” 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<W»» La iLt 1 IfaMM at la
They i-o* Soperffiaou* ” i* th*- cap
* mm off .an *r« h m *fc.«fe a frer t rade
*i »' un the editor *a ataff ot the Sen
Yort T.atn par* feat m-eperta U» last
••*-4 a annual ae>-* 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
<ng th« fetpafeiicaa orgn:_uur*on into
• imm ta. it party.*
Marling *rg»*«d hmarlf into tfc:*
"an 'Of nuad. the cndna toot go»
hriier of the T m* teac.!y rearhea the
on «»- m tam
*Tle-» line Hepiitfliean leaders 1 me*:
a!:»an4«j* the pnuk.U*t.:*e tariff pulley
or the manufacturer* «.11 abandon
'tom Pn-tartt— ha* feat. :ta day. ha*
•dtliaedl ail the it *■»er toad,
and a non a fehdran ■* to the expan
o« of ;|*e :nda*t'*e* of the ouatry j
^ it mu*: g
Vhj dmw? 'to# AmrsraB 1 Voter
ti*e Tar ff wag-*# go* It* xo auan 1* |
t ■ • '* • • ... * - ,t .*•
pa. -tig "' arnmg way it baa II,
.22 22 :n &$ trra*nry VVV advior the
*#*!■# t» tarn poor tn#* unexpended
*-»A ’ K» the Society tor the Helsef of
'!> 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 <ommer-* of the Uaitod
«a*«* omorr th* fail operation off the
h*..h|fle-. fat C la a -'a hindrance to
th* • i; .a*a off th- xlairk* cf tie
*wnair> 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
<ent* per pound on all long-stapled
cotton
Resolved. That we favor an import
duty of per cent ad valorem and 5
cents per pound on all long stapled
'•oitcn imported into the United States,
and that a i-opy of these resolutions
— furnished the senators and repre
sentatives in congress."
Who mill say after this that the
morld doe* not move, and that the
-* jth :« not progressing? One can
ex. use the curious inconsistency of the
> 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<t that the pure has- j
er w a- so situated that he had to haul i
• n wagon- a distance of 24
mile* to the local mill. This is a con- !
tii* on of the cotton tr.i ie that has i
ti' ier -efore existed at this season of
tbe year We are informed, too. that j
the p*. *- offered for this same lot of
otton >» 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.. <lrink- of- mor, pleasantly a
man in love. For the tim. being th.
man is absorb.-,1. as it were, in love .r
in drink. And he cried out." Luke savs%
with a loud voice.-- Th, excitement « f
the crowds brought on an attack The
presence and teaching of Jesus aroused
the antagonism of the demon.
--L Let us alone.- One word in the
original. an exclamation ,.f indignation
and surprise. "What have we ,th- un
clean spirit representing th, whole t«K'v
of evil spirits, to do with the. \Vh>
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<e i t><
—Mori son. The same verb i- <v,j m
ihe calming of the wind- and waves . r
Mark 4: 25*.
2fi. "And when the unclean s ;rp h-d
torn him." I.uke says that th. d.iii'm
threw the man down in th. mid * of th.*
crowd. “Came out of him.” 11 had to
obey, however unwillingly.
-i- \\ hat new doctrine . ?
Teaching. The teaching was j.. w u n
eerning deliverance and salvat on. and
confirmed by such power. "A .thoriti
Kxght and power. Both acknowi -jg.-d 1
the unclean spirit,
2S. "Immediately his fame ” Rather
as R. V. the report of what he had
done spread through all the r. gion .f
Galilee.
“They entered into the house . t
Simon and Andrew," who. though native*,
of Bethsalda (John 1. Hi. seem to b. n* w
living in Cajiernuum. All the chosen f. ;r
went with Jesus.
"Simon’s wife's mother.” This «h
tlnctly implies that Peter was married,
and makes it strange that the Roman
Catholics should lay so much stress on
the eelibracy of the clergy. “Lay siek
of a fever.” Luke calls it a great ftv«p.
of a severe, malignant, and dangerous
tyjw.
21. "He came and took her by the
hand.” To express his kindly sympath
and courtesy, and to make it evident
that the miraculous cure came from him
Luke says, he “rebuked the fever,” com
manded It to go. as if it were an enem.i
“Immediately the fever left her.” Obed
ien* to Jesus, us in the case of the cen
turion. "And she ministered unto them
Such a fever invariably leaves th. pa
tient weak.
22. “And at even, when the sun did
set." Was setting. They came at this
time (]) because the Sabbath had then
ended, and the people felt free to coma
<21 It was the cool of the day. and
pleasanter for the sick to come. <3) Th.
report of the wonderful cures of tho
prophet had spread widely by this time.
“Diseased.” With various kinds of sick
ness (Luke). “Possessed with devils ”
These are mentioned in particular b< -
cause they were much in evidence, they
were the most difficult oases, and the
contrast between the state of sickness
and of health was greatest.
23. “Gathered together at the door”
of Peter's house <v. 291
24. “And he healed many.” Not that
some were left unhealed, but that he
healed them all (Matt. Kb. and there
were many. “And suffered (or permit
ted! not the devils to speak.” For they
krew him. ' Knew that he was th«
Christ, the Son of God. and w.-re tempt
ed to proclaim the fact. and. iierhaps
to plead with Him that he “torment thorn
not before the time." Jesus did not de
sire the testimony of demons even w ben
they sjioke the truth.
RrlRtnl C ItiienOilr.
John Kearney, who has lived in De
troit ever since he wore his first pair of
red-topped boots, excepting the four
years he was fighting in the war of the
rebellion; who has voted at every ele« -
tion for more than thirty years, served
on juries and been a good American
citizen generally, has been informed
that he is an alien and incapable ot
holding a federal job. He was born in
Ireland, but his parents brought him
across the water in long clothes it
his father was naturalized John is a
full-blooded Yankee, but the old gen- .
tleman is dead, his papers not to bo j
found after the expiration of fifty
years, and the son lias a cloud upon his
title. It was removed by Judge Hoe
mer making him a naturalized citizen,
Kearney swearing allegiance to a coun
try he fought for for four years and
renouncing an allegiance he never
owned.—Detroit Journal.
MISSION NOTES.
It is said the number of miseionery
societies is tenfold greater than it was
eight years ago. The number of con
verts is tiftyfold.
The progressive is gaining the day
In Korea, and there is now a new sys
tem of education, and in many schools
English is taught.
Copies ot the Bible have been dis
tributed at the railway stations and
post, offices in Japan. Doctors in tie
army and the navy have received New
Testaments.
Methodists have two placne within
the city of Manila where preaching;
services are regularly held. Bishop
Thoburn. who started the work there,
says the Americans will do well to
demolish the walls, and, indeed, the
whole city.
After 500 years of enthusiastic and
self-sacrificing labors to extend Bud
dhism in ancient Japan, there were
only a few hundred priests and ddbi
and a few large temples. And yet
Christians complain because more
rapid progress is not made fcy mis
sionaries of the Cross.
