Bloomington Courier, Volume 14, Number 8, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 December 1887 — Page 2
J BY H. J. FELTWS.
BLOOMINCxTON,
INDIANA
Tm sugar trust, it is reported, has gone into actual operation. The buy ing out and closing of small refineries has begun, and it is reasonable to suppose that' the business will soon be in few and strong hands. The sugar market is cfirm', iu8t now, with the probability
that it will be firmer a month or two
henoe. It is perhaps well that this finbine has gone to work now rather thoa six months later. Congress is now
iirsession, and if the gentlemen at the
head of the scheme push prices up, as they are expected to dp, legislation-will
be invoked to stamp out the conspiracy
A big ontest between the trusts and
,o rivnft is inevitable. If 3,000 or
4.000 individuals are more powerful
tlfan tt,000i000, the country would like
io know that fact now. ...
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GNAT m CAMEL.
The world Mafces too 'Mush Noiso
Over Small Things:
Trifles Shuld Not oe Mftgotfitm to the
Neglect of Things otf Oreater Motwent The Fatare She aid be More Thought of:
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Chief Jmr- Wnw is seventy-one
years old: He was eligible to retirement one rear ago, and he could then have
left the bench and drawn his flOjOGO a
for th rest of his life. Like Justices
Field. Bradley and Miller, he prefers to
earn his salary rather than receive it as
a pensioner, and we have on the Supreme Bench of the United States the carious instance of four hearty men working away day after day when they could receive the same amount of pay fordoing nothing. Chief Justice Waite
promises to work for many years to eome. He has no intention cf resigning his position, and his health is better now than it has been for years. He has recovered bom his sickness of two years ago, and looks more like a man of sixty than of eeventyrone. ; ; W ASH1NKE0N.; . e Secretary of the Treasury Monday transmitted to Congress the estimates cf appropriations required for the fiscal year ending June 30i 1889- Tho total amount estimated required for all expenses of the government is $326,530,793, which is 11,344,999 more than ' the sum called for in the estimate submitted last year, and $16,899,466 more than the aggregate of appropriations for the present fiscal year. The estimates for 1839
gde up of the iollowing items:
Igislative75o;272lll; executive, $18,852,735; judicial, 422,200; foreign inter course, ?1,947,S65; military. 25,62,574; naval, $21,218,032; Indian arBuns,$5,488,697; pensions, $76,312,400; public works, $30,081,984; postal service, $1,493,409;
miscellaneous, $25,087,806; permanent
annual appropriations, $115,640,798. There is an excess over last- year in the
estimates for the executive, judicial, foreign intercourse, naval establishment, pensions, public works and miscellany, and a decrease in-the estimates for the legislative, military establishment, Indian affaire, postal servite, and in the ; permanent annual, appropriations. .-.J';..',;;-, -1 , ' It iB avery probable that when Congress reconvenes after the holidays a caucus will be held by the Bepublicans in the House, which will probably be attended by the Republicans; ;of the Senate, for the purpose of agreeing upon - some plan of revising the tariff. A number of the leaning Bepublicans have sng- ? gested this course, and the appointment of a committee to draft a bill to represent the Republican idea of reducing import duties and internal taxas. When the Democrats get into the hottest of the fight winch is almost sure to come " when the tariff is up, - the Bepublicans think of proposing their measure as a compromise, and rallying the protectionists on the Democratic side in support - of it General Jk swne, at Indiana, a prominent Republican member of the - committee on ways and means, thinks that the Bepublicans will-very generally
support a bill placing sugar, ' salt lum-
- ber, and, in fatt, all of the plain necessaries of life on the free list; that they will generally supports bill reducing internal taxes exclusive of spirits. He does not believe that anybody in the army oi protectionists who want to reduce the government's income without impairing tariff for protection wants a
reduction of the taxas on -whisky, etc. It is not among the improbabilities that the Republicans in the House will name a tariff bill which will be passed. Attorney General Garland recommends the erection of a Supreme
building in Washington, the past year he reports criminal prosecutions. Judgfor $650,250 for the United
States in civil suits. Fines, forfeitures1
and penalties imposed dura the year aggregated $457,504. ' ., J Probably the most notable gathering 'ot Republican leaders ever held in Washington assembled at the clubhouse of the Republican National League Thursday evening on the occasion of the reception tendered by the League to National Republican Committee. Almost all the- Republican members Of both -branches of Congress as well as many ex-Congressmen and well kr.own Republican politicians were present. The members of the National . Republican Committee and the members of the visiting delegations here in behalf of their respective cities were in attendance to a man. Flowers, national flags - and portraits of prominent Republicans abounded in all the rooms, and placards bear
ing mottoes of Republican doctrines
were displayed throughout the house.
The mam idea contained in the latter
was protection to American industry
and enterprise, and this was the key
note of all the speeches delivered during
the evening. The speakers assailed the
President's utterances on the tariff in
his recent message to Congress, and advocated protection to American labor. A times the enthusiasm ran tea high pitch. Speeches were delivered by Senators. ColNim Stewart of Nevada; Allison, Hawley and Kvarts, Murat Hal-
stead, of the Cincinnati Commercial-
Gazette; Delegate Plummer, of Dakota, and Representatives Cutcheon,of Michigan; Morrow of California, and McCom as, of Maryland.
ComtDuring 12.905 'ments
5 . . Australian Gold. ? The gold mines of Australia continue "to be very productive. Some of them are 2,O0Oieet in depth and many will be sunk even lower than that in the near future- This is contrary to the predictions of old mining experts, Who said many years ago that no gold would- ever be -found in Australia at a depth greater than a hundred feet. r- ""'
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday on "Too Much Ado About Small Thinia."
His text was: "Ye blind guides which
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel."
Maj thew 23 24. He said; Toere are in our day a great many
gnats strained at np.tt a great many
camels swallowed, and it is the object of
this sermon to sketch a tew. persons who
are extensively engaged m that business. .,. .... .... ......
First: I remark, that all those minis
ters of the (iospei are .photographea in
the text who are very scrupulous about
the conventionalities of religion, but
put no particular stress upon the matters
of vaster, importance. Uhurch services
ought to be crave and solemn. There is
noroom for frivolity in religious convo cation. But there are, illustrations anc
there are hy perboles, like that of Christ
in the text, that will irradiate with
smiles auv .intelligent anditorv. There
are men like those blind guides of the text who advocate only those things in religious services which draw the corners of the month down, ami d enounce
all those thinas which have a tendency to draw rhe corners of the mouth up,
and these men will go to installations and to presoyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle and
the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the files off nneouaeious persons approximate! Now, I. say it is worse to sleep in church than to smile infehurch, for the latter implies at least, attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from lonr watching with the sick, drowsiness witi sometimes overpower one; hut when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an. audience and .-finds, heaithy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness, it is time for him to give out .the doxology or pronounce the benediction. The great fault of church services today is not too much vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating snat that may be easily strained put; the other is a great, sprawling and sleepy eyed camel of the dry desert. In alt our Sabbath schools, in all our Bible
classes, in all our pulpit s, we need to brighten up our religious message with
soon Ohnst nfce vivacity as we nna in
the text.
,. I take down from mv library the bi-
os?raohies of ministers and writers of
the past ages, inspired and uninsotred,
who have done the most to bring souls
to Jesus Christ, and I find that without
a single exception they consecrated
their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when he advised, the
Baalites. as thev could not make their
god respond, telling them to call louder, as their god , migb t be sound asle ep
or gone a hunting. Job used it wnen
he said to his self conceited comforters,
"Wisdom will die with you." Christ
not only used it in .the text, but when
tte froiicaiiy eompumented' tne putre
fied Pharisees, saying, 'The whole need not a ."phyMcian,",.'v and when by one word He described the cunningness of Herod, saying, "Go. ye and tell that fox.". Mathew Henry's Commentaries, from the first page to the last, coruscated with humor as summer clouds with heat lightning. John Banyan's., writings are as full of humor as they are of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read f 'Pilgrim's Progress" that does not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. Ohrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jerimy Taylor, itowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Blnney, and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of God, consecrated their wit and their humor to the cause Of Chri-t So it has been in all the ages, and I say to these young theological students who cluster in Aheae services Sabbath after Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as cimeteis, and then take them i no t his holy war. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear a suspension bridge from eye to lip, and it is soon crossed over, and a smile is sometimes just as sacred as a tear: There is as much religion, aud i think a; little more, iri a spring morning than in a starless mid night. Religions work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that Taw, and no condiments, and no. desert ," succeeding. People will not sit down at eucn a banbuet. By all means remove all frivo'Hy and all pathos and all lightness and all vulgarity; strain them out through the sieve of holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which : overshadows the Christian Church to-day conventionality, coming up from the great Sahara Dessert of Esclesiasticism, having on its back a hump cf Banctimonions gloom, and vehemently refose to swallow that camel. ...' Oh, how particular a great many people are about the infinitessimals while they are quite reckless about the magnitudes. What did Christ say? Did He not excoriate the people, in His time who were so careful to wash their hands before a meal but did not wash their hearts! It is a bad thing to have unclean hands; it is a worse thing-to have an unclean heart. How' many people there are, in our time, who are . very anxious that after their death they shall be buried with, their feet toward the East, and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should face in the right direction so that they shall come up in the resurrection of the just whichever way they are buried Hpwmany there are chief! v anxious that minister of the Gospel shall come in the line of Apostolic succession, not caring so much whether he comes from Apostle Paol of Apostle Jud as. They have a way of measuring a gnat until it
is larger tnan a camel.
Again, my subject protographs all
muw who are aonorreni oi small sins
white they arereoklens in regard to mag-
nincent tneits. xou will una a mer
chant who, wiuie be is so careful that
he would not take a vard of silk or a
snool of cotton f rom the . counter with
out paying for it, and who, if a bank
cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills $5 too much, would dis patch a messenger in hot haste to return the surplus, yet who iv ill go into a stock company, in which ai er awhile he gets control of the stock, and hen waters the stock, and makes $100,000 appear like 1200,000. He only stole $100,000 by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their. wealth in that way. One of those men engaged in such unrighteous acta that evening, the evening of the very day when he watered the stck, Will find a wharf rat stealing a newspaper from the basement doorway, and will go out and catch the urchin by the colar and twist, the collar so tightly the poor fellow can not say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the di honest act, but srip the collar tighter and tighter, saving, "I have been looking for you a long while; you stole my paper for or five timas, haven't you? you miserable wretch." And then the o'd stock gambler, with a voice they can her thtee blocks, will cry out, "Police I policed That same man, the evening of t he day in which he watered the stock, will kneel with his family in
prayers ana inanK uoa ror toe prosper
ity of the day, then . kiBS his children good-night wifh an air which seem to .say,.' I hope vou will all crow up to be
as good as your father." Prisons for sin
dromcdarian. No mercy for sins, animalcule in proportion,but g:reat leniency
for mastodon iniquity. A. poor boy sly
ly takes from the basket of a market
woman a choke-pear saving some one eise from the cholera and you smoth
er him in the horrible sv.mosphere oi
Raymond street jail or New "fork Tombs, while his cousin, who has been skillful; enough to steal $50,000. from the city,;
you will make him a candidate lor the New York Leislatu re! There is a. great deal of uneasiness
and nervousness now among some peo-i
pie in our time who have g ot uuright- ; eons fortunes a great deal of nervous ; ness about dynamite. . I tell them that God will put under their unrighteous fortunes something more explosive than dynamite the earthquake of His omnipotent indignation. It is time that we learn in America that eins not excusable in proportion, as it declares large dividends and has outriders hi equipage. Many a man is riding to perdition postilion ahead and lackejf
behind. To steal one cony ot a newe-
paner is a nat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer y ho. would not consent t
steal a basket of peaches from a neighs
bor's stall, but who -viould not ..scruplb
to denress the fruit markci: aud as loufe
as I can remember we have beard ever
summer the peach crop of Maryland ijs a failure, and by .the time the crop corner
in the misrepresentation makes a dil ference of millions of dollars. j A man who would not steal one peacji basket steals fiftv thousands peach bas
kets. Go down in the summer time in
to the Mercantile Library, in the read;
msc-room, ana see the newspaper re
ports of the crops from all parts of the
country, and their pnraeeplogy is very
mucn the same, and the same men wrote them, methodically and infam
ously carrying out tho.hufts l?ing about
the grain crop from year to year, ann for a score of years, A f te r a while there
m the wheat markejt,
and men who had a contempt for a
petty theft will burglarize the wheatbin of a nation and commit larceny upon the Amercau corn-crib., And
some men will sic in cnurcnesana in
reformatory institutions trying to. strain out the small gnats of scoundrelism, while in their grain elevators and rhelr store-houses they are fattening hucte camels, which they expect after ia while to swallow. Society has to be eitireiy reconstructed on this subjecjt. We are to find that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it is l'reat. J
I known in our tim the tendency to. charge religious frauds upon, go men. They say, "Oh, what a class frauds you have in the Church of G in this dav." and when an elder of
church, or a deacon, or a minister of the Gospel, or a superintendent of Sabbath schools turns out a defaulter, what display heads there .are. in many of the newspapers! Great printer type. Fivbline pica. . "Another Absconder.?1 "Olerhal Scoundrelism " "Religion at) a Discount," "Shame on the Churches," while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to where there !iB one inside the church, and the misbehavior of those who never see the ijaside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to becomea Christian lo get out ot their company. . But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. This subject does not give the picture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which, thousands of people may see their likeness. For, instance, all those
people who, while they would not rob
behemoth,, as though a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a needle were taller than a Lebanon cedar.'as though a gnat, were
greater tnan a camel, as though a minute wore longer than a century, as thouirh time were higher, deeper,
broader ihau eternity. So the text which flashed with lightening of wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by the crashing thunders of awful catastrophe
to those who make the questions of
time greater than 1 he question b of the
future. O eternity I eternity I eternity.
FASUIOff NOXBS. Bven felt hats are sometimes braided.
Watered velvet is the latest novelty in moire stuffs, The braided cloth jacket is the fancy of the moment. Very wide galloons trim some of newest long wraps. Long and short wraps are equally fashionable, whether braided or not. The braided felt hat finds favor with little people and young ladies. Malinesand Valoncinnes aro the preferred lace on tea gowns and matinees.
Big brown leather buttons aro the
newest fastening for tailor made long
wraps.
Those lovely garments sold as tea
gowns and matinees are growing in favor
for dressy house wear in New "York.
There are some lovely little short
wraps of shot velvet that are used for
dressy visiting and afternoon reception
wear.
The Dutteruv in cause ana tinsel is a
favorite decoration on tulle and gauzy
evening dresses for young girls that
dance.
The sealskin wraps, long, short and of
medium, length, take precedence of all
others in elegauoe and high fashionable favor. Some of the long fur-trimmed carriage wraps of seal plush are almost or quite as handsome as seal seal, but then they are not so durable. A skirt of velvet, velveteen, or corduroy, and au undraped long polonaise or redingote of light lady's cloth, with velvet sleeves and collar, or cuffs and collar, is a late and much admired form of the tailor gown.
From, the hetad center of millinery styles we learn that bonnets are not only of all shapes, but also of all materials, fiom felt and cloth to velvet, plush, hroche, feather fringes, aud for evening of jet, lace and tulle, while tinsel reigns supreme over all.
DECEMBER, December's come ami with nor. brought A word in whitest marble wrought; The trees aael fence and all the posts Stand motionless and white as ghosts, And all the paths we used to know Are hidden in the drifts of snow. December bringbthe longest night Aud cheats the day of half its light. No bird-song breaks the perfect Intsh; No meadow-qrook with liquid, gush Ruus telling tales iu babling rhyme Of liberty and summer-time. But fatten iu its Icy cell Awaits the sun to break the-spell. Breathe once upon, the window-glass And see the mimic mists ihat pass,
Fantastic shapes that go aud eome
Forever silvery dumb, December Santa Claus shall bring,
Of tiappy children happy king,
Who with his sleigh and rein-fleer stops At all good people's chimney-tops.
Theu let the holly red be hung,
And all the sweetest carols sung, While we with joy remember them,
The journeyers to Bethlehem,
Who followed trusting from afar The guidance of that happy star
Which marked the spot w here Christ was born
Long years ago one Chi istm as morn ! St. Nicholas for Desember.
theirjneighhor of a. farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of t ie public. A man has a house to sell, and he tells his customer it is worth 200()0. Next day the assessor comes around, the owner says it is worth Slo.000. . The Government of the United States to 3k off the. tax from personal income, among other reasons because so few peojpe would tell the truth, and many a mm with an income of hundreds of dollar i a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to be handed o-ver to the overseer of the. poor. Careful to pay their passage from Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling in iheir Saitttogatrurk ten silk dresses from Pajis and a half dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, telling the Custom-hot se officer onrthe wharf: "There is nothibg in that trunk but wearing apparel," aha putting a five-dollar gold-piece in his hand to punctuate the statement Described in the text .are all those who are. particular never to break the law of grammar, and . who want all their, language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve of literary criticism, while through their con vesati :w go slander and innuendo, and profani ty and falsehood larger than a whole ca avan of camels, when they might beti er fracture every law of the language a nd shock intellectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for ids nominative, and every noun fo? its government, and every preposi ion lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and participles and prenouns get into a grand riot worthy ot the fonr .h ward on election day, that to commit amoral inaccuracy. Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed abcut the small faults of others, and have ao alarm about their own great transgre ssions. There are in every commun ty and in every church watch dega who feel called upon to keep their eyes an others and growl. They are fall of suspicions. They wonder if that man is dishonest, it that man is not unclean, if there is not something wrong about the other man. They are always the fikit to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell carrion. They are self-appointed detectives. 1 lay this down as a rule, without any exception, that those people who have the most faults themselves are most merciless in their watchirg of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they aro full of jealousies and hypercriticisras. They sptmd their lif-a in hunt ing for muskrats and mud -turtles, insi cad of huntinc fyr Rocky Mountain eagles, always for something mean instead of something grand. They look at iheir neighbors' imperfections through a microscope, and. look at their own imperfections through a f telescope ups de down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of
somebody else. Their neighbors imperfections are like gnats, and they strain them out; their own imperfections are like camels, and they swallow them. But lest some might think they escape the scranity of the text, I have to tell you that we all come under tl e Divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come, now, et us go into the confessional. Are not ill tempted to make the question, Whi-re shail I live now? greater than the quja taon, Where shall I live forever? flow shall I get more dollars here? greater than the question, Bow shall I lay hp treasures in heaven? the question, "HA shall I pay mv. debts fo man? greater than the question, How shall I meet my obligations to God? the question, How
shall I gain the world? greater than the question, What if I lose my soul? the question, Whv did frod Jet sin come into the world? greater than the question, llow shall 1 seeit ex irpated from my natnre?'the question, What shall I db with the twenty, or forty, or seventy years of my. tnblnnnr e xistence? greater than the question, What shall 1 do wi th the mi'1'ions of evelea of my post-terras 'rial existence? Time, how small it 'is! Eternity, how vast f?.; is! The former more insignificant hi comparison wrh the latter than a gnat is inaignifical when compmvd with a camel We
dodged the text. We 'mid, "That doealn't
mean me; and with a nmvms henm o
lenoe we are siving the whole seruion
away. . But let ua all surrender to the clmrjjOi What on ado about things,, here! Wh it.
poor preparation for a ..great -term ty!
-inseotile in size, hut palaces for crimes As though a minnow were larger than a
The If aval Report. Secretrary Whitney says he finds himself unable to concnr in the recommendation that the single turreted monitors be repaired and made ready for coast defense vessels. An examination of their characteristics shows that, outside of the ships in our own navy, no antagonist could probably be found
against which they could stand for a moment. They were good vessels - for
their time, but; are entirely obsolete. It would be little less than murder to
send men in these ships, at the present
time, to encounter any recently built
ironclad. I appreciate fully that it is
only as a etmporary expedient that it is
suggested, and with the thought that in the absence of anything else these might be better than nothing. This has been the theory upon which over $50,000,000, and probably $75,000,000, have been spent since the close of the war. After describing the extravagant system of repairing vessels in past years, the repairs often costing several times as much an t m vessel did, the Secretary says: aIt is, of ten the subject of wonder what has become of the $70,000,000 spent upon war vessels since the close of the war in view of the fact that there is now no navy. The foregoing bit of history will serve as an illustration." He recommends the adoption of the dynamite gun, a naval reserve and establishment of a naval station on the Gulf of Mexico. The estimates for the navy and marine corps for the current fiscal year amounted to $25,586,479 02, and the appropriations to $26,182,723.79. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, amount to $23,427,940.18, or $2,161,533 86 less than the estimates and $2,754,783.66 less than the appropriations for the current fiscal year.
HIS SACRIFICE.
By Malcolm Douglas.
It had been year since they had las
seen each other. Uver ttieir nines ana
tobacco they had been reviving their old
friendship. Vavasaur, leaning against
the mantel, looked down into his com uanion'sface and thought; how hand
. . . . , .- .. some it was in the shadowy firelight. "And now," he said, at length, "is there nothing left to tell, old fellow? You have been away a whole year, you know. Surely in all that time you must have lost your heart to somebody." Dacre took his gaze from the red,glowing coals. "Yes," he said, "there ia one I meant to speak to you about au American, like ourselves. She it was more than anything else that brought me back. You know I had intended remaining
abroad several years. It was in Paris,
at a reception given by the American minister. She was making tho tour of
Europe with her father. They were in Paris for some time and I saw her often. Afterwards I accompanied them through Switzerland and France." "May I offer you my congratulation?" "Not yet," was Caere's quick reply.
"But there is an understanding between us, and we have corresponded ever since
she left England, Ah! i'aul she is so
beautiful and goodl When you see her,
you will approve my choice, I know."
Yavaseur smiled at his friend's enthu
siasm.
"Then she lives here in NeW York,"
he said. "And her name? Possibly I
have heard of her."
"No." corrected Dacre. "her home is
unon the Hudson, And her name is
Marion Raymond. Why, Paul, in a tone of alarm, "are you ill?" He sprung to the aid of Vavasour ,whc
had suddenly placed his hands to his
forehead. There wa? a chair near by,in
to which he sunk. Dacre handed him
a class of brandv from the decanter on
the stand.
With trembling finsere. he took and
drained it at a gulp;
"Don't mind me," he said in an un
concerned tone; "I shall be all right
presently. A slight attack of vertigo
that was all. I have not been feeling
very well of late. I am smoking too much, perhaps; I shall have to give it
up." Dacre gave him an anxious look.
"You are working too hard. Vava
seur;" ne said. "You have made your
self ill over ihat confounded canvass you
are getting ready for the exhibition.
. "Perhaps," said Vavasieur.and he was silent for the time. "Would it surprise
you very much," he added,- at length, "if I told vou that X already know Miss
Raymond?''
His friend stared at him in astonish
ment.
"You know Marion?" he ejaculated.
"Pardon mo" bluntly --"but had tha
anything to do with yoa.r recent agita
tion"
. Vavaeeur met his aze unflinchingly. " Why should it," he asked quietly,
Wool tirowm' Conference. The wool growers and dealers, Tuesday, adopted a series of resolutions declaring unjust the present classification of wool by the railroads of the country, and. directing that they be urgently requested to place wool in their new .classification on a basis that would, at least, be equal to the present
classification, as if classified as follows: Wool in sacks, in quantities less than 10,000 pounds, in car-loads, second class; in quantities greater than 10,000 pounds, in car-loads, third class. Wool compressed in bales, in quantities less than 20,000 pounds, in car-loads, third class; in quantities greater than 20,000 pounds, in car-loads, fourth class. The conference passed a resolution declaring that recent events have demonstrated the necessity for a central organization at Washington or elsewhere, and with that purpose in view, request all wool growers, aud officers of wool growers associations in the United States, to immediately send their addresses to Albert Champrnan, at ufiddleburg, Yt What to Teach. Your Boys. Leeci's Merenry. Teach them to be useful, truthful and manly. To be polite in manners. To avoid tobacco and strong drink. Tho value of time and money. Careful and correct business habits. Teach them, by example, how to do things well. Teach them to ride, drive, jump, run and swim. Teach them how to get the most for their money. Teach them the habits of cleanliness and good order. Kutifria al Germany. The Russian foreign office has sent a circular to ite embassadors with reler once to the Char's visit to Berlin, giving details of hia interview with Bismarck, ft states first, that it appears from the eotiveroation had with Bismarck, that there was not the slightest reason for the brooch between Russia and Ger
man?; secoivd, Bismarck premised complete neutrality on the part oi Germany toward Bulgaria; third, both governments were to order the press to e more moderate in rone.
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a new trial, and sentenced to one years imprisonment" without u tine.
when we have only met several times? Listen, Max, and I will tell you how it was. Each year I go up the Hudson to sketch, you know. This year fate took me to her neighborhood. I was introduced to her, little dreaming she was anything to you. 3 saw her once or twice after ward that is all."
Dacre slowly arose. 'Odd, is it not, that you should have met?" he said. "But I am very glad that it is so. dome, Paul, give me your opinion of her." "I think," Vavaseur said, in a measured tone, "that your estimate of her is correct. She is all that is beautiful and good. I I congratulate you." Dacre wrung his hand warmly. "Thank you," he said. "And now I must be going. You will come up and see us, will you not?" "If I can get away," Vavaseur said, evasively. And when Mas Dacre had gone, he buried his face in his hands. "I am mad," he said, bitterly; "mad! Thouh no word of love has ever passed between us, I love her! I had meant to go back and try to win her. Aye, I even did go back, only to learn that she had gone away. And now it is too late, and Max has won her instead. But she shall never know he shall never know -how foolish I have been."
The ball was a grand success. A num
ber of society people had come up from
the city to attend it. The stately old
Raymond mansion was one blaze of light. Beautiful women and faultlessly dressed
men thronged the perfumed rooms.
From it bank of palms and ferns ca-ne
the soit strains of an orchestra.
But Paul Vavaseur choose to be a
looker-on in Vienna,, and did not dance.
In his out-of-the-way corner Marion
Raymond at last sought him out
"Yon don-t wall 8, Mr. Vavaseur?"
she said.
There was a rare flush on her cheek,
and her eyes shone like stana. She was
easily tho moat beatitiful woman there.
"tfo," he said, "I am a wall-flower.
Though waltzing is a pleasure it costs
me a great deal to give it up, ray doctor
has forbidden it."
She chatted with him a few minutes,
and theu Max Dacre came and bore her
away in triumpn for a waltz. Vavaseur
watched them with a dull pain at his
heart that he was unable to resist.
"I must throw off this envious -feel
ing," he said. "I am false to my friend.
And yet he is so happy and I so m iserble!" When the guests had all departed, the two friends sat smoking in Dacre's room. "A happy evening," was Dacre's comment of the ball "And yet for you, Paulj it -must have been insufferably dull;' When did you quit dancing? You used to waltz, I know'
"My doctor advised me a few days
ago to avoid all excitement, Vavaseur
replied. "The truthjs, my health has
not been very good of late:, and I shall have to be careful."
He arose as he spoke and threw away
his cigar. Then, bidding Dacre good
night, he went to his room.
How long Vavaseur slept he did not
know. He was aroused hy that most
horrible of cries lire! Springing from
his bed, he dressed hastily arid opened
hia door. The dense volume of smoke
pouring up from the hall drove him 5
back.
"It it worse than I thought," he mut
tered, grimly.
Raising his window, he stepped put
upon tne root ot tne porcn ana slid
down one of the pillars to the ground. The shivering, scantily clad people who had been so rudely aroused from their slumber were gathered before the build-
log- .
"All safe," uttered Mr. Raymond, gloomily, watching. the scene of destruction: "but the house is doomed!" Higher and higher the wild dames leaped, lighting up everything around with their yellow glare. Suddenly the mother's cry rang out: "Marion where is she?" Aa if to answer her, at that moment she appeared at the window of her room and reached forth her hands to theni appealingly, "My God!" groaned Dacre, "I waa selfish enough to forget herl But even now it is not too late. I will save her yetl" : He was about to dash forward, when a restraining hand was laid, upon his arm. Then Vavaseur, pale but resolute, conironted him. i "fctay," Vavaseur said, in quick,
breathless tones. "Look how the flames
are surging about, her? Consider how small your chance would be to save her!
Whatever it may be let me take that
chance."; , v Dacre made an effort to breakaway front his grasp, ; v 'And why not I as well lis you?" he cried, fiercely.
"Listen," said Vavaseur. "You have
health and a long life before you; and I
I have heart dinease. The doctor tells
me I may live a year-! may dieto-mor row. What matters it when?" Toe weaker ma n hesitated.
"Then, for God's sake be quickl" he
cried.
Vavaseur dashed through the burning
doorway. It seemed to all that he was
rushing to his doom. They kept their
eyes fastened on the girl with feverish
expectancy. An i then, when so long a time had passed that they thought he
surely must have perished in the flames, they saw him at she window with her, his clothing blazing in several places.
''Have mel" she implored, and fell
fainting in his arms. -Courage!" he cried. " '
He wrappend several blankets tightly around her inanimate form and lifted it
in his arms. Then, in an agony of pain, he fought his way through fire and
smoke to the second story. There the
fierce flames, rclling up from below, formed an impenetrable barrier.
One thought was uppermost in his
mind. If God had so willed it, it would be sweet to die with her in his arms. One avenue of escape, perhaps, lay ooen the porch again. He staggered back to the room in which che had slept.
out tne porcn was an aDia2e. tie sa w
the people as in a dream, and heard Dac re's frenzied voice crying: ump!"
Out upon the burning porih Vavaseur stepped with his fair burden. When 1 ie
made the leap a mute prayer shaped itself on his lips that he migb.1; fall underneatu. And God heard that prayer! When they went to them they four d
that the unconscious girl had sustained
no serious inj ury . s But Vavaseur? Vavaseur was dead!
rf HE 1RBSIJEST'S MESSAGE.
Opinions of Various Congressmen
and Others of the Document.
It is a big
"(Brood, ele-
held a letter
A week later Vavaseur
from his friend in his hand.
"Congratulations are now in-order," he read; "I am at last engaged. Bohemia no longer has any ch irm for me. Thursday night Marion is to give a party which we are both anxious to have you attend. You will come, will you not? If you can arrange it, write me and we will meet you with a carriage." Vavaseur laid the letter down, "I will go," he said. "I will see her once more, and then .1 will put her out
of ray thought lorever- it was not to
be." Max and i.is fiancee met him at the
station. Tho beautiful girl extended her
gloved hand to Vavaseur.
"Max has told me what friends you are," she said, flashing her dark eyes at him.. "How strange to think that it was Max's best friend I met! We must be better friends than ever." There was a proud, happy ring in Dacre's laugh as he uaid: "Yes, if only for my sake. Vavaseur and I are almost like brothers."
, A Ijesson in Physiology '' A pnpil in one of the public schools m this city complied recently in the following manner with a request to write a com position on the subject of physi ological lecture to which the school hiis just listened: MThe human body is made up of the head, the thorax and the abdomen, ''The head contains the brains, when there is any. i "The thorax contains the heart and the lungs. "3 'he abdomen contains the bowels, of which there are five: A. I?vt, O and U.
Sanator Call A very able document. Senator Reagan I like and indorse it. Senator Eustis It le an admirahle
m e isage, an a sui is us.
Senator Seller It's a remarkable mes-
s?,ge, ana very weax.
Senator Paddock, (Bep,)-
card for the Bepnblicans.
Itepresentative Mills said:
gaitt; it could not be better."
Mr. Randall, cf Pennsylvania (Dem.)-
Well, he forces ihe issue upon as. KepreBentative Fuller,of Iowa (Rep.) W e dan stand such stuff as that.
Senator Spooner-It is a rehash of Old
stump speechee, poorly put together.
Senator Biackburn-If there's anything T don't want to be auoted Ob, its the
message, ... ' .... .
Representative McOomas, of Maryland
fTloti ,Tf. iii fh ft crrftat error of the ad-
irr T p- - T t ministration. v :
Rooreentative While, of Indiana
.(Rep.) A rehash and a misstatement o
ilfiures and facts.
-Senator Aldrich The President pre-
seats an issue which the Republicans
will be very glad to meet.
Mr. Reed, of Maine It has come like a rent hUtsAnff to ua. Now we can see
what is in our front
Mr. Randolph Tucker It s eviden
that our people will not relish the sugr
gestions about, the tobacco tax.
Mr DnrrnWR. nf Michigan It is the
twaddel gathered up from the. weakes
free-trade stump speeches he could find
RAtiAtir Hisennk We can tttfrr New
York by the biggest majority :it was ever carried if they will give us that platform. . ..r,. .. Representnfcive Bland said: "It's the beat we have ever had. I have not heard its equal since I have been in Congress." Senator Grav Stronc, original, and
... . , . -
characti ristic of the man. Mr.. Cleveland
is the strongest President since Jackson.
Representative Springer said: "That
is a goad one. He hits the nan on the
head every time. We have our plat-
Representative Hooker, Of Mississippi (Pern.)' It itt a strong, , uniqo.e, ; and the
grounds are well taken, Tho party will indorse it. r
Representative McKinley, of Ohio (Rep.) The issue is made- It is free trade against protection, and. will give
us strength. t . Senator Man ders on said:- "It was a strong message for free trade, but what om plete ignoring there, was of everything else." . ; Mr, Hiestand, of Pennsi'lvania On that platform Pennsylvania is good for one hundred thousand Republican majority next year. ... ' Senator Allison If the President means free iirade and I take it that he does it Will be a good enough document for the Republicans. . J. G, Cannon, of Illinois He only sees the five millions gathered from wool, and there are forty millions from
surar. Why-, no one need ask. " Senator c'latt said he. didn't know whether he wanted to expnss an opinion or not for publication. If he did, it might not be compiimentary. Senator Stanford -I wasn't able to hear it very well, hut what I did hear of it struck me as being something in the way of free-trade argument Senator Frye, of Maine It is exactly the message which we want d. It sharply defines the issues, aud leaves the Republicans the issue they desired. " . r ':...r Repres;en.tati ve Townnend said: ; "Elegant, elegant! It beats - them all. It could not be better. We sire going to stand by him, and we are going to Win. ... . ;-. .v.... Senator Chandler I ocdy fear the Democratic party will not indorse it, and will go back on it. The Republicans waiufc nothing better with which to sweep the country. Senator Cullom said:. ujtt is a good free-trade message, and to that extent it-is of uije to us. We are entirely willing to have toe Democratic party come out for fiee-trade." Dunham, of Chicago Tne message is simply a f9w more pages cut from the encyclopaedia and should be bound up with the rest of the i?oncyclopdhi speeches of the tour. Senator Hawley wa disgusted with the message. He described it as. weak and. trashy ; full of exploded ideas. He had heard scboolboya do better; there was no new idea or feature in it, and there was not one- practical suggestion in.it;- - . ' ;- Re prese p. i 9.ti ve Gibson Oem. ) The si? ongest ahi 1 boldest expression eye r made by any One-the subject. I heartily approve every word of it. It is the line we m ast hew to, Wm. Walter Phelps, of New JerseysHe cornea oufcpquHreiy as against protec tionto Aiericn labor, so that every man can see j net whotfb he is, and o-a that issue we can carry the cquntr-y. Representative Bayne, cf Pennsylvania, (Rep.) With a balance of .trade against us amounting to $1)0,000,000 annually, a mau capable of single-entry book-keeping out to know; such talk is absurd, j Representative Hovey, of Indiana, (Rep.)-It creates an emergency and ignoresi the real issue before the country 'that oi! -distributing the surplus. It will hiirm the Democratic party, and in ignoring the soldiers bring them solidly over to us, v Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia Democrat, who has several times made a successfutl fight against protection in his
get rid of five million ot dul oa WOoJ
f v a ftxr wiHirtti on SOgaTi DO-
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the North, while the
only in the South.
st..gar.
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Representative: Owen, " of Indian,
ftep .7 it 16 a cnarac wnowv st;.
written, as usual, on the line of a stump -
speech. Jeei itmolmA
he silence oh sugar, yrhw there are? f 4
million wool-growers ana v
Uy T ...... .1-r . . 7 - . .
will not quite meet the Btte jqgT-
of Ihe people. ; . '-..r. -v.-,- JV Wt-
Mr. McKiiley:,.Speakiot
lican, l atn. glad trie Jfrjsiaent ms. w;
clearly fixed upon the attention of the;
couutrv this great issue snd has so sure?- 4
ly committed hw party f5o
3T3 y
the BritishV.
nnhV.ir of free trade. Thevoters of
U nion will now have an opportu nuy 10
past upon this qnestibn -Xaii'Iy .wjrlfe out avoidance or evasion, : '
a ajf riaan.l ao.-fanf. Rp.creXixtV Ot
the American Protective Turin League,
CommissioQ, said: When one tne people find out that filliing oir mrkeiy wltbioreign goods meanijwork atoreigii MgeB for those who can find anything to do, theyi ectnallry Wi pe on they what tr08.tee;'. ho.i-hiiid it.ii. j ' Ex-Congressma Toledo, who is Icnpwn a one; f fhe
moiit strenuous advociites
Uw -trade in, this couEitry, said: A"e Presidents tnessailUBr ' bMig on the direct ari ft issue . That ie; what I want. We shall now have poKtieal
discussion of a great principle instead of
! disrenutable wrangles and personalities
j On this tariff issue the Deniocratjic parr f
can carry the North W(t. Such- 8tate . as Michigan, Iowa,Nehraska and Minnesota are wittLUB oa;'4iefr?"-?i
tion. There wm pe omtiy eigat or iet, AtiitPft iftft to the Renublicans. - rAs for:
: -3
can not do'.
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He Sent it Bhc.1;. Soxnf rsct (Ky.) Bepuhiioau. A; Somerset business man nat long einchad occasion to write to a gentleman who evidently had few correspondenJs. The envelope had the usual "Return n ten days to - , Somerset, Ky.," on it. In about ten daye the lettei came back to h in, accompanied by a scrawiin note, tho writer saying that he bad returned the letter according to the request on t ie envelope, though he "didn't see why he was so all fired particular abo.tr; having it sent back." 1
State, sB.ys: "Just such a clear aud authoritative statement from the execu tivewas neerled. It makas the tarifi
the jeacling and inevitable issue be
tweeu the two political parties in Con
gress and in the next presidential
campaign."
Mr Ermentrout, of Permaylvania, a
Democritt, thinks the President has increased ' tho difilculties of the situaf ion in Gontfiressin respect to she tariff, in
stead of submitting suggestions likely to
bring about unity of action by the party. Re pteaen fcative Glover (Rep.) I heard
onlv ?ortions of it, but I have talked
with iriw of the Ohio Allegation, and thev are auainst the message because
of the argument against Uitift on woo. Without Ohio in accord I f aar but little can be accomplished. Mr, Bfumm, of Penney Ivania- It is a, coUBterjitart of Hancock's statement that the tariff is a local iwiue. ..He wants to
ssi - in
1 .
breakingmp the South, you that.":": -. "
Judge Kelley, of Innsylvanil: -To execute the objects indicated by the. President without destroyi og -mairr of
th? leading indastriesof the country jWfr " ' ' ' ' , .1,."' Ti q' 1 Jt, A.. ,'
an utter impossioiiity. :m B,:.um -;y
Mr. Cleveland publicly dmite - thafc he Had not known h6w lare - the coun try was until he took -bill hasty trip
.... I mhiA( hart HAf -'ftnlT. .?F' V.
thing "Ukethe d mmeteif . pthat roaai which Andy Johnson fup xJtem
ard; ' r .J;C:VBen Butterworth: The Democratic
majority aim not to ;. revfeei bnt to de4 4 stroy. They oppose tiae system in tbtp
and hence there is-ithe strongest probar bility that what they - wouidcaU yeviBion,
would oe no more ami ; no fees ioaa m ,
Kino or pruning 01 wuicn . -j.vjcwm.
er spoke when rsaid:' VVe rpropoee'-lo cut, to cmideeo, to cut to fehe quick, cin revising the tariff wassimply i declaration of : war u ion 4he protective systeni; We underan lal" th Bcfecalled revision by the 0eoiocrjB.Ub ;mr jority means a studied assault upon thft system; And-ihat: vmi are-bbnnd hy our fiajth to;prevenidelay that revision in order to preserve
tnftflvacem. tne naome w-ui udmu w sr
oirt Atonf. a Hr.noWB"Whlft.l Will UnffllDf vrt it!
i'andproperJyre34: 'Py'0 8U-0ythetariC:-al.-;; r7 Mr. Randall saidVf Tb l due tion of taxation at this session to the extent of ffiOjOfW, orymoiG, bntnot
on the xact line of the Presidenge eu gestions. The interifcil tjfltoa will he isbt duced in part, or in A ?.ar;?e degreMfe
moved, which the ;f President ' aoes no
seem to favor, and some reductions
not be made in the rates - of duties
imports.-- - - . -.. -t . -,-m
It is clear, from what Mr. Randall
said, that he and his Jblioweis will inaa
that the g jater pant oi' the redactions to be made- in the revenuee: hl-be: made in internal tax3fttion, and rJieyui-t tend to present a fexlit f or that purpose It-will ho a bill toibolish the tobacco
taxes, and will contain ; only so mn : relating totaiiff be needed to make, it :palatablexth - '"fretrera;"'-- ' ' J MW McAdoo, -o jiew raey. :Trhi
Mn Randall s lieutenant,
as l am concerned, the recpniujendtiona ' of the President;will dae ight and consideration H ia woD? ; edly honest aud sincetand his anxiety about the 8urpiu8;-ii shared by yearly every member of the . Houise, $6 to as know," He frar that the diurei "fi to the principles which underlie federal f
taxation and did
gestions as to the remedy for tneexcefr sive income of jthe yernnenj ; , The following editorials from some oi l
the leading journals m the South are of
interest as showing: I how that section 4 views the Preaidentt plan iaujg the revenuer ";'r:.;
Tne unaneaton, r s. ws a tt
Courier says: The Preshtent exposes " with cruel courtesvlevery fallacy of- the
protective argument. Indeed a stsronger i
or more cbmpreheiiaive; exposWori ok
the weakness anoV inequality of the prctecrive snteni has - not beeo given to the public Through; i alii moreover, theroruri s vein of klnd r sympathy and patriotic oon&ideratioiu The mantifaetureror the working tnaa? : who road:! i.ihls .. wissjiiiwt.bi -ciifllis
and suspicious indeeid, if he is' mot; infc-V-pressed by it with tiae abiding nyifr-f. tlon that a readjustment: of the' iaift whicli should be Mmm"itted': to :tbe;:-,f President if that wer e prae ieabfe, would,- i
leave the wor kingoiiin iiri uetter
uuu iiuiiu vunv - -. -z
WOU1U juwreaeo tuoncj vxry
they employ in openings 591 AmBnau the markets of the worlH and would at the 9 tme time by d.e?nn Is'imgbebur
de 1 vaaptl? resrai ntS4poritt h ita augment
tUo
chil
eas: The messago sent yesterdsf w by f
is first of alV the ehorteat Presidential; message ever sent, arid ia confined -wholly to a single irabjeo--ttis tariff. The Preeident declares hlmseW uncertain terms t reyenue :-rfefbtme : and opposed to protection ptire and aini . pie. He would have ;Cpn leave! the internal reyenu aion anrl icen trate.itseif on ttevwxirk ot Teduvuigthe tftiifh We 1 do not ree'Uh lite Presfe;, dent in reirardto ttin nonredudtiQii; of'
the tobacco tax. It isftrue that tobac6e is not a necessity, btit the tax u trouble-
some and burdenBome to tbe agriqul
tural producer, and the oost of ite ,e.
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