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\ms= B 'MONOPOLY AND COMMUNISM SB STRUGGLING FOR THE POSSI SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY." I Text: "The Lord delighteth in thee anil thy land shall be married."?Isaiah, lxii, 4. ' As the greater includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own republic. Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine imagery of the text So many are depressed by tne labor agitation and think everything in this country is going to pieces, I preach this morning a sermon of good cheer and anticipate tne time when the Prince of Fea e and the Heir of Universal Dominion shall take pos ssession of this nation and "thy land hall oe married." In disc-u&sing the final destiny of this na- | tion it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on olatforms and in places of public concourse, I hear so manvof J she muffled drums of evil prophesy sounded, as though we were on the way to national interment, and beside Thebes, "and Babylon j and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations j our republic: was to be entombed, that I wish | you to uiiuersiauu it is uoiuo uo ouse uuu nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; j not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re-! qniem. but wedding march, for "thy land | nail be married." I propose to name some | f the suitors who are claiming the hand of | this republic. This land is so fair, so bdauti- . Cul, so affluent, that it has many suitors, and , it will depend much upon your advice whether this or that shall be accepted or re- ' jected. In the first place I remark: There is a greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in j as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, [ and that monster is known by the name of j monopoly. His sceptre is made "out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery of the people. Things have gone on from "bad to worse, until in the three Legislatures of New York, New Jersey . and Pennsylvania, for the most part, monopoly decides everything. If monopoly , favors a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a j law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put? ting into his pockets in one year two hundred | millions of dollars in excess of all reasonable j charges for service. Monopoly holds in this ! One baud the steam power of locomotion, and I in the other the electricity of swift commu- I nication. Moncp ly decides nominations I atd election-?city elections, State elections, j national elections. With bribes he secures ; the votes of legislators; giving them free | passes, giving appointments to needy re!a- j lives to lucrative ]X>sitions. employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying , their goods fifteen per cent, less if they are : merchants, and if he finds a case very stub- i born, as well as very important, puts ' down before him the hard cash of bribery, j But monopoly is not so easily caught now I as wnen,aunng tne term or Mr. tsucnanan, i the Legislative Committee in one of our { States explored and exposed the manner in which a (trtain railway company procured & donation of public land It was found out that thirteen of the Senators from that State received $175,000 among them. Sixty members of the lower house of that State received^,000 and #10,()00 each. The Governor of the State received $50,000, his clerk received $5,000, the Lieutenant-Governor received $10,000, all the clerks of the Legislature received $5,0?)0 each, $50,000 were divided amid the lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all the time going on in some of the States of the Union, but it is not ?o blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you that the overshadowing curse of the United States to-day is Mcnopoly. Ho puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon very sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, And every man, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in twentv-four States of the Union already anti-monopoly leagues have been established. God speed them in the work of liberation. 1 wish that this ouestion might bo the ouestion of our prosid ntial elections, and that we compel i the political parties to recognize it on their i platforms. I have nothing to say against capitalists. ! A man has a rieht to all the money he can make honestly. There is not a laborer in the i land that would not be worth a million dol- . tars if he eould. I have nothing to say against ; corporations as such; without them,"no great I enterprise would be possible. But what I do i ay is that the same principles should be ap- j plied to capitalists and to corporations that j i are applied to the poorest man and the plainest laborer. What is wrong: for me is wrong I for great corporations. If I take from you j your property without any adequate compensation I am a thief, and if a railway ! damages the property of the people without j making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic thief. What Ls wrong on asmall j scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in i Englaud has ground hundreds of thousands of her best people into semi-starvation, and In Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madners. Five hundred acres in this country make an immense farm. When you read that in Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of 15,000 a res and Mr. Grandon 25,000 acres and Mr. Darymple 40,00.) acres, your eye; dilate, even though these farms are in great regions thinly inhabited. But what do you think of this which I take from the Doomsday 3ook, showing what monopoly is on the other side the sea. I give it a? a warning of what it would do on this side the sea if in aotne lawful way the tendency is not resisted. In Scotland J. G. M. Heddle owns 60,400 acres; Earl of Wemyss, 52,000 acres; Sir J. Riddell, 54,500 acres: Sir C. W. A. Ross, 55,000 acres; E. H. Scott, 69,700 acres; Mr. J. Baird, 60,000 acres; Sir J. Ramsden, 60.000 acres; Earl of Dunmore, 60.000 acres: Duke of Roxburghe, 0.000 acres: Earl of Morav. 61 700 acres' Countess of Home, 62.000 acres; Lord Middleton, 63,000 acres: Earl of Aberdeen, 63,50) acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, (>3,000 ere.?; Mr. J. J. H. Johnston, 63,000 acres; Earl of Airlie (55,000 acres; Sir J. Colquhoun, 7,000 acres: C. Morrison, 67,000acres: Duko of Montrose, (58,000 acres; Meyrick Bankes, 70,0J0 acres; Grant of Glenmorriston, 74,600 acrrs; Marquis of Ailsa, 76.000 acres; Baroness WiUougby d'Eresby, 76.000 ar,res; Mr. J. Malcolm, HO.000 acres; Marquis of Huntly, 80,000 a res; Balfour of Whittinghame. 81, 000 acres; Sir J. O. Orde, 81,000 a'res; Marquis of Bute, 93,0!X) acres The Chisholm, 94,500 acres: Mr. E. Ellice, 99,500 acres; Sir G. M. Grant, 103,000 acres; Duke of Portland. 106.00) acres; Cameron of Lochiel, 109.501 acres: Sir C. TV. Ross, 110,4<>0 acres; Earl of Fife, 113,000: The Ma' kintosh, 124,000 acres; Lord Macdonald, 130.0X) acres: Earl of Dalhousie, 136.000 acres; Macleod, of Macleod, 141,700 acres: Sir K. Mackenzie, of Gairlock, 164,1 680 acres; Duke of Argyle, 175,000 acres. Duke of Hamilton, IS3,0:)0 acres; Duke ol Athole, 194,000 acres; Duke of Richmond, 255,000 acres; Karl of Stair, 270,0X) acres Mr. Evan Baillie, 30 .000 acres; Earl of Sea field, 300,000 acres; Duke of Buccleugh, 432,183 acrcs: Earl of Brea lalhane, 437,696acres Mr. A. Matheson, 220,433 acres, and Sir J. Mat he son, 406,070 acres; Duchess of Suther lonH 11(1 S7Q ttrrfli nnrl OnUtt nf SiithftrlftnH 1,1(6,853 acres. iSuch monopolies imply an infinite acreage of wret hedness. There is no poverty in tht I United States like tbat in Englaud, Ireland and Scotland for the simple reason that ir I those lands monopoly has had longer and la'ger sway. Last summer in Edinburgh Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hall, ] stood on a cha:r in front of tha hall anc preached to an audience of 20,000 people Standing in one of the most prosperous parts of the city, and reaching out toward the cas tie. as fine an array of strength and health j and beauty as one ever sees. Three hour after I preached to the wretched inhabitant) of the Cowgate and Cannongate.the audien"? exhibiting the squalor and sickliness andde pair tbat remains in one's mind like one o! the visions of Dante's Inferno. Great monopolies in any land imply great privation. The time will come when our government will have to limit the amount of accumulation of property. Unconstitutional do you say? Then constitutions will have to be changed until they allow such limitation. Otherwise the work of absorption will go on and the large fishes will eat up the small fishes, and the shad will swallow the minnows and the porpoises swallow the shad and the whales swallow the porpoises, and a thousand greedy men will own all the world and 500 of these will eat up the other 500 an one hundred eat up the other 400, and finall there will be only 50 left, and then 40 an then SO and then 20 and then 10 and then tw^ ? and then one. But would a law of limitation of wealth be unrighteous? If I dig so near my neighbor's foundation, in order to baild my house, that ) I endanper his, tbe law grabs me. If I have a tannery or chemical factory the malodors of which injure residents in the neipbbor, hood, the law says: "Stop that." If I drain I off a river from its bed and divert it to turn my mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a r/iolorio tha lntr cava* 1-1 piatu i itiuiM* ??, -w- ? j ~. "Quit that outrage!" And has not a i government a right to say that a few men shall not gorge themselves oa tbo comfort and health and life of g nerations ? Your rights end where my rights begin. Monopoly?brazen-faced, iron-fi ngered. and vulture-hearted, monopoly?offors his hand to this Republic. He stretches it out over J the lakes and up the Pennsylvania aud the j Erie and the New York Central Railroads, | and over the telegraph poles of the continent and says: "Here is my heart and hand: bo mine forever." Let the millions of the people, North, South, East and West forbid I the banns of that marriage, forbid them at j the ballot box, forbid them on the platform, forbid them by great organizations, forbid them by the overwhelming sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God, forbid them by prayers to high heaven. That Herod shall not have | this Abigail. It shall not be to all dovouring monopoly that this land is to be married. Another suitor claiming the hand of this | Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but | a knife for universal blood-letting and a ! nitro-glvcerine bomb for universal explo- i gion. He believes in no God,no government, no heaven, and no hell except what he can make on earth! He slew the Czar of Russia, ! keeps Emperor William, of Germany, practically imprisoned, killel Abraham Lincoln, would put to death every King and President J on earth, and if he had the power would climb up until he conld drive the God ot heaven from his throne and take it himseif, the universal butcher. In Fiance it is called Communism; in thj ! United States it is called Socialism: in j Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is | the most graphic and descriptive term. It ; meaDS comp.'ete and eternal smash up. It ! would make the holding of property a crime j and it would have a dagger through your | heart and a torch to j-our dwelling and turn I over this whole land into the possession of ! theft and lust and rapine and murder. Where does this monster live? In St. Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in Nww York, and in all the cities and villages of this land. The devil of destruction is an old devil, and he is to be seen at every great fire where there is anything to steal, and at every shipwreck where there is auything valuable floating ashore, and at every railroad accident where ffcoro opo nroiwint.e nnrl wat-hns to ha nur loined. On a small scale I saw it in my col- ! lege days, wheD, in our literaiy soci- j ety in New York University, we hatf *n exquisite and costly bust of i Bbakespeare, and one morning we found a hole bored into the lips of the marble and a cigar inserted There" has not for the last century been a fine picture in your art gallery or a graceful statue iu your parks or a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound album in your library but would have been i despoiled if the hand of ruffian'sm could have j got at it without peril of incarceration. Sometimes the evil spirit shows itself by throwing | vitriol into a beautiful face, sometimes by | wilfully scaring a horse with a velocipede, ; sometimes by crashing its cartwheel against a carriage. The philosophy of the whole business is that there is a large number of people who, j either through their laziness or their crime, j own nothing:, and are mad at thi?e who , through industry aud wit of their own or of their ancestors are in possessions of large resources. The honest laboring classes never j had anything to do with such murderous en- j terprises. It is the villainous classes who l would not work if they had plentv of | work offered them at largo wages. Many of these suppose that by the demoli- I tion of law and order they would be advantaged and the parting of the ship of ; stato would allow them as wreckers to carry j off some of the cargo. It offers its hand to i this fair republic. It proposes to tear to j pie?es the ballot box. the Legislative hall,the j Congressional assembly. It would take this j land and divide it ud. or rather, divide it I down. It would give as much to the idler as I to the worker, to the bad as to the pood. Nihilism?this panther?having prowled a?ro?s I other lands has set its paws on our soil, and I it is only waiting for the time in whi-h to ! spring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago and St. Louis a few days ago and that burned the railroad property at Pittsburg I during the great riots; it was Nihilism that I slew black people in our Northern cities dur- i ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and | again in San Francisco and New York | mauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism ! that glares out of the windows of the drunk- | eries upon sober people as they go by. Ah! its power has never yet been used. It would, if it had the power, have every church, chapel, cathedral, school house, college and home in ashes. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the I laboring classes in any country. The honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferations for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds who range through our cities talking about their rights when thoir first right is the penitentiary?if they cc uld be hushed up, and the downtrodden "laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry children. In this land riot and bloodshed never gained any wages for the people, or gathered up any prosperity. In this land the best weapon is not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms, but the ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring men be beguiled into coming under the bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make your taxes heavior, your wages smaller, your table scantier, your children hungrier,your suffering greater. Yet this Nihil- J ism, with feet red with slaughter, comes forth j and offers its hand for this republic. Shall | the banns be proclaimed? If so, where shall l the marriage altar be? And who will be the I officiating priest? And what will be the ! music? That altar will have to be whi. with bleached skulls, the music must be the smothered groans of multitudinous victims, the garlands must be twisted of nightshade, the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of St. Bartholomew's massacre. No! it is not to Nihilism, the sanguinital monster, that this land is to be married. Another suitor for the hand of this nation is infidelity. Mark you that all anarchists are infidels. Not one of them believes in the Bible,and very rarely any of them believe in a God. Their most conspicuous leader was the other day pulled by the leg from under a bed in a house of infamy. cursing and blaspheming. The police of Chicago, exploring riono nt tVm .iTiqrMiist-.e fmind rlvnamite and vitriol and Tom Paine's Age of" ReasoD and obscene pictures and complimentary biographies of thugs and assassins, but not one testament, not one of 'Wesley's hymn books, not one Roman Catholic breviary. There are two wings to Infidelity. The one calls its?lf liberalism and appears in highly ' literary magazines and is for the educated and j refined. The other wing is in the form of anarchy and is for the vulgar. But both wings tielona: to tin same old filthy vulture. Infidelity! Elegant infidelity proposes to conquer this land to itself by the pen. An- | archy propDse3 to conquer it by bludgeon and torch. "When the midnight ruffians a ?spoiled the ! grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's church- ' yard everybody was shocked But infidelity ' proposes something worse than that?the rob- j | ^ing of all the graves of Christendom of the hone of a resurrection. It proposes to chlsa J out from the tombstones o; your Christian dead the words "Asleep in Jesus" and to sub ! | stitute the words "Obliteration, annihila ! tion." Infidelity proposes to take the lettei j from the world's Father inviting tho nations . to virtue and happiness, and tear it up iutc fragments so small that you cannol read a word of it. It propo*e? 1 to take the consolation from the broken j hearted and the soothing pillow from I the dying. Infidelity proposes to sweat | in the President of the United States j and the Supreme Court and the Governors of j States and the witnesses in tho court room with their right band on Pains's "Ageof Reason" or Voltaire's "Philosophy of History." ] It proposes to take away from this country I the book that makes the difference between the United States and the Kingdom of Dahomey, between American civilization and Bornesian cannibalism. If Infidelity could j destroy the Scriptures it would in 200 years I turn the civilized nations back to semi-barbarism and then from semi-barbarism into ? -'J-I-l-i- ?WArnle nf Q 1 miuDignb savagery, uni-u ma muiuU menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees would be better than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. The only impulse in the right direction that this worlcl has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. That book has been the mother of all reforms and all ? charities?mother of English Majna Charta and American Declaration of Indendence. Benjamin Franklin hold that holy book in his hand, stood before an infidel club at Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of Habakkuk, and the infide's, not knowing what book it was, declared it was the best poetry they bad ever beard. That book brought George Washington down on his knees in the snow at Valley Forsre, and led the dying Prince of Wales to ask some one to sine "Rock of Aces." ' I teii you that the worst attempted crime i of the century is the attempt to destroy this book: yet infidelity, loathesome, stenchful, ! leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster,stretches I out its hand, ichorous with the second death. I to take the hand of this republic. It stretches it out through seductive magazines and through lyceum lectures and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of the continent already fully settled and the two-thirds not yet occupied. It says: "Give me all east of the Mississipni, with the keys of the church and the Christian printing presses?then give me Wyoming, give m? Alaska, give me Montana/give me Colorado, give me all the States and Territories west of the Mississippi, and I will take those places and keep them by right of po^ession Ions before the Gospel can be fully entrenched." And this suitor pi e seshis case appallingly. Shall the banns of that marriage be proclaimed! "No!"'say the home missionaries of the West,a martyr band of whom the world is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and malaria and starvation, ''no! not if we can helo it. By what wo and our children have suffered, we forbid the banns of that marriage!" "No!"savall patriotic voices, "our (netifiifinne woro hontrht. at. too dp?r a nrice and were defended at too great a sacrifice to be so cheaply surrendered." "No." says the God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall and Gettysburg, "I did not start th's nation for such a farce." "No," cry ten thousand voices, "to infidelity this land shall not be married." But there is anothersuitor that presents his claim for the hand of this republic. He is mentioned in the verse following my text, where it says: "As the bridegroom rep;ceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." It is not my figure, it i< the figure of the Bible. Christ is so desirous to have this world love him that he stops at no humiliation of simile. He compares His ern-e to spittle on the eyes of the blind. He compares Himself to a hen gathering the chickens, and in my text He compares Himself to a suitor begerlni a hand in marriage. Does this Christ, the King, deserve this land? Behold Pilate's Hall and the insultinc expectoration on the face of Christ. Behold the Calvarean massacre and the awful hemorrhage of five wounds. Jacob served fourteen years for Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the king, suffered in torture thirtv-three years to win the love of this world. Often princesses at their very birth are pledged in treaty of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so this nation at its bii th was pledged to Christ for divine marriage. Before C Rumbus and his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful vovage, what: was the last thing they did? They sat down and took the lioiy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they caught the first glimpse of this country and the gun of one ship had announce! it to the other vessels that laud had been discovered, what was the song that went up from all the three decks? "Gloria in excelsis." After Columbus and his 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, what did they do 1 They all knelt and consecrated the new world to God. What did the Huguenots do aftnr they landed in the Carolinas? What dii the Holland refugees do after they had landei in New York ? What did the. Pilgrim Fathers do after they landed in New England ? With bended knee and uplifted face and beavenbesieging prayer they took possession of this continent for God. How was the first American Congress opened ? By prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then see how good God has been to us' Just open the map of the continent and see how it is shaped tor immeasurable prosperities; navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, rolling on all sides into the sea, prophesying large manufactures aud easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains timbered with wealth on the t">p and sides, metalled with wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal, 160,000 square miles of iron. The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more thau three davs?extreme heat or cold. Climate for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals, all harvests. Scenery displaying an autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Germanic divisions. The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor, more sympathy; for the industrious, more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to our father and how good He has been to us and our cnildren. To Him?blessed be His mighty name!?to-Him oficross and triumph, to Him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the Pilgrim Fathers?to Him shall this land be married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by i your contributions aud your prayers hasten on the fulfilment of the text. We have during the past six or seven years turned a new leaf in our national history by the sudden addition of foreigners. At Kansas City I was told by a gentleman who had opportunity for large investigation, I that a great multitude had gone through there, averaging in worldly estate $S00. 1 was told in the city of Washington by an officer of the Governmenl who had opportunity for authentu investigation that thou ands and thousands J had gone, averaging $1,000 iu possession ol each. I was told by the Commission of Emigration that twenty families that had arrived at Castle Garden brought $85,000 with them. Mark you, iamiues, not tramps. nuuinuur ; to the national wealth, not subtraction; therefrom, I saw some of them reading theii Bibles and their hymn books, thanking God for his kindness in helping thoir cross the sea. Some of them had Christ in the. steerage all' across th< waves and they will have Christ in thi rail trains which every afternoon start for the great West. They are being taken by th? Commission of Emigration in New York taken from the vessels, protected from th< Shylocks and the sharpers, and in the nami of God and humanity passed on to their des tination; and there they will turn your Ter ritories into States and your wilderness int< . gardens, if you will build for them churchei and establish for them schools and send t< them Christian m;s nonaries. Are you afraid this continent ii going t< be overcrowded with this population? Oh. that shows you have not been to California that shows you have not been to Oregon, that shows tnat you have not l>een to Texas. A fishing smack to-day, on Lake Ontario might as well be afraid of being crowded by other shipping before night as for auy one of the next ton generations of Americans to bo afraid of being overcrowded bv foreign populations iu this country. The one State of Texas is far larger than all th9 Austrian empire, yet the Austrian empire supports 35,000,0J0 people. The oae State of Texas is larger than oil Pfamo onfl Ppnncfl sunnnrh* oU.OOO.OOJ p?oplo. The one State of Texas far surpasses in size the Germanic empire, yet the Germanic empire supports 41,000,0.M) people. I tell you the great wautof the Territories and of the We .torn States is more population. While some may stand at the gates of the city, saying: "Stand back!" to foreign popalations, I press out as far beyond those ?ates as I can press out beyond them and beokoa to foreign nations, saying: "Come, come!" "But," say you, "'I am so afraid that they will bring their prejudice* for foreign governments and plautthem here." Absurd! They are sick of the governments thai have oppressed them and they waut free America! Give them the great gospel of wel:*om?. Throw around them all Christian hospitalities. They will add their industry and hard earned wages to thi< country, and thoa we will dedicate all to Chr.'st, "and thy laud shall be married." But where shall the marriage altar ,be? Let it be the Rocky Mountains, whan, through artificial and mighty irrigation,all their top shail be covered, as they will be, with vine j vards and orchards and errain fields. Then let the Bostons aud the New Yorks and the I Charlestons of the Pacific coa;t come to the marriage altar on one side, aud then let the J Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Atlantic coast come I to the marriage altar oa the ! other side, and there between them let this | bride of nations kueel; and then if the organ of the loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or moved the foundations of the Albghauieson : the other side, should open full diapason of I wBildiner march, that organ of thunders could not drown the voice of Him who should take the hand of this bride of nations, saying: "As a bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee." At that marriage banquet shall be the platters of Nevada silver and the chalice3 of California gold and the fruits of Northern orchards and spices of Southern groves and the tapestry of American manufacture and the congratulations from all the free nations of earth and from ail the triumphant armies of heaven. "And so thy land shall be married/' PATENTS. ENTERTAINING TALK WITH A PATENT OFFICE EMPLOYE. Mow Money is Made and Lost l)y Patents?Some Patent Lawyers?Railroads and Inventions?Queer Patents. A gentleman standing very high in the Patent Office at "Washington said in the course of a conversation with the Cleveland Leader correspondent: "The extent of i;he work of the Patent Office is wonderful, and it increases every year. There were 8,000 more patents granted last year than there were ten years ago, and the applications filed for patents last year numbered 35,000. The Patent Office is the only office of the government, I think, that more than pays its expenses. It has a surplus of over $2,000,000 in the Treasury Department, and It made clear $140,000 above all of its expenses last year." I "Do inventors cenerallv make money out of patents?" "No, as a rule the money is made by people who buy or swindle the inventors out of their rights. Inventors are nearly always poor men. They work their brains for their bread and butter. They are a visionary set of fellows, and have not the money making sense. They get in with business men in order to develop their patents, and these euchre them out of the profits. The man who invented the elevated railroad in New York died | a poor man, and while he was alive the j people laughed at his idea. It is so with i hundreds of other patents, and if you : will look over the history of the Patent J Office you will find it is the business men who make the money, while the inven-1 tors do the work. Some patentj lawyers make a great deal of j money, and there are a number i in Washington who have grown j wealthy in the practice. There is a man I here named Pollock who has made a , fortune in the patent law. He had seme- I thing to do with the Goodyear rubber patent, and he has been prospering ever since. He owns a fine mansion on the corner of Seventeenth and I streets, J and tried the experiment one time of j making a stable for his horses in the ' basement. All the modern improve- ' ments, however, in the shape of water | would not do away with the smell, and he finally gave it up as a bad job. Many patent lawyers, when they see that a man has a good thing, contract with him j to get out his patent for a certain amount of money and some shares in the stock of the patent. They get paid for their work with the money and have a fair chance of making a fortune out of the : profits of the patent if it turns out well. There are hundreds of patent lawyers ! in Washington. Many of them are smart j fellows and all of them are making money." "I see they talk about having cable ; street railroads here. Is there much ad- ! vancement in this line of patents?" "Yes, indeed; there is a great deal, j rnU? ?AV1A in n A/\mnorofit'oln rnr^nnf I JL J1C L'auiv luau io <t U'yHiUMiuuivij IWV41V invention, and there are hundreds of patents filed for grips and other things connected with it. You would be surprised to know how many patents are applied for for railroad inventions. New ideas for rails, switches, and ties are being put forward every day. The railroad tie of the future is yet to be patented. It requires very good hard wood to make a tie. and this class o:f wood is being fast I cut out of the country. Railroad building has reached such a point that there is not enough wood to supply the ties, and a new invention has got to be made. There are now something under 300.000 miles of railroad in the world, and about 120,000 miles of these are in the United States. Ties wear out, and the time will cvme when there will te no wood to replace them. "VVe have already patents given on glass ties, i:ies of iron, and ties made of paper and wood pulp. Another set of articles that has been patented largely of late y< ars is fences and fence posts. The old wooden fence has. seen its best days, and the win fence is rapidly taking its place. A great many inventors devote them selves solely to maKing patents ior kucuen utensils, and others work upon machines relating entirely to water. A great many of the railroads and machine shops and factories of various kinds keep inventors who do nothing else but work upon the specialties of the factories in which they are employed. Women make a gieat many patents, but these deal < chiefly with household matters, or with I their own work. There has been a great I deal of electrical invention during the past few years, and it is perfectly wonderful how rapidly the patents come in [ after any success in any particular branch j of invention. A great accident always brings in patents to prevent its occurrence in the future, and when a big fire occurs at any of the big hotels with a great loss of life the fire cscapes roll in by the hundreds." "Have you many patents for perpetual motion?" "Yes, hundreds are applied for, but they are not granted. I remember once a m:in walked from Kentucky to Washington to patent a perpetual motion, and one of your Ohio newspaper men, not long ago, telegraphed to the Associated Press that the invention of perpetual motion had at last been conceived somewhere in Ohio. I should think that "Washington would be a good place for an inventor to work. By going to the Pateut Office he could see all that had been done in the line upon which he was working, and he might see where a cog here or a wheel there would perfect some patent which would be worth tens of thousands of dollars where it is now worth, nothing.*' The Lion Throne. Few of our contempories made any special reference to the throne upon which her Majesty was seated at Ihe opening of the Colonial exhibition. As a matter of fact, it was none other tl an j the royal seat of the Lion of Punjaub, Runjeet Singh himself, the chief of the trophies sent home from Lahore after the glorious campaign on the Five Rivers. Th:it some of the morning papers spoke of it as a chair may be due to the fact that a cushioned lining, specially moldeil upon one of the royal chairs at Buckingham Palace, had been fitted into the famous throne. It was a curious coincidence that at almost the ss.me moment the so callcd "heir" to the Sikh sovereignty should have been soliciting the sympathy of his compatriots in the Punjaub, while here in London the Empress of India should have been seated upon the veritable lion throne of that once potent nation-?St. James 8 QuvAte. Transplanted teeth are recommended as possessing many advantages or?c j'alse teeth. RELIGIOUS READING. Uod'i Own. "Call all who love Th?e, Lord, to Thee, Thou knowest how they long To have these broken lays ana aid In heaven's unceasing song!" Earth is theplaca of severance, Sin, danger and defect; A,ll ?11 ?.1.A T nn^. TUaa V/<U1 Oil VYUU 1UVO iUCO. JJU1U, 1U 1UW, Accomplish Thine elect! Father, the whole creation groans, Till in Thine own abode, Complete in number and in bliss, Shme a!l the sons of God; Let them be manifested, Lord, One countless sacred host From every word and bygone time, Prom every clime and" coast. ?G. Rawson: Thord's Better Fart. The man of whom I am going to tell was the big man of the parish; his name was Thord Ovcraas. One dny he stood proud and solemn ia his nastor'sstudv. "I have got a boy," he said, "and I waut him christened." "What shall be his name?" "Finn, after my own father." "And who shall be his godfather?" lie named several, great people one and all in the eyes of their neighbors, and relation:? of his own. "Anything else?" asked the pastor, looking up. The peasant hesitated a little. "I want to have him christened by himself," he said. "That means on a week-day?" "Next Saturday, at noon." "Anything else?" repeated the pastor. "Nothing elsn," the man took his hat, and turned to go. But the pastor rose. "Yes, one thinjj mere," lie said, and roing up to Thord he took his hand, looking him in the face ? "please God that this child become a blessing to yourself I" Sixteen years later the man again stood in the pastor's study. "You arc little changed, Thord," remarked the pastor, "a^c deals kindly by you." "There is nothing to trouble rac," replied Thord. To this the pastor had no answer, but presently he asked,? "and what have you conic for this evening?'' "I have come to speak about my son, who is to bo confirmed to-morrow." "He is a. fine fellow." ' I did not want to pay for his instruction until I knew what rank he is to take to-mnrrow at church." "He luu, got the first placc." "So I hear; and I have brought ten crowns for the teaching." "Anvthintr else?" inQuired the mstor. looking at Thord. "Nothing else;1' and Thord went his wnj\ Eight years had passed, when one day thero was n great commotion outside the pastor's study; a number of men had come, Thord at their head. The pastor looked up, and recognized him. "You arc well attended," he said. "It is to ask you to put up the bands for my son; he is going to be married to Caren Storliden Gudmund's daughter, whose father is here beside me." "Why, she is the richest girl in all the country-sidc 1" "People say so," returned the peasant, pushing back the hair from his forehead. Th? pasto:: sat silent, as though following his thoughts, and then he entered the names on his books. Thord put throe crowns upon the table. "It should be but one," said the pastor. "I knew; but he is my only child, and I want to do it handsomely." The pastor took the money. "This is the third time, Thord, that you hare come here on account of your boy." "And I have done with him now," said Thord, putting up his pockct-book. He took h's leave and went, the other men following slowly. A fortnight after this, father and son in fair weather were rowing across the lake to Storlidcn in order to arrange about the wedding. ' 'The board on which I am sitting seems loose," said the son, and rose to fix li. But the plank on which he rested slipped; he opened his arms wide, and with a cry foil overboard. *'Catch hold of the oar!" cried iho father, rising and holding it out to him. But the son?struggling twice, thrice? felt numb and stiff. "Wait, I ain coming," cried the father, pulling with all his might. But the son, on his back, gave a long look into bis father's face, and sank from sight. Taord could not believe it; he sat, oar in hand, staring blankly upon the spot where his boy had gone down, as though waiting for his reappearance. A bubble rose; another, and yet another, and then a large one which burst on the surface?and "the lake lay smiling a9 before. For two days and three nights the father was seen rowing about the spot without taking food or sleep; he was * * V*. A? i.1.. i seCKTOg ior ills son. un uic iiiurunig ui the third day he found him, and carried him in his arms across the hills to the homestead. A year might have passed, when one autumn evening, late, the pastor heard a sound in his ante room, as of someone's hand on the latch. He went to open,and in came a tall man, but bowed, wasted and white. The pastor had to look close before lie recognized him; it was Thord. "Is it you,coming so late?" said the pastor, and stood silent, "Oh, yes, I have come late!" said Thord, and sat down. The pastor also sat down, as though to wait; lie waited Icuig in silence. Then Thord began. "I have brought something I want to give to the poor; it shall be a trust fund bearing my son's name," Tie rose, put the money on the table, and sat down again. "That is a lar^e sum" an id the pastor, examining the gift. "It is the half of my property; I have sold it th:s morning." The pastor sat very still; wncnncspoice again there was a tremor in his voice. "What will vou be thinking of for yourself now, Thord?" "The bettor part." A long pause followed, Thord's eyes were on the ground, the pastor's searching his face. And then the pastor said slowly and softly? "I think, Thord, that your son has become a blessing to you at last." "Yes, I think so," said Thord, looking ap; and two bi/r tears ran heavily down his face.?From Bjornnoii's "Tell* of NtfVtiy," translated by Julie SutUr. Boston, which has had a laudable pride in its schools, how has seven liquor saloons for every school, eight liquor sellers for cvt ry teacher, and spends annually $0,000,000 more for its liquor than fpr its schools. It has one church to every 1,757 per-oni, one preacher to every 878 persons, but one liquor saloon for every thirty-six persona. Tho Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society offers liberal prizes for essays on tho subject of temperance by pupilg in the public schools. TEMPERANCEJEPARTHENT. No Drunkards Are There. There is a beautiful land, we are told, With rivers of silver, streets of gold, Bright the beings whose shining feet Wander along each quiet street; Sweet is the music that fills the airNo drunkards are there. No garrets are there, where the weary wait, Where the room is cold and the hours are late; No pale-faced wife, with looks of fear, Listers for steps she dreads to hear. The hearts are fre2d from pain and careNo drink is sold there. rawer, iook aown irom xny tnrone, i prry, Hasten, oh, hasten a better day, Help us to work as a temperance band, To drive the demon *xom the land. ' Help us to wipe away every fear Which drink brings here. The Irrepressible Conflict. While there is evil in this world to ' war on good, to threaten human happiness, to lie in wait till the peace of home ' is broken and scattered, there must be conflict, in some prominent shape it presents itself in an unmistakable way to ^ every generation. Nothing is more certain than that every land and people has , its principal task and commanding duty in the raging battle between good and evil. It is too plain for debate, or denial, that our contest, one that has in it the destiny of our civilization, is the mighty issue between temperance and intemperance. Indifference cannot long relieve any unthinking citizen from his share in this matter. The cause is too universal to be winked at?too terrible ( in its consequences to be ignored. While a saloon exists to tempt youth to ruin, i or to invade the happiness of human homes, we are traitors to our age and our 1 fellowmen, if we shirk our task or evade our responsibility. On one side of the line that divides the home interest and influence from the saloon habit and power, we must all : stand. There is in this warfare no neutral ground. "We are forced to be upon one side or the other. Our personality cannot be taken out of the contest, for the irrepressible summons to act either for our habitations, or for the business that menaces them, compels from us some decision. As we cannot serve God I ana Jlammon, we cannot oe loyai at tno same -time to our firesides and give aid and comfort to their natural enemy, the place of public temptation. In the forces organized throughout the country to reoist and combat the evil of intemperance, we fall into line as anti-saloon Re- . publicans. And we have yet to see any other social clement that has been, or can : be more effective in crushing the monstrous vice that desolates society, than the gveat body of Republicans, who, by example and by votes apainst license, and by legislation against the liquor interest, l.ave to this date scored the best results in the irrepressible conflict.?T/u State. Strong Drink and the Labor Problem. The seventh annual report of the New Jersey Bureau of .Statistics of Labor and Industries has a chapfer concerning the condition of wage-earners, and how it can be improved, from which the New ] York Independent has collected the following suggestive sentences from letters of individual workmen and others: Whisky and beer are the great obstacles here. Intemperance is the cause of very much wretchedness in our families. The greatest evil is strong drink. Our morals here are low on account of rum. a P fliA linmlo f A AT/>AM I iuau j vi tuu uauu^ uiuin w o^v.?ga. The liquor traffic has a bad effect on our trade. i Strong drink injures a great many of us. Morality would bo good except for drunkenness. Too large a portion of our wages go to the sellers of rum and beer. Drunkenness is the bane of the working ' classes. Many of our men lore beer more than their ! families. 1 Drink is the workingman's curse. Tobacco and liquor are a great injury. Except for beer and whisky we are very 1 moral. Rum does much to lower us. Workingmen drink too much for their own good . rtum ana oeer are our grtrai/ euemiro. Our condition is much lower than it should be. This results principally from the use of liquor and from ignorance. Much immorality?whisky is at tha bottom. Ignorance and intemperance are the chief causes which prevent us from improving. Intemperance is the great vice of the painters. How He Found His Room. A young fellow from the South, after some office, told me that he had fallen in with a gentleman, who was among the first rewarded under the new regime. This gentleman, being of a social turn, at nightfall asked his companion to take a drink. Several times this invitation wa3 repeated, until the jolly fellow thought it time to go home. He had forgotten where he lived exactly, but he knew the street. After vain attempts to locate his boarding-house,he remembered there was a butcher's shop opposite his place and that the butcher knew hira. ] After trying numerous shops without success they hit upon the right one. ' Having found the house and entered (' with difficulty, the jolly fellow did not ) recollect his room's number or position. ] At last he said to his soberer companion: j "If you can find a room with a man j asleep in his boots on the sofa and an . empty whisky-bottle on the tabic, that's ( my room. Every Saturday night my 1 room-mate takes that rccumbent atti- ' t.nflt!." Search was made and in one , apartment, sure enough, such a condition of affairs existed. The jolly fellow took up the empty bottle, examined, and dropped it with a sigh. He gazed at the snoring, stupefied man on the sofa, and then flung himself on the bed, boots and all. "What a temperance sermon must the blessed Sunday light as it crept into that boozy lair have preached to the two men with swelled heads and aching brains, as the looked at each other! 1 ROSS AND DAISY. The Daisy lifted her eyes to the Rose (The Daisy that grew so low), At the summer day's dim, shadowy close, When the south wind began to blow, And the blush of the sky at the parting kias Of the sun was paling slow. And she wondered why, as Daisies will, God made the Rose so fair; Anrl rirnwailv n/vlrllntr wnnrlprftH ?til! Till sleep o'ertook her there? A sleep so deep, she knew it not ' When the south wind touched her hair. But the south wind's touch aroused a dream In a heavenly garden plot Beside a clear and winding stream That fed the forget-me-not; rhey two did seem ('twas but a dream) To grow, and share one lot! rhey two did grow as sisters dear, And the Daisy's weary head, With never a thought ot doubt or fear, On the Rose's breast was laid? For the mother-heart stooped aad drew it near? The little, motherless head! But the night wind passed, and 6he Daisy n urc , And queenly above her there rhe Rose smiled on. The morning broke, And flushed the sapphire air, And she wondered still, as Daisies will, Why Roses grow so fair! ?Josephine A. Caas. PITH AND POINT. The skeleton man travels on his shape. A good place for a loaf?A baker's shop. A mor* n*V?r\ oIwtatto Aiifa on ortnnoinf_ ?uu ainajo uu ?vvjuumir mce?The barber. A clothcs call is made by the laundry robber ? Waterloo Observer. Uniform prices?What the tailor charges for soldiers' clothes. Poople who throw banana skins at large ire now called bananarchists. The cyclone raises everything on the farm but the mortgage.?Boston Post. The "melting look" must come from the man with "tire in his eye."?State*' man. Washingtonians are happy people. Every one of them is a capitalist.?Free Press. Love may be blind, but in some way it generally mauages to get on to a man's bank account.?Oil City Blizzard. It must be glorious fun to go courting in Greenland. The nights are about three months long.?Burlington Fret Press. Speaking of flies, a Burlington baseball player says: "They come high, but we must have them."?Burlington Free Press. The small boy learning the alphabet i3 very much like the postage stamp?he often gets stuck on a letter.?Boston Bulletin. First love and first shave come but" once in a man's lifetime. And neither usually has much result.?SomeroilU Journal. When a man falls in love he courts his sweetheart. Afterward she sues for a breach of promise and courts her lover. ?New Haven News. Although they claim that love is blind, A sad experience will disclose 'Tia difficult to be resigned To boils upon your sweetheart's nose. ?Pittsburg Gazette. , The bricks with which many Egyptian tombs were built are as perfect after four thousand years as when they were made. They evidently were pressed for time.? Texas Si/tings. "Pa. what does nobby mean?" "Stylish, my dear." "Well, then, pa, youi nose must be very stylish, for grandma says you have got the knobbiest nose io town."?Siftings. "Isn't it heavenly!" ejaculated ilisi 4-s\ \fJ<- ? Da/^aPq nap. Urllbll, ill fcicicuuu bis jj.lj.oo jl buat a j^ui formance on the piano. "Yes," replied Fogg, "it is indeed heavenly. It 60unda like thunder."?Boston Transcript. "Grandpa," said Teddy, as the old gentleman woke up from a loud soundings _____ after dinner nap, "if you'd give youx " nose a spoonful of paregoric don't you think you could put it to sleep too?" Burdette. One of the Lynn primary school teachsrs a few days since asked her scholars the question: "What is dust?" One little fellow answered: "Please, marm, it is dirt with the water squeezed out."? Lynn Item. A tramp who had been furnished with a good breakfast, was invited to saw some wood alter ne naa nnusaeu. "Thanks, awfully," he said, "but I don't consider it healthy to work between meals."?Siftings. When you've told your little story And have settled to the glory, Of extravagant narration most successfully displayed, How you turn a bilious yellow "When you hear some other fellow, With his wretched "That reminds me, "lay you snugly in the shade. ?Pittsburg Gazette. Again the zephyrs sigh alons the leas, And blooms the violet ana buttercup, Now softly blows the balmy western breeze, And the thermometer is going up. The golden dandelion nods its head, Again we feel the odor of the briar, And "Thomas" re-appears upon the shexi At night to warble to his loved "Mariar." ?Boston Courier. Praying in a Hurricane. I heard a very amusing story the other day iu connection with the recent hurri cane. A genueman quue wen iujuwu m this city was hurrying along to reach hia home, when the storm burst upon the city in all its fury. He sought refuge in a house where there were a number of ladies congregated, all of whom were frantic with terror. After a little tho storm increased in fury, the house rocked and swayed berore the furious winds, several windows were blown in, and it Looked as though the whole building would be destroyed. The women rushed iround wringing their hands, crying md bemoaning their fate, when suddenly ?ne rushed up to the gentleman and frantically besought him to offer up a prayer, [n a moment he was surrounded by "the jther women, who clung to him and DCgged him to pray. He was not by any ti fin us collected himself, and besides, not it all up in prayers, but there was no sscapc for him, so he prepared to comply nith their request. He knelt down, but jwing to the excited condition of hia xiind and to the fact that he had not prayed for a long time, he found himself attcrly unequal to the occasion. Ho couldn't think of anything. He was iumb. Soon he became desperate, and without a thought as to its appropriateness he pronounced the following brief exortation, which he remembered to have formed a part of the grace his father used to say many yeare ago: "Oh, Lord, make us thankful for that which we are about to receive." Just then three or four windows blew in, a couple of chimneys blew over and tho prayer meeting broke up in confusion.?Kansas City JournaL