1
[AMPEBIXG- TARIFF
K COMMERCIAL RESULTS OF
* THE OINLLCV LAW.
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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.
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6i 17S.S31
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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,
