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THE PRES!DENT OJTLiNES THE P ICY HE WiLL PURSUE. Deficit In the Treasury )1ust be Avoidi. If Expenses Are Not Decreme l Must be Enlarged-tonetary comm 'l-n Suggested-Lyr-chings Coudemned. WASHINGTON, March 1 -Tne ingis the full tex: of President M'e Kinley's inaugural address: Fellow-citizens: In obedience to the will of the people and in their presence by the authority vested in m by this oath, 1 azsume the ardaous and re sponsible duties of President of the United Sta:s, relyinz on the support of niv countrvmen and nvoking tae guidance of ~ Almighty God. Oar faith teaches that there is no safer re iance than upon the God of our fath ers, who has so singularly favored the American people in every na ona' trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His cornmandmnents and walk humbly in his footsteps. The resnonsibilities of the :igh trust to which I have been called always of grave importance-are augmented by the prevailing business conditions, entailing idleness upon willing laoor and loss to useful enterprises. Ttie country is suffering from industrial disturbances from which speedy renef I must be had. Oar financial system needs some revision. Oar money Is all good now, but its value' must not be further theeatened. I: should all be put upon an endar- basis-, not subject to easy attach nor its stanli: to doubt or dispute. Our currency should continue un der the supervision of the goveru ment. The several forms of our parer memey offer, in my judgment, a con stant embarrassment to t'e govern ment and a safe balance in the treasury. Therefore, I believe it necessary to de vise a system which, without dimimsh ing the circulating medinum, or o:fer ing a premium for its contraction, will present a remedy for those ar rangements which, temporary in their nature, might well in the years of our prosperity have been displaced by wis er provisions. With adequate reve nue secured, but not until then, we can enter upon such changes in our fiscal laws as will, while ensuring safety and volume to our moner, no longer impose upon the government the necessity of maintaining so large a gold reserve, with its attendant and inevitable temptations to speculation. Most of our financials laws are ihe outgrowth of experience and trial and should not be amended witnout inves tigation, and demonstration of the wisdom cf the proposed charges. We must be both "sure we are right" and "make haste slowly." If, therefore, Oongress in its wisdom shall deem it expedient to create a commission to take under early consideration the re vision of our coinage, banking ana currency laws and give theni that ex haustive, careful and dispassionate ex amination, that their importance de mands, I shall cordially concur in such action. If such power is vested in the President it is my purpose to appoint a commission of prominent, welinformed citizens of different parties who will command public con fidence both on account of their abili ty and special fitness for the work. Business exnerience and public train ing may thuis be combined and the pa A-rIotic zeal of the friends of the coun try be so directed that such a report be made as to receive the support of all parties and our finances cease to be the subject of mere partisan conten tion. The experiment is, at all events. woeth a trial and, in my opinion,. it can but prove beneficial to the en tire country. The question of international bimet allsm will have early and earnest attention. It will be my constant en deavor to secure it by co-operation with the other great commercial pow ers of the world.- Until that con dition is realized when the parity between our gold and silver money springs from and is supported by the relative value of the two metals, the value of the silver already coined and that which may hereafter be coined must be kept constantly at par with gold by every resource at our com mand. The credit of the government, the integrity of its currency and the inviolability of its obligation must be preserved. This was the .common verdict of the people and it will n~t be unheeded' Economy is demanded in every branch of the government at all times, but especially in periods like the pres ent of depression in business and dis tress among the people. The severest economy must be observed in all pub lic expenditures and extravagance stopped wherever it is found and pre vented wherever in the future it may be developed. If the revenues are to remain as now, the only relief that can come must be from decreased ex peditures. But the present must not bome the permanent condition of the government. It has been our uniform practice to retire, not increase, our outstanding obligations, and this poli cy must again be resumed and vigor ously enforced. Our revenues should always be large enough to meet with ease and promptness not only our cur rent needs but the principal and inter est of the public debt, but to make proper and liberal provisions for that most deserving body ot public credi tors, the soldiers and sailors and the widows ard orphans who are the pen. sioners of the United States. The government should not be per mitted to run behind or increase its debt in times like the present. Suita bly to provide against this is a man date duty. There is a certain and easy remedy for most ot our ni nancial difficulties. A deniciency is inevitable so long as the expenditures of the government exceed its receipts It can only be met by loans or an in creased revenue. W' .a large an nual surplus of reven.ue may invite waste and extravagance, inadequate revenue creates distrust and under mines public and private credit. Neither should be encouraged. Be tween more loans and mere revenues, there ought to be but one opinion. We should have more revenue and that without delay, hindrance or post ponement. A surplus in the treasury created by loans is not a permanent or safe reliance. It will sullice while it lasts, but it cannot last long while the outlays ot the government are greater than its receipts, as tias been the case during the past two years.- Nor must it be forgotten that, ho wever mucn such loans may temporarily reieve the situation, the government is sti indebted for the amount of surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimate ly pay, while its ablity to pay is not strengthened but weakened by a cm'n tinued deficit. Loans are imperativ-e in great emergencies to preser-ve the government or its credit, but a:ilr to .supply needed revenunti me of--.' peace for the maintenaz. ofete has no justification. - The best way for the goern t maintain its credit is :o pay as agts not by restoring to losus, bu ry de ing out of debt through an aceae come secured by- a system of 'uao external or intercal, or both. 1' is:h settled policy of the government., par sued from the beginning and practiced by all parties and ad ministrations, to soineltaxation cx a x a "e s e eti x Mion. Tasr ea be n miundertand ,e abritthe p .rcule uo Ted N in - Cs ever benU made pliner at a1 general elec'-tion:au that the~ c~ntroin rincip o* .ot rates revenue fr"cn e onI S zealouL as c ir e c- neira intIer z and AmercIn labo1r. Tn1 people have be bae had as w i p po con and ee n t thme! e nd ustr it es and .he dv 1-1 ent o0 our countrv. 14 is, ther ir, arsty oedal di erlis ftr a 1, a*e m>Aet enac re elul "I vIs.inta halb ar re n an re eaiten and whicn, h suppV y C n ata u et opesially bene:al and ne-pUi to ever'r section and ever nz.,,--e 0: the pEOple. T - i:s p -e. We are aLl, of whatever prIv. -y I D-d by the voice o, tp peoxp e - aoe vast 11 ore potenti- than the expresstons ot aUv kootic platarm. The para mount d 7 of CJnZrrss is to s It dciences by the restoruot inat prospective legislation whLCi 1:as at ways been the irmest prop of he Treasury. The passage oF su-h a Iaw or laws o.-A strengzhen the creit of tae governmen-: both at home and abroad and .o far toxards stoppin the drain upon the gold reserve held for the re e-ntion o. oar currency, which has been ieavv and well nigh constant for several sears. In the revision of teI tar. especial attention should ' given to re ea actmtent and extension Cf the reciproc ity principle of the law of , uder which so great a sttu.nuous was given to our foreign trade ia new and ad vantagreous markets f-or our surplus agricu'tu-al andj manufacturd pro ducts. T' e brief triii gvan ths leg istaon amply just bs a frther ex erinern at.d additional dscretionary >ower in the making of commereial treaties, the end in vie.x always to be the opeinig up of new marets for the' roducts of oUri country. by grant ine concessions to the products of oth erands that we need and cannot pro duce ourselves and which do not in volve any loss of labor to our own people, but tend to increase their em ployment. Tae deoression of the past four years has fallen with especial severity uon the great body of toilers of the country and upon none more than the holaers of small farms. Agriculture has languished and labo suierod. The revival of inanufacturing vil be a relief to both. No portion of ourt population is more devoted to te i stitutions Cf free government nor more loyal in their support, wnile none bears more cheerfuihy or fully its proper share in the mantenance of the government or is better entitled to its wise and liberal care and protec tion. Legislation helpful to produc ers is benefcial to all. The depressed condition of industry on the farm and in the mine and factory has lessened the ability of the people to meet the demands upon them and they right fully expect that not only a system of revenue shall be established that will secure the largest income with the least burden, b-ut that every means will be taken to decrease, rather than increase, our public expendtures. Business conditicns are not the most promising. It will take time to restore the prosperity of former years. 1t we cannot promptly attain it we can res> ltely turn our faces in that direction and aid its return by friendly legisla tion. However, troublesome the sit uaton may appear, Congress will not, I am sure, be found lacking in disposition or ability to relieve it as far as legislation can do so. The res toration of confidence and the revival of business, which men of all parties so much desire, depend more largely upon the prompt, energetic and intel ligent action ci Congress, thaan upon any other single agency atfectmng the situation. It is inspiring. too, to remember that no greater emergency in the one hundred and eight years of our event ful national life has ever arisen that has not been met with wisdom and courage by the American people with fidelity to their best interests and highest destiny and to the honor of, the American name. These years of glorious history have exalted man kind and advanced the cause of free dom throughout the world and immea surably strengthened the prectous free institutions which we enjoy. The people love and will sustain thes e in stiutons. The great essential to our hapiness and prosperity is that we adere to the principles upon whi:-h the government was established and insist upon their faithful observance. Equality of rights must pre vail and our la ws be always and every where respect ed and obeyed. We may have failed in the disecharge of our fil duty as citizens of the great republic, but it is consoling and encouraging to reaiiz that free speech, a free press, free thought, free schools, the free and un molested right cf reli~ious liberty and worship and free and fair elections are dearer and more universally en joyed to-day than ever before. Tese guarantees must be sacrealy preserved and wisely strengthed. The constituted authorities must be cheerfully and vigorously up held. Lynchings must not be to1 erated ir a great and civilized country like the Unaited States: courts--not mobs-must execute the penalties of the law. Tue preservation of nublic order, the right of discussion, the- in tegrity of courts and the ordieriy ad. ministration of justice must continue forever the rock of safety upon which our government securely rests. One of the lessons taught byv the late election, which all can rejvice in. is that the citizens of the Umited States are both law respecting and law-abid in people, not easiy swerved from the oath of patriotism and honor. Ths~sinetire accorda with the gen siesth advantages of nuctn e 'en 'greter love for laandorder in te' future. mImuity4 should be granted to none who v'ilate the laswhter iadividuals, corpora sttuon imposes a-pon th Pres i-dent the duty of both its own execu'nn and of the statutes enactdinpr nce of its provisions I shall endeavor care ully to carry tuemn into etec. Te declaration of the party" no restored to power has benn ~ inepast that of 'opposition .:o all- combi--a tions of capi:al or;.an>zdi rsso other wise, to contr,.: arourLd.y - contion of trade amoiig our emtzens nd t has~ supported "s-uch legiiio as will orevent the execu-:on o- -s sehe~nes to onoress the peop-e by u due- carges on ineir supplies or b a -:s r-.es or th tanpruene -oeolb steadily parsued, botb (he :- orce:mst of.Ce laws now in exisissce an 1. recommencdtion a:_dsaue a:-sacaserstatutes as :nay50 eesary a uryit nto ef Oure naturalizaton and-i imirra tio ea hould ourhe imro rd 0dc we r u 17.)5: 0r~ni 7: n a b.1 m e w S Z I -- ap e me r 1ts" J, b e o :ie atVe u.rt oD ayrul orc orV. ue ever an whenve it ha been)' thus) amnt terd. :~~t rau Conressa shoud girotc pompC attrn tion tote etorio of n rorr cns tcan. Wm a ar ine,. ncoeteni or unworthy. The best interests of se coutr mercnd thsm and the p-co preartiV atrove t e law wIere tirand wnen v tr Itl has been thn s dni;tered. Congress shotd ives proapt atten edw to 'Me resora y of our Amer can mrchant ruen, one he pride all the sea Le gre at ocan th-r wa s of commerce. To in v duinds tr eore tmportant iv C' rela i fpera wlve, eand tis atedient conder aton. To Uitd :atle na Wo-ress ed rith edvth raeid in erer. ecd of -.nte aad e n avori n - we nme bwise foraugn e bi '-iy alls hgreat fnes of in oud trde cuareand iustr. It has been the poly of the aUnied States since the foudalion oF the gov ersioent to cuonvteo reavudsof is turbd aty with all the netent of t world. and this ascr i - co Ce :iou of oursue no. We hive nherished the policy ow noa-interfe ence w:uthe. affirs of foreignt gov ernents wiselv iaugurated by Wyashigton. of keepinig ourselves free fomal entanglementa eter as al h-s or foes, content to leave undis urbd wi then the setlement of their own domestic ezas It vill be our aim to pursue a m and d ntied foreignd a)iCc which shall be thn ispartial. ever wantcoful our national honor andi alwNays insisting, upon te enforcemset o the lawfa Mriths of A merican citiz~ns every where. 3u dpomacy should seek nothin nmo re and accept nothiing less thar, is deus. We want no w.ars of cnoziues3t we must avoid the tempta tion of territorial aggression. War should never b entered upon until every agency of pe2.ce has failed. Peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true metnod of settlement of interna tional as well as local or individual diterences. It was recognized as the bes: means of adjustment of differen ces betwen employers and employes by the Forty-ninth Congress in 1SS6 and its application was extended to our diolomatic relations by the unani mous concarrence of the Senate and House of the Fifty-first Congress in 1SX. Tne latter resolution was ac ceted as the basis of negotiations with us by the British House of Com mons in 1893 and upon our invitation a treaty of arbitration by the United States and Great Britain was signed at Washington and transmitd to the Senate for its ratfication in January last. Since this treaty is clearly the result of our own initiative; since it has been recognized as the leading feature of our foreign policy through out our entire national history--the adjustment of didliculties by judicial methods rather than by force of arms -and since it presents to the world the glorious example of reason and peace, not passion and war, controll ing the relations between two of the greatest nations of the world, an ex ample certaia to be f ollowed by others, I respectfully urge the early action of the Senate thereon, not merely as a matter of policy, but as a duty to man kind. The importance and moral in fluence of the ratidcatioa of such a treaty caa hardly be overestimated in the cause of advancing civilization. It may well engage the best thought of the statesmen and people of every country, and I cannot but consider it fortunate that it was reserved to the United States to have the leadership in so grand a work. It has ben tLe uniformn practice of each President to avoid as far as pos sible, conv-enirog of Congress in extra ordinary session. It is an example which, under or-dinary circumstances and in the absence of a public necessi t, is to be comnmended. Bat a failure to convene the representatives of the eole in Congress in extra session wvhen it involves neglect of apublic duy, places the responsibility of such neglect upon the exEcutive himself. The conditicn of the public treasury, as has been indicated, demnands the immediate consideration of Congress. It alone has the power to provide rev enues for the govern meat, Not to convene it under such circumstances I can vie w in no other sense than the neglect of a plain duty. I do not sym pathie with the sentiment that Con gress iu session is dangerous to our general business interests. Its mem bers are the agents of the people and their ioresence at the seat of govern ment in the execution of the sovereign will should not operate as an injury but a benefit. There could be no Let ter time to put the government upon a sand financial and economical ba sis than now. The people have only recently voted that this shoulit be done and nothing is more bindin upon the agents of their will thanth obligation of immiediate action. f has alsavs seemed to me that te ostonemtn of 0 the meeting of Con gres's until more than a year after i hes been chosen deprived Congres too eftc' of the inspitration? ofth popular will. and the country of the' therefore that to postpone ac.on :n *he usec of so g-reat necessity wobe unwis on' the part f-the ecuie beuause unja t to the inter ess of the voyle. Our ations now iirvson was postponed tuni Lne reuar sessio of Congress. \ e are ea' y two years f-rm a Congession al elec'ion a::d poitic cannot so was ntmmeiately pnding . We can aprahte probia.1 calmly nd pa oni an eal -: i-in. ur, fellow c:izens who -a diaree w-Itu us u on :he chara-te' of this 'egislation no;. even aastter preconce -e vi:ws-and p--rhaaps -- stl so eso-O as to in sure gratprmnec-1a i ave :ur-her unce'rint meac te vs:i ud varied ' bies int~eres o: L~e 'n:..ed Sts A'ain, whaL Ibe given a fair oppor u-ity 'or r befere the people are called to pass udment upon it, and this I consider a great essential to the rightful and ,-,mr v oon th rate rnal suI;riz of and 'e manifesatlion of cwillcverywh'e1re0 so apparent. The recent elin no:)011 only S mos for :nel demn S!rat d e ob!i E Arat U io sea or -e, ra phlical ;ines, but also the prejudices ,1hih for yea s have distracted our Con-nei-s .d m-rred our true great ess asaaton. Tue tri-umph of the e wo verdct icarrid into e ec' today is not the tuiu-uph of one c Or 'TholVl of one par:y nor r sections anid all tie peo)le. Te N )rth and .rth no longer divide -. t.e old lines. but upon principles d -oliics, and in tis fact surely ,Very lOver of the Country can adi Caie for trur felicitation. Let us re je in an d cu1tvIate this sorit; it is nnobling nd willb both a gain and lesing to our beloved country. It S-il b V my coustant aim to do noth in- and pc-mit nothing to be done at wil mar or disturb this growing sentiment of unity or co-operationl, this r~vaia of eseem and aliliation which nov animates so niany thous ands in bti the old antagonistic sec tions, bit I shall cheerfally do every thing possible to promote and inere.:.se it. L t me azatn repeat the words of the oath administered by the Chie: .3 ustice which, in Lheir respective sphercs, so far as applicable, I would have all my countrymen observe: "I w:llfaithfully execute thle otice of Presiden: of the United States and wilI to the best of my ability,preserve, protect. and defend the Constitu-ion of tihe U. nited States." Tais is the obligation I have rever eutlv taken before the Lord most hid. To keep it will be my single purpose. my constant pra:.er -and I shall condidently rely upon the for bearance and assistance of en the peo ple in the discharge of my solemn re soonsita. FINISIIED ITS LABORS. CON7NtiD Fi)N PAGE ONE. made light by the cheerful co-opera tion of members. The Speaker then complimented the otii Eers of the House by saying that during his connection with the L egislature for o -er fifteen years he had never known offlcers more faithful. courteous and attentive to duty. Again thanking the House for their expressions, he wished them the best of health and a happy return to their homes. Before these resolutions were adopt ed, and while the Speakers was out a number of members heartily endorsed them and spoke of the fact that the Speaker was always fair and prompt in his rulinas. This was not said in a perfunctory way, usual in such cases, but the facts justified the remarks of membe:s. and They actually meant what they said. Dtring one of the many interims which occurred during the day, Mr. Robinson made an eloquent speech, in which he said, in parting from fel low legislators, that he was glad brotherly love had returned to South Carolina, and that partisan feeling was forgotten. He illustrated his be lief and endorsetnent of the idea by a joke, which, happily told, elicited much laughter. The remainder of the session was taken up with recesses and the recep tion of conference reports. The com mittee on free conference on the leg islative suply bill reported that they had agreed. I[t met with the aoproval of the IHouse, in that it gave proper salaries for certain employees for extra work. The committee or free conference agreed to various a-sendments as to the levy in different Lounlties. Ii was referred back for certain minor cor rections and after it came in again it was fily adopted. At 12:10 there was nothing to do except wait on the enrolling of Acets and the House took a recess until 2 o'clock. When the House returned to its ses son, Mr. Patton offered a resolution that the regular legislative investiga tion committee of the office of Treas urer be app ointed. After the Senaste had agreed the Speaker appointed Messrs H C. Patton and C.- W. G-ar ris as the committee. Tne chair so pointed also Mr. John P. Thomas at~d Mr. Burns on the Dispensary.' Mr. Thomas offeredl a resolutioo, which was adopted, that the broken historical mace be repaired. This w-as agreed to. Mr. Thomas oifered a concurreim resolution to allow the South Carolina Club to use the hail of the House of Representatives for one evening iit November next- This was agreed to: The Senate agreed to the resolutioi, s to the rep airing of the mace; thts resoution to ispet the Treasurer'sI olice and the resolution as to allow-I ing the use of the Hall of the House of Representatives for the State ball. At 4:15 the House went to tne Sen - ate to ratify bills. They returned but a je-, minutes after and sat around for several hours awaiting Senate concurrence. Finally a blil in refer ence to the election of trustees of schools in N ew berry was agreed to, as well as the supply bill, which had taken up so much time. After several hours Mr. John P. Thomas moved that a committee of three be appointed to visit the Gover nor and iniform him that all the busi of the House had been cornpleted and it was ready for any other messages from the Governor. Messrs. Bacot, W. H. Thomas and E. D. Smith were appointed the committee en the part of the House. Mr. Townsend sug gested that the Gove-nor was "in" the P'enitentiry, r..ferrin~g evidently to the Murphy case, which the Governor was investigating. The House then went to the Senate for thle giirpose of ratifying acts. On returnin;g, and after the usual reglar formal anid legal prelimiinaries' te House adjourned sine die afew miutes before G o'clock. SAuLT L.s:. MarcTh 3.-Rchard H. Cbell, hnited States ternal revenue collector. has be~en discovered shori. in his ecounts wit the governmoent to hc extent o: over ?!.0,00. He has been remove fr~om oelice and as soon s the exact amount of the defaieation is knuowi, his bondsmen will be re quired to make it good. Ciabell held te oice for near>y four years, two of which it is said he has been tam periug with the government's money whicn he lost speculating in mining scrs. He camne to Salt Lan-e from \irgia and belongs to one of the oles a Ndm stepecte failies of ta- -to orosecute him. .liklrg up hbics;;o. Cm *- Marcha 3.-Three mysteri ous~ exploss cccuri-ed last night ap )arntly in the vtiinty of Chicago igen andthe lake. The !irst explo son was FO severe that it wrecked blding and Sent residents of the asionable Laike Snore drive quarter -ing from their beds. The other ex losions following soon after were not severe. Judging fro:n their char acter the explosions are supposed to have been caused by excavating dyn WH; W .F. A P:R T. RADNT AND BUC YANT. Ik . .- ram:.E8 Pri actlpigm an Ex in :ed i;--m t. i, He Ir. c 'r) ct.1: tf l and I .fai-ThRut-fP : ilue Velocity. W ArYIiToN. Feb. 2.-In this d.s coturse Dr. Talmage takes a most ex alted theme and makes it practical and useful to the last degree. The subje:-t is "Wings of Seraphim." and the text is Isaiah Vi, 2. 'With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with taanhe did 1iv." In a hospital of leprosy good King U.iah had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and theological and phophetic 1saiah was thinking about religici s things, as one is apt to do in time of great nition al bereavement, and. forgetting the preseuce of his wife and two sons, who maide up his family, he has a dream not like the dreamsof ordinary character, which generally came from indiges'.ion. but a vision most instruct ive and under the touch of the hand of the Almighty. The place. the ancient ternple; building grand, awful. majestic. Within that temple a throne higher and grander than that occupied by czar or sultan or emperor. On that throne the eternal Christ. In lines, surrounding that throne, the brightest celestials. not the cherubim, but high er than they, the most exquisite and radiant of the beavenly innabitants the seraphim. They are called burn ers because they look lige fire. Lps rf fire, eyes of ire, feet of dre. in addition to the features and the limbs, which' suggest a human being, there are pinions, vhich suggest the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and the most aspiringo all unintelligent crea tion, a bird. elch seraph had six wings, each two of the wings for a different purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinions. Now folded, now spread, now beaten in locomotion. "With twain he cov ered his feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fly." The probability is that these wings were not all used at once. The seraph standing there near the throne, over whelmel at the insignificance of the paths his feet had trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his lo comotion, amounting almost to de crepitude as compared with the divine velccity, with feathery veil of angelic modesty hides the feet. "With twain hie did cover the feet. Standing there, overpowered by the overmaiching splendors of God's glory and unable longer with the eyes to look upon them and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, the pinions gather over the countenance. *With twain he did cover the face." Then, as God tells this seraph to go to the farthest out post of immensity on message of light and love and joy aad get back before the first anthem, it does not take the sel anh a great while to spread himself upon the air with unimagined celerity, one stroke of the wing equal to 10,000 leagues of air. "With twain he did 117. ~The most practical and use ful lesson for you and me-when we see the ser aph spreading his wings over the feet -is the lesson o f humility at imper fection. The brightest angels of God are so far beneath God that be charges them with folly. The seraph so far beneath Grid, and we so far beneath the seraph in service, we ought to be plunged ia humility, utter and com plete. Our feet, how laggard they have been in the divine service: Our feet, how many missteps they have taken: Oar feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked: Neither God nor seraph intended to put any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpiecs of Almighty God-the human foot. Puysiologist and anatomist are overwhelmed at the wonders of its organization. "Ihe Bride ewater Treatise," written by Sir Charles Bell, on the wisdom and good ness of God as illustrated in the hu man hand. wss a result of the $10,000 bequeathed in the last will and testa ment of the Earl of Bridgewater for the encouragement of Christian liter ature. The world could afford to for give his eccentricities, though he had two dogsseated at his tableand though he put six dogs alone in an equipage drawn by four hoises and attended by two foot'men. With his large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell to write so valuable a book on the wisdom of God in the structure of the human hand the world could afford to forgive his oddi ties. And the world could now afford to have another Earl of Bridg e water ho w ever idosyncratic, if he would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write a a book on the wisdom and goodness of God in the construction of the human foot. The articulation of its bones, the lubrication of its joints, the grace fuhtess of its lines, the ingenuity of its cartilages, the delicacy of its veins, tie rapidity of its muscular contrac tin, the sensitiveness of its nerves. I sound the praises of the human fcot. With that we halt or climb or march. It is the foundation of the pasical fabric, It is the base of a Go~d poised column. Vv ith it the warrior braces himself for battle- With it the orator plants himself for eulogium, With it the toiler reaches his work. With it tihe outraged stamps hais indig nation.- Its loss an irreparable disas ter. Its health an invaluable equip ment. If you want to know its value,I ask the man whose foot paralysis hath s riveled, or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon's knife hath amputated. The Bible honors it. Especial care. "Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone,' -"He will not su'fer thy foot to' e moved," "-Thy feet shall not stumn ble." Especial charge, "Keep thy foot when thou gcest to the house of God.' Especial peril. - -Their feet shall slide in due time.- Connected with the world's dissolution. "H~e shall set one foot on the sca a:ui ot:her on the earth." Giive me the history cf your- foot, and I will give you the history of y our lifetime. Tell me up what steps-i ath gcne, down what deciivities and in what roads and in what (directions, and I will know mnore about you than I want to know. None of us could endure the scrti?ny. Oar feet not al wys in paths of God, so-neimes i paths of wordlns. Our feet a divine and glorious nmachinerv for usefulnese and work, so often ma-mmg missteps, so often going in the wrong direction. God knowing every step, the patriarch sayivng, ''ThPou settest a print on th?e crmes of?the tongue. cri:ues oft the eve, crimes of the ear not worse thu erimes of the foot. - h we w-ant the wings of humility to cover the fee? 0ught we not o go nto sef abnegaO.. beore the all searcumn, all scru'U:Z ing, al rring eye of Go.Te&r ahs do. How much more w:'Liu twain he covered the feec All this talk abotut the dint of human nature in braggadocio and sin. Our nature started at the~ h-ad of GOd regal, but it has been pau' er>:: ed. There is a well in Belg- im whiach once had very pure water, .nd it was stulas.-. I with stone and brick. b e ' d a l v'.cni :I . ~ n, 0 t!~ iiiw 5VC C)-t'ian longof r " n loo'i- d. wn n to the 'ell, : id skulls, but n So ar S L.umau soui was a wel of goo, but the arxies of sin have fought around it and fougat across it and ben' slain, and it has be come we:. of ikeletous. Dead hopes. de-ad resolutions, decad opportAunities, dead a-nbition. Au abandoned well unless Christ shall reopen and purify and Ell it as the well of Belgiumn never was. Unclean, uuciean. Anithcr serapiic pastare :n tue text, 'Wti twaiu A ie CovereLId the race." That means reverence God ward. Never so m'uci irreverence abroadi in the world as today. You see it in the defacel statuary. in the cuttiolg out of tigures from tine paint ings, in the caipping of monuments for a memento, in tae fac'. that mili tary guard iust stand at the grave of Lincoln and Gartield, and that old shade trees must be cut down for fire wood, though 50 George P. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and that calls a corpse a cadave, and that speaks of death as going over to the ma.irity a-nd substitutes for the reverend terms father and mother "the old man" and "the old woman," and flnds nothing impressive in the ruins of Baslbc or the columns of Karnac, and sees no difference in the Sabbitn from other days except it allows more dissipation, and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism, mak inz it not the word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. How many' take the name of God in vain, how many trival things said about the Almightv: Not willing to have God in the world, they roll up an idea of sentimentality and humani tarianism and impudence and imbecili ty and call it God. No wings of re verence over the face, no taking orf of shoes on holy ground. You can tell from the way they talk they could have made a better world than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks every sense of pro priety. They talk of the love of God in a way that shows you they believe it does not make any difference how bad a man is here he will come in at the shining gate. They talk of the love of God in a way which shows you they think it is a general jail de livery for all the abandoned and the scoundrelly of the universe. No pan ishment hereafter for any wrong done here. Tne Bible gives t wo descriptions of God, and they are just opposite, and they are both true. In one place the Bible says God is love. In another place the Bible says God is a consum ing dre. Tne explanation is plain as plain can be. God thraugh Christ is love. God out of Christ is are. To win the one ana to escape the other we have only to throw ourselves, body, mind and soul, into Christ's keeping. "No," says irreverence, "I want no atonement; I want no par don; I want no intervention. I will go up and face God, and I will chal lenge him, and I will defy him, and I will ask him what he wants to do with me." Sc, the intinite confronts the Indinite, so a tack hammer tries to break a thunderbolt, so the breath of a human nostril denies the everlasting God, while the hierarchs of heaven bow the head sad bend the knee as the King's chariot goes by, and the archangel turns away because he can not endure the splendor, and the cho rus of all the empires of heaven comes in with full diapason, 'Holy, holy, bolv:' Reverernce for sham, reverence for the old merely because it is old, rev erence for stupidity, however learned, reverence for incapacity, however dnely inaugurated, I have none. But we want more reverence for God, more reverence for the sacraments, more reverence for the Bible, more reverence for the pure, more reverence for the good. Reverence a character' istic of all great natures. You hear it in the roll of the master oratories. You see it in the Rephaels and Titians and Ghirlandaios. You study it in the architecture of the Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Do not be flip pant about G-od. Do not joke about death. Do not make fun of the Bible. Do not deride the Eternal. The brightest and mightiest search cannot look unabashed upon him. Involun tarily the wings come up. "With twain he covered his face." Who is this God before whom the arrogant and intractable refuse rev erence ! There was an engineer of the name of Strasicrates who was in the employ of Alexander the Great, and he otlered to hew a mcuntaio in the shape of his master, the empneror. the enormous tigure to hold in the left hand a city of 10) 000 inhabitants. while with the right and it was to hold a basin large enough to collect all the mountain torrents. Alexan der applauded him for his ingenuity, but fobsde the enterprise because of its costliness Yet I have to tell you that our King hcids in one hand all the cities of the earth and all the oceans, while he has the stars of heaven for his tiara. Earthly power gocs from hand to hand, from Hienrv~I to Henry II and Henry IH,. from Charles I to Charles UT, fr~m Louis I to Louis II and Louis III, but from everlasting to everlast ing is Gol. God the first, God the last, God the only. He has one tele scooe, with whica he sees everything -i is omniscience. He has one bridge with which he crosses everything his omninresence. He has one ham mer, wita which he builds en ryvthing his omninotence. Put 2 tablespoonfuls of water in th e palm of your hand, and it will overilow, but Isaiah indi cates that God p ats t-e A tlantic and the Pacitie and' the Arctie and the Antarctic and the M'eiteranean and :he Black sea an alte waters of the earth in th olwo is hand. The tingerstheo b-ach ou one side. the wrst the becha the other. "He holdeth. the wa t-.r in' t-he hollowv of his hand. Asc -o ie a pinch oif salt or powv drbetw-een your thumb and tw~o dnger's, so I saiah indiucates God takes un the earth. Hie measures ::Be dust of the earth, the original there indilcat ing that God takes all the dus:~' of ali the contiunrts bet1ween the thu-mb and two angers. You wrap aroaund vour hand a blue ribbon lve~ times, ten :.ine. You say it is five handbreaduhs, or it is ten uandbreadths. So indi cates the prophet God windcs the blue ribbon of the sky around hi ha'd. -'He n e:e'.h out "the heaen wit a span." You know that bala-'ce are made of a beam suspend c-nc thel middle ith tso) basitssath rei ty o' equial hih. In ~ thata what va-. * hetihas beena eie.it what are al t blnces c' earhy an--es that Isa'ah sa- suspend ed when Alps and the Ape-une- andi Mount Wahingtnc n -h ierra Nevads. It would not d> to iae tco maca weight in E it rov. too . w ein t T',e Bibie dtny ' sas * . ,Ld kuLe th wegh of tae great .s ta ens. the to)Ls. to plsa avoir1dagxais, ine ue.eraiu. the ml iums - ikt :..i.v - tyweighedi then, and( ja-t Lov m :uch tney wegu ted no N. --He weighed the mountains in s'ales and the hills in a balance." 0a, what a God to run against Oh. wat a God to disobey: Oh, what a God to disaonor: 0~. what a God to defy! The brightest, the mightiest angel takes no familiarity wita God. Tne wiugs of reverence'are lifted. With tmain he covered the face. Another seraphic posture in the text. Tue seraph must not al ways stand still. He must move, and it must be without clumsiness. There must be celerity and beauty in the movement. "With twain he did fly. Correction, exbilaration. Correcuon at our slow gait, for we only crawl in the service when we oughLt to ly at the divine bidding. Extilaration in tae fact that the soul has wings, as the seraphs have w.ngs. What is a wing iAn instrument of locomotion. They may not be like seraphs' wing, they may not oe like birds' wing, but the soul has wings. God says so. "He shall mount up on wings as eagles." We are in ide in the divine image, and Gad has wings. The Bible says so. -Healing in his wings." "L'der the shadow of his wings." "Under whose wings hast thou come to trust." The soul, with folded wing now, wounded wing, broke-a wing, bleeding wing, caged wing. Aye, I have it no v. Caged within bars of bone and under curtains o! tl sh, but one day to be free. I hear the rustle of pinions in Seagrave's poem, which we sometimes sing: It;e my soul, an.i 4tretch thy wing. I hear the rustle of pinions in Alex ander Pope's stanz i, where he says: I mount, I :!, o ieath, where is thy victorv' A dying Christian not long ago cried out, "Wings, wings, wings'" The air is full of them, coming and going, coming and going. You have seen how the duUl, sluggish chrysalis becomes the bright butterfly-the dull and the stupid and the lethargic turn ed into the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world we are in the chrysalid state. Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if we could only realize what a grand thing it will be to get rid of this old clod of the body and mount the heavens! Neither sea gull nor lark nor albatros nor fal con nor condor, pitching from high est range of Andes. so bouyant or so majestic of stroke. See that eagle in the mountain nest? It looks so sick, so ragged feathered, so wornout and so halt asleep. Is that eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will tell you it is the molting season with that bird. Not dying, but molt ing. You see that Christian sick and weary and worn out and seeming about to expire on what is cslled his deathbed? The world says he is dy ing. I say it is the molting season for his soul-the body dropping away,the celestial pinions coming on. Not dy ing, but molting. Molting out of darkness and sin and struggle into glory and into God. Why do you not shout? Why do you sit shiveriug at the thought of death and trying to nold back and wishing you could stay here forever and speak of depart ure as though the subject were filled with ttne skeletons and the varnish of coffins and as though you preferred lame foot to swift wing? Ob, people of God, let us stop play ing the fool and prepare for rapturous flight. When your sotl stands on the verge of this life and there are vast precipices beneath and sapphired domes above, which way will y ou 11y? Will you swoop, or will you soar ? Will you fly downward,or will you fly upward ? Everything on the wing tnis day boidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of the New Cove nant on the wing. Time on the wing, flying away from us. Eternity on the wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lifeless body will not soliloauize, say ing: "What a disappointinent life was to him; how averse he was to de parture; what a pity it was he had to die; wnat an awful calamity." R-ath er, standing- there, may they see a sign more vivid on your still lace than the vestiges of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy exit-the clearance from oppressive quarantine, the cast off chrysalid, the molting of the faded and the useless and the ascent from'z malarial valleys to bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to say, as they stand there con templating your humility and your reverence in life and your happiness in deatn, "With twain he cvere1 the feet, with twain he covered the face, with twain he did fly.'' Wings,wings, wings:~ ~:MC WASTED AT SCHOOL. Two Thirds of What is Learned is Forgot ten in Later Life. For a number of years Dr. J. M. Rice, of Baltimore, has given his at tention to the curricula of elementary schools, public and private, with a view to lessening the waste of time now common in such schools. His conclusions as to the extent of the waste caused by the undue prolonga tion c' the study of certain subjects as expressed in the Forum of January. are vtry s~iiking. The teachers of elementary topics are disposed, Dr. Rice thinks. to make 'o much of such topics, and this d' m> sition on the par t of teachers is encouraged for obvious reasons by publishers. When it is added that school truste -s and school commissioners, who e strol the teachers, are very often, cox: ous ly or unconsciously, under the en trol of publishers interested in scilug big books rather than little ones, itb comes tolerably clear that paterzace 1s es often cooperate to force cadidren to spend more time than they should over elementary subjects. Dr. Rice holds. tirst, that mere children shoul. not be made to learn more on a given suject than the average well informed aduit is expected to kro v and -econd lvha the' elemienta'- ch~ool coutrse sould note encumba e a e h mitters deigned solely for mental gv m nastics. Reading, writing and art"' t'c are usually. in his opinion, c. - too far. Wh en the pupil can re- an : dnary boook or newspaper artic ur ly wel, it is time to drop readi"ng as a distinct recitation. To pri'- tae chid in readiog for *ntorie - :t to enter upon tne retinm: 1d gancies of reading as a tine ar~ iS super :luous at t aiS stage o: t~ Cae ei s education. :$ of' speli. \\hen the child is a'le to spell corr-'ctlv th'e words in common use he may with protit give thie timeC of the speling lesson to something else. Much ener gs is was~ed on penma nship, which beond a certain point has no educa tonal value. A good, legible hand is wot' working for, but superfine pen m vi. wo~ith niceties of snading and ursa s not worth the time given t t i tiany schools. If the pupils m"s: for auy reason cultivate orna mental penmanship, he can do it wth greater success in later life when oon arrise for its pracicable use.| POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great ;eavenug strength and healthfulness. Assurei the food against alam and all forms of adul. teratioa common to the cheap brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDEr CO., NEW YORK. In arithmetic there is commonly a large waste of time in teaching sub jects which do not properly belong to arithmetic and subjects which are of use onliy to specialists or persons engag ed in certain lines of business At least two-thirds of what every child is com Delled to learn under the head of arith metic is later in life forgotten without practical inconvenience. Most chil dren of thirteen years know a vast deal more of the subject than their parents, even though the latter pos sess a collegiate education. Technical grammar, with parsing and analy.is, ought, in Dr. Rice's opinion, to be pretty well removed from the elementary curriculum. It is an abstract and diffiult subject, for which only the adult intellect is competent. Correctness of speech is the main thing and this may be help ed by learning something about the forms of words and the elements of syntax, but nothing beyond that should be attempted. As in arithme tic, so in grammer, the disposition of the teacher to make the most of his subject and of the publisher to have a big book to sell, operate conjointly to waste time required for more useful things. Geography is an interesting sub ject which is made offensive by the method in which it is taught and by the lengths to which certain features of it are extended. De. Rice is em phatic in his condemnation of the practice of making children memorize long lists of names unimportant towns and rivers in unimportant parts of the world. To require of them the lengths of rivers,the heights of mountains and lists of obscure ports, he thinks, is absurd. Four-fifths of the time given to geography is wasted. Much the same is to be said of history, when stress is laid upon memorizing of lo cal legends of trifling importance, lists of battles, with killed and wounded, names of kings, etc.. while losing sight of the main facts. Upon the whole, fully half the time given to elementary studies is, it is estimated, simply wasted. If the pruning knife were properly applied, time and money would be saved and there would be scope for subjects now crowded out. CliD Servica Examination. An examination of applicants for departmental positions at Washing ton will be held at Columbia March 24. A special ex aminer from Wash ington will conduct the examination. The civil service commissioners hav~e issued a pamphlet giviag full informa tion about theexamination, the places to be filled, etc. The pamphlet can be gotten from the commission at Wash ington, D. 0. Among other things the pamphlet states that male stenog raphers who have a speed of one hun dred words per minute are indemand, and those who pass the examination with f air grades stand a good chance of appointment at salaries of $840 or $900 per annum, with the prospect of promotion. The number of veterinary surgeons eligible for the position of meat in spector, Bureau of the Animal indus try, department of so-riculture, has not hitherto been equalto the demand. Appointments are made u.sually at salaries of $1,200 or $1,400 per an num. Applicants must be graduates of veterinary colleges. On the date and at the places fixed for ordinary departmental axaminations, applicants will also be examinied for the custodi an service for duties~ in cities where there are federal buildings. The po sitions include firemen, janitors, watchmen, engineers and elevator conducte.'.. Persons who pass any of these examinations will be registered for appointment to Euch positions in federal building, and they will also be registered for appoint nent to simi lar positions in departmental service at Washington, D). C. The salaries of these pcsitions range from $180 to S40 per annum, and the supply of eligibles has not heretoafore been equal to the demand. The pamphlet contains a list .of places in the engineer department at large, such as baker, blacksmith, blaster, boatman, gaixdener, cook and many other positions pertaining to the various trades and occupations, with salaries ranging from $480 to $40 per annum, for which no educa tional examination is required, the ap plicants for such positions being ex amined as to age, character as a work man, intelligence and experience and physical qualifications. The facts up on which the rating is based are brought out in the applic ation blank and accompanying certificates, so that no other ex amination is re qured than the furnishing of evidenc:: called for in the blank. The engineer depart ment at large has work in all parts of the country, and persons who are found eligible to positions are register e~ the district in wnich they live, so that their appointment will be to places as ncar their homes as practica ble. It is expected that large num bers of personS will be required for this service, and the commission de sires to make known the needs of the service, so that persons skilled in the trades, occupations, and various kinds of work pertaining to this branch of the service, may have an opportunity to apply. ________ Could Not Climb a Ladder. WASIsmTOo, March 6.--Miss Maud Stahlnecker, this city, who was recent l denied an appointment in the Ad jutart G.eneral's office, war depart ment, has been appotnted a clerk at ,20 in the state department. The duties of the otlice require a knowl edge of English, French, German and Spanish. It is said that after Miss Stahnecker had passed such a credit able e xamination for the place in the war depa:-tment, she was trned down because the duties of the otfice invol ved the frequent use of ladders in get ting down and putting back the rec ords, and consequently was regarded as not suitable to a lady. As one of the oiliciais quaintly put it: "Miss - Strahnecker was rejected because she :ould not climb a ladder."1