Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Page 3

THE MASK OF DECEIT

"WHY FEIGNEST THOtJ THYSELF TO BE ANOTHER?” i f ; «' Kev, Dr. TaJmajje Draws Some Startling Lessons from a Unique TextRoyalty In Disguiee-The Accuracy of God’s Providences in the Universe. I Onr Washington Pulpit. In this sermon from a Bible scene never Used in sermonic discourse Dr. Talmage draws some startling lessons and tears off the mask of deceit. The text is I. Kings xiv., 6, “Why feignest thou thyself to be anc/ther?” In the palace of wicked Jeroboam.there is a sick- child—a very sick child. cines have failed; skill is exhausted: lYoung Abijah, the prince, has lived long enough to become very and yet he must die unless some supernatural aid be afforded. Death comes up the broad stairs of the palace and swings-back the door of the sick room of royalty and stands looking at the dying prince with the dart uplifted. Wicked Jeroboam knows that he.has no right to ask anything of the Lord in the way of kindness. He knows that his-prayers would not be answered, and sends his wife on the delicate and tender "mission to the prophet of the Lord in Shiloh. Putting aside her royal attire, she puts on the garb of a peasant woman and starts on the road. - Instead of carrying gold and gems as she might have carried from the palace, she carries only those gifts which seem to indicate that she belongs to the peasantry —a few loaves of bread and a few cracknels and a cruse of honey. Yonder she goes, hooded and veiled, the greatest lady in all the kingdom, yet passing unobserved. No one that meets her on the highway has any idea that she is the first lady in all the land. She is a queen in disguise. The fact is that Peter the Great working in the dry docks of Snardam, the sailor’s hat and the shipwright’s ax gave him nmmore thorough disguise than the garb peasant woman gave to the queen saw the deceit. Although his physical eyesight had failed, he was divinely illumined, and at one glance looked through the imposition, and he cried out: “Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam! Why feignest thou thyself to be another? I have evil tidings for thee. Get thee back to thy house, and when thy feet touch the gate of the city the child shall die.” She had a right to ask for the recovery of her Son; she had no right to practice an imposition. Broken hearted now, she started on the way, the tears falling on the dust of the road all'the way from Shiloh to Tirzah. Broken hearted now, she is not careful any more to hide her queenly gait and manner. True to the prophecy, the moment her feet touch the gate of the city the child dies. As she goes in the soul of the child goes out. The cry in the palace is joined by the lamentation of a nation, nnd as they carry good Abijah to his grave the air is filled with the voice of eulogy for the departed" youth and the groan of an afflicted kingdom.

A Thrilling (Story. It is for no insignificant purpose that I present you the thrilling story of the text. In the first place I learn that wickedness involves others, trying to make them its dupes, its allies and its scapegoats. Jeroboam proposed to hoodwink the Lord’s prophet. How did he do it? Did he go and do the work himself? No. He sent his wife to do it. Hers the peril of exposure, hers the fatigue of the way, hers the execution of the plot; his, nothing. Iniquity is a brag, but it is a great coward. It lays ttye plan and gets some one else to execute it; puts down the gunpowder train and gets some one else to touch it off; contrives mischief and gets some one else to work it; starts a lie and gets some one else to circulate it — In nearlyall the great crimes of the world it is found out that those who planned the arson, the murder, the theft, the fraud, go free, while those who were decoyed and cheated and hoodwinked into the coiispiracy clank the chain and mount the gallows. Aaron Burr, with heart filled with impurity and ambition,' plots for the overthrow of the United States Government and gets off with a few threats and a little censure, while Blenuerhassett, the learned Blenuerhassett, the sweet-tem-pered Blennerlinssett, Is decoyed by him from the orchards, and the laboratories and the gardens, and the home on the bank of the Ohio river, and his fortunes are scattered, and he is thrown into prison, and his family, brought up in luxury, is turned out to die. Abominable Aaron Burr has it comparatively easy. Sweettempered Blenuerhassett has it hard. Benedict Arnold proposed to sell out the forts of the United States; to surrender the Revolutionary army and to destroy the United States Government. He gets off with his pockets full of pounds sterling, while Mnjqr Andre, the brave and the brilliant, is decoyed into the conspiracy and suffers omthe gibbet on the banks of the Hudson; so that even the literature—the marble tablnture that confmemorated that event—has been blasted by midnight desperadoes. Benedict Arnold inis it easy. Major Andre has it hard. I have noticed that nine-tenths of those who suffer for crimes are merely-the satellites of some great villains. Ignominious fraud is a juggler which by sleight of hand"and leg erdemain makes the gold that it stole appear in somebody else’s pocket. Jeroboam plots the lie, contrives the impose tiOn, and gets his wife to execute it. Stand off from all imposition and chicanery. Do uot consent to be anybody’s dupe, anybody’s ally in wickedness, anybody’s scapegoat. The story of the text also impresses me with the fact that royalty sometimes passes iu disguise. The frock, the veil, the hood of the peasant woman hid the queenly character of this woman of Tirzah. Nobody suspected that she was a queen or a princess as she passed by, but she was just as much a queen as though she stood in the palace, her robes incrusted with diamonds. And so all around about us there are princesses and queens whom the world does not recognize. They sit on no throne of royalty, they ride in no chariot, they elicit no huzza, they make no pretense, but by the grace of God they are princesses and they are queens; sometimes in their poverty, sometimes in their self-denibl, sometimes in their hard struggles of Christian service—God knows they are-queens. The world does uot recognize them. - , Royalty passing in disguise, kings without the crown, conquerors without the palm, empresses without the jewel. Toil saw her yesterday on the street. You saw nothing important" in her appearance, but She is regnant over a vast realm of virtue and goodness—a realm vaster than Jero-, boam ever looked at. You went down into the house of destitution and want and suffering. You saw the story of trial written on the wasted hand of the mother, on the pale cheeks of the children,- on the empty bread tuny, on the fireless hearth, on the broken chair. You would not have given a dollar for all the furniture in the house. But by the grace of God she is a princess. The overseers of the poor come there and discuss the case and say, “It’s a pauper.” They (Id not realize that God hns burnished for her *a crown, and that after she has got through the fatiguing journey from Tirzah to Shiloh and from Shiloh back to Tirzah there will be a throne of royalty on which she shall rest forever. Glory veiled. Affluence hidden.

Eternal raptures hushed up. A qneen in mask. A princess in disguise. <*- The Queen in Disguise. v When you think of a queen you do not think of Catherine of Russia, or Maria Theresa of Germany, or Mary, queen of Scots. When You think of a queen, yon think of a plain woman who sat Opposite your father at the table or walked with him down the path of life arm in arm, sometimeb to the Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the. grave, but always side by side, soothing your little sorrows and adjusting your little quarrels, listening to your evening prayer, toiling with the needle or at the spinning wheel, and on cold nights tucking you up snug and warm. And then on that dark day when she lay a-dying, putting those thin hands'that had toiled for you so long, putting them together in?a dying prayer commending you to that God in whom she had taught you to trust Oh, she was the queen, she was the queen! You cannot think of her now without having the deepest emotions of your soul stirred, and you feel as if you could cry as though you were now sitting in infancy on her lap, and if you could call her back to speak your name with the tenderness with which she once spoke you would be willing now to throw yourself on the sod that covers her grave, crying, “Mother, mother!” Ah, she was the queen! Your father knew it. You knew it. She was the queen, but the queen in disguise. The world did not recognize it. But. there was a grander disguising. The favorite of a great house looked out of the window of his palace, and he saw that the people carrying heavy burdens, and that some of them were hobabling on crutches, and lying at the gate exhibiting their sores, and then he heard their lamentations, and he said: “I will just put on the clothes of those poor people, and I will go down and see what their sorrows are, and I will sympathize with them, and I will be one of them, and I will help them.” Well, the day came for him to start. The lords of the land came to see him off. All who could sing joined in the parting song, which shook the hills and woke up the shepherds. The first few nights he hns been sleeping with the hostlers and the camel drivers, for no one knew there was a King in town. He went among the doctors of the lawj astounding them; for Without any doctor’s gown he knew more law than any doctors. He fished with the fishermen. He smote with his own hammer iu the carpenter’s shop. He ate raw corn out of the field. He fried fish on the banks, of Gennesaret. . He was howled at by crazy people in the tombs. He was splashed of the surf of the sea. A pilgrim without any pillow. A sick man without any medicament. A mourner with no sympathetic bosom in which he could pour his tears. Disguise complete. I know that occasionally his divine royalty flashed out as when in the storm on Galilee, as in the red wine at the wedding banquet, as when he freed the shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when he turned a’ whole school of fish into the net of the discouraged boatmen, as when he throbbed life into the shriveled arm of the paralytic, but for the most part he was in disguise. No one saw The King’s jewels in his sandal. No one saw the royal robe in his plain coat. No one knew that that shelterless Christ owned all the mansions in which the hierarchs of heaven had their habitation. None knew that that hungered Christ owned all the olive groves and all the harvests which shook their gold on the hills of Palestine. No one knew that he who said “I thirst!” poured the Euphrates out of his own chalice. No one knew that the ocean lay in the palm of his hand like a dewdrop in the vase of a lily. No one knew thnt the stars and moons and suns and galaxies and constellations that marched on age after age were, as compared with his lifetime, the sparkle of a firefly on a summer night. No one knew that the sun in midheaven was only the shadow of his throne. , No one knew that his crown of universal dominion was covered up. with a bunch of thorns. Omnipotence sheathed in a human body. Omniscience hidden in a hu- . man eye. Infinite love beating in a human heart. Everlasting harmonies subdued into a human voice. Royalty en masque. Grandeurs of heaven in earthly disguise.

Superstition. My subject also impresses me with how people put on masks and how the Lord tears them off. .It was a terrible moment in the history of this Woman of Tirzah; when the prophet accosted her, practically saying: “I know who you are. You cannot cheat me. You cannot impose upon me. Why feignest thou thyself to be another?” She had a right to ask for the restoration of her son; she had no right to practice that falsehood. It is never right to do wrong, Sometimes you may be able an affair. It is not necessary to t<#T everything. There is a naturnl pressure to the lips which seem to indicate that silence sometimes is right, hut for double dealing, for moral shuffling, for counterfeit and for sham God has nothing but anathema and exposure. Ho will tear off the lie. He will rip'up the empiricism. He will scatter the ambuscade. There are people who are just ready to be duped. They seem to be waiting to be deceived. They believe in ghosts. They saw ope themselves once. They heard something strange in an uninhabited house. Going along the road one night, something approached them in white and crossed the road. They would think it very disastrous to count tho number of carriages nt a funeral. They heard in a neighbor's house something that portended death in the family. They say it is a sure sign of evil if a bat fly into the room on ajuimuter night or they see the moou over the left shoulder. They would not for the world undertake any enterprise on Friday, forgetful of the fact that if they look over the calendar of the worild they will see j.liat Friday has been the most fortunate day in all the history of the world. As near as I can tell, looking„over the calendur of the world’s history, more grand, bright, beautiful tilings (have happened on Friday than any other day of the week. They would not begin anything on Friday. They would not for the world go • back to the house for anything after they had once started. Such'people are ready te be duped. Ignorance comes'along, perhaps iu the disguise of medical science, and carries theigkcaptive, for there are always some men who have found some strange* and mysterious weed in some strange plage and .plucked it in the moonshine, and " then they cover the board fences with the advertisements of “elixir” and “panaceas” and “Indian mixtures” and “ineffable cataplasms” and “unfailing disinfectants” and “lightning salves” and “instantaneous ointments,” enqOgli to stun and scarify and poultice and kill half the race. They arp all ready to be wrought upon by such imiiositions. Ah, niyfriends, do not be among such dupes! Do not act the part of such persons as I hav'c been-de-scribing. Stand hack from all chfcanery, from all Hnposition. They who practice such imposition shall be exposed in the day oLGod’s indignation. They may renr great fortunes, but their dapple grays will be arrttfted on the road some day, ns was,, the-ara by the angel of God with drawn sword. The‘light of the last day will shine through all such subterfuges and with a voice louder than that which accosted this imposition of the text: "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam. Why feignest thou thyself to be another?*” With a voice louder than that God will thunder down 4 into midnight darkness and doom nnd deajh all two faced men, and all charlatans, nuil all knaves, and all jockeys, and all swindlers. Behold how the people put on the masks, and behold how the Lord tear* them off! ,

» : .4. , _ . ■ My subject also impresses me with how, precise and accurate and particular are God’s providence*. Just at the moment that woman entered the city the child died. Just as it was prophesied, so' it turned out, so it always turns out. The event occurs, the death takes place, th% nation is born, the despotism 1 is overthrown at the appointed, time. God drives the universe with a stiff rein. Events do not just happen so. Things do not go slipshod. In all she book of God’s providences there is not one “if.” God’s providences are never caught in dishabille. To God there are no surprises, no disappointments and ho accidents. The most insignificant event flung out in the. ages ie.the connecting link between two* great chains —the chain of eternity past and the chain of eternity to come. _ > I am no fatalist, but I should be completely wretched if I did Yiot feel that all the affairs qf my life are in God’s hand and all that pertains to me and mine, just as certainly as all the affairs of this woman of the text, as this < child of the text, as this king of the tdxt, were in God’s hand. You may ask me a hundred questions I cannot answer, but I shall until the day of my death believe that I am under’the unerring care of God, and the heavens may fall, and the world may burn, and the judgment may thunder, and eternal ages may roll, bjit not a hair shall fall from my head, not a shado'w shall drop on my path, not a sorrow shall transfix my heart without being divihely arranged—arranged by a loving, sympathetic Father. He bottles our tears, he catches our sorrows, and to the orphan he will be a Father, and to the widow he will be a husband, and to the outcast he will be a home, and to the most miserable wretch that this day dfaWls up out of the ditch of his abomination crying for mercy' he will be an all pardoning God. The rocks shall turn gray with age, and the forests shall be unmoored in the last hurricane, and the sun shall shut its fiery eyelid, and the stars shall drop like blasted figs, and the continents shall go down like anchors in the deep, and the ocean shall heave its last groan and 1 lash itself with expiring agony, and the world shall wrap itself in a winding sheet of flame and leap on the funeral pyre of the judgment day; but God’s love shall not die. It will kindle its suns after all other lights have gone out. It will be a billowy sea after the lqsfc ocean has swept itself away. It will warm itself by the fire of a consuming world. It will sing while the archangel’s trumpet is pealing forth and the air is filled with the crash of broken sepulchers and the rush of the wings of the rising dead. Oh, may God comfort all this people with this Christian sentiment!

Short Sermons.

The Nation’s Need—The church’s opportunity is to supply the nation’s need by preaching Christ as the savior of society as well as of the Individual. Also, to practice his teachings and obey his law in the world. We pray for millennial days; we shall hasten them when In business, social and political life we do the pleasure of the King. The world’s standard of business is wrong, and our social caste is heathenish, no ( t , Christian.—Rev. J. K. Montgomery, Presbyterian, Cincinnati, Ohio. Church Work.—The church attracts to it persons who are themselves attracted, and repels those wiio have nothing to dor Christ never sought any one. He was overcareful to repel them. He told them they would be stoned, cast out of the synagogue; men would speak evil of them, and they would even he crucified, as he was to be. All this they were to expect, he sought no one. The early church sought no one. He and his church rested on an essential foundation.—Rev. S. D. McConnell, Episcopalian, Brooklyn, N. Y. Incompletepess.—ln ’field and flood, in plant jind animal, his will is done; but when you come into the realm of. human life, there is rebellion, failure, disaster; you find men strong, brave and true, but incomplete, failures. Hence, you have the sad stories of the weakness of the strong man, the cowardice of the brave man, the folly of the wise man, the impatience of the patient man. They always stop short of God’s ideal.—Rev. William Tracey, Episcopalian, Philadelphia, Pa. Work.—God hath ordained that work along briiigs peace. Ask the laborer at the forge or factory, ask him who’ shapes his block of stone or molds his pillar of brass, or polishes his wood, or perfects his tool, and the workman will tell you that holiest toil gives a sweet peace that wealth cannot increase nor poverty take away. For God hath ordained thpt the heart shall sing when the hand does honest and honorable work.—Rev. D. N. Hills, Independent, Chicago, 111.

Profit and Loss«s-We are continually considering the question,of profit and loss. There is not a more perplexing question than deciding our- choice or vocation in starting out in life, but a question of greater value is the all-im-portant question of our souls. Where is there really any profit outside of the question of out souls? There are things of the world that are valuable, such as wealth, glory, honor and but they all pasd away. Men often reach these, but what have they? They all pass away, but the soul exists forever. —Rev. Dr. Collins, Methodist, Louisville, Ky. y God’s Way.—Life Is a school in which souls are taught by the orderings n$ well as by the word of God. Man deserves punishment; he, no doubt, merits reprobation; even at his best he is an unprofitable servant; but God’s concern Is wholly with the salvation of souls. He is not working on the basis of judg ment. By various means he would purify and ennoble his children, and to thia’-end he uses joys and sorrows, successes aud failures, as well as Bibles and pulpits and sacrament and religious exercises. Trials are not punishment, but discipline. Pain is not Jibe work of the Father’s wrath. Sickness, jioverty,’defect, disaster, may be God’s choicest gifts. At all events they are not judgments.—Rev. Henry Swentzel, Episcopalian, Brooklyn, N. Y. Charity and Sympathy.—There must be a sympathy, l<jve and companionship in all our gffts. There are hundreds nnd thousands rushing to darkness and doom for the fPant of a cheering word and the lJclief that some one cares for them, and for the want of the sympathy apd love that might go even with the little gifts that we ijo give. People subscribe to funds to aid the poor in the slums, but they never go there themselves and see where their money goes. If those who are charitably inclined visited the poor in person and added words of sympathy, consolation nnd love to their other gifts, there would be TCbb tpisery In the slums, and a great many, more souls saved.—Rev. W, R, Perrett, Presbyterian, Clinton, N. Y.

ANXIETY IS ASSUMED.

DEMOCRATS NOT SINCERE , IN CLAMOI* FOR REFORM. 1 r their Present Hysterics Are Counterfeit and Are Indulged iu for the .Purpose of Putting Republicans in a Hole—Republican Press Comment. Democrats and the Revenues. Democratic organs are becoming seriously disturbed abouxthe deficiency in the Government’s revenues,, and insist that It should be met at once. These organs are supporters of the administration. It is passing strange that they have so recently made the discovery of the evils growing out of insufficient revenue. These evils have existed for several years—in fact, ever since the passage of the Wilson tariff hill. They are not new, and they are not-as harmful as they have been. -The crowning evU was the passage of a revenue bill which did not provide the requisite revenue. This led to the borrowing of money at usurious rates of interest, the weakening of public confidence and the periodic runs on the treasury’s gold reserve, but the people have decided to place the Republican party in charge of affairs, and the country is rapidly recovering from the effects of bad statesmanship. Gold is accumulating in the treasury, confidence, has been to a large extent restored, and the remnants of the enormous loans effected J by Mr. Cleveland will meet the deficiency until a Republican administration has had time to pass a proper revenue law. If the Democrats are so much alarmed about the deficiency, they have It in their power to meet it and Wipe it but. They Qgn do this within a month. They have a pig-eon-loled bill, prepared and passed by the Republicans of the House at the last session, in response to the almost panicky demand of the President. It was a temporary expedient, passed as such, and was only intended to cover a certain period, and may, therefore, need revision in some particulars, but It will stave off an Imaginary crisis just as well as any bill that the Democrats can prepare. They have only to rescue this measure from the parliamentary entanglement In which they Involved it and pass it, and there will cease to be a deficiency during the interval between the regular sessions of Congress. But they have not; the slightest idea of taking such a step. The anxiety of the Democratic organs is assumed, Their hysterics are counterfeit They would like to put the Republicans in a hole, and if they cannot d° that they hope to produce an unfavorable impression on the public mind. They will do neither the one nor the other. The Republicans have done all in their power to relieve the present administration from the embarrassments into which it dellterately plunged, and nothing more willbe done Until the party gets control of the government and becomes actually responsible for the management of public affairs.—Springfield Union.

Bryan Should Study This. While Bryan is receiving the congratulations of his free-silver friends In the mining States for not being elected, wheat lias quietly slipped up to a dollar. This ought to be an awful blow to the Boy Orator’s self-sufficiency. His plea during the campaign was that, as silver advanced in price so wheat would advance, and viefe versa, and by adopting free silver coinage the farmers would get a dollar for their wheat, or more. The sudden and rapid advance of wheat about midway the campaign while silver continued to drop gave Bryan a body blow and temporarily khocked the pith out of his eloquence, but ho soon recovered hfs volubility and* evolved from his prodigious imagination* some explanation of the phenomenon. - _ ' _ But free silVer has now been overwhelmingly defeated. There is no more hope of its adoption than of any of the hare-brained theories that have run their course and been filed away in the pigeon liol'es of memory, and yet wheat persists in going up until it has reached a dollar a bushel. Many thousands of intelligent persons predicted that wheat could never again reach that price, and they laid plausible grounds, for believing so. But Bryan was going to bring It up with free silver. Possibly he would have brought it up in this country, but the price would have been paid In depreciated currency. "Wheat, at a Bryan dollar per bushel, would have been worth fifty cents, but wheat now is worth a hundred cents. Free silver didn’t have anything to do with the rise. The law of supply and demand arranged It.

Was Too Ardent. An lowa postmaster, who is a free silver man, warmly advocated the election of Mr. Bryan. "In the course of his business he discovered that someone was sending through* hiS office large quantities of literature on the nefarious subject of sound money. This was directed to farmers, and the postmaster discovered to his horror that the latter were reading the documents, and! that the'attendance at the free silver meetings grew less and less. The postmaster made up his mind that he would save the farmers and the country was going to the demnition bowwows, and he promptly confiscated all the matter of this sort which afterwasd came to the office and burned it. In spite of his heroic efforts lowa went overwhelmingly against lilm, and now. a heartless administration is actually doing to prosecute him.—Chicago Chronicle. . i • Not Surprised at Fraud. The Louisville Courier-Journal expresses no surprise at the revelations of fraud In the Tennessee election and declare# that no one familiar with the politics of Tennessee was surprised. “On the contrary,” says the CourierJournal, “it would have been surprising if the election in Tennessee had been free from fraud.” The paper makes it emphatic by adding: •. " The Courier-Jourtial spealw frora a thorough knowledge of Tennessee, and, speaking thus,) we have not tjbe least doubt that Bryan, as well ajt Taykir, was beaten In the State. ‘Roften’ Is the ope word that best describes the political condition* there. The element of the Democratic party which supported -Bryan have loo* prevented fair eles-

tiops In Tennessee. They look upon opposition as Impious. MaCfiy of believe that they are ftflly justified tn resorting to any method to defeat such opposition. They have more than once stolen the State, and they ore proud of It." ,v • ».* Revenue Will Be Provided. Some of the papers'are making hysterical appeals to the President-elect not to call an extra session of <songress for the purpose of passing a revenue bill. They say that a large number es Democrats voted for him, and, therefore,, the tariff ought not to be reformed on protection lines. These journals should study the treasury statements. "They would then be In better condition to give advice. The deficit for this month is already more than seven millions of dollars, and if all that belongs to this month Is Included In the month’s expenses, it may be double that amount before the first of December. This will give some notion of the general deficit, and the paramount need of revenue legislation. The Government must have funds to pay Its daily expenses, or there will be* a recurrence of the distrust which upset finance and business. -Put of the large amounts borrowed by Mr. Cleveland’s administration, In round numbers, about $300,000,000, there Is left, perhaps, enough, with the aid of the receipts from the Wilson bill, to run the Government until the first of July, 1897, and then, unless Congress passes a revenue bill meanwhile, more bonds must be sold, and the foolish policy of the present administration revived. The present revenue act Is a •piebald affair, an Incongruous mixture of protection and free trade, which em-' bodies all the defects of both systems, but its worst feature is that it does not provide the Government with enough money to meet its curtent expenses. But, say these papers, the Democrats voted the Republican ticket, and, therefore, the Cleveland policy should prevail—father a queer conclusion under the circumstances. The Democrats deserve credit for severing party fles and voting as their consciences dictated, but if they expected a Republican administration to do as they wished, they certainly do not deserve any credit whatever, for they did nothing but what was agreeable to them, and there was no merit in their act. As a fact, they voted the Republican ticket, knowing full well what the Republican policy was. They voted to save themselves and their belongings jfrom destruction, and they felt that the Republican party was their only hope. Their confidence was based on the past action of the Republican party, a part of which was its thoroughly practical and American management of the revenue question. We don’t think the President-elect or his advisers will be moved by these hysterical appeals. They may be moved to laughter, but not to tears or fears. The country is sorely in need of revenue, and it will be provided as soon after the fourth of March as expeditious legislation can furnish it.—Baltimore American. t A Demand for Hanna, Major McKinley will make one of the greatest Presidents in the history of the country, but he must have great men to help him, and among these must be Mr. Hanna. No excuse will avail when the call comes, and the call has already come from the millions of citizens who voted for McKinley. Secretary Hanna was elected along with President McKinley.—Baltimore American.

It Is Terrible. Here Is V leading English paper urging the British Government to put a tariff on beet sugar, for the benefit of the West India planters, and adding that if it doesn't do so the planters may seek annexation of their Islands to the United States. Shade of Cobden! Isn’t it terrible?—New York Tribune. Nothing Rational. Mr. McKinley’s alleged determination jto call an extra session evidences that, like the rest of us, he expects nothing rational from the present aggregation of Senatorial incompetency. —Duluth News Tribune. A Hint, to Watson. , Tom Watsoa might begin at once on the preparation <sf his ldtter of acceptance for 1900, so as to be able to devote all his time to getting it before the public during the campaign.— Washington Star. Such DeAte Silence. We would be much more pleased If the Bryan Democrats in the various departments would make a little more noise. They can’t keep up the fight for 1900 by such dense silence.—Washington Post. Protection a Good Thing. And now Sweden, too, after a brief trial of partial free trade, decides to go back to potection. There seems to be' something like an epidemic of “McKinleyism” all round.—Boston Journal. Condensed Comment. It will be mighty hard to convince Democrats, next, year that the appointments of the White House are perfect. The free sliver Democrats of Chicago are going to celebrate Jackson Day—probably because Jackson Is dead and cannot help himself. . Bryan does not seem to be enough of a lawyer to understand that it is a waste of breath to go on arguing a case that gas been decided. David Bennett Hill feels very confident that he could place his hand on a first-class nucleus for a now Democratic party without Jumping out of bed. ’ , Tom Watson announces that he “now is entirely out of politics.” In the interest of the public it is to be hoped that he will not order another suply. Senator Peffer once wrote about “The Way Out,’’"and now Kansas Populists are threatening to show it to him by electing another man to the place he occupies. Illinois is now the banner Republican State of the West, and her sensible and loyal people have reason to be very proud of the action bjf whleg this distinction was secured! It Is becoming tpore evident everyday that the farmers were raising dollar wheat last summer while the free sllverltes were trying to persuade them that the gold standard would send them th the poor house. &

AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMER SALIERE GOES DOWN. v Two Hundred and 7 Seventy-five - Persons Perish—Disaster Dae to a Foss —Ship Was on Her Way from Bremen to Buenos Ayres. Dashes on the Rocks of Spain. , Crashing through the mist into the Corrubedo rocks off the northwestern coast of Spain, the North German Lloyd steamship Saliere foundered in a few minHtes, and all on board were lost. Twp hundred and ten passengers were on board, and the crew consisted j>f sixty-five men. There was no time to take to the boats and all went down with the ship. News of the terrible disaster floated to Villagarcia with the tide. -An overturned boat with the name of the vessel painted on the stern, spurs and planks torn from the Ship as it crashed into the rocks, were swept to shore as silent witnesses of the fate of passengers and crew. Not one human being on board was able to reach safety, though it may be possible some were picked up by passing Vessels. The sinking of tjie Saliere may be one of the mysteries of the sea. The Saliere was bound from Bremen to Buenos Ayres, by way of Corunna and Villagarcia. Advices from Bremen and Corunna state that the passenger* were mostly in the steerage, and consisted of 113 Russians, thirty-five Galicians, six-ty-one Spaniards and one German. The vessel had put in at Corunna, and was heading eastward for Villagarcia, when it crashed into the jagged rocks, which are always given a wide berth by mariners. Just why and how the miscalculation was made which swung the Saliere one point too close to the terrible reef may never be known. The only explanation is that an ocean mist shut out the rocks, and that the dense fog prevented accurate bearings being taken. The steamship rounded Cape Finisterre and proceeded southward toward its last stopping place before it reached Buenos Ayres. Villagarcia is a town of less than 2,000 inhabitants, situated between Cape Finisterre and the City of Vigo. Issie Saliere expected to pick up more passengers at Villagarcia, bound for Uruguay. A heavy mist hung over the sea and a strong wind was blowing from the south when the Saliere was about due to head toward Villagarcia. The vessel 6ould easily have been seen from the shore but for the mist, as the channel between the rocks and the coast of Spain is only about five miles wide. <A miscalculation, and the Corrubedo rocks were responsible for the greatest disaster which has ever ofecurred in the Bay of Arosa. Nothing was known of the fate of the vessel until the floating wreckage reached Villagarcia. The fact that the rocks are only about five miles from the mainland and that none of the passengers or crew had been able to reach the shore led to tha belief that the Saliere must have foundered within a few minutes after it had struck on the- reef.

PLAIN TALK BY CULLOM.

Illinois Senator Pleads for Intervention in Behalf of CSba. Senator Cullom Thursday raised his voice in the Senate in Cuba’s behalf. He not only made an eloquent speech, but preceded it with a resolution which, if adopted,' will pledger'the United States to the extinction of Spanish title and the termination of Spanish control of the islands at the gateway of the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Cullom is not an orator, but he is a very impulsive speaker. His exhaustive and at-times eloquent review of the history of Spain’s oppression in Cuba was closely followed by Senators Sherman. Call, Hoar, Mills, Palmer and others, who hare been particularly interested in the Cuban question. “All the diplomacy of the ages never found a prayer by which slavery could be dethroned,” said Senator Cullom, in opening. “It required the humanity of Lincoln and the progress of the republic to open the prison walls to liberty and make glad a waiting world. If w r e wait for precedent we shall wait forever,” declared the Illinois Senator a little later. “If a precedent is needed we shall make one. Cuba to-day is lost to Spain. The public proclamation of Spanish defeat may not have been officially and definitely announced, but in truth and fact the submission of Cuba will never again be yielded as of old. Tribute of $25,000,000 to $40,000,000 annually so long exacted will never again replenish the treasury of Spain. The struggles of 1895 and 1890 sadly crippled Cuba, btit they will ruin Spain. The American people are coming to the consideration of the Cuban situation as they already have in certain other cases, as a great political question: a continental question, if you please. And being a political continental question it will be decided ultimately by the continent whose interests ure most clearly involved. Geographically considered, Cuba cannot beloug to Spain. She is in American waters and politically is entitled to statehood in the continent of American republics.

ODDS & ENDS.

There will be no Michigan State baseball league next seaaon. During his baseball career, Walter Brodig has not missed a game through sicki ess or disability. The ’varsity crew of University of Pennsylvania begins training under Coach Ellis Ward about Jan. 1. “Tommy” Ryan lias accepted an. offer of $2,500 to fight George Green in San Francisco, before the Olympic Club. President Pat Powers, of the Eastern league, says that four of his clubs made between $5,000 and $15,000 last season. The Chicago ball club will play Sunday games until the city of Chicago or the State Of Illinois decides such a practice illegal. The District Attorney of Kings County hasdeckled that Corbett and Fitzsimmons will not be allowed to bring off a fight at Coney Island. Dr. W. S. McDowell, of Chicago, who has repeatedly competed for the Diamond Sculls at Henley, without success, states that he intends to try ag’ain next year. Mr. Lehmann, the crack English rower and trainer, is much Encouraged over the work of the Yale crews, and thinks 1 that "the men have done some decidedly level rowing. ‘] ,■ The reported intention of bicycle manufacturers in this country to equip all of their,’fit wheels with brakes, unless otherwise requested by individual buyers, is very gratifying. *■ Barry, the oarsman, signed articles in London, on Wednesday, for a match with “Jake” 'Gaodaur, for the-aculling championship of the world and tSSSO a side, to t.fc- place on the Thames in April next s'

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY i / TOLD. Yon ns Rascals at Terre Hante Whs Need Large and Frequent Doses o# Strap OH—Snee Her Divorced Husband for Breach of Promise. Terre Hante Boya Become Criminal** Two brothers • nnmed Meacham, aged 13 and 10, have been arrested for vandalism at the Terre Haute Congregational Church, and admit their guilt. They say their reason for causing SI,OOO damage was to “have some fun.” The organ was ruined, the pulpit broken into splinters and the pulpit Bible torn to piece# and thrown,,*bout the floor. The elder boy recently returned from the reform school and a week ago kissed a girl during a recitation in a public school. The younger boy stole a horse and buggy a few Weeks ago. Soon after they had been placed in jail they set fire, to their cot, but the discovery was made in time to prevent seriouS results. Before they went into the church they attempted to pass a forged check. Mysterious Death of a Prisoner. John Kaylor, a prisoner in the Marion jail, was found dead on his cot Friday morning. He was arrested for intoxication Tuesday, resisted the officers and was clubbed into submission. After he had been placed in jail he began vomiting violently, which continued for two days. A physician was summoned and he thought the vomiting was caused by alcohol. After his death he was prepared for burial and was to have been interred Friday, but his wife asked for a post* mortem examination, and the burial was postponed. She has requested the Prosecuting Attorney to conduct the examination with a view of fastening the blame on the officers who arrested him. The Prosecutor refused to hold .the post-mor-tem at the expense of the county, and the body is being held until the matter can be decided. « Novel Breach of Promise Suit. Mrs. Ella Sykes, at Terre Hants, brought suit for breach of promise against her former husband, Frederick Hibberly, a retired famer, who is wealthy. They were married a year ago and soon after were divorced, the wife taking the name of a former husband. He is 55 years of age and she 35. Some months ago they were reconciled and she alleges in her complaint shat he promised to marry her again, but now refuses to do so. She asks for SIO,OOO damages. They came from Vermillion County, where they were first married. . All Over the State. Dr. A. R. Coble, of Clinton County, has been arrested and placed under SSOO bond for alleged attempt to buy votes on election day. At headquarters for the Western. Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association in Muneie the announcement is made that all factories will resume work at once. The Court of Appeals at Frankfort Ky., has refused a new trial to Scott Jackson, charged with killing Pearl Bryan, of Greencastle. The opinion of the Courf of Appeals covers also the appeal of the attorneys for Alonzo Walling? who must die. The grounds for appeal were that the Judge erred in instructing, tha Sheriff erred in not allowing admission' except by ticket and that the evidence was insufficient. A terrible tragedy was enacted on the farm of George Deacon, about six miles west of Bourbon, Sunday night. Deacon has at times been mentally deranged, and during these spells imagines his wife to be another woman in his wife’s apparel. The suppqmtion is that he was taken with one of tijff spells and murdered his wife sleeping. Then heCOTning awakened to his terrible crime he "committed suicide by drowning himself in a large watering tank in his barnyard. Mr. Deacon was 72 years old and his wife 67. They had been residents of the county for thirty-six years. A desperate battle between a posse of officers headed by Marshal Franz, of Berne, and a gang of thieves took place in the southern part of the county Monday morning. Two of the officers were slightly wounded, and one of the thieves instantly killed and two others mortally wounded. From papers found on the person of the dead man his name is supposed to be Gotlhert Brown. The wounded thieves were taken to Decatur for treatment, but they cannot live. The rest of the gang escaped, and officers from adjoining counties have been asked to assist in the chase. Thieves entered the house of Shearman Baker, living near North Webster, and while the inmates were asleep robbed it They then poured oil on the carpets and applied a match, which burned the house to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Baker wese aroused and escaped from the house just in time to save their lives. The neighbors who were attracted to the scene of the fire gave chase to the desperate men, and should they be caught a lynching is in store for them. It is supposed to be the work of an organized band which baa been torturing farmers to reveal the hiding place of their money. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fate, an aged couple, who resided near Sunman, have been murdered in cold blood. They were discovered Monday morning in a dying condition, and the husband lived long enqugh to give an account of the affair, - A Stranger called at the house Sunday claiming to bear verbal messages from friends across the "water, but the suspicion* of the couple were aroused and they refused to entertain him for the night. Shortly after 7 o’clock their door was forced open and they were assaulted with clubs, being left for dead. No demand was made for money, nor does there seem to have been any effort 'to rob the house. The absence of apparent motive makes the crime extremely mysterious. ' Indiana will have a candidate for Pres-ident-elect McKinley’s Cabinet in Aaroa Jones, of St.. Joseph County. A movement to secure his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture has already assumed formidable proportions. " ,* • Frederick Clark, a member of a wellknown Wheatfield family, was found bruised and bleeding at a point near the railroad. His injuries are serious. Clark left home with a large sum of money., but when found his pockets had been rifled. His condition is such that he has been unable to give an intelligent account of himself. , . • C. H. Over, senior member of the firm of C- H. Over & Co., Muneie • window glass manufacturers, and George J. Vin T cent, night watchman at the factory, were horribly and perhaps fatally burned in a natural gas explosion. Vincent struck a match while repairing a gas pump, causing the explosion. Representative Woodruff will introduce a bill in the Legislature prohibiting the sale and manufacture of cigarettes la this State. Heavy • penalties will be prescribed. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union throughout the State la obtaining thousands of signature* to petitions urging the passage of inch.* rneae*