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t.Si 1-*- ’ or t fttllurt 4 a: ail. and
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f«r W* Bryans friend* to
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• to *##A tto# rot#* of voo! growm,
a# tto#* toai# to##n do nr cm « # f
->*#arat'#* that tto# fee* trad# plank
. : tt i t -#»■ platfarst .# not an ia
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f*l«r aroui u an l«*a# in 1to«t
Mr. Bryan to*# at*a* ft no tor toil turn
poi-iis attoraai# a: Calamlitn. Mi**..
Jin IX itooo. Tto# private wtoirper
s Sail 1-ato# City i» ©v#mdd*-n uy ttoc
I#.©: 4m jarsiioa aacuia patolkftf #a
uuroad “I am for fr## ansai.**
A Bryan rirtory ttoo# mean* not only
at. -*«d#r and fr## «■ »#r too: a drop to
• *. v > ... - - * :"7 •♦■tit* a
: otr-'-X pound for ordinary ton# m<-- ■
c ua l tan wool. Tto# W#*:#m woo!
rro s#r * ill do »#ll to posd#-r ttoi# and
*0 ot cat Mr Bryan a iatonriesr for
refetsmee srtosa t,to# 4 a au pa inn i* on
»#»t fail — Bsotua Cvaaernal Balls*
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A TPULV C*£AT CHANCE.
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Mtm tU Crude of
4 «4NS end • »e*s«4«r» V«t I'rBiamlrd
- —e tti#eeg fa u regarding improved
unditiaa* are set forth by th?
jLfctO* <111 • Register to the #ii*pe ttff
•a xterview with a traveling iutn
who rv-pre*ent» three hriarttiAit that
ture% ifti* one that makes a
•perjihy off table* and another that
p-wdncr* a general amort m»-t.t of Jur
at :• are Said thi* commercial trav
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The factarie* though runn.ug night
and day arc away aehinti Their order*.
Thr** of th# large#! bouse* on our n»
t«m l.#f. we have, for the ptm»t quit
tnlflhg order* from.,. ».mply hem—> we
t alt t fill them by the time desired
Th.* iM n* Irwe 1* looks a*, though my
erwiMir* a* trade aoii itor w.Il have to
We dispewwed With."
How do yen a« count for tin* excev
* * demand*"* w«* asked.
!*r«#|mrify; everybody at work;
; mi wage#., plenty of noun
ft •• but ain't itifffin* a* mu< fa in
n hard us well a- ir. go.*!
t me**"'; iitiiiirp—>ii a Homer rat
T*» and perhaps more to, but In
.H t mew thane off Infer*v*r quality are
♦be moat r*!ied for—the kind that ran
te more rapidly thrown together. In
j-fa :.no a* we now nave the best
- required, an«i it take* longer to man
-jlartur# them.*"
"'What ts jroor experience with ta
•» m good a# compared with hard
* *>♦> or m M> Kinley a* compared
» ' l - *-» • .-Hi tine.*" war asked.
* Mom •ha* 1# something I would
summer talk abont than to talk about
.dfeut 1 will tell yon The maev
who wee store note, and loose board?
Tor tables » the Cleveland times are
now that they have plenty of work
good wage* and good money wanting
good factory-made tables. And wb#3
:t come* to furniture in general ft is
wonderful to note the increased de
mon-! m these McKinley time# com
pared with the demand in the Cleve
thd-W.iaun tariff era People who
«iM wot afford sideboards, ro* king
and ensy hair* then air now in a po
* :«on to have and enjoy them I ron
>*• ns I contemplate the ait nation
that I am somewhat troubled U#t I lie
nod off until my house* can catch up
* .th their order* ~
it will be noticed that it* the diffe
eu e between Cleveland# reform tariff
flmaa and McKinley protective tariff
time# the rhange run# to quality a#
well a# quantity of good* consumed
CoSai musa be better than four years
ago Any old son off burial box would
do than; It had to do; but it will not
do for people • is are worm mg a=d
THE MODERN DAVY CROCKETT.
making more money man ever before,
and who are able to afford seemly and
l ~oj *r m j.tuary accessories. So must
the tables t*e more neat and pres''n;
. : e * >n in the times when a board or
a box bad to suffice; and in the mat
ter of furniture a demand had sprung
up for a style and quality of articles
that put to shame the cheap stuff that
four. ! a stinted market in the days of
th- Wilson tariff All this means more
. a. nds upon American labor, more
'-mployment more wages, more mon-iy
n :r illation more comfort, more hap
piness Truly the change is great.
ACHIEVEMENT AND FAILURE.
llrauit* of K«*|>iil>li<-*ii ami Democratic
1‘oitc-ie* Contra*ted.
W* have had three years of McKin
1 > and Republican domination. Look
a: th pra tical results. During the
f ••• - h r panh ;>ending the election
of 1 sfM* every man owning a hundred
dollar* .n currency, w ho could get into
th* treasury, got there demanding its
substitution in gold, and the Republic
an i**auers even predicted that McKin
• v. .f ei- ted. would be compelled to
start out w th a bond issue. But in
stead. confidence being restored even
;.*' • h.- .nur.guration,the gold flowed
t»a k into the treasury in a steady
*tr* m just a? it came back from its
hiding places in Europe to which it
had been driven by the phantom of
four-bit silver. Before the spring of
9S had waned the money supply of the
country, resting upon a sound founda- J
t:nn :n circulation in the banks and
:n :b* treasuries, had reached the high
water mark of experience, and before
•hi autumn Lad waxed every preceding
r<-< rd Lad been broken. This success
wa.* repeated in the unprecedented in
rr*-u-e of onr domestic and foreign
trade and for the first time in many
>* ur.* th*' balance of trade was regis
tered at a high figure in favor of this
country. Before January. ]S99. more
than a million of laborers driven into
•he streets by the Democracy had been
restored to work at top-rate wages. At
the oeginning of the last named year
every furnace was ablaze, every mill
war pregnant, and every piece of ma
in :»ery war instinct with life. Yet the
record of 1*9* surpassing all others in
business achievements so far as to
-tand out as a conspicuous landmark
:n hi-'ory, is dimmed and eclipsed by
t«4*- achievements of the year just
closed
Wherein experiment has proved
IVmo, ratio policies a miserable failure
t ha- proved Republican policies an
unparalleled success. Then where lies
the path of patriotism and honor?—
Webo City iMo) Inter-State Com
moner.
A fin# H*r«l lirrorU.
The January record of receipts and
expenditures by the treasury depart
ure- was an excellent one. Omitting
■onmderation of anticipatory payments
liquidating the public debt by bond
purchases in advance of the maturity
of tb*- bonds, the net e xcess of receipts
over expenditures for the month was
more than $0,000,000. The record of
customs receipts was also an excellent
one showing more than $20,000,000 of
r-r pts from this source. The receipts
f- ;n nt -nal revenue were about $22,
•hmi opo. It is a matter of surprise to
pui»li< officials that the expenditures
in u< mint of the war department con
•inue at such low figures, being less
than half what they were during the
Spanish war. notwithstanding the
maintenance of large armies engaged
n active campaigns in the Philippines.
A year ago the monthly expenditures
ex e**je«i the receipts bv about $10,000,
<*»0 As evidence, however, that exist
ng tariff laws are not only proving ef
fi lent as protective measures, but also
n bringing increased volumes of rev
enue to the treasury, the receipts from
ustoms last mouth were more than
**! ««Mj in excesr of those in January
Jast year.
Need of New Anjertive*.
One of the needs of today seems to
be a new dictionary with a long and
varied list of terms applicable to the
unprecedented prosperity of the pres
ent. The newspapers seem to have
quite exhausted their vocabularies.even
sometimes in a single issue, in their
efforts to tell the story of the great
and wonderful prosperity which the
enactment of the Dingley Tariff law
ha* brought to the country. The head
ings of "Good times in Ohio." or
"Good times in the South." or "Good
times” somewhere else, in common
with all the other brief statements
made to describe the industrial condi
tions existing throughout the country,
are repeated over and over again until
the reader would grow tired of seeing
them, were it not for what they stand
for. In fact, t!l the words in present
use which are descriptive of prosper
our times are very much over-worked
I ~ almost a* much over-worked as are
: mass of American laborers in the
i Present rush of business !n the coun
! try.
| MR. BAILEY AND THE TARIFF.
The 'Texas hiuteaman l nttilukin£lf Tells
Some Protection Truths.
If the factories sell less goods, then
fewer goods must be produced and
fewer meli are needed to produce them,
and the sum of it all must be that
thousands of industrious men will be
denied employment. The wage earner
will become an idle citizen, and thuo in
turn add to those who want but can
not buy.—From the speech of Con
gressman Bailey of Texas on the Cur
j rency bill.
He had been attempting to show that
an abundance of gold production had
made The good times, along with the
foreign demand for our cereals, and
that the McKinley and Dingley tariffs
had. if anything, hindered the march
of prosperity by promoting trusts. But
the last paragraph answers his whole
anti-protection argument. If the fac
tories will sell more goods then, ac
cording to Bailey himself, more goods
must be produced, and more m**n are
needed to produce them, and the sum
of it all must be that thousands of in
dustrious men will be furnished with
employment, and so they will become
valuable customers on account of the
incomes they receive from full time
wages. President McKinley proved
himself a wise adviser in 18% when he
declared that ‘‘what was needed was
open mills and factories, rather than
open mints.” And the Dingley tarifT
, results have nobly vindicated his far
seeing prudence.
Mr. Bailey truthfully said, and his
fellow Democrats unthinkingly ap
plauded him in saying it. that the poor
times in 1893 and 1896 came through
lack of spendings by the producers in
the country, which is sound Republic
an doctrine. But he unfrankly left un
said the Republican truth implied from
his words and which Republican poli
cies have abundantly proved, that this
lack of spendings arose through the
closing of mills and factories by the
Democratic tariff, whereby wage-earn
ers were deprived of income with
which to buy the farmers’ products,
and so furnish them means for their
spendings. It is apparent that Mr.
Bailey and his party followers would
be sound tariff men if only it was not
a Republican policy.—TVilksbarre Rec
ord.
I
WAITING FOR DEFEAT.
How the Democrat! Hope to <>«t Kid
of Mr. Kryau.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
which is not Republican, but is bitter
ly hostile to the Republican adminis
tration. says:
"The Bryan situation Is strictly
unique. The less his prospects of elec
tion the tighter grows his grip on the
nomination. For the first time in our
political history, a great party sits
worshipfully at the feet of a man and
does little or nothing to oppose a lead
ership which few believe can result in
victory.”
The foregoing is a fair statement of
the situation by a paper which would
delight to support any candidate w ho
could make a half hopeful fight upon
an anti-expansion platform. But its
zeal for Aguinaldo and its relentless
hostility to the Republican party do
not make the Springfield mugwump
oblivious to the facts "which are obvi
ous to all except the blind followers of
Mr. Bryan. There is but one explana
tion for the general acquiescence of the
Democratic leaders in Mr. Bryan's can
didacy. With the issue before the
country they have no hopes of success
next November. Whatever the plat
form may be or whomsoever the can
didate may be. President McKinley,
who has generally satisfied the coun
try and whose administration has been
attended by a marvelous prosperity,
will be re-elected. This fact sems to be
conceded by leading Democrats in
most the states. The anti-Bryan men
who are prominent Democrats realize
this fact, and. realizing it. they see a
sure way to get clear of Mr. Bryan,
his silver and other heresies. They
may make a little show of opposition,
but they will acquiesce in Mr. Bryan's
nomination. They do not "sit wor
shipfully at Mr. Bryan's feet." as the
Massachusetts paper affirms, but they
are waiting patiently to see Mr. Bryan
rejected as the party dictator by an
other defeat. When he is again de
feated they believe the Democracy will
aceep* men of brains as leaders.—In
dianapolis (Ind.) Journal.
No Time for Tinkeriue.
It is encouraging to note that the
man who always has a scheme lo put
ter away at the tariff is not conspicu
ous at the present session of congress.
The tariff is doing very good work at
present, and it seems to be accepted
that this is no time for tinkering —
Topeka (Kan.) Capital..
Vnless a woman fa pretty In her
tears she should do her 'trying in se
cret.
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TALMAGES SERMON.
“PRODIGAL SONS," THE LATEST
SUBJECT DISCUSSED.
From Like SV:13 8« Follows: “The
Voonffr Son (.atlierwl Alt Together
and Took liis Journey Into a Far
Country.”
' Today the old homestead is turned
upside down. One of the boys, tbe
younger, is about to leave the parental
roof. The eaglet is tired of being
warmed by the wing? of the old birds
and with ruffled feathers stands upon
the edge of the eyrie ready to fly off.
It is a sad sight to see a home being
broken up. When the children are
about to say goodby the families laugh,
talk and joke up to the last moment,
j but they are only trying to keep the
courage up. Even the wedding bells
j weep as well as chime. The guests
may congratulate yon upon having
gained a son or a daughter, but you
know that it is a mockery, though you
! do smile through your tears. From
I now on the daughter will never be the
same again. She has gone to make he:
own home, to build her own nest, rea:
her own young and live her own life.
Instead of belonging to you she is an
other's. Instead of you being first, no*
you are last.
“After the wedding of a very dear
friend and the worn slipper and the
rice had been thrown, and the bride
anfl bridegroom started. 1 followed the
old gray-haired father down to the
garden gate, and there we stood alone
in the moonlight. ‘Y*s, Frank,’ he
said. T know she has married a good
man, but she was my youngest, and
It breaks the heart, it breaks the
heart.’ Children are born, grow up
Into young manhood and womanhood,
and just wheu it seems the parents
cannot get alone without them.* off
; they go. Death knocks at the door and
carries away some. Love hovers about
the spring flowers and breathes
through the orange blossoms and woes
others. Business calls and duty beck
ons until the old nursery is silent and
there are rooms to let in the home
stead which once resounded with the
young people's voices.
JUotber Who Grieves.
"Such is the sense of my text. The
mother did not sleep much last night
Though she tries to look cheerful her
eyes are very red. Every little while
she disappears into the pantry or goes
upstairs. She makes an excuse as ;
though looking for something, but we
know.it is only to have a good cry.
The father is giving his las; instruc
tions and handing the young traveler
some letters of introduction to a prom
inent merchant with whom the son
will ledge in the next town. There is
a noise at the gate. The servants are ,
bringing out the horses and strapping
the baggage upon the pack mules. l
They talk In subdued whispers. EveD
they feel sorry. The young ■massa' j
was a happy, jolly, go-lucky boy, and
always had a cheerful and kind word
for the hostlers. The only creature
who seems to be merry-making this
morning is the yellow dog. He frisks ,
about, barking and yelping, thinking |
he is to follow the sportsman on a
week's hunt. But his hilarity is
Hopped when some one shies a stone
at the brute and shouts: ‘Go back to
the barn!' Slowly he erawis back with
tail and head lowered in abject woe.
He stops now and then as if expecting
tv hear the familiar call. Perhaps he
realizes for the first time he Is tak.ng
a last farewell. 1 always did believe
a bright dog was smarter than a stu
pid man. But the farewell words are
now being said. The father has given
his benediction. We must turn aside a
little, while the mother has her last
' convulsive clasp. These are the snap
ping of heart strings. A mother can
never realize the baby she once rocked
in a cradle can grow to be a man.
"People who have stood upon the
wharf at Queenstown and heard the
Irish peasant's moan when the young
emigrant steps into the boat to take
steamer for America know what I
mean. There is only one cry similar to
it. That is. when a family draped in
heavy black push back the veils to take
a last lingering look at the silent form,
sleeping in the casket, when the un
dertaker stands impatiently behind.
Tooth IlidM Away.
"But suddenly the young man breaks
away. He leaps into the saddle. The
spurs cut deep. The parents shout
their affectionate adieux to the horse
man dashing off. Then they wave and
throw kisses. The oid father now
wipes his face vigorously with a hand
kerchief and scolds the servants and
sends them off. because he does not
want them to 6ee him cry. As the
horse disappears over the last hill the
old mother buries her head on her hus
band’s neck and sobs as if her heart
would break. He tenderly puts his
arm about her and draws her toward
the house. Slowly they walk up the
tree-arched path. They stop a moment
on the first step to glance for the last
| time down the road. Slowly, wkh a
sigh, the father opens the door. The
men go back to the work, the women
back to the kitchen; the domestic ma
chinery is started and the neighbors
say it is merely the natural order of
things for ‘the younger son to gather
all together and take his journey into
a far country.*
"Lesson the first: This journey or
the prodigal son into a far country Hi
% divine protest against making sin at
tractive. The far country was evi
dently the land of sin. By this Jesu£
does not mean every young man who
starts away from home is bad. But if
we carefully study the parable we can
read between the lines how the young
er son was restless. Like a bird he felt
his wings clipped by the control of the
old folks. He could not be out with
bis friends as late as he thought he
ought to be. Some of the entertain
ments he attended were questionable.
He feared a meddlesome neighbor
might report him. He was too old to
he punished and yet not old enough to
take care of himself. He decided to
lss^e his old-fashioned father and
mother and the strict rules of the
■ homestead. These are the reasons of
i the departure.
“Christ does not enter into a dis
gusting description of what the young
man did. He does not picture him
among the gay aristocrats of the new
town, opening the best bottles of wine,
driving the fastest horses, and living
*1th evil companions whom he dare
not introduce to his sisters. He does
not describe him in some lewd dance
hall, intoxicated with flattery as much
as with wine. He does not have a
palace of Circe filled with princes an<i
princesses, the walls pictured, the
floors of mosaic.’the banquet table
groaning under the weight of gold and
silver as well as fruits and viands.
I'arable Omits Details.
“He does not trace him on and on.
running into debt, having his friends
leaving him one by one, as humming
birds with their pretty wings will flut
ter away from a flower as soon as the
honey is gone. He does not describe
him at last so poor that he is begging
alongside of the beggars whom he once
cursed in the street. No. Jesus covers
up the months of wassail, libertinism,
and conviviality with the simple sen
tence of my text ‘The younger son
gathered all together and took his
journey into a far country/- In
Christ's parable it is only one step
from the father's hotise to a swine's
trough.
“The trouble with many so-callei
Christian teachers is that we put a
halo over sin and talk too much about
water nymphs, fairies, seamaids, deni
zens of the air. sylphs, spirits and
flaxen-haired goddesses. We picture
Temptation as a dream of beauty seat
ed upon the rim of a cloud. She holds
in one hand a pack of cards and in the
other a chalice of wine. The colors of
her cheek, the flowers caught in the
folds of the garment clinging about her
lithe form make her look so innocent
one can’t help loving her, even though
she may be bad.
“The great criticism against John
Milton is that he introduces his Satan
as a very respectable sort of a gentle
man. Supposing tonight I should at
tack a certain infidel book or a vile
Trench novel and mention the book by
namte and the author, and tell you un
der no condition to read it; that if you
did you would blast your soul for time
and eternity. What would be the re
sult? Tomorrow morning fifty or one
hundred of the young people sitting be
fore me would arise early and take the
first car down town and hurry to the
publishers and buy that very book,
merely because the preacher told you
not to read it. That is human nature.
“What is the greatest damage a
newspaper can do a man? Attack
him? No! That always does an in
nocent public man good. The harder
the newspaper denounces, the more
prominent the man becomes. The
worst insult the newspapers can give
is to simply ignore a man. Never men
tion his name. Treat him as if he was
not worth noticing. The most awful
contempt you can hurl at an enemy is
silence, complete silence, never-ending
silence.
Not Hailin'* Boltttia Hoard.
"Refuse to allow your back to be j
Satan's bulletin board. Pose not be
fore a community as a reformed drunk
ard. or an evangelized thief. If you ;
once had a diseased tongue, please do i
not tell it. If you were once bedaubed
with social filth, we do not want to ,
know it. Talk not about the gilded
saloon and bacchanalian feasts and the
good times you used to have before you
joined the church and married and |
gave up all fun. Throw not the coat of
maay colors over licentiousness and
somber black over virtue. Leave evil
advertisements alone. With one
plunge jump from the highest moun
tain of inspiration into the lowest
depths of despair with the simple sen
tence. And he went into a far coun
try.'
"In the next place, learn that the
prodigal of my text went into the far
country because the father was too
lenient, and divided unto him his liv
ing. Of course, we all know the great
teaching of this parable was to show
God’s mercy; how. as a broken-hearted
parent he is longing for the wayward .
chili to come home. But there are
many minor truths as well as the
major one. All the gold taken from
the mines is not poured into the same
mold. The chisel of Michael Angelo
can cut a curly-headed shepherd boy as
well as the long, flowing beard and
swarthy muscles of the Jewish law
giver. The wheels in a factory should
not be despised because they do not re
volve the one wav.
"Mr. Moody said: ‘This father ought
to be censured. He could not have
done a greater unkindness to the boy
than to give the younger son his goods
and money and let him go. A true
father would have said to such a con
temptible filial spirit. "Go and earn
your own portion by the sweat of your
brow." ’ Yet hundreds of parents are
making the same mistake every day.
Try as hard as the loving heart may.
nre are very apt to be partial to the
babies. When the young couple stand
at the marriage aitar. hope and poverty
generally clasp hands. The first chil
dren who sleep in the cradel have to
take their share of struggle for daily
bread. But when the youngest babies
are born the parents often have a foot
hold. Servants now clean the house
and run the errands and care for the
shoes. To use a worn-out figure, the
younger son lies on a bed of roses.
Selflshnese *f Children.
“But some one says this prodigal son
is the exception. Most children would
not take selfish advantage of their
parents in that way. Kindness always
wooes kindness and love love. We fear
you are in error. Most of the children
are just what the parents make them.
Have you ever had a sister get mar
ried? No sooner is she engaged than
she starts around the house laying
claim to everything. If she has paint
ed a piece of rrockery cr embroidered
a pillow cushion or played upon a
piano, they are all hers. She says.
'This is mine and that is mine and the
other thing is mine.’ When the bride
leaves the old homestead the stout ex
pressmen have hard work to shove
down the lid of the bridal trunk to
make the key turn in the lock. Every
child's marriage strips the father’s
house.
"William Shakespeare was the most
inspired writer who ever lived outside
of Holy Writ. He seemed to know
everything. When he soliloquized over
a skull you could see the awful grin
ning teeth and empty eye sockets and
the gloomy graveyard, even though
you do not watch the tragedy in a
theater. 'The Taming of the Shrew’
«
could teach many of our legislators
that the whipping-post ought not to bs
obsolete in our treatment of social ir
ritants. In the sins of Lady Macbeth
all the evil deeds of life seem to make
the very fingers soak the blood.
“When you think of the injustice to
ward the Jew in 'The Merchant of
Venice,’ we hear poor Shrloei turn
upon his persecutors end demand a
pound of Antonio’s flesh In revenge for
stealing his daughter. What is Wil- j
liam Shakespeare's testimony in ref
erence to children who have been
brought up by tco lenient parents?
When King Lear as king had the two
daughters at his feet; when the two
daughters werr queens the poor old
man wrs driven from house to house.
ACx cc 'o Parents.
“But sometimes the father’s mis
takes sharpen the poisonous fang. The
best way to hold the affections of your
children is to be independent of them.
Never let them finger the purse .
strings; divide not unto them the liv
ing. not only for your own sake, hut
for theirs. The younger son will not j
find much fun in drinking a bottie of
champagne at $2.7*0 per bottle if he
earns a salary of only $7 a week.
There is not much enjoyment in smok
ing 23-cent cigars if a poor clerk has
to go without his dinner on account of
the expense. There is not much poetry
about ’the far country’ if a young man
has to tend the swine as soon as he en
ters it. If your children are bound to
go to destruction, make them pay their
own way.
"Lastly, learn when the young prodi
gal gathered all together and took his
journey into the far country he left his
mother as well as his father. Some
preachers go so far as to suppose this
boy did not have a mother. The para
ble mentions her not. Perhaps on ac
count of the dissipations of the young
er son the mother’s hairs prematurely
silvered. Then, like the blossoming of
the almond tree, became as white as
snow. The long, deep wrinkles grew
deeper; the eye sadder; the lip more
ready to quiver. The debtors said she
was worrying about something. One
day the old trouble came. There was
an awful cry. as the spasm of the heart
clutched at her life, and she was dead.
This interpretation may be true, but
we do not think so, and you and 1 have j
just as much right to our opinion as
others have to theirs.
"In the first place, the man is at the j
head of the house. By the eastern j
custom he alone is mentioned. The Bi
ble tells us that Christ was to be born
of Mary the Virgin. Yet in the two
distinct genealogical tables of the New
Testament, the one in Matthew and
the other in Luke, only the genealog
ical table of Joseph is given; the one
tracing the family history from God
down to the manger, the other from
the manger back to God.
Old Home RfrullwL
"Shall 1 describe a scene which hap
pened last night? No, it was not in
Chicago. Not in that low saloon or
cheap theater where you were play
ing billiards and gambling away your
life. The scene was way back in the
country. You remember the old farm,
the white house, the pillared porch, the
big barn in the rear, the wood pile to
the left of the kitchen door. The hens
arc now running around begging for
food because the earth is a frozen tomb
in which the worms have gone to sleep
for the winter. It is about evening,
and an old woman, an old gray-haired
woman, is cooking over the kitchen
stove. She looks thinner than when
you saw her last. The neighbors «av
she is aging very rapidly and will not
live long. An old man comes in and
stamps the snow off his great boots.
The woman, this gray-haired woman,
looks up and says. 'Pa. have you a let
ter? Have you been to the postof
fice? Is it not strange he has not writ
ten? He has been gone five long year*.
Do you think God will let me live long
enough to see him just once before I
go?’
"The old man says nothing, but goes
to the door and looks down the road.
He shades his eyes as if he could see a i
great way off. Then he turns and i
says. Mother, that is a fine calf we
have there in the barnyard. She is
getting fatter eac i day. We must kill i
her soon. Perhaps we can have a big
feast if our boy ever comes home.’
"They sit by the fire a little while
after the dishes are wiped. Their even
ing talk is soon ended. They are so
tired they cannot stay up late. They
are too tired to sleep. Then they take
the old Bible and the mother says. Pa. !
won’t you read that story of the prod
igal sou? Somehow I never can hear it
enough. You read it last night. It is
in the fifteenth chapter of Luke. About
the younger son that went away and
starved and was too proud to come
home.' Whfu home to a parental
heart without the boy was even a
more desolate place than the pig pen
was where her boy was starving.
"Then they knelt. As they prajed
the little candle-light began to flicker
in sympathy. The tears trickled down
through the four withered hands. Thus
the two tottering old folks staid upon
their knees pleading with God until an
angel in heaven could hear their grief
no longer, and he fluttered away and
whispered to me the secret that I am
now telling you. Boy, will you not go
home? Before they are dead go home
and leave this far country of sin, even
this wicked, selfish city, where ws now
live.”
KHacovrr? of Steam u a Motive Pon»r.
In 1543 a mechanic, who for many
years puzzled and experimented on the
subject, brought to the attention ot
Emperor Charles Fifth, of Austria, an
invention by moans of which ships j
could be propelled by steam. The
monarch was greatly impressed and
would no doubt have become the pat
ron of this great invention, but one of
his prime ministers, evidently jealous
of the attention the inventor was re
ceiving. so worked upon the mind of
the emperor that his interest in the
invention was quite destroyed. In 1641
a man was put into a mad house be- j
cause he persistenly followed some of
the great men of his country about, ,
declaring that he had discovered a
new motive power that would revolu
tionize the machinery of the age. Many
countries and people have claimed to
be the discoverers of steam as a motive
power, but these accounts, which arc
well authenticated, seem to settle th»
question finally.
! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson x. march i, Mark
1-12-THE HEALED.
Golden Text "The S„n of M:;a |Uth
1'ower o» Barth |o Korr|vr 8lw|„_
Mark 11:10—How i»->«
• ow I erformam e of Mir
acle* Aided t hri»t in ni# worlu
1. "After v an davs " Some .11V.
ter the healing of the leper 1
'Hill U’hnn ti ( 'ml K 1 4^*
that mir e' i ,1' ‘ x,'it( rri")lt concerning
uiai nur.u U- had quieted down, "it was
noised. Rumored, rejnirted "That he
was in the house." Either' »iJ k
Which he occupied vl-h 1 e, Uvu*"
' Kroi I,* *ieu v hjs mother am!
, ; s bft .• - i..—ne. ,i„.,
jso.oS*. 1'"r"'aml'n^" Bi»'. <■*
_. M.i... t.e.c gathered together" in
; fromall , v^c Md “s «' 1'tvr
r s d, m ° GaUkv- JvA^- a"d Je
* TLd a^d 1 F >Sa "7™ lh* ■»* “ ttue: -
I preached rs::Anf iha J'"> ‘ And ho
’ ’he ti i-alvti ‘ ,mke' *a!‘ sIM'«‘king, when
! 'tk' 7 \ • W~s bruURht the hous
I The v.ord The word God had sent
| by him; the good news o{ salvation
| d. “And they come," while Jesas 1
i preaching "Bringing „ne sick of the
pas>. He was full grown, for it took
.our to carry him lb- W(1S young for
Jesus calls him •son." Palsy is a con
traction ol tin world "paralysis."
<- And when they could not coma
' n!h!lKUft» km f"r tbe I’ress " Or crowd.
which Idled not only the room, but the
j court and the narrow street on which
the gate was. "They uncovered the roof
where he was Over the house, or over
veranda- Tb, v uncovered the roof.
1 1 hey let down ih.- bed." A rude pal
let. merely a thh-kl> padded quiit or
I mat. held at the corners, and requiring
I J*° cords T<> *« it down. They could cue
j il> reach tli* roof by the stens on fh •
j outside, as the roof i> low. or they conlo
; have gone into an adjoining house and
Passed along the roofs.
; ^ a. "\\ hen Jesus saw them faith." Tin'
! falth of the sick man and of the friends
who Drought him "Son." expressing
; •*> mpatliv and a kindly fueling. Matthew
adds. "B. of good cheer." "Thy sins ho
(arei forgiven thee." The past is wash
ed away. You are received back again
• o your Heavenly Fathers favor and
uive. as the prodigal son to his father s
i home.
6. “But there were certain of the
scribes. "The scribes, nr rabbis, w*-tg
j t*ie leaders of the nations, tin theolua*
ians. the legislators, the polite ns ..f
Israel. ^—Geikie. Referred to abe . frriig
j Luke a: IT. “Reasoning." "Th word
•dialogue' is derived from the or. ,in.il of
j this word; and tin meaning litt ally 1*
, that they held a dialogue wit!, them*
j selves. —M. R. Vincent. “ii thtif
| hearts Not speaking it open
] •. This man thus speak blaspb -miev''’
To blaspheme is to slander God. .o speak
evil, impiously, of God. In thi- case
was arrogating to himself what tat longed
only to God. thus making G<k1 like ;*
mere man. Blasphemy is practically ui
tered treason against God. “Mho can
forgive sins but God only?" F ns aro
against God. and therefore oi.ly God
j can forgive them; for in the nature of
things only lie against whom ihe of
i fense has been committed can forgive.
S. “Why reason ye." Matthew savs.
“Wherefore tiiink ye evil?" Wh> do vou
misjudge, and put an evil constructed
on mv words?
"M hether is it easier to say," etc.
“In our Lord's argument it must be care
i fully noted that he does not ask whlcii
is easier, to forgive sins or to raise
a sick man; for it couid not be affirmed
that that of forgiving is easier than this
of healing; hut which is easier to claim,
this power or that; to say. Thy stn« in
forgiven thee, or to say. Arise and walk?
... It would be easier for a in.in
equally ignorant of the French and Chi
nese languages to claim to know the last
than the first. Not that the language
itself is easier, hut that in the one cask
multitudes could disprove his claim; In
the other, hardly a scholar or two In
the land."—Trench Saying. "Thy sins In
forgiven thee" could not 1* put to the
proof. But the saying. "Arise and walk.”
could be tested on the spot. Both were
divine acts. He that could do one di
vine act proved that he had authority
and power to do the other.
10. “Ye may know that the gun of
man." The Messiah, “the head and rep
resentative of the new humanity.” the
Son of God manifested in the flesh. "Hath
power." Both right and might, author
ity and power. The proof lies In the
indorsement of God to Jesus’ claims to
be the Messiah. The miracle was the
signature of God to his nature and mis
sion.
1L "Arise." Which would be impnsst
ble without a miracle. "Take up thy
bed." This would show the complete
ness of the cure on the spot, which
would be impossible if the cure were a
medical result.
12. “He arose, took un the bed. and
went forth before them all." A living
witness to Jesus, unimpeachable, and
making the cure a visible illustration of
the work which Jesus came to do. "In
somuch that they were all amazed ”
Luke adds. "They were filled with fear.”
The miracle awakened a religious awe
in their minds, such as men ever . feel
in the presence of a great and myste
rious power. Here was one who could
I read their hearts, and who would not
I be afraid if every secret thought were
about to be brought to light. Here was
, one also who had unlimited power; what
might he not do to them? But they also
saw the goodness of God; his forgiving
love; his readiness to help; and this,
too. for the sinful and helpless. This
was the most amazing thing of all. "Anti
glorified God." Luke adds, “saying. We
have seen strange things to-day.” They
ascribed the honor and glory to God, :is
the source of this beneficent power. The
good deeds of God's children honor God.
and lead the souls of men toward him
(Matt. 5: 1«>. k
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Tin Trade of Fre-Historie Days.
Recent investigation of the old prob
lem of the diffusion of tin over eastern
Europe and Asia Minor in prehistoric
times leads to the conclusion that
r.bout 1.000 years before Christ the tin
, of the British isles were carried over
i land to the Aegean sea. The inven
tion of the anchor led about 2.700
years ago to the opening of a marine
! route between England and then the
Phrygians controlled the tin trade
with their ships. The short summer
nights of north Britain were among
the wonders that Greeks talked of in
i the days of Homer.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
_
' The healthiest troops in the worlf
are those of the German army.
The sew ing w omen of Berlin get only
SO cents a dozen for making fine
shirts.
The young man of Samoa, when in
•love, has the name of his sweetheart
tattooed upon his forearm.
Nearly all of the Egyptian farmers
use the same kind of plow that was
used 5,000 years ago.
In Wales, up to the year 1850. it was
I customary for people attending church
to smoke during divine service.
American cotton is preferred by the
Japanese manufacturers, because it
has a longer staple than that of any
i other country.
When an unmarried woman is borne
to the grave in Brazil her coffin, the
hearse and the livery of the coachmen
are all scarlet.
Bv special request, a circus at Beil
ville. Kas.. changed the route of its
procession, in order that two sick boys
might see it from their windows.