Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — Page 7

QUICK BOUT OF SIN.

REV. OR. TALMAGE FAVORS A SUDDEN ASSAULT. He Thinks -the Earth Cap Be Captured for Righteousness by the Cavalry Of the Christian Hosts vAn Eloquent Exhortation for a Revival. Our Weekly Pcribpn. This sermon of Dr. TAltnpge in behalf of a movement to' capture ttje * world for righteousness strikes a chord that will vibrate through Christendom. The text is 11. Kings xviii., 23, “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them,”. Up. by the waterworks, the , .ripper reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of the besieging- army and the generals of besieged Jerusalem are in consultation. Tir&ugh General Itab-shakeh had been largely paid to stop the siege, he kept the money and continued the siege—the military miscreant! Itab-shakeh derides the capacity of the city to defend itself i V and practically hays: “You have not 2,OCX} men who can manage horses. Produce 2,000 cavalrymen, and I will give yon & present of 2,000 cavalry horses. VYou have not in all your besiegeji, city )of -Jerusalem 2000 men who can innnrff' them, and by bit and bridle control a horse.” Rab-shakeh realized that it is easier to find horses than skillful riders, and hence he makes the challenge of the text, “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them.” Rab-shakeh, like many another bad man, said a very suggestive thing. The world is full of great energies and great opportunities, hut few know how to bridle them and mount them and manage them. More spirited horses than competent riders! The fact is that in the church of God we have plenty of fortresses well manned and plenty of heavy artillery and plenty of solid columns of' brave Christian soldiery, but what we most need is cavalry—mounted troops of God—for sudden charge that seems almost desperate. If Washington, if New York, if London, are ever taken for God, it will not be by* slow bombardment of argumentation or by regular unlimbering of great theological gunS from the portholes of the church, bat by gallop of sudden assault and rush of holy energy that will astound and throw into panic the long lines of drilled opposition armed tothe teeth. Nothing so scarps the-forces of sin as a .revival that copies they know, not whence, to do that which they cannot tell, to work in a way that they cannot understand. They will be.overcome by flank movement. The church of God must double up their right or left wing. If they expect us from the north, we will take them from the south. If they expect us at 12 o’clock at noon, we will come upon them at 12 o’clock at night. The —opportunities for this assault are great and numerous, but where are the men? “I will deliver thee 2,0(K) horses if thou be able to set riders upon them.” Praise for the Press. The opportunities of saving America and saving tjie entire planet were never so many, never so urgent, never so tremendous as now. Have you not noticed the willingness of the printing press of the country to give the subject of evangelism full swing in column after column? Such work was formerly confined to tract distribution, .and...religions journalism. Now the morning and evening newspapers, by hundreds and thousands of copies, print all religious intelligence and print most a\v a ken i ng" - * d iscou roes. Never since the world lias stood has such a .force been offered to all engaged in the world’s evangelization. *Of the more than 15,000 newspapers on this continent

I do not know one that is not alert to catch and distribute all matters of religious information. The newspaper press will yet announce nations burn Itrir day: The newspaper press will report Christ’s sermons yjy, to be delivered and describe his jiersonalappearance, if, as some .think, he shall, come again to reign on earth.- The newspaper press may 1 ' yer publish Ohrist’s procllamntion of tile world’s Emancipation from sin and sorrow and death. Tens of thousands of good men in this and other lands have been ordained by the laying on of hands to preach the gospel, but it seems to me that just now, by the laying on of tlie hands of the Lord God Almighty, the newspaper presses are being ordained for preaching tire—gospel —with wider sweep and mightier resound than we have yet imagined. The iron horses —of-t-he printing-peess'm-uull-rc-ady for tim... battle, but where art? the] men good enough and strong enough to mount them and guide them? “I will deliver time 2,000 horses "If thou be able to set riders upon them.” Useful in Buttle. Go gut to tile Soldiers’ Home, and talk with the men who have been in the wars, and they will give you right appreciation . of what is tlie importance of the cavalry servige in battle. You bear the clutter of the hoofs and the whir of the arrows and the clash of the shields and the hang of the carbines ns they ride up and down the centuries. Clear back in time O'syninndyas led 20,000 mounted troops in Baetriana. Josephus says that when the Israelites escaped-from Egypt 50.000 cavalrymen rode'through tlie parted Red Sen. i. Three hundred and seventy-one years b'efore*Christ Epnminondas headed his troops at full gallop. Alexander, on a horse that no other man oould ride, led bis mounted troops. Seven thousand horsemen decided the'struggle at Arbeln. Although saddles were not invented until tlie tpne of Constantine, and stir- . rtjps were unknown until about 450 years after Christ, you hear the neighing and snorting of ‘war chargers in the greatest battles of the ages. Austerlitz and Mar--engo 'niitL Solferino were tfeeHled by tlie —cavalry-. -The-mmurted—Eestiaeks—r-e-ew-forced the Russian snow-storms in the obliteration of the French army. Napoleon said if he had.only had sufficient cavalry at Bautzen and Lutzen His wars would have triumphantly ended. I do not wonder that the Duke 'of Wellington had his old war horse Copenhagen turned out in best pasture, and that the Duchess of Wellington wore a bracelet of Copenhagen's hair. Not one drop of roy bloiid but tingles ns 1 look at the nrehed neck and pawing hoof and panting nostril of Job’s cavalry horsb. (“Hast thou clothe!] his neck with thutider? "He paweth in the valley; he goeth on to meet the armed men. The quiver rattleth against hion, the glittering spear and the shield. Ho saifrh among the trumpets; Ha, ha! u’nd he smelleth the battle afar <Jff, the thuudef of the captains and the shouting.” The Bold Pnsfi. 5 ■*- ‘■l'titfiHrif'W'tfctr cpfttfr? • vmtarem*: tian hosts, the gfnijd men and women who, with bold dash and holy recklessness and spurred on energies, are to tuk» tha world for God. To this pray of Christian service belong the evangelists. ~ It ought to be the business of the regular churches to tnhltlply them, to support them, to cheer them, to clear the way for them. Some of them you like; some of them you do not like. You say some are tyo sensational, and some of them are not «uough learned, and some of them are ♦rratic, and some of them'are too vehement, and some of-them pray too loud. Oh, fold Up your criticism and let them do fhnt which we, the pastors, cannever do. 1 like all the evangelists I Have ever Haaa ar heard. They are busy now; they

are busy every day of the week. While we, the pastors, serve God by holding the fortress of righteousness and drilling the Christian soldiery and by marshaling anthems and sermons and ordinances on the tight side, they are out fightjng the forces of darkness “hip and thigh, with great -slaughter.” All success to them! The faster they gallop the better I like it. The keener the lances they fling the more I admire them. We care not what conventionality they infract if they only gain the victory. Moody and Chapmanand Mills and Jones and Harrison and Munhall and Major Cole and Crittenden and a hundred otherg are now making the cavalry charge, and they are this moment taking New York and Philadelphia andiCiucinnati for God, and I wish they might take our nation’s capital. Hear the tremendous facts: There are now in this country nearly 1(50,000 church congregations, with Aiea,riy 21,000,000 communicants and seating capacity in clyireh for more than 43.Q0p,000 people—in other words, room in tlie churches for three-fourths of the population of this country, and about one-third of the population of this couutry already Christian. In other words, we will have only to average bringing two souls to God during the next three years and our Country is redeemed. Who cannot, under the power of the Holy Ghost, bring two souls to God in three years? Take out of your prayers and preaching some of your stuffing of groans ap4put in something pf acclamation and triumph, and the United States will be gospelized, and if the United States be gospelized America will be gospelized. and, Atnerjca gospelized, we will take Asia from the Pacific beach and Europe from the Atlantic beach, and not far front now. the lost star we live on will take its place among the constellations that never fell. Let the more than 21,000,000 communicants, as they lift the sacrameqjal cup to their lips, take oath that they will not rest until the other 40,000,000 are saved. The opportunities are all saddled and bridled. Where are the men and women to guide them? Pull Up the Blinds. Get out of the way with j-our dolorous foreboding and change your dirges for what we have not done for the grand march of what we may do and will do. Tlie woman at Sedan, in whose house Napoleon the last was ivaiting to make surrender of himself and his army, said to the ..overthrown French emperor, “What can I do for you?” And the despairing ex-monarch replied, “Nothing hilt draw down the blind so that*!, cannot he stared at,” In this gospel campaign we have plenty to draw down the blinds. In God’s name, I say, pull up the blinds .and let the morning sun of the coming victory shine upon -us. What we' want in this campaign for God is the self-abiregration and courage o£ the ipen of Sir Colin Campbell, who, as uord Bishop Cowie of New Zealand, one chaplain of -Mis army, told me, said to * the troops: “Men, no retreat from this place. Die right here.” And they shouted: “Yes,. Sir Colin. We Will do it.” And they did! Temporary defeats ought not to dishearten. What is Bunker Hill monument? Monument of defeat. But from that bloody mount American independence started for its grandest achievement, and all the defeats of the cause of God are incipient victory. Tliy saints in all this glorious war ■ Shall conquer, though they die. the triumph from afar And -seize it with their eve.

And now, standing ns I do in this national capital, let me say that what we Want in the Senate and House of Represeirtatfves and the Supremo' Court is a Pentecostal blessing that will shake the continent with divine mercy. There recently came into my hands the records of two Congressional prayer meetings, on the rolls of which were the names of the most eminent Senators and'Representatives who then controlled the destinies of this republic—the one Congressional 18(5(5. The record is in the handwriting of tire philanthropist, William E. Dodge, then a member of Congress. There are now more Christian men in the National Legislature than ever imfore. Why will thgy not band --together in a religious movement which' before the inifitgnration of the next President shall enthrone Christ in the hearts of this nation? They have the brain, they have the eloquence,they have jjie influence. God grant them the grace sufficient! Who in Congressional circles will establish the capitoline prayer-meeting in 181)7? Let -the evening of the last decade of this century Joe irradiated with such a religious splendor. _Xkero_ara ..the.-opporl u.uities. -for..,a —iwu. tional and international" charge, all bridled and saddled. Where are the riders to mount them? A Quick Fight. The cavalry suggests speed. When once the reins are gathered into tlie hands' of. the soldlerlyhorsepTiin, and the spurs are struck into the flanks, yon hear the rataplan of the hoofs. “Velocity” is -the word-that-describes the movement,- ■ acceleration, momentum, ami what we want in getting into the kingdom of God is celerity. You see the years are so swift, and the weeks are so swift, and the days are so swift, and the hours are so swift, and the minutes are so swift, weneed to lie swift. For lack of this appropriate speed many do not get into heavdit at all. Here we are in tlie last Sabbath of the year. Did you ever know a twelvemouth quicker to be gone? The goldenrod of one"autumn speaks to the goldenrod of the next autumn, ami the crocus of one springtime to tlie crocus of another springtime, and tlie snowbanks of adjoining years almost reach each other in unbroken curve. lYe are in too much hurry about most things. Business men in too much hurry rush into speculations that ruin them and ruki others. People move from place, ter place in too great liasto, and they wear out their nerves and tiling in which they nre afraid of being too hasty is the matter of the soul’s salvo tinn. Yet did anyone ever get ilamnged by too quick repentanfce or too quick pardon or too-quick emancipation"? The Bible recommends tard-inest; deliberation and snail-like movement in some things, ins when it enjoins us to be slow to speak and slow td and slow, to do evil, but it tells us, "The king’s'business re(jpureth haste,” aniL that our' days are as the flight of a leaver’s shuttle and ejaculates: “Escape Tor thy fife. - Look not behind thee.. thou in all the plain.” Other cavalry troops may fall back, but mounted years never retrent. They are always going ahead, hot on an easy canter, but 'nt full'run. Other regiments hear the command of “Halt!” and pitch their tents for the night. The regiments' of the years never TVenF'the cfiinrfliftfd'Wf “Halt!” aud never pitch tent for the night. The century lends on its troQp of 100 years, and the year lends on its troop of .3(55 days, and the day Mends.um its trqop of twenty-four hours, and the hour leads' on its troop of sixty minutes, and. nil are dashing out of sight. Perhaps therd are two years ih which we nre most Interested—our first aud onr last. Held up In our mother’s arms,' w*e watched the flight of the first. With wondering eyes \ye all watch, the coming of the last. JEhe name of that advancing year- we cannot call, ltniay be In the nineties of .this century, it may be in tlie tens or twenties or thirties of the next century, but-U is coming at full gallop. With what mood will we meet it? In . m • ' r*, It,'* ■ ; f>

jocosity, as did Thomas Hood in his last moment, saying, “I am dying out of charity to the undertaker, who wishes ; to earn a' lively Hood.” Or in fear, as did Thomas Paine, saying in his last moment, “Oh, how I dread this mysterious leap in the dark!” Or in boastfulness, as did Vespasian, saying in his last moment,, “Ah, methinks I am' becoming a gocN” Or in frivolity, as did Demonax, the infidel philosopher, saying in his last moment, “You may*go home; the show is over.” Or conscience stricken, as did Charles IX. of France, saying in his last moment: “Nurse, nurse! What murder! What blood!” Or shall we meet it in gladness of Christian hope, like that of Julius Charles Hare, who. said in his last -moment, “Lipward, - upward!” Or like that of Richard “Baxter, in his last moment saying. “Almost well.” Or liko that of Martin of Tours, saying in his last moment, “I go to Abraham’s bosom„” Or like that of polished Addison, who said in his last moment, “See with what ease n Christian can die.” - Or like that ofj George Whitefield, who felt that he had said all that he could of Christ, declaring!in his last moment, “I shall die silent.”' Or like that of Mrs. -Schimmelpennich, who said in her last moment: “Do you not hear the voices? And the children’s are the’lopdest.” Or like that of Dragonnatti, saying in his last moment: “Stand aside! I see my father and my mother coming to kiss me.”

Or as did the dying girl who, having it few evemlgg~lsefSffr^SU@!r5 == f>enclrTif = a London mission, was seen to have tears of contrition roiling down her cheek, and who, departing from the room, had put in her hand by a Christian woman a Bible, with ?the passage marked, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.” Though having promised to be at the next meeting, she did not come. The Christian woman who gave her the Bible was visiting the hospital, and the nurse said to her: “I wish you had been here a little while ago. We had a young woman who had been run over by a wagon. Poor thing, she was fearfully crushed and died almost-at once. She had a Bible in her hand, with your name in it, and she said when she- Was-brought- in: ‘Thank God, I found Christ as my Savior-dast night! The blood of Jesus Christ, his® sop, cleanseth us from all sin.’ ” Oh, my friends, if all right for the next world, the years cannot gallop past too rapidly. If it were possible for the centuries to take the speed of the years, and the years the speed of the da'ys, and the days the speed of the hours, they could do us no harm. The shorter our life the longer our, heaven. The sooner we get out of the’ perils of this life, if our *£prk be done, the better. Then, let the creaking door of the closing year go shut. When that closes, better doors will open. The world’s brightest and happiest years are yet to come. ; __

Short Sermons.

< Clergymen.—The vocation of the minister is from God, blit the avocation is simply a method of making a livelihood. The peril of this eountry to-day is that faith in the Church is shrinking, and this is, in the first place, the fault of the ministers. There Is a kind of Jesuitism in the Protestant churches as shrewd and false as any that was ever charged upon the followers of Ignatius Loyola. If a minister dares to speak out the c cliureh machine fires hint. —John G. Wooley, Prohibitionist, Boston, Mass. Tlie Divinity of Ctirtst—Where shall we find the proof of the divinity of Christ? He performed miracles, raising the dead, restoring sight to .the blind, giving intellect to the dumb, aml making tlie lame walk, all of which could only he performed by one who could suspend the laws of nature. The mission of the Church and the mission of Christ nre inseparable, and it must he holy by reason of its founder and of Roman Catholic, Denver, Colo. Music—Music probably makes a more universal appeal to the sense of the beautiful In men than any other of the arts. The uncultivated man who quite misses the beauty of a fine picture generally feels the charm of good music. It may he due to this fact that music .takes precedence of every other art, in tlie Bible. Beauty and truth run side by side tlirotJgh aH* its pages, and the character which it holds up to men is cue in which they are lusSparahly blended together.—Rhv. C. T. Brown, -Ge»gi%ga4ionalish—Sa4t™»Jjike City, Utah.

Spreading the Gospel.—Our 'age, marked by an unpj-ecendentcil expansion of knowledge, is qne of doubt. Side by side with great levity we find widespread melancholy. Yet there is also an observable -reaching out for the Christ of the Gospels and for those regenerating social and individual forcc,s tlie Gospel has in the centuries past revealed. Therefore, upon those who know Christ and to wjiom the Gospel is a living experience, there settles a tremendous responsibility. "What lias been so real to such must now in turn be made real to others.—Rev. M. McGregor Dana, Congregationalism Brooklyn, N. Y. Banks for Losings.—The temperance young man puts bis money in “tlie savings banks. The drinking young man deposits his in the saloon. Dr, Cuvier .calls tlie saloons "bank* fur lositigs.”Tlie only interest that is paid on tlie deposits Is in redness of the eyes and foulness of breath, and remorse of conscience find‘loss of health and happiness and character. Every one who makes iimlcuosit gains a loss. One man goes into this b<iik with a full ixieket and com ek on twit h it empty. A not her goes in - wWit-- a good character and cAmes out with tlie word drunk written on Ills bloated'countenance.-rßev. Frank Hungate, Baptist, Colmnbus, O.

Boston’s “Uncle Noah.”

There Is a well-meaning old gentleman in Boston who goes about in fair weather or foul with au open umbrella over his head. lie Is one of the nbtable. characters of theftown, highly respect-ed-ns far as that gooA, but pitied as the victim of the delusion that a downpour Is always impending. The storjis abroad In Boston that lie once got a terribly drenching and Dontracted tlicrafrom that threw him Into a fever, out of -which lie Issued with Ids life, but an unbalanced mind. All he could remember of his exfierionco was -that he was caught out w 1 thout an umbrelliv, arid, though capable of doing business and eomprelieudiivg every other subject, he stlll_ lives ill dread oif a Necotib deluge. He Is Jfhowu as “Uucle Nbah.”—Boston Herald. . ■ The greatest depth, writes Prof. Seeley In his "Stbry ot the Earth,” at which earthquakes ye known to originate is about thirty miles. It has also been calculated that a heat sufficient to melt granite might occur at abhut the same depth-

DEMOCRACY IS DEAD.

POPULIZATION OF THE PARTY CAUSED ITS DEMISE. * •" 4 i Can Never Make Another Fight on ■ JFrjfe Riots and Repudiation The Silver Issue Will Not Be Revived— Grover’s Attacks on Soldiers. The Democratic Party. The declared- policy of kune of the feryan Democratic clubs In the Eastern States to prevent the return to the party fold of all Democrats who voted at tlie late .presidential election for McKinley ou-'Ralmer lias caused a great deal of comment on the part of the, press. As the Democraticipafpers which opposed Bryan are included iy the proclamations of outlawry, they are ly taking a liVely interest in, the subject. The Macon (Ga.)'Telegrapli says that the ouly asset left of the ancient party Is its name, and that unless somebody codifies Its principles ami puts them upon a sound basis very soon the organization will break up and forever disappear. Another Democratic journal, the Sun of New I’ork, has declared tfiut eren tlie name is worthless unless there is a reorganization. -This journal argues that the party leaders in the Senate having passed a protective act, and having renounced the time-honored Democratic principle that a protective tariff is unconstitutional, the ouly principle left, besides the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, is the income tax’. As that has been declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme, Court;, it ■an scarcely be called left—unless “left” is used in the slangy sense. Moreover, the late election shows that a very large body’of the party will not support freecoinage at 16 to 1. Hence that is not au available principle. It Is perhaps a waste of time to discuss this matter. The potent fact in the Populizatiou of -the Democrat®.is that it has lost a large number of voters who will never return to it until it is reorganized. The silver Republicans are bound to return to their party in time, Cor the reason, principally, that there is no other place for them to go. Thus, with tlie dissatisfied Democrats added, the Republican party will he greatly strengthened. So it would seem that The -outlawry talk -of the Bi-yaniies is suicidal. Tlie middle of tlie road Populists will not join them, the gold Democrats have left them and cannot get hack, the tariff issue lias been sold out and is dead, the income tax eaunot he revived, and it is pseless to make a fight on free riots and repudiation. Talk about what is to become of the Democratic party under tlie cireumstianccs seems idle. That party appears to he dead, anyhow. Outlawing a few members of it more or less can"make little difference to anybody.

I arge Increase in Circulation. Bradstreet’s states That the increase of the money circulation ia the United States last "month was 23 cents per capita,, estimated on the basis of a population of 72,030,000, which makes (he total per capita circulation, as estimated by treasury experts, s2.2,Bfi.pDuring the year ending Nov.' 30 there was an increase of over 852,000,000 in the money circulation, which includes an increase of nearly 836,500,000 in gold coin. The following table- gives the total stock of nioncy coined or Issued and the amount of each kind of money in circulation at-the beginning of this month: - -General „ Amount In stock coined "'"Circulation or issued. Dec. 1, 1896. told coin $ 634,287,157 $ 516,729,882 ■standard silver dollars 441,466,141 58,493,845 Subsidiary silver 75,803,546 61,233,348 iold certificates 39.433,139 38.616,749 Silver certlf.... 367,903,504 356,312,121 .treasury notes, " act July 14,’90 121,677,280 50,147.901 P. S. notes -340,65i;016 274,705,483 ,'urrency certitl- ■ . eates, hc“t June ■ ——— 8, 1872 38.510,000 35.470.000 N'atl. b'nk notes. Totals ...-. .$2,301,100,073 $1,646,444,740 The money coined and in circulation : s| steadily increasing, and if this great big nation was only receiving sufficient •evenues to enable it to pay .expenses he confidence of the people be more nearly restored, and the usual letive season for a new year would And labor and business more.energetic ind prosperous than for several years mst. More money is not so necessary is more labor and business to bring die money We have into active circulai»:lon. This Congress could so provide, but the same members and the same lolicies that have caused , the unequalled hard tim#s of the past four years tre still blocking legislation. The peoile of the United States should unitedy demand that Congress proceed to business in tlie only manner by which the iaboY and business of ail the people •an be restored and maintained.—Des Moines Register. * -

Gold Democrats and Protection. There is a. report abroad that ttie-sil-ver men ‘propose to divide the sound uoney men by supporting a,tariff bill. I'bey hope by-assentlng to Republican _kunaud-frfbr a protection act to irritate the soumtrsnoney Democrats who are now lensued with the Republicans. The plants astut£, but It win not be a auecess. The sound money Democrats who. assisted McKinley either by supporting him outright or by voting for I’a liner, appreciated that they were aiding the election of a Republican and a protectionist.- They cannot expeet -tho Re—/publlcarfs their-belief -.a protection, nor will they be apt to be driven awajr by tlmt policy. They went into the alitanaee, if such lt'"may. be called, with-their eyes open, and—will not now claim tliejj have been deceived.' Tlie silver menmiay plot as they ple%e„ but their day is gone and they can never gain such strength as an organization as they did in the late election. The Republicans propose to enact a protective tariff as soon as possible, but tliey. have no purpose whatever of alienating the.support of injuring the feelings of Democrats. There Is to be no extreme protection leglsluyon, but.itu aet yvtH Constructed that will give its the requisite protection and revenue at the same time. It will be scientifically drawn ahd prove beneficial. With the revenue question disl>osed of and Industries stimulated by protection, the prosperity that Will fblloyv will destroy the silver, agitation and leave the field free for the eonsld-_ era 1 1 on of remedial currency leglsht-

tlon. That cannot be had yet, but the discussion of'the question will be Advantageous If agitation Is avoided. The silver men will find they have little reason for, existence, and that the organization that now stands for national honor and safety will not be dismembered by the tactics proposed. The union will be coiftiyhed until It is required no lojnger, and even then many of those who supported McKinley this year will remain in alliance with the Republican party. The good feeling bptween Republicans and gold Democrats will npt soon disappear.

Make the Nation Strong.

While the National Government is being steadily compelled to fate an average deficit of $8,000,000 per month, and is thus paralyzing all the efforts of the people to revive their own labor and business, it is folly to talk Dingley otf antl-Dtogley bill. Who cares what/bill it is, pr who is to be entitled to 'credit forjframing it, provided the sountThrorrey Democrats and Republican Senators and Congressmen come together and agree upon-and enact a bill into- law that will provide sufficient revenue to pay the,.expenses of the Government, ana to that extent protect American labor? If the Rel>u blioaiis and Democra ts caff not come together on a measure that w T ill be to that extent protective to American labor, let the Republican Senators and’ Congressmen accept and vote for any tariff bill the sound money Democrats may present that will provide cient revenues. It is no time to stickle over old time partisan policies while the steady bankruptcy of the Nation is carrying down the industries and business interests like the long fabled row of bricks. Let the Republicans accept any tariff mChsure that will restore the Government’s income this month. There will lie ample time to repeal or amend such a law later on. Just,now, the business and labor of the United States demand that tße Government be promptly mode able to pay Its expenses, without steadily and 1 largely decreasing the cash in the treasury and thus destroying the confidence of •the people in. their own. ability to .withstand the hard times. The people of no country can be strong and confident when their government is steadily drifting into bankruptcy. Let Congress do something quick, that will enable the Government to pay as it goes.—Des Moines Register.

Tlie Attacks on Soldiers. Senator Galllnger did a good service in showing in a mild and moderate way the humbuggery of President Cleveland’s references to the pensioners of the Government. The men who fought during the war w’ere the most, chart table after the fighting was over. They, were in it, aud they know what service meant. Thus it has happened that many of the bravest and most consistent defenders of the pension system have been soldiers on the other side. It has also happened thaf those who have been most bitter are men who never smelt powder, and who stayed at home when the country called That Mr. Cleveland sent a substitute to the war is a matter of familiar history, but it ought to be no reason for his harping upon the alleged abuses of the pension system. Only 107 convictions in pension cases have occurred within the year, and these, as. ft, rule, were not against pensioners. As the number on the pension rolls is far above 100,000, it can readily be seen that the proportion of attempted fraud amounts to nothing. The critics who stayed at home and made money while these men forsook everything dear to them, and went to the front, simply show their own meanness and cowardice when they abuse their betters, who did their duty and did not skulk, because there was danger in the work.—Baltimore American. Director Preston’s Report. The reportTbf Mr. Preston, director of tiie mint, oontnln& some interesting ’fig ures. It will be noticed that the original gold bullion deposited with the mint aggregated $08,769,383. Mest of this was American gold. During the last fiscal year we .coined $58,878,490 gold and silver dollars. But frwn July I to Nov. 1 we coined SS,782,100 silver dollars. In other words, the silver dollar coinage during the first half of tlie present fiscal year will be greater than that fpr the whole of the last fiscal yttir. Mr. Carlisle seems to feel justified in this coinage, but it does seem as if it were unnecessary and unwise. , It is decidedly Interesting to note that the commercial value of silver, for the last fiscal year ranged between 70.204 cents and GO.OSi cents.per ounce. But since July 1 silver bullion has fallen and now it is worth just a fraction over 05 cents an ounce. The commercial ratio between gold and silver for the last fiscal year was 1 to 30.58. That ratio is now about 1 to 31. The. silver men Wave talked of a scarcity of gold, but on July 1 the supply of gold in tlie United States aggregated $599,597,464. Since then we have imported about $61,000,000 in gold, so the supply of gold in tills country Is now over $060,000,000. The gold production of the country last fiscal year was $40,010,000, and that of ■tlie World $200,401x1)00... ..Ilia prod.uc.tlon. for tlie present fiscal year will greatly exceed this, whlch was the largest on record. ■ Stiver Is Dead. Say* the Detroit Free Press: “Never -ago m~WfiTcircmn sta n cos l n n 0 con d i tin ns combine in g manner so auspicious for tlie cause of silyerism as they did lu ■the contest which recently terminated in its'overthrow. The long and stealthy cultivation tff silver sentiment; the powerful representation in the Senate; the fruition of well-laid plans to capture the Democratic convention; the unexampled coalitlop (ft forces and the dis-content-nut} diirest arising from a prolonged depression were factors favorable to the success of silver which will never be .found in .combination again. It was silver’s supreme-opportunity this year— lfs leading champions so regarded it—and such a chance will not recur.” David 11. Hill again asserts that he Is a Democrat, and it must be so, because, like Cicero's antique Roman belle who was always Just 20, David has been sticking to that same statement these twenty years. Anyway, in three short months he will be statesman put .of a jobs and without a constituency.—Louis vl lie Times. ;

LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

SUBJECTS THAT WILL 'COME UP / ThlS SESSION. i r * c. ’ Ballot Lav* Will Receive Early Attention— Liqtior Legislation Will,Alao Be Prominent —Effort to Abolish Teaching German in Public Schools Work for Hooaier Solons. Indianapolis correspondence * + So far as is known, no new laws are to be proposed in the coming session, but there are many important amendments to existing ones suggested, and some of these amendments artflikely to be bitterly opposed. Chief among these are tie proposed amendments to the Australian ballot law. One of these will seek to prevent fusion of parties in the way it was accomplished between the free silver wing of the Democrats and the’ Populists in the recent campaign. A‘ second amendment will seek to do away with the robber stamp anil ink anil substitute in its stead a pencil, to; be furnished by the election officers. Still another will provide that each of the parties having tickets to be voted for may appoint one or more of its members to watch tire count oUthe. vote, a privilege that only the two. dominant parties now enjoy. The change from the rubber stamp to the pencil is on the scoreof convenience and economy of votes, for the law is so strict regarding distinguishing marks on the ballot that many “votes Have been lost because the careless voter smeared or blotted the ballot through the careless use of the stamp, especially as the ink stained other parts of the ballot when folded. A fourth amendment will provide fpr indicating a vote for a straight ticket by placing u cross in the square at its head, with exceptions to be noted by crosses opposite the names of candidates on other tickets. Recent -experience -of shareholders in building and loan associations lias demonstrated that the law incorporating and protecting these institutions 1 needs radical amendment, anil one of the first duties to which the Legislature addresses itself will be to reform the abuses which are everywhere present in the system. Within the past few weeks., these abuses Ifave come to the attention of the public in a' way that they never have before, and there is a general demand that the expense fund, the great Source of profit to the incorporators and of loss to the shareholders, shall go. The last Legislature wrestled with this feature, but succeeded in accomplishing nothing, as tlie lobby -which. the-.associn.tifins.-invoked, ja. their aid proved stronger than the claims of the shareholders. The Governor, however, was authorized to appoint a commission to investigate and report on some feasible plan of reform, and this has been done and its report will be submitted as soon as the session opens. Among the laws passed by the' last Legislature was one permitting special verdicts to be returned in all cases where the suits were to recover damages.. This will no doubt be repealed at the coming session, as it has jiroved extrem'ely burdensome to persons who have sustained injuries and sue for damages. It is said by competent attorneys, some of whom were in the Legislature and voted for the law, that it has, proved the most unjust measure lints - pracficaUdpefations that"

was ever enacted in Indiana. It seems to have passed through all the stages of legislation Without awakening a thought of its hidden sting, and those who voted for it two years ago are now anxious to vote again on its repeal. Corporations have profited by it and that class will no doubt attempt to perpetuate it, but the discussion it has evoked and the abuses that have arisen under it insure its repeal. It appears to belong to that class ■of ill-considered—legislation which is enacted by one body only to be repealed by another. Considerable interest is being manifested by both the liquor and the temperance element in regard to certain proposed amendments to the Nieholson temperance .law. The Liquor League has determined to ask its friends in the Legislature to relieve the saloon element from some of the most burdensome features of the measure, while many of the temperance people believe more safeguards still should be thrown around the liquor traffic. ‘ The local option feature, which enables residents oil ward oT“A'o'ting pTe*" cinct to prevent the sale of intoxicants in that locality if a majority sign tion asking that licenses be not granted, is the most obnoxious feature to the saloon element and one that it desires, repealed. On the other hand, the advocates of the law say that this feature should be perfected by changing the signing of petitions to the opening of polls in places where it is desired-to test the sentiment of the voters and .allow the majority so voting to control the issuance of licenses. The reason for this change lies in the fact that so many, after having signed a petition against an applicant for license, withdraw their names, a thing that would not occur under a voting system. Again, it i“...urged that many who refuse to sign such petitions would vote against licenses if they could do so under such a protection as the Australian ballot system affords. E. B. Reynolds, member-elect from Wayne County, will'introduce, it is understood, an amendment to the tommon school law to do away with the teaching of German in the public schools. This measure will occasion a good deal of discussion, and as there is a largo German constituency in Thdiana it is hardly probable that either party will take tlie responsibility of fathering such a'measure. From time to time within the last few years there have beefi’efforts to do away with this branch. of study in the city schools, but the sentiment in its favor, when the question came up for arbitramerit by the people, has generally been pronounced* and the ~lahguage T 8 being taught in all the city schools in the State. It is probable that a law against trusts, combines anil monopolies will be enacted, aud ,ls this expectation is realized it will be in the shape of legislation in Indiana. Some of the more prominent meinbers-elect feel that some luw of this kind should be passed and one Senatdt; particularly is at work upon -it. The coming Legislature will also attempt an apportionment- law, this being the sixth year since the Stake was legally redistricted for-Legislative purposes.

Wouldn’t Be Safe.

A corpulent theatrical.manager,.who has fiail faaore tlisn his share of lawsuits, was annoyed recently by a young attorney who lias taken a claim against him. There were several unsatisfactory Interviews, anff .then the manager received the following note: “Dear Sir—My time Is valuable, and unless you call on me at my office before 2 o’clock to-morrow afternoon. |T shall begin,suit against you. My office is roof# 1045, tenth floor 5T the - Building. ! “N. B.—Take elevator.” Manager Blank sent. In reply, this dispatch: * ■ “John Doe, Tenth Floor, Building—Decline to take*elevator.

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELt! * TOLD. ’ ■ “ . <- 1 Fancy Salaries on the Vandalia m Thing of the Paat Two Women! Killed by a 'Train—Farmer* Chop Toll Gates to Plecea. < Salaries Reduced on Vandalia. The announcement of the abolition of! offices and reduction in salaries by Receiver Malott of the Vandalia has caused, a sensation. Receiver Malott saya tihef position of General Superintendent wa» unnecessary and offered H. I. Miller tha position of Superintendent of the maim line, the position he heid before he became General Superintendent. It is not thought he wifi take it. Tlie office or Master Mechanic has been abolished, as! Irave those of road supervisors of the' ■ main line. Train dispatchers have been, laid off. In the Auditor’s office it is understood the order ‘is to reduce the ex-, pense one-half. Salaries of S2OO a month; are reduced in some instances SSO and! the salary of W. C. Arp, superintendent! of motive power, was cut S2OO from; SOOO a month. The salaries of the division superintendents were reduced and' it is understood that General Manager Turner is to work for several thousands* • - dollars less a year if he remains with tha company. It is not the purpose of the receiver to make a horizontal reduction iii -salaries, but to apply the knife in individual cases. Mr. Malott says the wages of train service men will not be touched. •, i * War on Indiana Toll Gates. The Frankfort and Barnersvilie toll road, the last surviving toll pike in that part of.the State, is causing much trouble. The farmers, 200 strong, have entered into a league’ to resist further payment of! toll. The toll gates were torn out a dozen times in the las| week, the farmers coming to town in processions, each with an ax in his wagon. Teams of horses were hitched to the gates and they were pulled out, root and branch. Several of the farmers have been arrested, but, standing altogether, they escaped conviction. More than twepty gates have been! chopped to pieces by . the farmers, whor ileciare they will be destroyed as fast as replaced. Mother and Daughter Killed. Mrs. Martha McGill, a wealthy widow, of Ladoga, and her daughter, Esther, left home Wednesday night to attend a wedding, where the daughter was to act as bridesmaid. They were crossing a 150-foot trestle, when a mail train approached jaehind them. Terrified, they, turned and hurried back across the treatie. When within ten feet of safety, Esther slipped between the ties. Mrs. McGill was safe on the bank, when aha heard her daughter’s cry. She turned t» help the young woman and both wero killed.

All Over the State. ’John.Patton and John Carter, both' sentenced and to be taken to Michigan City, made a sensational escape from tail at Anderson. Between turnkey; catches they tunneled out of the jaiL It was a solid stone and brick wall, and' their ease in getting through is remarkable. They then tied blankets together: and made a safe descent. Bloodhounds were placed on,the. trail, but without rgsuit, although they traced them some distance. La Grange advices say: The Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth is being established in Indiana and Michigan. This is a new movement among workingmen to assist in the establishment of co-operative colonies, and in certain sections of the country has a large membership. By regular monthly contributions they expect to raise money enoughto establish several colonies a year. Many laboring men And mechanics who have become tired of the old methods of strikes and labor troubles are going into the movement, believing that co-operation will solve the question. Wells Stevens was taken suddenly ill at Shelbyville and Dr. C. A. Tindall was called. An examination so astonished the physician that he called other leading doctors into consultation. Investigation showed that Stevens’ heart was displaced. The apex pulsates at about four inches directly below the right nipple, between tlie eighth aud ninth ribs, making- ir displacement-of fully sixlnehesto—the right aud three inches below the normal position of the heart. The heart sounds can not only be heard but plainly, felt by placing the hand oyer the position described. Its movement can also be plainly seen by removing the clothing. Sixty leading society young women of Goshen gave a remarkably successful amateur negro minstrel entertainment before a packed opera house. Society people from South Bend and neighboring cities swelled the audience. The profits, Tl.OfiO, will form the basis for a public! library fund, the women claiming that investigation revealed little or no unprovided for charity within the city precincts. Prof. .T. N. Hurty, Secretary of the State -Board of Health, has a scheme whereby he expects to save from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 in human Jife in this State in a year. He has prepared a bill doing away with the present State Board of Health and creating a new one, which is to be supplied with laboratories costing $50,000, to be. maintained at a yearly .cost of $20,000. The Secretary of the board is to* be sty-expert hygienist. The county boards are to be reorganized, and each secretary will be empowered to appoint a deputy in each township. Dr. Hurty thinks that concerted and scientific action on the part of this board as! proposed will result In staying disease, and in the course of ,a year save enoughi in doctor bills, medicines and other ex- ' pensea to rebuild all the asylums in the. State. Hurty is looking after the diphtheria in Portland tind says if proper measures are adopted it wifi be stamped' out in three weeks. 1 *Conrad Becher, one of the publisher* anil editors of the LaPorte Journal, 1* dead, aged 55 years. Mr. Becher served tivA terms in the Uity Council and was ai promiuent Odd Fellow. Mrs. Henry . Koehler, whose child wasj burned a few months ago near Indianap-t olis, has wandered from her home near Terre Haute in an insane belief that she i wifi find the child alive at the cemetery- / She was last seen walking toward dianapolis, and her husband went J®|™. to find her. A letter from him Terre Haute police says lie lias »h®HH no trace of her. A fatalaeeidont took place on tho®|HHß Kt.it N.-e. Vloaay and I 'hi. ago -:\ miles north of Mouticelio MW®® m.ii-niuL', In the derailment of a i rain. Cecil Douglas was ki]H||||||||l| three Other members of the era® ported fatally hurt. s. \ Weeks e\ j® CI S nuns,' It 1 _ :I;.’ '.■ld natch lielo®. lie ofVeiVd a reward f® Tuesday h« received JJ Jm octal ■ M ' watch.

JOHN BLANK.”

RECORD OF THE WEEK.