confident before that their leaders, McKinley and Hobart, under the standards of sound money and protection, would go forth to a splendid, overwhelming victory, will take new heart for the fight. Welcoming all patriotic allies who wish to join them in the battle against the cpmnion enemy, they will march forward resistlessly to make the victory of order over anarchy certain and conijilete in this nation for all time. The lines are drawn, the issue is clear, and the fight should begin npw.—New York Press.

Prices for Formers. The following prices, taken from Clapp’s Circular of New York, for this month, represent the difference between a Democratic administration, with confidence unsettled as in 1896, as against those when confidence was established in lS92runderprotection: I’rice. Price. ' Articles. June 30. June 30. Butter, creamery, lb .$0.15 $0.20 Beans, N. Y., bu 1.05 1.95 Barley. No. 3, Chicago . .26 .54 Buckwheat, Chicago .. .85 1.45 Corn, No. 2, Chicago . . .26% .51 Cotton, mid., N. Y 07% .07% Cotton cloth, 6-4 s, F. It. .02 7-16 .03% Cattle, Chicago . . .. . . 3.00 3.70 Coal, per ton, N. Y., net. 3.85 4.00 Copper, lb., N. Y., cts.. . 11.70 .11.75 Cheese, N. Y. .. .06%,. .08% Coffee, N. Y. Exll% .11% Eggs, N. Y ,11 .16 Flour, N. Y 2.25 4.20 Hogs, live, Chirtigo .. . 3.15 5.50 Horses, U. S., Jan. 1 . .33.00 65.00 Hops, N. Y„ lbso7 .21 Hay, Chicago, ton .... 8.00 10.00 Iron, Bess. pig. Pitts ..12.25 14.09 Lard, Chicago, 100 lbs. . 3.90 6.90 Lead, lb., cts.. 3.05 4.12 Oats, No. 2. Chicago . . .15 .33% Pork, mess, Chicago . . 6.95 11.35 Potatoes; Chicago .. ..■ ,10 .67 Peas, dried, N. Y.... ... .72 1.62 Rye, No. 2, Chicago .. . .31 .76 Rice .... .04% .05 Silver. N. Y 69% .88% Steel rails 28.00 30.00 Steel billets, Pittsl9.so 22.97 Flax, Chicago 79 1.06 Sugar, granulated, N. Y. .04% .4 7-16 Stearine, lard, N. Y 4.75 7.75 Sheep,-Chicago 3.00 4.50 Short ribs, Chicago .... 3.65 7.30 Tobacco, loaf .... .... 8.5 .09 Tallow. N. Y 03% .03% Wool, averagel3 .22 Wheat, red. No. 2. N. Y. .61 .89 Wheat, No. 2 spg„ Chi. .55 .79 Railroad I’roarewa Checked. The records of the new railroad building in the United States in 1896, according to the Railroad Gazette, show that 717 miles of road have been built In the first half of the year. The total is not very from the amount of new railroad which has been constructed in the first half of any year since the Democratic administration in 1893 called a halt to progress and prosperity. Last year 622 miles of new road wore built up to July 1, and the record In 1894, only 495 miles between Jan. 1 and Jujy 1, showed how decisively extension work had been stoppedFigures as to the new track built in the first half of the year for seven years past make some interesting comparisons: « 1896.4U895. 1894. 1893. 1892. 1891. 1899. 717 620 495 1,025 1,284 1,704 2,055 It will be seen how greatly railroad extension has been checked by the conditions of the past few years, and there are no substantial signs that any large relative Increase is to be expected in the near future. Only with the restoration of protection and prosperity can we look for a return of the expansion of our railroad system such as occurred in the early years of the present decade. What Agriculturists Want. , What the agruculturist of this country wants more than anything else, after he has gathered his crop, are con•umera—consumers at home,,men who

“THE CRIME OF ’96.”

do not produce what they eat, but must purchase all they consume; men who are engaged in manufacturing, in mining, in cotton spinning, in the potteries,' and in the thousands of productive industries which command all their time and energy, and whose employments do not admit of their producing their own food. The American agriculturist further wants these consumers near and convenient to, his field of supply. Cheap as inland transportation is, every mile saved is money made. Every manufacturing establishment in the United States, wherever situated, S of priceless value to the farmers of" the country.—Hop. William McKinley. « True American Policy. We denounce the present Democratic tariff as sectional, partisan and onesided, one disastrous to tile Treasury and destructive of business enterprise, and we demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come in competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the Government, but will protect American labor from the degradation and the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of time and production. The ruling and uncompromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country wants a right settlement and then it wants rest.—Republican platform of 1896. Losses of Bankers.

From “Tariff Facts”

’Twill Be a Day of Miracles. “When William Jennings Bryan is elected President of this great agricultural country,” says a Democratic exchange, “we shall see three blades of grass growing where one grew before.” We shall. And we shall also see the sun rising in the West, rivers running up stream, and old maids telling their ages. The day of miracles will be with us again when Bryan is elected President. Franklin’s Opinion. . Every manufacture encouraged in our own country makes a home market, and saves so much money to the country that must otherwise be exported.—Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Only Cause for Dissatisfaction. The only unsatisfactory feature of the Democratic defeat this fall is the fact that Cleveland will not be as closely identified with it as the country would like. The people want to tell

JOHN BULL COMBINES BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE.

Mis* Democracy is so delighted with having been captured by a man, that she fails to watch the movement of his right band.

Grover what they tljlnk of him, and in such a way that their meaning cannot be mistaken. Interest-Bearing Debt. July 1, 1896 .... 15847,363,890 March 1, 1893 585,034,200 Increase under Democratic administration 262,329,630 Harrison decrease in four years, 1889-1893 .. 244,819,730 Cleveland increase in three , years, 1893-1896 .* 262,329,630 Republican monthly decrease of debt, 1865-1893 . 5,701,114.77 Democratic monthly increase of debt, 1893-1896 . 6,558,240.75 McKinley vs. Cobden. 'Phe name of McKinley means more in England than that of any other American: It is a name like that of Cobden. It sums up the economic experience and principles of America. It characterizes a national reaction against Clevelandism and a lower tariff, which have been fraught with disappointment and disaster.—London correspondence of the New York Tribune. Political Potpourri. The>McKfnley button fits every American coat as if it were made for it. “What I want is to see idle men at work at American wages,” says McKinley, and so do we all of us. We do not need more money so much as more circulation of the money we have. Calling free silver “Populism” will not catch Populist votes for a mossback rietnocrat. The Chicago convention was a menagerie of dark horses and large gray jackasses. Make up your mind ‘to vote for protection and prosperity, and the rest of the campaign won’t bother you much. Don’t forget that this is to be a campaign for home industry and that the welfare of every home is concerned in it. Every intelligent man knows that work and wages is the chief issue-of the campaign, and all of them will vote that way. For thirty years the Democratic party has ben coddling the solid South. Now the solid South has wrecked the party. It would be a misnomer to call the Chicago platform a declaration of principles. It is a declaration of lac’k of principle. It is very doubtful if President Cleveland’s contribution to the Democratic campaign fund this year will much exceed $2.50. You can count on better times after the election, so you may as well take a good holiday this summer and get teady for business. Candidate Bryan te the most radical of free-traders. When in Congress he made the effort of his life to that time in a speech favoring free wool. There is no more disgusting drivel than that of candidate Bryan to the effect that “suffering humanity should not be crucified on a cross of gold.” Those people who are clamoring for cheap dollars should go to Russia, Argentina and Japan, where dollars are cheap and men are much cheaper. “The Populist party is in no sense a party,” says J. R. Burton. What Mr. Burton probably means is that the Populist party is a party without sense. The surest way to put money in circulation, to Increase employment and starj business is to repudiate with emphasis the work of the Chicago convention. Senator Peffer rightly says that “the Republican party is now the most formidable political body on earth.” A party with the American people behind it couldn’t bo otherwise. “If everything Is mortgaged from farms to sewing machines,” as Altgeld sayte, the mortgaging has taken place since he helped to cany the country for Cleveland in November, 1892.

BECOBD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ' ’ Ji ’ Anderton Children Flay with a Pet Poisonous Snake— Live Reptiles Embedded in Rock— Notably Aquatic Event—Miser Starve* Himself. Childish Snake Charmer*. Florence, aged 5, and Helen, aged 2, children of A. L. Stone, of Anderson, had a most extraordinary experience. The children are allowed to play around la the yard. The other way they began telling their parents about a nice worm they had found out in the front of the house. Th'< y said it would curl around and was such a nice4hing. When they measured off about three feet, when asked how big it was, the parents were startled. They went put to the spot where the snake at-, ways came to the children. They 'could find nothing there. The children were called out and a moment later the snake came out and began to play with them. It was killed. It was a little over threj feet long and poisonous. Little Helen said that at first it W’ould open its mouth real wide and stick out its tongne, but would not do it after a day,or so. It was very evident that they were domesticating it. Tile children cried when their strange ".pet was 4aid out before them dead. « •V* 1 1 1 - 1 ■ Big Rowing JBvent. The regatta of the Mississippi Valley Rowing Association is one of the prizes which the bustling town of. Mien., has captured for this season, and the thousands of visitors at the summer . resorts there will witness one of the • greatest events of the aquatic world. Holland,was aided in her efforts to get the regatta, which will be held Aug. 6,7, by Manager Owen of the Holland-Chicago steamer line; and that gentleman is already reaping the reward for his aid, in booking a very largely increased business. The Mississippi Valley Association includes the Catlin and Delaware Boot Clubs of Chicago, the Modocs and Westerns of St. Louis, the Detroit Boat Club, and Mutuals of Detroit, the Wyandotte Boat Club of Wyandotte, Mich., the Minnesota* of St. Paul, the Lurlines of Minneapolis, the Toronto Boat Club of Toronto, Ont., the London Boat Club of Ixmdon, Ont., the Grand River Boat Club of Lansing, Miehr, and the Grand Rapid* Boat and Canoe Club of Grand Rapids. It is probable that all these organisations will enter crews. The course will be the regulation one and one-half mile, with turn, on Black lake. Live Lizards In the Rock. Live lizards were found in the rock of the Lux & Talbott limestone quarries north of Anderson. While the men wore cutting out the solid rock they hit a series of pockets. In each one of these was found a live lizard. They wore tiken out, but died a few minutes after being ex[>osed to the air. They were of a peculiar copper color. Although there were places for eyes, there were no or ba. Zoologists state, and it is an evident fact, that the lizards were living thousands and thousands of years ago, and that they were entombed when the rocks were formed. There were no air passages into their strange homes, and no way in which they could get any nourishment. AU Over the State. A portion of Fort Wayne was submerged Wednesday by the waters of a flood at Shawnee Run, a creek which runs through the southern part of the town. The cause of the flood was adelffge of rain which poured down from midnight until almost noon. Many of the homies along tile sides of Shaw'nee Run were completely surrounded by water, and the people moved out of them in boats. About 500 cellars were filled with water and in some, eases the foundation walls were weakened, allowing the buildings to sag. There was good boating on many of the streets. The sun came out hot after the rain and ruined thousands of acres 't thrifty corn in that vicinity. The St. Mary’s, St. Joseph, and Maumee rivers arc out of their banks and tilled with driftwood. Miss Bessie P. Vanderver, of Muncie, was engaged to be married to Noah E. Yount, of Troy, 0., and arrangement* had been made to have the wedding take place Monday afternoon. The prospective husband came to towm Sunday morning. Upon his arrival the young woman began to think seriously about the wedding, and became afflicted with hysteria and nervous prostration. Physician* were called in, but their medicine was of no use. They stated that her life was in great danger, and if it were her intention to lie married it would be best to have the affair over as soon as possible. A marriage license and minister were secured and the couple were married within an hour. The bride at once recovered from the effects of her nervousness and the physicians say that hastening the wedding in all probability saved her life. A terrible tragedy occurred in Floyd County Monday morning, in Greenville township. Edward Miller, a well-to-do farmer, educated and greatly respected, as wore all his family, became angry at his wife over some domestic misunderstanding. Both he and his wife were high tempered, and in his aoiger he went out of the house, procured a heavy elub, and, returning to the house, struck bis wife a terrible blow, knocking her senseless on the floor. He then lifted her to a chair, and, ordering his little son of 12 year* from the house, took down his Winchester rifle and shot his wife through the back of the head, the ball coming out at her mouth and dropping into her lap. Miller then left' the house, taking his Winchester with him, and, going into the wood* about a quarter of a mile from home, took the shoe from his right foot, placed the gun between his eyes, and discharged it with his foot, literally tearing off the top of his bead, dying instantly. , Excitement is running high over the discovery of a large snake of unknown species on a farm near Waterloo. About two years ago a mammoth snake-was seen in that vicinity and it is believed to be the same one. 11. D. Smith, a Rockville coal dealer, killed himself with a revolver, the ball passing entirely through his head. Mr. Smith was once a wealthy coal operator iu Clay County, and later a res-dent of Terre Haute. He was about 79 years old. Suffering induced 'by an attack of grip is assignee! as the cause of the suicide. Rev. Alexander Posey, a minister of tile colored Methodist denomination, was stricken with paralysis while preaching a sermon nt Rushville, and will die. He was carried from the church to his home and the services brought to a sudden ebd The Woman’s Club of Muncie has passoil resolutions condemning cheap advertisements by merchants as placed on poles and on fences and will take steps to stop it. They also denounce immoral picture* as posted by show and theatrical companies and will try to stop their display on bill boards in Muncie. The club ft the most influential social organlsatioa in Muncie and the oldest woman’s club In Indiana. . ,