Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — Page 2

HOT FIGHT AT HAND.

.CAMPAIGN IN VARIOUS STATES TAKING definite shape. /Republican Leaders Arc Confident of Sweeping Success—Too Confident, It la Suggested by Those Watching Events. The Political Sitnation. Interest is beginning to center in the campaigns in the various states where elections are to be held this fall. Parties arriving here from New’ York. 'Nebraska, Kentucky, lowa and Ohio, report extreme activity and interest in the fight which is to be made in those states. Remarkable as it is that the allver cause should still have any life r left in it, it Is a fact. It is to be made tthe basis of the battle in every state iwhere there are important elections ■this fall. One year ago one ounce of •liver would buy one bushel of wheat ■in New York; now it takes two ounces, •and silver is still falling and wheat ■still rising. It would scarcely seem ■possible that anybody could successfully argue in favor of currency made ifrom a metal whose value has fallen over 25 per cent in eighteen months. ■Yet that is a fact as to silver. On March 7th of last year it was worth 70 cents an ounce in New York, now it is worth 52 cents. How is it that any party can now’ assume to win a battle with silver as the chief issue in states where they could not win on that issue a year ago, Jis hard to understand. On last presidential election day silver was worth 65.7. To-day it is worth 51 cents, a (fall of over 20 per cent. If the Democrats could not carry Ohio, Kentucky, ■lowa, Maryland or New’ York on the silver issue in November, 1890, with their proposed dollar worth 51 cents, how can they expect to w’in this fall with a dollar worth only 40 cents. Yet they are going into the fight for it everywhere, though there are signs of ■weakening in spots. Situation in Ohio. The Democrats it seems, from reports received, are trying to run away from their platform made but a short two months since. This action however, is not to be wondered at in view of the fact that silver has fallen 15 per cent in value even in that short space of time. July 10 an ounce of silver was worth in the New’ York markets 60.6 cents and it is now worth but 52 cents and still going down. Small w’onder then, that the Democrats are ashamed of their platform and are trying to get away from it when, within two months aftei’ its adoption, the metal w’hich it advocates as money declines 15 per cent. It goes without saying, how’ever, that the Republicans of the state will not let their opponents . get away from the issue which they Tiave made. It also goes without saying that the Republicans will sweep the State now that they have the enemy on the run, providing they are not over-con-fident.

Situation in New York. New York city is the coign of vantage In state contest. The fight in New York this fall relates to the mayoralty, but it is for a first mayor of the largest city in the United States and second largest in the world, and will decide whether or not Tammany hall shall control Greater New York. If Tammany gets control It will greatly endanger Republican prospects in the state, indefinitely. Those opposed to Tammany and free silver must therefore combine on one good man. By refusing to do so they give Greater New York and probably the state over to the Tammany-silver Democracy, indefinitely. Situation in Maryland. There is good reason to hope that the party in Maryland will fall into lino, now that the factional fight in Republican ranks is over, and with the aid of the gold Democrats and the antiGorman men win in the fight for the legislature. Owing to Gorman's free silver leanings and the generally conceded opinion that he would vote for free silver In the Senate, the sound money Democrats throughout the state are ready to again co-operate with the Republicans as are also of course all the anti-Gorman men, to secure his defeat. Generally speaking the drift all seems to be in the direction of Republicanism. The people see that Bryan and the silverites made a deliberate effort to deceive them last year and many of those who voted for him will have nothing further to do with silver. But the Democratic leaders are not asleep. They are conducting an active and vigilant campaign and are out on a “still hunt” for votes whose result may surprise the Republicans unless they are wide-awake and working to arouse every man and push him enthusiastically into the fight. The tide is now all running in the right direction, but this very evidence of prospective victory is liable to lead to over-confi-dence on the part of some of the Republicans and to allow dissensions to arise which will prevent a solid front against the enemy. A. B. CARSON.

An ignoramona. Not one American in a thousand is in favor of the abominable tariff which is now on the eve of becoming law.— New York correspondent of the MornSing Post, London. Where does this correspondent hibernate during these balmy days of good business, when all classes of people are feeling the good effects of the Ding's Jey protective tarff? The odds are an elephant to an apple that he is a member of the “Tariff Reform” club or on the Staff of one of our free-trade dailies.

Perhaps both. Hence his Ignorance is due to his surroundings. Pope Badly Defeated. The Populists in the Farmers’ National Congress were badly defeated during its sessions. “Calamity” Weller, of lowa, introduced a resolution for the restoration of / the free coinage of silver. This was reported unfavorably and rejected. ' ’hen came a resolution favoring the prohibition of “private monopoly in public necessities,” even to the extent of the exercise of the right of eminent domain and the acquirement of such necessities by the State. On a call of States a three-to-one majority against the resolution w’as developed. Another financial resolution was similarly disposed of after a short discussion to avoid filibustering, which had been resorted to by the Populists. Later in the day the Populists were again “turned down” on the final report of the Committee on Resolutions. Resolutions were adopted commending the Secretary of Agriculture for his efforts in behalf of the dairy industry; favoring government inspection and grading of butter for export, and the reduction of official.salaries; providing for a committee to report a plan for cooperation betw’een the States for ine prevention of the spread of contagious diseases among domestic animals. Resolutions introduced by Mr. Loucks favoring the income tax, government control of telegraph and telephone, the prohibition of corporate ownership of laud for speculative purposes, and the Initiative and referendum had been ( turned down in committee, and Mr. Loucks had made a minority report in each case. He was allowed to speak in support of each of the resolutions, and then the congress overwhelmingly sustained its committee.—New York World. A Public Benefactor.

Value of Foreign Markets.

Under both a protective and a freetrade tariff we have been able to secure practically the same share of trade in the markets of the world, our exports to foreign countries being $1,030,278,148 in 1892 and $1,051,987,091 in the 1897 fiscal year. The total imports of all foreign countries reached only $7,569,000,000 in 1888, the latest date for which Mulhall has compiled such statistics. If we allow an increase of one-third in the value of the goods imported by all foreign countries since 1888, it will give a total of ten billions of dollars as their entire value, to be competed for by all exporting nations. It is clear then that, in 1892 and in 1896, we secured each year one-tenth part of the possible import trade of all countries in competition with the cheaper labor of all European and Asiatic manufacturing and exporting nations. We regard this as being a very favorable showing considering the fact that we are dependent upon England for our shipping facilities, that we pay higher wages than any other country in the world, and that the value of our home market is worth to us —when we are prosperous under protection—nearly eight times as much as we could possibly secure if we supplied all foreign countries with their entire import trade. The Folly of It. The statistics of the cotton crop for last year show it to have been 8,757,964 bales. It has been sold for about $350,000,000, or somewhere more than the total volume of the greenback currency. This is more than five times

Uncle Sam—“ Why don’t you build some yachts that oin race?” ** John Bull—“ Why don’t you build some ships that can carry freizht? ”

the value of the annual silver product! of the country. What folly is it tnen for cotton-growers to think that theii prosperity depends upon “doing something for silver,” when air the sllvei , produced in the country would not buy one in five of their cotton bales! —New York World (Dem.). Revjval of Business. When the bustle’s in the factory and the smoke is in the stack, And the workman’s at his bench again and has his old job back; His voice is piU-hed in harmony with the ■workshops pleasing din And he laughs to hear the engine go and sec the fly wheel spin Oh, then’s the time the workingman is as happy as a lord, For there's sunshine in his home again and plenty for his board, And his “nest egg” in the savings bank will shortly be put back, For there’s bustle in the factory and the smoke is in the stack. ’Mid the rattle of the spindles and the whirring of the wheels; The laughter of the factory girls rings out in merry peals; The hurry in the shipping room, where they’ve so long been still, Till prosperity came back again with orders they could fill; The tooting of the whistle when the quitting hour draws near, And the happy workers leave their tasks for their homes now full of cheer— But tri a Democratic tariff they’ll ne'er again go back, For there’s bustle in the factory and thf smoke is in the stack v —American Economist. The End of It. It seems only to be a question of time when Great Britain must cease to export any tin plates to the United States, and that time may probably be here very soon.—lron and Coal Traders’ Review, England. We hope so. This was the Intent and purpose of the McKinley tariff of 1890, and it is gratifying to learn, from an authoritative foreign source, that such a favorable result is being so quickly achieved. —— Hard for Silveritee, The wheat question is a hard one for the silver patriots to explain. They are now saying the aavance in wheat in the face of the fall in silver is due to scarcity of wheat. But this very statement merely strengthens the assertion of their opponents who insist that the low price of wheat was the result of plenteousness coupled with cheap production and transportation.

Benefits the Laborer, “The benefit of protection goes first and last to the men who earn their bread in the sweat of their faces. The auspicious and momentous result is that never before in the history of the world has comfort been enjoyed, education acquired; and Independence secured by so large a majority of the total population as the United States of America.”.!—James G. Blaine. Political Paragraphs. Wool has made as big an advance as wheat in the past year. Is that the result of “scarcity,” too? The free-traders are not shouting about that recent sale of American tin in foreign markets. Altgeld (to McLean)—“Why didn’t you take warning by my fate and keep that gold bond out of sight?” Was it the “gold powers” of Great Britain that sent statistician Mulhall over here to show that this is the most prosperous country in the world? The more the coal strike is studied the more apparent it becomes that the reduction in coal tariff by the Wilson law is responsible for the low wages which caused it. The advance in the price of wool and sheep will soon bring back to the farmers the $75,000,000 loss in the value of sheep which befell them under the Wilson law. Did Mr. Bryan demand that $1,500 he is to get for his Ohio speech in “gold coin of present standard weight and fineness?” That is the habit of his masters; why not Bryan, too? Professor Wilson does not seem to be much in demand as a campaign orator among the Democrats this year. His name is a little too suggestive of the recent bitter experiences of the workingmen and farmers of this country. : One remarkable development of the opening months of the new tariff law is the general gratification with -which It is accepted irrespective of party. Even the Democrats are omitting the usual talk about increase in prices under the new law.

THE LAST WORD.

SHINING LIKE STARS.

TALMAGE OFFERS HOPE FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS. A Good Example—Righteousness by Prayer and Christian Admonition— The Overwhelming Thought of the Text—Shining Cur Weekly Sermon. This discourse flashes a bright light into the life of Christian workers and offers a sublime hope for all those who are discouraged in their attempts to do good. Dr. Talmage’s text is Daniel xii., 3, “They that turn many to righteousness shall, shine as the stars forever and ever.” Every man has a thousand roots! and a thousand branches. His roots reach down through all the earth. His branches spread through all the heavens. He speaks with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot. His silence often is loud as thunder and his life is a dirge or a doxology. There is no such thing as a negative influence. We are all positive in rhe place we occupy, making the world better or making it worse, on the Lord’s side or on the devil’s, making up reasons for our blessedness or banishment, and we have already done work in peopling heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who has burned down a city might as well talk of some evil that he expects to do, or a man who has saved an empire might as well talk of some good that he expects to do. By the force of your influence you have already consumed infinite values, or you have by the power of a right influence won whole kingdoms for God. It would be absurd for me, by elaborate argument, to prove that the world is off the track. You might as well stand at the foot of an embankment, amid the wreck of a capsized train, proving by elaborate argument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty centuries ago, and the whole race in one long train has gone on tumbling in the same direction. Crash, crash! The only question now is, By what leverage can the crushed thing be lifted? By what hammer may the fragments be reconstructed? I want to show you how we may turn many to righteousness, and what will be our future pay for so doing.

A Good Example. First, we may turn them by the chaim of a right example. A child coming from a filthy home was taught at school to wash its face. It went home so much improved in appearance that its mothei washed her face. And when the father of the household came home and saw the improvement in domestic appearance he washed his face. The neighbors, happening in, saw the change and tried the same experiment, until all the street was purified, and the next street copies its example, and the whole city felt the result of one schoolboy washing his face. That is a fable by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washed of its sins and pollution is to have our own heart and life cleansed and purified. A man with grace in his heart and Christian cheerfulness in his face and holy consistency in his behavior is a perpetual sermon, and the sermon differs from others in that it has but one head, and the longer it runs the better. There are honest men who walk down Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity chatter. There are happy men who go into a sickroom and by a look help the broken bone to knit and the excited nerves drop to a calm beating. There are pure men whose presence silences the tongue of uncleanness. The mightiest agent of good on earth is a consistent Christian. I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, of calfskin or morocco, but 1 like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world—a Bible illustrated. Courage is beautiful to read . about, but rather would I see a man with all the world against him confident as though all the world were for him. Patience is beautiful to read about, but rather would I see a buffeted soul calmly waiting for the time of deliverance. Faith is beautiful to read about, but rather would I find a man in the midnight walking on as though he saw everything. Oh, how many souls have been turned to God by the charm of a bright example! When in the Mexican w’ar the troops were wavering, a general rose in his stirrups and dashed *into the enemy’s lines, shouting, “Men, follow me!” They, seeing his courage and disposition, dashed on after him and gained the victory. What men want to rally them for God is an example to lead them. All your commands to others to advance amount to nothing as long as you stay behind. To affect them aright you need to start for heaven yourself, looking back only to give the stirring cry of “Men, follow!” Power of Prayer. Again, we may turn many to righteousness by prayer. There is no such detective as prayer, for no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man 10,000 miles off. It alights cn a ship midatlantic. The little child cannot understand the law of electricity or how the telegraph operator by’ touching the instrument here may dart a message under the sea to another continent. Nor can we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Christian’s prayer shall instantly strike a soul on the other side of the earth. You take ship and go to some other country and get there at 11 o’clock in the morning. You telegraph to America and the message gets here at 6 o’clock the same morning. In qther words, it seems to arrive here five hours before it started. Like that is prayer. God says, “Before they call I will hear.” To overtake a loved one on the road you may spur up a lathered steed until he shall outrace the one that brought the news to Ghent, but a prayer shall catch it at one gallop. A boy running away from home may take the midnight train from the country village and roach the seaport in time to gain the ship that sails on the morrow, but a mothei’s prayer will be on the deck to meet him, and in the hammock before he swings into it, and at the capstan before he winds the rope around, and on the sea against the sky as the vessel plows on toward it. There is a mightiness in prayer. George Muller prayed a company of poor boys together, and then he prayed up an asylum in which they might be sheltered. He turned his face toward Edinburgh and prayed, and there came £I,OOO. He turned his face toward London and prayed, ■nd there came £I,OOO. He turned bis face toward Dublin and prayed, and there came £I,OOO. The breath of Elijah’s prayer blew all the clouds off the sky, and it was dry weather. The breath; of Elijah’s prayer blew all the clouds together, and it was wet weather. Prayer in Daniel’s time walked the cave as a lion tamer. It reached up and took the sun by its golden bit and stopped it and

the moon by its silver bit and stopped ft. We have all yet to try the full power of prayer. The time will come when the American church will pray with its face toward the west and all the prairies and inland cities will surrender to God, and will pray with face toward the sea, and all the islands and ships will become Christian. --Parents who have wayward sons will get down on their knees and say, “Lord, send my boy home,’’ and the boy in Canton shall get right up from the gaming table and go down to find out which ship starts first for America. Not one of us yet knows how to pray. All we have done as yet has only been pottering. A boy gets hoTd of his father’s saw and hammer and tries to make something, but it is a poor affair that he makes. The father comes and takes the same saw and hammer and builds the Jiouse or the ship. In the childhood of our Christian faith we make but poor work with these weapons of prayer, but when we come to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then, under these implements, the temple of God will rise and the world’s redemption will be launched. God cards not for the length of our prayers, or the number of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers, but it is the faith in them that tells. Believing prayer soars higher than the lark ever sang, plunges deeper than diving bell ever sank, darts quicker than light* ning ever flashed. Though we have used only the back of this weapon instead of the edge, what marvels have been wrought! If saved, we are all the captives of some earnest prayer. Would God that in desire for the rescue of souls we might in praj er lay hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipotent! We may turn many to righteousness by Christian admonition. Do not wait until you cau make a formal speech. Address the one next to you. You will not go home alone to-day. Between this and your place of stopping you may decide the eternal destiny of an immortal spirit. Just one sentence may do the work, just one question, just one look. The formal talk that begins with a sigh and ends with a canting snuffle is not what is wanted, but the heart throb of a man in dead earnest. There is not a soul on earth that yon may not bring to God if you go rightly at it. They said Gibraltar could not be taken. It is a rock 1,600 feet high and three miles long, but the English and the Dutch did take it. Artillery and sappers and miners, and fleets pouring out volleys of death, and thousands of men reckless of danger, can do anything. The stoutest heart of sin, though it be rock and surrounded by'an ocean of transgression, under Christian bombardment may hoist the flag of redemption. ’ But is all this admonition and prayer and Christian work for nothing? My text promises to all the faithful eternal luster. “They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever.” As stars the redeemed have a borrowed light. What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun throws down his torch in the heavens, the stars pick up the scattered brands and hold them in procession as the queen of the night advances, so all Christian workers, standing around the throne, will shine in the light borrowed from the Sun of Righteousness—Jesus in their faces, Jesus in their songs, Jesus in their triumph.

Separate and in Clusters. Again, Christian workers shall be like the stars in the fact that they have a light independent of each other. Look up at the night and see each world show its distinct glory. It is not like the conflagration in which you cannot tell where one flame stops and another begins. Ni ptune, Herschel and Mercury are as distinct as if each one of them were the only star. So our individualism will not be lost in heaven. A great multitude, yet each one as observable, as distinctly recognized, as greatly celebrated, as if in all the space, from gate to gate, and from hill to hill, he were the only inhabitant. No mixing up, no mob, no indiscriminate rush ; each Christian-worker standing out illustrious, all the story of earthly achievement adhering to each one, his self-denials and pains and services and victories published. Before men went out to the last war the orators told them that they would all be remembered by their country and their names be commemorated in poetry and in song, but go to the graveyard in Richmond and you will find there 6,000 graves, over each of which is the inscription, “Unknown.” The world does not remember its heroes, but there will be no unrecognized Christian worker in heaven. Each one known by all; grandly known; known by acclamation; all the past story of Work for God gleaming in cheek and brow and foot and pjlm. They shall shine with distinct light as the stars, forever and ever. Again, Christian workers shall shine like the stars in clusters. In looking up you find the worlds in family circles. Brothers and sisters —they take hold of each other’s hands and dance in groups. Orion in a group. The Pleiades in a group. The solar system is only a company of children with bright faces gathered around one great fireplace. The worlds do not straggle off. They go in squadrons and fleets sailing through immensity. So Christian workers in heaven will dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. Speed and Magnitude. Again, Christian workers will shine like the stars in swiftness of motion. The worlds do not stop to shine. There are no fixed stars save as to relative position. The star apparently most-thoroughly fixed flics thousands of miles a minute. The astronomer, using his telescope for an alpenstock, leaps from world crag to world crag and finds no star standing still. The chamois hunter has to fly to catch his prey, but not so swift is his game as that which the scientist tries to shoot through the tower of observatory. Like petrels midatlantic that seem to come from no shore and be bound to no landing place, flying, flying, so these great flocks of worlds rest not as they go, wing and wing, age after age, forever and ever. The eagle hastes to its prey, but we shall in speed beat the eagles. You have noticed the velocity of the swift horse, under whose feet the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, and as he passes the four hoofs strike the earth in such quick beat your pulses take the same vibration. But r.ll these things are not swift in comparison with the motion of which I speak. The moon moves 54,000 miles in a day. Yonder Neptune flashes on 11,000 miles in an hour. Yonder Mercury goes 109,000 miles in an hour. So. like the stars, the Christian shall shine in swiftness of motion. You hear now of father or mother or child sick 1,000 miles away, and it takes you two days to get to them. You hear of some case of suffering that demands your immediate attention, but It takes you an hour to get there. Oh, the joy when you shall, in fulfillment of the text, take starry speed and be equal to 100,000 miles an hour! Having on earth got used to Christian work, you will not quit when

death strikes you. You will only take on more, velocity. There is a dying child In London, and its Spirit must be taken up to God. You are there in an instant to do it. There is a young man in New York to be arrested from going into that gate of sin. You are there in an instant to arrest him. Whether with spring of foot or stroke of wing or by the force of some new law that shall hurl you to the spot where you would go I know not, but my text suggests velocity; All space open before you, with nothing to hinder you in mission of light and love and joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion as the stars forever and ever. Again, Christian workers, like the stars, shine in magnitude. The most illiterate man knows that these things in the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are great masses of matter. To weigh them one would think that it would require scales with a pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high and chains hundreds of thousands of miles long, and at the bottom of the chains basins on either side hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and that then Omnipotence alone could put the mountains into the scales and the hills into the balance, but puny man has-been equal to the undertaking and has set a little balance on his geometry and weighed world against world. Yea, he has pulled out his measuring line and announced that Herschel is 36,000 miles in diameter, Saturn 79,000 miles in diameter and Jupiter 89,000 miles in diameter, and that the smallest pearl on the beach of heaven is immense beyond all imagination. So all they who have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude of privilege, and a. magnitude of strength, and a magnitude of holiness, and a magnitude of joy, and the weakest saint in glory become greater than all that we can imagine of an archangel. Brethren, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” Wisdom that shall know -everything, wealth that shall possess everything, strength that shall do everything, glory that shall circumscribe everything! We shall not be like a taper set in a sick man’s window or a bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a shivering crew, but you must take the diameter and the circumference of a world if you would get any idea of the greatness of our estate when we shall shine as the stars forever and ever. Duration. Lastly—and coming to this point my mind almost breaks down under the contemplation—like the stars, all Christian workers shall shine in duration. The same stars that look down upon us looked down upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor that I saw flashing across the sky the other night, I wonder if it was not the same one that pointed down to where Jesus lay in the manger, and if, having pointed out his birthplace, it has ever since been wandering through the heavens, watching to see how the world would treat him. When Adam awoke in the garden in the cool of the day, he saw coming out through the dusk of the evening the same worlds that greeted us last night.

In Independence hall is an old cracked bell that sounded the signature of the Declaration of Independence. Yon cannot ring it now, but this great chime of silver bells that strike in the dome of night ring out with as sweet a tone as wherr God swung them at the creation. Look up at night and know that the white lilies that bloom in all the hanging gardens of our King are century plants, not blooming once in 100 years, but through all the centuries. The star at which the mariner looks to-night was the light by which the ships of Tarshish were guided across the Mediterranean and the Venetian flotilla found its way into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright to-night as when in ancient battle the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. To the ancients the stars were symbols of eternity, but here the figure of my text breaks down, not in defeat, but in the majesties of the judgment. The stars "shall not shine forever. The Bible says they shall fall like autumnal leaves. A' . when the connecting factory band slips at nightfall from the main wheel all the smaller Wheels-slacken their speed, anil with slower and slower motion they turn until they come to a full stop, so this great machinery of the universe, wheel within wheel, making revolution of appalling speed, shall by the touch of God’s hand slip the band of present law and slacken and stop. That is what will be the matter with the mountains. The chariots in which they ride shall halt so suddenly that the kings shall be thrown out. Star after star shall be carried out to burial amid funeral torches of burning worlds. Constellations shall throw ashes on their heads, and all up and down the highways of space there shall be mourning, mourning, mourning, because the worlds are dead. But the Christian workers shall never quit their thrones. They shall reign forever and ever.

Russia’s Power.

In spite of all that has been said of the intellectual as well as physiftil degeneracy of Czar Nicholas, who has been described repeatedly as a weakling, half crazed with nervousness and epilepsy, Russia during the three years that have elapsed since his accession to the throne has attained a power and a pre-eminence unparalleled in Europe; as well as in Asia, which is unprecedented in history. The center of political gravity in the old world is no longer at Vienna, at Paris, nor yet at Berlin, where it remained for nearly a quarter of a century, while Bismarck was in power, but at St. Petersburg, to which all the governments in Europe are obliged to refer before embarking upon any scheme of an international character.

She Had Him Cowed.

Wnlle stopping one night at a farm house in Missouri a traveler was astonished to see bls hostess walk up to her husband about every fifteen minutes and box his ears or give his hair a pull. In the morning the guest, seeing the woman alone, asked an explanation of her strange conduct, and her reply was: “You see, stranger, me and the old man has been fightin’ for ten years to see who shall boss this ’ere ranch, and I have jest got him cowed, but if I should let up on him for a day he would turn on me again, and my work would all go for nothin’.” Commander Phillip Hichborn, chief constructor of the navy, has presented to the city of Hartford, through Senator Hawley, the figurehead of Admiral Farragut’s flagship, the Hartford. A man honest enough to pay a debt that has been outlawed Is rare. ,