Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 44, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 August 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

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Foua yjears ago Alfred S. Kidder, 26 years old,&waaa law student in Pertteod, Ore.? and was universally liked. He was; bright and industrious, and bid fair to succeed. One day he got news that he had fallen heir to $50,000. He disappeared from Portland, and nothing tt.18 ieaid of him until the other day, when the news came that he had blown his brains out in Richmond, Va. He had $500 left of the $50,000 that morning and soon lost it in a game of poker. An hour afterward he killed himself. The whole of his fortune had gone much . the same way that the Iat 1500 went

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' Ths White Hart, of Southwark, one of Ilngland's most famous inns, whose his tory goes back five centuries, is being palled down. It has been sssociated with Jack Cade and' Mr. Pickwick

Shakespeare makes Gade say, in "Henry

;t "Win you needs De nangea witn

; j uur uuous wuuuiirvuur nevu t uu 'my sword, therefore, 'broke through Iondon gates, that you should leave me at the White Ha-t in Southwark?" Then in "The Chronicles of the Grey Friars ' 4Mb recorded that "at the WHyt Harte.

bi Southwarke, one Haway dyne; of Sent

artyns was beheddyd" in 1450. But

zoore interesting than these events wat Ihe fact that here Mr." Pickwick met

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REVIEWING HIS CHI TICS.

TALK WITH S E NATO R if HES :

VOOR-

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w,t--

9am Veller, the White Hart ooots.

It is said that the makers of the big

1 ;lobe which is now on exhibition1 in

Paris found it necessary twice to make larta of Africa over again on account of important geographical news received from the Dark Continent Some Belgian map maters had a still livelier ex-

jierience two years sgo. They prepared

a large map of the Congo Btate five

limes fox the press; -and withdrew it

if. each time for additions and corrections.'1

f notable map of Africa now before the IfSfill 4nbiici says, in his preface to the second

f'Jir. Habenicht, the editor of the most

rr ..; - vcuwon, uuu tno map 01 Amca is never

i"- w -a- ' W . a V - ' W- ' 1 mm

- tcompieiea, ana tnas no mau arrives

w om tne Dig continent witnout bnng-

j-Dg new work for the map makers.

y0W When wreiremember that con-

liains S,000,0C0 square miles more than

tihe area of this continent, we can realize

iHttOTgh exploratfon. r.'ivi--r ii? :

j&0-: Tm food consumed on one of the !&'&t large steamabipB from New York to

'Lirerpool was as follows: Nine thou

r.m 2.

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The Indian spoils "Journal" and the Tariff Plunderers bverhanled---Eiaboration ot Certain Featured of this late Bloomfleld Speech Interesting Points. Tm Hnt Gazette. A Gazette reporter found Senator

Voorhees at his office in excellent

spiritsi&nd not at ail unwiljing'to talk. It being suggested that his recent Btoomfield speech had seriously disturbed certains organ of the ' 'favored few," he said: , Xes so it seems, but my best suc

cess in political life has always been

when thes. Indianapolis Journal and that class of papers have said their worst things - about me. Their abuBe now is a good omen forthe future, and I hope they will keep it up." But you are charged," suggested

ttk& renorteR 4 'with usiner harsher

terms than usual toward the million-

airemonooolists of the country. Do

;y ou accept that as a just criticism ?"

As Lincoln used to say." said the

'Senator, 'that reminds me of a story.

Do you remember the case of the rude

.boy who - was found in the apple tree?

He was stealing apples in great style,

and.all he horWanted was to be let

alone; He was an infant in another

man's orchard, and was in a fair way

fo-become a monopolist of the whole fruit crop, jfthere had been a high

protective tariff to keep tne owner awayrwhat a lordly time that young

robber could have had devouring stolen fruit! And when the old man

put in an appearance this sturdy, dishonest infant had no idea of abandoning bis perch and his plunder. He laughed at gentle means, such as soft words, tufts of grass, and munched

away at the apples. At last the old man's patience gave out, and he concluded to try what virtue there was in stones) He -pelted the young scoundrel soundly,, and soon brought him out of his -robbers roost. But how

dreadfully abused and wronged that

incipient millionaire thought himself

to bet He felt himself awfully ag

grieved, and no doubt made faces at

the old -man, called him an anarchist,

perhaps denounced him as disloyal to

his government, and accused him o

being' on all sides of the subject of lar-

?;iVSfld'toe 4;0ooicony dropped the argu-

m

Dounds of mutton, 900 pounds of lamb,

pounds of veal, 160 pounds of pork,

$-Z vmm pounds of pickled legs oi pork; 600

pounds of corned . tongues, 700 pounds

. . r 1 1 m . nm r

tf5sh,50 pounds of calves' feet, 17 pounds

f?' calves beads, 450 fowls, 240 spring

Wcmekens, 3a) ducks, 60 turkeys. 50

..UeasBj- OOOsqusbs, 300 tins of sardines, '00 plovers, 175 pounds oi sansaffes,

.jvv wuuuo wi xjoiu, -uw UUUJ1UB - OI

bacon 10,000 eggs, 2,000 quarte of milk,

til9 Ponnus of bntten 410: pounds of & 5? Moflee; 87 pounds of tea, 900 pounds of

tragur,100pountteofr rice, 200 pounds

;trf barlev. lfift I'an nf im tmA l11ir KA

r. iDottleaofjpicjlde ;?M'p barrels of apples, 14 boxes of lemons lKwes.6f oranges, 0 tons of potatoes, -barretoof flonr."; ' ?- -;S03tt visitors were going through one of

W T 'ne of the clasaea stood up- the pupils to

It

a rapid cross fire of question - and

4f--IWioTi offin a recitation in history:

lniiBWcr about the da tee of battles in the

W7WULUWU -W HU, . BI1U - UIR WiBlUilB

;J5atned.irtth,-interest and in silence. Il4 Thelast query put by the teacher was

;ressed:to;an intelligent, bright faced

little girl in a blue dress. The teacher

$W8ked: . When was the battle of York-

ou' Vioi, promptly re-

Tnen one of the visitors

gput a query to Susie. It was: "And

1 'the "battle abou and where fggfe iraa it fonghtf ICI don't know, ma'am. pWeiron?t have tthat in our lesson tiU

nexs year, - responaed fcasie promptly luvi unabashed, and as if it were not

tflair to exoect a little '.:ri lik .ar A

fiWtfi bnVTnnm than tiA ilttna Af VUIm,

know more than the dates of

llnaisa sample of the instruction in

SP )liary !given4heiCTr orkplpili.c

ilia " -

InGeTOanythepttblicsch are all

5.jr laoffht bv men. - - :

rrfjG" ' M :;PPHoction of white and colored Sfeltudenta ift TratfHvl in tha law BAhnAls

-it Baltimore;

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New younff men's Christian associa-

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Kleges last yeaf

In Connecticut; the land of steady

its:1' the averaere rav of . the nablin

Pfchl-teac ia $200 a year. 3. f - ' The scholastic year at Princeton wiU

uereaiier oe wo insieaa 01 tnree terms

ftmd theurnlB:oi nv

J - The average number of pupils in the ; e- 'Bpstpii public schools is 64,574 and the I total cost per pupilfo the year has MM 128,01; about the same as for tiie

f 'frpreviousrear.- $:t r. ,'. : itJ, 'S William H. Sage of Ithaca has cfven

VSS16 - oH University Athletic asso-

for an ath-

An unknown friend haa

donated $3,000 to fit up the fiel& T

arraflgemeni3 are oem maae ior a SSP1? "Log

oollego" atHartsville, Bucks county, p 8nf-' 8epfe-;ft to commemorate the - qniD the college in 1726, and the Mmmenoemerif of the great educalioual Work of the Presbyterian chnrch In this country; Resident Pattou and telS ? Ex-&esident McCosh- are named as

; speafeers. - .: -v r . ; . ;

Accoroingr to recent staustics mere

are in Cuba 720 public and 637 private

U:M schools;" with an average attendance of

40,362 children of both sexes. The an-

cost of maintainiiMr the public

' -- .v : wawu 19 wUi22D, wnicQ amount 13

zj0 fttrnifiIied Jy the 135 municipalities on 7tr; the island? The proportion of schools

0 to inhabitants is' onef to every -1;205,

and one child attends schools for every

-

times.

JK ; ": m Ua-vVel Ada is to ha married

I ;mider5ndis-4oe -a irery quiet weddinsr.'V -r", . .

Bella (who abhors the bridegroom) should think that they would want

S vrf M keep it as quiet as possibleV'

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ment 01 grass ; and taken to tne argu

ment ef stones.

. 0i course you see the moral of this

little story; the tariff plunderers do not

intend-to give up their clutch, on the

fruits of labor? they have been appealed

to in vain with fair words and by gentle

means: they tifirhten their grip and

I increase the tax for their own enrich

ment upon every prime necessity of life,

from salt and sugar to. woolens, cottons,

lumber and bacon, It may be that in th e

past I have been nearly as conservative with jbe manufacturers as. the owner

of the apple tree was with the preco

cious thief , he found in his branches,

but it dont imply any inconsistency

that I should use stones now as a last

resort .? The time for arentle means

witbi the great public plunderers spol

iators -and robber barons- of this country is goner -by; and the issue is

now andtwiHVtbe from this time for

ward, whether the laboring people of

the United States shall govern them

selves and enjoyhe ffuits of their own

industry or whether, they shall be

governed by- the -power of money

wrenched from their hands by uniust

laws and c placed hi the hands of J

privileged class, That is the ques

.taon from i now. oniijand there will be

hard blows given as well as received

by those whotake r their stand for the

people!" '

Q. "Is it true that you think the

tariffs issue has undergone a great change in its scope and character

within the last few yeairs?"

A.--i,4I Jcnow it has. The ideas of

Henry Clay on the tariff are no more in harmony with the Republican policy

of the present time than the ten com

mandments' are with stopping stage

coaches and robbing express trains in

thenar west. The tariff advocated bv

was to be temporary, and on no

article ever, to exceed 50 per cent., -and

to. be scaled down from time to time, to

purely revenue basis. The tariff of

theBepublican party of to-day is to be

permanent; not depending on the want

of revenue,- laid and increased atevery

opportunity solely for the protection of high prices and the -nianuf acturer, just

the same with a surplus as if the

treasury wasemptyi It -is this bold

and audacious claim of right to enrich

one class xt citizens at the expense of

all -other , classes, ' and without anv

.:. .... " -....j - . . reference whatever to the revenues of

the Government, that is now so deeply

mcensing the thinking, candid man of

the whole country and of both parties.

it was; never plainly put forth' and

avowed until it appeared in the Republican Chicago platform1 of last year. Now it is understood; and it will be met at all times and under all circumstances' with the aggressive- courage of those who know their cause is just. " r "Did the reporter of the Indianapolis Journal report correctly what you said about Carnegie and his class of monopolists?" A I have no complaints to- make of that reporter, nor have I anything tb take .back land, but little to explain. The reporter was not on -the platform and had an uncomfortable position. I would have secured' him a better one had I known he was- there. I have no

idea he intended to report me incor

rectly biit at the same time my severe remarks.inregard to legalized plunderers and highwaymen, .Carnegie amongst them, are hot given in full connection with the thoughts and' renectionScWhich .inspired them. I was

thinking and speakings of those who

ground the faces of the poor oppressed

the helplessr-reduoed their- wages, fet

creased the price of life's absolute necessities, devoured widow's houses and for a pretense make long prayers. The Savior t mankind has said that such as these shall receive a greater damnation than- anybody else. Carnegie's name came to my mind as ail illustration of this class not for the purpose of a personal assault, or to indicate

that he is any worse in principle than

thousands of others. His income, how. ever, for some time past has been rated at $1, 500,000 a year, which means, as some one has worked it out, $125,000 a month, $28, 845 a week, $4,120 a day, $171.66 an hour, $2.86 a minute. I knew that he did no work himself, and that he received from the labor of others for every minute of his life, for nearly every breath he draws more money than he pays to thousands of men and women in his employ for a hard day's work twelve hours long. I had read many descriptions of the pitiful, abject and squalid condition to which laboring people are reduced by ;the system of unrighteous taxation which has made him richer than many of the crowned heads of Europe. Here is one now at hand. Speaking of a row of aged and decrepit shanties on the Monongahela, near Pittsburg, the headquarters of protection, the writer says: 'They are filled with pallid humanity black with age, paintless, carpetless and uncomfortable. In summer they are dreadful places to live in. The bare hills tower on each side, making a sort -of run in which the hot sun turns the dense air fetid. The sewage runs through open gutters. A walk through the streets tells all. There are no disguises. The bare, brown doorsteps, the"; tables seen through the open doorway, the frowsy bed standing by the open window all bear their testimony of a comfortless life in plain" view of the passer-by. You may know how much or how little the families have to eat. Courtship and marriage, sickness and sorrow, deaths and births air go on in the purview of men for poverty can

afford no secrets and the cliff dwellers

of the Monongahela are very poor'. Much of the same sort I might show you but this is a fair sample of all. MHow much protection is there here for the laboring man and woman? Not enough to keep their children from being born in full view of the streets, nor from dying in the same way. Carnegie's income from their labor, not from his own, is $4,120 for every day the year round, but the poor, weary

wife and mother can find no hour in them all in which to suffer the pangs of childbirth in privacy J It occurred to me also at Bloomfield that within

the past four of five weeks Carnegie

ihad ordered a reduction of wages

amongst his working people, and that

when a strike was threatened; he

secured upon the ground a large

force of Pinkerton?s men, heavily

armed, for the purpose of overaweing the poor into submission, so

that his income should not be demin-

. :jr . -,. . ... ' ished. He succeeded, and his victims

are bent now in silence at their daily

tasks for whatever he sees fit to give them. I confess to a strong spirit of

resentment against such wrongs inflict

ed by the powerful on the weak, and

my expression at Bloomfield are not without support and example from an

authority far higher than this world

can bestow. Suppose the Savior

again upon earth and should agai

late the story of Dives and Lazarus.

Every Carnegie in the land-would say

that Christ meant him. How, appropriate the old parable is to the affairs of mankind now, near the close of the

nineteenth century of the Christian

era!'

There was a certain rich man which

was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;

And there was a certain beggar

named Lazarus whkh was laid at his

gate full of sores.-

And desiring to be fed with the

crumbs which fell from the rich man's

table; moreover the dogs came and

licked his sores.

And it came to pass that the beggar

died and was carried by the angels in

to Abraham's bosom; the rich man al

so died and was buried.

And in hell he lif ted up his eyes,

being in torments, and seeth Abraham

afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And he cried and said, Father Abra

ham, have mercy on me, and send

Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his

finger in water and cool my tongue, for

I am tormented in this flame.

But Abraham said: Son, remember

that thou in thy life time receivedst

thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

'All I have to say in conclusion is

that if our merciful Lord thought hell

was the proper locality for Dives becaase he failed to succor the poor, I

have no reason to change the place I

have assigned to Carnegie and his

class, who are far more criminal than

their great prototype who allowed Lazarus to perish at his gates. At any

rate, if Carnegie .and his kind will

cease their robberies they will be in no danger of the gallows."

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PIS-

Morsels of Gastronomy.

New York Mail ana" Express. :

If cook books helped people to eat

intelligently there would he none too

many. , ...

Beefsteak pie, of which they are so

fond in England, reminds one of Ameri

can hash.

At the present rate of poisoning only

the brave will venture to eat a plate of

ice cream.

The newest nonsensical gastronomies!

combination at a London club is a .salad

of lettuce and oranges.

French pancakes, on the bill of fare,

may be all yery pretty to look at; but

they are something of a mess to eat.

Caterers at;the fashionable watering-

places are not doing much in the vay

of gsatrenemical novelties this seast-n,'

CURRENT ISSUES.

A protection organ in noticing the investment of "British gold" in this country observes: Perhaps it is all of no great consequence politically, but is certainly interesting to see meii living in a land of glorious Free Trade so very anxious to invest money in. manufacturing in this beknighted country of Protection. The interesting fact is that the system of "glorious Free Trade" -has enabled Englishmen to accu'mulftte such a surplus of money. The exports of Great Britain last year were valued at $1,400815.805, chiefly manufactures. The exports of the United States were $730.000.000 -a little more than hall as much chiefly of agriculture or natural products. It is quite natural that Englishmen should "invest money in manufacturing in this beknighted country of Protection" in order to get a share in the bounties offered by our tariff. WORUS THAT SURN. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The moving speeches which Harrison and Hovey made last year on the removal of Mrs. de la Hunt, a soldier's

widow, who had to gi ve up an Indiana

poet office to a Democrat, has become as uncomfortable to them as the shirt of

Nessus, since the highest and strongest recommendations in the widow's favor haveailed to secure her a reappointment and a plug politician has been given the place by Harrison's own Administration. But the Indiana speeches they both made on the ruin that tariff reform would bring on the toilers in Indiana coal mines read even more like bitter mockeries now in view of Gov, Hovey 'a appeal for charitable contributions to save 6,000 Clay county miners from starving. .... THB HARRISON! AX SABS A HI. Boston Olobs. Only take your chaplain along with

you and you may spend your Sundays where and as you please. That is the Administration doctrine, as laid down by President Harrison, for which the widest and most varied interpretations are permissible. The 8unday question has happily assumed a new phase in consequence of the Harrisonian treatment of it. and it may lead to. the Sunday opening' of galleries and libraries as well as to Sunday sailing and picnics. TESTING THE FRUITS OF PROTECTION. St Louis Post-Dispatch. . The Governor of Indiana has issued an appeal to the public for contributions tS save the 6,000 miners in Clay county from starvation. The Chicago Tribune editorially appeals to public charity in behalf of a multitude of starving miners at Braid wood, 111. These miners say they are forced to deal at "plock-me ' stores run by the companies and are thus robbed of what wages they get; Last year those Clay county miners

were is ken to Indianapolis and marched all over the city carrying banners beseeching voters not to take the bread out of their mouths by electing Cleveland. Cleveland was not elected and the tariff was not touched, but somebody has taken the bread out of their mouths, all the same, and they now . say it was their employers who voted them for Harrison and protection last Fall, PROTECTION DOES NOT PROTECT. White County Democrat, There baa not been a week during the four months that Harrison has been President that there have not been serious reductions in the wages of almost every class of workmen, ranging from 10 to 30 per cent, All this has occurred under the very piotective laws that our Republican friends were so loud in praising and which it; was claimed were so necessary for our welfare. Capitalists and manufacturers have precisely the same protection they always had and yetth"ehave been reducing wages right along.?! Had this happened under a Democratic administration, what a how would have gone up. The truth is that

protection doeB not protect and the Republican cry of high tariff iB only a scare crow used to serve party ends. The people are fast becoming enlight

ened on this matter and nothing, has been more productive of good than the dismal failure of the Harrison administration up to this time. CARNEGIE INr 1892, Ohloago Times. In 1892 there will be another Presidential election and the author of -Triumphant Democracy" will again be called to the stump in defense of the protection of American industries. By that time the reduction of the wages of his work ingmen in 1889 will probably be forgotten by the masseB of the people. Judging from his past record in politics Mr, Carnegie in 1892 will doubtless again inform the workingmen of Pennsylvania that their interests demand the maintenance in power of the party which for years maintained high tariff duties upon imported iron and steel, and that to throw that party out of power would mean the demolition of the great manufactories of the United States and the impoverishment of ths wage workers. ThiB is the kind of twaddle Mr; Carnegie talked last fall. Those who believed him there have had a golden opportunity lately of seeing how fraudulent his pretensions were. That the high tariff duties upon iron and steel have resulted in a reduction of 20 per cent, in the wagss of his employes, and would have resulted in a reduction of 35 per cent, had not popu lar indignation been aroused, should be remembered by every workingman in the Uni ted ' States who has a vote and is possessed of the faculty of casting it intelligently. A DELAWARE BUSTLER'S REWrARI. Pittsburg Post. " Brother Harrison's selection of .this corrupt ward "hustler" Knowles for ne of the most important Consulates in Europe, because his successful bribery had carried a Republican majority of one in the Delaware Legislature, with a popular majority in the State of 3,500 for Clveland,szeB up exactly the moral shams of the Administration. Let us pray. Higgins in the United States Senate as the result of Knowles's biibery gives the Republican party their majority in that body otherwise the Senate would stand a tie. ,w - IT WOULD BR INFAMOUS, N. Y. World. Judge Woods haa prostituted the

judicial power now in his hands to pro

tect inciters of bribery ana corrupters of the suffrage because the rasogls wer&

of his own party. No othe construction can be put upon his extraordinary course in reversing his own ruling. In his original charge to the grand jury with the Dudley letter in view, Judge Woods said the law "makes any one guilty who counsels bribery" that "it is a crime to ad visa another to make the attempt." In his second charge made a few weeks later, and after, as he admitted, hearing from Washington, Judge Woods charged that "it results, of course, that the mere sending by one to another of a letter or document containing advice t6 bribe a voter, or setting forth a scheme of bribery, however bold and reprehensible, is not indict able." To promote to the Supreme Court the author of this shameless stultification done to protect the rascals who carried Indiana for Harrison by organised bribery and corruption would be the most infamous dse of the appointing power ever made in this country. The chief Republican organ reaffirms its charge that the Sugar Trust "actually extorts from 75 to 100 per cent, yearly on its real capital, while turning American laborers out of work." But it insists that 'this is not Protection." It is the logical outcome of Protection. The object of a high tariff is to give home producers control of the home

market. There is nothing in the tariff

law forbidding the home manufacturers from substituting combination for competition. Indeed,-it invites just such a monopoly. Nor is there anything requiring them to employ as many laborers as possible, or to pay as high wages as the tariff will enable them to de. The members of the Sugar Trust simply have the courage of their cupidity. The tariff helps to gi ve them the market, and they, are squeezing it to the tune of $90,000,000 a year.-N. Y. World

In a review of the strikes at Braidwood and other mining centers in I!h nois, the Chicago Tribune estimates that there are now 10,000 miners out of worE in that state. This means 40,000 or 50,000 personB without means of support In concluding its review the Tribune says: The employers say that the w&ges of the men have been bo good that they have supported scores of , saloons, and that if they had saved Up ibeir money instead of paying liquor bills with it ihey.would.be able to tide over a hard season like the present It is true that miners are not total abstainers, but at preaent those who saved their money and put it into houses and lota seem to befaring.no better, than the others. They have houses which they can not sell, but no food for themselves 01? their chilaren. Ths ant and the butterfly, the wise and the foolish virgins are suffering alihe. They are without food or the means of buying it. The misery at Braid wood and elsewhere will soon exceed that of the puqple of Johnstown, whose suffering so touched the charitable heart of Illinoiri. Are these men, women and children, the citi3us . of this State, to be allowed to starve? The tone of this is decidedly more humane and decent than the tone of the Republican Indianapolis Journal toward the starving Indiana miners The Tribune, although Republican, is not a high tariff paper, and somehow it is only high tariff papers which turn their backs Upon the American workingmen (for whose welfare they profess to be bo solicitous before election in their hour of extremity. Sentinel. "

This Year's Elections. Albany Argui. The current year is notably an "ofl year" in general politics. Only eleven StateB elect State officers this year. Kentucky will hold V general election for State Treasurer on August 5. Elections in ten other States will take place on Nov. 5. On that day: Iowa will elect Governor and, Lieutenant Governor. Maryland will elect Comptroller and Attorney General, Massachusetts will elect Governor

and State officers.

Mississippi will elect Governor and State officers. , Nebraska will elect a Supreme Court Judge and two Begenta. New Jersey will elect Governor and State officers. New York will elect State; officers, except Governor and Lieutenant Governor Ohio will elect Governor and State officers. Pennsylvania will elect a State Treasurer. .... Virginia will elect Governor and State officers. , Political interest this year accordingly is centered in the elections of the newly admitted States, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Montana, which are now framing their constitutions and will elect full State governments and Legislatures which will choose eight new United States Senators. Each new State will also elect a Representative in Congress, except South Dakota, which will elect two. The terms of no United States Senators expire next year, so the election of members of the. Legislature is of interest as bearing on national politics only in cases where members of the Legislature chosen this year hold office for two 3 ears. The Senate elected in' New York State

will vote for a United States Senator in 1891 to succeed the Hon, Willjiam M. Evarts.

pDUSrEUL ITEMS There is a paper leather .imitation of calfskin. . ,. . Newark makes nine-tenths of the patent leather, World'B railroads, 342,000 miles; America, 181,000. Gateshead made the biggest wire rope 4,560 yards, . . ... Glasgow tramway men won twelve hours; same wages. Germany has 100,000 striking iron workers. Pittsburg has the biggest ax mill. It makes 3,000 per day. Brooklyn has the biggest bakery II makes 70,000 loaves daily. Syracuse bosses want the bricklayers to work ten hours instead of eight. Spain allows children from to 13 to work five hours daily. From 13 to 18 eight hours, - ' Glaus Spreckles announces that he will open his mammoth sugar rellnary in Philadelphia, Sept 1, with a capacity of 4,000,000 pDunds of sugar a day. Groat Britain's 1,500 co-operative unions have 992,428 members, In 1888 $17,072,035 profit was made on sales of $183,675,226; $125,100 was devoted to education and f38,500 to charity

THE NATION'S CURSE,, HOWEVER STRONG MAY BS THE HAGIT OF TliUNltENESS, There is a CiuPe in the Blood and Gospel of Christ Bev. T. Be Witt Tai- . mage's Sermon at Helena, Mont., Last Sunday.

t)f. tfaimage's text was, "Who Slew Al Those i" II. Kings, x., 10, "Drunkenness, the iatioh's GiirsV' was his subject, lie said: I see a long row of baskets oniifag iip toward the palace of King Jehu, I am somewhat inquisitive to find out what is in the baskets, i look in and I And the ffory

heads of ssv&nty siaiii Princes. As the baskets arrive at thO gate oi the palace, the heads are thrown into two heaj?s tnio -tm either side of the gate. In the morning the King comes out, and he looks upon the tiieedifcgj ghastly heads of the massacred Princes. Looking on : either side of the gate, hfe cries out, with a ringing emphasis, "Who slew all these?" :- We have, my friends, lived to "see a jrioro fearful massacre. There is no tfss of my taking your time in trying to give you statistics about the devastation and ruin and the deaths which strong -drink has wrought in this country. Statistics do not seenT to mean anything. )Ve are so hardened under these statistics that the -fact that SOjOOO more men are slain or 50,0$)' feeh less are slain seems to make no positive Impression on the public mind.. Suffice it to say tnttt intemperance Jias slain an innumerable company of Princesthe children of God's royal family aild at the gate of every neighborhooa there two heaps of the slain, and at the gate of this nation there are two heaps of the slain. When I look upon the desolation I am almost frantic with the scene, while 1 cry out, "Who slow all these?" I can answer that question' in half a minute. The ministers of Christ who have given no warning, the courts of law that have given the" licensure, the women who give strong drink on Now Year's Bay the fathers - and mothers who have ruin on the' sideboard, the hundreds of thousands of Christian men and women in the land who are stolid in thdif indifference on this subject they slew all these ! I propose in this discourse to tell you wliat I think are the sorrows and the doom of the drunkard, so that you to whom I speak may not come to thfi torment. Some one says : "You had better lot those subjects alone.1 Why,mybrethren, we are glad to let them alone if they would let us alone; but when I .have in: my; pocket now four requests saying J 'Pray for my hus band, pray for my son,.pra for" my brother, pray for my brother who is a captive of sti6hg drink," I reply, we are ready to let that question al6nS when it is willing to let us alone :but when it stands bloolrlng up the way to heaven, and keeping multitudes away from Christ and heaven, I dare not be silent lest the Lord require their blood at iriy ndtids. . I think the subject has- been kept back very much by the merriment Jjeopp make over those slain by strong drink. I used to be very merry over these things, having a keen sense of the ludicrous. There was something very grotesque in the gait of a drunkard. It is not so now, for I saw in one of the streets of Philadelphia a sight that chririged the whole subject to , me. There was a young m'ail beihff led homo. He was very much, intoxicated he Was raving with intoxication. Two young nie'ii were leading him along. The boys hooted in the street, men laughed, women sneered; but I happened to be very near the door where he went in it was the dooi . of his father's housO. . I saw him go upstairs. I . heard him shouting, hooting and blaspheming. He had lost his hat, and the merriment increased with the mob until he. came up to the door, and as the door was opened his mother came out. When I heard her cry, that took all the comedy away from the scene. Since that time, when I see a man walking through the streets, reeling, the comedy is all gone and it is a tragedy of tears aiid grdahs and heart-breaks. Nover make any fun around mo about the grotesqueness of a dmnkafd.- Alas for his home!, .. The first suffering of the drunkard is tho loss of his good name. God has so arranged it tli tit no man ever loses his good name except thi'ough.his own act. All the hatred of men aha ail the assaults of devil can not destroy a man's good name if he really maintains his integrity. If a man is industrious and pure and Christian God looks after him. Although he may be bombarded for twenty or thirty years, his integrity is never lost and his good, name is never sacrificed. No force on earth or in hell can capture such a Gibraltar, But when it is said of a man, "He drinks," and it can be proved, then what employer wants him for workman 1 What store wants him for a clerk! What church wants him for a member? "Who will trust him? What

dying man would appoint him his executor! He may have been forty years in building up his reputation it goes: down. Letters of recommendation, the backing up. of business firms, a brilliant ancestry can not save him. The world shies off. Why! It is whispered all through' the community, "He drinks; he drinks." That blasts him. When a man loses his reputation for sobriety he might as well be at tho bottom of the sea. There are men here who have there good name as their only capital. You are now achieving your own livelihood under God. by your own right arm. Now look out that there is no doubt of your sobriety. Do not create any moral suspicion by going in and out of immoral places, or by any odor of your breath, or by any glare of your eye, or by any unnatural flush oi your cheek. You can not afford it, for your good name is your only capital, and when that is blasted with the reputation of taking strong drink, all is gone. Another loss which the inebriate suffers is that of self-respeot. Just as soon as a man wakes up and finds that he is the captive of strong drink he feels demeaned. I do not oaro how reckless he acts. Ho may say, "I don't care;" he does care. Hja can not look a pure man in the eye, unless it is with positive force of resolution. Threefourths of his nature is destroyed ; his selfrespect gono ; he says things no would not otherwise say; he does things he would not otherwise do. When a man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink, Uhe first thing he wants to do is to persuade you that he can stop any time he wants to. He can not. The Philistines have botUid him hand and

foot, and shorn his locks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind in the mill of a great horror. He con not stop. I will prove it. He knows that his course is Drincing disgrace and ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he could stop he would. He knows his course is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them. He would stop if he could. He can not. Perhaps ho could three months orp year ago: not now. Just ask him to ston for a month. He can not: he knows he caa not, so he does not try. I had a friend who for fifteen years was going down under this evil habit. Ho had largo means. He had given thousands of dollars -to -Bible societies and reformatory institutions of all

sorts. Ho was very genial and very gen

erous and very lovable, and whenever , ne talked about this evil habit he would say. "I can atop any time." But he kept going on, going on, down, dowa4 down. His family would say" "lavish? you' would stop.?' "Why," ho would reply, "I can stop any time if I want to." After a while ho had delirium tremens; he had it twice; and yet after that ho said. "I could stop at anytime if I wanted: to." He is dead now! , What killed him ! Rum ! Rum ! And yet among his last utterances was, "I can stop any time." He did not stop it, because ho could, not stop it. Oh, there is a point in. inebriation bevond which, if a man proes, he can not

stop! One of these victims, said to a Christian man: "Sir, if I were told that I couldn't get a drink until to-morrow night unless I had all my fingers cut off, I would say : 'fBring the hatchet and out them off now. " I have a dear friend in Philadelphia, whose nephew came tohim 0110 day. and when he was exhorted about his evil habit, said : "Uncle, I can't give it up. If there stood a cannon, and it was loaded, and a glass of wine sat on the mouth of that cannon, and I knew that you would fire it off just as I came up and took the glass, I would start, for I must have it" Oh, it is a sad thing for a man to wako up in this life and feel that he is a cantivo. He says: "I could have got rid of this once, but I can't now. I might have, lived an honorable life and died a Christian death; but there is no hope for me now ; there is no escape for me. Dead, but not buried. I am an apparition of what 1 ouoe was. I am a caged immortal, heating against the wires of my cage in this direction and in that direction ; beat against tho cage until there is blood on the wires and blood upon, my soul, yet not able to got out. Destroyed, without remedy !" T go furtlier and say that the inebriate suffers from the loss of his usefulness. Do you not recognize tho fact that many of those who are. now captivos of strong drink only a little while ago were foremost in tho churcheu and in the reformatory institxitions ! Do you notknow that sometimes they knolt in they family chelo? Do you know that they prayed in public, and some of thorn carried around tho holy wine on sacramental days? Oh, yes, they stood in the, very -front rank, but

thov crraauaiiy leu away, iwa now wmro

seem very merry 1 At) there is down inthe ; ' depths of their soul a vorv hflJIV weight.' I

I go on and say that the inebriate fhffers from the loss of physical health. The older men in the congregation may remember that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified the people by his lectures, in which he showed the effects of alcohol on ttieJ human stomach. He had seven or eight diagratns by which he Show'edithe devastation of strong drink upon the physioal system. There Were thousands of people tbat turned back from that ulcerous sketch, .swearing eternal absti nence from everything that could into--xcate, .... . ,,, . " . Oh, is there any thing that will so destroy a man for this life and damn him for the life that is to come! I hate that strong dnntf. With ail the concentrated energies

of my soul, 1 haw it; Do. you tell me thata man can be happywhen Kfi kiioWS that - he

: j 1 .uinn, uij trim ii ui;uik iiuu wumuu his children tvith rags. ! Why, there are on the stieota of our - cities to-day little chil

dren barefooted, uncombed: and unkOmnt:

want On every patch of their faded dress

ana vn every -wrinKie 01 x-neir prematurely old counteilanco whO' Would have. been in churches to-day, aria as; Well dad' as you are but for. the fact that rum destroyed

their parents and drove thsfii inio the riiHfrt nil wim tlvnn fnA nf " Artn

despolier or homes, thdu recruiting olHcfe

of the pt, 1 abnor theei , . ? . Ohl "look not upon the wine 1 when it is red, when it irtciveth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it bi teth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder; if ' J " 1 But I want in conclusion to say one thing porsonal, for I do not like a sermon that ha

ho personalties in it, ' Perhaps this has not

had thOrr fault already. I want to say to tudB'e wn.Ar nxf the. victims of strong drink that whlie t ae'olare that there was a point

beyond which a mat -tfouid nct stop, I want

to tell you that while a man can noi stop in

his own strength, the Lord , God; by his

crrace. can help him to ston at anv time.

Years ago I was in a room in New York

where there were many men who had been

reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard

their testimony, and for the first time in my life" there flashed out a truth I never under

stood. "; T ' ' . Thov said : "We Were victims of stronsr

drink. We tried to give it up, but always

failed; hut somehow, since we' gave our

hearts to Christ, he has taken carC Of us,"

1 believo that tho time will soon como Whn

the grace of God will shbw its power here notdhly to save man" 3 soul, but his body, and reconstruct, ' purify elevate and ro-

aeera iu x veruy dbubtb T-uaii, aimougn vou feel jrraonlinff at the roots of vour

tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, If you rill this moment give your heart to God

he will help you, by His grace, to conquer,

Try it. It 10- your last chance, v I have looked off upon the desolation. Sitting under mv ministrv there are' trdonle :ln awful

peril from strong drink, andv fudging, from ordinary circumstances.- there is ndt one

chance in. five thousand that they will $61

j ear 01 1&. x. see men in tnia congregwuuu to whoroU must make the remark toat if

tliey dO liot change their course, within ten years they will, 6s t their bodies, He down in drunkards! rrave i &tid as to their souls.

lie down in a'tirunkard's pemitioft. I know

that it is an awful thing to say, but 1 can't help saying it. Oh, beware! You have

not yet been captured. Beware i As ye opOh the door of your wine closet to-day,

may that decanter flash out upon you. - Beware ! and wheii .you pour the beverage into the glass, in the foatri at the top, in white lettei; lot there be knelled out to vour soul, "Beware!?' When the feooks of

hid QTnent are open, Eindten million drtlw-

ards come up to get their, doom, I want you

to bear witness that I to-day in the fear of

uoa, ana m me jave ior your soui, 101a you with all affection, aiid with all kindness, to

beware of that which, has already exerted its influence unon your family, blowing out

some of its lightsa premonition of the

blackness of darkness forever. Oh, if . you eoiUd only hear this moment, in temperaiice With drunkard's bones drumming on

the head df the wine eask the dead march of immortal souls, methinks the very glance

of a wine cup would make you shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of the soul, and the foam on the top of the cup would . remind you of the - froth on tho maniac's lip, and you would go home from this service and kneel down arid pray God that. . trather than your children

should become captives of this evil habH

you would like to carry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery andjput

tnem away w xne iasi sieep, unm ac me call of the south wind ;the flowers would

come up all over the grave -sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God has a balm for such a wound; but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a

drunkard's sepulcKert ' , '' :r '

oxtr. -.(4. " Tt

fine

;; 1 The Bible in Ijiterature.; From the Rev. Dr, Van Dyke's article in Angust Century; on "The Bible in

Tennvson." we auote the following: v It

is safe to sayHhat there is no other book which had so great an influence upon the literature of the world as the Bible, And it is almost as safe -at least with no greater danger than that of starting an instructive diecussi on-rto say that there is no other literature which has felt this influence so deeply or shewn it bd clearly as the English, ;x ,; ; , y

"The cause of this latter fact is not far

to seek. It may be, as a discontented French critic suggests, that - it is partly due to the inborn and incorrieible ten dency of the Anglo-Saxon mind to drag religion and morality into everything.

But certainly this tendency would never

have taken such a distinctly biblical form had it not been for the beauty and vigor of our common English1 versionof the Scriptures. These qualities were felt by the people even before they were praised by the critics. Apart from all religious prepossessions, men and women and children were fascinated by the native power and grace of the book. The English Bible wa popular in the broadest sense, long before it was recog: nized as one of our noblest classics. It has colored the talk of the household

and the street,, as well as molded the language of scholars It bus been some? thing more than "a. well- of English undented"; it has become a part of the spiritual atmosphere. We hear the echoes of its speech everywhere, and the music of its familiar phrases haunts

all the fields and groves 0, literature.

"It is not only to the theologians and the sermon makers that we look for biblical allusion and quotations!' We often find the very best and moat vivid of them in writers professedly, secular. Poets like Shakspeare, Miitou and :Wordsworth; novelists) like Scott and romancers like Hawthorne; essayists like Bacon, Steele and Addison; critics of life, unsystematic philosophers, like parly le and Ruskin all draw upon the Bible as a treasury of illustrations, and use it as a book equally familiar to

themselves and to their readers. It is impossible to put too high a value upon such a universal volume, even., as ka purely literary pOBseseion." : r Urldgo Orer tho inda ft. " ' 7r''The Sukkur or Lansdownev bridge, recen tly erected over the River I ndus,

has a main span made u d of two can -tileyers of 310 feet each and a. suspended truss of 200 feet making a total span of 820 feet, the longest of its character in the world. The Indian Engineer says that in this long span, weighing 3,300 tons, the expansion' be tween the abutments amounts tb nearly 8 inches; and the nose of the cantiovev moves horizontally up and down otream; about 2 inches in tho course of each day as the one side or the ; other of the bridge is exposed to the direct rays of the sun! This bridge has, be side the great span, three others of 278 feet, 238 feet, and 94 feet respectively, of ordinary girders resting on piers founded on the rock. Work was commenced in 1883-4, and all except the main span was fin ished in March, 1885i The staffing for the main span was started January 18, 1889 aud was finished January 8(J; erection was commenced February S. The engineer was Sir A, M. Rendei, and the' builders were Westwood & Baillie, of Fop-

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Frot otion Journal Conf ejueVf to;

Philadelphia Record.

4 ;&;;: . -f'i

Wade's Fibre and i?ainc,a

sr.-.

ally in

stanch Protectionist journal , :

especially commended to the consid!? tion of The Record-s esteemed ? Bro fcec tionist readers and contemporaries: -; jf "In the examination of any queationf discussion that ignores tbe facte in the:

caso ie of little value; The effects ot this

1

u. - : s3

tariff on wool and woolens is no e -Z'U tion to this rule. Is is ttiis treatinent 'iAM '' the matter by so man -wooVrdwer

6b much to confuse themsel vesand th

nublic srenerall V in jreirardf o tlie whole

question. - Bet us get at the hottem- iaets

if possible, and-perhapS: wcjub

and if so, the most practical methbclii

applying proper remedies. What is thai

condition in which we iind thicouiifar .--i to-day in regard to tbe supply of,

demand tor tnis great staple, wooir.; -

rv of wnnl crmwrt in thijKcountrv ; ih&'.j&&

would be required for making:

v ro ntvur strain . flirt i Ahri as nnv rtrrwk ', : '.

demahd and consume. I , . ' : v . -.LtM

(2)! There is no surplus proouction; Or ttccumulatioA ofswoot iiPf tti&&tfflffi&M

mosr constant increase m tuo ; jJint.y

during the past thirty- yearl

"(3) There is no danger of any - euj plus for years to come under. any :poesfe fi ble increase; because wpol vjg,. best staple the worid has xpl1? pro? duced for the service of inankind arid 'C'-jA

even in-our owSa country there is nqtP

fortofour people ; .

"(4) The variety in tho qualiues ox

Wool . is almost . infinite. Not OXi

quality affected by the breedfisiieep but-by care,, feed, location, soil ani cUr. : mate. A chanse in either of teie :e&ni

aKaiioa n th nhameff r nf th Blanle 'Iv

To a considerable extent the quality ie

subject to the control of '"the cheep breeder, put in some respects" iHi v ' ..beWv v

vono hia nower to nroouce,ceriaiii- uatt '-

ties without an entire: change of dity

and conditions: which- necauoJ epmr1-

9f V-

mand.

? M(5) Every kind of wool has a isjeM

purpose, and, as a rule, one to whic

is better adapted than any other: tt is

a bad or partial waste cf roafernnl ,

attempt its use for the purposes

it will not produce its oesi enect "

(6) Eyerjf feirad v:;ol lffople labrks requires certaiii ; qualities in the staple-

a .nnin lA.in rlaciTOrt fittArt'H I I1DV f. , -r.

l(V tCllBU MWivu vuvnw

can not well be produced by a -stapue

lacking theee qualitiee.

effect

The req'uredl

. - " Ha

any one uuaiiby, huu vuv mau uuw mi .. ft5Ssl

k obiigedv to resort s miist

to get the righfc eombihatio

and to enable him to produce biBi j -

"(7) It is idle to talk dtauy .one "ecTtft.-:J tion or country producing profitebly alEfS:

qualities 01 wool m quantity w nu un. ,

oioqItkj on1 ..wntAMtirKn'. "fair 'Trtlifciiris: .'

effect, or who-by their jaitn or pmie inv

'the boundless resburce& yt the country f4 T '. are led to claintiiat' we can growiJftlll -thevf

nuyi no nouii uy uviimiu , : - ? ' - "' " yy

are tamng aopnw ... ; :,.xne .nav;

eviuenuy naa y vry iiluw cajimxc

manufacturing the various fabrics that

our people ineist upon having.: We might-as well claim that Massacht is etr can grow all the food 1 and timber its people require; Theonly pliah such a result in either. case; duldM

be to bring the wants of the piople

Ha

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down to the supply, the entire pneiefe

tion to the spirit of the.age, i&

l(8) The history of the past hftyeani

proves that prices for our home grown "

rup nave never ueeu -uupiuvw M.r wi

creased duties-nnon this imported - raw "SiftfUS

material; that the effect haa rather beett;

to curtail the demand? from our om

Anltr AilafnmarB fVlAff rail' 1Mtt." -i1 tia'T

sibly have- under the adjusmHty

duties now in' force. . p : 'f1 -

4(9); The present tanfi i$T np only

most un just in its distinctions and re

sstrictione, but 'practically,- it prc-

smsim

mm

ram

our foreign competitors free from

It is protective to the 4r3urnpean

facturer, and only in name tO ;th

wool growers. : . : p0tm

(10) The prohibited wools, r after -

being manufactured abroad, are ea porft;

ed to this country; paying acomparivttve;

ly low rate of dutr; decreasing ;roj

theml This ib a discouraeement ft the :

improvement-of American fabrics, and

on the finer

m

-

cranes Rives ine :WRp.'-iw

anna a uiuuuwuij iu wu v it t ;i - ';.'-V3jBS

uuo ui K'iiwu vou uw -guu;u ji jts - '.2t-ai

could have a settlement of tne ouestion

in the interest wool of growers and con

isumers, wjaica, mumuctt, s? SfflSSS?

include, every man, W4mair ap chili

: It:. t Diih ... lanial.:

in tu IB country vau-wo cAycj;t.5RvJ

C2 A

Marri age e;?Jpiafe; ?j.i

do you suppose is the feeling of such a man lar, London. . The total cost of the as that, when he thinks of his dishonored whole bridge was $1,528,800. It car-

vows ami ine uisnonoreu SBcranoiu-wnou piog t ; Indian'- Sfcato RailWivvHo thinks of what he might have boou and JQPr mQ what he is now! Do such mjjn laugh and ao WW &xsw

over

Springfield Unioui ? ' . :. . r -z ; ;,. r .gl

When dinner is not iTtayatdinni : V

time.

When eitjher oithe paruea niariy for.. money..;; y ,

himself."; , W hen neither husbi a vacation, , 'f

4 norvwife ttake

.Rfr-.-..,.

,v k

A-

When children arebliged to cltno

'for tbeir rights; f : Vv;;,;'.r.-?VV

When the vacations; are. talceAone side of the house onlyl :-:'f .

he,? kindles therel" " - -S

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When the children are ' give,n the .v. ;

; , When a man

wnat styie 01 oonnet eoe muss wear, .

Wheaman?s Christmas .preseiite to his wife consist oi to shirts and '

gloves idr himselfc -, " ': -

?: When politeness, fine mannerjw anfe

kindly -attentions -aree

When the lord of creation pays' more;:, for cigars than his ix":''f hosiery, boots, and bonnets;, J W-

When the money thst should gpf for book goes for what only fmjS eidcf n house knows any thiioig &nt;; When both partiesersist iu arguing oyer a subject lipciii v::hiek;;ttiMTO5

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