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TA TTRFNJS ^ r . WEDNESDAY NOV MB EBER ^7, 19 ,1 VOL. XVII NO. 17. SEN. MXAUBtN TN NW YORK He Defines the McKinley Doc trines?Trade and Commerce Mnst be Extended. Senator John L. McLaurin, of South Carolina, spoko al the Lmuqin l of the Now York Chamber of Commerce on the i '.'Hi inst., responding to llio sonti ment " Tho Monroo Dectrino of tho j Twentieth Century." Ho said : Mr. President and Gentlemen: This is ossonlially a eomnioi cial ago. Iis pro* dominating spirit is ulilitari<in rather than political or sentimental. The rul ing quoblion today with all nations is, wliai can wo do to further industrial developiuont and obtain substantial business pr? spcritj? All political ques- i tions are subordinated to this. The promulgation of tho " Monroo J)octrino *? was considered a bold aud pretentious propaganda on the part of an infaut republic. It was an opon defiance of tho mouaichies of Kuropo, who were combined lo discourago and prevent tho spread of tho spirit of hu man freedom, which was the founda tion slono of our republic. It was a declaration that wo dobirod independ ence, and sought to avoid all entangling alliances with other nations. At that time it was tho only policy under which we could have oxtended our territory and free political institutions upou this com incut. Any othov policy would have wrecked our government, and been an insurmountable barrier to our national growth, prosperity and prog ress. What a vast difforonco now. Then we wero a fcoblo republic strug gling for moro existence. Today, in tbo ??' fin ? of government, in inventivo ability, in the sciences, arts and indus trial enterprise, our nation has out stripped all others, and challenges them to a contest for commercial su premacy. We havo becomo tho greatest export nation of tho world. Our republican form of government is no longer an untried experiment. With her vast wealth and population tho United Stales has already become tho might iest potentiality on this earth for prog ress, civilization and human freedom. The growth of our country, tho de velopment of our natural resources, and that closer kinship betweeu nations brought about by modern invention, had lout; before forced a change in our policy. The Spanish war was tho occasion, not the cause. The report of Dowoy's cannon in Manila bay waA but the for mal announcement to tho world of what you eall on your programme u The Twentieth Century Monroe Doctrine," but which 1 call tho " McKinley Doc tri.ie," and as such wdl bo known to future ages. We could no longer confine our in stitutions and our destiny to this con tinent, but were compelled, by uncon trollable events, to seek fraternity with other nations and to reach out for new channels of trade. With the eye of a prophet, the sa gncity of a statesman and tho inspira tion of a true patriot, President Mc Kinley grasped tho changed situation, and proclaimed to tho world that tho United States had become one of the great world-powers of the earth, and had entered the arena of nations to contend with them for commercial su promacy. It was a bold policy, but oue which promised to mako the United Stales the leading political and com mercial power of tho world. The McKinley doctrine was : First. That^ as our own manifold productions largely excoeded home con sumption, the expansion of teriitory, trado and commerce, was tho only means of creating markets for our sur plus products. Second. That, as a nation with a (irmly established constitutional gov ernment and enlarged national obliga tions, we could no longer abstain from participation in tho affairs of tho world, but must tako our share of tho respon sibility. Third. That, while maintaining tho doctrino that no government on Iho American continent must be interfered with, or controlled by any European power, yet wo must cultivate friendly relations with them, and bo prepared to seek and control our share of tho trado of tho world. Fourth. That wo should not and could not as a nation snfely shrink from the full performance of all tho responsibilities caAt upon us, but must movo forward to tho fulfillment of our national destiny. These propositions nmbraco tho " McKinley Doctrine," which will be to the TwcntiAlh century what tho Monroe Doctrino was to tho Nine teenth. It proclaims to tho world that wo are ablo not only to maintain at homo our system of government, but wo are willing and prepared to extond its blessing to mankind. Tho nnciont Ci recks had a mystic torch race, in which the tired runner handed tho lighted brand to somo fresh racer, who bore it onward to tho goal. Washington, Monroe, Pierce, Lincoln and McKinley have boon tho myetic torch bearers iit American his lory. In this enlightened and progressive age national prosperity ft not the favor of fortune, but is won by national en terprise and activity. To be idlo and wait for other nations to pour commer cial advantages into tho lap of tho United States is to ro ign oursolves to a condition of helplessness. If, as a nation, wo would enjoy the commercial fruits we need and deslie, we must, like individuals, make national ventures and heroic efforts. In his last public utterance Provident McKinley showed that he tiuly appre hended the ?itUAllon, and outlined a policy which will go down in hiolory inseparably linked with hh naiuo, and which will mako his administration one of tho most conspicuous) and important in the history of the re public. In future, ages, whon our commerce shall whiten overy soa an ocean, and the unexampled prosperity of this coun try b? the wondor of tho world, millions of Americans will feel a deop debt of gratitudo to tho statesman who put the mpntono on the groat arch begun by Washington, Monroe and Jenfereon. His virtues and noble deods will be omba>med in the hosrla of hin country men, and the *' McKinley Doctrine " will be car chart and compass until sre cuinplelo auolhcr cyclo in nattonal lifo, and another move bo made upward and onward. Il is a policy iu accord with tho com mercial spirit of tho age, and tho prin ciple erabrnccd in it aro tho only ones which, iu their mainlonauco, promiso the stability of tho nntion ana the full accomplishment of our national dosliuy. Mere theorists and unprogressivu poli l.ciau8 ma} ridicule ihocommercialism [ uf tho ago, but these linger in the j shades of the past, and have not seen the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar ' of flro by night which aro bockoniug us onward. No notion ovor nun, or ovor will reach* its destined goal by standing still and adiioriug to old theories ???? suited to clmnged condition". Tho events and policies of tbu past are only useful to the extent they unfold others, demanded by and adapted to the ever ehnnging future. With an accomplished increase of our products and the natural develop ment of our natural resources, an ex pansion of our trade was an imperative necessity. Quo of the means for this was the announcement that wo would no longer confine our political and commercial activities to tho American continent, hut proposed to extend our territory and spheie of uoliiieal in iluoncc. Tho acquisition of the Philippine islands afforded a splendid opportunity for a practical illustration of our uew propaganda, it wns an expansion of tci i ilory in a region of tho world which promised not only rich rowards iu tho way of commerce, hut political consequences of great moment to ihe Uuitod States. Another feature of this policy is a merchant marine and an isthmian ca nal. Our wcaknoes upon tho sea is tho one great danger confronting tho nation. Without merchant bhips and trained seamen our navy lacks an in dispoii8ablo rcsourco in timo of na tional danger. American products must be carried abroad in American ships, manned by American seamen. Our products should, be at the mercy of our competitors. If they subsidize their ships, thou wo must adopt pro tective measures for the encourage ment of ours, or suffer tho euro dis graeo and loss which.comes to any na tion when deprived of its mariuo de fense and powor. For my part I would rather voluularily pay a small tribute to American shipowners than to bo at tho morcy of a foreign busi ness rival, amd compelled to pay him such tribute as ho may exact. Reciprocity treaties conslituto an other feature of this "Twentieth Cen tury Monroo Doctrine" Reciprocity is nothing but carrying out of the con stitutional mandate, "that Congross shall have power to regulate commcice with foreign nations." Id was lirst done by Andrew Jackson witti relation to discriminating duties upon foreign shipr, and brought iuloactivo trade under Franklin Fierce The principle of tho regulation under this clause was to bo that of reciprocity?that is, trade was not to bo free on one side and fettered on Uio other, that good 4 were not to bo taken from a foreign country free of duty or at a low rate. This was Democratic doctrine, acted upon by all tho loaders of tho party in tho early days of tho republic. This doctrine of reciprocity was carried out in connect ion with tho American system of pro tective tniiff, which begau in 1780. fho second act which Stauda on tho 8laluto books bearing the signature of Washington laid the cornerstone of tho wholo system. In tho earlier days of tho government, the tariff was not a sectional question. Protection was first advocated in a bill introduced by Lowndcs, of South Carolina, and sup ported by Calhoun, Chcvos and Clay; Daniel Webster and other Now Eng land Senatois opposing it. Owing to tho blight of sluvery tho South devoted itself to agriculture, and the North to manufacturing. Hence, ono section received all tho benefits, and tho olhei boro all .the burdens of a protective tariff. This condition is now impossi ble. Manufacturing is developing moro in tho South than iu the North. What we need iu this country today is a non-partisan patriotism and states manship more devoted to tho building up of our common country than to parly success. Great national is&ucs, involving the glory of our republic and its triumphant success, as a free con stitutional government, should not bo d war fed into sectional and partisau questions. Let us hold to all that is best In our past, but evor looking for ward and upward to whore Columbia's sun is already dazzling the oyos of tho world by its glories in war and its I triumphs in poaco, let us stand shoul [ der to shoulder, good Amoricans, no matter what our politics or what our section. All signs indicate that our modern civilization is approaching ono of those momentous crises that occur periodi cally in the history of tho human race. The American republic is the pioneer nation of human freedom, the hope of the world. It is here that the pjob lem of ages must be solved?how to give oach man his rights and still maintain organized society. Antago noslic oleroonts of fearful force at work. Tho miscreant who laid our President low, aimed not at William McKinley. It soems as if all prophecy pointed to America as tho llnal battle between error and truth, and it may bo that wo aro near the flold of Ar mngcddon, dimly seen by poet and painter, whoro the brute nature of man and his immortal soul join in tho great battle, which tho Good Hook tolls us ?hall ptcccdo the dawn of that era of "Peace on earth and good Will toward men." A Whoaton, 111., lady, who had 14 Iriod everything in vain until I com menced taking your valuahlo romody," has written, if tho Whcaton News can bo believed, tho following testimonial to a country druggist who is booming a now tonic: " Dear Sir: Reforo taking your medicine I was too weak to spank tho baby, but now I can lick my husband. Heaven bless you." O.A.JBI-I*t>Xl.XwA.. LYNCHINGS IN TUR SOUTH. A Southern Man's Views of the Situation in a Northern Maga zine. Itov. William Ilayno LeavoH, of Houston, Texas, a uativo of Nowbcrry, Somh Carolina, who received his literary and theological education in Greenville, has contributed a very in teresting and valuable arliclo on lynch ing in the South to tho last issuo of " The Outlook," one of the ablest and fairest of magazines in the Norlh. Mr. Ijcavell has lived for a few years in New England, and ho knows tho pre judices and dilliculties existing thero in tho way of a just understanding of tho situation in the South when it comes to the social and political rela lions between the whiles und blacks, and I bo cdito'.s ot " The Outlook " mi mil ibc juslicc an.l reasonable nose of the call mado by Mr. Leavell upon tbc critics of tho South lo proposo somo other remedy for tho horrible crime of rape than tho dernier losort of lynch ing. Mr. Ltavcll's arliclo is as fol lows hast summer I happened to be spending my vacation at " Cotes worth, '* the old country home of tho late United States Senator Ceorgc, about tv;o miles from the town of Car rolllon, Mies. During llie lime I was there 1 heard one day thai on the night previous two defenseless old people bad been dono to death in a moat foul and Inutal fashion, and that because of it tho people of the county wero COtnlog into town, and- there wa< like to be a lynching of several negroes who wcro hub] eclod of the crime. JNover before having been in the im mediate neighborhood of a lynching, and wishing to learn something of the character of Hit se repealed outbrenks, 1 rode into town to study the situation close nt hand, hoping that something might occur which would make it pos sible to provent any violence. 1 found that three negroes, a mother with her son and daughter, tonants of the mur dered couple, had been nrrcstod on suspicion of having committed tho murder or having guilty knowledge of tho fncU, and were at that time con lincd in the county jail. 1 found pre sent on tho streets of the town many young farmers from tho county who were carrying rilles, shotguns, or pis tols, and mixed with them a few of the mnturer and moiQ conservative citizens of tho county, to whom tho young fol lows seemed to look for diiccliou. All of them had n serious and determined look upon their faces. 1 found also that a commitlco of prominent men, among them the Stale Senator from thai district, the District Attorney, and a lawyer who had several limns represented the county iu the Legislature, had been formed and at tho hour of my arrival wore at the jail examining tho negroes. The com mitlco win earnestly solicitous to pro vent a lynching. It satisfied llself that those three negroes did not personally commit the crime, but knew who did, and wcro as yet not willing to reveal their guilty secret. Several times, both individually and as a commitlco. these gentlemen addressed the mob, trying t<> dissuade it from violence, and plead ing, in tho name, of humanity and for tho good name of the county, to let the. law lake its course, tho more particu larly becauso the only apparont hopo of learning who were tho rcai murder ers was involved in keeping those three negroes alivo. The mob was not to be dissuaded. As tho authorities offered practically no resistance, tho mob took tho negroes, hanged them just outside tho town, and riddled their bodies wilh bullets. Realizing that it would bo regarded as an impertinent intrusion for mo to offer any suggestion, since I was an outsider, nnd Knowing that there was no chance for mo to do what well known gentlemen who had tho con fidence of their neighbors thero failed to do, L rode away homo somo timo bo fore tho lynching look placo. From what 1'lcnrncd of the wholo matter, of the circumstances loading up to the crime, it seemed to be a case particularly demanding that tho law should be pormittcd to take its course. It was not a question of the rnpo of a whito woman by a negro brute. It was tho assassination of the aged parents of a young white man who had pre vioualy shot to death tho son of the negro mother for attempted poison. Tho young man was out on bail await ing tho action of tho Grand Jury. Rut thoro was only one way to prevont that lynching. That way was by superior force, and tho constituted authorities i did not offer it. In connection with my experience and observation on tho dny of the lynching, I took euro afterwards to dis cuss tho case itself and tho wholo mat-! tor of lynching, as it obtains in tho .South, with somo of the best and main re r and more conservative citizons of that part of the Slate of Mississippi, to learn whethor and how far they ap j proved of lynching for crime. Of courso I found somo extremo men, who aro good citizens in their way, who are yet vory norvou? over the wholo question of tho ucgio and his proponderauce in their part of tho State, and who assort that for any con siderable crime, of whatever nature, committed against a white person by a negro, they would tako the law in Iheir own hnmls nnd sho >l him down as they would a dog. TIioho aro ox tromiats. Tho grantor patt of tho educated, consorvallvo, thoughtful, and, in or dinary situations, more influential citi zens approve of lynching for tho rnpo of a while woman, hut deploro tho scorning necessity for il. and aro grop ing helplessly iu tho dark for some way to make lynching unnecessary. Thoy seo that it is gradually undermining (heir ctvllia ition, destroying all respoct for law, and. wiih reference to all sorts of offenses, is suhuitutuiK mob law for tho ancient forms which have safe guarded the liboilies of the BrigiUh' 1 spoaking^oples for centuries. They ' WOMAN'S TROUBLES AND FEMALE DISEASES CURED BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLE8. ^ Painful and Suppressed Menses, Ir regularity, Loucorrhcoa, Whites, Steril ity, Ulceration of the- Uterus, change of lifo, in matron or maid, all find re lief, help, benefit and ouro in JOHNS TON'S SARSAPARILLA. It is a real panacea for all pain or headache about tho top or back of the bead, distress ing pain in tho loft aide. n. disturbed condition of digestion, palpitation of tho heart, cold hands and feet, nerv ousness and irritation, sleeplessness, muscular weakness, bearing-down pains, baokaoho, logache, irregular ac tion of the heart, shortness of breath, abnormal discharges, with oxtrcraoly painful menstruation, scalding of urine, swelling of feet, soreness of the breasts, neuralgia, uterine displacement and catarrh, and all those symptoms and troubles which mako the average wo man's lifo so misorable. JMIcmUAM DBUO CO., Detroit, Mich. FWJSalo 1 y tho Liurcna Drug Com ouny, lv urn- S. <J. contemplate the (uluro with soniothing akin to terror, and ConfOf6 thcmselv. ? tied hand and foot to a situation from which it seems impossible to break away without hastening the very thing they fear. They bclievo that to turn over to tho law a black (lend who has roped a defenseless white woman and made over her whole lifo into a living hell would inevitably tend to multiply rape s and practically put all our women at the mercy of the lustful brutes. Tlicir explanation of tho situation as it is now found in the South may not l)c ( ntir?y satisfactory to tho deni zens of tho cities and tho dwellers amidst a predominant while popula tion, hut I will try to givo it as it was given to mo .by some of tho most con servative, most thoughtful, and most wiso citizens of the South. 1. The natural barbarism of our human nature, whose llrsl impulse is to wreak vengeance for an outrage, is to be Always considered, for, as a mai ler of faet, neither individuals nor com munities ever get Tar away from naturo ?and that is human nature. 2. From the earliest times in tho South seduelion has always resulted in either what is known as a 41 military wedding," or a homicide. The com munity lias always supported the family of tho seduced woman for killing tho seducer if ho would not redeem tho Situation as far as possible by marriago. If that was the result where there was " consent," how much moro certainly would homicide bo the result where there was force used to accomplish the ruin of a woman?where thoro was rape? A white man would no moro escape than a negro. If the while man must pay with his life for rape, how much more certainly a negro for the rape of a white woman, where in addition tho revolt of all tho instincts of race was involved? 3. In many if not most rural com munities in the South tho white popu lation is vory small compared with the negro population. Tho whites arc really,at tho moicy of the blacks, if the latter but once should get tho no tion that there is a reasonable hopo of escape. For there are always enough vicious negroes in every community ready to commit the crimes of lust if they can do so and yet escape justice or vengeance Lynching is resorted to not merely to wreak vengeance but to terrorize tho negro. 4. Fwory ono who handles largo bodies ot negro laborers?every one with whom 1 talked?believes that Iho avorago negro fears nothing so much as force. Tho whites believe that lite moment tho negro ceases lo fear the power of tho whito man crimes will rapidly incroaso?eriiucs'of the most revolting character. Among tho ne groes, criminals, wheu tho crime is committed against a white mau, nllnin to a certain heroic character, and arc the objects of a certain sort of admira tion which they crave and rejojeo in. Tho conviction is general that terror is the only restraining influence with tho avcrago negro. 5. Tho negroes, even tho host of them, will ordinarily concoal a (lccing negro, assist him in his flight, and, whenovor practicable, protect him; and this without regard to tho require ments of justice or tho character of his offense. 0. Tho famously slow processes of tho law and tho frcquont miscarriages of justice In Now Orleans a fow months ago a nogro insulted a refined white woman, was arrested and put upon his trial. Tho woman put aside I her niodosty and wont on the witness ataud and teatiflcd lo Iho facta. Tho facts wero outrageous and cruel. The lawyor for tho dofenso succeeded in de ferring tho caso hoiiHi months upon a technicality, and later the hruto upon conviction got only a thrco months' hcntcnco. Quo such c ise as that does away with tho confldonco in tho law engendered by a hundred enses whore justice is accomplished, and the mind of iho people turns to lynching an tho only certain remedy. If you call their attention to tho fact Unit lynchiug does not stop rape, their answer is. No, hut it provonte it more than any other process would do. Tho thinking mon of the South re ah/.o tho horror of their situation; thoy sec lhat mob law ia coming to be tho law for all sorts of crimon, and that it is beginning to be used even in private quarrels and against tho whiles them aelvcs. They Ihink it is a cruelly to serve them will? condemnation, whon they nocd tho sympathy and assistanoo of that portion of om pcoplo who live' securely nmid a predominant whilo population. It is easy to prescribe practically impossiblo promises, but you can by such moans got no satisfac tory or a lequato result. It will noed the best wisdom and tho boot conscience and the best heart of our whole people, of tho North and of tho South, to lead us out of the dark Ho??? ""it <!>?> horror of the prt'S^ni situation. A BATCH OF GOOD STORIES. These Yarns WIR Keep a Mnn in Good Humor With the World. Many good stories have gone the rounds of the press concerning what schemes tho small boys will resort to in order to gain free admission to n Bh0W| but tho latest one, and possibly the most in i"ina! ono which has come to our nolico iB told by W. C Justice, business manager of " A Runaway Girl " company. ?? It happened in Renumont, Tex.," said Mr. Justice. " I was taking tickets at the door of tho opera houso when my uUouilon was attracted to ward a line specimen of canine species. He was a most beautiful bred bird dog. I observed the restless, nervous move ments of the animal for some time, ns he continued lo dodge in and out of the theater, invariably annoyrng mo, as he would each time push bis way botweou tho crowd and the ticke t box. 1 stood it as long ns my patience, would allow, and was once or twice sorely tempted to try the boot experiment, to sec if it were possiblo to rid myself of tho nuisanco, but ovory time 1 raised my foot a feeling of compassion would come over nie. At length wlion I had be^UU to despair of chasing tho brute away, a ragged little urchin, who had heeu watching my great disconccrn, approached me timidly and said: 'Say mister, I know the owuer of that dog, and ii you will let me in to see the show 1 will take him home and chain him up.; "I gladly agreed to this proposition," continued Mr. Justice, "for the pre sence of tho dog Worried me no little. Hoy and dog had scatecly been gone uwhen tho boy returned in company with a companion, both of whom started for the gallery entrance. I stoppod the sccoud boy just as he made a dash for tho stairs and asked him for his ticket. He replied that he had as sisted the olhor boy in securing the dog, and that l:o thought for that iva sou he was entitled to see the show. Of course I would not stand for that sort of a game, and was about to lay hands on him when he turned sudden ly and said: 4 Well, mister, I know who owns that dog, and if you don't pass mo in I'll go back and unchain him.1 " That wan took much lor mo, and 1 appreciated Ihe originality of the boy's threat loo much to rofuso him, and, when informed that it was all right, ho dashed up those stairs as if his life de pended on it." irisii nitonuR opknkd thk door. New York Tribune: ICx-Congrcss miin .lohn Piuncily, of Chicago, has been staying at the IIoiTmau houso rc conlly, and his prcsenco in tho corri dor the other evening led a fellow Chicagoan to relate the following talc: 11 Years ago John Fitinerly was om ploycd by The Chicago Times as its southwestern and Mexican correspon dent. Finnerty had a roving commis sion to cover all or any part of Ihe lor litory, and so it was not surprising thai ho one day arrived at a fair-sized Mexi can city by way ol a lonely trail. He had boon investigating somo new min ing discovery, and for a week had been oul of touch with civilization and in a country where a bath and a barber were rcgardod as superfluous luxuries. Therefore, l ravcl-slained and weary, with a ten days' growth of beard upon his classic face, ho looked more the 'hobo' than the clever man he is, when ho alighted at the only hotel in the town. Hut. one room remained, and that a poor one. Fioiiorty look it and retired at once, as he wan utlorly worn out. From his dreams he was soon rudely awakened by tho porlor, who advised him over the transom that an other traveler had anived, 'and dun wauled to share your bed, bah.' 41 'Tell him to go Uehonnal1 was the iralo response that came back. "There was a pause, and then, in a heavy lCnglish accent came the query: ll say, my good fellow, won't you let a fellow countryman m?' ?* 'Are you an Enghehmau?' was Pinnorty's kind inquiry. " ?] am,' was tho response, ubut you might call me a Hrilishor.' " ?Nnylhor as tho one nor tho other aro yo ccamlryman of mine, and it's not the insido of this room ye'll see tho night!' rejoined Finnerly, as he turned over and started to compose himself to sleep. ?< ?I say, there,' camo anothor ap peal over tho transom, and tho English accent made way for an Irish brogue, ?it's the truth I'll bo telling you. ?Tis a Helfant lad, and no other, that I am.' ???Como in, then,' said Finnorty, as ho throw whIo tho door. ' If Irish yc be, I'll chance your being an Orange man and aharo my bed with yo.' ?' ?Grea heavens I' gasped tho othor, as ho looked at Finnerty's dirt ami whiskers. 4 Aro yo a whito man or a naygnr?'" AN AHSHNT-JMINDKD MAItKIKD COUPLK, Youth's Companion: That tho pro verbial absent-minded professor is som itimoB ably abetted by his wifo is illustrated by a story told of Professor liunnon. One ovening, about the usual hour, for rotiri ig, ho took it into bis bead to run over to tho club, just as bo and madam wcro returning from an .evening call. M But," said tho lady, " I must havo the front door locked bofore I retire." This emorgency staggorcd tho pro foBSor, and be looked bowildcred at bis wifo, and the lady, seized with an in spimtion, continued: " I'll go in and lock the door and throw you tho key from tho window." This proirrummo was carried out. and when ho retched the club the pro The Wo* >> Greatest Cure for malaria X Ton ?1 formifVf Malarial poUon Utng take John?on'? Chill and P?va. Tonic. A tntntof Malarial poison ? -it In yoar Wood moan* misery ana fiillure. Mood modWnnscan'16un Malarial poisoning. Tha antldoto? for it Is JOHNION'e TONIC (lot a bottle to-day. _. it n or rtiluioil Ilm inciilcnt to a friend as evidence of his wife's unusual saga city. The friend greeted tho story with a roar of laughter. " And why, my dear professor," he said, " did y<>u lint, simply admit your wife, hak the door from tho outsido uitl come away V" ?? Tmic," ejai ulalcd the lcarucd man of science, " we nevor thought of that." 'Hit; climax of tho incident was reached an hour later, when, returning home, thii professor discovered that tho lady, in her cxc.itt incut, had thrown out the wrong key. SMI. Was a WOMAN OK IlKIt WORD, Youth's Companion: Tho troubles of the liionny man aro seldom bettor cxcmplilicd Ihall in the ease of the .101 dy looking p< et who Wondered into .in Kngliftll newspaper olllcc, ventur ing to hope that the editor would accept Ins offering. 44 Givo nie your address," said the editor. "That, sir," was the frank reply, 44 dope uls entirely upon yourself." u Ou inysel!?" said Hie astonished editor. 41 I low mi?'' 44 Woll, you sou," wool on the una bashed pool, 4 it's this way: If you tuke the poem my addict s will remain 77 King street; if you don't lake it I shall have no address. My landlady is a woman of her word." BII,I, ARP LIKES TnE WGUT. Twilight rrccms to Shorten as He Grows Older and Darkness Comes Suddenly. Atlanta ('onslltiitlni I conf088 that 1 do not like tho night ?except w hen I am asleep. Of courso 1 mean the dark night?nor do 1 go into raptures over what we call tho twilight?that doubtful light twixt sunshine and darkness, and that literally means "light cut in two." It seems to me that these twilights grow shorter as wo grow i hier. When the day is done the darkness does seem to fall from the wings of night, and we hasten to light the lamps, for darkness is never welcome. It is an intruder and a symbol of every evil thing. We suppose that night was created as a contrast to mako us enjoy the day. juet ns evil was created ns a contrast to Hint which is good. The scriptures say no good thing concerning darkness or night, and when describing heaven say, " There shall be no night llicro." They tell ua of outer darkness and thick darkness and the blackness of dark ness and darkness that may be fell. Darkness was one of the ten plagues that was sent upon Phaiaoh. .Job cursed the day of his birth and says, " Lei that day be darkness. Let dark ness and the. shadow of death slain it." David suilh, uSorrowendurolh for the night, but j iy eometh in the morning," and tells ol the pestilence, that walkelli in darkness. The applies use it as a symbol of every calamity. Darkness covered Ihe land when the Saviour was crucified. The devil is called Ihe prince of darkness. Ancient mytho logy describes Krebus as the dark cavt ru through which the spirits of the damned and wicked dead sin.II pass on their way to hell. And Homer writes of a country called (Jimmci ta afar be yond the sea where the BUI) never shines and the. people live in darkness. Milton describes the darkness of Hades as so dense that it Was visible. Speak ing of evil spirits that haunt mankind, he says they move i darkness, bin. fear truth and chastity. 11 No evil thing that walks by night in for or lire ?110 hug, or ghost , or goblin d unned has hurtful power over a -chaste and virlUOUS woman." Montgomery says, " Night is the lime to weep." And Shakespeare says, " lu the dark night, imagining some fear, a lulle hush ap pears to bo a bear." Young says, " Au atheist half believes in God by night," and Tennyson says of himself, <( I am but an infant crying in the night?an infant crying for the light." IluI iliis is enough, anil these rumina tions were provokod last night about midnight?the hour when the d ep sh ep falieth upon a man, hut not upon a woman. My wife's voice awakened and startled mo. .She said, " What is it? Who is it? What do you waul?" Then she catlcd me and struck a match and lighlo 1 tho cundlo that was near. "What did you hear?" said I. ''Some body is at tho door," she said, excited ly. ' " Which door?" said I. "This one light here?maybo' somebody is sick upstairs," she said. Unlocking the door quickly, tho light shone into the. room, hut nobody was visible. 1 examined tho room carefully and then went into the hall and dining room and parlor and thence upstairs on Up too, but all was silent. When I re turned .she. said, " Well, I did certainly hear somebody at that door, and it waked me, but maybe I was dreaming. I icmeinbcr now, I did Imvo a troubled drcani, but pluaso look under the. bed bcfoio you put out tho light." Such is conjugal lifoaud felicity. For Rome time 1 laid awako listening for a noise and ruminating on human helplessness during the darkness of the night. I remember when I had an unwill ing fear of ghosts that I would not ac knowledge. I got it from the awful stories that our negroes told to us chil dren, for there was a fascination about Hi. m that drew me to their cabins by night, and I listened to their nindo-up talcs of ghosts and witchos and Jack O'Lantorns and raw hoad and bloody bones until 1 was afraid to look mound behind mo, and had to be guarded to tho big house door whon I left. Hut this childish fear panned awav. and long since. I hnVO reali/nl Umt Ihne aro no spirits to haunt us, and that ?? only man is vile" My wifo is not a timid woman, but sho is cautious, and will not consent for mo to keep a pistol in our bed room for fear I might hnvo a bad dream nnd shoot somobody through mistake She never sleeps very sound. A mother who has nursed ten children novor does, and tho cracking of ihn paper on tho | wall will arouso her. Sho is happy now, for there is another grandchild not far away, and sho goes there cv< ry day. Pretends she goes to help J< Bsio, but OA8TOTS.IA. ?mti tho /) Ihe Kind You Haw Always Boutfrt il i? really to nurso and fondlo .Tossio's baby boy, for tho natornal instinct never dies, and e-ho bos not forgotten Hie lullabies bIic sang to bcr children in their in fa i cy. I rcmembor how my nitcd mother, when on her last bed, dreamed away her loving lifo imagin ing thcro wao a babe at hor broast and whispering a song to it just beforo sho died. She found two in hoaven whon sho g(>l there. Oh, yo young men wtio linger and jest in i ho saloon or around the gaming tables or frequent disrepu table places, t-top and think. Stop and Hunk, and remember the long and weary nights that a mother watched with you and never complained. Mav no nor spirit is watching you now and ycandiig ovi r you in Hie spirit land. For her -akc stop and think aud como hark lo the inunt ohco of your child hood. Aud ihi ro Hin >oiuo litllc songs lha1 I, too, h'iin ni' it and still can sing to the little helpless toothing things and soot lu?, ihoni to sloop ab I walk the r< oiii. My liuhi baby songs arc stereo typed in my memory atul have been handed down, tho' not published or copyrighted. They arc a masculine medley ol ?? Ily. baby, bunting," u Hush, my dear, lie still and slum ber," " Juhaiina .Johnson, don't you cry," "Away ilowu illtshlubono alley," And v/e'll pass over Joidau," and so forth. They are all in tho same key and in the same meter and dovetail into one another and just co round und round, monotonous and mournful, until thf. child has to go lo sleep to keep from hearing them; nevertheless, it is a fact that Pcan get a sick child lo sleep when its mother can't?and sometimes away in the dead of night, as I walked the room in my night shirt, I have, not only got the child lo sleep, hut the mother, loo. Hul I am having some li. lie domestic troubles that are disluibing my tran nullity. Night before last I slipped the keys off Iho nail in the back room and went to the pantry to get some nice apples I had hid away there for a surprise to the family just before bed lime. I like these little surprises and so do they. 1 found the cat locked up in Ihc pantry and put hor out, and ihen pushed the door to keep her out while 1 was getting the apph s. It is a curious d >oi lock, for it lias no knob uii l lie inside, and I soon found thai tilt! fat was locked out and 1 was locked in. I rapped and hanged for awhile for Honichody to hear me and come, hut nobody came. Thon I knocked harder and halloed louder, but to no effect. Then I kicked the door and made all soils of a racket, but nobody came. So 1 concluded they heard roc, hut thought il was good fun to keep me in prison and give me time to rc lleet on my past life and the value of freedom in this land ? f liberty. Hut I didn't ponder long on those things. 1 was purploxcd, but after while thought of my knife as a screw drivei and eoon hud the. hasp oil' and was out of prison. " Didn't you all hear me?'' 1 inquired. u Yes, we. heard you knocking. What were you doing out thore?" said my wife. They thought 1 was lixing or mending something, and did not hear my voice, for there were two rooms and a hall between us and all tho doors shut. 1 distributed the apples and everything was soon calm and serene, hui 1 have an increased hoiror of being put in jail and I am going to be have myself and keep out. Monday night, we heard Mrs. Sheri dan sin^ and ii was a feast. We have known her from her childhood, when she wore pant li t Is and pinafores and went to school in Koine with my chil dren. I could not roalizo that Ibis was or ever bad been little Sarah McDonald who used to play and lonip and scream like other children, but ill her early youth she heard a prima donna sing and resolved to be a gr. at singer, too. The Scoteh-lnsh blood was in her veins and she succeeded. Her fathor and mother wore, poor, hut llml made no difference. They hud faith?religious faith?Ihblo faith?and named their four boya Matthew, Mark, Euko and I John, and ilieir three daughlora Mary, Mariha ami Sarah. Mark and Luke arc living in Koine yet and have pro spered. Sarah chanced lo visit Phila delphia some years ago and by request sang one Sab!-alb at a little mission church that was founded by .lohn Wannamakor. He was there and heard her and took a great liking to her and helped her to visit Europe to have her voice (rained. She soon found other friends, who have befriended her and lavished upon her their aid and blessing. As 1 listened to her singing those aweol old Scottish songs 1 wondered if there wore not many just such female voices in that audience and all they lacked was culture and determination. I recalled ({ray's beautiful lines ? ?' Kuli many a goin of purest ray Bereue The ilar k, un fathomed caves of ocean bear; full many a llowor is horn to blush un seen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Bill A up. WR SHOULD BE THANKFUL Georgle'O Paw lv >- pin ins the Ren sons for Observing the Day. Detroit Krco Trees. " Paw," I ast when maw wasn't bi/./.y telling him bow Snprisod she was I Becoz Mrs llawley can get So menny I New Close on her Husband's Salery, "why do we Have thanksgiving Knny way?" ? Hecoz that's the Fnd of llic Foot ball .Sce/.un," ho Sod. " liverybuddy fools thankful that we've Got thru tho Tiubblu onco moro and havo quite a Few Collidgo boyf left to Tell tho tale. A good tnenny of The in ate in the Uospittlc, but it's cheaper for their palrunU to keep them there Than if thoy were Well onuff to bo Up and doing with a Hart for Kntiy Fate and llcddy to tackle Funy fool Thing tho crowd could think up. So Thai's an ulher reason to Ho thankful." M I can't sco," maw Hroko in, "Why Collidgo Hoys like to Ho sutch fools. Look at Poor Mrs. Oakley's boy that Sear* the im?? mnu;o i?^? HOT TEA BISCUIT Perfect, Delicious, Appetising. ilicy llnzed 1/181 weck. They had him hid in a Seller with ncorly a Fool- of water For two days and the Docklor's afraid he miten't ever get over it." 14 It's too bad for Him," paw Scd, 44 but Still he ot to be Happy. Tho Soys must Imvo suinbuddy to prack lus 0:1, and if Fate picked him that's His Loss. Ho ot to remember That it's (Jloreyous to Ho a mailer. The ones that shut Him up in tho seller now Have a chauls to bo grate men. Think what it would of mout il He would of died young. All thoso oilier poor chaps would of bad to go thru L?0 and not no about the Fun thoy missed and inebby never getting to He <{ialo on account ot It. l'airunls mus sen't be . ellish about These things. His mulhorot tobe thankful. 1 list to Think inebby it would bo a Good thins to Slop the hazing ami Cane rushing and Footballing tu) I Gol to talking lo a (Jupple of men at the OffUB. They showed mo the FiluBofy of it. They I aod Fnny man that would kick against Hazing or not Let his Boy play foot Uall was a nencmy to his (Country, and they ot to no Becoz their Children arc all Dotters. Fvcry good sita/.un they sed ot lo Be glad to Lose a Boy ot two Letting others have a Chants to lay the FoundashunBOf Grallnuss, " Look at Hoekfyollow. Do you s'poso he'd bo the Grate man he is to day If ho wouldn't of ila/.ed and (Jane rushed and Lurucd gcnrulship on the Football Held? A man thai ust lo Live in Cleveland told me Once that .lohn would Just go to School and study for All be was Worth and Then go Home and work like Jim Hill?or no, 1 mean Sam?when he was a boy, hut onnybuddy can sec lhal must He a mistake. If he didn't lern to have Curridge and to marshull his tbots on the Football Hold bow could ho Be what ho is to-day? ?? I never herd that Mark Twain or Mark (lanna played Football or Hazed people to Lay tho Foundashuns of their gratenuss, But they must of Done, it and are keeping it quiet on account of their Famhlies. Look at all the (irate ruurchunlB and Lawyers and doctors and preachers and Fditurs and Fid dlers. How could They be where they are To-day if They Couldn't of Lurned to be grate by making Fools of them selves at Collidgc?" " Hut most of them never went to collidgc In their lives,1' maw sed, " What do you mean Hy saying utch Things?" 44 Well," paw told her, 44if they Didn't it was Their own L?B8. Think how mulch grater they would He Than they are To-day if the Poor fellows would only of Had a Chance to get their skulls Cracked and their Collcr hones btokon. A hoy can He a fool Outside of Collidge, too, hut not so Big a one ns if lie was in, so ifdiiK zen't he'p him so mulch. 44 Then they are Anulher Heason why people ot to He thankful along About This time. They don't haft to go away Prom home on Vacations for ueerlya year, and they won'ts ho Puny more elections till next Spring. The ones that Got in this timo are Thank ful becoz they won and The ones that didn't aie Thankful becoz Pverybuddy knows they Would of Carried all Hc forc them if It wouldn't of Heon for Coriupsbuu on tho other side. 44 Thanksgiving's a nobull thing to Have. It brings us Clostor and Ulis us with sublime thots, and if the pee-ple we invited Last year don't got up just as good a Dinner for us This timo wo no They arc snide and have tho Satlus fack8hcn of lolling the nahcrs About it. Every buddy has Sumlhing to Be thankful for at This scczun of iho year. Tho fanner's Thankful beco/. Iho crops arc all in nnd He has Tune at Last lo chop the wood Iho Fanibly'll ncad to keep from Freezing thru tho winter. Tho Urlpman on tho Street Car's Thankful Hecoz when ono hand Gets too num lo Hold Iho Handle ho can take Iho other. Tho Milkman's Thank full becoz when the Mdk freezes in a sollud cake it Can't slop on bis Ovor halls that be Had wathed summer Ho foro last. The grocery Hoy's thankful Hecoz be can keop his foot From freez ing by getting out of the Wagon ovory Jatllo while to Deliver things. So it ' is all Thru life. Fverybuddy's thank ful nlong about Thin time ?? One mini'? Tlinukful docos be duz zon't get docked for having u day off ojid luiuihor's Thankful! bocoz bin wife bus ,i Hick hod nko end Tliey enn't go fro Church. It's a lime of (?lad lidinga and (1 rale Joy and if wouldn't liavo, Euny thing Rise to bo Thankful for could all r member lhat J. riorp^ Moigan ain't twins, winch ahowa^ Thinga mile He a good deal <*jf (Jko For Infants and Chij Tho Kind You Have A.&ys fttgnaturo qf