MiNEKS make issue.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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