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INIH'STKJAli ACTIVITY STATISTICS WHICH DEMON STRATE PROSPERITY. Immense Increase in the Importulinn of Commodities I seal in Domestic Manufactures, >au I Decrease in I tic Im ports of Articles Made Abroad. Some interacting i'aili illustrative of ihe marvelous revival of indu.-trial ac tivity which followed so directly upon the election of President McKinley end the enactment of the Dingiey tariff are srt forth In j statement issued b. the treasury bureau of statistics. It is especially significant of prosperous times among manufacturers that arti cles required in manufacturing and food stuffs not produced in the United States form the largest items of the increase in importations shown by the fiscal year just ended. The statement covers all articles or classes of articles in which the importation increased or decreased as much as $1,000,000 during the year, and shown an Increase of im portations In nearly all articles of for eign production required by our man ufacturers. Unmanufactured fibers, raw silk, crude rubber, liar and block tin. hides and skins, undressed furs, cabinet and other woods, unmanufac tured tobacco and chemicals for use in manufacturing, all show a heavy In crease, wool being the only important item of material for the factory which shows a reduction in imports. In the ten great classes of material Imported for use of the manufacturers — fibers, silk, rubber, hides, furs, tin, copper, tobacco, wood and chemicals the Increase amounts to about $30,000, 000. though the reduction of several million dollai'3 in wool brings the net increase In manufacturers’ materials to something less than that figure. In food stuffs the principal increase is in sugar, tropical fruits and cocoa, the Increase lu these being above $30,000. 000. The very heavy Importations of sugar Just prior to the enactment of the tariff laws of 1897 made the sugar importations of 1898 extremely light, so that those of 1899 show an increase of 50 per cent in quantity over those of 1898, but many million pounds less than those of 1897. Among manufactured goods the finer grades of cotton, sitk and fibers show the largest increase, though matting, chinaware, dressed furs and spirits are slightly in excess of last year. Diamonds and jewelry show' the largest increase among the articles classed as luxuries, though this is believed to lie due in part at least to a reduction in duties under the act of 1897. which was made in the belief that it would reduce smuggling and thus bring within the operations of the customs law many million dollars’ worth of this class of goods which had formerly escaped tax ation. In manufactured goods there has been a decrease in imports in a number of important articles which come in competition with American manufactures, especially in woolen goods and tin plate. Coffee also show's a decrease of about $10,000,000 in value of importations, largely due. however, to the decrease in price rather than in quantity, the average price per pound in 1899 being more than 10 per cent below that of 1898, while there Is also a slight reduction in quantities im ported, owing to the very heavy im ports of last year. The following table includes the ar ticles or classes of articles in which the imports of the year show an in crease or decrease of as much as $1,000,000, and compares the imparts of the year with those of the two pre ceding fiscal years: IMPORTS. 1S97. 189$. 1889. Chemicals ... .$44,94$,752 $ll.4(U,7i3 $42,668.<21 Chinaware ... 9,977.297 6.687,3®) 7,592,99* Cooo& . 2.997,866 3,715.629 5,360,116 Coffee .S1.544.3S4 65.067,631 55,274,646 Copper in bars, aXc.. 91*9, S24 3.077,835 5,604,83.1 Cotton manu facture# .. .. 34.421*,363 a, t, 161,300 32,053,511 Fibers, u n m nf tured .. 12.336.418 13,446.186 20,290,727 Fibers, m'f'cs |lf . .. 32.546,867 21.S99.794 25,132.495 Fruits & nuts 17,126,932 14,666,950 IN,317,20! jr^rs, undr'ed 2,938,979 3,832.6**3 5,616,5*0 HirH&mfiK SOT#lJ5 t.iHS.Ott!) s. 211.018 Hides* .hint 27.wa.08e 8o.WS.HS2 41.81M.o43 Household & .. ... perg | ef'cts 2.438,362 1,779,too 3,112.8*0 guttu percha 17,56$.163 25.»45,fU 31,876,14.' Jew rv A ore clou, stone*. 3,559.307 lO.JJg.SIW l?,i. IIMItj Matting n.wB.ntfl 1.437.171 2.UM.1H fl lit unman... 1S9K28J K.IW.Wtf S2.478.887 Milk' rnnn. of S.1'',-"W7 28.583.** 26.loa.4»2 Snlrit* .. • J.ttO.IH 3.IJ4.7W 3,l44,i*i y 3ii*«r . . 88.W8.fM *'.173.70 81.964 l.'i Tin In l>nrs. nl,, etc.. .. k,,<8.1.1 1I,*4.1,33? Tin slat* . 5.344.08 3 W.14* 2.*13.S*,I T. .burro leaf. 8.8*4.1» 7.4*».*H S.iWt.tU., Wool row .... 53.3«M»1 W.?*S.*he 8.333.**? Wool, ill f<» . 48.10.9W I4.8SI.77I 13,01.88.' The following table show* th* tout import* of each Aeml year during the decade: late, .. 8.88,3111,433 ST. .. .s44.ete.iw* B ..... B...... B .... 7 i SB . lee.mtu te,. .. .... .. .. 8ie.e0.a.l t0* ariilK.tik H«r,sM lks| lk>, l bass. The oatlooh for the yield of fleam • baapagae* for the .*•** of 18** 0 dleroutwgiag The latest fact, froai the wta# dtetrtrte pabi0h*d la Paris *hu« that the white grapee have »uf (•red •etrerely through la. i.iu.Ul weather The nee* bearing these grape* do got prod•*< e * ■ toalreiasar geoaa,” a ad ta i,imu#h i»«»* the hist growth hasing heea de«iro**d there 0 bo a >• whet*»*» **f fruit f»>, m* .iMtuma In Kperony, the rnttsi i,< ik, kempegn* country, the damage doge la roaeiderabW hot got *** groat ,« to ataay tea* haowa karalii0* la l*ntk* • ha rettaiaiy ef a 04 tlntage ha* *4u.nl a great deasaad iu spriog p (., wtae* ef prevtou* year* ta wh*h a leal «pe« o0t u* 0 be lag .too* ft»< t at .fatten, • fur the rhaMpaane J ■ til.t to# the rear froai Sprit. tea* to Sprit 18*8 *a« w a f» ' fm* ns, m the number if bottles exported. On the other hand, the consumption in Prune;* has Increased over 2.500,000 bottles. The total number of bottles disposed of during the year was 27. ilUT.bUti. The stock the growers have in hand amounts tc 100,371,755 bottles, together with 413,053 hectoliters of witie ia i £jsf.s. If not a bottle cf French cham pagne could be spared far export to the Fnited Eiatcs for the next ten years It .,'ouid be far from an unmixed jia'amiiy. Pertain to-called connots i st tits whose tastes are tegulated by iaU‘1 and not by quality would feel the deprivation seriously, but in the long tun they would Lc the wiser and the better for it. Then they would be forced to drink the fine champagnes of native production, and would for the first time in their Uvea discover how excellent these wines really are. At present they don't know, for they never taste them. REPUBLICANS ARE READY. 1 The FrF'Traile hmo Will Find Them Well Prepared In 11)00. Some of the Democrats who see the hopelessness of a campaign on a 16 to-1 platform express anxiety to make free irade and protection the Issue. If the Bryan or Democratic leaders will agiee to ignore the silver issue in their platform and pledge that Its speak ers shall not allude to it, it is possi ble that the Republicans would accom modate them In 1894 the Republicans made tiie campaign on a declaration against the Gorman Wilson tariff law. Hard times helped, but the Democratic party was never so badly beaten. In deed, the overwhelming defeat in 1894 caused Democrats to seek a new issue for 1896, and free and unlimited coin age of silver was accepted by many Democrats because they dared not go into a campaign with a revenue tariff platform. The Bryan convention dropped the word "only" from the usual Democratic platform declaring for a tariff for revenue. The duty in the Gorman law was high enough on iron, hut it was made so low on a long line of goods that half the factories producing them were closed. The woolen industry aud the wool-growlhg interest were bit very hard by the Gorman law. During the past two years the wool-growing in terest has got on its feet again. Sheep and wool again have values, and the latter, produced at home, is taking the plate of the foreign article, coming to us on the free list. It is not probable that the wool-growers, who are in three-fourths the states, can foim a wool-growers’ trust. The wool man ufacturers have not yet accomplished much in that direction. Clothing is not materially higher than it was un der the Gorman law. Free trade in glass would lose to Indiana the east ern trade in one of its prominent in dustries, as did the cut in duties by tiie Gorman tariff law. So with other Industries, the principle of protection cannot lie safely set aside unless we are all willing to reduce wages to the basis of those of competitors in other countries. Great Britain has com petitors today because all nations have protected their industries by tariffs which have held the home markets for the home producer, and there is no doubt that they will adhere to that policy in adjusting duties. At any rate, if the Bryan Democracy is anx ious to drop 16 to 1 for the tariff issue, Republicans are ready. —Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal. Money In Dick—Hello. John, what are you buying now? John A gold watch. Dick - You must be flush with money. John - Yes; I’ve Just had another raise lu wages. A lollry Mlilr 11 In vitro DUmter, No matter what steps ws may take to destroy trust* Germany Is deter* ; mined to maintain a system which it is generally recognised Is bringing pros* | parity and wealth to the empire. Shall we then, in order to overcome an evil which may he regulated, reaort to a policy which will invite disaster? la It conceivable that the American peo ple, lu the face of the menace which the organiied front of Germany pra | sent*, will strike down the only harrier to the deluge of articles manufactured | In Germany which the removal of pro tection would Invite* Great Hrttaln la now endeavoring to rescue her Weal Indian pteeeeelone from tha evil fate Imposed on them by Ihe German es* port bounty «yatem Are we aailoua to share the vans *spartem • * If we are, all we need to do la to dlapease with protection end the Germans will soon make It clear to wa that la Ihe ef fort to abate an evil which la largely | Imaginary wa have espuwed oureelvee to the danger of having out wan»f*. - ! luring tadweirtee loyally deatyoyed gaa ►'leocUco I'knelrh Ww g-Mtgae teshtoaeM* V t’aaad aa <<rrespua<l«ui writing ' on the trade between t ana da and bmerit a, *ay* The ptlky ef the railed mates toward t’aaa-la mow IMf, with the brief tatermiaeioa while the Wttawn net of lent tl war in for-# hae been woe si grab git end give noth' mg Gf wear** It te is lunger fa«b Uigahie In this vonmev to dlecfimingte against b martsim tbheet.ng iW Vt > Manufacturer AGREES WITH HAVEMEYER. A llrutlirr Mnnupullit ludonN the Hu(>f Kliii'a View*. Rarely In the annais of American politics have the statements of a man having any reputation at all been so completely tefuted, riddled and ritli t tiled as those of Mr. Havemeyer, to the effect that the present tariff is four-fifths extortion and the parent of trusts. In such a situation Mr. Have meyer has doubtless been turning in every direction looking for an indorse ment cf some kind from some quar ter, and willing to accept it in what ever shape it should come. The loose-talking New Yorker may now comfort himself a little, for he has found a friend of just as much loquacity and just as little sense. That congenial Indorser lives in this city and has sent the Indorsement to the Nebraska City Conservative, in which paper It lias been duly published without comment. It runs thus: Wells, Fargo & Co., Office of Presl dent. San Francisco, Cal., J«ne 15, 1899. Dear Mr. Morton: Referring to yours of June 7, doubtless you noticed Havemeyer's testimony before the Washington commission yesterday and his remarks upon the matter of trusts —namely, that the protective tariff Is the mother of trusts in the United States of America. I am with him pvery time on that statement. I think his observations in general were bused on facts and good sense. Very truly yours, JOHN J. VALENTINE. A draft upon human credulity drawn by Havemeyer and indorsed by Valen tine is certainly a unique document even in the politics of a country where the canard and the roorback are com mon. Fortunately the names of the parties are so well known and the rep utation of each so well established that no one is likely to be deceived by the document. The only effect of the Valentine indorsement will be to con firm the judgment of the public formed on the original statement. The maiu Interest in the matter lies in the new evidence it gives of Valentine’s crav ing for notoriety. Wherever there is an opening in a newspaper, on a plat form or In a pulpit, he is there to show that he can shed language as readily as he shirks taxes or cinches the pub lic, and seemingly there is no form of iniquity he Is not willing to uphold either by precept or practice.—San Francisco Call. Two Inevitable Result*. Not one-half of the articles handled by the trusts are protected by tariffs. Not one-half the capitalization of the great consolidations is devoted to the production of articles which are pro tected. Mr. Havemeyer know's very well that in forming these consolida tions the real objects were an economy of organization and a monopoly of the local production. These being the prime objects, the tariffs affect them neither in one way or the other, except as they may exclude a foreign competition. If we throw open the doors to foreign competition it would necessitate even greater economy in organization to en able home producers to compete profit ably. There would be no surer way to put the entire production of the coun try into the hands of consolidations than by striking down all our tariff duties. There would be an absolute ne cessity for trust# then.or else we should have to give our markets over to the Europeans and go out of business, for we could not continue to produce in any but the most economical way against unrestricted foreign competi tion. It is safe, then, to say that if all our tariff laws should be repealed tomorrow there would be just two ef fects—one the degradation of American labor, and the other a complete ab sorption of our industries by giant cor porations.—Kansas City (Kan.) Jour nal. Democracy and Trust*. It was In 1894 that the Democratic majority in both houses of congress paralyzed the section against trusts passed by the Republican majority In the preceding congress. The Wilson law' prescribes no penulty against {rusts except firms or corporations who are importers of foreign goods. Im porters are not organized In trusts and never have been. Consequently the Wilson luw touches none of the trusts. It opened the door wide to all that now exist. The last senate was not Republican and would not permit the restoration of the anti-trust clause of the McKinley law, The Republican record against trusta I* perfectly clear. A law In HUM fulfilled the platform pledge of 1 •8*1. Then the Democrats came Into power and misguvernmeut and calamity came with them. In thvlr eudlesii chapter of dlsastera was the killing of the anti-trust law. They worked havoc In thnt direction aa In every other Yet they are now making a prudigiwu* racket over Ike trusta as If the subject were entirely new and their party acting upon it fur the grit time Ml laiula Ulobe Democrat Hus a«U kss. During the lent Democrnue adminls • ration the paper# were Hied with re porta of factories closed, wages re doced and aa ever tnereastag army of |p»uiployed Now they are tiled with i#port* of g#w enterprises voluntary advance* of wage* and eonataaliy in, proved relation* between employer* and rmptoie* ladtaaapoila |lad ■ journal |uU|ktei te a«t tkrw It the tree trader* are antioun to mi I) under Mr lte«emey*r we a mentor end hta l<t per t *nt duty we a ahman, (livstf tikti liiiviv In ill# 9 # f I * %♦# tilt I# Im In 9 It n *1***# h It#** it* ittm4 I# t |MORE FOOL BREAKS HOW THE FUSIONISTS HAVE FALLEN OVER THEM SELVES IN 1899 1. The state officials while yelling ‘•economy" asked for inereastd salaries and appropriations. The managers of the state institu tions who had been trying to fool the people for two years, till asked for more money to run the institutions, and confessed to large deficiencies. if. Tlie governor insulted the Nebras ka soldiers, and refused to do justice to Col. Ntotsenberg. 4. The supreme court coni mission bill was vetoed because- a certain political striker was refused an appointment. 5. The fusionists in tin- legislature entered into a corrupt deal to elect a gold republican and a monopolist to the I'. S. senate. The deal failing only because five fusionists refused to t>c corrupted, ft. The governor allowed i* gang of slum politicians in Omaha to dictate official appointments. 7. Auditor Cornell refused to resign after he had been Impeached Ik fore the public. n. The executive office became the laughing stock on account of the lioxic fiasco at Kearney. {>. A "reform official" at Beatrice was condemned in a star chamber trial, and was dismissed to make room for a worse political striker. 10. The state officials confessed to the wholesale use of railroad passes. 11. Keform officials detected in tak ing double pay refused to make resti tution. 12. The state house and capital grounds were farmed out to a political organization for the benefit of the national democratic fund. 13. For fear of exposures the gov ernor was compelled to veto the in vestigation appropriation. 14. Secretary Porter refused to al low the Investigation committee room in the eapitol building, after having farmed out the halls for all sorts of purposes and all sorts of prices. 15. tin investigation Ex-Uovcmor Holcomb was found to have misap propriated almost 81,000 on false vouchers, but he was upheld by all of tile pie counter fusionlsts. Lft. Investigation showed up the ballot frauds of H'.t7. but the "reform ers" for good personal reasons hinder ed the investigation all they could, and declined to produce tell-tale offi cial documents. 17. Land Commissioner Wolfe was found to have entered into illicit deals in the leasing of school lauds, whereby his friends and pie counter coinpat riots were greatly benefltted at the expense of honest land holders. is. The state fisheries department got so corrupt that the officials re signed to escape investigation. I'.*. An official at the Omaha institu tion was discharged because he would not purchase potatoes and groceries from another official. 20. The scramble over the state in surance department caused unanimous disgust all over the state. These are only a few of the had breaks made by the sham reformers this year, but they will be sufficient for the people to {Kinder over during the present year. DKYAN'H ( IIANUK OP MIND. At Dos Moines, la., the other day, ex-('olonel Hryan intimated that the gold coming from the Klondike coun try was almost entirely responsible for the prosperity which is now sweep ing over the I'nited States. This is n most startling admission to come from the lips of the democratic joss, it carries with it the assurance that pros l>ority is with us. Also that gold is not such a bad thing after all: and that we really can run the country without ; the aid of silver. The colonel also in j timated that expansion was a pretty ! good thing, and practically admitted that it would help the business inter | eata of the country. It was many | years after the acquisition of Alaska that the prosperity wave was brought with it. Hut it lias come and is ad j mitted by the democratic leader. Why j not so with the Philippine* a* well a* I Alaska, The best of authorities agree j that these islands are rich in uiiueral* slid that much gold is to tie found and the agrieuitural wealth will lie irn I mense. Then why Uu't it a good thing to annex the Philippine* and '• keep the prosperity wave roiling in I our niteil Ntate* And these intima lions, coming front Mr. Itryan. have ! caused grave fear* in the minds of the I colonel * friends here in Aehraska ) they fear that he is preparing to drop 1 ilie silver question, and their sppre (tensions aeem to be well founded for »ix years Mr Itrysn has claimed that no such things e*mtd ever he, that only lhe free coinage of nitvac could bring . prosperity to thia country He now j practically admit* that he was wro ng. : is.I also that expansion must he all I right and a g«st thiag foe the country because Its prosperity Infret Um* are already being hilt It was thought j by demoeraev and fuabm that whan I rose* begs* hi e hange M* iha« te garitug Mpaasim ih*i itryan uwU I *»av* a snn.dh#r path Ih iNli*! but il s#dtt* iHii fii«< • iib lli%t ib**^ int»«t WIlUl imrl It til ^ t i !•% &«* tff t»th In i be grasping tlie right idea of thing* at last. ADMIT THKItt KOOl.lNIIMsM. ^ The fusion managers admit that tlie pass-grabbing official* at the insane asvlum made an error when they re I fused the hpworthiniis permission to drink from tlie state pumping station's supply. That the Kpworthian* will forgive tlie hasty and ill advise I ac aetiou of Mr. t'oftin and h's sulsirdi nates ail agree, but tlie trouble is that, they will not forget it. They say it would not lie so bad if the matter end ed where it appears to. but t hat it has caused a great ileal of friction among tlie managers and tlie employes of the asylum. Some of tin* employe- have enough |xditifftl foresight to see what tlie consequences of tin* hasty action may lie. and they all place tlie blame at the head of the institution. The serious jsirt of Superintendent t’oftin's action was his attempt to show that tlie management of tlie assembly turned a I tout and supplied the people of the assembly with unwholesome water that endangered the lives of the immense concourse, and also his ad mission that he had refused life-giving water to the assembly for the tick of a few free passes. Superintendent < oftln closed a signed statement with this as sertion: “It acurrcly seems rigid for Presl <lent Jones to endanger the health and even the lives of the Immense eon j course of people now gathered at the park, by providing an unwholesome water supply when no other outlay than, the possible admission of twelve or fifteen hospital employes and pa tients would procure that of the best quality." It does not seem possible that Dr. Cofttn would stand by snd see the lives of a vast concourse endangered for the 1 aek of '1'WEL V F or FI FT F F X free tickets, hut he admits us much. Per haps when Dr. Collin's one year com mission expires Governor Poynter will study awhile liefore he renews it.— (State Journal. And the following is the list of those “T W FL V E or FI FT FFX ’ names wh Ich was presented to President Jones un der tile head of ‘'Employes ^Nebraska Hospital for the Insane." V. O. Johnson. W. L. Torrence. F. D. Met all. W. F. McLain. Margaret I*.Phelps.Wm. Pollock. Jno. Cunningham. Jas. Harlan. J. T. Donohue. Hilbert Hooider. Marry Wright. J. A. Weart. W. C. Spencer. L. A. Sims. J. F. ttotruck. F I Veaeh. T. M. Connelly. Frank Wilhelm. Frank Linmark. 11. Z. Dean. C. P. Clark. Ilobt. Hear. W. A. Campbell. F. 11. Ingorsoll. W. L. Weekly. Mae Burson. Amos Watson. Clara Reach. W. II. True. Nada Ket/.enberg Henry Rrocr. Audry Lowry. c. C. ilaeon. Edith Locke. Jno. C. Hwartsley. Della Love. Jonas Holm. Lelia Johnson. R. II. Sawyer. Mary Johann. J. W. Sawyer. Ella Rennie. Louisa Sawyer. Rosa Enright. Mrs. M.IIremlgam. Mennlc Charles. Ida English. Marie Rennie. Hattie Pollock. Hanna Lundstrom Dot Hashberger. Flora Milligan. Bertha Berryman. Louisa, Fricke. Hattie Pronger. Will Reiss. Rebecea Wahlin. O. C. Scott. X. U. Hall. Bertha Bell. After several years of idleness upor the matter <>f trusts, Attorney lienera' Smyth has finally attacked the Stand ard Oil trust and apparently will at tempt to compel it to cease doing husi ness in Nebraska. Hut he will not tin ish thnt which he has commenced. Mr Smyth will not he a candidate for re election and of course his deputy. Mr Oldham, will want the nomination ami will go before the people and ex plain his knowledge of the affairs ol that office and of the cases pending and that he should be retained abovi everything. Hut the people of thli state will be slow to consider hU ar guments favorably. Chinas* ( hllilrrn. One evening there will be about fuut mites cf little lanterns sent floating down the great river In houor of the dsad. Or there will be the baking rlc* cakes, with many curious ceremonial*. And In It all the child takes hi* part, and hts eiders are very kind to him, and never bother him with cleaning uy or puttlag tn clothe* to go out. He strip* to the waist or beyond It In sum msr. then, *« th# winter comes tin. puts on another and another garment till he becomes a* broad as he Is long At ntfht time, perhaps, he take* oR *om rial he*, but they ar* all the earn# ■hap*, all quit* loo*e and #a»y, Then he M«r a*«d b* afraid of breaking anything for moat thlaa* ar* put sway, and Chlaeaa things ar* But like our*, tha thialag black polish# l ttbl* for taslant* eaa have a hot heitt* ■ tiM .I upot t* »»<t h* now* the v>hm A Ikwy Wall twe**4*a. Tester* la a<»4 art." a* Edmund Mum* 11 put* ti; 'form *nl rolnr are, hewce the h >p* of thosa who must e»n> aider tap*a** * This tat of the few mas discipi* of the artistic was recall**! whew lately a rmw was seea with th* • ads papers t >a the cuwans brwwa paper such as hutchera wa# The pew■ liar dull laish aad the soft wa->v»e •ive rotor asverded perfmtty w tt th* furs ikisit of ih* room aa I *•. . 14M out meat ilwthsli ail the r h*«* MsU THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IX, AUGUST 27 — EZRA I: 1-11. -- (•olden Text—The Lord Hath I)uk. Great Thing, for l'( Whereof We Are (•lad—Pxa. 139: Iteturiilng free Captivity. 1. "That flic word of the tsrrd by the mouth of Jeremiah might he fulfilled." (See Jer. 25: 12; 28; I'M This word was ihe promise that, after seventy years, tha I.ord would bring Ills people back again to Palestine. There were three eras of captivity, as there were several eras of return. "Might he fulfilled.” Accom plished. lie who inspired the prophecy directed its accomplishment. "In the first year of Cyrus." As king of liabylon. which he captured 11. C. ills. The flrat year refers to this victory, and It took a year or more to make preparations fur h return. "Cyrus, king of Persia," wa.-r originally king of the province of Allzuin or 131am, the mountainous country vast of Chaldea; Husa was one of lls chief < Itles. He had a marvelous career, con quering Media, Persia, and Hubylonla. "The empire of l.ydla. which extended over ihe greater part of Asia Minor, fell before the uriny of Cyrus about 11. C. 58>." Bayce. "The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus." How? tl> Directly by bis Holy Spirit. as In many other cases. This would lie more strange than the In fluence of one mind over another, which Is u dally experience among men. <2> Assuming that, the narrative statements In the book of Daniel are history, Daniel was still alive In the ilrsl and third years of Cyrus (Dan. I: 21; ID; 1). and was es pecially Interested In the fact that the seventy years of Jeremiah were coming to an end (Dhii. 8: 2 sqq.) "Made a proc lamation." This was an ofUclul document, us wc sen by chap. 6, where the decree Is given morn fully ihuu here. "Put It also In writing." To preserve It on the records, that no mistake or reversal of the decree might occur. ?. "The Lord (Jehovah) God of heav en." "Tho word Jehovah was probably the Hebrew translation of 8 >rniuxd,’ the Persian Supreme Itelng." "He bath charg ed me.” He accepted the prophecies as a charge from tlio God of the Jews. 3. "Who Is there among you?" Yh*v return was to Im a volunteer movement, which 111 all res|M*cts was the best both for the purpose of Cyrus and for tho new Jewish settlement. I. tv lioxoever remained). In the lan l of exile. Many remained for various r«a sons. Home hart Intermarried, some werw Involved In business, some did not wrlsti to undergo tile butd-ldps of return, "lari the men of Ills place." Ills heathen neigh bor« “Help him" to raise the needed funds. “Authority D given to raise fund* for two purposes; a free-will fund for tlw temple Itself, and emigrant-aid funds for the henellt of those who may need them." Professor Beecher. 6. "Then rose up the chief of the fath ers." The return descrllwd tn to-day's lesson was under Zerubbubel, a prime or the royal line of ltavld, called the Tlr shalha, or Pasha (2; S3*, and under Joshua, tlm hereditary high priest (3:8). These were among the "chief of the fath ers . . . and the priests.” i>. "And all they that were about them." Their heathen,neighbors and friends, as was done In Kgypt at the time of the exodus, "Precious things." Their per sonal property must have amounted to considerable, for on their arrival at Jo in-olem they contributed {too,uuo In gol l and silver for the rebuilding. 7. "Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord." "Nebu chadnezzar little thought that lie was un consciously preserving the sacred v sreli of Israel In a safe and Inviolable strong - hold, till the day when Jehovah would bring about their restoration to Ids peo ple." "Possibly some of these vessel* had been on the table- ut Belshazzar * Bast; and possibly Cyrus was the niotu ready to part with the n tliul he regirdnl them ns unlucky property for him to keep.”—Professor Beecher. H. "By the hand of Mlthredath" (given by, or dedicated to Mlthra, the sun-god), lie hail these treasures In his charge. "Hheshbazznr" (fire-worshiper). The Per sian name of Zerubbabel ("Born In Baby lon"). In 5: 16 we read that Hheshbazznr laid the foundation of the temple, while in 3: S the same work Is ascribed to Za rubbnbi I. 11. "All the vessels . . . were Hv« thousand and four hundred." This I* mi re than double the sum of the pre ceding numbers—2,49!). It !* probable that only the larger or more costly vessels were numbered In detail, and the 5,41)) Includes a great number of smaller and less costly ones. Ho they are reckoned by Josephus (Ant. Jud. It: D. lie Drawn Salary anil Pension. A policeman of the city force is drawing from the department a pen sion and a salary also. Some years ago lie was retired on half pay, and. being still vigorous, secured employ ment as a policeman in the town of New Utrecht. He became sergeant of the email squad there, and soon Brook lyn annexed the town and he gained a place on the Brooklyn force. Then, in the course of events, Brooklyn was au 1 uexed, and thus he came back Into the department from which he had ygj tired, expecting to draw l^'.OOO per num as a sergeant cn the retired Hxt, The New York commissioners there upon stopped his pension and the cas« was taken Into court. Now a decision has been given In favor of the police, man, the supreme court holding that upon his retirement be had a right to a cept any honorable employment, and that be must not be made to suffer for subsequent events in the history of the cities concerned New York Letter. Wert* witch* It wlkw, Tw. • I don't like Sinus's Ides of a Joke.” slid Htlend "No?** replied llnlhet. 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