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1 [AMPEBIXG- TARIFF K COMMERCIAL RESULTS OF * THE OINLLCV LAW. Zm wRfrE 53T Tor* It a ■'**-» LUBpercC ; at «#«•* » '* • tan* i« *tr.k;«*T gp* r*>t • ie Mt' «4< -• >^orti tor **• MMfc'E of Fet-ruarjr, :*>• Not «®ly tbt c«rorf at ***«.t* lor the , * ' -«»* ;■:■ s.'Wt FF-'Waary 4H*t tfce :**sp rt* rts* * *ca fc* »*Ui. ‘aero**# f tbe *'• *r»*» of FeE* r : rf &.]».; < far tl- ps-*t t^at )>•« It (A»ul4 b# aoted :tu*t tb« z a^urst :» tar u» bo.-; fam of ■emit- •**’ tfpp-- , of a** tnidt* to sjt i**e»» .a amt mtmr: or :n* laS uam** * T l>a4 « S Ea» Ukta food core tb* tOBjiKmtf :E tae reeuit LLo* <ks» o* iafniru, the ftruiorljoa of A s-trv ae -&*4e to»n*u4.tj-* totd by AHaervaa* t» aw* tk b larger tats at a*f -v«* Rfiod of our buttory, a-4 toe proaurtioa of forr ga-saaii of a oiflptUu»« taara< r te-c b» A***r, aa» la utsu fe smaller ' •--» at *ay jr<rt mtis jtenof of our fUalarjL Tfc# effort of flu* t aaoced sa,i«t!ios of *it:s*g« .1 at—a ta the ud trm tty It all NRta of do ■atata- proStrtMR is the eag»l3>mea' cf Sr 1*. jr*s atao-a: of lat<er at the a rate of »*#*« eoer ltt the u*~ryaaa of 1 be aggr-gate of do lucaflu os-taufai *»*re» froa. sameihiag «o*-r f» :a to a fatal for • «♦ rt-iaatrd at tor !e«* than 112. MtJMLMA- teed la id* Soma-fir ib 4 a*'rial r* urg of il- l» ngie* tariff. Sam a* to tt# ua4« rw»d '■*mt m m-u4 'Jui the freetrader* »ttb '«a* n..r* tbe country :bot the restoration of toe American jwiiry of protect: an to Aa»r; »n inter ~ad tadustry «** *.:a.» ic rue oar trade wtcb the owix-d* vend l^et us »ee The export* karts* Ihf mo ith of "•fcrmafT. l>r. u-« it>r«£td $S. '*’###» for e.er* day :a the •obtli, and tb- total rtforti nrere #’ >Tt.. or s^t than iiH per coat .aiwaier ‘Ytaa that of any prec din* February Sot on!? »:♦ the export* a: f> r ’Baa :bo*e f *sr pre »d:ns f * : ri»r» bat tte ex.e** of export* ter imp-ori* a **• ma<b larfH' than & .a*;, pir * lia* ¥• jraatjr. surpx-***.* &’.**e uf i * - ■ ** nearly 33 par cent, and 19 ■non tuna SO per cent in ex- m f that of any ear \ear. February * a mc*ti te-vy asportation*. and free j-n*.y Lapp a. that lb* imports 'i »e. tL- exports * j taa? ixa excess of f-'* SffJStS jf experts over import* B Fetrterjr oaikes tfce record of lb* aaon-b a one. cespte the #art tha: tbe importation*. vbieh ■meant* u To i** 774 ISO, »ere fV.ghx y arpsr than tt - of jay precedfnj year except ISIS. Tt» rtatns importance of tbe Fcb nry re* »rd a ill be more clear >•*5 a ties. « :* sta'-u that tne aver -re l-Vomarp export* dtir.ns tbe last e* y-xtn me'e fTC.teijMM per month. -Jt.#e tii* total exports cf February. ia alrea • _ ? Tfi, 'v2 bn tte otter sand. tte average 1 etruoty import* of tte pmeed.op Oec .«ae »ere t*l .«eO,tel. mal-n* tbe a**r . *e rVbnsni* ext*** of exports over aaporfs d tr tf ;bat ti*a« f li •*v*".01m, *hJe tbat of February !Ste. 1* ffit. * -i. It-:* «rab» - *h* total exportx Turn for rte eight month* ending with l>"bruar; aboaiST' r**-. *#4* *:enter tten eat. of ’be • orreapondix f months of te fie. al ye*r 1*3#, and mike* It ap -nt that ojt to-*I exports m tbe Si*: year end-ng J-in P »ill exceed • bo e of any pr> rd:ay year by proba %V0- •#* we* aal carry tbe total omaaeree of die y« *r cunidenblr be yond tbe tso-laUtoa dollar line. T• •• fo.,ovmx table *h ms tbe itn |wn* * • export. *f r.r>f the month of February dnrmg x term of yea;*, the* y»..&4C opporcamt) to trace tteir rela tive groatb. Impart*. f> broary * Uoilar* :««a --:• rjr^g smm __ >P5 . hSjliJWI IMd ..CS.CI.1lt l ■•If* apJCIjm l*m . SS«:«.<€f - - - - - ih,:ci * 7.4 lid Exports. ir.I.ars SbJClbM 6i 17S.S31 S: >82.731 77.7t 1>04 7> (C’.uh*. >4.417.4 S3 • * *' 11 >.» €k.- ..«C2 Tbe 1 lovac ta fbosr# the im • , rt> xrsC «x|m " cwras the first elgh.. t- - ’bs tf ta b t «i year far a urn. *♦ ? as 1. mat c ny lift ,, !*•« UK .. ja» .. me .. i*i# ... stei *. tbs Jk IV 1 tt parts, k Hollars. hS7 v72>:> . CNiXttl VU.JSZ.*\€ S41.IMJB1 .<32.hSS.JCd .3K.«9I.I7> tf7.ao.jaii . — .d 17 Export*. DoUan. 8CSJ71JC0 C38J2C.SS1 is;jtt.cc* Cf3.Cd4.f7: fl — Til si3j»«.i)Cy *43.433 JC» biS.C3.VK UNLIMITED. N» leat**lta« Tk«l IIm Yrt Hick Wat** Mark A *>:<•.» ne-tat o*U ai of a Trunk hoe •". "»Tlf Mid tbit Jm- dl<J not * ro»i ttat had &»' mm mat h mm It mj«M ku. xlk Am tor th« f* .-tr* . t* i«u4» far that 10 b~ a < ont.n w&' e cf Uto pmseat The railraa*:* <4 t.,* "'oeatfy have ttide a efreauot* effort to lamp bp the tcdu-trial prx> »* um of the prettat urn*, prosper t» ?~aa*r srta lorfc a rush after the ! • a» fi at of the I Kapiry law that it o-rt* natty of the® «f not all, unpre pared to bairdl# the taorsxna t ra® of ] the aMfitsgr. la aaasj cases ousiaess j »» tMmt or Jess embarrassed by the <• ® wltjr riper reared hy the railroad* la usadltag rre;jht. la aery many j o-Urr **e. —aafartartap piaata were r*a4, upped hy their iaaLllity to pet < ta stfBrieat quart it lev to meet tVir Oewcaada The m*.:roods hare ***** ana.np all haate to iar reaae * tW:f e^a.paNMt. For autr Month* ] p m the aewspapera have beea fall •f new. -.mi. let: ap of the hundred* of < an ad all k'ada—horn can, robe j eara. dmt ran <imm» ran. stark can. steel hsttoM can feral tare ram roa h »>' "•* can. poadoia can sad cars of every other k tad-which had beea or dered or which were la process of toJdiap for the dlffeteot roads. To eat who did not realize thr. prrjsperfty whVb the future held for the country i.ndcr our prefect wise industrial pol icy it might have looked as though the railroad offl als mere overshooting the market. Bnt events prove the con trary, and the railroads, with their gristly increased equipment, are still put to their .beat efforts in order to nandle the business of the country. More new equipment" will still serve -or many a headline in the future as •>!! as in the past The limits of the prosperity which a consistent and sei *nr;|lc prcte.-t!ve tariff law can give to the .ountrj have by no means been yet reached. AS A MONEY MAKER. RrtUteat XarrMi of tbo Dla(l«f TorltT lo (fee Matter of Becreaoe Prodacttoo. Trio>~ prophets of disaster who de nounced the Dingley tariff because in the early months of its operation It failed 10 arromp'.ish the impossible as a re venue producer preserve a discreet s >ace on this subject nowadays. Dur ing the t.me when the country was overstocked w.th foreign goods rushed .n under the !oa- duty rates of the Wil son free trade tariff the enemies of protection could not restrain their ju alien o\er the diminished volume of stom* receipts. They could not see. <»r mroaij not see. that revenue from source mast necessarily suffer un .. h t are as the country could con or the immense bulk of com mod i t:*s brought here from abroad in anti pat :on of the higher rates of duty < rtsin to be imposed by a Republican ldtn aistration They wilfully ignored the piesence of abnormal conditions took mneb satisfaction in assert | mg that the Dingley law was a dead ‘a.lure In the matter of revenue pro i tit; rtion. Th* facte snow that the framers of e D:ng!ey tariff were right in en ng that law as "an act to provide v< r. ;e for the government and to en ou'age the industries of the United States." During the eight months of •he present fls -a! year the receipts of ;he treasury department have exceed ed the expenditures by about 135.000. O^.1. wh: *h is considerably in excess of ;tie amount that any tariff bill was ex ted to jield The customs revenue law is producing almost as much m,a*-y today as ;s the internal revenue system, even with the war taxes added. The follow.ng table shows the income of th» government during the past j eight months: 1«33. .... Orwfcw ... Novemb* r Decew.fcar 15*0. Cu«:nni re.-eipti*. fic.sn.iM t? 34- ABC . .. !*■ o't.VB* .. vm Total receipt* e* sis.173 43 23t.:« At *a 5»v:> 3tc ♦y ivl Total Expendi tures. rM.ssi.oso 45.5K.311 K.5T1».3:j 44, STi.iCiS 40.7fiS.J*4T 3?.H5,S5‘j l*«brm x. <m rr* 4' ‘*i2.t cl 42*3.471 37.ns.47J I '.74' * • '7. :> ;.tC4 J340.C79.77: As a money-maker for government and people the Dingley tariff is a mon ni- ntal success :n economic legisla r.-m. Nothing like it was ever known f in the history of the world. HER NEW EASTER HAT. ■«»*■ Nob-Protected Tran:*. Trusts seem to be thriving quite WH ■ A i-tria. a country which mam :-:ns no Protective Tariff exempt on a very few commodities, such as gars, tobacco aad canned and bottled 1 ud art cles. According to a report from Consul Frank W. Mahin, at Hi:« benberg. the Austrian hatmakers . eve organ.red to promote their in t*-. < the paper factories have form < • a union; makers of sugar and sac charine products fcave a dose organi oc. and have but recently diacuss ♦ d t.ie pra< ;i«ability of increasing prices; the shoe manufacturers have a reaps *. un.on. and one central corpo ra'-.oa at Budapest is acquiring all the gat plants throughout Austria. 1c the absence of a general scheme of Protection, su, fc as that which ob tains in the United £ tates. how is it por - ole for Austro-Hungary to en gag*- so exi-ns.vely in the formation of trust*? Isn't there a screw loose :n the th> >ry that t: ids flourish only under a Protective Tariff. Nb HrttUb Satellite*. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly for March, J. W. Hoot, presents figures 1 showing that England does not subsi- ; .ze its steamer ! nes. only pays a low price for the carriage of mail matter. And we all know figures do not lie. Unaccountably the Mail and Express uates that a subsidy of S194.660. to be pad annually for ten years, has just •*en given to Elder. Demster & Co. by : sh government for a fortnight ly steamship service between Jamaica and (.Ireat Britain. The Mail and Ex pr< which evidently has not seen the Atlantic Monthly, does not seem to mention this laud British subsidy as a notable incident, but is outraged at the proposition to make Americans who have invested in banana lands on the island of Jamaica pay one-half the sub sidy. although they are supporting a direct line to the United Slates. This s to be done by imposing an increased tax oa banana lands. Han by Prosperity. Bryan bad nothing to say about dfty cent wheat and the connection be tween the price of wheat and the price of silver. Prosperity has knocked out a large part of his stock in trade.— Jersey City <N. J.) Journal. THE 1RBECONC1LABLES. Dcmomti Find Nethloc (■ Pnml lotxlitlon* Which Comnuodf Their Approval. The painful position of the Gold Democrats is indicated by the action of a group of these homeless wanderers in the world of politics at a recent meet ing in Indianapolis. They hate Bryan ism as badly as ever; at least they say they do. for in their recital of princi ples they express their abhorrence of all the leading features of the Bryani% tlc crusade of four years ago. including the assauits made by the Chicago plat form of 1S96 on individual freedom, the right of private contract, the independ ence and integrity of the federal judi ciary. the authority o? the president to enforce the laws and to denounce its advocacy of the radically wrong and fundamental dangerous demand for the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver and gold by the Unit ed States at the ratio of 16 to 1, and its repudiation, at the instigation of Republican and Populist allies, of the Democratic doctrine of tariff for rev<» enue only. There can be no compromise with those who propose to support Mr. Bry an or any other candidate on the Chi cago platform. But it must not be supposed that these Gold Democrats love McKinley more because they love Bryan less. No; they find everything to condemn and nothing to approve in the acts of an administration accountable for the most stupendous achievements in pros perity and progress that the world has ever known. This is the way they look at it: Recent events lead us to fear that ! the continuance in power for another . four years of the Republican party, un der its present masters, with its cea traliiing policies, protective tariff leg ; islation and capitalistic tendencies. would be disgraceful and calamitous. ; and. above all. the people of the Unit ed States cannot safely tolerate even a suggestion that the inhaonants of i any of our territory are not entitled , to the right of trial by jury, to the ben eficent protection of the writ cf ha , beas corpus, to the freedom of religion, to the personal liberty granted by the constitutional prohibitions against slavery, or to any one of those sacred rights of person and property- which are guaranteed to all. not only by the j express words of the constitution, bat by those fundamental principles of lib erty on which our whole system of government rests. , One would think that the superior creatures who got together at Indian . apolis could find it in their hearts to say something decent about a party and an administration which has just ; placed upon the federal statute books a law permanently establishing the gold standard, a financial policy on account of which these same Gold i Democrats were wild with anxiety in the dark days of 1896. Common grat itude for a great service rendered in warding off the menace of cheap dol lars would seem to call for some slight manifestation of appreciation and ap proval on the part of those who lay iwake nights four years ago because of this identical menace, and who have • :-°en shuddering more or less about it I ever since. But no: there is nothing good in Re publicanism. nothing good in Bryan ism: and there you are. It looks a? though the country would have to de pend for absolute safety pud certain salvation upon a political remain* that will not cast one-tenth of one pet cent of the total vote next November. I.abcr's Golden Ert. This is to be a great railroad build | ing year, this fourth year of "McKin | ley and prosperity.*’ According to the j "Railway Age.” Although more miles of new railroad j were built in the United States last i year than in any year since 1890. there ! is every indication that the present year will witness even greater activ ity. In the aggregate there are nearly 59,000 miles of projected road, grouped by sections as follows: New England States. 447 miles; Mid dle States. 2,240; South Atlantic States. 9.752 miles; Gulf and Mississippi Val ley States. 0.798 miles: Central North ern States. 5.623 miles; Northwestern States. 6.197 miles; Southwestern | States, 21.207 miles: Pacific States. 6.377. Total. 58.841 miles. In 1899 4.5S8 miles of track were laid in the United States on 340 lines, and in Canada. 596 on twenty-one lines, and in Mexico. 254 on ten lines. The grading, building and equipment of nearly 60.000 miles of new railroad lines in a single year will involve an outlay of capita! amounting to about two billions of dollars. All of th's great sum will go to swell the aggre gate of money paid out for labor and the products of labor. Add to this th" increased demand for labor involved in the operation of 60.000 miles of new railroad, and the sum total of increas ed employment and increased wage payments mounts still further up into the billions. It is the golden era of well paid labor. Hlgheat Wage Rate Ever Known. The advance of 10 per cent in wagei to more than 20.000 employes of the National Tube company is to take ef fect April 1. This is the second in crease of 10 per cent granted by the same company within six months and makes the wages of common labor higher than at any time within the history of the works. The tendency all over the country is to advance wages to the highest point ever known. Not only that, but to give steady employ ment to by far the largest number ot wage earners ever found at one time on the pay rolls of the industrial in stitutions of the United States. To do just this thing was one among the pledges r?ade four years ago on behalf of the party of protection and sound money. The Brvanites said It could not be done, and that a cheap dollar was the only thing that would put an end to the awful paralysis inflicted upon the industries of the country as a result of four years of Cleveland and tariff reform. Mr. McKinley said that the first thing to do was to open the mills. The country took this view of the matter. Result, the highest rate of wages ever paid and the largest amount of steady employment ever known by wage-earnera. TALMAGES SERMON. THE RESURRECTION, THE SUB JECT LAST SUNDAY. The Blooming of Flower* Fittingly C«l cbrstM the Banting of Chn«t'* Tomb — E»»*«r t be S< nson of Re joicing. [Copyright, 1!W. by Louis Klopscii.] Text: John xix. 41, "In the garden a new sepulcher.” Looking around the churches this morning.seeing flowers in wreaths and flowers in stars and flowers in crosses and flowers in crowns.- billows of beauty, conflagration of beauty, you feel as if you stood in a small heaven. You say these flowers will fade. Yes, but perhaps you may see them again. Tney may be immortal. The fra grance of the flower may be the spirit of the flower; the body of the flower dying on earth, its spirit may appear in better worlds. 1 do not say it will be so. I say it may be so. The an cestors of those tuberoses and camel lias and japonicas and jasmines and born in paradise. _ ne of apostolic suc cession. The^ ancestors during the flood, underground, afterward ap peared. beauty came down ine world started with t:aen: it win end with Eden. Heaven is called a paradise of God. Paradise means flow ers. While theological geniuses in this day are trying to blot out everything material from their idea of heaven, and. so far as I can tell, their future state is to be a-floating around some where between the Great Bear and Cassiopeia. I should not be surprised if at last I can pick up a daisy on the everlasting hills and hear it say; “I am one of the glorified flowers of earth. Don't you remember me?' 1 worshiped with you on Easter morn ing in 1900?" My text introduces us into a garden. It is a manor in the suburbs of Jeru salem owned by a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph. He belonged to the court of seventy, who had con demned Christ, but he had voted in the negative, or, being a timid man. had absented himself when the vote was to be taken. At great expense he laid out the garden. It being a hot cli mate. I suppose there were treec broad branched, and there were paths winding under these trees, and here and there were waters dripping dowu over the rocks into the ponds.and there were vines and flowers blooming from the wall, and all around the beauties of kiosk and aboriculture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem courtroom, how refreshing to come into this su burban retreat, botanical and promo logical! Most Celebrated of Tombs. Wandering in the garden. I behold seme rocks which have on them the mark of the sculptor's chisel. I come nearer, and I find thei»e is a subterra nean recess. I come down the marble steps, and I come to a portico, over which there is an architrave, by the chisel cut into representatives of fruits and flowers. 1 enter the por tico. On either side there are rooms —two or four or six rooms of rock, the walls of these rooms having niches, every niche large enough to hold a dead body. Here is one room that is especially wealthy of sculp ture. The fact is that Joseph realizes he cannot always waik this garden, and he has provided this place for his last slumber. Oh. what a beautiful spot in which to wait for the coming of the resurrection! Mark well this tomb, for it is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages. Catacombs of Egypt, tomb of Napoleon. Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with it. Christ has just been murdered, and his body will be thrown to the dogs and the ravens, like other crucified bodies, unless there be prompt and efficient hindrance. Joseph, the owner of this mausoleum in the rocks, begs for the body of Christ. He washes the poor, mutilated frame from the dust and blood.shrouds it and perfumes it. I think that regular embalmment was omitted. When in olden time a body was to be embalmed, the priest, with some pretension of medical skill, would point out the place between the ribs where the incision must be made; and then the operator, having made the incision, ran lest he be slain for a violation of the dead. Then the other priests would come with salt of niter end cassia and wine of palm tree and complete the embalmment. But I think this embalmment of the body of Christ was omitted. It would have raised another contention and another riot. The funeral hastens on. Present. I think. Joseph, the owner of the mauso leum; Xicodemus. the wealthy man who had brought the spices, and the two Marys. No organ dirge, no plumes, no catafalque. Heavy bur den for two men as they carry Christ's body down the marble stairs and into the portico and lift the dead weight to the level of the niche in the rock and push the body of Christ into the only pleasant resting place it ever had Coming forth from the portico, they close the door of rock against the re cess. The government, afraid that the dis ciples may steal the body of Christ aad play resurrection, order the seal of the sanhedrin to be put upon the door of the tomb, the violation of that seal, like the violation of the seal of the government of the United States or Great Britain, to be followed with great punishment. A company of sol diers from the tower of Antonia is detailed to stand guard. Shattered Bey nod Repair. At the door of the mausoleum a fight takes places which decides the question for all graveyards and ceme teries. Sword of lightning against sword of steel. Angel against mili tary. No seal of letter was ever more easily broken than that seal of the sanhedrin on the door of the tomb. The dead boty in the niche in the rock begins to move in its shroud of fine linen, slides down upon the pave ment, moves out of the portico, ap pears in the doorway, advances into the open air. comes up the m; rble | steps. Having left his mortuary at tire behind him, he comes forth in workman’s garb, as I take it. from the fact that the women mistook him for the gardener. That day the grave received such shattering it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry can never mend it. Forever and forever it is a broken tomb. Death, taking side with the military in that fight, received a terrible cut from the an gel’s spear of fiame, so that he him self shall go down after awhile under it. The king of terrors retiring be fore the king of grace! The Lord is risen! Let earth and heaven keep Easter today! Hosanna! Some things strike my observation while standing in this garden with a new sepulcher. And. first, post mor tem honors in contract with ante-mor tem ignominies. If they could have afforded Christ such a costly sepul cher, why could not they have given him an earthly residence? Will they give this piece of marble to a dead Christ instead of a soft pillow for the living Jesus? If they had expended half the value of that tomb to make Christ comfortable, it would not have been so sad a story. He asked bread; they gave him a stone. Christ, like most of the world’s benefactors, was appreciated better after he was dead. Westminster ab bey and monumental Greenwood are the world’s attempt to atone by hon ors to the dead for wrongs to the liv ing. Poets’ corner in Westminster abbey attempts to pay for the suffer ings of Grub street. Go through that poets’ corner in Westminster abbey. There is Han del. the great musician, from whose music you hear today; but while I | look at his statue I cannot help but ! think of the discords with which his fellow-musicians tried to destroy him. j There is the tomb of John Dryden, a beautiful monument;* but I can not help but thinlv at 70 years of age ne wrote of his being oppressed in for tune and of the contract that he had ! just made for a thousand verses at s;x l pence a line. And there, too. you find the monument of Samuel Butler, the author of “Hudibras;" but while I look at his monument in poets’ corner I cannot but ask myself where he died. In a garret. There 1 see the costly | tablet in the poets’ corner—the costly tablet to one of whom the celebrated Waller wrote: "The old blind school 1 master. John Milton, has just issued | a tedious poem on the fall of man. If : the length of it be no virtue, it has ' none." There is a beautiful monu ment to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! If he could have only discounted that monument for a mutton chop! Make the Mtlnc Happy. Oh. you unfiliai children, do not give ! your parents so much tombstone, but a ; few more blankets—less funeral and more bedroom! If 5 per cent of the money we now spend on Burns’ ban quets could have been expended in making the living Scotch poet comfort able, he would not have been harried I with the drudgery of an exciseman. ; Horace Greeley, outrageously abused I while living, when dead is followed toward Greenwood by the president of the United States and the leading men of the army and navy. Massachusetts tries to atone at the grave of Charles Sumner for the ignominious resolu tions with which her legislature de nounced the living senator. Do you think that the tomb at Springfield can ' pay for Booth's bullet? Oh. do justice to the living! All the justice you do them you must do this side the gates of the Necropolis. They cannot wake up to count the number | of carriages at the obsequies or to no tice the polish of the Aoerdeen granite or to read epitaphal commemoration. Gentleman's mausoleum in the suburbs 1 cf Jerusalem cannot pay fcr Bethle hem's manger and Calcarean cross and Pilate's ruffian judiciary. Post mor tem honors cannot atone for ante mortem ignominies. Again, standing in this garden of the sepulcher, I am impressed with the fact that floral and arborescent decor ations are appropriate for the place of I the dead. We are glad that among flowers and sculptural adornments. Christ spent the short time of his in humation. I cannot understand what l some j times see in the newspapers where the l obsequies are announced and the friends say in connection with it,"Seni no flowers.” Rather, if the means al ' low—I say if the means allow—strew the casket with flowers, the hearse with flowers, the grave w,th flowers. Put them on the brow—it will suggest coronation: in their hand—it will ; mean victory. Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers mean resurrection. Death is : sad enough anyhow. Let conserva tory and arboretum contribute to its . alleviation. The harebell will ring the I victory; the passion flower will express ! the sympathy; the daffodil will kindle j its lamp and illumine the darkness. I The cluster of asters will be the con stellation. Your little child loved flow ers when she was living. Put them in 1 her hand now that she can go forth | no more and pluck them for herself, j On sunshiny days take a fresh garland | and put it over the still heart. Plant F!ow*r». Brooklyn has no grander glory than | its Greenwood, nor Boston than its j Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than I its Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than its I Spring Grove, nor San Francisco than its Lone Mountain. But what shall we say to those country graveyards, with the vines broken down and the slab aslant and the mound caved in and the grass a pasture ground for the sexton’s cattle? Indeed, were your father and mother of so little worth that you cannot afford to take care of their ashes? Some day turn out all hands and straighten the slab and bank up the mound and cut away the weeds, and plant the shrubs and flow ers. Some day you will want to lie down to your last slumber. You can not ex pect any respect for your bones if you have no deference for the bones of your ancestry. Do you think these rel ics are of no importance? You will see of how much importance they are in the day when the archangel takes out his trumpet. Turn all your ceme teries into gardens. Again, standing in this garden of the ! new sepulcher, I am impressed with the dignity of private and unpretend ing obsequies. Joseph was mourner, sexton, livery man—had entire charge of everything. Only four people at the burial of tha King of the Universe! Oh, let this be consolatory to those who through lack of means or through lack of large ac quaintance thave but little demonstra tion of grief at the graves of their loved ones. Long line of glittering equipage, two rows of silver handles* casket of richest wood, pallbearers gloved and scarfed, are not necessary. If there be six at the grave, Christ looks down from heaven and remem bers that is two more than were at his obsequies, Xot recognizing this idea, how many small properties are scattered and wid owhood and orphanage go forth into cold charity! The departed left a small property, which would have been enough to keep the family together un til they could take care o' themselves, but the funeral expenses absorbed ev erything. That went for crape which ought to have gone for bread. A man of moderate means can hardly afford to die in any of our great cities. By all means, do honor to departed, but do not consider funeral pageant as neces sary. Xo one was ever more loving ly and tenderly put away to sepulcher than Christ our Lord, but there were only four people in the procession. W«b«* Tp to (iltdnetiL Again, standing in this garden with a new sepnleher, I am impressed with the fact that you cannot keep the dead down. Seal of sanhedrin, company of '-ol diers from the tower of Antonia, floor of rock, roof of rock, walls of rock, door of rock, cannot keep Christ in the crypts. Come out and come up he must. Come out and come up he did. Preflguration. First fruits of them that slept. Just as certainly as we come down into the dust, just so cer tainly we will come up again. Though all the granite of the mountains were piled on us we will rise. Though buried amid the corals of the deepest caverns of the Atlantic ocean, we will come to the surface. With these eyes we may not look into the face of the noonday sun. but i we shall have stronger vision, because the tamest thing in the land to which we go will be brighter than the sun. We shall have bodies with the speed of the lightning. Our bodies improv ed. energized, swiftened, clarified— mortality, immortality. The door of the grave taken off its hinges and flung flat into the dust. . Oh. my brethren, death and the grave are not so much as they used to be; for while wandering in this garden with the new sepulcher I And that the vines and flowers of the gar den have completely covered up the tomb. Instead of one garden there are four gardens, opening into each other—garden of Eden, garden of th world's sepulcher.garden of the earth's regeneration, garden of heaven. Four gardens. Bloom. O earth! Bloom. 0 heaven! Oh. my friends, wake up to gladness on this Easter morning! This day. if I interpret it right, means joy —it means peace with heaven, and it means peace with all the world. Oh. bring more flowers! Wreathe them around the brazen throat of the cannon; plant them in the desert that it may blossom like the rose; braid them into the mane of the returned war charger. No more red dahlias of j human blood. Give us white lilies of peace. All around the earth strew Easter flowers. And soon the rough voyage of the church militant will be ended, and she will sail un the heav enly harbor, scarred with many a conflict, but the flag of triumph float ing from her topgallants. All heaveu will come out to greet her into port, and with a long reverberating shout of welcome will say : “There she comes up the bay, the glorious old ship Z;on! After tempestuous voyage she drops anchor within the veil.” Royal Elopements ia Spain. Spain tops the list of royal elope ments and records some romantic cases. Don Carlos* pretty daughter. Infanta Elvira, ran off with a hump backed artist, with only palette and brushes for fortune. Princess Jo sephine. grandaunt of the present king of Spain, took up with a seedy poet. Gael y Pende. Pende wrote for a Ha vana newspaper, when he fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy plant er. On stating his pretensions to the father he wax abruptly =hown the dcor. This sc incensed the haughty poet that he vowed to show his worth by wedding a princess. As there were no titled ladies in Havana, he started for Madrid, where he had a difficult time to make both ends mett the first iwo years. Finally he attracted Prin cess Josephine's attention by several effusions which he had dedicated to her. It was a case of love on first sight, and before any such idea as marriage had been whispered abroad the princess and her poet had been united at Valladolid church and were en route for Paris. The family were furious, triei to get the misalliance annulled, but when that proved im possible forgave the miscreants and took them hack. Princess Josephine s «ister Isabelle escaped from her home at Enghein by means of a rope ladder and joined her sweetheart. Count Ga rowski, who was waiting with a car riage near by. The couple hastened to England, where they w*re married, only to be divorced a short time after ward. New Story of Kitchener. A new story of Kitchener is said by G. W. E. Russell to be “probably not so very far astray.” Cecil Rhodes made more or less trouble for the mili tary authorities in Kemberley, and finally Col. Kekewich one day helio graphed Lord Kitchener that Rhodes' interference was getting unbearable. Kitchener’s prompt answer was: “You had better put him in chains!” DMc't Know the Difference. Gilson—"I saw Bjones at the tem perance lecture last night.” Mrs. Gilson—“Humph! 1*11 bet when he got home he couldn't tell hia wife where he'd been.”—New York THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V. APR,L 29 — LUKE CHAP. 7. VS. 18-28. Golden Text—“He Hath n,. “ Z it.., ZJZ F">- .a,*. 1^-. “And the ... , . clung: nobly to their n .eh J i" Tlu‘y him in prison in spit,' ,',f fT' ,;l,ul Visiu*d is a noble and charmi^ U came even from GaliW «•’, r . They air was fu„ of *‘u‘r* very ings of Jesus, ami ‘ s . v ?U<i these things;- his marvelous ££„°f hv! loving teachings, his f. h13 lioans^nd sinners V,. "riwL ity. Trie sending of “ ^ l«'i>ular disciples with tie wittaTT" i"’ Jesus w»s indeed the . „5X" shows that the hra\ ,tr„ Mtsy?ah and martvr was in t> v- T f)IO,'*lcl great doubt. U‘* "haJ,JW ** * 1*. -Calling unto him two of hi« disci ples sent them to Jesus. x.vini, ,.U he that should com, • The \i" • -r prophet® had foreto.d “5n tSu ,hl whom John had j, . -h'4 Messiah? ’ *ho lhe a. “And in that same hour.’* Before the eyes of John's di« ,« ...» ‘ . *r--inv •» Vc , o»es. He cured ?merely t« show this proof to John, but because they needed curing HT- kff.r*** ^,rk ties. Diseases. “plague- s.rokts ^°UrpP; h",! 'r- Snized in medical writings as teute " as «hc eases" were the chronic ca^-s “Evil 5g«'5H A* •«'“••• ««££ Blind he gave sigh; More is ex pressed by this verb then simple giving. He gave as a free, gracious, joy-giving gift."-Vincent. 5 S *** 1- ~Thc lame walk, etc Note the preat varietv uf cures the many form* of disease relieved. There w.i* nothing too hard for his power. E.i< h disease was typical of some corresponding moral heal ing from the diseases >r sin Ail of them were expressions of his goodness and love. “To the poor the g-.spel is preach ed.” “The language embraces the poor in heart life, all who suffer heart hun ger. the meek, the broken-hearted, the captives, the bound. '—Abbott. 23. "And blessed is he. whosoever shall not be offended in me.” Shall find no oc casion of stumbling in me. shall s~e how my work and method *>f founding the kingdom, however differing from ■ recan - oeived opinions, is the true way >r the Messiah, the only one in which .« mis sion could be fulfilled, and the dy one fi retold by the prophets. Many, indeed, did stumble at the wav Jesus r- present ed the Messiahshlp. Note how J sus re lieved his despondent \. and wil. relieve ours. 24. “When the messengers of John were departed.” Jesus spoke his eui »gy. not in the presence of John's dls< r.des. b it after they were gone, for the good ot the people. He did not praise to his fagt and condemn behind his back "He be gan to speak unto the pe »ple." in an swer to their thoughts and >• rt qaes tlonings. They might imago e ' from John's message that the flaptist wavered In his faith, and that his impr -onment had shaken his constancy. On laird, therefore, reminds them of whit John was. “What went ye out ir.to the wil derness." where John had preached. "A reed shaken with the wind." The reed of Egypt and Palestine is a very tall cane, growing twelve feet high, with a magnificent panicle of blossom at the top. and so slender and yielding that it will lie perfectly flat under a gust of wind, and immediately resume its upright position.—Tristram. Did >ou go to sen a fickle, undecided man. ths sport of every influence that blew upon him?—Morison. “So far from, being a reed, shaken by the wind of popular opinion, John was a lock, which stood unmoved though beat en by storms of suffering.'—Wordsworth. This is one of the common aspersions which men are apt to cast on those who become popular, that they bold to the popular breeze, and it is one- of their dangers. 25. “A man clothed in soft raiment.” 1.usurious or gorgeous clothing—a sign of an effeminate and voluptuous, or a sycophant, who would flatter for the hope of gain. Contrast this with the rigorous fare and sim; le garb of John ns described in Matt 2: 4. £.• the next accusation of the reformer, and his next danger, is that “he is making friends of the rich, and feathering his own nest." "Behold.” etc. No such man as this was the wilderness prer>et. if you wish ed to find such men. you would go to the palace of Herod, where they are gor geously appareled. 26. “A prophet? Yea. . . . and much more than a prophet. <1 * Because himself the object of prophecy; be cause he pointed out th> Messiah, whom others only foretold, and saw him whom kings and prophets desired to see: and t3> chiefest of all. because his position was nearest the thresh *.:i »if th- king dom and, m°re than they all, helped to usher it in. 27 “This is ho. of whom it is writ ten.” tin Mai 3; 11 "Behold. 1 send my messenger before thy face. etc. An al lusion to one who went before an East ern monarch to remove all eb*tac«es ou of his way. (Sec Less en 111 Hrs* Qaar tcr.) . . “There is not a greater prophet than John the Baptis: in character, in werk. in nearness to tb*l. »n position, in privilege, in success "He ih.it «s leas, in the kingdom of Ood is greater a he." The least of the greatest is grat er than the greatest of the least. Ma - donatus. It does not mean greater in personal character, nor in eternal con dition. but in present privilcjbr. preroga tive, station, as the le. st ch ' - ‘ ., . than the highest servant —■ ** ' belongs to a higher dispensation. «>»th larger influences of large beyond the compreher.s previous disi«ensa:ion The least seed revious , n-wn above ground is rrsitt-r • • the sol!. So we greatest still b<-ne.ith Ov ’ in-dav has moro mav snv that the . ■ - 11 ' stands farther in ad ographv. history. ;aces of the past, who is and intellect. knowledge, and vance, in ebemHtrj c than the greatest had far more gcri Mo»t Drowning Men KccxU D»bU? Little Sniff kins (who has been near j drowned!—"It was simply marvel us. As I sank far the third time all tie incidents of my past came vividly efore me.” Robertson (brutally)— I say. old char did -vou remember tiat fiver I lent you last year?’ —Syd ey Town and Country Journal. Tut HI* Foot in It Fisher—1 really don t think I ake part again in theatricals. I ; feel as though I were making of mvself. PUkins (who always he wrong thing>-0, everybody that.—Harlem Life. In the Tall. ■‘jjjp leaves are leaiinS- remarked young Mr. Beechwood to Miss Home wood. “but the trees remain." True.” added the maiden. "I notice that :he trees are not packing their trunks. The Lot of Woman. •'You certainly can t cali the eel skirt very sensible.” "No. it seems to be decreed that a woman may not show good lines and good sense at the S3me time. Detroit Journal. Circa m*taoc«a. Parson Meekins (to convict) My friend, remember we are here today and gone tomorrow. Convict (calmly)—You might be. but I ain’t.—Baltimore Jewish Comment,