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Volume VI.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 20, IS96.
Number 47
UILL1S TO PATRIOTS.
He Favors the Establishment
of Schools of Patriotism.
He quoted F ike as Saying That ''Toe
Mission and UignitT of America Is
to Secure Perpetual Peace."
Rev. Dr. Wilis preached Sunday
morning, November 8, In Central
Music Hall, Chicago, on "The Fortune
of the Republic; What God Has Done
and What Patriots Must Do." He took
as his text:
Take heed unto thyself that ye be
not snared by following after other
nations. Deut xii., 30.
He said: In reviewing the history
of civilization Guizot loved to em
phasize the principle of national great
ness through isolation. Looking back
ward he saw that each nation that had
made some striking contribution to
government or literature or religion,
had for centuries been shut apart from
other nations, and compelled to de
velop its own genius and mature its
special contribution. I
It was given to Freeman also to
perceive that in all ages Islands and
isolated peninsulas have been the
seats of civilization. For a thousand
years the Hebrew was a hermit people
shut apart between the high cliffs of
the Mediterranean and the. deserts of
the south and east. Secluded for cen
turies, they developed the sentiment
of conscience and stored up their
moral codes and precepts, their re
ligious poems and prophecies.
Likewise that sunny land where
Plato thought and Sappho sung is
practically an Isolated island. Walled
In between the mountains and the deep
sea, the Grecian race refined its genius
accumulated its poems and philo
sophies, Its treasures of eloquence'und
art and song.
In a non-seagoing age, also, the Al
pine walls isolated the Roman and
compelled him to mature the prin
ciples of law and government as a per
manent heritage for mankind. Just
as a reservoir through its walls en
ables the waters to pile up their tides,
so the Swiss race was girt about with
mountains, while they developed the
. first, of the pure democracies. Like
wise the English Channel and the
North Sea islanded the Saxon race
that they might store up the prin
ciples of Puritanism and liberty; even
as tAe Pilgrim fathers were shut apart
in rae wilds of New England that in
solitude they might develop their
special talents and contribution.
A century ago Washington saw the
advantage of our isolation and warned
our people against entangling alliances
with Europe, lest these might serve to
dilute our ideas and Europeanize us,
before we were sufficiently individ
ualized to Americanize the old mon
archies. For it is as true of nations as of in
dividuals, that getting goes before
giving, and accumulation before dis
tribution. The power of the Miss
issippi is in the thousand streams and
rivers that lie back of its current and
crowd forward its mighty flow. Virgil
spent fifty years living a heroic life,
that out of his accumulated stores of
heroic thinking and living he might
write a heroic poem that the world
would not willingly let die. Asked
how he explained the eloquence of his
lecture on the "Lost Arts," Wendell
Phillips answered, "By getting 'a
thousand nights of delivery' back of
me." Listening to Hayne's speech on
"State's Rights" one day, and upon the
next replying to his opponent, we ac
count for Daniel Webster's marvelous
achievement by saying that forty
years of rigorous thought and study
upon this subject made ready for an
oration that is a part of the history of
free institutions. Indeed, all the great
achievements, poems, orations, and in
ventions have sprung out of isolation.
Blindness secluded Homer and Mil
ton, and gave us the "IUiad and the
"Paradise Lost" Exile and the garret
Isolated Dante, and gave us the "Para
diso." It was the dungeon In Bedford
jail that gave us "Pilgrim's Progress."
In his book, "Kin Beyond the Sea,"
Mr. Gladstone wrote: "The United
States has the natural base of the
greatest continuous empire that has
ever been established by man, and the
distinction between a continuous em
pire and an empire severed and dis
persed over the sea is vital. America
will probably become what we are
now, the head servant in the great
household of the world, because her
service will be most and ablest For the
growth in one century from 3,000,000
to 65,000,000 encourages the belief that
In 1990 America will have 600,000,000
of people."
More recently one of the leading cot
ton manufacturers of England has ex
pressed the judgment that the next
quarter of a century Is to witness the
transference of the manufacturing
center of the world from England to
the Mississippi valley. The Manchest
er and Birmingham and Sheffield of the
new era are to be In the Interior of
this continent The reasons for his
prophecy have been rendered very
clear by this student of affairs. He
notes that America's coal and iron are
fully equal to these treasures in Eng
land. Also because American brains
are largely English, the looms and en
gines of New England are fully equal
to those of the old world. But having
noted that as to coal, Iron, tools, and
Intelligence of workingmen the two
nations stand upon an equal footing,
this writer observes that the raw ma
terial called cotton Is at America's
door, while England muBt pay heavy
freight bills across the ocean.
Breadstuff's and meats also are close
to the hand of our worklngtnen, while
the English toller must, at heavy cost,
import them. Or late years competi
tion has become so close that the cost
of freighting the raw material and
breadstuffs has caused a steady de
crease in the profits of those who
manufacture cotton and woolen goods,
and threatens In a few years to drive
the foreigner out of the market. This
English writer holds that the time Is
rapidly approaching when immigra
tion will not be confined to the poorer
classes. He foresees a day when the
manufacturing classes must transfer
their capital and industrial plants into
the Mississippi Valley, where bread
stuffs are found, or set up the looms
In the south in the interests of read!
ness of access to the raw material
What a pang of sorrow it must have
cost this merchant, and the statesman
also, as from the House of Commons
he looked toward the noble abbey, the
distant cathedral, the glorious palacei
and temples, the Thames, crowned with
the commerce of the world, ana propn
esled an era when idustrial suprem
acy should pass from the hands of the
mother into the hands of the (laughter
when the whole of mankind shall form
one huge federation, each little group
managing its local affairs in entir
independence, but referring all ques
tions of international interest to the
decision of one central tribune sup
ported by the public opinion of the
entire human race.
"The mission and dignity of Anier
ica," says Fiske, "is to secure perpetual
neaee. through the parliament of man
! kind and through the federation of the
world." Dwelling in a land with such
a history and heritage, with such an
outlook and destiny, it stirs wonder in
us that it should become necessary to
discuss plans for preserving our free
institutions and guarding our liberties.
Yet here, where the life of the people
is the freest and the happiest known
to man. where the income of each
toiler is thrice that of his foreign
brother, are multitudes either indif
ferent to our institutions, or openly
hostile to our flag. Recent events have
revealed in each large city a multitude
who have grown up with the ignorance
of Hottentots and the lawlessness of
savages. Now that we have witnessed
the massing of the forces of unrest
and discontent, their power and
strength stirs alarm, and bids all
patriots think long and carefully as to
new plans for safeguarding the re
public.
The events of the past summer seem
to unite in the request for this nation
to found a school of patriotism for its
youth. For the children of New Eng-
land every hillside has its song, every
valley its legend and story, while for
the citizens of these western and
southern stales the hillsides all olll-
owy with their country's dead make
the entire land unspeakably dear. For
us the flag Is dear because the crimson
represents the blood of heroes whose
life is also in our veins, and its stars
shining upon the background of blue
represent the states united forever by
God's overarched flrmanent But not
small the multitude of foreign children
for whom the flag has no sacred charm
and the land no sanctioned associa
tions, a.
Under the riffe of foreign officials the
windows in our public halls in holiday
times are often chiefly notable for the
waving of flags of other nations rather
than or the stars and stripes. Recently
for purposes of political discussion a
prominent orator entered a nail In a
foreign district of our city. Crossing
the threshold he was astonished to And
it decorated with the flags and ban
ners of eastern Europe, and so great
was their number as to leave no room
upon the wall for our American flag.
It is not without meaning also that
our west includes many communities
who insist upon educating their chil
dren in the language of the mother
tongue rather than in our language and
rear their youth upon the memories
of the heroes of the old world, rather
than upon the memories of Lincoln and
Grant and Washington. Perplexed by
the magnitude of this problem Boston
has sought out an adequate solution
of the problem. Her loyal citizens have
founded for children and youth a
school of patriotism. For several years
past the old South Church, rich in Its
associations with liberty, has been
thrown open one Saturday in every
month to the youth of the various
graded and high schools. Before an
audience that crowds the historic room
each year twelve orations are pro
nounced upomthe history of our coun
try's liberty, from the time of Bunker
Hill and Valley Forge to Gettysburg
and Appomattox.
Once a month also some pamphlet
like the declaration of independence,
or the constitution of the United
States, or Washington's farewell ad
dress, or Lincoln's inaugural, or one
of a hundred like addresses has been
placed in the hands of the children and
youth of that great city. Having
paved the streets for young feet, these
citizens have gone on to educate the
mind and heart. The enthusiasm for
Boston that characterized such a man
as Wendell Phillips when he said: "I
love every stone in the streets of Bos
ton, and I hope to make these stones
too pure for the feet of slaves," must
be accounted for by Boston's en
thusiasm for the education of her
young children. The time has come for
this great city, equally distant from
the east and the west, to found its
school in the interests of, patriotism.
What if for one hour upon every Sat
urday of each month this great hall
of the Auditorium should be crowded
with the youth from our graded and
high schools; what if once each month
we placed In the hands of every boy
and girl In this city a document like
Lincoln's inaugural, or Milton's plea
for liberty, of Wendell Phillip's speech
In Faneull Hall; what if every high
school in this state, imitating our ex
ample, should become also a school
of patriotism. In the light of what
sentiments and change them into loyal
for Boston, who can measure the gains
for this city, if every child and youth
in these foreign wards should come up
to manhood with a deathless devotion
for our flag, and the institutions for
which it stands? The entire expense
of such a movement would be less than
$1,000 each year. Such clubs as the
Marquette and the Union League have
wrought pewerfully in the field of
patriotism, but much still remains to
be done. Each young forehead must
Indeed be made white with Its purity,
beautiful with its wreaths of wisdom,
and holy with the consecrations of
patriotism.
The nation Is anxiously waiting for
great minds and friendly hearts who
shall touch the multitudes of foreigners
who are citizens In years, but not in
sentiments and change them into loyal
Americans, even as the sun touches
the black clouds and changes them into
a mass of gold. Unfortunately this
need does not appeal to all our citizens,
for many know more of the streets of
Rome of the avenues of Paris and Ion
don than they do of the streets that
pass through our Little Hell of the
stock yards district. But those who
have gone frequently and faithfully
through the foreign districts of our
city must confess that we have diluted
our citizenship, dimmed the luster of
our American ideas, and lowered the
standard of our patriotism.
In trying to love the nations of all
Europe we have come dangerously
near making it impossible to effect
ually love ourselves or others. In the
home each citizen knows that the best
way to serve the thousands of children
in the city is to specialize upon the
children in his own home. Because
there are orphans in the streets, the
parent does no kick out his windows,
pull the front door off its hinges, in
vite in all the neighbors, and try to
kindle a fire so hot as to warm all out
of doors. An attempt so foolish would
end with the freezing of his own
children, without effectutally bettering
the condition of poorer families. But
our nation seems to have been lmitat
Ing Just such a foolish householder.
Upon the nation s door, called Cas
tie Garden, we have written the word
welcome" In letter so large that it
can be read by every discontented per
son and unjalled vlllian in Europe, and
also by every tramp and pauper. For
years also foreign cities have been
furnishing free steerage tickets to their
discharged convicts and thriftless per
sons.
All this is saying nothing against
foreigners who have ceased to be for
elgners, and have become loyal to our
Institutions and lovers of the land
that has welcomed them as a mother
welcomes her adopted children. It is
simply to enjoy the use of this coun
try as a fulcrum for overthrowing our
Institutions, attacking our flag, and
instituting comparisons with other
nations to our disadvantage those
who derive from this countrty their
support and happiness, yet spend their
days and nights talking anarchism and
socialism, and plotting the overthrow
of the existing order, and scattering
broadcast Ideas that are more danger
ous than bomb shells. The time has
come for these people to be made to
understand that our long-suffering en
durance of this outrageous treatment
of the republic does not mean that
Americans are indifferent to their in
stitutions. We admire the wijt of the
Irish, the conservatism of the German,
the airy grace of the people of South
ern Europe, and we need their help.
Hut we want these gifts consecrated
to American institutions, and poured
as a free-will offering into the repub-
ic s life, we want not many warring
sections, but one body politic, one
American heart, whose throbbings
shall pulsate patriotism and loyalty
nto every vein and artery of the body
of the great republic.
Wise men will also recognize the
importance of strengthening those
Christian institutions that battle
against moral illiteracy. It is not
enough that the free schools and the
free press make men scholars, for un
fortunately some whom society has ed
ucated have used their training as
weapons against the state. One of the
chiefest dangers of today is the dan
ger of educating our villians and de
generates. Ignorance may live like a
brute beast, like a clod, like a poisoned
weed, but educate the traitor and he
lifts the sharpened ax upon the vine
whose fruit nourished strength.
In these days of powerful explosives
and combinations no community is
safe that does not each week ply Its
every citizen with motives of hatred
toward theft and lying and dishonesty,
and every crime against the street, the
store, while at the same time plying
men with a love of honesty, purity
and truth.
The above extracts are taken from
the report of the sermon published in
the Inter Ocean, November 9.
Shall Wet
Shall we let it go down in history
that we allowed the "idealized" statue
of a Jesuit, a representative of all
that is dangerous, despicable and un
worthy in morals and politics, to over
shadow the immortal Lincoln? Shall
we allow it to go down to history that
the freemen of Wisconsin allowed the
Idealized" statue of a representative
of a society which is so pernicious that
it has been driven out of nearly every
civilized country on earth, to crowd
out such men as General Fairchild
and Honest Jerry Rusk from a hall
dedicated to men illustrious for their
distinguished civic and military serv
ices to the state? Patriot
A ROHAN HIRACLK.
It Is Explained to the Satis,
faction of the Patient
and the Sisters.
The Madonna Turned Ou to lie i
Knglish (ih I Mho Loved
Wounded Soldier.
rrct.f
I, Ferdinand Brand, an English sol
dier, lay between Ufa and death in
a foreign hospital, nursed by tho sis
ters, who devote their lives to works
of mercy.
But all their kindness could not
reconcile mo to the weary life that
lay before me if I recovered. They
gave me no hope that I Bhould not
be blind, if I lived, and from the ach
ing depths of my sad heart this
thought had torn all that made life
worth living.
One day had soenied more bitter
than any of its predecessors. A com
rade had died near nie. And I lived!
A blackness of darkness was upon
me. I could not rest. I could not
sleep. I could not taste tho food they
urged me to partake of. I even wept
1, a soldier. Then I prayed to die.
In the midst of that prayer a strange
thing happened to me. I felt a form
bend, over mo. I inhaled tho perfume
of a breath as sweet as new mown
hay. Two lips softer than rose loaves
pressed a kiss upon my dosed eyelids
and a tear dropped upon my fore
head.
Involuntarily, I stretched forth my
hand, It caught a woman's fingers.
They wrenched themselves from me,
but left in my clasp a ring.
"Who Is this?" I cried. "Come back!
Tell me. Who is this?"
There was no answer. I heard
soft, retreating step and nothing more.
The woman who had kissed me, who
ever she might be, was gone.
I slipped the ring on my finger and
fell Into a reverie. Who could this
have been? Whose lips had touched
my lips? Whose hand had I held?
Sister Agatha was large and stout and
elderly. Sister Estelle was hard and
thin, and her hands were always as
cold as ice. Then, nuns were not given
to the wearing of Jewelry.
I questioned Sister Agatha after
awhlm as to who had visited the hos
pital. "Only the mother of Antoine,'
she said, but I knew those Juicy lips,
that warm, fluttering hand were not
those of any man's mother.
It was a little Incident, but it em
ployed my head for the day. You
laugh, but you must lie wounded and
weak and blind and far from home
and kindred to know the value of
a woman's kiss and of a pitying tear.
For one or two days I listened for
the return of that gentle myBtery. For
one or two nights I dreamed of her.
Then I stopped dreaming. Life
dawned anew for me. I opened my
eyes one morning and saw a ray of
light. I opened them the next to-see
faintly and dimly the outline of the
long room. I was no longer blind. I
should be myself again.
Hope healed my wounds. I grew
well miraculously. Ere I left the hos
pital I told Sister Agatha of the kiss,
She looked at me solemnly and fell
to crossing herself.
"My child," she said, "it was the
Madonna. It is a miracle. She has
healed you."
"But the ring?"
"The Madonna gave roses to St.
Catherine. Why not the ring to you?"
she said. So the story ran about the
hospital. I knew that I had held a
mortal hand in mine, and that living
lips had touched me, but who would
have blighted the nun's pretty faith
by preslstent contradiction?
Five years passed. The war was
over. I was in my native land again.
I had almost forgotten my period of
suffering in the hospital, but I had not
forgotten that kiss. I still wore the
ring upon my finger and I still hoped,
absurdely enough, to know one day to
whom it had belonged. I was constant
to a memory vague as it was beautiful
About this time my brother Henry
married and brought his wife home
a lovely girl, who won our hearts at
once. She had but one living creature,
a sister, who had been educated
abroad, and who was coming to visit
her very soon. She was said to be
beautiful and Henry spoke of her
often.
"It would be a lucky thing for you
if you could win her heart," he said.
"She is almost an angel."
"Not that that would be so easily
done," he said. "Laura Is a strange
girl. She refuses every offer. She is
two and twenty now and has had
several, but Emma tells me that she
will never marry until she gets over
a queer fancy of hers. You'll keep it
to yourself if I tell you, Ferdinand?"
I promised.
"The girls are orphans," said Henry,
"and Laura was educated at a convent
in . By some strange neglect she
remained there during the whole of
this last terrible war. The convent
was safe enough, and she had no fear,
but it was outrageous. Well, to cut a
long story short, there was a hospital
at , and it was filled, of course,
with wounded soldiers. The girl. Just
17 then, used as times to go with the
nuns, and, protected by their costume,
to the hospital. One, a beautiful young
officer who had lost his sight at
tracted her attention. She used to
watch him from afar and think of him
when she left him until she fell in love
with him. At last, one day, when he
had been suffering very much and had. I municipal or state, amounted to S7,
as she thought, fallen asleep, her feel-. 000,000. In 1HG0 the amount doubled.
Ings overcame her. The Sisters were! In 1S70 It was $305.4S3,6S7. The census
busy elsewhere, and she crept up to I of lfiUQ reported the alleged value of
htm and kissed him. He was not
asleep, It seems. He caught her hand,
and she, In pulling It away, lost a
ring from her finger."
A week after this I went to meet
the evening train from lxindon, com
missioned to escort Luura Lee to our
old home.
When T first spoke to her she looked
at in- .a a Blugular way, and h
color came and went rapidly. As for
nie, It seemed that I had known he
all my llfo. I low I told her tho Btory
I do not know, but tell it 1 did on m
way home. And tho ring that I had
snatched from her hand adorned it
agalu a betrothal ring when we
crossed the theshold of the home to
get her.
Once a year or two ago my wife
and I vlHlted the continent, and, stop.
ping at , went to Its hospital,
Sister who was quite unknown to us
showed us through It. Over one cot
was a little shrine and a pitcture of
the Madonna
"It was here, said the nun, "that
Our Ijtdy graciously perfomed the
miracle. She kissed open the eyes of
a blind young English soldier and left
In his hands a ring." Republic,
TAXATION OK CIIUMII I RIU'EltTV.
Itcv. Madison ('. Peters Writes an Able
Article on I lie Subject.
Ono of the best things we have read
on the taxation of church property,
Is a letter by Madison C. Petera, in
tho November number of the North
American Review. Mr. Peters opehs
as follows:
Mr. Speed Mosby In his article in
tho August number of the Review says:
"The taxation of church property for
governmental purposes would be most
unwise, and Indiscreet" '
The general theory of all Just taxa
tion Is reciprocal service. Judge Coo
ley in his Law or Taxation sayi:
"The protection of the government
being the consideration for which tax
es are demanded, all parties who ro
ceive, or are entitled to that proten.
tion may be called upon to render the
equivalent." It costs the community
something to enjoy the use of prop
erty. If the church paid taxes it
would pay its fair and honest share to
secure its enjoyment of the use of
property.
Church property Is not exempt from
taxation. The taxes have to be paid,
and the property that is exempt, or
rather omitted from the tax roll. Is
simply spread upon the other prop
erty.
Everybody's tax goes up at least one-
tenth. The American people would
rise up in rebellion against direct tax
ation for church supjKirt, but what Is
exemption from taxation, but an in
direct state support of the church, a
virtual subsidy for Its support of the
church, and at the expense of the gen
earl public? The state avoids a de
ficiency In its revenues by transfer
ring to other property increased tax
ation, not by the voluntary action of
the tax-payers, but by the compulsion
of law, all of which is out of conson
ance with our republican institutions.
The founders of our republic wisely
separated church and state. But if we
are taxed for the support of churches
it cannot justly be said that church
and state are seimrated. Benjamin
Franklin said: "When a religion is
good, I conceive that it will support
itself, and when it cannot support it
self, and God docs not take care to
support it, so its professors are
obliged to call for help from the civil
power, It Is a sign, I apprehend, of its
heing a had one.
The churches enjoy no immunity
from tho operations of the laws of
God. They place roofs upon their
buildings to keep out the rain and put
up lightning rods to prevent lightning
striking them. If God does not vary
nis laws ror the benefit of churches
why should the state be expected to
do so?
It Is argued that many churches are
not self-sustaining at present, and
that to tax them would render them
less so. Thousands are less able to
provide for their children because of
the tax-collector. Why should the
laborer pay taxes upon his humble
home, and the religious corporation be
exempted? Make all property bear its
just and equal share of taxation and
you lessen the laboring man's burden
When the working man feels that his
burden is heavier, because the magni-
ncent possessions or the church are
omitted from the tax roll, do you won-
tier that the church loses Its Dower
over mm 7
Tax churches and only those able
to bear taxes will dare to be extrava
gant. Tax churches and modest
buildings will be erected where they
are most needed, instead of a few im
posing structures in the fashionablo
quarter. Every tax-payers in the
city, the country, and the state hs
his per centage of state tax corres
pondingly increased because of the
needlessly expensive churches which
he may never enter.
The church yields no income to the
incorporators; neither do many other
kinds of property; but the state can
not regulate its action by rule of in
come. The state may and does fax
for local benefits; then why not also
for general benefits?
The saloon keeper by force of law
is compelled to help pay the taxes on
my church, in the use of which I de
nounce his infernal traffic If the
saloon keeper Is taxed to support mv
church, in all fairness he ought to have
something to say in its management.
"No taxation without representation."
In 1S50 the church property of the
United States, which paid no tax,
church edifices, the lots on which they,
stand, and (heir furnishings, as $680,
(iS7.KHi. This docs not Include par
sonages, lots, monastrleii, convents,
schools, colleges, etc. A conservative
estlmato of the value of the church,
property of nil sects In this country Is
$2,000,000,000. la 1S75 President
Grant, In his message to congress on
the subject of a total separation of
church and state, and the taxation of
church property, said: "In 1'JOO with
out a check ( it is safe to say that this
church property which pays no tax
will reach a sum exceeding ;i,000,000,
OW), So vast a sum receiving all the
protection of tho government without
bearing its proportion of tho burdens
and the expenses of the same, will not
be looked upon acquiescently by those
who have to pay the taxes. In a grow
ing country, where real estate enhances
so rapidly with time ns In the United
States, there Is scarcely a limit to tho
wealth that may bo acquired by cor
porations, religious or otherwise, If
allowed to retain real cnl.au without
taxation."
lIlntory Is said to repeat itself, and
the United States are on a fair way of
reaching a condition which took place
in England at one tlnie.'and In France,
Italy, Spain, South Germany, Mcxho,
and some of the South and Central
American republics. In these countries
corporated religious wealth became bo
great that It crippled their resources,
parallzeil Industry, and produced polit
ical and social ambitions which were
only alleviated by wholesale confisca
tion. The taxation of church property
Is In the Interest of American prin
ciples, mid In harmony with the ex
perience of nations. Exemption is a
relic of the principle, of church and
state, Inherited from the old world,
and not yet eliminated from our poli
tical system. Winnipeg Dally Trib
une. Made to Reaped Hie I'lair.
Father Nugent, a Catholic priest in
East Des Moines, Iowa, was compelled
to run up the stars and stripes last
Friday night.
Up to July Father Nugent was a
strong gold man, but returning from
a two months sojourn in Wyoming
and Colorado in September, he be
came a radical free sllverite and at
tempted to reply to Archbishop Ire
land, which attracted much attention.
It was alleged here that western
money caused Nugent to change. His
speeches in Iowa and Illinois have been
the most bitter, and he was compelled
by his own church to quit the stump.
He would not concede McKlnleys
election until the last moment, and
said that It had been brought about
by fraud, and that Bryan would be
seated if a war was necessary, to ac
complish it, and that he would be the
first to enter the ranks.
The Bound money democrats and the
republicans held a monster ratification
Friday evening and Nugent's utter
ance were considered, following which
the vast crowd went to Nugent's resi
dence and compelled him to run up
the stars and stripes. Exchange.
A lligh-llolllug Ihunh.
London, Nov. 6. Arrangements
have been completed for the opening
of the men's club In connection with
the church of St Michael and ail An
gels In North Kensington. Rev. Mr.
Denlson, the vicar, has nad charge of
the scheme. The curate has taken up
his residence in the club. In the base
ment Is a roomy skittle alley and close
by a space for boxing. The first floor
is a billiard room. On the others side
of the passage is a bar. Denlson has
refused any place for undue restriction
for the sale of liquor. He contends
that if you teach a man to respect
himself he is more likely to be careful,
not forfeit tho respect of others. If
any man takes too much and makes
a beast of himself, he can be kicked
out. The bar and game rooms are
not open on Sundays.
Closed an English School.
A Mexican cable to the New York
Hearld from Lima, Peru, says: "The
government has closed a large English
school in Callao. It was established
under Protestant auspices. It is re
ported that more institutions of the
same character will be ordered to
close their doors. The reason given
by the government is that such schools
are not in harmony with the law of
public Instruction."
The above is a fair sample of what
would be in store for us if this fair
land should become Romanized. The
prattle of some of our salary earning
preachers about the liberal spirit of
Rome in the present age becomes a
quantity mighty scarce to judge by
Rome's practical working where she
has the ascendancy.
Should Be Done Everywhere.
There is a movement on foot to tax
church property in Pennsylvania, and
a bill is being prepared for that pur
pose, to offer in the next legislature.
And the question was laid before
the annual convention of county com
missioners which met in Reading
in October. The reason given for this
move is that the property owned by
he churches of the country has come
to be of enormous value, and to longer
exeaipt these valuable properties from
axation is to discriminate against the
small property owner, who Is a mem
ber of a small congregation, and hai
his taxes increased because the mire
valuable properties are exempt Mar
tinsburg Herald.