” THEY WANT A CHANGE F fell - TRADERS w V RECONCILED TO THI AMIRliAR POUCV. *fr4» m» Moat Im. Thri «■« Havta* «#•< t<*«a la t aaftUaaaa — -* HrU( a Mla-* nr at the Amen- j -an. Eruttctiir Tar:t 1-agne The ’ T ~&ea c *» prufeaae* U» hr utu i»le to «*n-ier»t_ -»i « by the je« a ahutod per *at in eatarng H* -* trmly rr*ri»rad 1 *todt prone i:i.i* .* doomed to ea:.action aa an Amenoa* ftarai policy that IVe*.i#tit h k.nier am! the n iae*t •Old moot .nflaential leader* of the iUpuh. mm are their way a.-mg toward trm trade and "are cuaiert Aged and t-rat.ii-r and then trsn 4U«i,Uf diahand ww th* day tut th* ire* trade ro* • *. f iiw of th* Jh» Ta k Tl»>l Were r. rfw. a* i.*. * 9»(itet there ap peared jb many awvspnpHX of the i ’»1 ted mate*, mm* o* theta free trad •• teaiflVi, Waeh.arta* dispatches. d*:» off Jar ■**, IP* (Utstaihiss state s.*r» ha** lipoo fix.:*.- fast biased *y the tr*aaar> l-orese of statistics to th* *fv tut a fhe year )«ut *iu*eJ tie fii,-r*-..xai accord's* u» the Time*— amounted ta mote taaa irawvWhh. and of this «Sormoa* mb mxcre than rhree-t ■ th* a a* export* and le*» than two*#f£hs import* Th* mi fcgnre* are * tv: |T»> *,2* »tj. ti ns <*M .<41. tM exporta o*er im port* §#TS<4*JC!. "The n.*"0 of ex ports m .ihfper tham .» may pm-edisc • ear except :•>* Of th* etport*. man affa-'Twree form a larger proportion than ever before, wh.jr of 'the .sport* . *aa material* f ? - r -*»■ of mas af art are** ton* a iarcer priori im thaa eaet be- | foe Off the export* more' than Jk per eemt are manufacture# apatsat 26 per • et: i» the dura! year 1*67 22 per cost a Ian* 3h per >*-*t .a lhkS l€ per cent as 1*7* and 12 per cent, in Ittt tiw imparts SE per' real are arti-le* is a « -she coni it. cm which enter into the ratios* prone* w« of 4c meat Jr : ad a* try. «*C* net 26 per *u* n !*S5». 24 per -ent • 1MC 25 per ,*t' .a !6%* and 24 per ceSt is !6h*> !»e* thi* hk< a* tboopi protection ia operat ...ax a* "a h acr«a<* to the < i pun* un of the aduetrie* of the roan- . try* a ad therefor* ' mast go”* Ie*» this tout as rhoact the leader* mg the BepOiMirsw party would tie *am pe;4ed to abandon protect ton. "or the masufaetorer* a .11 abandon tnem "? Ion this looks as thongs the isdu* trial -xfitiliiy of the t'sited flSKtoa wore dmaaiisked with the working* of prx> teethas asd were anaiooa to see : '-ads 'take its place* I*•:,*** th.* *.»» a* th i : • A!iir•,. «»* he* * w Tar,..IT imga* feed so farther Oeooas for enxstewar and ought fa die band forth w.th? There are Sian* wiasnfartarers who w«uid like to see protect Mm d splac ed asd free trade installed as th* Amen *wa policy: ho: tkry are am American moawforfaom. Tne manufacturer* who hasher tei' free trade are foreign man afar* n*ers for th* matt part, wxta sere asd there a "tnaaufactarer' of free trait aewtimea? like the JCew York TiOwes... klCMf or PPOCkLkS IW *«»;*a a m •*•*>**.( '.* I a* *•• «** lW 1 rvlt.il>. t >.u* t. A» a matter erf record aad a» ;1 lus tra* an h* march erf Idea* la a *e*Haa *4 tfc* cuostr/ which for man, that, a* r»l| Fean has aloud fur the dor t r-v* of a* 11.as ia the dearest market aad tmf .as in the ciaapaai market. bat •fc- i now seems to he ua tbr point of **• « I new ; *fct OB the question of protect.' * is fire* trade. *re append he f» lo* .ns draft of a memonal to ' •be mngreai af tfc* i sited Stale*. is trt*a»-*t by Mr la«t»r*u m tfc* •*eursA t*rfr »eante aad i»> that !*od> 1 Adapted. M*.at or al to our senator* and rep* r»«*atatf*«a is teirw* is reference j to a l«t| am Kgy ptiae asd ions eta pied eottaa. or os tfce importation » thereof * * krrt» The p*e*eaf price of Ians- . »t*pi'«d m mm »iaad lattoa la sow far * heto* tbr root of prod net tua rauainj* a ia;«r area af our state to Unruu-h asd a os * profitable .nuustr/ is ***#» asd do asd. WlMMM. The lorn prune referred to -a Sot dee to o.erpruduc-t tun as ia 1 a* asonat rated b» the fait that for a rop 4 1MJU7 kales IS 1IH aad 1PP7 j the A* eras* pTW* for th* grad* of 'tee" was 11 >eat* an Hr for the l»^i * ’op Ti.aaa hale* wal* or 2* 'per issl> -s# ’baa the tear pres ion* the *or a»* pr»e lot lb* «r-*d* "tee «u faro uat» Isa* or aua* rests per pound; sad. Whereas Tfce : a disputable cause t*e oar low prve* Saaartal depreasiun aa mgr. uit arm! dUsosteat is found In tfce ass aa ii| racrwaaia* importation of Bfilfitian ruttam, tbe praam "t «rf pau "ITkr-ras Tbs thsotitir part/ ac.j props* ha»* not deemed it deracatury to their prarip.* an' interest to hare o 4«tl pioeed «• *m, rise Udo and tokseed: ssd - HThereai Th* p *- n» of said duty on tbe shore mentioned aetirloe has p;c*rn a rfl*e f benefit to our people and with mirlch protect]or* they weald a at part without a struggle, and. “Wberea* There are but two ways whereby tne mor**y necessary to main tain tto» national government can be r*;«* d and since tbe lunds derived from internal revenue are Insufficient. e*«ci when made enormous and bur densome. as they now are; and. "Whereas, me are forced from the rsturf of things t® depend on a tax 'aid uj»on goods and products imported into this country from foreign coun tries to raise funds to assist tn the sup port of the government; therefore, be it ' Resolved. That It is tbe sense of this legislature that a tariff should be lii I for revenue only and arranged so that if it shall prove a burdeT. all may equally tc-ar it. and if a benefit, it may be equally shared. Resolved further That we are un alterably opposed to the free importa la ration which in one breath calls r r a tariff for revenue only and in the next breath stipulates that the duty on long-stapled foreign cotton shall be prohibitive. It must be remembered t the Georgia Democrats, having in :_>• :r v«-ms tb*- blood of three genera- j lions of free traders, are not very well , up in the log.c of latter-day eeonom- ; n-». and bern-e do not know that a tariff for revenue only and a protective •ariff are elements as incompatible as *.! and water as inter-repugnant, in t ve and contradictory. Rut there is hope fur them They are surely a- ending in the wale of intelli- j s*: * and ;.ra< •. a! common sense .and to is -oau full-fle Iged protectionists i t! y neej is time arid just a little : more intelligence. RESULTS OF PROTECTION. fii* rttM Artidlf m tltr ( olton Mill* ■ ud Hlch*r Fur***. N* '• England ruttoa mills are ron : _ ! gbt and day in their efforts to ••apply orders It was not always thus. —Boston Globe. W ! w* M. -ji ; sa> not It was not . . mng the time of the Wilson '* * trade law »h« n the country was - ppbed with a large part of its tex •7* > Engli-L mills American mills w. * not running night and day and .»■ : o' ‘iieni were not running at all. ’ • • ” -Ii « a** .-hipped to Man - and returned to us in cloth. t lid* r the ilingley protective tariff are the mills of New England r .t.n.r.g n.gh: and day. making money : n the.r own* rs and for the workmen at* I women, whose wages have been f. veral time* advanced, but many new ta.ils nave t*een built. In t e South the greatest changes lav* obtained. Many n- w factories hav. :*e*n built, and cotton has ad tan • 'd *o .1 price where the growers *' the South wili receive many millions j t- -• : : ti.■- year's crop than in years tc4(Hr c* Another great change has been wrought the South. For the first * me the price of . otton is fixed by lo af miU* instead of by Liverpool brok er- v statement as to this is made by the iLuieigh (Ga I New-: "We know of a lot of cotton. 100 •a - -r more, sold during this week to • a heal liuyer fot ltica! mills for one bnirth of a cent per pound more than • would pay for it, not-; «* t standing the fa» the exporter was one-fourth to t ire*-eighths of a cent more than ; a** would at the pr«-.-ent time realize by sh.pplng It abroad.” The Atlanta Constitution says: "Our j South* rn cotton spinners are paying half a «-nt a pound more for cotton t .an Liverpool j- offering, running their mills many of them, night and day. and the majority of them with ! on tracts for four or five months at! good profits." The direct l*en*fits o? manufacturing j otton at home, and employing Viu-*:ean labor, are conceded. Ameri tn.Ils a’■* not o- ly supplying the borne demand, but are wbiny large inroads Into the trade in the Orient f -rmeriy controlled by the English fac t ir;*-- I nder free trade the cotton crop uf this country was worked in England, pur hawed at prices fixed in Liverpool and Manchester, end our working people were idle.—Tacoma l Wash, i laedger. HOW HE LOST HIS REASON. * That mao look.- like a lunatic." He is crazy—became so by trying * that fr.-e trade was the proper l«»li y. and that under protection this ■ juntry could not possibly prosper.” A Fair Sample. The American Steel and Wire com ■,<»uy ias* ee**k posted notices in all its plant!, notifying its employes of a gen eral advance in wages of 7*4 per cent, to take effect from January l. The advance effects 30,000 employes. This is a sample of the prosperity that has struck the laboring men all over the country. There is scarcely a day that the newspapers do not chronicle an ad vance in wages in one or more of the great manufacturing enterprises of the nation. The Uryanites pass such items by without reading —Tecumseb (Neb ) | Chieftain. THE SHIPPING BILL Witnpread l>«iiian«l for the UMimtioa of tli« Americaa Merchant Marine The bill mow before congress for the promotion of American shipping in the foreign carrying trade is a bill upon which almost ail of those engaged in shipbuilding and shipowning in the United States have united in advocacy. It confirms to the recommendations of the president in his last annual mes sage to congress, and it is in accord with the recommendations in the last annua! report of the secretary of the treasury. It is also in line with the suggestions made in the last report of the commissioner of navigation, is in dorsed by Senator Frye, the president pro tern, of the United States senate, and who is also chairman of the senate committee on commerce. It has been introduced in the house by the Repub lican leader upon the floor.Hon. Sereuo E. Payne, chairman of the way and means committee. The shipping bill has been indorsed by some two hundred commercial and agricultural arganizations. in all parts of the country, many of which are of great national strength and influence. Several state legislatures have peti tioned congress in behalf of its pas sage. It has been before the people for over a year, has been widely discussed in the press, and the trend of comment is largely favorable, many Democratic newspapers, especially in the south, warmly commending its provisions and advocating its passage. This shipping bill provides compen sation for American vessels, engaging in the foreign carrying trade just about sufficient in amount to enable them to compete with the foreign ships which now monopolize all but 8 per cent of American foreign carrying. These for eign ships earn, it is conservatively estimated, between $175,000,000 and $200,000,000 a year in freight and pas senger charges, which sum. or its equivalent in the products of the Unit ed States, must be shipped abroad to defray the cost of our ocean transpor tation. h rom this brief summary o: tacts, of large importance in connection with the efforts that have been for nearly forty years so unsuccessfully made to secure adequate protection for Ameri can ships in competition with foreign ships in the carrying of Amer ican foreign commerce; and con sidering. also. that the inter ests most immediately and di rectly affected are a practical unit in its advocacy; besides which it com mands such widespread indorsement from commercial and agricultural in terests and the press, and the ad vocacy of those members of congress whose support is essential to the pas sage of any legislation helpful to American shipping interests in the foreign carrying trade-in view of all these considerations it would seem that the pending bill should receive the support of all who are sincerely de sirous of bringing about the restora- j tion of the American merchant marine. We must bear in mind that the ship ping of foreign nations that is in com petition with American shipping, ir. the foreign trade, receives from for eign governments, as subsidies, sub ventions. naval reserve retainers, bounties and the like, a sum exceeding $26,000,000 annually, and against the competition thus enormously sustained unaided American shipping cannot compete, with the result that the Unit ed States loses the protection it re quires upon the sea in the reinforce ment of our navy through the posses sion of merchant ships and seamen, as well as the loss of between $175,000,000 and $200,000.0o0 in ocean transporta tion charges, which latter is an enor mous drain upon the the industrial and financial resources of the nation. The shipping bill is now in the hands of the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries, of which Gen. C. H. Grosvenor of Ohio is chairman, and it is also in the hands of the sen ate committee on commerce. Each of these committees has been holding numerous public hearings upon the bill, at which its friends and its few opponents have appeared, and. it is be lieved. w ill soon be favorably reported by each committee to its respective branch of congress. Its adoption be fore the close of the present session of congress seems assured, with the rseult that the long expected revival of the American merchant marine seems now to be measurably in sight. . Why More Railroad* Were Built. The Railroad Gazette reports that, according to estimates and facts al ready at hand, it appears that during the year ending Dec. 21 more than 4.500 miles of railroad were built in the United States. There have been no figures like these since before the free trade blight fell upon the country through the election of Grover Cleve land to the presidency in 1892. During the free trade period the average number of miles of new railroad built per year did not reach half this amount. Free trade is as preventive of the further development of the country and of a greater opening up of its re sources as it is destructive to business already established. Every one of those 4.500 and more miles of new railroad was built in response to the demands of some new industry, or to the in creased demand for transportation facilities made by those industries al ready in existence, and to which new life was given by the enactment of the Dingley law. Altogether, as the Ga zette puts it. “the exhibit is a remark able evidence of the widespread pros perity that has at last overtaken the country-’’ l oot Comfort Mr. W. L. Terhune, publisher of the Boot and Shoe Record, says: “The boot and shoe trade is closing the most prosperous year since 1892.” In spite of the apparent fears of the free-trad ers. therefore. It appears that the peo ple have not suffered for foot comfort. Increase of work and wages has taken care of the shoe question. And it fur ther appears that the much talked of tariff on hides, so loudly denounced by the free-traders, has laid no burdens on buyers of shoes. In Mr. Terhune’s opinion, the tariff on hides has had "no detrimental influence” on the boot and shoe business. He states, in fact, that scarcely any hides are imported for boots and shoes. There are very few cynics found among the successful. TALMAGETS SERMON. "MAKING THE DEAF HEAR” IS THE SUBJECT. “And They Kriiic l'ut« Him One That Wa* I»ear~ — Mark til: SS—Cbrkt t Work mm a Healer—A Lneoun for All Mea. “Six thousand years ago Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden of Eden. But in the latter part of this sixth millennium the kindergartens, academies, colleges, universities, semi naries, lyeeums, legislatures, political colleges, lawyers, doctors, ministers, daily newspapers. weeklies, and monthly magarines have been working side by side to change the t>ands of ignorance into the flora of knowledge, to lift the depressed valleys to the heights of the hills, and to deluge earth's dry places with the water of life. Once the pulpit was the great center, the intellectual as well as the spiritual educator of the community. The clergyman, like the pope of Rome, could speak ex-cathedra. The orator always knew as much as. if not a great deal more than, the auditor. Now the intellectual audiences think for them selves. The churches and the public -alls are filled with juries ready to weigh evidences. The people have not only one. but many, Rosetta stones. The dead languages are no longer dead. Hearers as well as speakers can soon separate the brass from the gold, the tares from the wheat, the false from the true, man's thoughts from God's thoughts. Once the king was not only the ruler, but the judge and the exe cutioner. Two women claimed a cer tain baby. Solomon, in his wisdom, said, ‘Bring me a sword. Divide the living child in two. and give half to the one and half to the other.’ When the true mother fell down and begged that her child be given to the enemy rather than be destroyed. Solomon said to the weeping suppliant. 'Give her the living child, and in uo wise slay it; she is the mother.’ On* or rhrUt'* Cor*«. "Today we are going to study on* of Christ's most wonderful cures: The unstopping of a deaf mute's ears. It is the more remarkable because St. Mark is the only divine biographer who resords the miracle. In the first place, ‘they bring unto him one that is deaf.' because the affliction was considered incurable. Even unto this day we know but very little about the human ear. The eye. the foot, the hand, the stomach, the liver, the heart have been explored and are understood by the , dissector's knife. But the ear. with its tympanum, its bones, its two vest:- j bules or storm doors, for the anatomist must pass through the outer and mid dle ear before he can enter the holy of holies of sound; the ear. able to catch a loved one's whisperings, and yet not be stunned at the thunderclap of a tornado, has never been fully mas tered. The drum has side holes to >t the air in and out, that the drumhead may vibrate and cause sound. We find In the ear there is a long tube connect ing with the throat, and on the top of this tube there is a thin membrane or skin which moves up and down as the waves of sound strike it. And catarrhal troubles are dangerous because thpy threaten the stoppage of this tube. Sometimes deafness is caused by eere bro-spinal meningitis. The nerve which runs from the base of the brain to the ear becomes paralized. Some times deafness is caused by the outer nerves of the ear being destroyed by that most dreaded of all infantile dis eases called scarlet fever, a more de structive enemy to the nursery than ' death, because when it is driven away from the cradle, in mad rage this dis ease generally strikes a paralyzing blow which leaves its victim helpless and worse than dead. Sometimes the cause is inexplicable. A man’s ear may be perfectly formed, yet the mind is no more able to differentiate sound that one afflicted with color blindness is able to distinguish between red. white, yellow, blue, purple, or green. What ever may be the cause of deafness, when a child is once born deaf, he is deaf to the grave. No power of sur gery or medicament has ever been able to cure the affliction. F|c«rw That Provt* Fact*. "To prove this is true, of the 35.000 j deaf mutes in the United States, and 29.512 deaf mutes in France, and the 24,488 deaf in Germany, and the 2.000 deaf in Denmark, and the 4.778 in Sar- j dinia. and 4.000 deaf mutes in Canada. } and the 10,000,000 deaf mutes in this j world at the present time—for Joseph A. Seiss, in his book called ‘The Chil dren of Silence,’ declares there is one deaf mute to ever 1,400 of the human race—not one of the deaf mutes has ever heard one sound if born without the power of hearing. Now. you must realize the condition in which Jesus Christ lived was entirely different from that of the present day. In this age of factories and smoke and beehives of swarming populations a city is a place where no one knows his neigh bor. The only interest most of us take in the man who lives next door is when the crape hangs upon the knob and tbe hearse comes to carry away the filled casket. But in olden times, as in smaller country villages today, everyone knew everybody else. Here was a lad born deaf. Everyone knew his relatives and knew him. and knew he had never heard a sound. He had the sullen, vicious, self-willed, sinful look of the deaf mutes of old. Per haps in one of his fits of evil temper he picked up a club, and as a maniac struck his mother over the head and left her bleeding upon the floor, car ing not even though she was a corpse. Wonderful Medicine Man. ** ‘By the way,’ some one says, 'have you heard of Jesus, the wonderful med icine man. whom some call a phophet? They say he can cure sickness by just looking at an invalid. He is a young Nazarene. only 30 years of age. You know my wife’s cousin. Some few months ago he was invited to a wed ding in the little village of Cana, near Gallilee. And this Jesus came to the marriage, and the wine gave out. and he bended over some waterpots and the water turned into wine. My cousin said it wob bo; you need not laugh. I be lieve Mm-:* “ *Yes,’ answered another. ‘I heard that he resurrected Jairus’ daughter, and that an old woman, who had a chronic sickness of twelve years, just touched his garment and was healed.’ “ ‘Yes.’ answered another, ’I not only heard that he opened the eyes of one born blind, but I even heard he cured a dumb man possessed with a devil.’ and the people marveled, saying: ’It was never so seen in Israel.’ "Just then another neighbor comes in and says that Jesus, this same Jesus, j this miraculous Jesus, is only a short di^ance away over the hills of Deca polis. ‘Come.’ they say, with one ac cord. ‘let us take him to Christ. He can cure if any one can.’ And they , bring unto him one that was deaf be cause the affliction was incurable. “Lesson the second: They brought unto Jesus one who was not only deaf, but dumb. The Bible says he ‘had an impediment in his speech.’ No one part of the physical body can be entirely di vorced from the other parts. As Paul said: ‘The body is one that hath many members. and all of the members of that one body being many, are one body.’ “We find that these different mem bers act and react upon each other. The hand protects the eye. The eye warns the foot. The foot is the mes senger boy for the brain. The veins arc the canals carrying to the farthest . extremeties the daily supplies of food, tibrim for the muscles, albumen for the blood, lime for the bones, phosphates for the nerves, moisture for the glands. And all over the surface of the body the pores of the skin as scavengers are at work tossing off the refuse night and day, as well as day and night. While the nerves are the harpstrings upon which nature thymbs the har- i monies of life. I Xo Organ Independent. “But iu Christ's time no one part ot the body was more dependent on an other part than the organ of speech was upon the organs of the ear. That is the reason we quoted only the first nine words of the verse for a text. There have been cases on record where persons have been dumb and not deaf. But these are very rare. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, when a man is a deaf mute, his vocal organs are all right, but undeveloped. The deaf and dumb are unable to speak merely be cause the ear cannot teach the voice how to act. There are today 375 dif ferent deaf mute schools, with 2.137 teachers and 25.737 pupils. “By the power of toueh. by placfng the finger under the throat of the teacher and practicing the vowels and consonants, even those who were born deaf mutes are now taught to speak. And through the same wonderful sys tem. not only the deaf mutes, but in some instances those who have had two of their five senses gone are not only deaf and dumb, but also blind, have had the spark of intelligence kindled in their darkened brain. "'Walled in by deafness, dumbness, blindness all Can life exist beneath that dreadful pall? It does, life, love are there; the living soul Beats hot against the bars that hold it in Striving among the best to reach the goal. And through Christ’s death immortal life to win.’ ‘‘So when Jesus placed the two fin gers as two syringes against the two broken ear drums and said. ’Ephplia tha'—that is—Be opened.’ he loosed the tongue that had an impediment at the same time. The best way to de velop the tongue is to develop the ear. No man can speak right unless he first learns to hear right. John James Audubon, with gun and pencil, disap peared into the American forests. He lived among the birds until the birds adopted him into 1,000 different fa.mi lies. They talked to him; he listened. After awhile the naturalist's ear be came so keen he knew their songs of joy. their cries of sorrow and their love-makings. He stood at their cra dles and dug their graves. For years and years thus he practiced self-sac rifice and worked and’studied. Do you wonder that John James Audubon's tongue was able to talk about his feathered friends so interestingly that grown people stopped to listen and the little children begged to look at his pretty pictures? "This feeling was exhibited in the ninth chapter of John, when tb? dis ciples asked him in reference to one born blind, saying. ’Master, who did sin. this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered: ‘Neither hath this man sinned or his parents, but that the work of God might be made manifest in him.’ Effect* of lieredity. “In fifty-nine cases of deafness re ported by the Illinois institution, in 1873, the parents of forty-two were first-cousins; of nine, second cousins, of five, third cousins, and cf two fourth cousins, and of one an uncle and a niece. And Dr. David Buxton writes: ‘I knew the mother of three mute chil dren who was the daughter of a deaf mute, and the grandfather, though his own children heard perfectly, was one of the eight deaf mutes in a family of sixteen. If a deaf person marries one who hears, the chances of their having a deaf-mute child are three fourths of 1 per cent.' “In the next place, for these unfor tunates we should build the best schools and send them the best teach ers. That is the great trouble with work, the bright Christian teachers will not devote their time to these edu cational opportunities. The class is naturally small, the classroom very depressing, and the remuneration not enticing. “Most important of all, we should surround them with Christian love. The matron of a deaf and dumb school told me the deaf mutes were happy as long as they were inside the four walls of the school, but the children in the street would tease and tantalize them. As we help the helpless. God will care for us. “There is a beautiful story told that one day a clergyman was visiting a deaf and dumb school, and the teacher, having sent the pupils to the black board, the visiting clergyman asked a young boy there three questions. First, ‘Who made the world?’ Immediately the deaf-mute child wrote, ‘In the be ginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ Question the second: ‘Why did Jesus Christ come into the world?’ With a smile the lad again wrote, ’This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the vorld to save sinners.’ The clergyman hesitated foe a moment, * and then asked: ‘Why were you born deaf and dumb, while I can hear and speak ?’ “A tear started, yet the lad hesitated not. but wrote. ‘Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.5 “In that last great day may our sin ful ears hear the words ‘Well done.' For then the dumb shall speak and the silent lips sing for joy.’5 SWEETHEA1TS AND WIVES. How the Bo»r Women Put in Their Time During the War. Boer wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, whose male relatives are fighting now. are passing through an unnecessarily anxious time, says the j London Mail. The war authorities at Pretoria apparently hold strictly self ish views upon the subject of casualty lists, deeming it impolitic to let those who are bereaved know that their men folk are dead. Owing to the influence the knowledge might have on others who are going to the front, the Boer war office keeps its secrets inviolate and does not issue news of loses on the field. The elder generation of Boer women will probably be bearing the suspense in tight-lipped, listless si lence, but the girls who have received the benefits of education will under stand how cruel their position is and fret in impotent wrath beneath the injustice inflicted upon them by this reticence. What kind of lives are these women leading? In all likelihood ! pretty much what they led in ordinary times. Their farms are squat, two or three roomed buildings, dumped down, on the veldt far away from neighbors, in the center of the acreage of land farmed by the proprietor. They are wretchedly uncomfortable habitations, for Boer women are not house-proud. Formerly no Boer woman received more than an apology for an educa tion and a very lame one at that. Now, however, some of the youngsters are sent to the convent schools and are modeled into very much improved edi tions of the original Boers. Lejjen«I of the Topaz. The topaz is called the stone of gratitude, and the old Roman books record a suggestive legend. The blind Emperor Theodosius used to hang a brazen gong before his palace gates and sit beside it on certain days hear ing and putting to rights the griev ances of any of his subjects. Those who wished for his advice and help had but to sound the gong, and im mediately admission into the presence of Caesar was obtained. One day a great snake crept up to the gate and struck the brazen gong with its coils, and Theodosius gave orders that no one should molest the creature and bade her to tell him her wish. The snake bent her crest lowly In homage and straightway told the following tale: Her nest was at the base of the gateway tower, and while she had gone to find food for her young brood a strange beast covered with Eharp needles had invaded her home, killed the nestlings and now held possession of the little dwelling. Would Caesar grant her justice? The Emperor gave orders for the porcupine to be slain and the mother to be restored to her desolate nesL Night fell and the sleeping world had forgotten the Em peror's kindly deed, but with the early dawn a great serpent glided into the palace, up the steps into the royal chamber and laid upon each of the Emperor's closed eyes a gleaming topaz. When Emperor Theodosius awoke he found he was no longer blind, for the mother snake had paid 1 her debt of gratitude. ~~ EverybfMly Plijn the Guitar. In Portugal men play upon the gui tar as naturally as Yankees whistle. The peasants are universally given to the instrument, chiefly as an accom paniment to the voice. In towns and villages the artisans are often expert guitar players and walk in groups to and from their work, enlivening the journey with music and song. The carpenter who comes to your house to I execute a small job brings his guitar with his tools and the blacksmith is a far better performer on the guitar than the anvil. When Portuguese day laborer or workman has finished his long day's toil he does not hie him to a wine shop to squander the few cents he has earned: he does not even lean against a post and smoke, nor whittle a stick while swapping yarns with his fellows. If he did not bring his guitar with him he goes straight home and gets it. rests and comforts himself with the music while supper is being pre pared. Afterward he spends the even ing singing doggerel songs to a strumping accompaniment, titled back in a chair against his own house wail or on the doorstep of a neighbor. Silencing Greeley. After all. the "new woman" is not such a very new institution. Few ad vocates of women's suffrage today have ! better arguments in reserve than that which, on one occasion, silenced Hor ace Greeley. The famous editor had thrashed over the question of women's rights with an able representative of their sex. and wound up with the can tention that in times or war women were quite useless. "What would you do,” he demanded, “in the event of civil war?” "Just what you w'ould do, i Mv. Greeley.’ ’replied his opponent promptly. “I should sit in my office ard write articles urging other people to go and fight.”—Youth's Companion. -- Poor. Poor Fellow! Charitable Party—"Poor soldier; lu..re is 50 cents for you. Your sign r^ds that your head was lacerated in the Philippines by the bursting cf a shell.” Masquerading Si—"Yes. kind madam; a Filipino citizen threw a co epanut shell against my head with all h*s force. You doesn't begin ter know de dangers uv war, mum—yo doesn't begin ter know ’em.’’—Judge. H*ppln«M. Mrs. Mulligan—An’ what did his ’oa aer say to you this morning? Mrs. Mnlcahjr—Can’t you and your husband l»ve together without fighting? Mrs. Mulligan—An’ what did yer say? Mrs. Mulcahy—No, yer 'onner. not happily. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controling anxiety of the Lhoughtful man.—Wendell Phillips. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IX. MARCH 4-MARK l: 21-34- -JESUS HEALING. —-■- * Golden Text—,, And He llealed »«■„ That Were Sick- - Mark 1:34 - The Savior of the World Among u.e I'oor and Lon 1> at C,erna0Bl. 21. And they -vent into Cr.ixrna trn " • tom the seashore. If, want into-tbo •»t> to spend th- Sabbath when th, r, ■ ''lalv of "And stratgid \ as ,h,‘ wniee op, r.ert rvViC^!»,blUv ‘lay ht entt‘r,‘1 into the and its er -t ,U Vai",U 1,1 ■■hur.lt and its services. "And taught." it wa common to ask anv s,u, kP . pedal ty if prominent. * Hk^^UVerVi,,'i VVh"'h ™ - Mho, I [h May**r mw,in*s< or Puntlay seJviis. °l,r f°rnijl 11 trm. -Th» rn afit,l!lished at hi- ,j..c whit h Vathrr te-"hmK. including both n of hi aUK^ anU manner and spir-* ^ ' For >" 'aught them a. one that had authority." Not as an* expounder of others opinions. "And nob the scribes, who merely Interpr. ted and repeated the teachings of n,hU :i nn™, T1 ,U‘ath,nS with an infinite number of rule*. .. A,Jrt !h,>r’- Was in their s\ gogue. t oniing among th, audiene. i. hear and see. doubtless in ore of ) ,« ,iuiet iK-riods. which are common in 5 < as. s. A man with an unclean spirit - Or more liH-raiiy. Vin an unclean spir it that is. a man under the influence of an unclean spirit; just a- *a\ a man ...ln.. do you interfere with u<> "Art thou come to destroy us?-- Th. Savior, so Tar as appears, had not been formally inter fering with the demon; hut hts preach ing was contrary to their nature, hi< character was opposed to theirs, hit whole mission was the exact oppos -. ,( tneirs; so that everything h, id and said tended to destroy their inti n, e I know thee. As one bckmirm, to tt.« invisible world, he knew -om. ung . f ^ was going* on thcr**. 25. “Ami Jesus rebuked him 'he -< tlmony of such a living hurt 1 * cause favored. “Hold ihy peace." . itera.1: , "be muzzled." It is a word f< —Mori son. The same verb i-