AS A Till ST ANTIDOTE; FREE TRADE A REMEDY WOF.SE THAN WORTHLESS. * •** Urtp Mi !ka>(r«nt Cklrb the Ci*i4iittU H m Li frrtcrifc* for » !'»«»••« N»t Li \r«-4 **f S»*h treat rfc’.p* the and ta*»; com- ! pMr arntmct >-«•• to the Have m* >«r free trad" coy? e'ih that "the custom* tariff t*. the mother of trusts'' l* that mhirh ■* to be found in the , paper « »utr; r« t by l»r. Samuel i Adam* fliiBli'ttrinn 'to the proceed i - tL* f'*j. J.o - jaferetiie of >• ,} teft **r t*-YV In the current Issue of the Amor m Economist this iatemt court : •:mi I* reproduced in full. I? will U noticed that the paper sub mitted in * half of the American policy of p" v tion to American labor and i dtsatr? is in no mean* an apolopy for Dr. S •**« * i ! as t ’-w tit:ah «f apologii ■ us 1 r th»- Ap> »tl Cr»« J or the 3er a -c on tli- ii'iuat He take* the ©f - mrn Urn defrnaive—hour effec ’it* > a re; Hay of his very forcible par*r mill ahom. * * e t* *;. assamed by I r Robinson * a : at 1 :n 'b< title of bis rontribs* tUm. "Fir Trade a* a Trust Antidote." 'w r t : .. . - d *-* that fre- trad-* i* to a * matry amrh a* our* a calamity and » ur— the writer lo-e* no time a d»attitude of rigorous at tack upon that doctrine which »'*ns wo me’; a.- a theory and proves mo *»r* ■ j'M. -!y destructive in practice. "A Lh a mril-a.med shaft of irony he : - : • ; : ' ti ■■ ’t*' f; • fader* ar* eaeaie* of tras‘>. ail'd V snow* hey mat question that it * not the trusts, but the protective ariff fat they w :*h to destroy. He ««»s; Acottmicg however, for me purpose o' this disntawios, that the enemies of protection .are also the rMOUtt of ttturt* m equal * u* «-nt.r. it ought to lie t..4.:u to every unbiased mind that the rene-dy for trust oppression is cot to tie fa. d :c the «>ath of domestic own petit ion. At fea»t we should not mak* a h«-udloag rush for that remedy untj ** ate *an that it is the right one Bat tor let us be WUU and pa tient and Inform osrwelvso a* to the pt* ae ihari*ter of the disease before attempting to diagnose and prescribe. When we hail have don*- this it is nut impowibfe that the trust antidote r :. :• .ng in the shape of «f fert..e Jaw? bom. not of goesswork and gtuati**. bat of knowledge ga med from te#t and exper.eer*. * If 4-i.pertmMU ha* taught anything. I* ha* t*...ht that in a country such a* u»-.r* * • . Lm.ifes* latent resour awaiting development you cannot pluck the' fruit of proopertty from the tree of free trade. It doe* not grow there Ekn m-® gather grapes of thorn*, or figs at thistle*' On general prit. fifes the remedy for monopoly 1« not the Jim:tutir**>t: • •• 4 ampeution. is i.nci- arly pointed out t> Dr. ttob iSMS. He empbasir-w the fact that * nn*pe«* ion ** the only menace which the trust h*-* to fear, and that to de stroy that cotupeCttkia would be to play into the hands of the trusts. It would mev ably lead, first, to a sweep ing redo lion of American wages and of the American standard of living and. a-and. to the formation of the international trust—a trust composed of wage payers against whom the wage earner* of America would be p- • rfe . :i. the' a home* of the advan tage which they now possess by reason of • - • i -A*. : • ■ tar.fl The fact* as to tin plate—that, in Prado*! operation, the ostensible duty Of 14 cent* a pound Is reduced to about 4 a cent per pound, and that while American makers were advanc ing the price cents a bo* the Welsh tuckers put up their prue $11- a box —there lt d other relevant facts are cited by I*. KobmsOO to show that the America* tin pint* trust has not yet fee* ((&«'•.-.i of ibe i.rime of arbl feanif adv- r ng price-- u> a point not Justiftafi by the large increase* that h^ve take* place in the rod of mate rials wages, etc. and that in free tr- > Great Brunt ’he advance has to- 8 double that put tn farce in pro -ed A in eric* He aiaa shows that. vheTcat Amen' ah tin plate workers ha • • s granted an advance of Lj per c*-»t over the wages they received under :fe- Aiison taw. the tin plate worker* of Wales ba»o fees compelled to sot i.t to a l«i per rent reduction of the it - ages. i be u porutm of in. lkotnn puc's art., k* Wull— with po ets veil put On til# «jue»:. *i of tariff and Vag> * be says. '"The t|oestkSA of tie effect of a pro ten '.riff upon ha* been m ' •- ", v. • pratmt jr ap^a the part of the enc »*es of pmtertlop; somewhat unwise H la*, -t iau»t appear, for no one, t brlw-ee « ia!*u» that a redact low m w *ge* baa yet been put tn force by the treat* The fact la that in the genera, a* Tjtx* at Wage*, estimate at 1* per rent for the entire country, which ha* h «•*■» pth«* tn rtitwrtkm with the pb*«we ready to prescribe. Quoting from the remarks of Dr. tv.n- rel Adams Rokinson at the Chicago trust conference, I would say: "The .u >r' fir> h i> not yet been reached, though some of the quacks would have • t.k otherwise. Their antidote is an old and a well-known one. It was * 1 in Ive*. and we all know how it worked. Do we want any more of it? 1 think uot:” i : - the operation of the protective prin ■ [lie. The American wage earner has . tteljr had an object lesson along the line of tariff and wages. The lesson iu.-ted four years, and be is not likely to forget it.” The ca*e against free trade as an an dote for trust* is pungently summed up as follows: "The free-trade advocate of the re moval of prot ection as a trust antidote finds himself upon the horns of a di >mma. Either we need protection to ! tl • home market against outside mpetition. or we do not need protec tion, and can get along equally well without it—better, our free trade iriends tell us. If we do not need pra te* T n it- removal would be valueless a tru>t antidote. If we do need pro :• * n in order to maintain our hold pon a market with a consuming ca : a< :tv e*timated at nine billions year ly. then the removal of protection would work such havoc w.tb our coun try's prosperity as the gloomiest of pessimists would find it well nigh tm po--ible to adequately foreshadow. I am not a pessimist. 1 am a protection 't a very different thing now and al ways. Protectionists in the past have bnown how to confront a danger with a defense. They will know how* to n.‘*et the trust question at the proper time and in the proper way. They have never failed in an emergency; they will not fail now. A remedy will be fi rth< Lutng whenever the pathological n rii nt arrives. We all remember the p:at ti*loner who could cure but one -i .t> and w ho al w ays threw the pa in nt into a fit and then prescribed for the fit. History does not. however, re nal that he was invariably successful :a urmg the fit. The stage of fits has n : jet been reached, though some of 'he qua< ks would have us think other wise. Their antidote is on old and a well-known one. It was tried In 1892 and we all know how* it worked. Do w want any more of it? 1 think not.” Hair I »♦-31.1*67. Is it strange that the forcgm manufacturers should grumble at the loss of this trade? We have used all the woolen goods we needed, we have found no fault with the quality, and the prices have not been unreasonable. The difference is that we have used American goods, made in American factories by Ameri an working men and women, and have bept our money in the American family rstead of paying to foreigners.—San dusky iOhioi Register. Tbe VV»ce-Earner*» Share. A dispatch from Youngstown. Ohio, •«-d Nov. 6. reads as follows: “At a wage conference today be **n James H. Nutt, of the Iron Mun fa< turers' association. and a commit t*. representing the Amalgamated As sociation of Iron and Steel Workers, tli wage scale for November and De mber was placed on a basis of 1 6-10 ft.t.- wh: h makes the wages of pud !■ rs $5.50. an increase of 50 cents per ten. This is the highest price paid for puddling since lfcSO.” 7 ? us does th*- wage-earner come in for his share of the general prosperity. H has not tx»en overlooked in the divi n of benefits. It is one of the glories *>; the protective system that it always looks after the wage-earner. Hh»t Dm Tlii* Mnuit American Economist: “Every wool grower of the country should ask his -agree* man or senator whether the • u-toms authorities throughout the #•*. mtry are collecting the duty on wool intended bv the Dingley tariff.” This the statement of a reliable authority :n cio-e touch with domestic wool in terest,. What does it mean? it means that the Wilson-Gorman turlff act that allowed wolves to run large and destroy sheep has been superseded by an act that has fenced up the wolves so that they will have v* either devour one another or go hungry. They cannot feast on mutton t i any great extent while the Dingley bill remains intac I (HI i Jour nal. A Kiutciu* Demand. In a late interview' the western man ager of one of the chief watch making factories of the world stated that he | could sell the entire output of the I works. 2.000 watches a day, out of hand : f'*r cash, and furthermore added that *he demand was for the better move [ menu. The demand he described as • leas than desperate." If McKinley prosperity continues at this rate we may have riots in the cities on the part of people who are unable to get rid of their money fast enough.—Topeka «Kan.) Capital. FOOLISH FALLACY. The Foreign I.nl>el Krgarded as a Guaranty of Superior Ouality. A short time ago the wife of a prom inent manufacturer desired to present to a friend enough silk dress goods for two costumes. A sample was shown to the friend, and it was explained that this sample was of domestic silks. The friend to whom the silks were to be presented, a lady of old New England stock, intimated that she would much prefer to have foreign goods. The suggestion was accepted, and the don- ; or. accompanied by her friend, picked out some siik dress goods at one of the prominent retail shops in New York, j which were accepted by the friend, 1 and she was very much delighted at the change from domestic to foreign goods, as she thought. It happened that the husband of the good lady who was making the present was a silk manu facturer. and on arrival at home, when the question had been settled, and the foreign goods selected, he examined them, and by a peculiar mark upon the goods which had been accepted, he showed the ladies that the alleged for eign goods were made by his own fac tory in this country. Such incidents as this illustrate the difficult os attending the introducing of Ab African goods among a class of consu iters who cling to the notion that a foreign label is a guaranty of su perior quality. It is not inappropriate in this connection to state the fact that a large amount of the alleged foreign silks sold in the stores of prominent cities with foreign brands woven into the goods are made right here in this country under the opera tions of the Dingley tariff. Canada'* Lumber Embargo. In retaliation against the United States for the Dingley tariff law Can ada a few years ago adopted a measure which discouraged the exportation of lumber to this country. Certain Mich igan men.who at that time already had contracts with the province of Ontario for lumber cutting privileges, immedi ately protested that this course was a violation of a constitutional guarantee. With difficulty, and after a long series of delays, the Michigan parties have at last obtained an order authorizing them to bring suit against the prov ince to terminate this interference. The recent addition of Mr. Stratton to tne Ontario cabinet is construed as an indication that the province means to make it easier for the United States to get lumber in Canada than formerly.— New York Tribune. No Chance Wanted. The Democrats in the different states seem to be running their cam paign on the theory that the people are tired of prosperity and want a change. Well, they don’t want any change just yet.—Louisiana i,Mo.) News. A Successful Auctioneer. A Nodaway county farmer had a public sale recently which amounted to over $7,000. of which $5,000 was paid in cash. General Prosperity must have auctioneered the sale. — Springfield lMo.) Republican. C*reat Promoter*. Today we stand at the head of iron producing nations, and the great pro moters of our unexampled advance have been protective tariffs and stim ulated inventions —Moravian Falls (N. C.j Yellow Jacket, i_ Trading in the Transvaal. Ordinarily the Transvaal trading store is of galvanized iron, upon which the sun beats down with all its intensity, making the air within al most unbearable. But the trader does not mind this. Dressed in a pair of trousers, a light pair of shoes and a flannel shirt, he reclines on a conven ient part of the counter and with the aid of his pipe passes the time until a customer arrives. Should the customer be a white man. the storekeeper and he will, as a rule, reti-e into the little side room for a few minutes, and a bottle and a couple of glasses will be produced. Should he, on the other hand, be a negro, the trader will glance at him casually, and. without moving, will ask him what he wants. He does ' this because Kaffirs often want some thing which they know the storekeeper has not got. The shelves in the back of the shop are piled up with gaudy blankets, clothing of all descriptions, tinned goods, clocks and vases, cheap ‘•jewelry,” and various other commod ities. Below these shelves are the bins where the sugar, flour, meal and coffee are kept. On one side are small shelves where patent medicines stand. Out side the store, on the stoop, are the agricultural implements, plows, har rows, new American inventions of all sizes and descriptions that are too big or too heavy to be easily carried away. Teacher—“What s the meaning of ‘elocution,’ Harold?” Pupil—“It’s the way people are put to death in some states.”—Puck. TAL31AGFS SERMON. PILLARS OF SMOKE. LAST SUM DAY'S SUBJECT. Te*«! Solomon'* Sonic 3: «»: AVlto 1* Th':* Tn»t lometli Out of the Wildemoti Like Pillars of Swope?—Suffering of ckport and never seen Niagara, Forty-four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and it is about time that somebody preached a sermon ; recognizing this strange, weird, beau tiful, elastic, charming, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across the Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke at Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke ci the pit, the smoke of the volcanic hills j when God touches them, and in my ■ text the glorious church of God coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of j smoke. In the first place, these pillars of smoke in my text indicate the suffering the church of God has endured. What do I mean by the church? I mean not a building, not a sect, but those who, in all ages, and all lands, and of all be liefs, love God, and are trying to do , right. For many centuries the heav- ' ens have been black with the smoke ; of martyrdom. If set side by side you could girdle the earth with the fires ; of persecution. Rowland Taylor burned at Hadleigh; Latimer burned at Ox- < ford; John Rogers burned at Smith field; John Hooper burned at Glouces ter; John Huss burned at Constance; Lawrence Saunders burned at Coven try; Joan of Arc burned at Rouen. Protestants have represented Catho lics as having a monopoly of persecu tors, but both Protestant and Catholic have practiced infamous cruelties. The Catholics, during the reign of Hun neric, were by Protestants put to the ' worst tortures, stripped of their cloth ing. hoisted in the air by pulleys with weights suspended from their feet,then let down, and ears and eyes, nose and tongue were amputated, and red-hot plates of iron were put against the tcnderest parts of their bodies. George Bancroft, the historian, says 1 of the state of Maryland; "In the laud which Catholics had opened to Protest ants mass might not be said publicly; ! no Catholic priest or bishop might ut- 1 ter his faith in a voice of persuasion; j no Catholic might'teach the young. If a wayward child of a Papist would not become an apostate, the law' wrested ! for him from his parents a share of their property. Such were the meth ods adopted to prevent the growth of Popery." Catholicism as well as Protestantism has had its martyrs. It does seem as ! if when any one sect got complete dom inancy in any land, the devil of perse cution and cruelty took possession of that sect. Then see the Catholics after the Huguenots. See the Gentiles after the Jews in Touraine, where a great pit was dug and fire lighted at the bot tom of the pit, and one hundred and sixty Jewish victims were consumed. See the Presbyterian parliament of England, more tyrannical in their treatment of opponents than had been the criminal courts. Persecution against the Baptist by Paedo-Bap tists. Persecution of the Established Church against the Methodist church. Persecution against the Quakers. Per secution against the Presbyterians. Un der Emperor Diocletian one hundred j and forty-four thousand Christians ■ were massacred, and seven hundred thousand more of them died from ban- j ishment and exposure. Witness the sufferings of the Wal denses, of the Albigenses, of the Nes- ! torians. Witness St. Bartholomew’s massacre. Witness the Duke of Alva driving out of life eighteen thousand Christians. Witness Herod, and Nero, j and Decius, and Hildebrand, and Tor quemada, and Earl of Montfort, and Lord Claverhouse, who when told that j he must give account for his cruelties, j said: “I have no need to account to man, and as for God I will take him in my own hands.” A red line runs through the church history of nineteen i hundred years, a line of blood. Net by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions must we count those slain for Christ’s sake. No wonder John Milton put the groans of the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing: “Avenge. O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.” The smoke of martyrs’ homes and martyrs’ bodies if roiling up all at once would have eclipsed the noonday sun. and turned the brightest day the world ever saw into a midnight. ‘ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?” Has persecution ceased? Ask that young man who is trying to be a Chris tian in a store or factory, where from morning to night he is the butt of all the mean witticisms of unbelieving employes. Ask that wife whose hus band makes her fondness for the house of God. and even her kneeling prayer by the bedside a derision, and is no more fit for her holy companionship than a filthy crow would be fit com panion for a robin or a golden oriole. Compromise with the world and sur render to its conventionalities and It may let you alone, but all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Be a theater-going, card playing. wine-drinking, round-dancing Christian, and you may escape criti cism and social pressure. But be an up “nd down, out and out follower of Ihrist. and worldling will wink to worldling as he speaks your nair ““ ' nd you will be put to many a doggerel, and ! snubbed by those not worthy to black- I en your oldest shoes. When the bridge at Ashtabula broke, and let down the most of the carload of passengers to Instant death. Mr, P. P. Bliss was seated on one side of the aisle of the car writing down a Christian song which lie was composing, and on the other side a group of men were play ing cards. Whose landing place in eternity would you prefer—that of P. P. Bliss, the Gospel singer, or of the card-players? A great complaint comes from the theaters about the ladies’ high hats, because they obstruct the view of the stage, and a lady reporter asked me what I thought about it. and I told her that if the indecent pictures of ac tresses in the show windows were ac curate pictures of what goes on in many of the theaters, night by night, then it would be well if the ladies’ hats were a mile high, so as to completely obstruct the vision. If professed Christians go to such places during the week, no one will ever persecute them for their religion, for they have none, i and they are the joke of hell. But let them live a consecrated and Christian life and they will soon run against sneering opposition. For a compromise Christian char acter an easy time now. but for conse crated behavior, grimace and carica ture. For the body, thanks to the God of free America, there are now no swords or fiery stakes, but for the souls of thousands of the good, in a figura tive sense, rack and gibbet and Tor quemada. The symbol of the domestic and social and private and public suf fering of a great multitude of God’s dear children, pillars of smoke. What an exciting scene in India, when, dur ing the Sepoy rebellion, a regiment of Highlanders came up and found the dead body of one of General Wheeler's ; daughters, who had been insulted and mauled and slain by the Sepoys. So great was the wrath against these murderers that the Scotch regiment sat down and, cutting off the hair of this dead daughter of Gen. Wheeler, they divided it among them, and each one counted the number of hairs given him, and each one took an oath, which was executed, that for each hair of the murdered daughter they would dash out the life of a bestial Sepoy, j But as we look over the story of those j who in all ages have suffered for the truth, while we leave vengeance to j the Lord, let us band together in one solemn vow, one tremendous oath, after having counted the host of the martyrs, that for each one of those glorious men and women who died for truth an immortal shall live—live with j God and live forever. But as I already hinted in the first sentence of this sermon, nothing can be more beautiful than the figures of smoke on a clear sky. You can see what you will in the contour of this volatile vapor, now enchanted castles, now troops of horsemen, now* bannered procession, now winged couriers, now a black angel of wrath under a spear of the sunshine thrned to an angel of light, and now from horizon to hori zon the air is a picture gallery filled with masterpieces of which God is the artist, morning clouds of smoke born in the sunrise, and evening clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sepulchres of the sunset. The beauty of the transfigured smoke is a divine symbol of the beauty of the church. The fairest of all the fair is she. Do not call those persecutors of whom I spoke the church. They are the parasites of the church, not the church itself. Her mission is to cover the earth with a supernatural gladness, to open all the prison doors, to balsam all the wounds, to moss all the graves, to burn up the night in the fireplace of a great morning, to change iron handcuffs into diamonded wristlets, to turn the whole race around, and where as it faced death, commanding it, •Right about face for heaven!” Ac cording to the number of the spires of the churches in all our cities, towns and neighborhoods, are the good homes, the world prosperities, and the pure morals and the happy souls. It is demonstrated to all honest men that it is not so certain that William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis,'” or 1 Longfellow wrote "Hiawatha" as that 1 God, by the hand of prophet and apos- j tie, wrote the Bible. All the wise men in science and law and medicine and literature and merchandise are grad ually coming to believe in Christianity, and soon there will be no people who disbelieve in it except those conspicu ous for lack of brain or men with two families, who do not like the Bible be cause it rebukes their swinish propen sities. The time is hastening when there will be no infidels left except libertines and harlots and murderers. Millions j of Christians where once there w*ere thousands, and thousands where once there were hundreds. What a bright evening this, the evening of the nine teenth century! And the twentieth century, which is about to dawn, will, in my opinion, bring universal victory for Christ and the church, that now is marching on with step double-quick, or, if you prefer the figure of the text, j is being swept on in the mighty gales i of blessing, imposing and grand and majestic and swift like pillars of smoke. Oh, come into the church through Christ the door—a door more glorious than that of the temple of Hercules, which had two pillars, and one was gold, and the other emerald! Come In today! The world you leave behind is a poor world, and it will burn and pass off like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration will start in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, which, in some places, have for many years been burn- j ing and eating into the heart of the j mountains, or whether it shall begin near the California geysers, or whether from out the furnaces of Cotopaxi, and Vesuvius, and Stromboli, it shall burst ' forth upon the astonished nations, I make no prophecy; but all geologists tell us that we stand on the lid of a world the heart of which is a raging, roaring, awful flame, and some day God. will let the red monsters out of their imprisonment, and New York on Are in 1835, and Charleston on fire in 1865, and Chicago on fire in 1871, and Boston on Are in 1873. were only like one spark from a blacksmith's forge as compared with that last universal blaze, which will be seen in other worlds. But gradually the flames will lessen, and the world will become a great living coal, and that will taka on ashen hue. and then our ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the mountains will smoke, and the valleva will smoke, and the islands will smoke, i and the seas will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and the five continents will j be five pillars of smoke. But the black vapors will begin to lessen in height and density, and then will become hardly visible to those who look upon it from the sky galleries, and after a while from just one point there will j curl up a thin, solitary vapor, and then even that will vanish, and there will be nothing left except the charred ruins of a burned-out wmrld. the corpse of a dead star, the ashes of an extin guished planet, a fallen pillar of smoke. But that will not interfere with your investments if you have taken Christ as your Savior. Secure heaven as your eternal home, and you can look down upon a dismantled, disrupted, and demolished earth without any per turbation. “When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow. And heaven’s last thunders shake the earth below. Thou, undismayed, shalt o’er the ruins smile. And light thy torch at nature’s funeral pile.” — The Ooeen as a Mother. The queen, although kind, has been a despotic mother and grandmother, and has concerned herself, says "M. A. P.,” more than the average parent with the bringing up of her descendants. Be sides carefully supervising her chil dren's education, selecting or approv ing their friends, and providing their husbands and wives, she has rigorously controlled their pin money, of which there never has been any wasting in the precincts of old Windsor. Toys and gewgaws in the royal nursery were limited, but there never was any lack of books. Flach child had its own min iature book case, and was responsible for keeping it in order, as well as for a periodical report showing just how many and what books had been read. The report was submitted to the queen at the end of every month. The chil dren frequently preferred to pass the time playing, making out their list at random, but were invariably caught. In this respect Princess Louise is re ported to have proved the worst delin quent, and it is said that on an aver age her royal highness spent a whole day of each month in an empty room, as punishment for this offense alone. On one occasion, when a child of 8, she reported that her literary food for the month had consisted of a few "fairy tales,” “The Meditations of Marcus Au relius” and “The Life of Zwingli.” The queen’s suspicions being aroused, she questioned her daughter as to who these personages were. Unhesitatingly came the reply that Marcus Aurelius had discovered America and Zwingli was a lamous German actor! Majlc Figure Sine. A curious coincidence is noted in the fact that nearly all the great mining discoveries of recent times have been made in years ending with the magic figure nine. Thus the famous gold find in California fell in the year 1849. Ten years later, in 1859. remark able discoveries of the same metal were made simultaneously in Australia and British Columbia, causing a great rush .of fortune hunters to these points. In 1869 the famous Comstock lode find be came known to the world; in 1879 the gold-bearing region around Leadville and Tombstone. Ariz., began to attract attention, and in 18S9 the diggings at Clover Creek and in Lower California became the objective points of great multitudes of excited and anxious seekers after sudden wealth. And now again, at the end of another de cade, history repeats itself once more. The remarkable gold finds recently made at Cape Nome, surpassing in richness and extent anything yet dis covered in the Yukon district, bid fair to make this year. 1899. as notable as any in the annals of gold mining. Leslie's Weekly. How a Certain Duel Was StaTed Off. Lord March (afterward the Marquis of Queensberry) was not accustomed to view a duel with unbecoming appre hension, and usually attended an affair with an air of enjoyment that often was decidedly displeasing and embar rassing to his adversary. But he was served at last with that sauce which the proverb explains is for the gander as well as for the goose. It was when he was challenged to fight an Irish sportsman. Lord March appeared on the ground accompanied by a second, a surgeon and other witnesses. His op ponent arrived soon afterward with a similar retinue, but added to by a per son who staggered under the weight of a polished oak coffin, which he de posited on the ground, end up, with its lid facing Lord March and his par ty. Lord March became decidedly un comfortable when he read the inscrip tion plate, engraved with his own name and title, and the date and year of death, and peace was patched up. Well A creed. A story told me the other day—cer tainly told for new, but good enough to be old: On one of the recent warm days a sour-visaged, middle-aged, fussy lady got on one of the smoking seats on an open car in the subway. Next her sat a man who was smoking a cigar. More than that, the lady, sniffing, easily made out that the man had been eat ing onions. Still more than that, she had the strongest kind of suspic ion that he had been drinking beer. The lady fussed and wriggled, and grew angrier, and looked at the man scornfully. Presently she could en dure it no longer. She looked square ly at him and said: “If you were my husband, sir, I'd give you a dose of poison!” The man looked at her. “If I were your husband,” said he, “I'd take it,”—Boston Transcript. Lmi We For*ct. From Brooklyn Life: Wife—I re ceived a letter from cur country cous ins today saying three of them would like to visit us for a month or so. I sent a reply this afternoon. Husband (anxiously)—What did you tell them we had? Wife—Smallpox! Husband —Great Scott! You’ve put your foot in it now. That’s what you told them last year when they threatened to come! The higher we rise, the more iso lated we become; all elevations are cold.—De Bouffices. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON I—JANUARY 7-LUKE 2: 1-16. The Rlrth or Jesus—‘‘Thou Shalt Call His Name Jesus: Tor H« shall SaT# His l-eo,.le from Their Sin.” — Matt. 1: 21. After‘Vh1 V l,ine 10 i,a>< those days.” birth o ' V Jrth» *’“> before the Vususn.”ThS A de0r"" from •Caesar nS.u TU ’ u ‘*ml'etor of Rome. "That world*the-.’11 X,arly lhe wbole known ‘vi' F e '*rb r,'*ers writing off. topjing. or entering the names, profes •' ”h» “/VT* alul families of subjec ts vi. w Tr b,‘r r*?lster' «*» tally With a u to taxation. n' v An-lv his t,,xine " e;c- Read as in ‘ . Us*"s ,ne hist enrolment " 01 * h:s took place as a first of rs>Tia " Wh' U QaSri,lias was governor 3 "His own e «y.” The city of his an *'h'r family records were Kept.—Am. i cm. 4. And Joseph also went up ***■' c}ty of f»avid. which is called Bethlehem. . mother of Jesus lived m Nazareth of (Jalile- but the prophet had foretold that the Messiah should he ?.rn J_n Bethlehem, the city of David ,llc- ..... an,i ,h;< was the only fitting p ace, for he was the heir to David s kingdom, in whom should be fulfilled the premises to him that his house and his t hrone^ should !>•■ established forever (2 l^atn. .: ltd; lor the Messiah’s kingdom was to be the completion and fruition of David's kingdom. »>. With Mary," who also was of the lineage of David. In a Roman census women were not obliged to come in per son. though they paid the poll tax 0. And . . . while they were there.” In Bethlehem. • - "Wrapped him in swaddling clothes.” Not clothes 1 gularly made, but strips of cloth three or four inches wide and sev» oral fret long, wound around the child. And laid him it' a manger.” etc. "Th* animals were out at the time, and thf manger was not beuig used.”—InL Cric c om. "No room for them." Because so many oth> rs had come for the same pur pose. or other business. “Inn.” Cara vansary. 35. ‘>hfphf-rds abiding: in the field/* Near Bethlehem, “it was in tb se pas tures that David sj>ent his yo ih and fought the lion and the hear’’ (I am. 17; «d. 3a).—Int. Crit. Com. “Keeptn : watch over their dock by night.” Thie.es. wild beasts, and the dangers of tl * rough precipices form the chief reasons for a night-watch ov» r the flock.—Prof. Isaac Hall. ^ “And. lo. the angel." not " he” but "an" angel, “of the Lord." one s nt from heaven, “came upon them.” Rather, as R. V.. “stood by them." “And the glory of the Lord." The radiant brightness which In ail ages has been the 1 >st sym bol and manifestation of God’s nature, expressing wisdom, love, power, purity, mystery, eternity, omnipresence. "The light that never was on sea or land.” This accompanied the angel, and showed him to be the authorized divine messen ger. “Anil they were sore afraid." Lit erally. feared a areat fear. 10. "Good tidings.” The word from which our “gospel” comes. They an nounced the best news the world had ever heard, the news of the Saviour who would fill the whole world with heavenly glory, like that then shining on the Held of Bethlehem. “To all people.” To all ages, all nations all classes, ail colors. The gospel is the universal religion, as broad as the human race: and the Joy is more intense to each one because it is for all. 11. “For unto you is bom ... a Saviour." One who should save them from their sins, their worst and most dangerous enemies. “Jesus" means Sav iour. “Christ.” “The Anointed One," the Messiah, whom they had long been hop ing and praying for. He is called “Anointed" because he had been divinely set apart for this work, as kings and high priests were sat apart by anointing with oil. “The Lord." The King of kings and Lord of lords. 12. “And this shall be a sign unto you,” that the words spoken were true: anu a guiding sign, like the sign to the wise men, showing how they might know what child was the one referred to. 13. "And suddenly,” as when the eyes of Elisha's servant were opened to see the mountains around him filled with an gelic chariots and horses of fire. “A mul titude of the heavenly host.” The angelic choirs, the cherubim and seraphim, who knew most about the value of the salva tion brought to men. All heaven was moved with joy. 14. “Glory to God.” For the coming of Jesus was the highest expression of God's glory, the fulness of his nature. h:s love, his goodness, which passed before Moses when he asked to see God’s glory. “In the highest." (1) In the highest strains. Only the most exquisite music and song are worthy to express this theme. “And on earth peace." Including all welfare and prosperity and blessing. That which belongs to heaven, which makes heaven what it is. all conceivable good to body and to soul, is coming to earth through Jesus Christ, and has come in no small degree. "Good will toward men.” Jesus expresses God's feelings toward men. He does not hate them for their sins; he is not repelled by their abominations so re pulsive to his nature; but he loves them in spite of all. and does all that divine love and wisdom and power can do to save them from sin and its consequences. SAYINGS FROM VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. I chose my wife as she did her wed ding gown, not for a fine, glossy sur face. but for such qualities as would wear well. As some men gaze with admiration at the colors of a tulip or the wings of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. The hours we pass with happy pros pects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. The single effort with which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of jus tice. The separation of friends and fami lies is. perhaps, one of the most dis tressful circumstances attendant of penury. The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction. Those relations which describe the tricks and vices of mankind, by in creasing our suspicion of lire, retard our success. That melancholy which is excited by objects of pleasure or inspired by sounds of harmony, soothes the heart instead of corroding it. Even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstances, but on constitution. Had I but bestowed half the pains in learning a trade that I have in learning to be a scoundrel I might have been a rich man at this day. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent it seldom has justice enough to ac cuse. The good are joyful and serene, like travelers that are going towards home; the wicked but by intervals happy,like travelers that are_f<*ing into exile.