WORN OUT; USELESS.
DBSOLETE DECLARATION OF
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
Bmneniti Arp K'-aOtrmlng tli* Chicago
I’lalform of 1899, In DUrrgard of It*
Many Abtur.lillii anil Incongruities
—Oat for Bryan and free Silver.
It being the fashion cf Democratic
itate conventions in 1S99 to "reaffirm
the Chicago platform of 1895.” the St
Louis Globe-Democrat shrewdly raises
the question whether all cr any of
these unanimous rcaffirmers have ac
tually read the declaration of princi
ples which they now adopt as their
own. Probably they have not. To
suppose otherwise would be to assume
a degree of asinine absurdity quite be
yond that which is commonly charac
teristic of Democratic platform mak
ing.
Take, for example, the Ohio Demo
cratic convention of a few days ago.
Must one believe that the committee
on resolutions knew what it was that
they reaffirmed word for word? Is It
possible that in tbe presence of condi
tions which give the laugh to calamity
croakers and which show a state of in
dividual and general prosperity far be
yond any that has ever been expe
rienced by the people of the United
States, or by any other people on the
fr,e* of the earth-is it possible that
th» Buckeye Bourbons remembered
that In the Chicago platform of 1896
which they reaffirmed It is gravely as
serted that the demonetization of sil
ver has resulted in “the prostration of
industry and the impoverishment of !
the people?” Where are the prostrate
industries and the impoverished peo
ple? They existed in 1896 at the time
the Chicago platform was promul
gated, as the result, almost wholly, of
free-trade jxperiments in tariff mak
ing, but they do not exist in 1899, after
two years of Republican tariff-making.
Much has happened since the Chi
cago platform was written which
makes that dismal apologue "look like
thirty cents;" and yet the party which
"never learns and never forgets” keeps
right on reaffirming that platform. It
is asserted, seriously asserted, in these
days of wonderful well-doing, that
monometallism "has locked fast the
prosperity of an industrial people In
the paralysis of hard times.” It is
such rot as this that Democratic con
ventions are now "reaffirming.” Well
and truly the Globe-Democrat remarks
uiai
"The Chicago platform was made in
the last year of a Democratic adminis
tration, under a chaotic Democratic
tariff law, and in a period of distress
ing Democratic depression. With the
passing away of the Democratic blight
the clouds vanished. * • • When
the Chicago convention met, that
hybrid absurdity, the Wilson tariff
law, was In force, throwing out of
balance all forms of American indus
try, and at the same time producing
Insufficient revenue. Yet the Chicago
platform contains this clause: ‘We
denounce as disturbing to business the
Republican threat to restore the Mc
Kinley law.”. The Dingley law has
been In operation two years, and the
people are familiar with Its results.
It hag revivified our manufactures
without oppressing any one and as
sisted In bringing about an era giving
employment to all. The revenue from
the Dingley law is a fourth larger than
that of the Wilson law. Yet the Chi
cago platform said the McKinley law,
upon which the Dingley law is pat
terned, ‘enriched the few at the ex
pense of the many, restricted trade and
deprived the producers of the great
American staples of access to their
natural markets.’ Nevertheless, our
foreign trade for the lust two years
has been enormously larger than ever
before. In manufactured articles as
well as the products of agriculture.”
Democratic resolution writers would
do well to read up on the platform of
189C, and endeavor to evolve some
thing for present use that is not abso
lutely ridiculous In tho light of known
facts and conditions.
THE FARMER THINKS.
lie I* Hell KaiUllvil with the “Hired
Man" Now In the White Hnnee.
Under the appropriate heading of
“Horse Sense in Iowa.” the New York
Sun prints the following:
“Upon the occasion of a recent visit
to Iowa 1 asked a farmer in an Interior
county what the people of Iowa In
tended to do at the next presidential
election, and bis answer was as fol
lows:
*' ‘Wall, I never argue polltlra and
never did, but If I give a man a Job
and he does hla work well, what's the
u*e of turning him off and gluing a
ttew man? Now. Mr, McKinley does
hla wrork right up to the handle, ant
no man could a done It better, though
I didn't have no part In putting him
there. So what's the »enu In turning
him out and putting a new tnau In hla
place?
“ Tie made a lot of premises about
go< d tlmts, and I can't see aa he over- I
stated the facta either, for certainty
the times have been thundering guud, '
there's an denying that.
“ 'Note, Hill (tryan comes around
here telling the Son If they didn't j
elect him the country would go to hell,
and he giib h about It. Peers like Hill
didn't know what h» was talking
aheul, w was lylag likely the I.
(■tie m we ca« spare Itlll a sp- It yet, so ,
h* eaa get hts picture took Mavhe
hr U learn somethltti. If he Mod*
around the house and b*epe hla U*a*i ,
m l out there la Nebraska If he runs
again y«u can easy gtt the fool reus us
by counting ht« vote lie remind* me
ef a mule I owned eare lb# only lime
be used his head waa al dinner time
- rest of the lime h* era- hunting
•round Hi bad something to kkk at
M Klaley will «» hs*b fu* another
term, leastwise, that's what the neigh*
bors say, and I’m likewise.' *’
—W. C, IL
New York, Sept. 11.
The farmers of the United States are
not saying much about politics Just
now. They are engaged in harvesting
and marketing at good prices one of
the heaviest crops they have ever had,
and their cattle, hogs and sheep are
bringing them more money than for a
good many years past. They have
mostly finished paying off the mort
gages which were a part of the bless
ings of free-trade tariff tinkering, 1893
1897, and are now taking the benefit of
the good times which were promised
by the "advance agent of prosperity."
They have stopped thinking about 16
to 1 or fiat money, and are not worry
ing much about the trusts. This Iowa
farmer is a representative type. He
knows what he lost by the triumph of
"tariff reform" in 1892. and he knows
how vastly he Is the gainer by the tri
umph of "MrKinleylsm'' In 1896, Next
year he will know how to vote.
We Shall Never rail Hack.
Mr. Jefferson Seligman, the eminent
financier, is a pronounced optimist in
respect to the future which lies be
fore us. He says:
"1 am as hopeful as ever of the fu
ture, and can see nothing to stop the
onward march of prosperity. Never
before in the history of the country
were business conditions on such sta
ble foundations. Good times have
come to stay. Mills and factories of
every kind are taxed to their utmost
capacity. Railroad business is limited
only by the capacity of its rolling
stock. Each parsing week shows some
new high record of earnings. • • •
I do not think that we shall ever fall
back to the conditions that prevailed
a few years ago. The wealth of the
country and the buying power of the
world have become so enormous that
It is only reasonable to say Jhut old
forms of business have become obso
lete and a new era has opened."
The one thing most obsolete of all is
the theory of free trade, which had a
temporary resurrection a few years
ago, and which was responsible for the
evil conditions which existed then and
to which Mr. Seligman thinks we will
never go back. That industry destroy
ing policy has no part nor lot In pros
perity. Prosperity has come to stay,
and therefore free trade must of ne
cessity retire into "Innocuous desue
tude" along with its most prominent
champion. Free trade und prosperity
cannot exist at one and the same time
in this country. We shall never fall
back into the conditions which pre
vailed a few years ago, because we
shall not fall back into free trado
again.
Ileal Causes of I’rosporlty.
A former United States senator, in
a speech delivered in Omaha, at
tributed the prosperity which thi3
country is now enjoying solely to
natural causes. He urges that neither
fiscal policy nor faith haB anything to
do with it. Upon his theory, this coun
try should have been most prosperous
in 1897 than ever before or since, for
in that year nature was most prodigal
of her gifts in this country than at
any other time. The crops were the
largest ever known, and owing to
scarcity abroad, prices were high.
However, these natural causes—
large crops here and small ones abroad
— did not make the prosperity that la
now with us. We had been sending
more money abroad for other articles
than we were receiving from abroad;
hundreds of thousands of men would
have been idle in spite of the pros
perity of the farmers, where now there
Is a labor famine, and nature's bounty
is liable to be restricted by the ina
bility to secure workmen for the liarv
vest.
Nature did its part, to be sure, but
the Republican administration nnd
congress did more for the country,
when a protective tariff law was passed
and honest mouey maintained, thun
did nature.
It would have been a hard and un
successful task for nature to compete
with free trade and dishonest forty
flve-eent dollars.—Tacoma (Wash.)
Ledger.
An Arim'rmliln Fit.
UIIIT » j
AMIIi'M I
m« «>4 tliMllm*.
* * fiipUtras Pair© gmli »g«lu t 1
th» ofbara of auw* of tka fall rlvar
nulla for hiring woiixn anti minora lo
norfc nighta aa veil a* <Uya, but on
lavrattgailon It aiitwara that, although
tk» mill* la guvatlod ar« running atary
**ak night until in o clorb, tk«y ara
M violating tka Ua akkk forkula
tka » »ai) rn r 141 of auinrn aa-4 tut kora
mum- thm Bfi> * ght knot* In a »a*h
Tka fa> t that tka gu«*tt»a kaa ba«a
ralaotl at all f»r«**ou a aituaUaa *« ;
n»«taltr in r« ntraal «lth that ubkk (
> «i»t«4 In f. rtixf | . » Tkara w*r«
no *toUtMaa of !k« tfiy ••igk' fcvur
r* rtrtrthm of tka 4*v • of tka
WiIjim* tar (I Sa rom,.taint* »*ra
tkaa kranl of atar aorktag «»ra
aa. minor*, or any utbar rlaaa *
of labor Tko tn»uM# la that
ghaatly p*rU*t a a. to kaa* tka mill*
running aa halfiim*, to any nothing of 1
o**rttm«
REPUBLICAN FINANCIERING.
(ontrul of Trtatirjr Conditions Coded
Cleveland aad McKinley.
Nothing marks more clearly the con
trast between Republican prosperity
and Democratic adversity than the net
gold in the treasury of the United
States under Cleveland and under Mc
Kinley. That accumulation is the mer
cury in the business thermometer of
the country. It rises or falls with the
business temperature.
On Thursday. Sept. 7. there was re
ported to he more gold in the treasury
of the United States that day than on
any previous day In the financial his
tory of the government. The net coin
and bullion amounted to $251,618,132.
including the $100,000,000 reserved for
the redemption of legal tender notes.
When resumption began. In 1879, the
net gold of the treasury was $130,249,
457, and it never fell below the hun
dred million mark until 1893. Not
quite a month of Democracy was then
required to bring the net amount be
low the minimum of safety, where It
stayed, except as the government wen*,
into tho market and sold bonds, until
after the era of Democratic rule was
ended by a vote of the people. Hard
ly had a Democratic president, a Dem
ocratic house and a Democratic senate
come Into power before the mercury In
the treasury department fell below
the freezing point of $100,000,000, Dy
tne beginning of 1894 It had gone to
$65,650,175, and Jan, 1, 1895, It was
down to $44,705,967. It would have
been wiped out entirely If it had not
been for the stocks of gold secured by
bond sales. In 1895 the amount real
ized from this source was $111,166,246,
or more than the total net gold in the
treasury either when the year began
or when it closed.
When the presidential campaign of
1896 began the amount was about $90,
000,000, and when the election itself
occurred it was $115,000,000. The new3
that McKinley had been elected, and
with him a Republican house of rep
resentatives, then went out to tne
country, and when the actual change
of administrations came the net gold
amounted to about $150,000,000. From
that time ail fear of the endless chain
was forgotten. The increase has gone
on steadily until the maximum of over
$250,000,000 has been reached.
With the contrast between Democrat
ic adversity and Republican prosperity
presented in this eoncete form, It is
difficult to conceive how any man of
ordinary business sense can fall to be
impressed with the advantage of hav
ing the government conducted on dis
tinctively Republican lines of policy by j
an administration which Inspires finan- [
cial confidence.—Chicago Inter Oceaa |
Our O row lug: T nil mm trie*.
A little table ba3 been compiled by 1
the bureau of statistics with a view tc
showing how wonderfully our Indus
tries have grown during the past nine
years. The showing made Is remark
able and will certainly be far from
comforting to tho manufacturers ol
Kurope. A portion of the table ia ap
pended:
Pet.
1S99. 1890. Inc.
Iron, tons, consum
ed half year . 0,577,307 4,490,854 «
Cotton, year's tak
l n k s, spinners'
bales . 3,330.018 2,349,478 4i
Wool, pounds, esti
mates of trade ...500,000,000 400,000.000 25
Silk, Imports, raw,
pounds . 9,961,145 6,943,360 65
India rubber,
pounds. Imports,
raw . 51,079,258 33,842,374 51
Roots and shoes,
cases shipped .... 2,700,877 2,110,109 24
By consulting the census returns ol
1890 It Is found that the iron industry
then employed some 500,000 men; that
the cotton mills furnished work for
some 150,000, and the boot and shoe
factories employed 182,000. while 60,000
were given work by the silk and rub
ber trade. If the table given above is
correct, and it is certainly as near cor
rect as such statistics can be, the in
dustries named are now employing
430,000 more people than In 1890, and
Instead of furnishing work for 892.O0C
people, they are employing 1,342,000.
The United States is certainly expand
ing In a commercial way as well as In
the matter of territory, and we believe
that the start has Just been made
There are those, however, who oppose
this commercial expansion and advo
cate a policy of free trade which would
make it necessary to add a column
showing the percentage of decrease in
the table given above. Nine years o'
free trade would tell an entirely dh I
fferent story.—Dea Moines (Iowa) j
State Register.
Product of Ke|>ulillrtin Policies.
The LehJ sugar factory started Itt
season's run yesterday, with unusually
rich promise. The season's product ol
sugar there will be greater than ever
I', auae of the better quality of ?V
beets and the satisfactory yield , and
already the plana for ne»t se.tson com
template operations a g<>o>l deal move
than double tho«e of thl* season tr j
magnitude and product The puinsst
sugar factory la a great laatliqt.on
• ure enough, and an especially gratify
Ing feature of It Is that It U a direct 1
product of Itepubncaa policies dalt
Uke City Tribune.
—SI II W tr-»r—
Melt tales Is Is lUssM.
A number of constrm ttou cottctmt
have baA to chute their works temp»r* i
rlljr because the iron and steel mills ul
the country are unable to beep up wat
their orders. If It wasn't fur the pe
ek! sdm trit,ira*ion. ike Ctlrsru |'n*t
ears, this »n#f Would have happened
Th» imn and s"**d mills would mu
m *m» mat«Mi* ,i, hand itia they
could conveniently dispose of, and In .
eldentaltjt. m »t of tb> m would be
shut down Thus II Is plain that Ills
man M b niey must k defeat d si tbs
nest *:ect, — Newaygo itlleby M*
publican
Tbs height ef tbs tori of ijibraltar
ts sbaut I ft ? fvut
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
THE DEER HUNT LAST SUN
DAY’S SUBJECT.
From the Itible Text] Panhut, t'hnpter
xltL, Verse 1, as Follovi! “As the
Hart 1’autetli After the Water
Brooks.”
(Copyright 1S59 by Louis Klopsch.)
David, who must some time have seen
a deer hunt, points U3 litre to a hunted
| stag making for the water. The fas
cinating animal, called In my text the
hart, Is the same animal that In sacred
had profane literature Is called the
stag, the roebuck, the hind, the gazelle,
! the reindeer. In central Syria, In Bible
J times, there were whole pasture fields
of them, as Solomon suggests when he
i says: "I charge you by the hinds of
the field." Their antlers Jutted from
| the long grass as they lay down. No
j hunter who has been long In "John
| Brown's track" will wonder that In
I the Bible they were classed as clean
j animals, for the (lews, the showers, the
i lakes, washed them as clean as the
: sky. When Isaac, the patriarch, longed
I for venison, Esau shot and brought
home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the
, fprightliness of the restored cripple of
J millennial times to the long and quick
Jump of the stag, saying: "The lame
shall leap as the hart." Solomon ex
! pressed his disgust at a hunter, who.
! having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook
it, saying: "The slothful man roasteth
, not that which he took In hunting."
But one day David, while tar from
the home from whirl* he bid been
driven, and sitting near the mouth of
a lonely cave where he had lodged,
; and on the banks of a pond or river,
hears a pack of hounds in swift pur
1 Eult. Because of the previous silence
i in the forest the clangor startles him,
and he says to himself: "I wonder
j what those dogs are after!’ Then there
| is a crackling ifi the brushwood, and
the loud breathing of some rushing
| wonder of the woods, and the antlers
of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket,
and by an Instinct which all hunters
recognize, plunges into a pond or lake
or river to cool Its thirst, an! at the
same time by Its capacity for swifter
and longer swimming, to get away
from the foaming harriers.
David says to himself: "Aha, that is
myself! Saul after me, Absalom after
me, enemies without number after me:
: I am chased, their bloody muzzles at
■ my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after iny body, barking after
my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds!
But look there,” says David, "that
hunted deer has splashed Into the
water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils
into the cool wave that lasnes the
lathered flanks, and It swim9 away
from the fiery canines, and it is free
at last. Oh, that I might find In the
deep, wide lake of Clod’B mercy and
consolation, escape from my pursuers!
Oh, for the waters of life and rescue!
As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
0 God."
Some of you have Just come from the
Adlrondacks, and the breath of the
balsam and spruce and piue Is still on
you. The Adirondacks are now popu
lous with hunters, and the deer are be
ing slain by the score. Once while
there talking with a hunter, I thought
1 would Eke to see w’hether my text
was accurate In its allusion and as I
heard the dogs baying a little way off,
and supposed they were on the track of
a deer I Bald to the hunter in rough
corduroy: "Do the deer always make
for the water when they are pursued?"
He said: “Oh, yes, mister; you see
they are a hot and thirsty animal, and |
they know where the water Is, and
when they hear danger In the distance,
they lift their antlers and snuff the
breeze and start for Itarquet or Loon
or Saranac; and we get Into our cedar
shell boat or stand by the 'runway'
with rifle loaded ready to blaze away.” I
My friends, that Is one reason why
I like the Bible so much—Its allusions
are bo true to nature. Its partridges
are real partridges. Its ostriches real
ostriches, and its reindeer real rein
deer. I do not wonder that this ant
lered glory of the text makes ;he hunt
er’s eye sparkle, and his cheek glow,
and his respiration quicken. To say J
nothing of its usefulness, althouRh it I
is the most useful of all game, its flesh
delicious, its skin turned into human
apparel, its sinews fashioned into how
strings, its antlers putting handles on
cutlery, and the shavings of its horns
used as a restorative, its name taken
from the hart and called hartshorn— j
by putting aside Its usefulness, this
enchanting creature seems made out
of gracefulness ami elasticity. What
an eye. aa If gathered up from a, hun
dred lakes at sunset! The horns, a
coronal branching into every possible
curve, and after it wmi done, ascend
ing into other projections of exqtilsite
nesa. a tree of pollrhed bon \ uplifted
in pride, or swung down for awful »r,m
hat. It M velocity embodied. Timid
ity impers <nat. 4 Th« «n< hutment <>f
the wiKsi*. Ky« lustrous la life and i
pathetic in death The spb nd.d ani
mat a i • mplvta rhythm of mu* le and
boas and color and attitude and loro- 1
■uoti<>n. whether rou. bed in the gras* ,
among the shadows, or a living bolt I
sh« t through the forest, or turning st j
bay 11 attack th- h mu «»r tearlnc
fur |tg test fait under the uu k«ho| of )
the itHfif,
It is s *pt lot* ) ppswran -e. Hat ths i
gain ter a pen si fui* to and i
only a hunieia dieam on a pillow of !
ham hah at the foot of at Megts Is able |
to pt I »?* VV he.v twenty milts (lent
say wtlkatsi. it «< mss 4u« i at »v*n«
tide is the iah* a edge to drink the Uly
yads end with its sh< «p wdg < t hoof*. ;
> shvtters thw i cvstsl of (stag Lake, H ts 1
I very pi- tureeiy sa. Hut naif wh«a. after
mils* of pursuit, with hwsvtag tides
| tnd MtlUag loages. sad * r *t twimmtag
la 4*aih, ths a*a# -*sp» from the sitif
1
Il;tc t *per Saranac, ran you realize
how murh David had suffered from
his troubles, and how much he wanted
God when he expressed himself In the
words: “As the hart pante'h after
the water brooks, so pantcth my soul
after thee, 0 God.”
* • •
There are whole chains of lakes !n
the Adirondacks, and from one height
you can see thirty lakes; and there
ere said to be over 800 in the great
wilderness. So near are they to each
other that your mountain guide picks
up and carries the boat from lako to
lake, the small distance between them
for that reason called a ‘'carry.” And
the realm of God's word is one long
chain of bright, refreshing lakes; each
promise a lake, a very short carry be
tween them, and though for ages the
pursued have been drinking out of
them, they are full up to the top of
the green banks; and the same David
describes them, and they seem so near
together that In three different places
he speaks of them as a continuous
river, saying: "There is a river, the
streams whereof shall make glad the
city of God”; "Thou shalt make them
drink of the rivers of thy pleasures”;
"Thou greatly enrlehest it with the
river of God, which is full of water."
But many of you have turned your
back upon that supply, and confront
your tremble, and you are soured with
your circumstances, and you are fight
ing society, and you arc fighting a pur
suing world; and troubles, instead of
driving you into the cool lake of heav
enly comfort, have made you stop and
turn round and lower your head, and
It Is simply antler against tooth. I do
not blame you. Probably under the
same circumstances I would have done
worse. But you are all wrong. You
need to do as the reindeer does In Feb
ruary and March—it sheds its horns.
The rabbinical writers allude to this
resignation of antlers of the stag when
they say of a man who ventures his
money in risky enterprises, he has
hung it on the stag's horns; and a
proverb In the far east tells a man
who has foolishly lost his fortune to
go and find where the deer shed his
horns. My brother, quit the antagon
ism of your circumstances, quit mis
anthropy, quit complaint, quit pitch
ing into your pursuers; be as wise as
next spring will be the deer of the
Adirondacks. Shed your horns!
uuc very many of you who are
wronged of the world—and If In any
assembly between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, it were asked that all
who had been badly treated should
raise both their hands, and full re
sponse should be made, there would
be twice as many hands lifted as per
sons present—I say many of you would
declare, "We have always done the
best we could and tried to be useful,
and why we become the victims of
mallgnmcnt, or invalidism, or mishap,
is inscrutable.’’ Why, do you know
that the finer a deer, and the more
elegant Its proportions, and the more
beautiful it3 bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are to cap
ture It? Had that roebuck a ragged
fur, and broken hoofs, and an obliter
ated eye, and a limping gait, the hunt
ers would have said, "Pshaw! don’t let
us waste our ammunition on a sick
deer.” And the hounds would have
given a few sniffs at the track, and
then darted off in another direction for
better game. But when they see a
deer with antlers lifted in mighty
challenge to earth and sky, and the
sleek hide looks as If it had been
smoothed by Invisible hands, and the
fat sides enclose the richest pasture
that could be nibbled from the bank
of rills so clear they seem to have
dropped out of heaven, and the stamp
of Its foot defies the Jack-shooting lan
tern and the rifle, the horn and the
hound, that deer they will have if they
must needs break their necks in the
rapids. So if there were do noble
stuff in your make-up, if you were a
bifurcated nothing, if you were a for
lorn failure, you would be allowed to
go undisturbed; but the fact that the
whole pack Is In full cry after you is
proof positive that you are spendid j
game and worth capturing. Therefore !
sarcasm draws on you Its "finest j
bead”; therefore the world goes run- |
ning for you with Its best Winchester :
breech-loader. Highest compliment is
it to your talent, or your virtue or
your usefulness. You will be assailed
in proportion to your great achieve
ments. The best and the mightiest |
Being the world ever saw hud set after i
him all the hounds, terrestrial and dia- |
bolic, and they lapped his blood after
the Calvarean mussacre. The world I
paid nothing to Its Redeemer but a |
bramble, four spikes and a cross. ,
Many who have done their best to j
make the world hettet have had such |
a rough time of it that all their pleas
ure Is in anticipation of the next
World, nod they would. If they could,
express their own feelings In the words
of the ll.tnmo* of Nairn at the close
of her lung life, when asked If she ]
would like to live her life over again: I
Would jt u be young agate?
ho would H U 1;
Om- u <r of memory given
Onward I'll hie;
Uf ’e dwrli w »ve forded oVr,
All tut ai real on ahore,
r'uv. would u itiutiuo once im.ra.
With fume au itgd?
tf you might, would you n» w
II»IM« your way ?
Wander through tu.imy wild*.
lainl and astray?
NtgM « gloomy walrhea (ted,
V 'l, )A4. «l| t.tandkg ted,
III I't • Ulil* Ifi'iiu i Ur tiled,
liuiifiitfj. i*u)i
a a a
W’e are told la lintliU-.n. 31 II:
“W ilhwut are d**aa," by ahlrh I run'
clu e these ta a a bole tu nnel of i
boaada uui»td« Ih# gale m| heaven, or, j
a* wb«a a otaater t>m ta a door, hi*
d»-g li*a <>n the aiepa waiting fur him
to to®* o il au th* trouble* uf thlt Ulo
I
may follow us to the shining door, but
they cannot get in "Without are
dogs!" 1 have seen dogs, and owned
dogs, that I would not be chagrined to
see In the heavenly city. Some of the
grand old watch-dcgs that are the
constabulary of the homes in solitary
places, and for years have been the
only protection of wife and child;
some of the shepherd dogs that drive
back the wolves and bark away the
flock from going too near the precipice;
and some of the dogs whose neck and
paw Landseer, the painter, has mado
Immortal, would not find me shutting
them out from the gate of shining
pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard
dogs that have lifted perishing trav
elers out of the Alpine snow; the dog
that John Brown, tho Scotch essayist,
saw ready to spring at the surgeon,
lest, in removing tho cancer, lie too
much hurt the poor woman whom tho
dog felt round to protect, and dogs
that we caressed in our childhood days,
or that In later time laid down on tho
rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated. 1 say, if some
soul entering heaven should happen to
leave the gate ajar, and these faithful
creatures should quietly walk In, it
would not ut all disturb my heaven.
But all those human or brutal bounds
that have chased and torn and lacer
ated the world; yea, all that now bite
or worry or tear to pieces, shall bo
prohibited. "Without are dogs!" No
place there for harsh critics or back
biters, or despoiiers of the reputation
of others! Down with you to tho
kennels of darkness and despair! The
hart has reached the eternal water
brooks, and the panting of the long
chase is quieted in still pastures, and
"there shall he nothing to hurt or des
troy in all God's holy mount."
Oh, when some of you get there, it
will be like what a hunter tells of
when he v as pushing his canoe far up
north in the winter, and amid the
ice-floes, and a hundred miles, as he
thought, from any other human be
ings. He was startled one day as ho
heard a stepping on the ice, and he
cocked the riffe ready to meet any
thing that came near. He found a
man, bare footed and insane from long
exposure, approaching him. Taking
him into his canoe and kindling tires
to warm h!ra, he restored him. found
out where he had lived, and took him
to bis home, and found all the villago
in great excitement. A hundred men
were searching for this lost man, and
his family and friends rushed out to
meet him, and as had been agreed at
bis first appearance, bells were rung,
and guns were discharged, and ban
quets spread, and the rescuer loaded
with presents. Well, when some of you
step out of this wilderness, where you
have been chilled and torn, and some
times lost amid the icebergs, Into the
warm greetings of all the villages of
the glorified, and your friends rush out
to give you welcoming kiss, the news
that there is another soul forever
saved will call the caterers of heaven
to spread the banquet, and the belt
men to lay hold of the rope in tho
tower, and while the chalices click at
the feast and the bells clang from the
turrets, it will be a scene so uplifting
I pray God I may be there to take
part in the celestial merriment. And
now do you not think the prayer in
Solomon's song, where he compared
Christ to a reindeer in the night, would
make an exquisitely appropriate pero
ration to my sermon: ‘Until the day
break and the shadows flee away, be
thou like a roe or a young hart upon
the mountains of Bether”?
READING OF BOOKS.
Weeding Out All the Trash 1‘usslble la
Keif-Defense.
The ability to appreciate or the will
ingness to study a book, a great pic
ture or even a great play is rare, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, If the prosperity
of art or literature depended upon this
cultivated minority art and literature
would be sorry businesses. That was
the fact not so many generations ago.
and poets and painters starved and
begged and truckled to unworthy •‘pa
trons” all over Europe. It Is doubtful
if the proportion of strong minds has
greatly increased since those unhappy
days. There has been, however, an
enormous increase In education, and
the reading, the play-going and the
picture-seeing habits have grown ac
cordingly. None will pretend that that
is not a good thing for art and litera
ture. and no one but a dyspeptic dic
tator would contend that these new
readers must read the things which
the dictator considered best for them.
The people who read for education
will read only so fast as they can as
similate. They will, perforce, confine
themselves to a very small part of
the printed output, and will, in self
defense, weed out all the trash possi
ble. They will also read those books
which appeal to their own minds and
will speedily learn lo escape being
lured into the perusal of books which
are dry husks to them, no matter bow
vital they may be to book review
ers. This class of readers Is small.
It Is the intellectual arUtt* racy. I'n
doubtedly It is a Hue thing to have thta
cacte increased Children should its
taught how to reuei books and that
their rdtiiatiuu stupa ooi) with their
death-bed.
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