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INI LABOR VOTE.
►
' * H* '•* party u-'u-VU ei- j
- *# a a «« .*>- nw .: .u vo:.b£
»- •Mffc *«ar »i i in !t o( the
pr«»|*ni) vfc^t tu i-utiBtrf has
»• * *rc uada* the H*|Hiblicao
*<-«:&** ratios »tn the jrupU uu
from a realm** of dq»r
rttna» hard t:at*» tmrtrr
pony u» a <Mdutne at ua parrel 1* led
mrmttf mad good urn** uader another
P*- j JLsv1 7V***C»1.* I IVIBlfJll BUll
’* that tV forvrr party will lava aad
"*'irr JTS.JL *'. ts<» t,. *• S«-B*T* *1
trtiiaAs la
Of tb* rhbrf benefl
rianaa «rf this that**< ro&litboa. It Is
tta*s*ra to aoppos# that there would
I- am •wpartalty larg* gat* to the Re
pwbtbraa party fn*t tbe labor vote
pan.talkrty It the macula* luring dls
trj-ta Tb* rip» Muhat at political
hisdory bower** will Mt accept this
«»rw uaplMitiy.
it Harriaoa was dr
ib* rouatry was
p a praptrua* toadmoa Nearly all
tha m' > am rau I14 full ttsaa and
waps* »rr» good. It was diffi* ul! to be
r.eee tha; the wage-earner* in any
number would rot* for * chawge. But
liw-r drd. The Democrat piled up
Motor at the largest majorities in sec
tions dotted with mills and furnaces.
A great many wage-earners listened to
promiiMs that times for themselves and
evaryaody else might even he better,
aad tb**> voted to ush*r in a condition
of thing* which, instead of helpiug
them, swamped everybody.
\gaia in Ohio last year. Golden Rule
Jax» an a platform wholly theoretical
aad unsubstantial. drew almost bis en
tme support of over a hundred thou
sand votes fma the manufacturing
csti** of the state. An almost unex
ampled business boom was in progress.
Everybody with the will and the
srretigth to work were hard at work
and prospering The state campaign
was generally regarded as a skirmish
line fight for advantage this year, and
bewce tb» wage-earners were adjured
t» stand by the parry of sound money
and protection But. nevertheless. Mr.
Jonew made what, in the circumstan
ces was a surprisingly large Inroad on
that vote.
This unnatual and unreasonable
course cm the part of labor is due to
two eaueea. Demagogues make their
appeals specially to the labor vote, and
labur.ng m*a are too often suspicious
of the party which makes business
good, misuse of an absurd belief that
w soever helps cap tal to prosper is an
enemy of labor. The Republican par
ty s gains this year, therefore, may be
tijr t«d to come chiefly from business
n't and farmers who know the ad
vantages of living under a sound mon
ey and business r'imuiatiug adminis
trat on and are not willing to take
ham**!- under any other kind—and
from Democrats who < annot indorse
their own party s narrow sighted pol
icy against national expansion.—Kan
sas f*jry i Mo. • Journal.
REPUBLICANS MUST WORK.
tetf»r ta H* Apftrahaadaa the K»
ivM »f UiarroaHdMirr.
titbougb the Republiczn party
stands before ili»* country and the
world wall a *p:end:d re.-ord and witu
a I its promise* u» the people mad *
four yaara ago faithfully fulfilled; al
though the nation is not in the enjoy
rr.**rt of its greatest era of prosperity.
huffy through the fulfillment of these
}•' tn.se* rtad the ats- adirimstiation
*' P-^ulent M'Kinley; although it is
* foregone . lu-ion that McKinley
* .*e e*M»a»:nated for another term,
. nd although there ne\er was a time
».*■ n the Re.,ut»l an party was more
united tfa-n a***. ye; there Is danger
1 ahead.
This danger '« not a ins more nor
'!e** man o\er onfldenre. Republicans
■3j» that tfier hate a wily fo;> to coll
et; • *h. one always on the alert and
1 need* u» tak- aJ an:.;Re of every op
poit unity to g«*t in an effective blow.
lsau* r» ? n » mailer in what grilse it
may appear, will bear very c-lose
war htug It is no: known what
- ene he opponents are now hatch
ing *y what trap will be sprung to
-»*< fa ej,s.j..p.. ting Republicans.
Ta itejmnljran leaders a Washing •
•on who have beet* watt hue the a rift
of • . !.«► »*— .n the JVbi i -ratio plan r*
tire to get together on general prin•
n»ie* *11 order to beat the Republuau
• < k* • ne\t lampargn To ibis end a
• uaion with every disturbing element
a :h* -ountry under tbe leadership of
Bryan is invited The only way for
• Repub., nr!* * i i this influ
1 ent» .» jo organize for work and then
work when organized.
>«-na:or B veridg ha* sounded a
note <•' warning t.» the Republicans
of this state, fpiirin; that they have
too wm. fa confident-” in *he oontJnut
•*o*i o' the existing <-ondition of
things without effort or their part.
1 he sejia'or a* well a* otaer leaders
of the par-;* in this stat^ at Washing
\ ton nee danger ahead, and therefore
the ar» solicitous. ?t Joseph county
Reput*' an* ha\e set a good example
for other portion* of ’he state by per
f**'lnr a complete organization for
•arnpami work thus early in the year
and by sustaining a well officered, per
manent Republican club of large n^m
-rship to a.d :n this work Thus in
1 .*re*t in the cause is kept up and the
*.»'•' IwalH put in shape for aggres
ive and effective work. If every cona
rnun.ty in the siate would do the same
there mould l»e no complain* on the
part of the leaders of lack of enthusi
asm or fear of the result next Novem
t*erSoutn Rend ilnd.l Tribune.
READY FOR ALL COMERS.
Work Iuxm.i of MUcbief.
V recent dispatch from Ixiuieville.
Ky reports that the jeans clothing
busia* ■-* in that section is booming.
Shipments last month showed a gain of
2H per cent over those of January, 1899.
and manufacturers have more orders
tor spring shipments than they ever
had before. There are eight or ten
jean mills in the vicinity of Louis
ville. and all are sharing in the gen
eral prosperity.
There is very little doubt that the
present trouble in Kentucky would
have taken on a very much uglier as
pect if there had been as many idle
discontented men hanging about to
swell the mob on the one side or the
other, as there would have been when
ilson law free trade had closed our
factories, put business at a standstill
and thrown men out of work. Men
with work to do haven’t time to hang
arotwd looking for trouble, and our
policy of a protective tariff sees to It
that men have work to do—all they
want of it It sees to it in Kentucky
as well as in the rest of the country.
The result is peace and quiet, instead
of discontent and mob violence., Work
instead of mischief is only another way
of saying protection instead of free
trade.
THOSE RECIPROCITY TREATIES
Abwurdity of CreatlD| a Tariff by Law
Only to Satoah by Means of Trsstlsi.
We are not at all surprised to hear
that Germany finds fault with our
Italian treaty, nor shall we wonder if
Italy finds fault with the French treaty
and so on throughout the list. No other |
result was to have been expected from
such a system. To construct a tariff
adapted to the country's interests and
needs—a tariff w hich treats all foreign
nations on a basis of absolute equality,
and which can be understood and reck
oned with by our producers and ex
porters on a basis of simplicity and ac
curacy—and then to set about the
amendment and modification of that
tariff in a dozen different and bewil
dering directions strikes us as the most
notable modern instance of the open
ing of Pandora's box. It introduces
into our financial equation the factor
of a mischievous confusion. It lays
us open to the charge of favoritism
and discrimination. It sets in motion
the machinery of an interminable and
pestiferous complication, at home and
abroad. It can give satisfaction, con
tent and security nowhere.
The very idea of setting up a tariff
law only to honeycomb and dismantle
and emasculate it afterwards through
the medium of a swarm of special trea
ties strikes us as objectionable in the
j last degree. If the tariff is imperfect,
unsuited to our necessities and poli
cies. why not modify it in congress?
Why amend this schedule to satisfy
Germany, and that schedule to placate
France. aDd so on to the end of the
catalogue, and conclude by satisfying
no one, not even oureslves? Section 7
of Article 1 of the Constitution of the
United States provides that "ail bills
for raising revenue shall originate in
the house of representatives." It
goes on to say, however, "but the sen
ate may propose or concur with
j amendments as in other bills." Section
J 2, article 11, provides that the presi
' dent shall have the power, by and
with the advice and consent of the
senate, to make treaties. The ques
tion. then, is whether we can. by cali
iug these tariff arrangements with for
eign countries "treaties.” use article 2
of the constitution to nullify article 1
of the same instrument. Apparently
j the arrangements under discussion did
! not "originate in the house of repre
! sentatives.” Apparently their purpose
| is to "raise revenue.” Thus we have.
I under the operation of the reciprocity
ciause of the Dingley act, a set of laws
which refer solely to the raising of
revenue, but which have not originated
in the house of representatives, nor
; been submitted to that body's judg
ment and authority.
It is no part of our purpose, how
ever, to make free with the constitu
tion. We recognize the monopoly of
the members from Podunk, Waybark
and Possum Fork in that respect. But
it seems to us a very grotesque, not
to say ridiculous, situation, which puts
the bouse of representatives in the pre
dicament of formulating a tariff which
somebody else can tear into tatters and
which subjects American producers
and exporters to the bewildering un
certainties of laws that reduce the
chameleon to a dull, neutral and un
changeable complexion.
In our opinion it would be well for
the senate to reject the whole lot of
these absurd “treaties.” and for con
gress to abolish the High Thingabob
Pl< nipotentiary Nonsense under which
they have been bred. We have a con
gress to make tariffs for us. and for
eign nations should be left to approve
them or not. according to their fancy
and caprice.—Washington Post.
Firm Bait* of n Protected Murk cl.
The United States by the growth of
its foreign trade has passed completely
from the ranks of the debtor to those
of the creditor nations. And this in
the face of the free trade theorists who
predicted that so long as this country
maintained the protective system it
could never build lip foreign trade, and
would always remain a debtor. Our
agricultural exports will rise or fall
with the seasons in other parts of the
world, and as other nations are able
or unable to raise their own food. This
is inevitable, and no legislation can
anticipate or remedy these fluctua
tions. But legislation can assist and
has assisted manufacturing industry
by preserving for it the home market
and encouraging it from That firm
foundation to seek foreign markets for
its surplus products. Our exports of
manufactures are expected to reach
$400,000,000 for the fiscal year ending
June 30 next, as against $380,000,000 for
the calendar year 1899. With the firm
basis of a protected home market
Ameiican manufacturers are reaching
out KA over the world, and already the
total of our foreign trade is only a lit
tle behind Great Britain's, and is gain
ing by leaps and bounds.—Chicago In
ter-Ocean.
Flight Sort of Reciprocity
It is true that as the chairman cf
the Ways and Means committee and
the author of the “McKinley bill*’ oi
1890, Major McKinley did at that time
report and doubtless favor a “reciproc
ity'’ clause, but the reciprocity which
he favored in 1890 was a very different
article from that incorporated in th~
present law. The “reciprocity" of 1890
was a manly notice to all nations that
if they did not treat us fairly we j
would raise the duties on certain o!
their products. There was no proposal
to J-wer our duties in any case. By
the McKinley bill raw sugar, molasses,
coff/v. tea and hides were upon the
free list, our sugar growers being com
pensated by a bounty on production,
but the President was empowered,
whenever satisfied that countries ex
porting those articles were imposing
on United States products duties which
under the circumstances were unfair,
to promptly impose a “reciprocal”
duty on (hose articles imported from
ruch a country. That is not a bad kind
of reciprocity, and it is the only kind
which Mr. McKinley advocated when
in Congress.—San Francisco Cfcroulclr
TALMAGES SEBMON
VICTORY OF RETREAT. LAST
SUNDAY’S SUBJECT.
Mach Accomplished by Waiting for Op
portunities—Joshua's Plan or Ambus
cade Cited as a Successful One for
the Righteous.
[Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.]
Text: Joshua viiL 7, "Then shall ye
rise up from the ambush and seixe
upon the city."
One Sabbath evening, with my fam
ily around me, we were talking over
the scene of the text. In the wide
open eyes and the quick interrogations
and the blanched cheeks I realised
what a thrilling drama it was. There
is the old city, shorter by name than
any other city in the ages, spelled with
two letters. A, I. Ai. Joshua and his
men want to take it. How to do it is
the question. On a former occasion,
in a straightforward, face to face fight,
they had been defeated, but now they
are going to take it by ambuscade.
General Joshua has two divisions in
his army. The one division the battle
worn commander will lead himself, the
other division he sends off to encamp
in an ambush on the west side of the
city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns,
no sound of heavy battalions, but 30.
000 swarthy warriors moving in si
lence. speaking only in a whisper; no
clicking of swords against shields, lest
the watchmen of Ai discover it and
the stratagem be a failure. If the rois
tering soldier in the Israelitish army
forgets himself, all along the line the
word is "Hush!"
Joshua takes the other division, the
one with which he is to march, and
puts it on the north side of the city
of Ai, and then spends the night in
reconnoitering in the valley. There
he is, thinking over the fortunes of the
coming day with something of the feel
ings of Wellington the night before
Waterloo or of Meade and Lee the
night before Gettysburg. There he
stands in the night and says to him
self. “Yonder is the division in am
bush on the west side of Ai. Here is
the division 1 have under my especial
command on the north side of Ai.
There is the old city slumbering in its
sin. Tomorrow will be the battle.”
Look! The morning already begins
to tip the hills. The military officers
of Ai look out in the morning very
early, and, while they do not see the
division in ambush, they behold the
other division of Joshua and the cry,
! "To arms! To arms!” rings through
all the streets of the old town, and
every swoid, whether hacked and bent
or newly welded, is brought out. and
all the inhabitants of the city of Ai
pour through the gates, an infuriated
I torrent, and their cry is. ”Come. we'll
make quick work with Joshua and his
troops.
A Sernilnc Repnlif.
No sooner had these people of Ai
come out against the troops of Joshua
i than Joshua gave such a command as
be seldom gave—“Fall back!” Why,
they could not believe their own ears!
Is Joshua's courage failing him? The
retreat is beaten, and the Israelites
i are flying, throwing blankets and can
teens on every side under this worse
than Bull Run defeat. And you ought
to hear the soldiers of Ai cheer and
cheer and cheer. But they huzza too
| soon. The men lying in ambush are
; straining their vision to get some sig
nal from Joshua that they may know
what time to drop upon the city. Josh
ua takes his burnished spear, glittering
in the sun like a shaft of doom, and
points it toward the city, and when the
men up yonder in the ambush see it
with hawklike swoop they drop upon
Ai and without stroke of sword or
stab of spear take the city and put it
I to the torch.
So much for the division that was
; in ambush. How about the division
under Joshua's command? No sooner
does Joshua stop in the flight than all
his men stop with him. and as he
wheels they wheel, for in a voice of
thunder he cried “Halt!” one strong
arm driving back a torrent of flying
troops. And then, as he points his
spear through the golden light toward
that fated city, his troops know that
they are to start for it. What a scene
it wTas when the division in ambush
which had taken the city marched
down against the men of Ai on the
one side, and the troops under Joshua
doubled on their enemies from the
other side, and the men of Ai were
caught between these two hurricanes
of lsraelitish courage, thrust before
and behind, stabbed in breast and
back, ground between the upper and
the nether millstones of God’s indigna
tion! Woe to the city of Ai! Cheer
for Israel!
Victorious Rctrcnt.
There is such a thing as victorious
retreat. Joshua's falling hack was the
first chapter in his successful besiege
ment. And there are times in your
life when the best thing you can do is
to run. You were once the victim of
strong drink. The demijohn and the
decanter were your fierce foes. They
fame down upon you with greater fury
than the men of Ai came upon the men
of Joshua. Your only safety is to get
away from them. Your dissipating
companions will come around you for
your overthrow. Run for your life!
Fall back! Fall back from the drink
ing saloon! Fall back from the wine
party! Your flight is your advance:
jour retreat is your victory. There is
a saloon down on the next street that
has almost been the ruin of your soul.
Then why do you go along that street?
Why do you not pass through
some other street rather than by the
place of your calamity? A spoonful
of brandy taken for medicinal pur
poses by a man who 20 years before j
had been reformed from drunkenness \
hurled into inebriety and the grave one
of the best friends I ever had. Retreat
is victory!
Here is a converted infidel. He is so
strong now in his faith In the gospel
he says he can read anything. What
are you reading? Bolingbroke? An
drew Jackson Davis' tracts? Tyndall's
Glasgow university address? Drop
them and run. You will be an infidel
before you die unless you quit that.
These men of Ai will be too much for
you. Turn your back on the rank and
file of unbelief. Fly before they cut
you with their swords and transfix you
with their javelins. There are people
who have been well nigh ruined be
cause they risked a foolhardy expedi
tion in the presence of mighty and
overwhelming temptations, and the
men of Ai made a morning meal of
them. • • *
Krinoni for
But there is a more marked illustra
tion of victorious retreat in the life of
our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First
falling back from an appalling height
to an appalling depth, falling from ce
lestial hills to terrestrial valleys, from
thron%. to manger; yet that did not
seem to suffice him as a retreat. Fall
ing back still farther from Bethlehem
to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Jerusa
lem. back from Jerusalem to Golgotha,
back from Golgotha to the mausoleum
in the rock, back down over the preci
pices of perdition until he walked amid
the caverns of the eternal captives and
drank of the wine of the wrath of Al
mighty God. amid the Ahabs, and the
Jezebels and the Belshazzars. Oh. men
of the pylpit and men of the pew.
Christ's descent from heaven to earth
does not measure half the distance! It
was from glory to perdition. He de
scended into hell. All the records of
earthly retreat are as nothing com
pared with this falling back.
Sin's Triumph BrUf.
The triumph of the wicked is short.
Did you ever see an army in a panic?
There is nothing so uncontrollable. If
you had stood at Ixmg bridge, Wash
ington. during the opening of our sad
civil war, you would know what !t is
to see an army run. And when these
men of Ai looked out and saw those
men of Joshua in a stampede they ex
pected easy work. They would scatter
them as the equinox the leaves. Oh.
the gleeful and jnbilant descent of the
men of Ai upon the men of Joshua! j
But their exhilaration was brief, for
the tide of battle turned, and these
quondam conquerors left their miser- |
able carcasses in the wilderness of
Bethaven. So it always is. The tri- !
umph of the wicked is short. You .
make $20,000 at the gaming table. Do
you expect to keep it? You will die in
the poorhouse. You made a fortune by
iniquitous traffic. Do you expect to
keep it? Your money will scatter, or
it will stay long enough to curse yo*.r
children after you are dead. Call over
the roll of bad men who prospered and
see how short wac their prosperity.
For awhile, like the men of Ai. they
went from conquest to conquest, but
after awhile disaster rolled back upon
them, and they were divided into three
parts. Misfortune took their property,
the grave took their body and the lost
world took their soul. I am always
interested in the building of the pal
aces of dissipation. I like to have
them built of the best granite and have
the rooms made large and to have the
pillars made very firm. God is going
to conquer them, and they will be turn
ed into asylums and art galleries and
churches. The stores in which fraud
ulent men do business, the splendid
banking institutions where the presi
dent and cashier put all their property
i in their wives’ hands and then fail for
$500,000, all these institutions are to
become the places where honest Chris
tian men do business.
How long will it take your boys to
get through your ill-gotten gains? The
wicked do not live out half their days.
For awhile they swagger and strut
and make a great splash in the news
papers. but after awhile it all dwindles
down into a brief paragraph: "Died
suddenly. April 8. 1900. at 35 years of
age. Relatives and friends of the fam
ily are invited to attend the funeral
on Wednesday at 2 o’clock from the
late residence on Madison square. In
terment at Greenwood or Oak Hill.”
Some of them jumped off the docks.
Some of them took prussic acid. Some
of them fell under the snap of a Der
ringer pistol. Some of them spent
their days in a lunatic asylum. Where
are William Tweed and his associates?
Where are Ketcham and Swartwout.
absconding swindlers? Where are
James Fisk, the libertine, and all the.
other misdemeanants? The wicked do
not live out half their days. Disem
bogue. O world of darkness! Come
up. Hildebrand and Henry II. and
Robespierre and. with blistering and
blaspheming and ashen lips, hiss out.
' The triumph of the wicked is short."
Await ing Opportunities.
How much may be accomplished by
lying in ambush for opportunities. Are
you hypercritical of Joshua's maneu
ver? Do you say that it was cheating
for him to take that city by ambus
cade? Was it wrong for Washington
to kindle campfires on Jersey heights,
giving the impression to the opposing
force that a great army was encamped
there when there was none at all? I
answer, if the war was right, then
Joshua was right in his stratagem. He
violated no flag of truce. He broke
no treaty, hut by a lawful ambuscade
captured the city of Ai. Oh, that we
all knew how to lie in ambush for
opportunities to serve God. The best
of our opportunities do not lie on the
surface, but are secreted. By tact, by
stratagem, by Christian ambuscade,
you may take almost any castle of sin
for Christ. Come up toward men with
a regular besiegement of argument,
and you will be defeated, but just wTait
until the door of their hearts is set
ajar, or they are ofT their guard, or
their severe caution is away from
home, and then drop in on them from
a Christian ambuscade. There has
been many a man up to his chin in
scientific portfolios which proved there
was no Christ and no divine revelation,
his pen a scimeter flung into the heart
of theological opponents, who never
theless has been discomfited and cap
tured for God by some little 3-vear-old
child who has got up and put her
snowy arms around his sinewy neck
and asked some simple question about
God. * * •
Importance of Good Atm.
The importance of taking good aim.
There is Joshua, but how are those
people in ambush up yonder to know
when they are to drop on the city, and
how are these men around Joshua to
know when they are to stop their flight
and advance? There must be some
signal—a signal to stop the one divi
sion and to start the other. Joshua,
with a spear on which were ordinarily
’van* the colors of cattle, points toward
the city. He stands in such a conspic
uous position, and there is so much of
the morning light dripping from that
spear tip, that all around the horizon
they see it. It was as much as^o say: ,
“There is the city. Take it!”
God knows and we know that a
great deal of Christian attack amounts
to nothing simply because we do not
take good aim. Nobody Knows and we
do not know ourselves which point we
want to take when we ought to make
up our minds what God will have us i
to do and point our spear in that di- \
rection and then hurl our body. mind. ;
soul, time, eternity at that one tar- j
get. • • •
Th*> Need of Cnarace.
I have heard it said: “Look out for a
man who has only one idea; he is ir
resistible.” I say look out for the
man who has one idea, and that a de
termination for soul saving. 1 believe
God would strike me dead if I dared
to point the spear in any other direc
tion. Oh. for some of the courage
and enthusiasm of Joshua! He flung
two armies from the tip of that spear.
It is sinful for us to rest unless it is
to get stronger muscle and fresher
brain and purer heart for God’s work.
I feel on my head the hands of Christ
in a new ordination. Do you not feel
the same omnipotent pressure? There
is a work for all of us. Oh. that we
might stand up side by side and point
the spear toward the city! It ought
to be taken. It will be taken. Our
cities are drifting off toward loose
religion or what is called "liberal
Christianity,” which is so liberal that
it gives up all the cardinal doctrines
of the Bible; so liberal that it surren
ders the rectitude of the throne of the
Almighty. That is liberality with a
vengeance Let us decide upon the
work which we as Christian men have I
to do and in the strength of God go
to work and do it. • • •
A Year of MrrfiN.
I believe that the next year will be
the most stupendous year that heaven
ever saw. The nations are quaking
now with the coming of God. It will
be a year of success for the men of
Joshua, but of doom for the men of
Ai. You put your ear to. the rail
track, and you can hear the train com
ing miles away. So I put my ear to
the ground, and I hear the thunder
ing on of the lightning train of God's
mercies and judgments. The mercy
of God is first to be tried upon this
nation. It will be preached in the pul
pits. in theaters, on the streets— ev
erywhere. People will be invited to
accept the mercy of the gospel, and the
story and the song and the prayer will
be “mercy.” But suppose they do not
accept the offer of mercy—what then?
Then God will come with his judg
ments, and the grasshoppers will eat
the crops, and the freshets will devas
tate the valleys, and the defalcations
will swallow the money markets, and
the fires will burn the cities, and the
earth will quake f-om pole to pola.
Year of mercies and of judgments;
year of invitation and of warning;
year of jubilee and of woe. Which
side are you going to be on—with the
men of Ai or the men of Joshua? Pass
over this Sabbath into the ranks of Is
rael. I would clap my hands at the
joy of your coming. You will have a
poor chance for this world and the
world to come without Jesus. You
cannot stand what is to come upon
you and upon the world unless you
have the pardon and the comfort and
the help of Christ. Come over! On
this side are your happiness and safe
ty; on the ether side are disquietude
and despair. Eternal defeat to the men
of Ai! Eternal victory to the men of
Joshua!
Saved by » Doll.
An exchange gives a story told by an
Indian agent of the manner in which
a doll averted an Indian war. On one
occasion Gen. Crook was trying to put
a band of Apaches back on their reser
vation. but could not catch them with
out killing them, and that he did not
wish to do. One day his men captured
a little Indian girl and took her to the
, fort. She was quiet all day. saying not
a word, but her beady black eyes
watched everything. When night
came, however, she broke down and
sobbed, just as any white chilld would
have done. The men tried in vain to
comfort her, until the agent had an
idea. From an officer's wife he bor
rowed a pretty doll that belonged to
her little daughter, and when the
Apache was made to understand that
she could have it. her sobs ceased and
she fell asleep. When morning came
the doll was still clasped in her arms.
She played with it all day. and appar
ently all thought of getting back to her
tribe left her. Several days passed .and
then the little Apache girl, with her
doll still in her possession, was sent
back to her people. When the child
reached the Indians with the pretty
doll in her chubby hands it made a
great sensation among tb»m. and the
next day the mother cam? with the
child to the post. She was kindly re
ceived and hospitably treated, and
through her the tribe was persuaded
to move back to the reservation.
The Editor** Miitskt.
Editors have their troubles. One of
these men. who presides over the des
tinies of a western newspaper, is
mourning the loss of twro subscribers.
No. 1 wrote asking how to raise his
twins safely, while the other wanted to
know how he might rid his orchard of
grasshoppers. The answers went for
ward by mail, but by accident the edi
tor put them into the wrong envelopes,
so that the man with the twins re
ceived the answer: “Cover them care
fully with straw and set fire to it. and
then the little pests, after jumping in
the flames for a few minutes, will be
speedily settled.’’ And the man with
the grasshoppers was told to “give
castor oil and rub their gums with a
bone.**—The Columbian.
An Annual Disturbance
Politician—How are things up in
your country? Fanner—Waal, I tell
you, the country's lik?ly to be consid'
able disturbed most any time now.
Politician—So? Expansion or silver, I
suppose. Farmer—Spring plowin’.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are
the arguments of malice.—R. G. In
gersoll.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON IV. APR,L 22 _ LUK£;
CHAP. VII. VS. 1-10
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Th*' F~' 103:.8
Healing a Scrnut
1. -When he had ended ,
ings.” Those of th* s.jL‘ 1 ,as **?*
Muunt. Both in Lai * °.n 0,1
a series of miracles follows ''Matt,,fiw
the promulgation or the *1 ,,,H,n
riple, of the kingdom of £2 n fT
the Sermon on the Mount > \ .Ll,,to
thirty verses < Luke7S^TfS!Lwd
by »wo miracles ami the summary
many more presented a« a nJish,
the^^ptist that Jesus
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that whole >eKion a,() a £
turion was a Roman military ofW ™ ,
rnmen? T.“f R°m^‘ "lilitary* gov!
eminent, th.s centurion was probably
-thr 8arris,,n at Caper
“ n entu.unis servant, who was
dear unto h.rn." R. V. margin, “precious
to him. or "honorable with him ' "Was
sick, and ready to die" R \ .
tlte point of death." lli„ disease, ^-t ortl
ing to Matthew, was the juiisy, and he
■was grievously tormented."
X "And when he heard of (concerning)
Jesus, the words and the deeds which
showed his character and his power “tie
sent unto him the elders of th* Jews ”
Not of the synagogue, for which another
word is used, but of the people, the Jow
tsh government, the leading men, heads
of families. The centurion probably felt
that Jesus, being a Jewish prophet, would
be most influenced bv the leaders of his
own people, who were the centurion's
friends.
4. "Besoughi him install'.ly," i. e., ur
gently. as in the phrase “continuing in
stant in prayer .’’-Cambridge Bible
а. “He loveth our nation,” attracted
doubtless by the great superiority of
their religion, their loftier hopes, their
better morality. “He hath built us a
synagogue.” thus expressing his interest
and faith in their religion.
б. “Then Jesus went with them.” say
ing according to Matthew. "1 will come
and heal him.” Some of the delegation
seem to have hastened in advance to the
centurion’s house, “which was probably
in the suburbs,” in order to re) eve his
anxiety before Jesus could an ve. As
they drew near to the house, " he cen
turion sent friends to him," with another
message. He probably had heard of the
healing of the nobleman's son i i Caper
naum while Jesus was at Cana John 4:
4t>-53>, so that he knew the presence of
Jesus was not necessary; and lie also
felt, “I am not worthy that thou should
cst enter under my roof." This was an
expression of his conscious sinfulness in
Hie presence of a holy prophet, endowed
w'ith such wondrous irower from (Jim).
7. “Say in a word. ' as he had before
to the nobleman's son.
5. "For I also <tike Jesus, b t in an
other sphere! am a man set under au
thority.” He had power indeed, but it
was authorized ami delegated power,
power derived from the powers above
hint, such as the tribunes or chief cap
tains <Acts 21:31i of the legion. Possibly
he meant to argue. Although 1 am under
authority, yet 1 command and am obeyed.
How much more you. who possess au
thority yourself as the Messiah' “1 say'
unto one. Go, ami he goeth." My word
is all powerful in the ranks which I com
mand. Military service demands instant,
unquestioning obedience.
S. “He marveled at him." “Only twice
do we read in the gospel that the Savior
marveled: once at the unbelief of his
fellow-citisens at Nazareth (Mark 6: <»).
once at the faith of this heathen.”—Van
Oostenee. His faith was the more won
derful since so much depended on 11.
"Said unto the people," who needed the
lesson on faith. “I have not found so
great faith, no. not in Israel," where it
would naturally be expected, for they
expected their Messiah, they knew the
true God. and that he was wrought mir
acles for his people in the past. In the
report of Matthew <8: 11-13) follows an
earnest warning to the Jews, and com
fort to the Gentiles, based on this fact.
10. Jesus sent word to the centurion.
“As thou has believed, so be it done unto
thee." “Found the servant whole," re
stored to health. The authoritative word
had gone forth, as the centurion had ex
pected.
Headless Teople.
It is curious how often and how per
sistently. heaciessness has figured in
popular legend and in legendary his
torv. secular and ecclesiastical. Among
the men of the prehistoric age, in the
very dawn of time, roughly drawn or
scratched headless figures were sym
bols of the dead. Medieval romancing
travelers wrote gravely of strange
races of men who were said to be desti
tute of heads, and to have eyes in the
breasts. One of the old chroniclers
describes an apparition seen in the
thirteenth year of King Edward IV. s
reign. There was a voice heard, he
says, in the air between Leicestei and
Banbury, and "in dyverse other places,
crying for a long time Bowes. Bowes,
which was herde of forty menne; and
some menne said that he thai tO<d
soo was a hedles manne .!
Bloodstone#
Almost every jewel has r. superstition
of some sort attaching to it, and the
bloodstone is not wanting in this par
ticular. The story is told of it that at
the time of the Crucifixion some drops
of blood fell on a piece of dark green
jasper that lay at the foot or the
cross. The crimson crept , h.oug.i the
structure of the stone, and this was the
parent of this beautiful jewel. The
dark red spots and veins were suppos
ed to represent the blood oi Christ,
and many wonderful properties were
attributed to the stone. It was thought
to preserve its wearer lrom dangers,
to bring good fortune and to heal
many diseases.
W anted rock***
The Ladies’ Aid society is sewing
steadily these days for tb* benefit ol
the families who have been worsted by
misfortune. One family of children
they are trving to g*t ready for school,
and recently they called with a pair ot
small trousers for a little tot. He
needed trousers, but, like the true boy
he is, when he noticed that there were
no pockets in them he said he dido t
want them. The motherly women took
the hint, and all trousers, however
small, now have pockets in them.
The UtMt Wrinkle.
“See here.” demanded the Irate cus
tomer, as by the aid of the mirror he
detected a pucker across his back,
• what does this mean?"
‘ That, sir.” explained the quick-wit
ted tailor, “is the latest wrinkle.
•lapiDMe Borgler.
An extraordinary' criminal, known as
Sakamonto Keijiro, and famed in Ja
pan as the "lightning burglar,” goes to
his doom with a total of seventy-one
crimes