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RTO RK'o TARIFF.' i.O Iti THE LIGHT Oc COM MON SENSE t* Mil. ca*. tzt, re— lor use iiMiW cn— of aagu»*B «*«r feua'tet We h~'e Bui expected the world would laid together ms mii it ;t. Put ft Kira— did bo: » i fee ( ait— 1 *«- • * ■ • w. Bntt e* *a .iii-t 4. m«ewpurar>. that * Tf—m •.: e *wa*‘ Puerto Hxo mnw ' F that " oe ®,:g|r a* »* II turn out —i- j k dhr*» ..<•* m th* —*4 to hots'her m< Phab.:>au E'ew a i:ga tar.C wos1. | prrLup* JT M#W b.BiaB* Ifc— tha; ; Kt. t.h« Jo—I brisrve* i* tha! ypB- - v J pan *4 the l Bitec |hu ' • - *JM; f feat a ian! *bu»:d ao | ■P «* he —p^cd Agataat import* Ira® ■f *h- 'bag * a Muhl—a butter »ol*l Vtf:. J£*» fori; nay. Hut m> are prepared r *- • it *!u*ot th-*tt-t si*n» of h?* :~r*a ■ .4 the Hupein court of th* f I b - Star*-* tu,:tkr» a d* oiub that cuah u. - oa? lie .af -t ta» —mat-sie f the P—r» i Ki‘ iit-- ... - ra.|>* ... « c 1 — g.e»* u» • harp* * in* lari! agu be* «* *t ’-hot; -*t< a i, abc Be *g*m*t the® tar the aahr of <mHigh rr*!— to aup pofl tbe guneri—» *1 the i»ia— * 'at of .*• .4 re' eg . abtempcirarj **.*• -h.:. a dt»*| U ; rest* the poubil ti .. «. .—pel Iiw Puerto Alt ah* to joi I *>•«** aaauail) That u» a Ittlh — •* rc—a for —«rt Purrt > . at asc 'here ar- 6%r other artl <«» «® ®*». h th* is*feast nu» to*" a** •wh- aiejut I. the >ear |*er capita v;> -eg • l,Lai it .» OlUL t>s bat UB* .iM j* a;.■'•'a**' *oart *a*. » tin* la il-ega .■boo* of (USgreo* for- what we tepfi -* a m.ataio * 111 eCe t eothltig A-ltW a* ' ■ • I'csru *1 — Puerto Itii J a wfe-.ii it ;» ptspu—d to i Burge a t«*j here, lu uBier*lu»d:B£ ..» le*b ft.Pi..v-rto fi.-o to Bo: i Bg JI 1. > *■ * W 'til uf tt» pruUUrt* . ebd hot a 'is hrr* that it omr* bat . trfc.gr * l Spam aud Port that afera the :»iaad a a* irded to Ii,...- -a* ■: i that Puerto A wo .."4 hoc ha'* tree trade with Spain 41-e »*h. i* .tu® Puerto H- o to .»pw!B ta-c a duty of fl 1* th> Lxadre*. i.iUhli* «&d * » to be other prndwrte Be Spaaiefe tart! to rrl.tt'ei) a» . ?t or —t.- than tu—f what t* *ug *eUR>d to l*e 29—i IB the l Bile*! •tote* e. ®part* fro— the raiuBd .Phrrtfc A* ah * 41* e m fart i* !& ah) %ebt to ,»• aiSittci fiae tsto our mar fe*ta Moreen«r of *.h» dut*e» ruiiected .B Puerto M'S » uhem It wa* a SpahlaB pr—re a'.,**wt to per real, went tor £ ■ r"bS** ti*. wl npalh i—drr the ih.rad State* uoto r— rr.es .* trom cut.-* ob eiporte r.ts f .-it. Aw u o.*e. tec is osr « u* «4B t> tee# aBd the reteflae fro® * uUaded at the :*iaad wiU ic • fc^rlSAM -It tlW slMSXC -..* Mi* nsa-K.'M ~j» t ba** «*»** ko -4 to f*«*ru. tti o .6* •:..* "-*'T>*i*4« Tli* ttjfarr* fur hf <W SHboradBOSt to ro*«r *A a at ttmosa SMatlm o’ e ir o upon r i« • 'h* Poona ftjHiru to *p~.js tsea.Tr* sortt isai* Fnan a. ♦ ; * ***? <—rsnabjf *a«i to c**b*r oasstnaa IIKWIt»4 is rain* u> osar sia tat dollars j"earl% •bit* tb* ••eras* of tbr period iron **T to I%»l tiitwiflK wseahat Its* MUSS *b* total let tlM ea* Othw jsar luf st.. r ts* bsu*«* *r* avattsfet* ii*-*±u«.i s*:sl asport* lo tbo fan*-,.! trum tbo talas# ar» irtatat. It is set a- - n»r*»* tbaratao to state - * sot* .a# .« is* aaidat of a mss* o* ♦rsfwrtadao sad -osala-jl* product* * ■ * . . . ■ m. -at *r *- tra :* artUl tin; • -ntstvy oagtt to s;r* tbsaa ft1** tndr M tb* ia.**d is #acid • ; • u:. tn .tad • to fit* th* oi sum* ns uf «strTsan*.f st us e, tor as< « taintf Ittdi to jw* »ebt Its* L-tbr-t pnawpamit and 4»e. opsiest. uud b** •Dsn* tb* !***>«*' d**m» st least ibsi bub at os bands of ridbi. Btt it !« isa* -anary tint: oar hats! fist tod u*t mperarr should best its breast so &..» ssbe* ib its t! a a* :«fc* as nmglta to ohm s siSnaat mourner is u » r- ib* : • it ou :*o raL— sort re. Journal. MAoromr* woes. * - * »- ta>< Art Hm'«| * Mtlmmm Maw •« JawcM .. ' U ip Uk %iu«-r. it trait £-1, *:• pvt: rjt*< ..’uraeiop. lor to* • H- .4 ottufc f«o6* if iiJUrlj U. Si . Ajperv* luma® go; me . 1. w fc fc dMp * prucu . tr **1 *-ff-»*iil* tfc. a.r*ire% .*■ - t as IP* ti**Su.) I o» «*•*•! of 111# 1»*.iW'rSor c w-reaf—u*f I of tp* fmtl .. ' u.* • .< L>ii.M Zx I'.rr • .• j ear fc*» . *■ *. *,-:.,«*»* forttt*' 1 tp priori pa. i *rl «r it. MuSurn * traor wi*p to# ' • 'a- fiato* tb> C"im# wplttf iUtauPt A#- 'Si- ferial j tl/V JB* but Hi* *Apart «i ffwadP Ml -a® fropi aMw: I- . - <" * :*:*• «o ooly a Wat >» wy 1® IMP. ffltt* ca - pgp Bradford appt «- «a* «r J|« A* tpajN® 8 01 Ui of woepMI tut-rpg* vpiV iPe *%u*uf lor loot fmm »a* a tr if * «m ViaiMMm. TV tfeUMS •* > uui® .* to Llmtm for il Tproapl IIP OpcrptioP* IP* <> m<tPa for ■« f apffir* PM -a mood. and 'Or trod* koitt uB*t!r4 by Bradford -A P r £. U*. at »i«rt COOtOI* r- prrot-A’rd Pf tpr ip*to*-*;** gmin tor Ajot • ■' bp labor -»a4 tbatrrtal tpnwoffp :pr port Lor apt! 'Oar of c.otpr a.apt to oor oarp rooptry ' :.»• *)’- -* .* nt *1- tar * *M km crrttuO AMPrtnK SLlL. mr» V .6| eps. pried w«P tr*< !;inrrf Tip * ,’B nurp os. !Vo |«mI» *o *or «*«»•!. :« a* to •r'toatif d:oiin.<a tPo *tfc- .at* par*. a«w*4 aprood It would a>«M tfept tPr-r* 1» bo «od to- tpr r»v r*e* •rutifli pgr tPr fPnclet tariff 18 titat port top of oor fo-r.c* trad# wPtrp V i»- IwPrd P tar inwri. Not 80 V rtyufti TV? fcof r«p! op er**w Twt ffPPf P* year TPr tart® If a t*o rdi*d P» i »M- P at* putp «»«• for 4MKT a* t o—*»*M> >gi ■ I 8i. Tfet *><*• *< rmpan* over import* fo* tp*e# >t®» *d fftWaidaM McKinley'* MSirntM bad Pova 12*4. n V'lLL SURELY OVERWHELM HIM ^ ' . m \.\SI5 Of *C\ANC\H« EVt^WH^S 3C31 BM 5 M MRTt; IBW, **».- ( t:uas. d:.*t :h- * nited States sold far more Than a billion dollars' worth of prod mow Than it bought during this per.od. the fact that a state of vai ex.st**d during a greater part • *f it. .«• ar unanswerable argument in firur of tne protective tariff. During t .• last two years undpr a wise an I a:*fui Republiran administration and «n aoquate tariff for protection of Amen n Industrie*, the people of the ■ n • i States hav< sold more goods abrufcti *_in under any three years of In-mot rafir administration During the past two years the ex • «-■*.- if the sales made bv the people t»- u• l nited State* in foreign markets • :h* purchase.* in foreign markets, ver one billion of dollars, has been r *ate: faan in twenty years of Detno ration. : i . ug the pas twc years tb* peo ;ite of the I’mted States have sold in «x of their purchases in the mar 'd tie world five hundred millions :• • tn:* t the entire excess over im port during the eight years that 1 i’ * .n . Vi- president.—Quincy (111.• Whig HAWPilFINC FOREIGN TRADE. Hut Oolf llwi l'»r' Whi». Krltm t« Hour- PrmluiTd Article*. piu* .rig of an order with a Mary land Jtnpany for d.000 tons of steel a., fu: is* a Norway fore.-hadows ! * n.ug of a hitherto untooehe! mark--! ’or oar manufactures of iron and steel. This is the first sale of Am r an steel rail* a that part of :.- wo: n. an.: it is another evidence of :> *>a ;v advance o' our manufac : . * u product* in the markets of Eu ro;*. The foreign country which is not buying American rails, locomotives ana other railway supplies is the ex * ’.on net-ad of the rule.—New York Mail and Express. T • truing more and more evi ietit from such frequent recurring in * — a.* that tiled above that the tiers have nimn reason to feel •grieved at the manner in which the D.cpey tariff "hampers foreign trade.” Anything whuh hampers the trade o? • .y!.- i always off**n.-:ve to the A tn«*r*. ..a free-trader. Here is a clear a— of hampering the trade of the rn. i:ger* ot Norway by the intro d . *. *l ' :c their midst” of a big order of American-made steel rails. For this ;* • y of protection is directly re .pouMtde for under tne workings of that pol v the ironmongers of the < n.t*-d State* have grown so strong .. Uit-y -an invade all the markets ■ h* wo-Id with their products, and ..utaper the trade of foreigners' * . . r where Wh* n to this unpiea* tc: - at* of affairs is added the cnor - •••.!< ion that has taken place tr»« tn:.: i.eting by foreigners of their * i*m;e’itive products in the Fnited I State* *> reason of the protective du ll*-- of the Uingley tariff, it is impos ts. •• to deny that foreign trade is in- j g: • a *! v hampered, and that there; mu ground for the sympathy felt for *b> unfortunate foreigners by the free-trader* of America W»!«•’- | irlil «.ut» I •rlrlilce* • Fieucb »at department is now r: ug out z scries of trial.- with rno ar.ing* - tot field guns, and Gen. .. Galiifel ha.- sta ed in the chamber ■ at :h*-re every prospect of a satis* ,t ' re ul: The point i.- of consid •-a » importan- e, in view of the ne - . i.hshed by w ar operation. ;n South \frit-a. for a muc h heavier i • t: trail tile 12-pounders and 15 .t > •> with »bi<b our army ha • u h.therto equ.pfs-d. The 4.7-inch •: • rix-inch suns are regarded . ...;h .avot as -necessary additions to j* - pt .• : • of our field forces. As to * ft allies of mobility, the 4.7 i h g n w.h a mobile field carriage. > * are informed, could be made w ith . we ith: of a!»cut two and a half tons. t ch - not an excessive load; and \ ?:■- : „n <ai jKiwer could easily be ap • J f«»r the movement of these guns > . a- to; heav\ transport wagons, letters from the front streak with ap f ’he succ^s of the traction ■ tig::* •:-*<! by Gen Boiler's army , • * « >rp- notwithstanding that on i . way from Frerc and Chieveley to gratae - cu ’np and Potgieter’s Drift cry beevy load- were experienced. • t| ’he ‘a t that they have been sent for tar*rd Roberts' service now further ! proves th*ir utility — Engineering. It».l f«*r Ik* < alamity Party. Prosperity stories have taken the p.a - of calamity croakings in Kansas, j *ud Mr. Bryan is wondering what he an do to regain his former hold upon •!►*> war;- of those who no longer find . hub nterc-ting The story is told of ' an old farmer wno. at the point of a shotgun compelled a creditor to ac- i f-ept payment of a note before it fell j du« "Why did he do that?” some one d the narrator. "Oh. he wanted to stop the interest." was the reply. John \S Brcidenthal, the state bank com mt! -loner. tells of a banker out in the *aort grass country who wrote a letter asking if there was any law that would j compel 1 m to receive money for de posit in his bank. "1 wrote him.” said lirciacuthal. "that if he had more mon- j ey than be knew what to do with. 1 knew of no law in Kansas that would j compel hmi to take more. You see. | -hey are paying then taxes, and the county treasurer wanted to make a de pository out of his bank, but he would be mandamused before he would sub mit to it.” AH this looks bad for the political party and candidate who hope to win ny reviving the free-trade and free silver is.-ues of the Chicago platform. A FREE-TRADE TRUST. _ i Ruglish Wall Taper Manufacturer* Or- | Canize a Combine. The following bit of news, contained in a special cablegram from Loudon will be interesting to those that con tend that free trade is tbe proper rem edy for the trust evil; "The English wall paper trust, fum ing since last September, is now ,. m plete. with a capital of $30,000,000. Practically every manufacturer in tbe United Kingdom is in the combina tion.” As England already has free trade, and has had it for many years, the theorists there cannot throw the re sponsibility for tbe formation of the wall paper trust upon the tariff. We may properly ask how it is. if it is tbe tariff protection that enables trusts to thrive in this country, that a num ber of them can thrive in the British isles, where there is no tariff protec tion? The wall paper trust, which is de scribed as embracing practically every ; manufacturer in tbe United Kingdom, is a more comprehensive trust than any that has yet been formed in this country, with tbe exception of the Standard Oil trust, and the Standard 0:1 trust has no protection upon its j product. The great Rockefeller trust has been organized and maintained j without any aid from tue protective ; tariff. In England the wall paper manufac turers are not protected against impor- | tations from abroad by duties on wall ] paper, and yet it seems that they can combine every manufacturer into a trust and fix their own prices for what j th ;• sell. There must, then, be something bp sides the tariff that is responsible for the trusts, and if that is the case, the \ introduction of free trade would not prove to be an effective remedy. On the contrary, free trade would probably servo to extend the operations of the trusts. With the duties abolished we should see international instead of merely national combinations to con trol the output and price of many arti c les. The protective tariff operates tc* keep the foreign trusts out of the Unit ed States, leaving us with only our own creations to deal with—and the way will be discovered to curb and control j them effectually. — Minneapolis Trib une. **Vot«* You Fray.” The Prohibitionist party, when h first started out in politics, used fre quently to urge, ‘ Vote as you pray.’ Well, that is a pretty good motto, ana the voters of the country would un doubtedly do well to follow it. And if they do, there will be no need tc worry lcist. by some gruesome chance, by some frightful mistake, such as ws,'. made in 1892. the free-trade policy ma# be saddled upon the country again. Every single individual in the country prays that national prosperity may be continued; that the wages of workers may continue high and go higher; that poverty and want will vanish. Then "vote as you pray,” and vote for pro tection. for protection means all these j things. Oppnoed to All lieclproclty TlMtin. The way to fight these treaties is j not to spend all our strength in expos ing the gross injustice done to this state in these particular cases, but to I attai k the principle involved. It is ut- : terly vicious. No reciprocity treaty can be negotiated whose effect is not to direct!? and without compensation l take money from one class of our cit- j izeus and bestow it elsewhere at the caprice of the negotiator of the treaty. It is a relic of medievalism: it should have no place on the statute books of any civilized nation. Fight not merely these treaties, but all reciprocity trea ties. Let us end the whole business once for all.—San Francisco Chronicle. —....— quern Vii'lorlu'i Shabby 01(1 Oowna. Queen Victoria's extreme economy in the matter of dress has been tbs source of many amusing anecdotes The latest story is that an equery in the royal stables, finding a shabbily dressed old woman, whose back only he saw. wandering around looking at the horses, called to her: "My good woman, you must go away at once Strangers are not allowed when he? majesty is in residence."—London Let ter. Have No Votes.' A Missouri hen is said to have laic an egg with the initials of William Jennings Bryan on the shell, and his followers look upon it as a good omen for next November. But the hens havt no votes.—San Francisco Chronicle. Will somebody name a single trust that the Democratic party ever killed No. don't break your neck trying tc answer.—Moravian Falls (N. C.) Yel low Jacket. TALMAGES SERMON. HARMONY AND MELODY LAST SUNDAY S SUBJECT. *»ronir Inllnenee in After Tears of Hyr.m Heard aud Committed to Memory in Early Life—The Old Fash* toned Fuiplt. {Copyright. 1000. by Louis Klopsch.] 'lext. i-salrn aviu. 14: 'i ne Lurii is bay strength and song.” Th% most fascinating theme for a heart properly attuned is the Saviour. There is something in the morning light to suggest Him and something in the evening shadow to speak H j» praise. The flower breathes Him, th<i stars shine on Him. the cascade pro claims Hina, all the voices of nature chant Him, Whatever is grand, bright and beautiful, if you only listen to it. will speak His praise. So when in the summer time I pluck a flower I think of Him who is “the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.” When I 6ee in the fields a lamb. T say, “Be hold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” When in very hot weather I come under a pro jecting cliff, I say: Rock of ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee! Over the old-fashioned pulpits there was a sounding board. The voice of the minister rose to the sounding board and then was struck back again upon the ears of the people. And so the 10.000 voices of earth rising up ?nd the heavens a sounding board vhich strikes back to the ear of ail nations the praises of Christ. Tne heavens tell His glory, and the earth 6hows His handiwork. The Bible thrills with one great story of redemp tion. I'pon a blasted and faded para fise it poured a light of glorious re storation. It looked upon Abraham from the ram caught in the thicket. It spoke in the bleating of the herds driven down to Jerusalem for sacrifice. It put infinite pathos into the speech of uncouth fishermen. It lifted Paul itWo the third heaven, and it broke upon the ear of St. John with the brazen trumpets and the doxology of the elders and the rushing wings of the seraphim. , Instead of waiting until you get sick and worn out before you sing the praise of Christ, while your heart is happiest and your step is lightest and your fortunes smile and your pathway blossoms and the overarching heavens drop upon you their benediction, speak the praises of Jesus. The old Greek orators, when they saw their audiences inattentive and slumbering, had one word with which they would rouse them up to the greatest enthusiasm. In the midst of their orations they would stop and cry out “Marathon!” and the people's en thusiasm would be unbounded. My hearers, though you may have been borne down with sin. and though trou ble and trials and temptation may have come upon you. and you feel to day hardly like looking up. methink? there is one grand, royal, imperial word that ought to rouse your soul to infinite rejoicing, and that word is ” Jesus.” Power of the Hymn. Taking the suggestion of the text. I shall speak to you of Christ our Song. I remark, in the first place.'that Christ ought to be the cradle song. What our mothers sang to us when they put us to sleep is singing yet. We may have forgotten the words; but they went into the fiber of our soul and will for ever be a part of it. It is not so much what you formally teach your i children as what you sing to them. A hymn has wings and can fiy every whither. One hundred and fifty years after you are dead and “Old Mortal ity” ha^ worn out his chisel recut- j ting your name on the tombstone your great-grandchildren will be singing the song which last night you sang to your little ones gathered about your knee. There is a place in Switzerland, where if you distinctly utter your voice, there come back ten or fifteen distinct j echoes, and every Christian song sung by a mother in the ear of her child Bhall have 10.000 echoes coming back from all the gates of heaven. Oh. if mothers only knew the power of this sacred spell, how much oftener the little ones would be gathered, and all our homes would chime with the songs of Jesus! We want some counteracting influ ence upon our children. The very mo ment your child steps into the street he steps into the path of temptation. There are foul-mouthed children who would like to besoil your little ones. It will not do to keep you boys and girls in the house and make them house plants. They must have fresh air and recreation. God save your children from the scathing, blasting, damning influence of the street! I know of no counteracting influence but the power of Christian culture and ex ample. Hold before your little ones the pure life of Jesus. Let that name ! be the word that shall exorcise evil from their hearts. Give to your in- | struction all the fascination of music morning, noon and night Let it be Jesus, the cradle song. This is im portant if your children grow up. but perhaps they may not. Their pathway j may be short. Jesus may be wanting j that child. Then there will be a sound- { less step in the dwelling and the youthful pulse will begin to flutter and little hands will be lifted for help. You cannot help. And a great agony will pinch at your heart, and the cradle will be empty, and the nursery will be empty, and your soul will be empty. No little feet standing on the stairs. No toys scattered on the carpet. No quick following from room to room. No strange and w-ondering questions. No upturned face with laughing blue eyes come for a kiss, but only a grave and a wreath of white blossoms on the top of it and bitter desolation and a sigh ing at nightfall with no one to put to bfcd. TLe heavenly shepherd will take that lamb safely anyhow, whether you have been faithful or unfaithful, but would it not have been pleasanter if you could have heard from those lips the praises of Christ? I never read anything more beautiful than this about a child s departure. The ac count said, “She folded her hands, kissed her mother good-bye, sang her hymn, turned her face to the wall, said her little prayer and then died.” Oh, if I could gather up in one para graph the last words of the little ones who have gone out fiotn all these Christian circle®, and I could picture the calm looks and the folded hands and sweet departure, methinks it would be grand and beautiful as cne of heaven’s great doxologies! In ay parish in Philadelphia a little child was departing. She had beet sick all her days and a cripple. It was noon day when she went. and. as the shad ow of death gathered on her eyelid she thought it was evening and time to go to bed, and so she said. "Good night, papa! Good night, mamma!’’ And then she was gone! It was “good night” to pain and "good night’ to tears and "good night” to death and "good night” to earth, but it was "good morning” to Jesus—it was “good morning” to heaven. I can tLink of , no cradle seng more be.atiful than Jesus. Sons* for the Old. I next speak of Christ as the old : man's song. Quick music loses its J ( harm for the aged ear. The school girl asks for a schottiscb or a glee, but her grandmother asks for "Baler ica" or the “Portuguese Hymn.” Fifty years of trouDle have tamed the spirit, and the keys of the music board must have a solemn tread. Though the voice may be tremulous, so that grand father will not trust it in church, still he has the psalm book open before him, and he sings with his soul. He hums his grandchild asleep with the same tune he sang forty years ago in the old country meeting house. Some day the choir sings a tune so old that ihe young people do not know it. but it starts the tears down tne cheek of the aged man. for it reminds him of the revival scene in which he partici pated and of the radiant faces that Ivng since went to oust and of the gray haired minister leaning over the pulpit and sounding the good tidings of great joy. 1 was one Thanksgiving day in my pulpit in Syracuse, and Rev. Daniel Waldo, at 9S years of age. stood beside me. The choir sang a tune. I said. I "1 am sorry they sang that new tune; nobody seems to know it." "Bless you. my son." said the old man. "1 heard , that seventy years ago." There was a song today that touched the life of the aged with holy fire and kindled a glory on their vision that your younger eyesight cannot see. it was the song of salvation—Jesus, who fed them all their lives long; j Jesus, who wiped away their tears; Jesus who stood by them when ail else failed; Jesus, in whose name their marriage was consecrated and whose resurrection has poured light tipon the graves of their departed. "Do you know me?” said the w ife to her aged husband, who was dying, his mind al ready having gone out. He said. "No." And the son said, “Father, do you know me?" He said. “No.” The daughter said. "Father, do yen know me?” He said. "No." The minister of the gospel, standing by. said. "Do you know Jesus?" "Oh, yes.” he said. “I know Him. ‘chief among 10.000. the one altogether lovely!’ ” Blessed the Bible in which spectacled old age reads the promise. "1 will never leave you, never forsake you!” Blessed the staff on which the worn out pilgrim totters on toward the welcome of his Redeem er! Blessed the hymn book in which the faltering tongue and the failing eyes find Jesus, the old man's song! When my mother had been put away for the resurrection, we. the children, came to the old homestead, and each one wanted to take away a memento of her who had loved us so long and loved us so well. 1 think 1 took away the best of all the mementoes; it was the old-fashioned round-glass specta- j ties through which she used to read her Bible, and 1 put them on. but they were too old for me. and 1 could not see across the room. But through them I could see back to childhood and forward to the hills of heaven, where the ankles that were stiff with age have become limber again, and the spirit, with restored eyesight, stands in rapt exultation, crying, "This is 1 heaven!” Wortls of l'eaco. I speak to you again of Jesus as the eight son. Job speaks of Him who giveth songs in the night. John Welch, the old Scotch minister, used to put a piaid a’cross his bed on cold nights, and some one asked him why he put that there. He said. “Oh. sometimes in the night I want to sing the praise i of Jesus and to get down and pray. Then I just take that plaid and wrap ! it around me to keep myself from the cold.” Songs in the night! Night of trouble has come down upon many of • you. Commercial losses put out one j star, slanderous abuse puts out another ' star, domestic bereavement has put out ; 1.000 lights, and gloom has been added to gloom and chill to chill and sting j to sting, and one midnight has seemed to borrow the fold from another mid- j night to wrap itself in mo-e unbeara ble darkness, but Christ lias spoken peace to your heart, and you sing: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly. While the billows near me roll. While the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Saviour! Hide Till the storm of life is passed, Safe into the haven guide; Oh. receive my soul, at last. Songs in the night! Songs in the ; night! For the sick, who have no one ; to turn the hot pillow, no one to put the taper on the stand, nc one to put ice on the temples or pour out the soothing anodyne or utter one cheer ful word. Yet songs in the night! For the poor, who freeze in the win ter's cold and swelter in the summer’s heat and munch the hard crusts that bleed the sore gums and shiver under blankets that cannot any longer be patched and tremble because rent day is come and they may be set out on the sidewalk and looking into the starved face of the child and seeing famine there and death there, coming ; home from the bakery and saying in j the presence of the little famished ones “Oh, my God, flour has gone up!” Yet songs in the night! Songs in the night! For the widow who goes to get the back pay of her husband, slain by the “sharpshooters.” and knows it is the last help she will have, moving out of a comfortable boma in desola tion. death turning back from the ex hausting cough and the pale cheek and the lusterless eye and refusing all re lief. Yet sengs in the night! Songs in the night! For the soldier in the field hospital, no surgeon to bind up the gunshot fracture, no water for the hot lips, no kind hand to brvsh *«u the flies from the fix-sh wound, no one to take the loving farewell, the groaning of others poured into his own groan, the blasphemy of others plow ing up his own spirit, the condensed bitterness of dying away from home among strangers. Yet songs in th? night! Songs in the night! “Ah.” j said one dying soldier, “tell my moth er that last night there was not oc» cloud between my soul and Jesus.” Songs in the night! Songs in the night! A Christian woman, the wife or a minister of the gospel, was dying in the parsonage near the old church, where on Saturday night the choir used to assemble and rehearse for the following Sabbath, and she said: “How strangely sweet the choir rehearses to night. They have been rehearsing there for an hour.” “No.” said some one about her. “the choir is rot re hearsing tonight.” “Yes.” she said, “I know they are. I hear them sing ing. How very sweetly they sing!" Now. it was not a choir of earth that she heard, but the choir of heaven. I think that Jesus sometimes sets ajar the door of heaven, and a passage of that rapture greets our ears. The minstrels of heaven strike such a tre mendous strain the walls of jasper cannot bold it. I wonder—and this is a question I have been asking myself all the serv ice—will you sing that song? Wi'l I sing it? Not unless our sins are par doned and we learn now to sing the praise of Christ will we ever sing it there. The first great concert that 1 ever attended was in New York when Julien in the Crystal palace stood be fore hundreds of singers and hundreds of players upon instruments. Some of you may remember that occasion. It was the first one of the kind at which 1 was present, and I shall never forget it. 1 saw that one man standing and with the hand and foot wield that great harmony, beating the time. It was to me overwhelmingly. But. oh, the grander scene when they shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south "a great multitude that no man can number.” into the temple of the skies, host beyond host, rank beyond rank, gallery above gallery, and Jesus will stand before that great host to con duct the harmony with His wounded hands and wounded feet! Like the voice of many waters, like the voice of mighty thundenngs. they shall cry "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and Lon or and glory and power, world without end. Ainon and amen!” Oh. if my ear shall hear no other sweet sounus may 1 hear that! If 1 join no other glad assemblage, may I join in that. I was reading of the battle of \gir court, in which Henry Y. figured, and it is said after the battle was w'on. gloriously won. the king wanted to ac knowledge the divine interposition and he ordered the chaplain to read tbo Psalm of David, and when he came to the words. “Not unto us. O Lore, but to Thy name be the praise." the king dismounted, and all the cavalry dis mounted. and all the great host, offi cers and men. threw themselves on their faces. Oh. at the story of the Saviour's love and the Saviour's de liverance shall we not prostrate our selves before Him today, hosts of earth and hosts of heaven, falling upon our faces and crying. “Not unto us. not unto us. but unto Thy name be the j glory!” “Until the day break and the shadows flee away turn our beloved and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Be ther.” A YOUNG PROSPECTOR'S FIND. Discovered * Fortune in the Karth Which Others Fussed Funoticrd. Relative to fortunate mining ven tures. says a westerner, i know of one peculiar case connected with the town of Pierce. Arizona. One of the princi pal owners of the exceedingly prosper ous copper mine at that place is Sena tor Penrose of Pennsylvania. For years there had been alongside the road near the place an outcropping of ore that looked something like cop per. but it excited no particular atten tion until a comparatively short time ago. when one day a young prospector who had been tramping all around the territory passed along the road to Pierce. His eye rested on the ore at i 1 the roadside, and he filled his satchel with it. Then he took a good view of the surrounding country and satisfied himself that there was plenty more j such ore right there. He took the ore to Bisbee and had it assayed. As he expected, it proved to be rich with copper. He went back and dug in an other place and took more samples to Bisbee. The assay was even more fa vorable. All this time the outcropping was in plain view of other prospectors passing through the neighborhood. This young man. whose name I have forgotten, but who was a personal friend of Senator Penrose, put 515,000, ali he had. in the land surrounding the spot where he had picked up the ore. and he interested Senator Penrose and others in the venture. Mining was be gun, and proved profitable from the outset. Now the property is valued at several millions of dollars. Think of experienced prospectors passing that outcropping by the roadside time after time and never stopping to inquire into the real value of the ere. _ Freak Is line*« of Bow liallrt*. The freakish performances of the Mauser bullets, as reported by sur geons from South Africa, are almost unbelievable. Le'ters received from Mr. Frederick Treves, the eminent London surgeon now at the front, speak of one bullet which entered the top of the head, passed down through the brain into the mouth and finally out at the side of the neck. A little headache and & slight squint in one eye were the only perceptible effects, and I recovery was complete and rapid. In many cases the abdomen, bowels and liver have been penetrated almost without inconvenience. Wounds pierc- j ing the lungs often give rise to nothing . more than a little blood-stained expec- ! oration. In one phenomenal instance a bullet entered just below the collar bone, traversed the whole length of the chest and body, emerging from the inner side of the left thigh, without effecting more than a little temporary shock. THE SIMLA Y SCHOOL. lesson2s"'2.^-_--rk GMJ.„ ^ s.ld„ Sund>T Le> I. From th* Point Of i»eatu. —. “Anti li hokl , .. Matthew's house in /■ ' “,nioth' To l.- had invited j where the publicans of the refers synagogue. One of Ul, ..u, , 11 si,ling officers elect.-d h.,', ^ vu"r ail synagogue afL„r- - t fe f feet.” Dropping up.,, h" " hl' bnr.Ting t„s f„rol.. , u, .. " 1 ,*nd the feel of Jesus Ground at point of^eJth” MuSt' "n[‘ atf I1*** a, already dead. Bvr ‘ " °f h“r diction "Com* Urih? utrionH k"m-.,-ha’ ' !I:' Koman ccn ‘ .1 mu«! * present in order to h.*a* hands ht-rS' ..‘J' vine healing pov.. -l “And «-’• v iu i;iin •• was. and is, alwav- .. ,I - to answer ever appeal. Hi is more willing to give u's what we need that. w. ;,r, l0 a-k him And much peoph t-tluw-d him. " Among them doubtless many «„ th(. gUesls at .he feast who had .card Jairu- making Ins appeal r*: ".'Vhi,r h- ye. -pake Those words of healing power. **T:ier* cam certain w hich said, Tin daughter ’ D dead.” Here was a new trial and test of Jairus faith. “Why u -ablest thou the Master any further They believ ed that the case had gone bevond even his power SC. -Jesus . . sailh ... Be not a‘r“td* ,?B‘5 beiiev< >• - tdds. ”ami she shall be made whole There was no 1 mil to <_ hrist s p-w- only danger was that Jairus faith should fail, and he not be worthy to rereivf* r|j. earthly blessing, because h, Iu, | „ accented the spiritual blessing. 87. Xo man to follow him. into the house of Jairus tl.uk- v :»i,. ..tv. ptt-r and James, and Job,.. .I.tme- was the first martyr for Chris: - -ik. (Acts 12:L. As to the three aposik- it was neco-s sary that they should be present, i:i o» der that they might is able afterward to testify to what vva- done —Chalet. 3-s- "Seeth the ttimiilt. There was always a horrible clamor a- Ea ;ern fu nerals; and the preparati .ns h; begun, for early burial was usual a: >ng the Jtws.—Sehaft. "Them 'hat v pt anti wailed. Including profession, mourn ers, in Matthew designated os ■min strels.” 39. “The damsel is not dead, hut sleep eth.” That lie nn am this figuratively (comp. John 11: 11-D; 1 for 17 fi 51; 1 ThCs. 4: 13i is scarcely 1,. doubted from Luke f>: 49. 52. es. V. i from the whole spirit of the narr.tiv.. 4'). “And they laughed lam ■ scorn.” They were so sur, that the girl was really dead; and they did no* perceive that sesus was -shm king figuratively from the knowledge of what he intend ed to do. This i- given as a;, unques tionable proof of tin reality o? the mir acle. “Put them all out The hired mourners, whose pr< s*-nce was a hind rance to spiritual good. 4L "Taiitha cumi ” This is Aramaic, the language generally spoken by the common people in Palestine at the time of Christ.—Abbott. Taiitha. in the ordi nary dialect of the peopl* is a word of endearment to a young maiden so that the words are equivalent to “fl-se. my child.”—Alford. 42. "The damsel arose and walked, an evidence of ber complete restoration. “With a great astonishment.” Our word “ecstasy” is a transcript of the Greek word. It implies the: on, is carried out of himself, almost >a:i ■ : his senses with amazement. 43. “Charged . . . that no man should know it.” Pe.-sibl.v too great no toriety might havt interfered with the spiritual work of Jesus, by calling him away from his tearhim: and by drawing their attention too much to healing o the body, and away from the spiritual truths he would impress 1 V-sAfiy the m> turietv might have injured the young pirl. and dulled the spiritual impression upon the family. The g<»»>' woula grow best In quiet retirement. Th«* <lrai>«* Cure for Dvipei^ka. In grapes Italy ha? found a new rem edy for dyspepsia and dysentery. A gtorv is told in that land of a tegimen.. that, being decimated by dysentery, was sent into a vineyard tc camp. 1 he disease %-anished. and the remnant that disease had spared soon recovered. Chronic cystitis is benefited by the alkaline carbonates developed by the vegetable acids of grapes, but care is taken that the grapes are not sour. Cardiac affections are relieved by the laxative and diuretic action, while al most all patients are benefited by the fre«h air. exercise and early rising which the rules of the cure involve Grapes grown on volcanic soil are said to have a more markedly stimulant and diuretic ac tion than others. I a tients eat as many grapes as they pc sibly can. The cure requires one to three months. Oueer Aus;r»l a. The continent of Australia ni.giit well be called a topsy-turvy laud.when judged from the standpoint of an Am erican. for ail sorts of things happen there that are exactly oposite to our ideas of what is to be expected. Ju3„ now Australia is in the midst of hot summer weather. It has fish that leave the water, climb trees, and -eek their food among the branches; the trees shed their bark instead of their leaves; fruit has the hard part, or kernel, out side and there are flies that lie in wau for and kill and eat spiders. Austra lian swans are black, its birds do not sing, and its flowers are odorless These are a few of the differences that make Australia seem a very odd coun try to the visitor from the l nited States.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Yucatan I* Booming. The whole peninsula of Yucatan is i prosperous as never before in its his torv Planters are making money by 1 the sale of sisa! fibre at good prices m I the United States, and many works of public improvement have been under taken in which native capital is laigelj ! interested. A project is on foot m 1 England for a direct line of railroad ! from Mexico to the Yucatan peninsula, with extensive lines into British Hon- * duras, and the British government has promised a subsidy for the enterprise. Poet Aldrich Uk« Ctgerette*. T B Aldrich, the poet, is a great smoker of cigarettes. “I always do my ben work after a short smoke, he | says. “and my favorite hours ^r writ ing are before noon or after midnight. —Indianapolis News. Abeent-Minded K«t« The Plea of absent-mindedness for a soldier s life may do; but when it comes to business tricks twill fail to pull us through.—Indianapolis Jour nal.
