TALM AGE'S SERMON. HOME U« THE SUBJECT LAST SO *K DAY. VW AMWi «f mm*• M IMr ( hue K‘wpyr«!,| a** try Uk!« A* *t-JWhdl ) £r*J»ltl« ««y BUbUIMffift srU ton* tAw .or* that 11* «**a Olli| 1 • » A4-' t# through to* ootid*, and Mare a ahull cry to a heat 1 rlMBhed <4 to the hjrtf a aect. aac 1 fwtaf that the ««a l>trf hod left :ht ©rood to atam. 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Tft** rutl* «riw* from our ewa * am* .XimuM- j*tary aad utreooa of c. a ip. so Got of 3ft parevu there siy be 4Vo pareo: aao uaderrtabd* ftov lftar u4t.i aad Muiffady to dtac.pi.a* je-hap* aot mom tbaa w vat of 30 1ft* boarty a. of a*, err oa oa* »id* v 4m tb* ocam Her# !» a father who • *«♦ *1 am go.ag to br.jig ap my cb.l area right My row* »bal. kaow aotft cst# bat r* ,f«o *aaII *** aot ft Tag but r* 4 v earn a*ar oath sag but rall goa They am routed out at d o'clock it tft* m.'Mft.bg to ret it* th* Tea Com aftaadmeau They arc aaftraed op tram tft* «4a cm ft aft day L-gftl to rr « .*e tar Wratmioatar color hiam Tb* r bedroom wall* am comrsod a itft rrltg • -oo* pbt«m» aad oaocailoo* of Amp t-r# aad ah*a tftr boy look* for tft* day cd tft# aoatft ft* kmk* for if ia a r#..gatm* almaoat If a mfthiater com** t* the ftwMMr 0* .* r#ouo*t«"C to take the boy **:sb aad t*.J a a vftat a gioof a.aaec t* m h * mlA«os mura.Bg. ftwaa aad Oigft* ***** pawa** cm *•« «mr paroni are n*x.tg ««r ib* man of t he *-0® at ■IrM, It 'I* ft aVkrh It if !• oVkeh, I? * IS o' iorft it ia If •>!•*. it i* If The* they a *»! ug vf the n.gt: hey . and George com * ami iiaafena up stair* .teat h# he Hi* father art "Oaotp. Whrr ham yaa met**' He say*. “I have .MW® «at-“ te* he ha* bee® out. *&£ S* ii*> era down and h* has atari**; m, the broad road to ruts for fft.it* tele ahd rata for the IHr to roaa. and the fatfta# caft to ft® or if#: ••arbor, the Too €#—aimi#w are a fa *r» V« me af WotSiBiOT rati ch«m * bade mat »> very «e*t fo thai hay J»ft -*e how he lid* turned out.* Ab tty fr*#*d. yo« have Stuff «| that > ■ -*h rrti#rb». You had no • *"*pa'hy artta inn treat! hilar*! *■ Tom haa no ™*tot -ease a atjtn at m.d itlr said to me *! haven't much deatr ft# re .gum V- fata-ef w*» as good M maa aa ever lived, tout he jaaasaft re liftt*4i doom my •hnmt wne* | «u * hoy anttl 1 got dtagaated with it. and 1 aa«<® • *.jite< Mn? at it utht* Tl*: father erred on one md*. Ia*-* '*s# da :p.iBt ie as *nMre fa I nr* a many heusehalda became the ft*fc# - pu..* on# way and the mother p * tn* ocher *t). The father say* **11} mm. I told you tf 1 ever found ptw gu. tf at falsehood again I would >' > _ eat: ; an - a* ’<» k#ep mi prom,***- The asether say*: Dost •-at him oft thu t ae “ A ta b#-' any* “I have *e*n no many that man* mi stake by too great serer -ty -a tn# reartag of their « bJdreu %ow 1 wtff lac my boy do aa he picas**. Me shall have fall awing. Here, my nan. are Ct to* to the theater and ©p «n if ywr wont to play cards do 00. tf jam dent want to yi< cards yon 90*d no* piad them Go when y«a want rm* raam bark w*.e® you want to Hare 0. good t an# G*. ft" Give n boy ptowt; of money and »** b.m not what % ha he* w th u. and you pay **• »*y straight to perdition. Bat after awhile tb* tad think* he ought to have a still larger supply. He ha* been treated, and be must treat. He must have wine suppers. There are larger and larger r.amlt of Lai DUclptina. After awhile one day a messenger from the bonk over the way calls in ► and says to the father of the household of wht h I am speaking: “The officers of the hank would like to have you lep over a minute." The father steps o*er. and a hank officer says. “Is that your check?" “No.” he says, “that is no: my cueck I never make an ‘H' in tirai way. I never put a curl to the ‘Y’ in that wav. That is not my writing: 1 that is not my signature; that is a counterfeit. Send for the police.” Stop." says the bank officer, "your son : wrote that ~ New the father and mother are wait ng tor the son to come home at night It 12 o dork.lt lr half-past 12 o'clock, it i* 1 o'clock The son comes through j the hallway The father says: "Mv son. ahat does all this mean? I gave you eiery upport unity | gave you all the money you wanted, and here in my old days 1 find that you have become a spendthrift a libertine and a sot.” The ' eon says: "Now, father, what is the use of your talking that way? You told me to go it. and I just took your sug gestion “ And so to strike the medium :*etween severity and too great leni en r. to strike the happy medium be tween the two and to train our children i for Ciod and for heaven is the anxiety i of every intelligent parent. Another great solicitude is in the fact t ti«t »o ear’y .« developed childish sin ft. .tim Morning glories put out their -«*o*»m in the early part of the day. but a? the hot sun tomes on they close up. V Lsle there ire other flowers that ••bow their beauty along the Amazon for a week at a time without closing, yet the morning glory does Its work as certainly at Victoria regia, so there are stme in.lidren that just put forth their bloom, and tbejr dose, and they are gone There is something supernatural j i i-out them while they tarry, and there ? i»f> erberes! appearance about them, here ie a wonderful depth to their eye. j ! sod tker are gone. They are too deli- ' «•»?« » plans for this world. The Heav en y Gardener sees them, and he takes : them m But for the most part the children j *Lat lire sometimes get cross and pick ' up had words in the street or are dis- i ;>osed to quarrel with brother or sister -nd show that they are wicked. You sew them in the Sabbath school class. I'hey are «-o sunshiny and bright you) would tb.nk they were always so. but the mother looking over at them re mwaioers what an awful time she haJ to get them ready Time passes on They get con? derably older, and the -on astray a« ? kjw a? they be bom. speaking lies.” fk-kiac wt Rot*. dome go to work and try ;o correct ! a., tfa and the boy Is picked at and p. ked at and picked a’. That aiways ruinous. There is more help in one good thunuer?torm than in fi\e days of roid drizzle. Better the old-fashioned s*> »e of chastisement if that be neces sary than the fretting and the scolding wfc b Lzve destroyed so many. There i» also a cause of great sollci » itnetime because our young peo e ar* -urrounded by so many tempta iii? A cos tie may not be taken by a .-•ra gbtforward siege.but suppose there o*- .iir.de the castle an enemy, and in th* night he shoves back the Dolt and swing* opes the door. Our young folks - without, and they have foes wi’iiin Who do*-? not understand it? V; man here who is not aware ul the fj -t ’ hat the young people of *....- day :.*ve tremendous temptations? Some man will come to the young people and try to persuade them that purity and hon**s:v and uprightness are a sign of weakness Some man will *uke a nematic attitude, and he will mlk to ’he young man and he will say: i You must break away from your »<*tber - apron strings You must get it »f that puritanical straitjacket. It time you were your own master. You are verdant. You are green. You are uii* ;■?.11 early wan your children. You s-und on the bank* of a river and you tr- to ha»ige it* coarse. It ha* been ng t“ a for 100 miles. You cannot hang* it. But just go to :lie source of la- river go to where the water just < orip* down on the rock. Then with your knife make a channel this way and a < iiannrl that way, and it will take it. Come out and ■'tand on the *nk* of your child's life when it was 30 or 40 years of age. or even 20. and try to change the course of that life. 1 It - too lake* It is too late! Go furth- j e: ; ut the source of life and nearest to the mother's heart, where the char - t» starts, and try to take it in the kht direction. But. oh my friend, be are'ui to make a line, a distinct line. wr^en innocent hilarity on the one aand and vicious proclivity on the other. Do not think your children are going to ruin because they make a racket All healthy children make a racket. But do not laugh at your 1 child's sin because it 1* smart. If you I uo. you will cry after awhile because it 1* ma! cious. Remember it is what you j more than what you say that is go •i;g to affect your children. Do you uppose Noah would have got Ills fam > to go into the ark if he staid out? No His sons would have said: "I am rut going into the boat. There’s some thing wrong. Father won't go in. if father stays out I’ll stay out.” An offi cer may stand in a castle and look off upon an army hghting. but he cannot be much of an officer, he cannot excite much enthusiasm on the p»rt' his troops standing in a castle or on hill top looking off upon a fight. It is a Garibaldi or a Napoleon I. who leaps into the stirrups and dashes ahead. And you stand outside the Christian life and tell your children to go in. They will not go. But you dash on ahead, you enter the kingdom of God. and they themselves will become good soldiers of Jesus Christ. A Personal Appeal. Are your children safe? I know It is u stupendous question to ask. but I must isk it. Are all your children safe? A mother when the house was on fire got out the household goods, many articles of beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask until too late, “Are the children safe?” When the ele ments are melting with fervent heat and God shall burn the world up and the cry of “Fire, fire!” shall resound amid the mountains and the valleys, will your children be safe? I wonder if the subject strikes a chord in the heart of any man who had Christian parentage, but has not lived as he ought? God brought you here this morning to have your memory re vived. Did you have a Christian an cestry? ”Ob. yes,” says one man. ”If there ever was a good womau, my mother was good.” How she watched you when you were sick! Others wearied. If she got weary, she never theless was wakeful, and the medicine was given at the right time, and when the pillow was hot she turned it. And, oh. then when you began to go as tray. what a grief it was to her heart! All the scene comes back. You re member the chairs, you remember the table, you remember the doorsill where you played, you remember the tones of her voice. She seems calling you now. not by the formal title with w-hich w« address you, saying. “Mr.” this of * Mr.” that, or “Honorable” this or “Honorable” that. It is just the first name, your first name, she calls you by this morning. She bids you to a better life. She says: “Forget not all the counsel I gave you, my wandering boy. Turn into paths of righteousness. 1 am waiting for you at the gate.” Oh. yes. God brought you here this morning to have that memory revived, and I shout upward the tidings. An gels of God, send forward the news! Ring’ Ring’ The dead is alive again, and the lost is found! children of actors. Moat Staff Folk Dou't Want Their Offspring to Imitate Them. It is interesting to observe that few of the noted people of the stage have tiiildren or relatives on the boards with their permission. Mrs. Kendal t omes of a family of actors, but she says firmh no daughter of hers shall ever be an actress with her consent, because the work is too hard and the struggle too great. James A. Herne has four daughters, and two of them last season were seen with their father on the stage, bur the situation was dif ferent. inasmuch as they were in bis company. Sarah Bernhardt put her son on the stage, but in regard to her little granddaughter she has other ideas. It is her wish that the giri should marry some good man and set tle down into domestic life, which she «ays is a great enough career for any one. Eleanora Duse’s daughter has never seen her mother act. and that mother intends she never shall. %»he wants her daughter to be a cuLtjred, thinking woman, but to keep off the . iage. Lillian Russell’s daughter Is about 16 now. and is at school. She has talent, it is said, but ter mother does not want her to adqpt a stage career May Irwin is proue of her two boys, but she has no stag* ambitions for them. They are destined for the array and for business. Annie Russell opposed a stage career for her brother Tom of Fauntleroy fame, and Margaret Anglin refuses to allow her younger sister to accept several offers made her Emma Nevada has a daughter whc bids fair to be a brilliant singer, but she does not want the child to be trained for the stage.—Memphis Scimi ter. HOME FOR HORSES. Pernutneat AhtIuoi f«»r KquioM Tha> Hare Outlived Tlteir laefulnnt. Horses were the sole guests at a re cent dinner given by a company oi English men and women who jour neyed from London into the country for the sole purpose of entertaining their four-footed dependants. The scene of the banquet was the Home of Rest for Horses. Friar’s place farm. Ac ton. It is an institution presided over by the Duke of Portland, and patron ized by many of the best-known horse lovers in the United Kingdom. Pri marily its object is to enable poor peo ple 10 obtain a few weeks’ rest and recuperation for their overworked and underfed beasts of burden, but it also affords a permanent asylum for old fa vorites that nave outlived th«!r use fulness. The menu included chopped appies and carrots, and slices of white and brown bread, mixed with a few handfuls of loaf sugar. Nothing could have been more to the taste of the guests, judging from the eagerness with which they plunged their noses into the delicate pot-pourri. There are forty-three horses at the home—twen ty-three of them in the "oid favorite” or "pensioner” class—and two don keys. The most famous inmate is Boxes, an old charger of the Horse guards, who survived the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. and was afterwards bought by Dorothy Hardy, the artist who used him as a model. He has been in the home six years. Then there is a superannuated brown gelding, whose owner, a woman, provides him with pillows and blankets, and has estab lished her home at Acton in order to be in constant attendance upon him._ St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Feminine Strategy. A—"Have you noticed that when Miss Gettingold goes out for a walk with gentlemen she always invites them to that large oak tree?” jg— "Yes; while there she tells them of the great number of centuries the oak has stood, and what are her twenty-five (!) years in comparison?”— Fliegende Blaetter. In many parts of Europe It is at the present day considered an omen of Ill luck for a hare ta cros£ the road In front of a traveler. THEY MISS THE POINT A FREE-TRADE ARGUMENT WITHOUT FORCE. _ Ur{* Profits and Low Price* In the Iron end Steel Industry Sustain the Contention as to the Value of the Protective Pelicv. The free-traGers are se:zir,s upon the opportunity afforded by the bringing of suit by Mr. Frick against the Carne gie company and by the statements made by him in respect to the enor mous profits made by the company to reiterate their old claim that the pro tection of American industries is a rob bery of the American people in behalf of American manufacturers. Just how I they would figure it out to show that. with the same degree of activity in I the trade and with the same rate of i wages, the prices of iron and steel products would have been lower or the profits of the steel companies less dur ing the last two years, if there had been no tariff on iron or steel, does not appear. American manufacturers have exported great quantities of iron and steel products since the enactment of the Dlngley law. In foreign countries i they have no advantages, either from a tariff or otherwise, over any foreign manufacturer of iron and steel, iei it has been the American manufaetur I ers who have, in large measure, con ! trolled the foreign markets, who have secured large orders in face of their foreign competitors. If. as h«M seen the case. American manufacturers have, in open competition with all the wcrld. secured the lion s share of the orders for iron and steel produti* in other countries, what possible shadow of a reason is there for the assertion that the tariff has enabled them to un duly inflate prices? If foreign manu facturers could not offer lower prices or greater inducements to foreign buy ers, what reason is there to suppose that they w’ould have done so in the case of American buyers? The truth of the matter is that the prosperity of this country under our restored system of protection has been bo great that our iron and steel plants have been hard put to it to fill orders They have been crowded with work to their utmost capacities. In such a state of affairs it is inevitable that proflts should be large. The tariff has I been connected with these enormous profits in these respects only. viz., that it is the protective tariff which has given to us an iron and steel industry, and that it is the protective tariff, as embodied in the Dingley law, which has given to the country such wonder ful prosperity that our iron and steel mills have been overcrowded with j work. For it is American prosperity which is responsible for the large prof its. It Is the American demand which keeps the mills running. Foreign or ders are not extensive enough to keep our mills running, though they do help to run up the proflts. | " AGREEABLY SURPRISED. Wage-Earner* Voluntarily Accorded a Share In Employer*’ Profit*. Five hundred wage-earners in one of the large mills at Paterson. N. J., were agreeably surprised last week when pay day came. Instead of one envelope they received two. In one envelope was the surprise in the shape of the usual pay and a a per cent increase: in the other the explanation. This was sim ply that the company now finds itself > able to keep its promise of sharing any | prosperity which might come to it with i its workers: that trade had improved j and a » per cent advance was made possible. The advance, of which there had been no intimation whatever, caused muca rejoicing. It is understood that the Barbour Flax Spinning company, which em i ploys several thousand hands, will take similar action, the advance of 5 per cent having been agreed upon by the ! two companies. Episodes like these, bringing joy to the hearts of many thousands depend ent upon the wages paid are charac teristic of the period of “McKinley and prosperity.” They furnish an agreea ble and very instructive contrast to the i condition of things which existed dur ing the never-to-be-forgotten time when the country was experiencing the fruits of "Cleveland and tariff reform.” Wage-earners in those days sometimes got tw-o envelopes instead of one. but the second envelope always contained an unpleasant surprise in the shape of a notice that “in view of the existing depression it has been found necessary to reduce wages.” To find employers of labor volun tarily admitting their employes to a share of their profits and their pros perity is doubly pleasant and gratify ing. for it conclusively proves what has been so insistently disputed by free traders. that protection operates alike to the advantage of wage-payer and wage-earner. PROOF OF PROSPERITY. Remarkable Ibcreane In the Number of the I'nemplojred. Probably in no single year in the history of the United States has there been so great a change in the indus | trial conditions. Think of it! In th? I great state of New York fourteen months ago more than a quarter of the ; working people were unemployed and seeking work from day to day to en able them to procure the necessaries of life. Within the ensuing ten months the unemployed numbered less than five in every hundred, and, as the World suggests, at the present time i the per cent is ‘ incalculably small.'* probably less than 2 per cent But these statistics do not tell the entire 6tory. The fact must be remembered that the report of the New York labor bureau covers only ten months of the year 1899, from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. In the early months of 1898. and during the previous two years or more, the depression was far greater. The proc ess of recovery from the awful stag nation and prostration incident to the anti-protection policy of the Wilson Gorman act had commenced, and some progress toward the restoration of in dustrial prosperity had already been made previous to Jan. 1, 1899. The full measure of the happy results of the Dingley act can be known only by com paring present conditions with those SKistlng at the period when industrial prostration under the Wilson-Gorman act was most complete. That period is not covered by the report from which the abor** is quoted. As we have said, the figures alluded to refer only to New York, but it is safe to say that if the statistics cov ered the entire count!y the improve ment shown would be equally marked in many states, probably in all of those having important manufacturing in dustries. We are quite assured that Pennsylvania makes as good a showing as New York. Industrial prosperity has reached high-water mark in nearly every community, and only in locali ties where a vast excess of unskilled labor abounds are there idle hands seeking employment without being able to find it. These localities are few now and the number is diminish ing from week to week.—Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Record. Wb«t Charity Should Begin and I'nd. Charity ought to begin at home if it begins anywhere. But it is a long sight better not to have any call for charity to begin at all. The better way is for every one to have plenty of work at good wages, and so be able to pay for everything needed. This is the way it has been with the American people ever since the enactment of the Dingley law started up the fires of the factories of the country and gave to every man who wants it a chance to work. There has been little need for charity. The old charity doling days of free trade and free soup houses have gone. The doctrine of the protective tariff is not to begin at home, or anywhere, with charity, but to begin at home with the providing of work for those who want it: to see to it that the American peo ple are not robbed of their chance to work, and that the American market is not given over to the products of foreign labor, but is made secure as the market for American products. In this way there is an end put to all need for the bestowal of charity on any one who is able and willing to work. B»ein A commercial paper says: “Travel i ing men are being received with open arms everywhere. There is no haggling about prio.« or terms. All they have to do is to show their goods, which must be of better quality than hereto fore. guarantee prompt delivery, and they are sure of liberal orders.” In spite of the trusts, therefore, the trav ; eling men zeem not to be left out of the good times. Under the protective tar ! iff. the business of the country is in creasing at such a rapid rate that it will be impossible for as many travel I ing men to be thrown out of employ ment bv the consolidation of different f i industrial concerns as there will be | demand for because of the establish ' ment of new industries and because of the growth and increased trade of all the business enterprises of the country. A Timely Renee*. No Rcbiod Why. It may be good policy to encourage the building and operation of fast ocean liners like the St. Paul. New York. etc., w hich can be taken into the service of the government during a war and converted into cruisers, but such ships should not be encouraged to the prejudice of the freighters, upon which the extension of our ocean commerce depends. If congress can be made to see the matter in its true proportions the shipping bill may be made one of the most popular protective measures ever passed by that body. There is no reason why our industry on the sea should not be protected as well as our industry on the land.—Minneapolis j Tribune. _ Kent. Sound. Permanent. Kansas City is said to be very proud of the fact that more buildings were i erected within the limits of that city during the year just ended than during 1 any other twelve months since 1890. when the "boom” was at its height. Even ‘booms” have to take second place when it comes to comparison with the results of a national protec tive tariff policy. Under the prosper ! ity which a protective tariff inevitably brings to a country the value of prop erty increases to the top notch without any -boomers." and. what is even bet | ter, the values are real and sound and permanent. A Worn-Out Party. “A party is like a suit of clothes worn for man's protection, and when the party is worn out and ceases to protect him he ought to throw the par ty away and get a new party.” said Col. Bryan in his Minneapolis speech. As the Democratic party is worn out. and ceases to protect, a great many former members, most of them promi nent in its councils, have taken the ad vice of the colonel and candidate, and got a new party, the Republican, which has given evidence of its ability to pro tect their interests.—Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. Ought to N*c It. It will be difficult this year to con vince the voters that there is urgent need of a change when all of them have employment at good wages, and the people are contented and happy, a blind man ought to be able to see that. —Cleveland Leader. GlTC P» Moro Such Lie*. Debs says that the prosperity of the country is a "ghastly lie.” All right. The more gnastiiness we have mixed with our lies the happier we will all be. —Lawrence (Kan.) World. Horses, when asleep, always have one ear pointed forward. The object evidently is to hear sounds indicating danger, whether they come from the front or from the rear. TRADE WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Facts Which Testify to the Wisdom or the American Policy. Analysis of the conditions of trade between the United States and the United Kingdom is very encouraging to us. It is well known that the in crease in our cotton manufactures has been immense. New mills have sprung up all over the south, and there has tern great expansion of the output of the mills in the northern states. Nev ertheless, our imports of cotton goods from Great Britain in 1899 were in ex cess of those of 1898 by about $1,500, 000. This proves two things—firstly, that the present tariff cannot foster an American cotton trust, and, second ly. that the increase in wages and oth er forms of income has been so great as to demand a supplement of in creased imports, in addition to the in creased output of home-made goods. Another curious and eminently pleasing circumstance is that our im ports of pig iron from Great Britain were more than three times as large in 1899 as in 1897; they were worth $360, 000 in the last named year and $1,280, 000 in the first. The free-trade theory is that it is better to ship pig iron, which is but one advance from raw material, to be brought to the perfec tion of manufacture abroad; the pro tective practice has resulted in larg* imports of foreign pig to be manufac tured by well-paid American artisans. While we have enlarged our imports of pig iron, we have diminished those of manufactured steel; our imports of cutlery were a third less in 1899 than in 1897; our tim-plate imports were greatly reduced; our imports of worst ed yarn, worsted tissues and woolen tissues have shrunk in ratios varying from one-third to two-thirds during the last two years. Concurrently with this our imports of machinery for the manufacture of cotton and woolen tex tiles have risen from $1,220,000 in 1897 : to $1,825,000 in 1899. This is the result in large measure of international pat ents upon the machinery imported. It is also conclusive evidence of a great expansion of American manufacturing enterprise. We now stand a close second in the trade of the world. A few years more of protection and expansion will give us first place.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Make a Note of It. Discussing the lumber trade. E. C. Baker of the Baker Brothers' Lumber Company of Plattsburg. is reported to have said recently: “The lumber trade is in an unusually ; prosperous condition. There is a great deal more market than we can find | product with which to supply it. while prices are constantly advancing. Yet \ the increased prices do not seem to have interfered with building in any ! way. The outlook for continued ac j tivity is very bright.” This is a decidedly different situa tion than was the case when the Wil son law was on our statute books. There were no surplus of market dur ing that time. Thousands of lumber men were idle. and. even so. there was still a good deal more product than there was a market. Lumbermen will do well to make a note of the contrast and to remember it when the time comes again to choose between "Tar iff Reform” and the continuance of our present prosperity-bringing Pro tective Tariff. Reason for Confidence. It has grown to be almost proverbial that a presidential year is a bad yeai for business, in fact, this has often been presented as a reason for length ening the presidential term. The year 1900, however, bids fair to discount the proverbial claims. Wherever statistics are gathered together the fact appears that the year 1900 has started out with better business than did 1898 or 1899. wonderful as was the showing made by each of those years. Every sign points to a bigger volume of business for the country than ever before. Busi ness men feel reasonably sure that the country will not consent to go back to the starvation days of Democratic tar iff reform; they feel reasonably sure of the continuance of our present pol icy of giving protection to American industries. Therefore they have the confidence to go ahead. With protec tion as the established policy of the country, with no possible danger of its downfall, presidential years, as well as all other years, will be years of nation al prosperity. ——-> — What to Expect. The present prosperity of the coun \ try has caused no relaxation of efforts on the part of the Republican admin 1 istration and Congress to increase our prosperity and provide for its con tinuance. Tbe people know by ex perience that they can always expect prosperity from the Repuoliean par ty.—Sonora (Cal.) Independent. -- Don't Want 1o Hoar If. Some of the inconsolables, who arc swelling up while asking laboring men if they are receiving any increase in j their daily wages, would hear some ! thing not so pleasant if they were to j ask these same men if there was any j increase in their annual income from | wages in 1899 over that of 189a.—Car mi (111.) Times. Don’t Want it Smashed. A United States senator has sent us a request to petition him to smash the tariff. We don't want the tariff smashed. The tariff is all right. It's the biggest industry builder and pros perity producer on the western conti nent. There are not enough industries in Sheffield yet.—Sheffield (Ala.) Reap er. They Will Learn. The industrial growth of the south is puzzling to those statesmen who have always opposed the national policies which hare made this growth possible. In time the people in Dixie will learn to appreciate the principles upon which their industrial prosperity is to resL— Peoria (111.) Journal. The Calamity Candidate. Increases in wages on the part of business men and corporations are to be taken as positively hostile move ments again?’ Col. Bryan. A candi date who dep ;nds upon calamity for support, howei er. has little chance this year.--Peoria VIII.) Journal. THE si nhay school? lesson u, apr,l s-ikatthew 1-14. Gor.t *• _ Man Do To Vou ^ ^ lfM S° To ;;i2_Pr^ ccpt/8 ami l*ruuame9 “Juujre no- ** n'l here does not nnan WOrd, every one must do thK- "°P‘a,on- for and things. •■Te ,, . ? mdn> Persons Condemned and cei.Y r. ^ n°l ju<*Ked.” stood by others, as uljy Zv^lZlfby simple fact £ ^!atr ‘‘f™™1" *tc- Th« ZX ZLXSTZ son. "is one of Go,: < „ ' S?J!S Mor‘* the self-conceited and t °f b.rinKin* his bar " ••WiVi Y b tensonous to . ’ ‘ v\ ti.it nif-asure ye mete (measure* it shall t, Y >e niele a vain " ’rv,; . a‘* isttred to you ASzzxx: o,»* v.h,«u'%*T ,S'mM al , ■ ■ dumes: carefully nlllV.' ,*b° ar<‘ Judging others - The mote. The wore, ‘m 0 suggests dust whereas the figure .- h. , JFa w! h Tnt™’ 'an,t material with the beam. —M R Vincent "That vision ••nmWlhf'r S1 " obscuring his vision But consul t., not ' "Appre hcnd«t „°t-from w. "nndersSS e..t not. -he beam that is in tliine droll Tn U7rA * ^d almost ss S5rnto,ta‘w - *7. 1?- h°.T Wilt lhou s“>' ,n thy broth er. etc. How can you have the face to say. how be guilty of such hypocrisy. such absurdity? 1 3 5. “Thou hypocrite." Because lie pro fesses to be sorry for the faults he re proves. when he is not. or he would hate them in himself. "See nearly to cast out. etc. Because he has had expe rience in getting rid of faults 6. ‘"Give not that which is holy " The sacrificial meats, the holy thingYprepar ed for the temple services, to aid men in the worship of God. ‘‘('nto the dogs.” ' In the East dogs are savage, unclean ceremonially, and actually filthy and hor rible in appearance "Neither cast ve your pearls before swine. Because they cannot appreciate their beauty nor un derstand their value, and you lose your pearls. You must change the nature of the swine before the pearls wii do them any good. Best they ) irn again and rebd you.” You not only will fail of doing them any good, but th< ., will in jure you for your attempt. 7. "Ask, . . . seek. . . knock" These words imply three methods of prayer, and perhaps three degtees of in tensity. »- every one that ask.-tli reeelv eth." There is no exception. True asking will combine seeking and kno king. The i answer will be given according to the i kind of asking. "And »every onei that seeketh findeth. Most best tilings must be sought for, as the graces, education, character. For others, as the gift of the Spirit, special providences, divine guid ance, God s tender love, opportunities, revelations, we must knock at God's treasury door, "and to him that knock eth it shall be opened.” 9. "If his son ask bread (a loaf), will he give him a stone," which was often found In the shape of their small, flat round loaf. 10. "Ask a fish tgood for food), will he give him a serpent?" Not only use less, but often deadly. To ask these ques tions is to answer them 11. "If ye then, being evil;" 1. e., sin ful. imperfect. "Even in our highest, hol iest relations there Is evil: selfishness is mingled with our most unselfish love."— Abbott. "Good gifts unto your children." This is the rule. "How much more." The difference is infinite. "Shall your Father which is in heaven." The holy, heaven ly. loving, perfect Father, who makes heaven what it is. who is able to an swer every prayer. "Give good things " Luke 11: 13. “the Holy Spirit," which is the best of the "good things," and in cludes them all. 12. “Therefore." Because what follows is the summing up of all the previous pre cepts in this discourse, a« love is the sum of the Ten Commandments, which James calls the Royal Law. as this verse Is called the Golden Rule. "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you." All that you would have a right to expect from others, not every thing criminal or foolish one might de sire. “Do ye even so to them.” Equiva lent to "Love thy neighbor as thyself.” "For this is the law and the prophets.” The sum of the duties to man required by the law and taught by the prophets. 13. "Enter ye in at the strait gate." The narrow, difficult gate. Strait here Is a different word from "straight." and is still used in such expressions as “He Is in a strait." i. e.. a narrow place.” For wide is the gate, and broad is the way. that leadeth to destruction." There are a multitude of sins, each of which is a wav to ruin. To destruction. The end of sin is destruction. It destroys life, health, happiness, hope, heaven. The de struction often begins in this world; it is completed in the next. And many there be which go in thereat. It was the popular way. and thmng**d with trav elers. It was so then. It still is to-day, but in a less degree. 14. "Strait is the gate . • which leadeth unto life.” the tru< life, the life of heaven on earth, eternal life- Few there be that find it A fact at the time. Ife does not say it will always be so, he does not say it must be so. AU , can find who will seek. — 1 1 i I - Was AH Face. ! The governor-general of Canada, I while enjoying a drive in the keen, I frosty air. met an Italian who was very j lightly clad. From mere curiosity he stopped the sleigh whnn opposite the Indian and asked him how it was he could withstand the cold under so light a covering. The Indian, without a moment's hesitation, answered by ask ing: “How your face not cold. The ’ governor-general explained in his simplest English how it was that, the j skin of his face having been exposed ! to the weather always, it naturally had i hardened. The Indian waited till the white man was through, then, with at* utterly expressionless countenance, he said: "Me all face," and went his way. "Zionist*. There is a peculiar sect known as ! Zionites in Ontario. Canada. The car* ! dinal doctrine of their creed is that ! hogs are possessed by devils, and 1 should therefore be killed. It has been i found necessary to restrain otherwise reasonable farmers from destroying I what in many cases was a chief means j of their support. The Zion-st farmers, in some instances, have joined togeth er .driven all their hogs into one place, and there killed them, in no instance, allowing the meat to be used as food. The Railway Mall Service. The expansion of mail service by rail is illustrated by the facts that, in the vear 1834. there were 75 miles of rail road in the United States, on which mails wTere carried, and now there are 174,777. Of mail of all classes dis tributed by railway postal clerks there were in 1898 12J225.706.220 pieces of second class mail (newspapers). There were in 1898. not including free in country. 336.126.338 pounds. Each of the pieces is, of course, handled sev eral times.