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MiNEKS make issue. - ■ SHAMEFUL CONDUCT OF DEM. OCRATS IN CONGRESS. ■ejOTMUIftm lOili a>.4 *e!i*r Want • k «** G«m l tatf«r« «mm «>—watery of Ua M.4 UM«r ta Ui« ►te-te mt lOatiCT. <Vs.rre*-*mca la-ntz and Suiter haTe term.maied their most remarkable eam uact *4 as mqu ry that ever be •tb treked m 1'sited Stale* congress. They heaped personal abuse oa Re psLik-a* members erf the ctur.tr..ttee as w« :: a* cm the opposing attorneys and wttaiusas. They hesitated not to draw the tnewt offensive Inferences. Th«y fcj-iU*.rd not to charge mm with the most sordid motive* They hesitated • • ♦ .ndulge in p»r* ;1 thr**.:’ T rtaaairif f* r them they were not taken with great seriousness. Only w#re they really brought to with a ► tort tarn. Chairman Hull had been gra ted almost beyond human endur aar*. Livid with anger he shook hi# fist under the cow of la*ntz. whose roving eye avoided him. "You have gone as far with me as you dare." he • ried. I.eat* went no further lie might bully, but his physical courage mu** serf be put to too severe a test. The very first witness. Governor ftteuBeubrrg 0f Idaho, a Il.ino.rat. who t}iposed them, took from b*-neath therr the very ground of argument ’.poa * i h th'jr had storal. G vemor St*usenberg assumed full responsibil ity for all that was subject of com pli. nt. Hr aal Auditor Sinclair. his deputy in Shoshone county after the riot*, after martial law has been de • imiwd. announced that what was done ti** l.d *»r ordered done. '.-cause :h* y '*• tried 4 ne-essvry for the protection of fife and property. Iamtz and Sutler w*re n the very paroxysm of trans it bat Joy. They ha! nailed them to the ere** at last, “Are vru the state, i ke loalv XIV T* Lents ts'-cel. In great glee, arguing solemnly that The question was a proper one. Then of me the explosion wh‘-h 4*ead*Eod their ebu*i!tSons. “What are your p> !:tiesT" was the ir.d street qufwtkni put to Governor Sieunenbere “1 am a D*mo-rat." be said. "I voted for Bryan in 1S3C I hope to vote for him again in 1900." It w*s a sad blow It was absolute .»bear«et..ng. Ari-l a-.*-'h* - d:«n greeaWe feature of It Is that Governor ?:eunenfaerg had so much confidence la the r.gbteoustei.* ef the roars** which be pursued that he Is willing to bt the people Judge him by lecom tag a Candida'# for the United State# pens'* l*n t it terrible? Bit another, sadder blow, await'd the conspirator*. A iditor ?:n«*!alr took the rtand. Attorney Robertson. who appeared for the ‘ miners " he raid had successfully browbeaten the wit wane He put an insulting question to him. "Mo yen make that as a Miltnmtr Sinclair #tked. **I do." Ii» tert* n replied pompously. *'lt I* a I>." was the little bantam's re sponse. This was R *Sertnna‘s chance. H# welg?.- M*r JPP pounds. Sinclair Is L*. ■ > . » *> S >. It *ert>n !. ; ' • d h-f personal bravery by making a her e ;»?.>♦- *-al attack on the witness, wao tad not the slightest intention of r-.ak.ng Robertson responsible for th» He. He was dragged off liefore he had fl>« opportunity to da him much damage, beyond a disarming* ment of Lis tcliet Sinclair never whimpered. He Just went on as though noth lug had happened, while Robertson co» fir -*-! to f.< y ply 1. m i th gaevtfcma. **Y ur poutSea?" a Republican mem bar finally inquired, mmd'ul of the •wrpnse that was sprung m response to that question : > Hoc* i.**r jn»n ber*. “1 am a Democrat." was the clear answer. He had voted tar Bryan. W« aid vote for him sca n. And. hor ror of borvora. his preference for th* wire presidency was falter, falser. the Bowery * ate* man. who liefore that cool . * ansly refrain fhrow.ng itiltutand* at the witness, but whose manner ra w underwent a iu4dm change. He truly began to Imbibe a lingering affection for n lair. Bwlaer and Lents waul the fkmo n-.- :« , p:L„k in tt* platform condemning the rail ing out of the United States soldiers to suppma the rid*. It is no Repub lican « >u*‘.o* *a. lad th*tn do it if they deaite. But (jovertior Bteunen herg has declared that he will brad t* - the Bryan delegation from Idaho to the Kansas City convention. He will naturally oppose any action that will personally discredit him. If the sub j< t m forced upon the convention it will cai-fc a row of no mean dimen sions. It may result in a bolt. All of which Is no Republican’s funeral. It is only the outcome ot the attempt ct Ijentz and Sulzer to play politics. They wanted new issues. They have them. l*et them make the most airl the best of them. Hoist by their own petard. A LESSON TO MINERS. tu<-rtii.« <l Out|>ut hikI ment tn VI «uuil»s'« Fowl Field*. Wyoming is not generally regarded as t*e.ug much of a coal producer, yet ’n<*re were only ten states in which more coal was mined last year. The ■ u?p t of Wyoming coal has been as follow.- during the last decade: Ye.tr— Tons. Value. 1890 . 1.870.366 $3,183,669 v11 . • .841 3.5ao.«ia > •_* . 2.563.839 3.168.776 >93 .. 2.439.311 3.290.904 ’ >94 . 2 417.463 3,170.392 >95 . 2.246.911 2.977.901 >96 .*2.223.184 2.918.225 >97 . 2 597.SS6 3.136.694 >98 . 2.863.S12 3.664.190 1899 . 4 547.723 4,690,163 •Including Nebraska. Moderate as is Wyoming's produc t .on of >al, it is ample to serve as an oliivt Uvsjn to the 3,.">'.k) miners in that state. They can see that there »u> .n in reusing demand for Wyom :ig coal in the year 1890-92 under the It ;• i! in administration of Presl ::: II trr.son. with a consequent bet ter employrn nt of labor. 1 . • . n ;i!mi sve that the output of o,.i from Wyoming's mines decreased it: ng the IVrnocratic administration t President Cleveland, when the min er' were only working from ISi to 190 days in the year. Put the re were more men at work. 1 ti.... v.vre working more days. 242 — \in >:under the Republican a itum.st ration of President McKinley. T'n n t!> output of the Wyoming coal u :nes :n> reased to 4.347.723 tons last >ear. Miners will do well to think over these facts. Next November they will Lav* to vote either for activity in the mir.< s. w.th work nearly all the year through, or for partial idleness, with work only for half a year. Republican prosperity has reached the Western taint-s. oid it rll stay there if we aga.n • Wt .: Republican president this ># »r. and Republican representatives :n uugreas to support him. .., , - . ... — Wli.it Forrisn Trad# The export trade balance in favor i of the I'nited S ates during the first three years of President McKinley’s iuiin stratum amouunted to $1,483, More than one-half of that - ms represents what was paid for la •or n manufacturing these exports, for w. ii the rest of the world paid. In oth* words the Republican policy ha* o >lis**«l the world, in the last three }eat«. to pay at least $7 P'.OfX*.000 to Ameri an labor, which would employ 74o.im’0 men for one year at a salary of $1 (M,o p r year. This is one rea »n way work is plenty, wages good, nl the home consumption of Amer ican products has largely increased. C «k>n<l«‘« I’rosperlt jr. Tie* IVnver Times has turned from •he party of calamity and is engaged ;n properly p!a< :r:g the responsibility lor th*- prosperity which obtains in Colorado. It will not be at all strange if the electoral vote of the Centennial slat. f' md In the McKinley column in November. The Negro Tote The Virginia Democrats have decid *--1 to go about the elimination of the vegro vin a systematic manner. The party that seeks to make capital « it of the "government without the - onsect of the governed” cry is get tir.g 1 v ther beautifully. Nome I'rlnie Material Tie Hon. David B. Hill and the Hun. John i*. A It geld are to have a ednfer « a* e Here is prime material for a po llti'-al ghost dance. Making a Hash. The Hon. 1 Jeorge Fred Williams has mobilized his adjectives and is pre pared to malic u dash for the vice i presidency. 1 PORTO RICAN PAPER CUves Ita Views uf Our Currency Under Gold standard. The following article is from the “Correspondencia de Puerto Rico” of April 20. 1900. It is interesting in that It shows how our new wards sum up the political differences between the two great parties on the money Question: The fiscal campaign of the Dem ocrats, or better said cf Mr. Bryan, for an enlarged metallic circulation, has passed to the category of settled questions. It is a dead letter in view of the statistics that have just been puolished. There is now circulated in the Un'ted States more gold, more silver and more paper money than in any epoch in the history of the Union. For the first time the per capita wealth has reached $26.12, and for the first time in the history of the coun try there is in circulation the sum of $2,000,000,000. During the last five years the sum of money in circulation on the 1st day of April has been as follows: April 1, 1S96.$1,528,629,463 April 1. 1897. 1,669.000,645 April 1, 1S9S. 1,756.058.645 April 1, 1S99. 1.927,846.942 April 1. 1900. 2.021,274,506 This demonstrates that during the four years during which the adminis tration has been in the hands of Mr. McKinley, the circulating medium of the United States has increased $492, 645.043. which is 23 per cent. The increase of the circulation of gold has also been enormous. On April 1, 1900, there were $7S5,S45,549 »n gold coin and gold certificates, while in 1896. at the beginning of the Mc Kinley administration, this same cir culation was only $489,151,505. making an increase cf 60 per cent in the four years. The language of figures is most elo quent, and there is no remedy except to bow to the fore* of their arguments. FOREIGN SHIP OWNERS NorUiis Hard to Kill American Shipping Kill in Congress. The foreign shipping interests, and their free trade mercenaries, who are fighting the shipping bill, have en deavored to unite the Democrats in congress in opposition to the bill and in advocacy of free ships. This scheme has been neatly nipped in the bud by a number of patriotic Demo crats who are members of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com mittee, and who have united upon a report on the shipping bill in which a few not unacceptable amendments to it are proposed, and in which report subsidies are declared to be the only practicable means with which to re vive our merchant marine. This Dem ocratic minority report contains the emphatic declaration that free ships are impracticable and unworthy of consideration, as being a policy that the Democrats themselves refused to adopt when they had a chance, and which they never would adopt. Be sides the report says it is well known that Republicans would never consent to such legislation, as it would be ruinous to American shipyards. Thus defeated and checkmated, the humilia tion and embarrassment of the foreign shipping lobby and its free trade friends must be acute. This Democrat ic minority report declares that the shipping question is a national and not a partisan one. Here, at least, these Democrats align themselves with progressive and patriotic Republicans to the discomfiture and defeat of the foreigners and their American free trade ailies. “Ferfltiy ami Dishonor.” The Hon. William L. Wilson, author of the tariff measure that extinguished the fires In the American mills, is pre dicting Democratic success this year. The country has a very fair idea of the vaiue of Mr. Wilson’s predictions. Michigan Is McaUfas. Notwithstanding the efforts of Mr. Pingree to the contrary the Michigan Republicans are harmonious and in line with the National administration. Michigan has no reason for reversing its verdict of 1896. X« Calamity Feriod. Never before in the history of the United States has there been such a demand for watches of all kinds. When a nation is in a watch-buying mood it has no time to devote’ to : calamity oratory. EXPANSION MAP UNITED STATES, TALMAGES ;&EBMON. LABOR AND CAPITAL LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. There t) a Christian Remedy for All Industrial Misunderstandings—Sugges tions us to How the Irrepressible Con flict May Be Settled Forever. [Copyright, 1900, by I.-ouis Ivlopseh.] Texts. Galatians v, 15, “But if ye bite and devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of an other,” and Philippians ii, 4, "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of oth ers.” About every six months there is a great labor agitation. There are vio lent questions now in discussion be tween employers and employes. The present "strikes” will go into the past. Of course, the damage done cannot immediately be repaired. Wages will not be so h’gh as they were. Spas modically they may be higher, but they will drop lower. Strikes, whether right or wrong, always injure labor ers as well as capitalists. You will see : this in the starvation of next winter. Boycotting and violence and murder never pay. They are different stages of anarchy. God never blessed mur der. The worst use you can put a man ! to is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow ! all the country seats on the banks of • the Hudcon and the Rhine and all the fine houses on Madison square and i Brooklyn Heights and Rittenhouse j square and Beacon street, and all the j bricks and timber and stones will just fall back on the bare hands of Aruer- I ican and European labor. Neglect of Christian Duty. The behavior of a multitude of la borers toward their employers dur ing the last three months may have I induced some employers to neglect the i real Christian duties that they owe to j those whom they employ. Therefore ! 1 want to say to you whom I confront face to face and those to whom these ; words may come that all shipowners. ' all capitalists, all commercial firms, j all master builders, all housewives, are j bound to be interested in the entire j welfare of their subordinates. Years j ago some one gave three prescriptions for becoming a millionaire: "First. , spend your life in getting and keeping the earnings of other people; secondly, j have no anxiety about the worriments, j the losses, the disappointments, of j others; thirdly, do not mind the fact ; that your vast wealth implies the pov- ! erty of a great many people.” Now, | there is not a man here would consent J to go into life with th'oSG three prin- j ciples to earn a fortune. It is your j desire to do your whole duty to the | men anti women in your service. First of all. then, pay as large j wages as are reasonable and as your ; business will afford—not necessarily j what others pay, certainly not what j ynv; hired help say you must pay, for ! that is tyranny on the part of labor 1 unbearable. The right ?! i laborer to tell his employer what he must pay implies the right of an employer to compel a man into a service whether ■ he will or not, and either of those ideas is despicable. When any employer al lows a laborer to say what he must do or have his business ruined and the employer submits to it. he does every business man in the United States a wrong and yields to the principle which, carried out. would dissolve so ciety. Look over your affairs and put yourselves in imagination in your la ; borer’s place, and then pay him what before God and your own conscience you think you ought to pay him. “God bless vous” are well in their place, but they do not buy coal nor pay house rent nor get shoes for the children. At the same time you, the employer, ought to remember through what straits and strains you got the j fortune by which you built your store or run the factory. You are to remem- , her that you take all the risks and the | employee takes none or scarcely any. ; You are to remember that there may j j be reverses in fortune and that some ■ new style of machinery may make your machinery valueless or some new j style of tariff set your business back | hopelessly and forever. You must j I take all that into consideration, and I then pay what is reasonable. i lining uown v*»k**» Do not be too ready to cut down ! wages. As far as possible, pay all, and pay promptly. There i<« a great deal of Bible teaching on this subject. Malax bi: “I will be a swift witness against all sorcerers and against all adulterers and against those who op pose the hireling in his wages.” La viticus: “Thou shalt not keep the wages of the hireling all night unto the morning.” Colossians: “Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.” So you see it is not a question between you and your employe so much as it is a question between you and God. Do not say to your employes, “Now, if you don’t like this place get anoth er,” when you know they cannot get another. As far as possible, once a year visit at their homes your clerks and your workmen. That is the only | way you can become acquainted with their wants. You will by such process find out that there is a blind parent ar a sick sister being supported. You I will find some of your young men in j rooms without any fire in winter, and | in summer sweltering in ill ventilated apartments. You will find out how much depends on the wages you pay or withhold. Moreover, it is your douty as em i ployer, as far as possible, to mold the welfare of the employe. You ought to advise him about investments, about life insurance, about savings banks. You ought to give him the benefit of your experience. There are hundreds and thousands of employers, I am glad to say, who are settling in the very best possible way the destiny of their employes. Such men as Marshall of Leeds, Lister of Bradford, Akroyd of Halifax, and men so near at home it might offend their modesty if I men tioned their names—these men have built reading rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymnasiums, choral societies for their employes, and they have not merely paid the wages on Saturday night, but through the contentment and the thrift and the good morals of their employes they are paying wages from generation to generation forever. I .~ Again, I counsel all employers to look well after the'physical health of their subordinates. ^ Do n<^ put on them any unnecessarVjatigfce. I never could understand"why the drivers on our city cars must stand all day when they might just as well sit down and drive. It seems to me most unright eous that so many of the female clerks in our stores should be compelled to stand all day and through those hours when there are but few or no custom ers. Thece people have aches and an noyances and weariness enough with out putting upon them additional fatigue. lTnTcss these female clerks must go up and down on the business of the store, let them sit down. The Duty of Kntployers. But, above all, I charge you, O em ployers, that you look after the moral an j spiritual welfare of your employes. First, know where they spend their evenings. That decides everything. You dc not want around your money drawer a young man who went last night to see “Jack Sheppard.” A man that comes into the store In the morn ing ghastly with midnight revelry is not the man for your store. The young man who spends his evening in the societj of refined women or in musical or artistic circles or in literary im provement is the young man for your store. One of my earliest remembrance is of old Arthur Tappan. There were many differences of opinion about his politics, but no one who ever knew Arthur Tappan, and knew him well, doubted his being an earnest Chris tian. In his store in New York he had a room where every morning he called his employes together, and he prayed with them, read the Scriptures to them, sang with them, and then they entered on the duties of the day. On Monday morning the exercises differed, and he gathered the young men together and asked them where they had attended church, what had been their Sabbath experiences and what had been the sermon. Samuel Budgett had the larg est business in the west of England. He had in a room of his warehouse a place pleasantly furnished with com fortable seats and Fletcher's "Family Devotions” and Wesleyan hymnbooks. and he gathered his employes together every morning and, having sung, they knelt down and prayed side by side— the employer and the employees. Do you wonder at that man's success and that, though 30 years before he had been a partner in a small retail shop in a small village, at his death he be queathed many millions God can trust such a man as that with plenty of money. Present Somrandlngi. Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was beyond computation, and at Saltaire, England, he had a church and a chapei built and supported by himself—the church for those who preferred the Episcopal service, and the chapel for those who preferred the Methodist ser vice. At the opening of one of his factories he gave a great dinner, and there were 3.500 people present, and in his after dinner speech he said to these people gathered: "I cannot look around me and see this vast assembl age of friends and work people with out being moved. I feel greatly hon ored by the presence of the nobleman at my side, and I am especially de lighted at the presence of my work people. I hope to draw around me a population that will enjoy the beauties of this neighborhood—a population of well paid, contented, happy opera tives. I have given instructions to my architects that nothing is to be spared to render the dwellings of the opera tives a pattern to the country, and if my life is spared by divine Providence I hope to see contentment, satisfac tion and happiness around me.” That is Christian character demon strated. There are others in this coun try and in other lands on a smaller scale doing their best for their em ployes. They have not forgotten their own early struggles. They remember how they were discouraged, how hun gry they were and how cold and how tried they were, and though they may be 60 or 70 years of age, they know just how a boy feels between 10 and 20 and how a young man feels be tween 20 and 30. They have not for gotten it. Those wealthy employers were not originally let down out of heaven with pulleys of silk in a wicker basket satin lined, fanned by cherubic wings. They started in roughest cradle, on whose rocker misfortune put her violent foot and tipped them into the cold world. Those old men are sympathetic with boys. A Kiliglous Life. Employers, urge upon your em ployes, above all, a religious life. So far from that, how is it, young men? Instead of being cheered on the road to heaven some of you are caricatured, and it is a hard thing for you to keep your Christian integrity in that store or factory where there are so many hostile to religion. Ziethen, a grave general under Frederick the Great, was a Christian. Frederick the Great was a skeptic. One day Ziethen, the venerable, white haired general, asked to be excused from military duty that he might attend the holy sacrament He was excused. A few days after Ziethen was dining with the king and with many notables of Prussia when Frederick the Great in a jocose w-ay said, “Well, Ziethen, how did the sac rament of last Friday digest?” The venerable old warrior arose and said: “For ycur majesty I have risked my , life many a time on the battlefield, j and for your majesty I would be will- ! ing at any time to die; but you do : wrong when you insult the Christian religiou. You will forgive me if I, • your old military servant, cannot bear in silence any insult to my Lord and my Savior.” Frederick the Grpat leaped to his feet, and he put out his hand, and he said: “Happy Ziethen! Forgive me, forgive me!” Oh, there are many being scoffed at for their religion, and I thank God there are many men as brave as Ziethen! Go to heaven yourself, O em ployer! Take all your people with you. Soon you will be through buying and selling and through with manufactur ing and building, and God will ask you: “Where are all those people over whom you had so great Influence? Are they here? Will they be here?” O shipowners, into what harbor will your crew sail? 0 you merchant grocer, are those young men that under your care are providing food for the bodies and families of men to go starved for ever? O you manufacturers, with so many wheels flying and so many bands pulling and so many new patterns turned out and so many goods shipped, are the spinners, are the carmen, are the draymen, are the salesmen, are tha watchers of your establishments work ing out everything but their own sal vation? Can it be that, having those people under your care 5, 10, 20 years, you have made no everlasting impres sion for good on their immortal souls? God turn us all back from such selfish ness and teach us to live for others and not for ourselves! Christ sets us the example of sacrifice, and so do many of his disciples. A True Physician. One summer in California a gentle man who had just removed from the Sandwich Islands told me this inci dent: You know that one of the Sand wich Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo ple getting sick of the leprosy on the other islands are sent to the isle of , lepers. They never come off. They are in different stages of disease, but all w ho die on that island die of leprosy. On one of the islands there was a physician who always wore his hand gloved, and it was often discussed why he always had a glove on that hand under all circumstances. One day he came to the authorities, and he with drew his glove, and he said to the ; officers of the law: "You see on that hand a spot of the leprosy and that 1 am doomed to die. I might hide this for a little while and keep away from the isle of lepers; but I am a physi cian, and I can go on that island and administer to the sufferings of those who are farther gone in the disease, and I should like to go now. It would 1 be selfish in me to stay amid the lux urious surroundings when 1 might be of so much help to the wretched. Send me to the isle of the lepers?" They 1 seeing the spot of leprosy, of course took the man into custody. He bade ! farewell to his family and his friends. It was an agonizing farewell. He could never see them again. He was taken to the isle of the lepers and there wrought among the sick until prostrated by his own death, which at last came. Oh, that was magnificent j self denial, magnificent sacrifice, only i surpassed by that of him who exiled himself from the health of heaven to this leprous island of a world that he ! might physician our wounds and weep our griefs and die cur deaths, turning the isle of a leprous world into a great, blooming, glorious garden! Whether employer or employe, let us catch that spirit CARVED A TOMB ————— For Hliusrlf In Marble hii<I Mas Huried iu It. Angel’s Camp (Cal.) special San | Francisco Call: A unique burial took | place at Altaville cemetery yesterday. 1 Allen Taylor, a pioneer, died at his home on Thursday, and his family at once consulted John Carley, an under taker with whom the aged marble worker had made arrangements four years ago in regard to his burial. A grave which the old man had prepared was opened and in it was found a mar ble box just large enough to receive a body without a casket of any kind. Taylor had some bitter disappoint ments in his family a few years ago, and since then life has had little in terest for him. He conceived the idea of constructing his own grave, cut the marble and placed the box in a secure position. He then called the under taker. and after showing him the grave was told that it was too small for the reception of a casket, at which he laughed, stating that he wished to be ; buried that way, so in respect to his wishes the body was draped in a shroud, placed on a covered bier and borne to its last resting place by his pioneer friends, where it was lowered into the white marble receptacle made by the hands which are now at rest j within. The Sure-Footed Yak. From "Innermost Asia,” Ralph P. ; Cobbold: I was enveloped in a mass of warm clothing in order to exclude the bitter cold; besides my body cloth ing. I wore two large sheepskin coats and three pairs of sheepskin gloves, with the result that 1 was quite help less and incapable of mounting, even with assistance. I was accordingly lifted on to the yak, and just succeed- i ed in clinging to the front of the sad dle. while a Kirghiz led the adimal by a rope. ******** The going was frightful; the road was a mixture of large bowlders and deep holes, but the yak was a wonder ful equilibrist, and puffed and blew hard as. with his nose to the ground, he toiled steadily upward over a fro zen watercourse without ever making a mistake. The men slipped about in all directions, but the yak’s cloven feet gave him so firm a foothold that he never even stumbled. I clung on for dear life, digging my heels into the beast’s hairy sides as he careered in the dark over rocks and ice, plentifully cut up by crevasses, and wondering whether, when he fell, I should have the luck to lie on the top. I’ilgrlmx Wheel to Rome. There is nothing mediaeval about the pilgrimage to Rome in this year of jubilee. Within the Eternal City elec tric cars and horse cars to St. Peter’s keep down the greed of cab drivers anxious to overcharge, and now the Tablet announces that the pilgrims from Padua will pedal their way to Rome on bicycles along the old Via Aemilia. Punctured tires will test the pilgrim's patience in place of the peas in his sandal shoon. Exciting Fight with Snakes. Frank Purnell of Bebee Run. Cum berland county, had a fight Saturday with two black snakes, which came near getting the better of him. He saw them basking in the sun. and thought he would kill them. He claims each would measure five feet, and while tackling one the other rushed at him. In his fight he was well nigh exhaust ed. when the reptiles gave up and took to the woods.—Newark (N. J.) News. Making "Relic**’ at Gettysburg. A factory for the manufacture of battlefield "relics” has been discov ered hidden away in a clump of trees at Gettysburg. Old bullets, cannon balls, soldier buttons, swords and buckles are turned out in large quan tities. ■ - - - - — 1 - ■■■■ — THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON X. JUNE 3—MATTHEW 9: 35 TO lO: S. Golden Text—“It I* Not Ye That Speak bat the Spirit of Your Father Which topeaketh in You”—Matt. lO: 20— Twelve Sent Forth. 35. "Jesus went about all the cities and villages.” This was his third evange'iz ing tour. He did not remain in one place till all were converted and made perfect, but having gathered the harvest that was ripened in one place, he left those fields to ripen further while he gathered the harvest that was already ripe in other places, tli “Teaching in their syna gogues,” where he could best reach the people on the Sabbah. He taught divine truths, and unfolded the Scriptures to them with new and deeper meanings. Teaching, religious education, is one es sential element in the progress of the kingdom both as to numbers and quality. <2) “Preaching the gospel of the king dom." Heralding, proclaiming far and wide the good news of the kingdom, that it was at hand, how to enter it, what it would do for all who came into it. (3) “Healing every sickness,” positive dis ease, severe, dangerous, even violent. The Greek word, nosos, is akin to the Latin, noceo. to hurt. “Every disease.” Greek, malakia, weakness, debility; from nfblakos, soft, weak; hence it refers rath er to chronic cases. 36. “When he say the multitudes.” Many more than any one i*erson could reach or help. “He was moved with compassion.” Thus the Father “so loved the world.” Infinite love and compas sion is the keynote of the gospel, the mo tive for missionary work and all deeds of helpfulness. “Because they fainted.” R. V’., “were distressed.” The word or iginally meant fiayed, rent, mangled, ap plied to sheep fleeced and torn by wild beasts. So these people were mangled by ^ disease and by sin as by wild beasts. “Were scattered abroad.” Not dispersed, but thrown down, prostrated by disease, by weariness, by sin, by hunger of soul, as soldiers are prostrated on the ground by their enemies. “As sheep having no shepherd.” Those who should have been their shepherds, who professed to be such, were no true shepherds, but hire lings, who ate the sheep they should feed. 3i. “Then saith he unto his disciples.” To all who accepted him as well as to the twelve. "The harvest truly is plen teous.” Not merely "those who will ac tually be saved, but men in general, who, unless gathered and saved, will perish like wheat that is not reaped.”—Broadus. The fields were “white already to har vest” (John 4:35). Never was this so true as it is of the world to-day. “But the laborers.” Those who were willing and were qualified to gather in this har vest. “Are few.” compared with the greatness of the work. 3S. "Pray ye therefore.” You who are in training for the work, you who are to be laborers in the harvest, and realize the greatness of the need and the diffi culty of the work. It Is Instructive to note that the laborers themselves, and those who ought to be laborers, were the ones instructed to pray for more laborers. “That lie will send forth.” “The word is stronger: thrust out. force them out, as from urgent necessity.”—Vincent. "La borers into his harvest.” Note, God gath ers his harvest bv human instrumentality. 1. “Called unto him his twelve dis ciples.” Whom he had chosen some time before, just previous to the Sermon on the Mount. The number was according to the twelve tribes of Israel. In V. 2 they are called “the twelve apostles.” Apostle means “one sent forth” on a mis sion. “a messenger.” “Our word mis sionary, derived from the Latin, like- . - wise signifies ‘one sent.’ ’’—Broadus. Dis- T cipies are learners, scholars, those who go to school, as here to Christ, the great Teacher. It was needful that these twelve should be both ai*ostles and disciples. 2. “Simon . . . called Peter (the rock), and Andrew,” were brothers, and among the five disciples of Jesys (John 1: 35-45). “James . . . and John were also brothers, and named by Jesus, Boan erges, sons of thunder, probably describ ing "their fiery, vehement temperament.” —Gould, in Int. Crit. Com. Yet John so controlled this temperament that he was “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” and had the deepest insight into Jesus’ heart. These first four called were fishermen. 3. “Bartholomew” is undoubtedly the Nathaniel of John 1: 45. “James” is the modernized form of Jacob. "Lebbaeus” is the same as “Thaddeus,” and as Judas (Jude) the son of James vR. V.), in Luke 6: 16. 4. “Simon the Canaanlte” means not “of Canaan,” nor “of Cana,” but "the Zealot,” “a party of fanatic nationalists among the Jews, leaders of the national revolt .against the foreign yoke."—Gould. "Judas Iscariot,” i. e., man of Kerioth, a town of Judah. Hence he was the only one of the disciples who was not a Galilean. 5. "Go not into the way of the Gen tiles.” Do not take any road that leads to the surrounding nations, as for in stance the cities of Tyre and Sidon. “City of the Samaritans.” Though nearer than the Gentiles. The time had not come for this more distant work, but it would come later. 6. “Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." These belonged to the Hock of God. but had wandered far away and were lost. They were best acquaint ed with these people. Our own town ami city is the best base of operations. Be gin at home and then reach out into "the wide, wide world.” 7. They were to "preach, saying. The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The gospel Jesus himself preached in the beginning. The King had come. Ho brought pardon and peace and salvation from sin, and all that characterized the kingdom. Everything good was waiting for them at their very doors. 8. “Heal the sick.” (See on Lesson IX., First Quarter.) Only by visible help for the body that costs us something is it possible to prove that our efforts for , men’s souls are sincere. Sickness and demon possession were fruits of sin, ob ject lessons of sin. Jesus came to undo the work of the devil. By healing* sick bodies through his disciples, he proved his power and willingness to heal sick souls, cleanse leprous hearts, raise the dead in sin, cast out all the devils of iniquity. "Freely ye have received.” Jesus had charged nothing for what he had done. He came from heaven freely, he gave his life freely, he brought sal vation to the disciples freely. "Freely give,” of that which cost you nothing. Be like your Master, tilled with his spirit of love. The very power of doing these kind deeds was a free gift: therefore they were to give freely, to take nothing fer their work. Lawyer's Judiciousness. A—Have you told the young lady that her rich uncle has left her his whole fortune? B (young attorney)— No; for the present I’ve only made a marriage proposal to her!—Heitere Welt. Correctly Answered. Tutor—You know, of course, that In Christian countries such as ours a man is only allowed one wife. Now what is that state of things called? Pupil—I know. Monotony.—Punch. WHAT ONE WOMAN THINKS. The gate of success to more than i me actor hinges on a well posted Jl fence. Wouldn't you like to know what the t»aby is thinking of when he looks so eery wise? • „ The man who goes with the crowd must not be surprised if he gets push ed to the wall. The girl who has a young man com ing to see her regularly soon has a lean m bis heart. <