He Wat lb* Wide Push in the Three
B-tfed Political Circus.
BOTH PIATEORM AND CANDIDATES
Ha* Can Hr Carry thr State—Nebraska's
Hl( Com Crri|> and the Inrrraslng
H«od Tin.rr arr All Against Him —
Outlook In tbr Hig tilth—Sta r I'ollll
ral Ma11«r* in t.rncral.
■Wan Hryan's Krynotn.
BU Louie (Ho be-Democrat: The
chief significance which attaches to
the aMui of the Nebraska convention
lies iu tin tad that Bryan dictated It.
Local iiid« coerced the populists and
the diver eg-rcpublii ans Into line for
Bryan's candidate for head of the tick
et thte vwai—eg-tiovernor Holcomb,
who rtm* in ifor supreme Judge.
The platform was dictated by Bryan
hlmsell and if Interesting an showing
what hi wants to be made the issues
for IMS' Tbr platform repeats the sil
ver folly of 1MH It makes a frothy
and demagogic atta< k on trusts, which
his party when In control of the gov
ernment never marie any attempt to
curb. It irinker an assault on national
eg|>ahPlth and endeavors to give aid
and lomfoit to Agulnaldo and tits fel
low conspiratcrf by assailing the ad
ministration for endeavoring to carry
out the pi ov if ion* of the peace treaty
with Bpsm in the maintenance of the
national sovereignty in the Philippines.
AH thie js e*. eedingly gratifying to
the republicans. They now have a
fair aesuianif that Bryan will be bait
ed inti demanding a reindorsement
of the 4f>-<eot dollar infamy in 1900.
They tan fee pretty dearly that he
will tempt fate cm an anti-expansion
ledaraticn There was a fear among
tome republicans that he would be
nverruled by the shrewd leaders-of the
party, auet forced into making a strad
dle on silver and expansion. No dan
ger of this sort now seems Imminent.
The democratic platform of 1900 will
have the came medley of follies and
absurdities ae were in the deliverance
of IMefc, with a few added rranket-les
and imbecilities. Adversity teaches
Bryan nothing The silliness and re
ad ionium which brought disaster to
him and hlf aggregation three years
ago will l < repeated next year, and
will t# supplemented by a few more
follies which will add a little to the
majority which will lie rolled up
against him and his cause. The west
ern end of his patry is as insane on
the burning issues of the time as it
was in IXM and Bryan voices its
madniff as automatically as he did
then.
' *»ii in nn nuuiMAa
this year? The chances are decidedly
against it Nebraska’s corn crop, ac
cording tc the estimates, will be in
the ns g 1,1 < jrood oi 273,000,000 bush
els thin year. The number of farm
mortgages which have been paid off
in that stale in the past six or eight
months tie,'its ail records In the same
length ot time. Nebraska is having
greater prosperity at this moment than
It ever had before in all its history.
Its prosperity will he heightened by
the marketing of its present unexam
pled cm rcu This is a bad outlook
for Bryan He needs calamity in his
business, and there is none of it this
year anywhere in the country. A
killing drouth or frost throughout Ne
braska in the next month or two would
make thousands of votes for him. An
epidemic of yellow fever or Asiatic
cholera would also help him. He Is
doubtless praying for some scourge
of the kind, but he will hardly lie grat
ifies! this year. The prospects for Hol
comb are black. The e.iances are that
the republicans will carry Nebraska
this yew and next year.
The Trlpllcste Platform.
Omaha Bee The triplicate plat
form upon which Silas A. Holcomb
stands as a candidate for Justice of the
supierne court is an adroit piece of
carpentering more significant for the
planks so studiously omitted than far
the planks that have been projected
to the front. Inasmuch as Colonel
Bryan himself was its chief construct
or it was to have been expected that
be would rafftrm the Chicago platform
und give special emphasis to the free
silver plank which constituted the
paramount iasue in the lust national
campaign It is noteworthy, however,
that while the platform declares for
the unlimited free coinage of silver
without the aid or consent of any other
nation at a ratio double the relative
value of the metal, and while the plat
form seeks to free the traffic of the
country from the transportation mo
nopoly by demanding government
ownership by railroads, there Is no
hint even of government ownership of
the gold and stiver mines that would
make free stiver coinage profitable to
the people instead of the atlver mine
owners and speculator* In mining
atiM k*
a. _____ * __ _ .ft. _ < k... • ^kll.
II mr pnnpiug ” '
I hr platform mi mrefully drafted by
Mr Htyan demand* piummui nan*
rrahlp at i kiln outs which he know* to
lie way off tn the dlatanre. It la a* still
•a a mouse about railroad regulation
In Nebraska The great platform
builder Must surely have known that
the triple alliance stood mdemnly
pledged to railroad regulation la every
former ramparga a pladpn U ha* will
(wily repodtaled by the acta of Otrtr*
•mot liobomh and the railroad com*
mieaumers appointed with the mnaenl
of tto rnlboad manager* who trsus
ferred the narurgM formerly held hr
|hem ft«» the bogus repobll.au OHIO
misau.a U the sham reform to turn is
rise • e11 * platform t* very eypaatire
M national tan if. tint steers . I#nr at
(he taaoe* in which the people of Ne
h«aa*s are mat r.ooerned notably
IPs rev mi Pen of out revenue laws the
«g a liable lb*i 11 but tun of tn* bur
den» and tin more economic rondo-1
pf *t*t gb4 .*»unty titli*
gslrsnV • Plwanetnl t b
Mehstwha t Hy tunmrvatir* The
IIs apply, atom id the dnatowi
| peso tee at IntUi.ki to the . ofte*
imn «<f h*«was rent fr»m the treaanry
0 IPs tu'v vt VrkrMtt N the tMfof*
dation of lease* for a gubernatorial
mansion in Lincoln is patriotic from
a populist standpoint, ingenious from
that of a swindler and a superb suc
j cess from the standpoint of a profes
sional pickpocket. Never in any other
state disbursement has 1« to 1 been
better illustrated. Out of every hun
dred dollars drawn by Governor Hol
comb, for rent of ezecutive residence,
about $15 were silently and sweetly
lowered into hi* own pocket while
only one went to pay rent as by law
intended to go. This misappropriation
j of public fund* is, however, in fusion
! politics as at present dominated and
1 managed, accepted as the best evidence
| of vigorous ability and statesmanship.
I To get something, anything, out of the
commonwealth is wisdom, and to re
tain or put anything into the common
wealth is folly and disloyalty.
effrontery of “slippery HI "
Kearney Hub: It has come to a
great pass when this demagogue and
plotter (Holcomb* should be nomi-'
tutted for the supreme court. Indeed,
It is a most dangerous proposition. A
great deal of effrontery is required to
do this, after the dubious record made
by "Slippery Si." after his knowledge
and approval of the ballot recount
frauds, after his pass-grabbing and
, monopoly-favoring record, and after
his house rent steal and attempted
justification on the ground that his
predecessors had also stolen all that
was left. Such men as Holcomb can
be tolerated in politics. But the propo
sition to put them into a judiciary for
long terms Is absolutely startling In
its brazen political effrontery. If we
must make up our higher courts of
such political cattle, chattels or mer
chandise. then may the Lord save the
people, for they are no longer capable
of saving themselves.
Bryan'* Hand In All.
Washington Host: The Nebraska
platform, dictated by Mr. Bryan, differs
in words, but not in substance, from
Its Iowa contemporary. In addition to
the general, it has a specific indorse
ment of free coinage. Why this
change? Simply because the condi
tions were different. There were three
conventions assembled at Omaha to
combine or coalesce for the campaign,
the number of delegates to each being
as follows: Populist, 1,28>; democrat
ic, 800; sliver republicans, less than a
hundred. How could democrats dic
tate to populists under such condi
tions? The Chicago Ttmes-Herald,
looking at the two platforms and the
circumstances under which they were
constructed, says- "Mr. Bryan Ib thus
accommodating himself to the exigenc
ies as they exist In the several states."
Thirty *H«*rontl lowi He union
MASON CITY. Ia , Sept. 2.—The
tenth bieunlul reunion of tlie Thirty
second Iowa is in session at Clear
Lake. The regiment was raised in this
j vicinity in 1802, It now lias 500 sur
vivors, about 100 being present. It
gained its chief distinction at the bat
tle of Pleasant Hill, in the Red River
campaign. A monument to the dead
of tlie regiment stands in the public
park at Mason City. Colonel William
Shaw of Anamosa, who commanded
the regiment, and the brigade of which
it was a part, is present. Ex-Senator
William V. Alien of Nebraska, who
was a private, delivered a rousing
speech at a campfire. The president of
the association, Colonel John Scott of
Des Moines, presides.
Good Him w in tlm llig Sixth.
Lincoln dispatch: The chances for a
big republican victory in the Sixth
congressional district are now admit
ted by many prominent fusiotiists to be
lietter than they have been for a num
ber of years. Republicans from that
district concede the nomination of
Moses P. Kinkaid of Holt county with
very little opposition and no alarm is
felt concerning the success of the tick
et at election. There is but little pros
pect that the popocratic forces will be
united, even if the democratic commit
tee asks for and secures Harrington's
withdrawal. The dissatisfaction all
over the district is so general that the
populist campaign managers will find
it difficult to heal the wounds made at
the conventions.
Keruril* of Harlan Soldier*.
HARLAN. Ia.. Sept. 2.—Only one of
the twelve or fifteen men sent from
Harlan with the Fifty-first will re
enllst. That man is Janies Beebe, who
left Harlan as a private and who has
Iteen given a commission in one of the
new volunteer regiments as second
lieutenant. Another man who left
Harlan as a private is now a lieutenant
serving on the staff of General latwton,
George S. Gibbs, jr of the signal corps.
Louis Wyland is a corporal, and James
Taltman. bugler. Beebe and Gibbs are
graduate* of the Harlan high school
and ex-students, respectively, of the
: State t'nlverslty of Iowa and Simpson
, college*
Ha* I.imI HU «»rl|».
Fremont Tribune Mr. Holrnmh, It
I* fair to mate. due# not aland aa high
In public aateeni today aa he once did.
Icuti* public cerlvce baa developed hla
weaknea» Ha la nut a lawyer ul die
j ttnitoUhed ability He la mediocrity.
I lo re are denoa fttlc lawyer* who
afould have tieen alad tu aland for
alectiiiu who (vraaeae * renter talent
The democrat* of IVodne county nr#
not likely to tea* over kindly to the
H thumb candidacy The popullata
have tdalmed everythin*, nnd lure
where they nr* of no eonelderabl* a im
tier, ihe democrat* do aot •*» the utility
, of •urreaderiuu everythin* to them.
H«b«uh caj ik« Nun Meat.
The popolt** editor* are b#*tnule*
i tu ahrteh in chore* that * llohoml
never »tole tat hmtae real ' The
record thou* that he drew from the
treaaurv eoveral hundred dollar* noire
ho houae rent than the owner* of the
hotaeu tH which he lived received a*
' real I'all it what you plena# Th*
•tale paid the aotaer to llobotub and
hla Uadi.od didn't mritr it
ntwU tka t •«>
York H*ptW aa I pop papat
j car* th# buy* ta the army uf th* l*hil
I tpplnae had to noth for III a Nuatt
and cpend tbat fur Teel that Ihey w*r*
I *u •* rut a ho la. fc Millar car* th*
1 hard wae pol lb* Weal of the haat
! and ter ted freah a(#h« daya out of ten
' Yon van ho Have lack MiHer w rvt
I * aa Wi*y« *h • paper
I
ALL ARE AT WORK.
A TYPICAL CENTER OF PRO
TECTED INDUSTRY.
Extraordinary Showing by a Free-Trada
Journal on tha Condition of Thluga
That Haa Follow r«1 the Keaioratlou of
tha American Policy.
The New York World has discovered
.he existence of a Greater Klondike.
It is located in Pittsburg, that hive of
protected industries, and the World’s
correspondent is telling some tall sto
ries of the wonderful products of the
region. The stories are well told, and
they have the additional merit of be
ing true—which is more than can be
said of ail the World's stories. Re
duced to a brief form of statement, the
situation In western Pensylvanta’s In
dustrial Eldorado Is thus described;
‘‘Area of Pittsburg's Industrial Klon
dike, 180 square miles.
"Number of Industries being operat
ed on full time, 118.
"Number of men employed In these,
embracing all classes, 270,000.
"Aversge wage* per day, $2.15,
"Range of wages, $1.75 to $7 per
day.
"Number of Idle men, none, except
from sickness.
"Number of mills and factories un
able to run full time by reason of scar
city of labor, 80.
"Railroads unable to move freight
promptly because the traffic Is 30 per
cent larger than ail the freight cars in
service.
"Gross industrial value of trade in
Industrial Klondike, $8,000,000."
Further along we find the World, a
free-trade Journal, testifying to the
wonderful results of the revival of In
dustry thaj has occurred since the re
advent of protection and prosperity. It
prints the following table, showing
"the extent to which labor has shared
One came from Alabama, the othei
from Ohio. The Alabama man wantei
200. Ho was told that the manufac
turers in the Pittsburg district wantec
men as badly as he did. He went fur
ther east tonight, seeking them.
"Common laborers are almost as
scarce as skilled hands. Mr. Williams
secretary of the Amalgamated associa
tion,told the World scuff correspondent
today that unskilled laborers could And
employment throughout the district,
Contractors employing laborers on
public improvements are constantly
seeking men,
"John C. Sheehan, the former boss ol
Tammany Hall, who has a contract
for constructing Pittsburg's new
$5,000,000 boulevard, is inconvenienced
by the limited supply ot laborers.
"E. B. Taylor, general superintend
ent of the Pennsylvania lines west ol
Pittsburg, said today that bis road
could not secure as many men as lie
desired.
“The same story is heard in every
line of trade, but principally, as is nat
ural, from mill owners—not men
enough, cars enough, facilities enough
to meet the new conditions that are
making the 180 square miles of mines,
forges,mills and factories around Pitts
burg a veritable Oolconda of wealth.
“Next to the shortage of la.bor conies
the transportation famine as a factor
in retarding the fullest operation of
the industries In the Pittaburg district.
Mine, mill and factory owners all com
plain of their inability to secure
enough cars to carry their product to
the markets.
“Railway officials have pressed into
service all the cars they cau secure
from any quarter, yet there are not
enough.
“It may be that the shippers them
selves are to blame, as the railway of
ficials declare. Their complaint is that
the mill -owners aud mine operators
are compelled to utilise the cars for
storage purposes because of the lack
of room In their establishments.
UNRESTRICTED DOMESTIC COMPETITION.
H. O. Havemeyer (testimony before the United .States industrial com
mission. .June 14, 1S99).The customs tariff iH the mothpr of trusts.
Madam Protection—If you insist upon being recognized as a member of
this family, you must be prepared to submit to Its discipline and restraints.
‘ Unrestricted Domestic Competition" Is the rule of this establishment.
in the increased prosperity that has
come to the iron and steel center of
America during the past year":
Increased wages,
Trade— per cent.
Tin plate workers . 15
Sheet iron mill men:
Tonnage hands . 1H4
Day hands. 25
Finishers. 25
Steel workers, both in and out
of the Amalgamated Associ
ation .10 to 15
In this table no account Is taken of
Increased employment. A detailed ex
hibit of this important branch of the
subject would doubtless show that the
number of men who are now receiving
the increased rate of wages Is nearly
double the number which received the
lower rate of wages paid four ypars
ago In the Pittsburg district. Four
years ago. an equivalent length of time
after the enactment of the Wilson free- ]
trade tariff, scarcely more than one- J
half the workers of the Pittsburg dls- j
trict could command steady employ
ment at the then lower rate of wages.
Today, two years after the enactment 1
of the Dlngley tariff, not only are
wagts much higher, hut the supply of
labor la not equal to the demand. Again 1
.at the free-trade World tell the atory
"When Mr. Hryan. thr aspirant rur
»h< mans mtl<* prmldantlal numlna
tion. rr.rntly vlaltrd llomrairnl, hr
• t hr<t n colorad man rmployrd thrra
• hat nagaa hr mad* a day,
" Oh aUout !•> whan I work full
t mr was ths an»wrr
‘ Mr. Hryan did not ask aay morr
aural Ions
‘ Kvan thr Iroa puddlar*. whoa* worh
among thr furaa<r« »»f moltaa Iroa ta *
atom as humtila and hard M It ran ha. I
i-oma ,n for aahara In tha gmaml pro*
partly, ha a wattar of fart, thrra art
nut puddlara .Hough ta dll tha damsiol
T*t only a f*w yaa.a ago tha puddlrra
• *«a a 4t g ta tha mark*! aa a ra*»
of tha tmpraaad ms.hln* mathods tn
t ..dmad ta laha thalr pia*a
Is 'hr pn»o. n*ri • >.*1**1 ..f tt*.|.
In tha fi'iaharg Kluadiha tha pa-tgiai ,
ha- taaa aommaaad sgaln aa a mattar
•4 u awiit Ifta par a >*ar ago *o
|t par twa Now It ta I * With a halp
•r. ahum ha paya. ha «aa maha If im '
at It a day oaly a **m small pat
rsptagr at tha mills «a *«m» aft <t<
pmtdlara thai want
* fhraa wava tan man afar t mats at
tha haadg'sartara af tha Amalgamatad
aas<- • *•>«* ta-Uy atng pilddi» ■
“ ‘Some of the mill men.' said Mr.
Taylor, 'have long lines of ore, coal
and freight cars in their yards, all
loaded with material. They have no
storage facilities of their own, and use
the cars. There are 9.000 tons of coal
locked in cars and awaiting delivery.
'The rush comes every summer, but
business is very much greater this
year than for many years past.'
“River transportation la choked
with the immense amount of business
quite as badly as are the railways.
Thousands of tons of iron and steel
are stored on the docks awaiting ship
ment to western river points.
“Ready for transportation to south
ern points are 30,000,000 bushels of coal
that cannot be moved until the flood
of the river in a few weeks.
“Great difficulty is experienced in se
curing hands enough to transfer much
of this tonnage from cars to docks and
boats. In one yard as high as $1.75 a
day Is being paid to shovelers, and they
are scarce at that price.
"1 He good tunc* tgiai have come to
the operator* and operative* In the
Pittsburg Klondike are not confined to
the Iron, steel, coal, coke, tin and glaas
Helds.
"Krom reports to the commercial
agencies snd Mg dealers the sun of
prosperity shines upon all kinds of
tollers, the labor aud professional
claaaew alike It naa said Uelay by a
lawyer and by a leading newspaper
proprietor tbai the awpply of compe
tvnt labor In those hraachea waa gaits
ss restricted «* in the mines and
nulls'*
It Is nw vsry dtAcult to gums Ike
wotlvs uf the New York World In
blssoaing forth these splendid fact# of
restorsd prosperity IVtabOees the de
•ign la la wars Mr Mayan aad his
l»ea»o Pop fallow lag of lbs futility uf
preaching If to I" as eu i«ea# ta sell
year's campaign; lu present nn uh|ert
tvgnun which shall show that m times
like these a heap money . rasa Is will
fall fat dock indeed la the tax Its
Me ktgic of l he World's shoe lag Mot
M lagkuity dsmoasiretee mash mors
ehtch alt lbs Worlds frseirats
sophistry saaot she va or keep duos
namely Ikai ike industrial Ktoodib*
lbat te the rale eve*vakeve tbroogkuni
ibu country is In gr#n< meaeave tbs
profart of the policy of protecting |«
sounding lbs kastl >*< free stiver the
Wortg le *»- »•* n*ost» gr ranging for
Iks «b • antes fves trsl* ll IS build
lag better ihah It hkoe«
TARIFF REFORM.
Will the Democratic I’artj Make This aa
I.eue lu the Campaign of IWOOf
The Philadelphia Record is another
newspaper which takes the ground that
the Democratic party's best chance of
success In the presidential election of
1900 lies in its making the tariff the
issue. It says:
“With tariff reform as the issue, the
Democratic party would not only be
united, but to its banner would be at
tracted tens of thousands of voters who
can no longer be duped with the false
pretense that protective duties, while
enhancing the cost of the necessaries
of living, give labor and high wages to
workingmen.”
The fatuity of those ntlio believe that
any party or any candidate could win
in 1900 on a platform pledged to the re
peal of the DIngley law' and the de
struction of the protective tariff sys
tem is beyond comprehension. If the
proofs were not at hand it would be
impossible to believe that there were
any one left In this country who still
believed in free trade. As a matter of
fact, we believe that the fellows who
are now crying tariff in the Democratic
party are low down cowards who want
to dodge the financial issue. That a
belief In free trade cau still exist in
any one after our experiment with that
destructive and pauper-producing poli
cy during the Cleveland administration
almost makes one doubt the truth of
the old adage that experience Is the
best teacher. But that any one can
dream that free trade would be a win
ning card, can think that the people
of this country can be led into making
another disastrous experiment with It,
is almost beyond the power of imagina
tion.
It will be a rather difficult task to
make any tens of thousands of voters,
or any tens without the thousands, be
lieve that they are being duped by pro
tection. They have the cold, hard cash,
. brought home regularly as a result of
steady employment and high wages,
since the resoration of the protective
tariff, with which to refute any charges
of being duped by protection, The
prosperity which has come as a result
of the enactment of the Dingley law
is too concrete a thing and too uni
versal a thing for the wild and base
less assertions of the free-trade papers
and free-trade orators to have any
effect.
The change from prosperity to hard
times at the repeal of the McKinley
law and the change from hard times to
prosperity immediately upon the resto
ration of proteetion by the passage of
the Dingley law is too great and em
phatic an object lesson to be soon for
gotten by the voters of the country.
By ail means let the Democratic party
make free trade, or Its alias, “tariff
reform,” its battle cry for 1900. It will
serve to show once for all that the
people of the United States by an
overwhelming majority believe in the
American system of a protective tariff.
American Spring: Water*.
An excellent move in the right direc
tion is that of bringing prominently
into view the virtue of American
spring waters by means of a public ex
hibit and sale under exceptionally at
tractive conditions. It is with Amer
ican spring waters as with American
wines. Familiarity breeds respect;
they need only to be known In order
to be appreciated. To promote a wider
knowledge on this subjeet the plan has
been adopted of establishing stands in
many of the large commercial build
ings of New York, where native spring
waters in many varieties are.dispensed
by the glass at a moderate price. The
water Is displayed in a handsome glass
receptacle, so constructed as to con
tain the ice in a central cylinder, while
the crystal water, kept from contact
with the Ice, and cooled to a natural
spring temperature, la shown through,
the outer circumference of the glass
Jacket. A considerable number of con
cerns handling spring waters have
adopted this method of securing the
favorable Introduction of their waters,
and with excellent result*. Any plan
is to be commended that tends to Im
press upon Americana the fact that In
their own country are found spring
waters equal to any la the world alike
for hygienic and for potable purposes
Make the hm Plain.
It is unfortunate that the trust mat
ter has been brought Into politic*. If
It Is to lead to a revamping of the tar
iff illscuaalon, however. let the Issue
be made plain. In such matter* even
the Democracy of the country cannot
afford to be otherwise than honest. The
Interests at stake are too great to be
trilled with. The present tariff haa
brought order out of chaos, prosperity
out of disaster, and strength out uf
weakneea. It la to be hoped that there
will be no more bootless discussion of
this question which has already been
settled, hut If It must come let Ihe la
sne be drawn squarely and let (he De
moerary of Ihe country endure the
on sequences Peoria (III I Journal,
The Patent ef I »al4»«n.
The DeaKK-rntte papers are glesfully
taking up Mr. Havemeyers suggestion
that th# tariff la ths long lost parent
of the trust Reversing the application
of Out Bryan's recent bon mol If trust
Is conffdsnte. that might he const rue a
ss meaning lhai the tang g ike legui
male parent of otsMesre To thie
soft Impeachment *be tariff wilt rheer
fully plead guilty iMoug ('By tluwg
Journal
tea tiqfetM »temples.
Hrvaa and Msteateyer would he aa
idea) il ket on an anti trust pisiform ■
ihe one in denounce corporate gree»i
and the other to eerte at Ihe frigntfui •
eternp • >*f Ms »ff»< u ,.n ihe India u|
who iietd* to malign tn- t|tn
neapeita Tribune
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XI, SEPT. IO—HAGCAI,
2: t-e.
He Strong All ft People of the Und,
Naltb the l.onl, and Work, for I Ah
Willi Von—ling. *: I—A New Prophet
Appear*.
t. "In the seventh month." Tisrl, Oc
tober. “In the one and twentieth day.”
The seventh day of the feast of taberna
cles (Lev.-23: 33-3«». This was a thanks
giving festival, "and the call to prats*
and thanksgiving In an unfinished and Im
poverished temple might naturally sug
gest gloomy and desponding thoughts,”
especially after a miserable harvest arid
a depressing season.
3. "Who Is left among you.” It was
sixty-six years since Bolomon's temple
was destroyed, and there might well be
not a few who had seen It. "Baw this
house." Tlie temple was ever regarded
as one and ihe same temple, however
many limes It wus rebuilt or restored.
"In her Hist glory.” As Solomon built It.
with marble and gold and gems from
all over the World. "The Holy of Holies
wus empty. The urk, the cherubs, the ta
bles of stone, the vase of manna, the rod
of Aaron, were gone. The golden shields
had vanished,” "und the high priest'*
breastplate, with the oracular stones.”—
Cambridge Bible. "Is It not In ... .
comparison of It as nothing?” (See Kara
3: 12, 13.) The fact of Its humble appeal
Is admitted. Tills fact In Itself was de
pressing. \v hat was the use of so many
years of such hard work, for a temple of
such Httle value? Why not first get
then build a wor
thy temple? YY'hat would all their labar
und self-denial mean?
’• 1,1 —--— l Here are other
thing* besides these that you see with
your own eyes. "I am with you. salth
the Lord." Jehovah, as alwuys -
In capital*. "Of hosts," Organized ar
mies and companies, not only of -.
the forces of heaven, but of all the pow
ers und forces of nature, which are or
ganized to do his will. It was sufficient
encouragement to know that Ood was
with them. That fact was glory and pow
er "If Ood be for us, who can bs
against us?” "One with Ood is a mujur
»t r."
5. Omit "according to.” "I am with
you" (v. 4) is "the word that I covenant
ed with you when ye came out of Egypt.
(Ex. 1#: 5. «; 39: 45, 4«; 34: 10, It.) God's
covenant with Israel, when tho people
came out of Egypt, was this, that they
should be 111* people, and he would be
their God. He here declares this cove
nant to be still binding; that his Spirit It
dwelling In their midst, and that they
should therefore have no fear.—Cook. "So
tny Spirit remuineth among you.” He
had wrought wonders for their futhers
In deliverance from Egypt, from the Bed
S*a, from numberless dangers, lie hud
Just wrought a wonderful return for
these his later people.
6. "Vet once. It Is n little while.” Yet
one. again, In a little while. In their
past history God had shaken tho nations
many time*—Egypt by tho plagues und
overthrow; the nations dwelling In Ca
naan; the Assyrians In I Iczcklah's time;
the great nations In Nebuchadnezzar's
day. before the Jews were made captives
for their sins, and then hts empire was
shaken, und Cyrus came to the head in
order that the people might return; and
again the kingdom of Ids successors was
shaken, so that Iiurtus might be king and
lend his aid to the rebuilding of the tem
ple "I will shake the heavens." Tho
Invisible spiritual powers, the ideas,
thoughts, titans, which control the earth.
Ideas arc the capitals of the nations; not
the visible Rome, or Athens, or Jerusa
lem, but the forces, the thoughts, the
tendencies, the principles represented by
them.
7. "And the desire of all nations shall
feme,'' B. V., the desirable things of all
nation*, thw objects which the nations
most desire, their choicest treasures, "i
uro about to convulse the nations-to rev
olutionize the Htate of the world, und
thus as the ultimate oatcome, the dedr
uble things of all nations—their wealth,
beauty, and glory shall come to Zion;
and ‘1 will till this temple with glory,
salth the Lord of hosts.’ r'—Cowles.
S. "The silver is mine, and the gold Is
mine." He created It, and he controls It,
and compels It to work for the further
ance <*J' hts kingdom.
Thus the Egyptians aid th.- Israelites at
tli* exodus, Nebuchadnezzar preserved
the temple treasures, and Cyrus returned
them, and Darius gave U a revenue, and
Herod brought untold riches to Id* reno
vation of the temple, the Homans, com
prising all nations, contributing Immense
wealth for the purpose. And still more,
they contributed to the elevation of th®
Israelites by their exile, discipline, and
by widening their views.
9. "The glory of this latter house shall
be greater than of the former." Better
as R V.. the latter glory of this house
shall be greater than the former, th*
"house” being regarded am the sarn*
house from 8»lnmu«v'» tlrtie till. Herod's,
and the spiritual temple which grew out
from It. "And In. thb* place will I give
peace." To the contemporaries of Hag
gal his words undoubtedly conveyed th*
assurance that, amidst the threatened
shaking of the nations, the people of God
should bo secure, mutest royed. by sur
rounding convulsions And. In point of
fairt. the house of God whs preserved ln
vtoiMte during tile terrible conflict be
tween the Persian and the Greek empire*
— Mar. ipj Duds.
■‘rattjr liowt riahiitf.
A sportsman known to Forest nod
ft ream was on ce on the bench at tha
outlet of a creek In New York state,
looking for abure birds, when he saw
n colored bor. who was Ashing for
perch, lay down hla pole nt tha cull
of hla mother to do some errand Thu
aportsman put hla gun aside, and took
tha cane pule and Ashed, adding n
duaen perch tu the buy'a string, and
then sneaked off Presently a second
sportsman, happening that way. naked
the boy the usual question and received
this answer: "Yeae'r, dey'a good Bakin'
heeb. Wen I atop to rua to da a to'
fa’ to get aone raw a meal fu' mam',
da pereh dey mm# ootea de crick aa*
Jes' atrlugs dey ee Wee awa my string
I don' on start It. but dey'a Jes aa good
fu breakfas a If dey was cotched awa
a hook/'
eagereg WsitsU.
Taka off Ika .kina of about three
losen wsiauis. separate them in
halves sad dry al Ike oven dour Thaa
as ash ih*m with aa Icing made of four
ounces of sugar sad on* •<> I*ta>n
them on a sheet el tkhl fsf»*. f*'
them in s slash -sen and baba uni.I
n light brown *ot«»r H»bwm from thn
own and when c«Hd they as* ready for
use. If llbsd the hern*la can b«
dipped in ibkh shossdnla Mors they
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