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democrats will make the
tariff an issue.
Its Repeal nr Modineetlon [Irnianiird
' on the Pretext That In This Way
Alone Can the Tru»t Problem Ue
Successfully Solved.
Will the tariff be made a conspic
uous issue among the questions to be
submitted to public adjudication in the
presidential campaign of 1900? Opin
ion varies widely on this point. By
P many the belief is expressed that in
the light of the splendid prosperity
that has followed the restoration of
the protective policy, and in view of
the enormous extension of our for
eign trade that has taken place con
currently with the unrestricted opera
tion of that policy, the Democratic par
ty in its next national platform will
not have the hardihood to reopen the
tariff question, but will discreetly re
frain from any agitation thereof.
Among those who hold to this belief
we find the New York Sun very posi
tive and emphatic. After pointing to
the splendid showing made in the sta
tistics at our exports of domestic man
ufactures—wherefrom it appears that,
after deducting the exports of mineral
oil and copper from the unexampled to
tal of $338,667,791 for the last fiscal
year, the net exports of products in
which labor cost forms a higher per
centage than in these relatively crude
C articles reached in 1899 the sum of
$252,000,000, a gain of $165,400,000 in
ten yearn—the Sun announces this con
clusion:
"The prosperity of our manufac
tures, Indicated by these statistics, re
moves the tiresome and mischievous
tariff controversy from the field of
politics, for the time being at least,
and relegates it to the purely academic
discussion where only it has always
belonged in this country. It did not
appear In the campaign of 1896, and
It will not appear In the campaign of
1900. The ridiculous and disastrous re
sult of It after the campaign of 1892
has warned the Democratic party to
let It alone.”
Almost at the identical moment
when the Sun writer was engaged in
recording the conviction that the facts
of trade and commerce and the disas
ters which resulted from the cam
paign of 1892 would compel the re
moval of “the tiresome and mischiev
ous tariff controversy from the field
of politics, for the time being at least,”
and would “relegate It to the purely
academic discussion where only It hau
always belonged in this country,” a
( body of orthodox Democrats were hold
ing their state convention in Iowa. In
the platform adopted by this body of
orthodox Democrats, without a dis
senting vote or voice, we find the fol
lowing:
^ “We view with alarm the multipli
cation of those combinations of capi
tal commonly known as trusts, that
are concentrating and monopolizing
industry, crushing out independent
producers of limited meanB, destroy
ing competition, restricting opportuni
ties for labor, artificially limiting pro
duction and raising prices, and creat
ing an industrial condition different
from state socialism only in the re
spect that under socialism the benefits
of production would go to all, while
under the trust system they go to in
crease the fortune of these institu
tions. These trusts and combinations
are the direct outgrowth of the policy
of the Republican party, which has not
only favored these institutions, but
has accepted their support and softe
ned their contributions to aid that par
ty in retaining power which has placed
a burden of taxation upon those who
labor and produce in time of peace
and who figut our battles in time of
•war, while the wealth of the country
is exempted from these burdens.
“We condemn this policy, and it is
our solemn conviction that the trusts
must be destroyed or they will destroy
free government, and we demand that
they be suppressed by the repeal of
the protective tariff and other privi
lege-conferring legislation responsible
for them and by the enactment of such
legislation, state and national, as will
aid in their destruction.”
Does this look as though the tariff
controversy was going to be lifted out
of polities and relegated to academic
discussion? The Iowa Democratic
state convention did not think so. We
would gladly share the confidence of
the New York Sun as to tile disappear
ance of the tariff front among the live
issue* of the campaign of next year,
but the fuels and proltahilitles wholly
fail to Justify that agreeable anticipa
tion. On the contrary, the facts a id
probubtliths point unerringly toward
a savage and determined attack on the
tariff all along the Democratic line. At
the prese-* writing nothing appears
more certain than that from this time
on every Democratic state convention ■
will present the Iowa declaration in 1
sonic form or other, and that the re- I
p*a| nr modification nf the Dlngley
tariff will tie demanded in the national
Dcnim-ratlc platform.
Ilar.l TImm liM Haa I law.
Ttt* of « prslwllti tariff ar«
probably f»*lt (toalt*n« In th« toontry
nixrr th*u m I’ltuintrg i* •nam|ii*at;y
lb* following •UtUtir*. >mby
|b* )'«w vorb World, gr* of ator* lb«a
p.iaaing tatartal traa of Htttaborga
laduatrlal kl«n4ib*, (M aqua re aiil*a.
aumbor of |a<U«trt** being operated o».
foil lima Hi n«mb*r of w«fi »m
ploy*4 la tl«w, et»i>r*rlng all tlata**.
ITd.Odd. atarage aagea par day. |.* I*,
mad* «f w*g«a. II H to 91 par day.
bomber of Ml* man i>«*. at apt from
•Ivhaaaa anm ay ml »i!ta and fart.,
rla* aaabl* to yoa foil lima by r*aaoa
•# aearalty »f labor M rallroa.te «p. |
•bM to biota ftaigbi prom pi ip to«Mbb]
the traffic 4s 30 per cent larger .than
all the freight ears in service; gross
daily value of trade In industrial Klon
dike. JMOO.OOe.
When it Is remembered that the fore
going statements are published by a
Journal that has lost no opportunity
for denouncing and ridiculing the
llingley tariff bill, they form pretty
good evidence that there is more com
fort in the present situation fc*r indus
trial tollers than for free-trade theo
rists. And it should alao be remem
bered that most Industries throughout
the country are nearly If not quite as
active as those of Pittsburg. These
are hard times only for those who are
hunting anti-tariff arguments.—Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette.
The McK Inley Policy.
It Is American first, last and all the
time. It never halts, never hesitates,
■whether the question be the defense of
American Industries or the defense of
American dignity. McKinleyism and
Americanism are synonymous terms.
The one Involves the other. Listen to
what the president of the United
States said in his address before the
Catholic summer school at Plattsbarg,
N. Y., Aug. 13, 1899:
“The flag symbolizes our purposes
and our aspirations; It represents what
we believe and what we mean to main
tain, and wherever it floats it is the ilag
of the free, the hope of the oppressed;
and wherever it is assailed, at any sac
rifice it will be carried to a triumphant
peace."
This utterance was greeted with
ringing cheers all the reports agree
in saying. Its lofty purport appealed
instantly to the Intelligent minds to
which it was addresed. It appeals to
every true American throughout the
country consecrated to freedom and
progress. It ought to make the small
coterie of "flre-in-the-rcar'' anti-Amer
icans feel smaller and smaller.
They Will lie lleenluleil.
The family of trusts (loutitless needs
regulation. Provision has already
been made to control pools and com
binations in restriction of trade and
the like, but the problem still to be
solved is: What interference can the
government interpose against large
capitalizations against the outright
purchase of many small concerns for
the purpose of concentrating and sim
plifying management, cheapening pro
duction and enlarging trade? Mean
while the parentage of trusts is still in
doubt, even though the protective tar
iff has been cleared of responsibility
for the progeny, but there is reason
to believe that trusts are simply the
outgrowth of business enterprise.—
Kansas City (Kan.) Journal.
CaiiM! for C'lmNtenfil Ka tin fart Ion.
John Bull—We don’t worry about
merchandise balances so long as our
delieit is made good by returns on for
eign investments and profits on our
ocean carrying trade.
Uncle Sam—Well, if you're satisfied
we are; but what is to become of
British industries if your American
debtors keep on Increasing their pay
ments to you in the shape of manu
factured goods, in place of raw mate
rials?
Itayonri tlio Arcnmnntttt lv«t Stugr.
Mr. Havemeyer's emphatic assertion
that a high protective tariff is the
mother of trusts will he seized upon
by the Democratic free traders as a
choice morsel of wisdom and the other
features of his rather noteworthy tes
timony ignored by them. His view of
protection is distinctively Democratic
and might have been written by the
author of the famous Wilson bill. The
value and effectiveness of a protective
tariff to the country has got beyond
the argumentative stage with the peo
pie, who look to results more than to
theories, and what Mr. llavemeyer
thinks or says upon the subject will
have little or no weight with them.—
Seattle (Wash.) Poet-Intelligencer.
Itcntflt* !§••* VI »»rkinuhimn.
It would be a* foolish to blunt* par
ent* who have reared a child In the
b«*t possible manner for hi* turning
to evil way* after he ha* grown to
manhood, a* to blame the tariff for
building up a splendid American Indus
try. giving employment to Su.uoo Amer
ican workingmen, he. a use avaricious
men Mccure control of It and enter into
a wicked combination Combination nr
not, the tlu plate true! can make no
money without employing the worV
Ingnirn and paying them for their
labor. Tacoma (Wash » l.rdgcr.
Ik* Mm*. r«a H>«m.
The year UW may he considered a*
the time of our eacwnd wind-** Iaun
year we look a deep breath of protec
ts*. prosperity and ecilpaed all pre
«tuu* record* This year there wa*
nothing to do but to eclipse |*m tad
We proceeded to da It, We have lwhen
In tha fall, deep breath which always j
carries the runner tw a race tw vic
tory Our commercial rival* mar a* j
well drop out, for the eluee of Hum
will see the I’at'ed Plate* the alaaer
by « gawd margin la the industrial «oa
t**t ,
•
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IS« »f fn<t«*4ry.
If Mr. HAvemeyer had called the
protective tariff the ".notuer of indus
try” instead of the “mother of trusts,"
he would have been stating a truth in
stead of putting forth a lie. The num
ber of factories 'which have been re
opened after years of idleness, the
number of plants which have been ex
tended, the number of mills which
have been enlarged in the brief time
during which ihe Dlngley law has been
In operation are beyond computation.
The number of new mills opened, of
new business enterprises started and
of new Industries established can only
be estimated. The full number will
never be accurately counted. And the
showing of this short time has been
but a brilliant repetition of the his
tory of the two short years during
which the McKinley law was In full
ioree and effect.
To go further back than that, prac
tically every industry in the country
owes Its existence to the policy of pro
tection. When the colonies separated
from Great Britain there w'as not a
single industry of any consequence on
this side of the ocean, thanks to the
policy pursued by the ruling country.
There never would have been any In
dustries established if early American
statesmen had been of the stripe of
Bryan, or Cleveland, or other free
traders. American enterprise would
have had no show at all against the
well-established and powerful Indus
tries of England. But through tho
adoption of the policy of a protective
tariff American industries were estab
lished; through that same policy they
have been developed to their present
unrivaled proportions; and through It
American industries are today being
extended and Increased, and the United
States Is fast increasing the lead which
It already has in commercial affairs
over all the other nations of the world
Northwestern Harvest llaml*.
The farmers of the Northwest nra
kicking again, hut It Is a different kind
of a kick from that of three years ago,
•In those days of '96, when lamenta
tions for the crime of '73 filled the air
of the Northwest, the burden of com
plaint was scarcity of work, scarcity of
dollars and the too large purchasing
capacity of the dollar when acquired
because of the cheapness of everything.
This year the times are out of joint for
the farmers because of the scarcity oj
men to work in the harvest fields.
Wages are offered ranging from $2.50
a day and board for common harvest
hands to $0 a day for threshing mai
chine engineers, and even at theso
figures it is well nigh impossible to
get men enough to do the work. Everyi
body able to work seems to be having
something else to do that Is more con
genial or more profitable than harvest
field work. If Brother Bryan would 1
make a tour of the Northwest at thU
tme he could expound 1G to 1—16 jobs
looking for every idle man, and his ex
planation of the phenomenon would be
interesting in view of the doctrines he
preached in the last campaign year.—
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald.
A Tramtlent Commercial Craze
If we believed that the creation oi
trusts would be a permanent feature
of our economic system, we might
share in the alarm expressed by some
timid persons. We do not; we re
gard them an a merely transient com
mercial craze, which will die of ex
haustion. The commerce of this coun
try is altogether too great to be kept
under control by any one set of men
acting upon a single industry. The
trade of the United States hf.s passed
that stage just as it has passed the
stage when the wheat product of this
country can be cornered.—Seattle
(Wash.) Post-Intelligeneer.
Work Kfukn the Man.
The following advertisement appears
conspicuously in a leading northwest
ern newspaper of recent date:
“Wanted—Laborers are needed in
the harvest fields of Minnesota and es
pecially in the Dakotas. Harvest wii.
soon begin, to be followed by thresh
ing. Good wages are offered and low
rates of transportation are offered by
the railroads. Here Is an opportunity
for all that are unemployed.—St. Paul
(Minn.) Pioneer-Press.'’
This is a time when work seeks the
man, and no man need search for
work. It Is a time of McKinley and
prosperity.
Two of m Kind.
The devil rebuking Mu and Mi
Havt meyer. the president of the sugai
trust, rebuking trusts, are two of a
kind. When the devil is recognized as
authority in ethics Mr. Havenieyer may
bo recognized us authority on trusts.
Not until then will Intelligent Ameri
can voters lie influenced again*t a pro- j
tectlve tariff by the railing against ;
trusts by the president of one of the j
greatest trust* on the American con
tlueut.—Freeport tilt.) Journal.
Well linnet
Tb« Iowa McpublG an* took no back i
vurd etep when they Indoreed In <le
elded fashion the adininlatraiiun of
I’reald^nt M> Ktnl#> and the column
policy. Hound looney wae placed In ;
the foreground, the IlSngiey tariff *p
proved, and the truet* denounced
W lieu the roll of ail the etalea liu
been railed. It will be a u«*un*» >m '
• at 1 >1 ne a1 .■ !< b* » I have re
■ wived Grand Ur put* iMi lt I Her
aid
a t latent I uatotlusltt.
The Ire# iraier la « nimble laaaei
Me formerly told u* that If you haw j
a protect!*# tariff yon ran l eel! t« i
furetgm cooalrl#* ' II# twe any* “T ,« j
feet that we are awtllag m> many mar*,
f.tnred gu*«4a ahnual prove# that at
do wot a**d a |tat#*tl»a tariff ** *>me
ctreat ought to ha*# tkla matcttiag j
let. • Ilea lea lUL) ItepublUaa
TALM AGE'S SERMON. I
LONGEVITY THE SUBJECT FOR
LAST SUNDAY.
from rsalms, 01 j 15. as Follows: "With
I<ong 1.1 fe Will 1 Satisfy II Ini" — Ite
IlKtun, SK-k-llt-ils ami Ui'ave-Yards—
Mistakes of Zealots.
(Copyright 1S99 by Louis Klopscli.)
Through the mistake of its friends,
religion has been chiefly associated
with sirk-beds and grave-yards. The
whole subject, to many people, is
odorous with chlorine and carbolic
acid. There are people who cannot
pronounce the word religion without
hearing in it the clipping chisel of the
tombstone cutter. It Is high time that
this thing were changed, and that re
ligion, Instead of being represented as
a hearse to carry out the dead, should
be represented as a chariot in which
the living are to triumph.
Religion, so far from subtracting
from one's vitality, is a glorious addi
tion. It is sanative, curative, hygienic.
It is good for the eyes, good for the
ears, good for the spleen, good for tho
digestion, good for the nerves, good
for the muscles. When David, in an
other part of the Psalm, prays that re
ligion may be dominant, he does not
speak of it as a mild sickness, or an
emaciation, or an attack of moral and
spiritual cramp; he speaks of it as
"the saving health of all nations";
while God, in the text, premises lon
gevity t the pious, saying: "With long
life will I satisfy him.” The fact is
that men and women die too soon. It
is high time that religion Joined the
hand of medical science In attempting
to Improve human longevity. Adam
lived nine hundred and sixty-nine
years. Methuselah lived nine hundred
and sixty-nine years. As late In the
history of the world as Vespasian,
there were, at one time in his empire,
forty-five people one hundred and
thirty-five years old. So far down
as the sixteenth century, Peter Zartan
died at one hundred and eighty-five
years of age. I do not say that re
ligion will ever take the rnee back to
antediluvian longevity, but I do say
the length of life will be Increased.
It Is said In Isaiah: “The child shall
die a hundred years old.” Now, If ac
cording to Scripture, the child is to be
a hundred years old, may not the men
and women reach to three hundred and
four hundred and five hundred? The
fact Is that we are mere dwarfs and
skeletons compared with some of the
generations that are to come. Take
the African race. They have been un
der bondage for centuries. Give them
a chance, and they develop a Fred
erick Douglass or a Toussaint L'Ou
verture. And If the white race shall
he brought from under the serfdom of
sin, what shall be the body? what
shall be the soul? Religion has only
just touched our world. Give it full
power for n few centuries, and who
can tell what will be the strength of
man, and the beauty of woman, and
the longevity of all?
My design Is to show that practical
religion is the friend of long life. I
prove It, first, from the fact that It
makes the care of our health a posi
tive Christian duty. Whether we shall
keep early or late hours, whether we
shall take food digestible or lndlgestl
ole, whether there shall be thorough
or incomplete mastication, are ques
tions very often deferred to the realm
of whimsicality; but the Christian man
lifts this whole problem of/health into
the accountable and the divine. He
says: ”God has given me this body,
and He has called it the temple of the
Holy Ghost, and to deface Its altars,
or mar Its walls, or crumble Its pillars,
Is a God-defying sacrilege." He sees
God’s raligraphy In every page—ana
tomical and physiological. He says:
"God has g.ven me a wonderful body
for noble purposes." That arm with
thirty-two urious bones wielded by
forty-six curious mureles. and all un
der the brain's telegraphy; three hun
dred and fifty pounds of blood rushing
through the heart every hour, the
heart in twenty-four hours beating
100,000 times, during the twenty-four
hours the lungs taking In fifty-seven
hogsheads of air, nnd all this mechan
lsm not more mighty than delicate
and easily disturbed and demolished.
The Christian man says to himself:
"If I hurt my nerves, if I hurt my
brain. If I hurt nny of my physical
faculties, I insult God nnd call for dire
retribution.” Why did God tell the
Uvites not to offer to him in sacrifice
animals Imperfect and diseased? He
meant to tell us In all the ages that
we are to offer to God our very best
physical condition, and a man who
through Irregular or gluttuuous eat
ing ruins his health Is uot offering to
Goil such u sacrifice. Why did Paul
write for his cloak at Troas? Why
should such a great man as Paul be
anxious about a thing so insignificant
as an overcoat? R was because he
knew that with pneumonia and rheu
matism he would not be worth half a*
much to God and the Church as with
respiration easy and foot free.
An Intailigrnt t'hrUUan man would
emu Me r it an abaurdlty to kttr*l down
at ulgbt and pray and aak Qod'a pro
tection, ahlir at lha MIU« time ba kept
the wlndowa of hU bedrtMini tight abut
Mutant freak air. Ila would Juat a»
auon tblnk af going out on tbe bridge
between New York aud iirooklya.
leaping off aad then graying to Ood to
keep him from getting hurt. Juat aa
long aa you refer Ihta whole aubjeel of
pkMlral health to tka realm of whim
•teality or to the paatry «■«■*•. or to
toe butrher. or to ike hakar. you are
gut acting like a 'hr'itian Taka rare
of all your phyaieal forte* aerauua
noueuMr, hone, h aln. cellular tie awe —
for alt you nun be brought to Ju tg
meat Mmohing your nereou* ayateai
Into kilgeta. burning out tka runt tag of
your atomark wltk wlaa b.^w—led
•ad dryttlim ualhiag wita thia
•hue* l« make yuui bat look fwoala,
ftn^kag at the aiUt Mill you nr*
nigh cut in two, and neither part
worth anything, groaning about sick
headache and palpitation of the heart,
which you think came from God, when
they came from your own folly!
What right has nny man or woman
to deface the temple of the Holy
Ghost? What is the ear? It is the
whispering gallery of the soul. What
is the eye? It is the observatory God
constructed, its,telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the hand? An in
strument so wonderful that when the
carl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his
will $40,000 for treatises to be writ
ten on the wisdom, power and good
ness cf God, Sir Charles Bell, the
greut English anatomist and surgeon,
found his greatest illustration in the
construction of the human hand, de
voting his whole book to that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after differ
ent parts of them. His omniscience—
it is God's eye. His omnipresence—
it is God’s ear. His omnipotence—it is
God's arm. The upholstery of the
midnight heavens—It is the work of
God's fingers. His life-giving power—
it is the breath of the Almighty. His
dominion—“the government shnll he
upon his shoulder.” A body so divine
ly constructed, let us be careful not to
abuse it. When it becomes a Chris
tian duty to take care of our health,
is not the whole tendency toward lon
gevity? if i toss my watch about reck
lessly, and drop It on the pavement,
and wind it up any time of day or
night 1 happen to think of it, and often
let It run down, while you are careful
with your watch, and never abuse it,
and wind it up Just at the same hour
every night, and put it in a place where
It will not suffer from the violent
changes of atmosphere, which watch
will last the longer? Common sense
answers. Now, the human body is
Gnu s watch. You see the hands of the
watch, you see the face of the watch,
but the heating of the heart is the
ticking of the watch. 13c careful and
do not let It run down!
Again: I remark that practical re
ligion Is a friend of longevity in the
fact that it is a protest against dis
sipations, whch injure and destroy the
health. Bail men and women live a
very short life. Their sins kill them.
I know hundreds of good old men, hut
I do not know half a dozen had old
men. Why? They do not get old.
Lord Byron died at Mlssolonghl at
thirty-six years of age, himself his
own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions
the horse that dashed with him into
the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Bal
timore at thirty-eight years of age.
The black,raven that ulighted on the
bust above his door was delirium
tremens—
"Only this anti nothing more."
Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be
yond mid-life, then died nt St. Helena,
and one of his doctors said that his
disease was induced by excessive snuff
ing. The hero of Austerlltz, the man
who by one step of his foot in the cen
ter of Europe shook the earth,killed by
a snuff-box! How many people we
have known who have not lived out
half their days because of their dis
sipations and indulgences! Now, prac
tical religion Is a protest against all
dissipations of any kind.
“But," you say, "professors of re
ligion have fallen, professors of re
ligion have got drunk, professors of re
ligion have misappropriated trust
funds, professors of religion have ab
eronded.” Yes; but they threw away
their religion before they did their
morality. If a man on a White Star
line steamer bound for Liverpool, in
mid-Atlantic, jumps overboard and Is
drowned. Is that anything against the
White Star line's capacity to take the
man across the ocean? And if a man
jumps over the gunwale of his religion
and goes down never to rise, is that
any reason for your believing that re
ligion has no capacity to take the man
clear through? In the one case, if he
had kept tq the steamer his body
would have been saved; in the other
case, if be bad kept to his religion his
morals would have been saved.
There are aged people who would
have been dead twenty-five years ago
but for the defenses and the equipoise
of religion. You have no more natural
resistance than hundreds of people
who lie In the cemeteries today, slain
by their own vices. The doctors made
their case as kind and pleasant as they
could, and it was called congestion of
the brain, or something else, but the
snakes and the blue flies that seemed
to crawl over the pillow in the sight
of tile delirious patient showed what
was the matter with him. You, the
aged Christian man, walked along by
that unhappy one until you came to
the goldeu pillar of a Christian life.
You went to the right; he went to the
left. That Is all the difference between
you. If this religion Is a protest
against all forms of dissipation, then
it Is an illustrious friend of longevity.
"With long life will I satisfy hlin."
Again: Kellglon is a friend of lon
gevity in the fact that It takes the
worry out of our temporalities. || is
uot work that kills men, it is worry.
When a man heeomea a genuine Chris
tian he makes over to (jod not only his
! affections, but his family, his bust
neaa, hla reputation, hla body. hla
rulnd, hla aoul everything. Indue
trloiia hr will b*. but never worrying,
he* tu*e (UmI la managing hu affaire
llow ran ha worry about bualaeva
»lt'U In aaawer to bla prayrra Clod
trII* blm when to buy. aud whan to
•ell; and ir br gain, that la bant, aal
If be lone, that la Nat
Huppua* you bad a auparaalnral
neighbor Who ram* la and aaid: ' Mr.
I want you to rail on me la every ei
Igeary; I am your fa«t frlead | could
fall barb on HMdd.gga. | raa foreaee
a peak- tan yearn I bold I be control!
Ing aturh la thirty of the beat moan
tary laatllutlona of New Vorh; whea
•ver you art «a trouble, rail ua av and
I trill help you; you raa Nu my
money and you «ae have my tadueaee.
bar* ta my bead la pledge for It * ||ow
ntucb would you worry about bualaeea*
XVby. you would aay. “1'U do the beat
I can, and then I’ll depend on my
friend's generosity for the rest.”
• ••»•*•
What do you want In the future
world? Tell me and you shall have It.
Orchards? Tnere are the trees with
twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit
every month. Water scenery? There
is the River of Lue from under the
throne of God, clear as crystal, and the
sea of glass mingled with Are. Do you
want music? There Is the oratorio of
the Creation led on by Adam, and the
oratorio of the Red sea led on by
Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah
led on by St. Paul, while the archangel
with swinging baton controls the one
hundred and forty-four thousand who
make up the orchestra. Do you want
reunion? There nre your children
waiting to kiss you, waiting to em
brace you, waiting to twist garlands in
your hair. You have been accustomed
to open the door on this side the
sepulchre. You have been accustomed
to walk in the wet grass on the top of
the grave. I show you the under side
of tne grave; the bottom has fallen
out, and the long ropes with which
the pall-bearers let down your dead,
let them clear through into heaven.
Glory be to God for this rohust,
healthy religion. It will have a tend
ency to make you live long in this
world, and in the world to come you
will have eternal life. "With long lifo
will I satisfy him.”
WHITE HOUSE
Dnilnrgoea Alteration* with Each New
l'rt»l.liiii 111 Family.
During the absence of President and
Mrs. McKinley from Washington, Col.
Hingham, superintendent of public
buildings and grounds, had a large
force of workmen employed in renovat
ing und repairing the executive man
sion, and this work Is being hurried to
completion. It is quite a noticeable
and Interesting fact that the white
house hears In a measure the Individ
uality of every lady who has had the
honor to preside there, and by whom
the expensive decorations and furnish
ings have been In a great measure
planned. It has been sought to pre
serve the colonial appourance of tho
mansion, but through the varying
tastes for decorations very little of the
colonial atmosphere of the Interior re*
mams. The historic traditions of the
mansion could he as well preserved,
perhaps, if the president no longer
continued to reside there. There 13
scarcely any doubt the American peo
ple, In view of the Interest which haa
always attached to the white house,
would gladly bear the expense of keep
ing It as It now stands, as Mt. Vernor.
and Arlington are maintained. More
historic traditions clustered around the
old capitol than about the white
house, but this fact did not prevent
congress from altering It to suit Its
convenience und needs whenever de
sirable or necessary. If the white
house had never been altered from tho
day of Its erection to the present time,
except to make necessary repairs, it
would be of much more historical in
terest than it is, or if it had received
extensive rddltlons from time to time,
such as the great castles in England,
It would then present an lnterertlng
appearance. But, as it is, no exten
sive alterations have ever been made,
but one president after another has
snipped off a little here and added a
little there. Inside and outside, until
the white ..ouse Is neither purely colo
nial nor modern, but a patchwork of
both.
“DITTY” BOXES FOR SAILORS.
Crew of the Cruiser Detroit Supplied
with Handsome Ones.
Each member of the crew of the sec
ond-class cruiser Detroit recently re
ceived the small box, or chest, fami
liarly known in the navy as a “ditty"
box. This is a necessary article which
each marine carries with him on all
his assignments, and although not reg
ularly issued by the government, it Is
carried by the navy department free
of cost for him. It is one of the few
things which is the personal property
of the marine or bluejacket. The*
"ditty” box is not a new addition to.
the belongings of a marine, having
been in use for many years. It is
about fourteen inches long, eight inches
wide, and ten high. It is made of
wood and divided into several com
partments resembling somewhat the
divisions in an ordinary trunk. The
lid of the box contains receptacles,
with a rack, which hangs midway in
the other parts, and Is Intended for a
blacking brush, a box of blacking, a
triplcy brush and scouring materials.
The scouring materials are used to
polieh the brass buttons on the uni
forms. Underneath this Is room for
scouring rags, cleaning cloths, and:
other small belongings which the ma
rine may wish to take along with him.
In the cover of the box he keeps s? la
■un, plus and sewing materials. The
“ditty" boxen furnished to the crew of
the Detroit are made in the navy yard
and are of exceptionally neat work
manship. All are stained a mahog
any color and are highly prised by
theme who were fortunate enough to
secure them In this Instance the re
cipients were not compelled to pur
chase the buses, but will forfeit ft
each If they are not returned In good
order when the men's enlistment ev
pirts.- Brooklyn Eagle.
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trad* with t'h:n.* uimf b» jud«a>t •ruts
th* (mil that only JJ<> a>tU« of railway
ha«a haaa built la tha whole .ta#wa
with a aofwlatioa of teo.ww tot),
Aa atlumyk tolutaa of miuIi by
orU-iJo 41 Uou tha ar*at compoaar
of aa«r»4 Muala of tha autaaath re a
';i|. raaaatly 4Ueo*afa4 la tha MB
yartal library at Vlenaa. aeautaa a
httharto aabaowa portrait of tha mm
yoaar 4raaa * baa ha wa* fa yaan *14.