The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 27, 1892, Image 1
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THE HON- WAYNE MACVEAGH
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Why he Renounces the Republican
FaithThe
State.i
iiii.adelahia, Oct., 15.?Five
tl ousnml people were at the Acad
? omy of Music to night, to witness
the formal entrance into Democratic
r.l n 1/e # 1 I ? *?* \\7 u o no \ f ?? -? \T Art I Ur\
> uunu V* JL I I\?M. 1? "JliU I'lrt ^ II ) tuu
Attorney General, of President Garfield's
cabinet.
Tlio distinguished jurist was introduced
by Samuel (!. Thomas,
president of the Young Men's Democratic
Association, under the auspices
of which the meeting wite
held.
Mr. MacVeagh first returned
thanks for the comment to which he
has been subjected during the past
ten days, and said ho considered as
the greatest possble eulogy the declarations
of Christopher M.ugee and
David Martin, that they did not
think very highly of his political
oonsistpnnv nr nnlitinul inllnonnn
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"I novor sold my vote, he continued,
^iind I never whs a party, directly
or indirectly, to buying any
body else's vote. How, then, could
the Magees and the Martins of politics
think well of me?"
Mr. MacVeagh said he voted for
President Harrison in 1888, but all
his hopes have been disappointed,
and from that day to this the conviction
has been growing on his
mind that the general tendency of
the Republican partv was not onlv
inimical to the best interests of the
country, but unless checked, was
sure to result not only in making the
poor poorer, but the rich more selfish
and more corrupt, and, therefore,
less pati totie.
The speaker raid he cannot vote it
second time for Mr. llarr'son, be -i
cause of th" buying of tho McKin
ley bill by manufacturers and the
action of the present administration
toward Chile.
Mr. McVeagh said that in tho
State of Pennsylvania less than 12
tier cent, of its laborers can be em.
j>loyed in the industries which are
said to he benefited i>y high duties
upon imports. The American far
nior is deserving of a better fate
than that which has overtaken him
in the last twenty years. The total
depreciation in the valuation of farm
lands in this country since 1870 is
greater than the cost of any manufacture
in it: and vet, when the farmer
comes to bind his wheat, which
he must sell for the prices fixed in
Liverpool, and less than it costs him,
he is confronted by the fact that the
McKinley bill puts an artificial price
on the twine he must use.
The speaker then dwelt upon the
sugar trust and the reckless pension
legislation which followed the McKinley
bill.
Of silver, he said it has fallen in
its value more rapidly than lead or
iron. In the present year vast quan>
' titic8 of it have been mined at a cost
of 30 cents per ounce and sold to the
Government at over 70 cents per
ounce; so it is entirely probable that
our si.ver dollar is not now fairly
worth more than 50 cents.
* Taxed Farming and Protected
Manufacturing0
A protective tariff policy which
aims avowedly to foster and favor
our manufacturing interest above all
others, and which, in its working
does favor it at the expense of all
others, is based on the theory that
manufactures cannot thrive without,
help; that if left, to themselves they
would fall to the ground before foreign
competition; and therefore a tariff
which protects them from foreign
competition by imposing a duty of
.50 per cent on f reign goods is absolutely
necessary to enable our home
manufacturers to make a fair livimr
rtOf
course, as fanning is tlie vocation
that furnishes employment to the
largest number of persons in the
country, and is, in truth, the interest
which the country's prosperity
rests, farmers are the class on whom
their protective tax for the benefit
of manufactures chiefly falls. It is
assumed that farmers are so prosperous
that they cannot only get along
without protection for themselves,
but pay a good many millions a year
for the protection of the hard pushed
and distressed manufacturers.
It will be Only legitimate and pro
per, then, to compare manufacturing
and farming and their respective
earnings ami profits, and see whether
these assumptions are true or not?
whether manufacturers are the dis*
tressed class they pretend to be, and
farmers are the prosperous class so
i abundantly able to be taxed for the
manufacturers' benefit.
The value of all products of manu*
facture in the United States in 1870,
as shown.by the census, was $5,369,000,000.
The (value of materials
used was about, $3,324,000,000 in
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round numbers, or two-fifths the
value of the gross product; so that
thojo was $2,000,000,000 represented
; i . /?. nu
in wages anu proms, i ne amount actually
paid our in wages was *047,000,000;
more than half the two
thousand million, less incidental expenses,
therefore went to profits.
Manufacturing has greatly increased
in the number of establishments, the
capital invested, tlie number of persons
employed and the value of the
product. The value of the total product
in 1887 was estimated at ?0,000,000,000,
and for 1801 it was not
less than $7,000,000,000 -three fifths
of which, or $4,200,000,000, was the
cost of merterials used, and two-lifths
or $2,800,000,000, was wages and
profits.
The value of all farm products in
1870 was $2,13,000,000, or a little
more than the value of manufactures
less the value of materials. But this
I enure crop value was the product of
7,070,01)0 persous engaged in farming,
while the nearly equal sum of
$2,000,000,000 was the product of
only 2,700,000 engaged in manufacj
taring; so that manufacturing yield
ed nearly three times as much value
per hand as farming did; or, to put
the matter in another shape, the
average product per hand in farming
was $290 a year and in manufacturing
#740.
Tho farm product of the country
has increased in 1879 as well as tho j
manufacturing product; that is, it has
increased in quantity, though t here j
arc good reasons for doubting that!
the value of it is considerably great-1
el*. The corn crop lias grown from 1
1,717,000,000 bushels in 1880 to 2,- '
000,000,000 bushels to 012,000,000 j
bushels; oats from 117,000,000 bush !
els to 751,000,000 bushels; cotton j
from 6.400.000 bales to 8,000,000
bales; and it may be assumed that
while a few of the minor crops have I
declined in quantity, most of them
hive increased. Out while there has
been a considerable increa e in the
quantity of the agricultural product,
there lias been, unfortunately, a
steady decline in prices, and this re
duotion has told heavily against the!
agricultural interest. Between the
years 1880 and 1887 there was a de
cline in the value of all the grain
I crops of the country of $260,000,000
j arid this although there was an increase
in the amount of them of 600,000,000
bushels. It was estimated
by good authorities that the corn
crop of 1880 was worth to the producers
of it $80.48G,000 less than that I
of 1870; the wheat crop *89,000,000
le.'S; the oats crop *43,000.000 loss;
showing rt loss in these three cereals
of $212,406,000, notwithstanding
the quantity raised in 1880 was great
er than that in 1879 by 777,000
| bushels.
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i no crops or tno present year
| make but little better showing, the
prices of the great staples being so
low as to provoke from farmers the
I oomp'aint that tln-y do not pay them
for the cost of raising them. Even
taking the vory largest estimate that
the case will allow, the total value of
tho creps of 1892 will not be greater
than $2,51)0,000,000 which divided hy
8,500,0(50, the number of persons ongaged
in producing them, gives only
$295 per hand.
There are no returns of manufacturing
sufficient to show what the
earnings per capita are for the whole
country. But the last census shows
that they were $740 in 1879, and tho
report of manufactures of Massachusetts
for 1888 furnishes information
to guide us in an estimate. This
report shows that the manufacturing
product for each hand employed has
I largely increased in that State in tjic
last ten years, chiolly through the
introduction of more effective machinery
and improved processes, and ,
that the average product of 175,000
persons employed in 1,140 factories
was $830.
While, therefore, the average value
of farm work is $295 per hand, the
average value ot manufacturing
work per hand in tho leading factory
State has gone up from $740 to $830.
That is, while the average value of
a farmer or a farm hand's labor is j
$205 a year, the averatre value of a!
factory hand's labor is $83^) a year.
Can that bo a fair and s equitable
policy, then, which favors the most
prosperous interest in the country at
the cost of the least prosperous and
most depressed one? Is it not most
unfair and unwise to tax an interest
that pays only $295 a year per handf
for the protection of another that
pays $830 a year??It on. Ur. L.
Wilson, in St, Lonia tlapuhlir.
Not Wanted in IowaDes
Moines, la., Oct. 15.?Mrs.
Lease, of Kansas, is booked for a
numbar of speeches in Iowa. It G.
Scott, chairman of the People's party
State committee, today telegraphed
her that if the publised reports that
she had advised the Populists to
vote for Harrison were true, she need
not com? into the State.
The bronze cents, such as aro in
circualtion now, were first coined in
1864.
James Cope, of Martin's Ferry, O;,
claims to havo an almauao for tho
year 1660. .
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"Be True (? You
>NWAY, S. C.,
The Cat Out of the Bag.
From The Washington National
i Democrat.
The Philadelphia Press, edited by
i one of Mr. Harrison's closet frionds,
| Mr. Emory Smith, his lato minister
l co Russia, has No courage to say
j plainly what all observant men have
j known all the time, viz., that it is the
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policy aim purpose or mo republican
party to enact a force bill lint The
Tress is frank enough to urge a
reason for it beyond mere political
power, and declarers that to pass the
Lodge election bill is to destroy the
dangerous competition that southern
prosperity erects against New Kngi
land cotton goods and Pennsylvania
! iron.
Or, in other words, the real,down
, right republican north seeks to over
whelm the south with another ruin,
after the south hns so far risen
from the ashes of the war as to com
pete with the northern states in
| commerce and manufactures.
If ? single man or woumn in the
j south ever had any doubt about the
fiendish intentions of the radicals.
! let the folloing word of The Philadelphia
Press settle the doubt and
determine the only w? to avoid the
destruction proposed for that section.
IF THIS DEMOCRATS HAD
NEVER BEEN ALLO U'KI) To
REGAIN CONTROL OF THE
STATE GOVERNMENTS OF
THE SOUTH, NORTHERN OA V1TAL
WOULD NEVER HAVE
EMBARKED IN THE DEVEL
OPMENT OF SOOTHEUN COAL
AND IRON: AND THE SUREST
AND STEED 1 EST WAY TO PI IT
A STOP TO THIs COMPETI
TION FROM MEN WHO ARE
OUR POLITICAL ENEMIES, AS
WELL AS TO CARRY THROUGH
\M> ENFORCE MEASURES
LIKE THE LODGE ELECTION
LAW. *
Mr. Smith is not only a republican
who fires the northern heart with a
reflection of burning Columbia and
the general destruction of war, but
he is also a business man who puts
the proposed fo;ce t?ill in the front
as a material necessity to ruthlessly
destroy the progress of the south,
and utterly ruin it, because, forsooth
it competes with northern interests.
The most rabid secessionist never
artributed to the men like Ben Butler
anything t8o .virulent and fiendish
us this open declaration of the
radieal organ, Mr* Smith, late minister
to Russia, has learned the an
ninir I Kai*l\ui?Ana 1%. 1 .?f ?' <??*"
U'VIIV "Illinium uiutiiuii ill nil' I'/lills
and added something to the deviltry
of Boss Heed and such other malign
spirits of the republican party, from
whom the destructive policy emanated.
Mr. Smith did not carry a musket
like a brave soldier, and thereby
learn to respect the southern people
as sill the real soldiers did. He was
one ot the flock of political kites
that represented ill omen and harted
After presenting a picture of the
utter wreck of the south, he gloats
over it in the following terms:
AND IF W K OA N 0 N 0 E M 01J E
0 ET T11EM INT() T1110 CO N DITlOX
THEY WE HE BEFORE
187G WE WONT HEAR ANY
MORE ABOUT Oil EAR IRON
AND CHEAP COTTON GOODS
PROM THE SOUTH, THEY
WILE i! AVE OTHER THINGS
TO THINK ABOUT.
Thank you Smith! The democrats
appreciate the picture, and there
are certain things that ate the picture,
and there certain things that
they will think about now, and
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among others.is the resolve to bring
out the unanimous vote of the party
which has long been in the majority
and another is to cut off from the
study of monarchical customs in
Ri -sin all such (1. O. P. partriots as
tin editor of The Philadelphia Press.
Mrs- Lea Sells Out.
New York, Oct. 15.?A special
from Topeka, Kansas, says; The
sensation of the day in Kansas is the
iutciview with Mrs. Lease, who has
been accompanying Gen. Weaver on
his tour through the Southern States.
She recites the indignities they 'vcre
subjected to, and then dec-ares that
if a vote for Weaver is iu reality a
vote for Cleveland in this State, her
desire is that the Populists scratch
their ticket and vote for the Harrison
electors.
..rs. Lease is, next to Jerry Simpson,
the strongest leader of tiic Kansas
Populist, and her expressed
wishes have caused great consternation,
not only in her own party but |
among' tho Democrats. She concedes
every Southern State to Cleveland,
and therefore, at this late day,
indicates her preference for Harrison,
Iter advice will be followed
by many, but at this time it is impossible
to say to what extent*
[Mrs Lease has denied this interview
. En.]
Tho altitude of El Paso, in the
trans-Pecos territory of Texas, is 3,830
feet above the sea,
Chtckers or draughts were known
to the anoient Egyptians, and pictures
4,000 yesrs old represent a quarrel
over the game.
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THURSDAY O
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THE SONS OF GIDEONNorUi
Carolina Stirred Un Oyer
the Day's Disclosures.
Atlanta ('(institution.
Raleigh, N. C., October l'.h--Spo
eciall A sons ?t ion todav is the com
plolc exposure of the order of (lidefeniies
in North Carolina. Chairi
man Simmons, of the democratic
state executive committee, makes itand
gives as proof letters from M. L.
Reed, of Ashvi! >, and .). S. Hell, of
Camden county.
Reed swears that S. Otho Wilson
I was grand chief of the order when
ke was initiated and that there wore
congressional district chiefs and
cout.IV chiefs.
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Heed whs initiited by Wilson,
who had th mi just returnod from In
dianapolis. W'ilron was a great alliance
worker anil in that guise was
working for the third party and or
gani/.ing the Sons of (Jideon. Reed
says the penalty for failure to obey
the obligations is very severe
Bell makes a complete exposure,
stutiup tb it Wilson last December
i urged him to become a member, the
conversation being in the presence of
dames Brinson, alliance lecturer of
the lirst district. Bell said he could
not consent to join unless Wilson
j lirst revealed fully the character and
I purpose of the order. Wilson then
j gave details and also read the obligations
lie wished Bell to take.
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The latter found there were to be
J only thirty members in caeh county
or 3000 in each congressional dis!
trict, an 1 all specially chosen for in
1 llucnco and men who could he relied
( upon in an emergency. It was made
i me ?M11\ ol all to implicitly ? bey all
; orders of supervisors.
Wi!soii slated that tl>o purpose of
the organization was to furilier the
thinl party movement. Bell toM
Wi'san that he regit riled the organi
zntion its very dangerous and that it
would result in the extinction of the
alliance and defeat of the third parte.
Wilson said he had made lined ehiel
of the ninth district and that Brinson
wO'ihl ho chief of the (Irs district.
Democrats t:day call upon the
grand jurors to present Wilson ami
those who liavo joined with him in
this outrageous violation of the state
law and constitution. The latter in
strument prohibits absolutely any
OoAI'ot /venr.? ^ I..- 1 i ?
lo^bitv oigmiiMiiiiiiin ui any num. ;vr
rests h'*h liable to be made at any
time and will, if made, result in the
greatest sensation of lb s remarkable
exciting campaign.
Democrats are extremely indignant.
Chairman Simmons says tint until
publication of these letters there was
no tangible proof of tho existence of
Gideon's Hand, but that they are
now conclusive and he submits them
in full confidence that the people'
will rebuke the desperate agitators
who dare introduce that organization
into North Carolina.
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Potection" for Farmers
[From the Now York Times,]
"PertatersI pertaters!" exclaimed
a Connecticut farmer who was talking
tariff with a young man whom
he had fallen in with on the train. >
"I guess you didn't ketch my mean
in', did ye? I asked you to tclr mo
how us farmers got any good out
of the tariff. Wasn't that what I
asked ye?"
"Yea" answered the young men.
"I'd been tellin ye" resumed the!
farmer, "how I had to pay more for;
thiiiL'S that 1 used e.lot.hin' and
such things as that and then I turn
ed arounu and said: 4Now, what is
they on the other side? I tow do us
farmers get anything out <>f thu tar-:
iff? You spoke and said': 4 J low ,
about pcrtators?' A n't that the way
of it?"
"Yes, that's tlie wav I remember
it."
4 JFell, what do you mean anyhow?
Do you mean that the tariff of 25
cents a bushel on portaters makes
my portaters worth any ntouren they
would be worth if thev was no tariff?"
"'Why, yes; doesn't it?"
"Donesn't it? Well, no, it doesn't
W hy, I had 250 bushels of portaters
1 a few years ago* One day I loaded
! up two big wagons and went down
j to Bridgeport. I went into a store j
down there, and says 1: 'Hallo,
Sim, want to buy a hund'ol bushels
pertateiv?'
' He picked up a counter weight
drew back his hand, and suugout*
'You git out of this store. There
hasn't been a man in hero for two
months who hasn't tried to soli mo
pertaters.'
444 Wbntare they wuth,' says I.
'"Nothing* to me', says he, 4l'vo
got seven hundred bushel ratlin' i
down in the cellar now. The mar
ket price i6 <15 cents, but nobody!
wants them at any price '
"So I foiftid it. 1 managed to
get rid of one load, but the other
I had to take home with mo."
"But," pleaded tho young man.
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tliat was before the McKinley Act1'
"But there was a tariff just tin
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' sitiuu?i.> ecu is a ousnei. it woul
dn't have intulo any difference
though, if tho tariff had boon $1U(
a bushel; Bridgeport would have
been just as full of {Mu tators.
"Well, the next year it was <hf
forcnt. A feller catno to my house
olio day. 'I'll give you a dollar n
bushel for all the portat'us you'vgot,'
says he* *l?y Cleorgo,' says In
'they ain't any pertaters hi Bridge
port this year at all We can't hardly
keep tip with our customers' ordors.'
"Now, the fa rill' was just tho same
one year as tho other, and it had
just as much to do with niakin' the
price one year us the other, and t hat
was uothin' at all. When it comes
i to pertaters 1 don't give a continental
dang about tariff, (live me a
good crop of perta'ers, an I have
'em portater hungry down to Bridge'port,
and the pauper laborers of (danady
and Now Scoshy can go plumb
to tho ()ld Niok.
"I guess you kind of think you
made a mis'ako talkin' to mo about
tho tariff on pertaters being a bios
sing to us farmers, don't you? Pro
bahly you think you ought to have
said eggs or wheat, or something
else, hut you're wrong about that,
again. There was a time when I
wouldn't have known to say if a man
had cotno to me and showed what a
grist of protection they was in the
tarill' f r us farmers, but, I know
more about, it, now, and I tell you the
farmers all through my section arc
gettin' posted.
"We Tint so green, quite, as we
i USed lo be.''
A 1 >VIC12 TO fit 5CI.S. *
Can y<?u row gracefully? Canyon
pla> the piano or violin charmingly?
Can Xou embroider, paint, and make
fancy work? (Jan you speak Trench
or (iermtin Uncutly? I)o you read
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> 1 I in I ill vol. I|W>V"1 Ull'l IXOfc'p U'ilCK
of all tlio Inlet "fads?" "Why,
certainly, where do yon think wo
havo Ix.'cn educated?
Can you sw< op a room, and dust,
and urur'on \ m furnituiv tastily?
Can you cook? If you cannot, what
kind of a ho.nl' do yo t oxpoct to
havo whon you havo full charge of
one yourself? You may never ex
poet to do su<-h work, but if you do
not know how to do it, yourself and
are not able to do it, your servant,i
if you ever havo one, will soon find
it out and I hen will conio your 8tru<jgh*.
In the words of Kate Field,
"if you do not know how to do these
things, in the nanio of common
sense, of I ho man you propose to
marrv, of the friends who may visit
you, of an innocent posterity, don't
rest until you have learned the busi
nesk of almost, every woman's life
which is to keep house well and
economically. The woman who
cannot turn her servants out of
doors and do their woik better than
tllC h.>0 Of ill,'111 )lHU !>'? nwrlif
marry unless she lias money enough
in her own right to employ a skilled
housekeeper to carry out her orders."
i What is more pitiable than a bride
whose servant lias left her and who
does not know how to take up the
work of her house? Young housekeepers
with all their new furniture
and numerous dainty ornaments and
brio a-brae have need to know how
to care them. Many homes have
been almost ruined by the wife not
knowing how to cook food properly.
I do not wish to have anyone think
t hat eating is the chief concern in a
home. But Some one has said that
the best way to "touch a man's heart
is through his stomach." Men are i
quiet apt to wish to take thoir dinners
down town, or they w'U "have
to meet a man" about supper time, I
or (ind out excuses to keep tliom
away, if the homo is not inviting. |
Mothers so often make the mistake I
of sliioldg(?) their daughters from
work and care, thinking it will ho ,
time enough for iliein to learn when 1
they are in their own homes. This
is such a mistake, for when they are
in their own homes and all alone, it
is too much for them to undertake
all at once. How much better it is
for them to take up lirst olio part
of tli" work and then another, while
they are with their mothers, and
have her to direct them and shyw
them which is the oasieat and 1> -st
way to do the work. Th?ro are so
many ways to do the same thing and
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uii.cn uie hardest w..y i--, chosen, |
when, had, tliey been guided by a;
loving hand, it would have been
much easier for thcin. It is well to
have them take up some particular
work and for a time have full re
sponsibilty for i'. For instance,
bread making, llavo your daughter
for a Certain length of time,
take full charge of keeping the family
supplied with bread. '1 his is not
such a simple thing as it may soom
for with bread making should go
everything that can be made of
bre?d dough, such us different kinds
of biscuits, rolls, puddings, bread
cake, dumplings, etc. By the time a
girl has had full charge of that work
for say two months, she will understand
it thoroughly, and will have a!
good^ foundation upon which to
build. The main articles of food
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should bo understood first, and then
? the delicacies can bo taken uj> easily.
- Thou for another length of time
. she should havo tho caro of the din)
| i'?g room 01 parlor and soon until
> sh? has had experience utid practice
in every lino of housework. It is
not every ono who cau sweep and
arrange a room tastily. It may ho
i clean, hut has not a pleasing effect
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u? muibc ? iiu'rin;- uu1 room. .\ yout :g
i housekeeper was regretting that she
hail never l?cen taught order. Her
house was clean hut it did not look
as if it. were, for it was never in or
I dor. There would ho a pile of things
here and a pile there. Tito presses
drawers were never shut properly,
if they happened to shut straight it
was well, but if they stuck out a
i little way it was not noticed. Order
us something that is very important
in house-keeping. If a house is in
order, even if if isaelegantly furnishoil,
if has a pleasing effect. It is
more important now that girls should
i ho taught everything pertaining to
housekeeping than it was in our
grandmothers' time. Then an old
and competent servant was usually
given .i daughter at marriage ami
it was not necessary for lmr to have
the rare of those things. It is not
so now. Kveryone must know for
herself and be,capable of taking up
the \\ tI< whenever it is nrcusasru it
site wonUl not greater accomplishment
than to bo "queen of your kitchon."
Music, art, French and all otli- i
er so called accomplishments are
good for nothing if you have not a
pleasant homo. Hut have them bar
moni/.ed with \o\\v -homo-making
and your household will bo happy. .
IHirririin / '<irm A\ irst
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AN Alt ItOW AT A V KNTU Itlb
One evening (he Hev. Newman
Hall was preaching to a crowded
j congregation. Somewhat a ido front
his usual manner, lie was treating
his theme in a calm and even philosophic
or scientific way. Suddenly
the thought Dashed through his
mind, ' This is not what some one
here may need.'' In an instant, and
with a sort of undefined inspiration,
he broke abruptly from the train of
(thought which he had been fol ?w,
ing, and oxclainod in some i h
words as those. "Perhaps thoiv mav
I Kn u,...w. nnn? ... ,?.l -II 1 ' ---
j vyv o- '"i?V JMJVi U IIIIUl'l Jill 1
j under tho sway of intoxicating li?(
I nor who has strayed in hero to night,,
Perhaps ho has reached the point
f where lie is just ready, and on the
way to end his own life as u refuge
from the horn bio bondage. 'JO stud)
a one I call, 0 peer and lot! one.
. Christ is waiting to help and save.
Ho can and ho will save and help if
| yon but will now call upon him in
your trouble and sinfulness.'' Having
made t his sudden appeal, ho re
sinned his discourse.
Some weeks afterwards his a is
taut come to him and said: "f have
j just met a very interesting and even
I strange er.se in my visitings. 1 have
found a poor woman, evidently near
her end. She has been dissipated,
and her disease is probably tlic
result of h -r excesses, but she seems
?o he having a good hope in Jesus
Christ, clearly resting on his salvation.
She tells me this story: On
iiwci'k night some mouths since she
was on her way, in her despair and
agony, to one of the bridges with a
(ixed determination to cast herself
into the river. A* she wont toward
the bridge, she passed the door of
! our chapel, Seeing it lighted and
i hearing your voice, she stopped and
j stood at the door. .lint then yon
looked up >ind spoke to her as if you
j knew what was in her mind; told her
of the Lord Jesus, an 1 urged her to
iconic to him. She knew that you
spoke to her, and she took the message
to her limn. Site seems by it
to have been led to embrace him as
her Saviour, and to bo peacefully
waiting till ho shall take her to him1
self."- AV.
o
IJi:.\tJTIFLIi IJVKS.
10very man feels instinctively that I
all the beautiful sentiments in the
world weigh less than a single lovely
action; and that while tenderness of
feeling and suscept:bility or generous
emotions are accidents of life,
permanent goodness is an achievement
and a duality of the life "l-'inn
words/' says one homely proverb, i
"butter no parsnips/' and it' the
question be how to render those veg !
( tables palatable, an ounce of butter
would bo worth more than all the
orations of Cicero. The only con-!
elusive evidence of a man's sincerity I
is that he gives himself for a princi j
pie. Words, money, all things else,
are comparatively easy t<? give away;'
bat when a man makes a gift of his
daily life and practice, it is plain
that tho truth, whatever it may bo,;
lias taken possession of him. Front j
that sincerity his words gain the
foreo and pertinency of deeds, and
his money is no longer the pale j
drudge 'twixi man and man, but by
a beautiful magvs, what orewhile bore
the image and superscription of
Crosar seems now to bear the imago
and superscription of God.?./. It tinsel
I Loirtll.
New York city is the only city
whtch'has a one-armed bartender.
NO; 15
General NewsMrs.
llrrrison, wife of President
IlurrUon, continuea^ery ill.
A mlimber of people, and many
sheep ami entile, poria'ied in a recent
snow storm in Colorado.
The remains of Lord Tennyson
were interred in Westminister Abbey,
London, on tbe 12th inst.
A Columbus statue was unveiled
at Baltimore on the 12th inst. Car
dinnl (liobons made the address.
It is estimated that over 300,000
persons nave died from cholera in
j Kussia sine * the outbreak of the
scourge in that country.
The finost block of buildings in
j West Point, Miss., was destroyed by
tire on the 15th inst. Loss. $70,000;
insurance, $35,000.
A largo cotton factory in Clarke
county, (la., was recently destroyed
by fire. Los*, $130,000. The build*
ing will replaced at once.
Tho Bristol, Pa., rolling mill has
" .s ponded operations indefinitely,
uuowing i.>u men out <>t work.
These mills formerly mauufacta red
large quantities of cotton ties for the
j Southern markets.
Tim Columl/us festivities began nt
j Madrid, Spain, On the 12th inst.
jTliecity was beautifully decorated.
American II igs were conspicuous.
The World's Fair buildings
at Chicago were dedicated last
week. The illness of Mrs. Harrison
prevented the attendance of the
President.
A boiler explosion in a roiling
null at Portsmouth, <)., last Saturday,
killed two men and injur I a score of
others, some of whom will probably
die. Puss on boilers and building,
*10,000.
A partial eclipse of the sun will
occurred on the 20th of thi month,
which was visible throughout
almost the whole i North America
if the day bo clear.
An explosion in a piper mill at
( Iniiin M'lino mi f ii I I ! iii t I II
led two persons, injure I several
others, and destroyed ^.'J()U,OrtO worth
of property. Over ono hundivd and
fifty persons thrown out of employment.
A Chicago dispatch announces
that ATr. Charles T. Yerkos, of that
city, has authorized !Vol's. ?. W.
Hurnhan and Heorgo K. little to
secure for the. i niversity of Chicago
the finest and largest telescope in the
world. Tho only condition attached
to this timely gifts is that the instrument
shall bo tho best. And Mr.
Alvan (1. Clark, of telescopic fume,
has undertaken to supply a lens of
forty live inches diameter, just eleven
inches greater than the <vondcifnl
glass at tho Lick Observatory. -X.
Y. Herald.
Special services commemorative of
the discovery of America were held
in most of the churches in New York
( ity Sunday the 9th inst. The groat
Columbus celebration began on Monday.
The city was elaborately decorated
and great crowds wore in attendance
from all parts of the country.
Tho feature of the day was tho
parade of school children, in which
twenty-live thousand took part.
Tuesday the naval parade took place.
pro\ing a grand success. Aftnerican',
Italian anil Spanish crnist rs participated.
On the afternoon of the same
day a parade of the united Catholic
societies occurred, in which about
twenty-tfvo thousand engaged. At
night a magnificent display of flroworks
wore? exhibited on Brooklyn
bridge. Wednesday was a legal holiday,
and on this day the big military
parade took place. It is estimated
that there were over thirty live
thousand men in line. It is said to
have been the greatest military parade
ever witnessed in America. After
the military demonstration the Columbos
Monument was unveiled in
Central Park. Speeches were made
by prominent. Italians and Americans.
In the evening an attractive civic
parade preceded by live thousi.nd
wheelmen carrying lanterns occurr" 1.
Many gorgeous floats were in this
procession. On Thursday the groat
fete closed with a magnificent banquet,
at which several hundred
prominent men were present. I res:dont
Harrison wh > was prevented
from being present by the illness of
his wife, was represented by vioo
President Moiton.
llcrgmunn, the man who is serving
a term ff twenty one years in
the penitentiary at Pittsburg, l\v.,
fo1" shooting If, O. h'rtek of the Car
negio Company, made an unsuccessfill
attempt to escape several days
ago. lie jumped from the top of
ttie prison wall to the groun 1, forty
feet below, and began to run, but
was shot through tho leg by a guard.
-O- ?
An Kast Boothbay (Me.) man is
engaged in supplying New York and
Now Jersey summer resorts with
seals, which are very plentiful along
the Maine coast. These seals do vorv
well for seashore attractions, being
objects of unfailing interest to the
summer visitors.