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" , .* \ v arpInd the uars Bill Talks of The S;ns of The Pres. ent Day In The World. ABOUT LYING AND STEALING. Corruption in Politics of the Day and Stealing From tne Public Crib?Diff.rent Kinds of Liars. . . We are not distressed at the over^ throw of Tammany in New York. Seventy years is long enough for a party or a political power to rule a great metropolis. Corruption breeds more maggots as the city grows, for as Thomas Jefferson said: "The growth of great cities is pestilential to good morals." The public treasury is a thing to be plundered, whether it be municipal, state or national. There are thousands Ul lUVil IVDU WUUIU UUl SiUII liUlU uir, but would steal the money I pay into the treasury, for there it becomes so mixed up that nobody knows whose money it is. It is just as it was two hundred years ago, when Swift w:?re: 'Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em. \nd little fleas have lesser fleas, and so on ad infinitum." * There is one comfort about all this public plunder. The money does not go dead. It has to be Invested aud gives employment to labor. A millionaire ran't eat nor wear out much mere than I can, nor will he lock up his money and let it rest. Not long ego I asked a clever northern man why ;t was that rich people who pay the most of the taxes let the pension stal go on so long and get bigger every yea.-? He smiled and said: "Why that pension money goes mostly to the poor and we get it all back socn:r or later. It is our cheapest way of support ng lliem. especially when we have you help." Poor Garfield. In his last in ssagc he lamented that the pension rails had smt to the alarming sum of $3^.DOO.OOO. but said there was comfort in that it was obliged to decrease from natural causes, for death was tin common lot and the pensioners were rapidly decreasing in number. He was mistaken. Thcv have bren multiplying ever since he was killed, and now it takes $150,000,000 to pay the roll. Public plunder would not be so bad if it W3S done in the open. What aggravates us is that it is done cn the sly , through corruption, through bribps. franchises, charters, licenses, salaries and schemes. It always vexes me to eee the cook hiding something or her | child carrying off a bundle on the sly ! and hiding it under her apron as she j Is going home. But they are all so k n l I ?nd so willine and so good to the chil- ! dren that we saw wood and say noth"H ing. They remind me of what a blind nhrenologist said of a public offk-'al n Rome while feeling the bumps on his head. He did not know him at all. but said. "This man is kind-hca:tnd ! and good-natured and would do you a j favor- if you were in distress, hut he ' will s.'cal. If he found a man aslee.a j alone in a room at night he would slip : ' his puise from out his pocket, but would kiss him before he left him." Ho iiagnosed the man correctly, for he was turned out of office soon aft3r tor embezzling the public money, and everybody was sorry for him because he 1 svas so generous with his plunder, j Stealing from the public crib srems 10 be a hieher grade of crime than ly ng. | though it takes lying and hypo.r.cy I and deceit to accomplish it. I have often wondered why lying was not forbidden in the Ten Commandment*. "Thoif shalt not steal" is there, hoi "thou shalt not lie" is not there, and yet it is accursed all through the scriptures and is the last sin recorded in the last chapter of Revelations and in nearly the last verse. "For without ire dogs and sorcerers, and whore uionears and murderers and whostevor loveth and roaketh a lie." According to David, that sin did not leave very many to enter heaven, for he says, I said in mine haste all men are liars." Hie old Scotch preacher took it for a text and his first remark was. "Ah. David, me mon, if ye had waited until now ye might have said it at your leisure." Lying is no doubt the most universal sin among mankind, but it is traded and not always a sin. Stealing I is always a sin. but lying must be J malignant or harmful. Paul sent Titus j o Crete and wrote to him that he [ ?4feu)d have a hard time in establish- j ;ng a church there, for the Creatans ( *. were all liars, urcte is tauum now, an j ,.V-fy-' * !sland in the Mediterranean, inhabit- ; -?1 by Mohammedans chiefly, and trav- ! f ~ elera say that they are no better now i han they were in St. Paul's uay. Tar j ;hey are not on'y liars, but thieves. England used to have laws to punish common soldiers, common drunkards and common vagabonds, but none to j I , punish common liars, for they are | generally harmless. Every community has one or two and they keep us amused at' their Munchausen explolis in hunting and fishing and their nar- j row escapes. Then there are some uncommon liars?liars of the first magni- 1 tude as Shakespeare calls tl.em. such as Baron Munchausen. Joe Mulhattan and some Chicago editors and preachers. Some cf these get into the pulpit and make up pathetic stories and thrilling incident to emphasizze their sermons and create a sensation. And there are thousands of little white lies, soeiety lies that have to be told for civility's sake?lies that flatter ami please the visitor, the customer or the patient. All these are spoken lies, but there are as many acted lies in tradinr, such as concealing the truth and putting the best on top. In fact, everybody lies more or less except children and fcols. though most of us mean no harm by it. My old partner used to say. that some mighty clever men would be shut out of heaven for swearing a lie to their tax returns, for DaV.d says. I ivVir? chili aiwip in Thv taber naele: who shall dwell in Thy" holy hill?he that speaketh the truth in h'3 heart and sweareth to his own hurt and changeih not." Withholding what is duo to the state is as bad as stealing from it. And ;vihhholding what a man ought to give :o the church he belongs to 13 almost as great a sin as that of Ananias. It is stealing from God. Nothing that a member of the church can do so readily fixes his character as a Chris tian as his willingness to give a'l that be can according to his means. Tithe' *nd ofc rings have come down to us 'rom Cain and Abel in an unbroken inc. Cain was a bad man. but he paid i:s tithc3. He was the first liar on r:c... r 1 Then there are the lice published rxta,'V rlov in fhn crroat riflilv nauOl'S political lies, commercial lies and medical lies to catch the ignorant and unsuspecting; some reporters lie to show their diligence in business. High coloring, veneering, varnishing are essential qualities in a reporter whether his journal be white or yellow. He must lie a little, even though it has to be taken back or modified the next day. And so the world wags on and the people have become so accustomed to lies that tbey make allowance for everything they hear or read. When the historian wanted to cap tha climax of General Washington's noble character he wove in that little story of the cherry tree and made the. boy to say: "Father, I cannot tell a lie." And so I hope that all our little boys will grow up to be truthful men. Don't go bcli-nd the barn and smoke a cigarette, for that is telling a lie to your father. You can tell a lie by winking your eyes repainting your finger or concealing what ycu do from your parents or your teacher. If you do wrong ov.n it like a gentleman and you will ha-?e their respect, r.s well as your c?vn. But tho downfall of Tammany was no defeat of the New York democracy ?t'nr -thorp were as many good clr-m or rats as rcoublicans cn that fusion ticket and they will hrdp Low to chan out the Augean stables. So lot tl'.i procession proceed. ?Rill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. L.- ? THE HOME GOLD CURE. An Ingenious Treatment by which Drunkards are Being Cured Daily in Spite of Themselves. NO NOXIOUS DOSES. NO WEAKENING OF THE NERVES. A PLEASANT AND POSITIVE CURE FOR Tilt. LIQUOR HAniT. It is new Generally known and understood that drunkenness is a disease and not weakness. 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Sent prepaid to any part of the world on receipt of One Dollar. Address E. 15, EDWIN R GILES & COMPANY, lot 2330 and 2332 Market Street PKhu'ekhia. All correspondence strictly contiden| tial. (Inrman's Return to the Senate. Baltimore. Special.?Chairman Murray Vandivere. of the Democratic State central committee, in an interview Saturday, said: "Arthur Pue Gorman will be the next United States Senator from Maryland. He will be the only candidate before the Democratic caucus." The only other man that has been mentioned in connection with the candidacy for the Senate is Governor Smith. A close friend of the Governor said that he would not permit his name to be presented to the caucus. GROWTH OF TRAOt. Statistics Shoeing The Increase of Our Shipping. II HAS bttiN I>ul AbLfc IM* icAK Despite Our Remarkable Increase But Little Horelhan 8 PerCent. of the Country's Commerce is Carried By American Vessels. Washington, Special.?The report ?f Mr. Chamberlain, the United States Commissioner of Navigation, states that the past fiscal year has been the third successive year of notable prosperity and growth in American shipping. exceeding the two previous years. The extent and nature ol' work under way or projected in shipyards promises an even greater growth for the current fiscal year. American tonnage has now attained practically the tormer maximum 01 1861. The figures of 1901, compared with 1861. show an increase in coasting trade vessels from 2,704,544 tons to 4.582,683 tons (two-thirds of this increase being on the Great Lakes), a decrease in foreign trade vessels from 2,496.894 tons to 879,595 tons and j a decrease in whaling and fishing from 338,754 to 61,940 tons. r\t ...... tntnl inrrn 9 C99 9A1 ?M"I O VI Ulll LU t<Xl luuaugu U,U?U,.V X are wooden vessels, and only 1,901.017 tons are iron or steel. In 1900 Great Britain launched 1.440,000 tons of steel vessels.Although registered American vessels increased 62,425 tons during the year, American vessels carried only 8.2 per cent, of our exports and imports, the smallest percentage in our history. Our fleet of ocean steamers in foreign trade, the report says, is too small to be compared with that of foreign nations. It is compared with the fleets of four large British and German steamship corporations, each of which exceeds the American fleet in tonnage, mileage and business. The tonnage built and documented in the United States during the past fiscal year comprised 1.5S3 vessels and 483.409 grces tons. The steel vessels under construction or under conI tract during the current fiscal year will much exceed similar tonnage built in any previous year. The bureai is advised of 89 such merchants vessels of 355.643 gross tons, to be valued, at about $36,000,000. Besides these. 71 naval vessels of 2S1.14S tons displacement are building at contract prices of $7^,000.000. In this work 41 plants with a capital of about $68,000,i AAA rtr.-ir>l/-ivintr al?rmt 40 000 mpll i are engaged. The building of ten trans-Atlantic steamers presumably rests on anticipated legislation by Congress. Six for the Atlantic Trans port Line are building from the sam<> I plans used in building steamers in England for the same company. The cost of a steamer of the "Minnehaha" type will be 1,846.000, tbe British cargo steamers will be $729,000. for which the British price ranges from 8534.000 to $456,000. The difference in wages on American and foreign vessels i3 considoro I in detail. In illustration, the pay roll (excluding master) of 380 nun on the steamer St. Louis is $11,300: of 4_'7 on the British steamer Oceanic is $9,900. and of 500 on the German " - tx?: iuAl? T\~,. *7 71" llil LJ\Z I Uiuoov:, y , a". | Tho German is the fastest steamship and the American is the smallest. Tho report contains, a detailed statement of the foreign voyages of American vessels last year, showing that the American flag was seen much oftener on the North Atlantic during President Jefferson's embargo (1S08) or during the cruises of the Alabama than at present. Foreign shipping in our Pacific trade has doubled in three years. The purchase of the Leland Line is considered as evidence that American capital is willing to invest in oceaa steamships, that there is an advantage to American exporters in American control of ocean steamshins. etven if not under the American flag and that in the coming development of our ocean transportation facilities the union of trunk railroad lines and the steamshin corporation will be an im I>ortarit factor. Including the Leyland purchase American capital owns full/ 670,000 tons of steamers under foreign flats, which in actual earning power exceed all American vessels now engaged in foreign trade. The War and Navy Departments also own 126.S47 gross tons of foreign-built transports and colliers. Rv various special acts. 56 foreign-built vessels of 132.1S7 gross tons have been admitted to registry. American money accord inglv of late years has purchased 031.000 tons of foreign-built steel steamers, while sinc-e 1?91. there have been built in the United P?"ites 1 006 000 tons of steel steam vessels cf all kinds. Death of Li hung Chang. Pekin. By Cable.?Li Hung Chang died at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. At 9 o'clock Wednesday evening while Earl Li was stijl alive the courtyard of the yamen was filled with life-size pavr horses and chairs witn coolie bearers. which his friends sent, in accordance with Chinese customs, to be buried when he died in order to carry his soul to heaven. The Chinese officials are somewhat uneasy concerning the effect his death will have on the populace, and to guard against a possible anti-foreign demonstration the Chinese generals have disposed their troops about the city in such a way as to command the situation. Trouble, however. Is extremely improbable. t ^HOUSEHOLD F^#fAIRS I emj i TO AID IN WASHING CLOTHES,' . J Jots to Be Read Any Day and Remem- } bered on tfouday. Care should be exercised ia the use of soaps on delicate fabrics. Many careful laundresses do not use soap at all. but substitute wheat bran instead. Two quarts of bran boiled in soft water and the liquor strained off after t it is cool is just right. This will not j affect the color, requires very little rinsing and little starth. unless the ] article is desired very stiff. t * * A tablespoon of black pepper put in I the washingwater is a favorite method i of some housekeepers for preserving the color of buff, gray or khaki-colored t [ stuffs. * * f When clothes have faded beyond recall then it is a good plan to try to j bleach them white. Several boilings with just a soupcon of soda iu one < water, but not enough to injure the fabric. Thou put the article on the j grass in the sun and wet it repeatedly as it dries until it is white. ( * * Fruit stains usually come out when , stretched over a bowl and boiling | water poured through. If obstinate, however, soak in javelle wa:er, one- ( half cup to a bucket of water; then , rinse thoroughly. * * ' < Milk, cream, machine oil and meat s juice should he washed out in cold water immediately; soap may be used on the meat juice. Tea and coffee stains should he treated just as fruit ' stains. Soak medicine stain in alcohol , and it will respond. * * i For iron rust place the stain wet on a boiling hot water plate, heat with salts of lemon; then wash thjroughly in plenty of clean water. ? i Faint rubbed with benzine or tur- J pontine on a clean white woolen cloth J will disappear. * 0 Avoid too hot irons for delicately- 1 tinted wash goods; tills often does as much to fade them as the washing.? Philadelphia Record. The Kitchen Grease Can. I Every kitchen ought to have its grease can emptied once a week in winter; in summer every three days. All sorts of refuse?fat should go iuto it?even the scrapings from plates and dishes. Greasy water should be allowed to cool thoroughly; then have the grease carefully taken off before it goes down the pipes'. Skillets and frying pans ought to be tilled with very hot scda water and let stand half an hour before washing. This gives time for the soda to partly saponify the grease and keep it from sticking to the pipe or caking on top of the trap. , Flnfth t)ie IVaste l'ipcc Often. One of thy safeguards to health Is j frequent flushings of the various j drains and waste pipes in the house, j Hot water is better than cold for the ' purpose, aud at least ouee a week a J solution of sal soda or potash should j bo sent down all the sinks to remove ' the grease that adheres to the sides of j the pipes. f RE?fPES?v| | Chocolate Tuffs?One cup sugar, one 1 egg, one cup milk, one tablespoon but- E ter, fljur to make stiff a layer cake t batter two teaspoons baking powder, I two tablespoous melted chocolate. Fill < buttered cups one-third full and steam ' thirty minutes. Serve with vanilla ? sauce. # . , ('reamed Chicken?Make a cup of g twin" chicken liuuor or milk as i tlie liquid. When boiling add a cup of * minced chicken: heat thoroughly, but do not boil; serve in a border of plain J rice, into which a tablespoonful of c finely chopped parsley and a tabic- ( spoonful of butter have been stirred. t Cocoa nut Cookies?Cream one cup of sugar with half a cup of butter. Add ^ one egg well beaten, two tablespoon- 1 fuls of milk, a pinch of salt and a cup j of grated cocoanut. Sift oue aud a t half teaspoonfuls of baking powder -t with three cups of tiour and beat in. I 14. k? ctifT mid wilt nrobablv * 11 ill list uv; ?cij ..... E ? need more flour. Boll out thin and I ' bake ten to fifteen minutes in a mod- 18 erately quick oven. j Baked Brains?Blanch and carefully i trim the brains, then cook in salted t water for twenty minutes, drain and 1 run cold water over them until tiiey ' are plump. Dust very lightly with . pepper and squeeze the juice of half an orange over theiu. Spread with ] butter, sprinkle with flour and bake for twenty minutes, until a nice brown, basting with melted butter while baking. Two sets of brains will c be needed. ^ " , J ItRAMS' HORN BLASTS' ' 1 ** *; m He ionser,tiie tun* I n'3* tbe grea.er the J- cut-off. jr/""?> doors to k&ri >?>$? great things are P often very small. Christian power does not depend on church pride. He who thinks of sin lightly will || feel its force hca' vily. Much n o i s a ' ibout religion may indicate the c:n!ulion consequent oh the lack of it. He who speaks truth must expect to rave the liar's watch-dog at him for trespass. ' T Some Christians are adepts at flashng light on our faces while they walk n the dark themselves. , i It is better to let God hold us than :o try to hold on to Him. Love is more than a characteristic >f God; it Is His character. Faith palliates present pains with :he pictures of future peace. ? The tortuous path to power Is the , ^ secret of its appreciation. A figurehead does not necessarily v lave a good head for figures. You had better contract your expenlitures than stretch your conscience. L,oveicss lives must oe tioaiess, no matter how religious they may sesm :o be. f Friendship is one of the fair flowers of Paradise blooming in our world 3f pain. ..v It takes as much grace- to give as it ' loes to receive a reproof in the right spirit. ' ~ - t ' * ,4 POWERFUL MEN OF THE EAST. Interesting Explanation of their Unusual Strength, rhe Secret of their Marvelous Vitality and Serve Force Jealousy Guarded. Women of the Harem Compound a Potion Whose lleiuvenating effects * are Almost Miraculous and Astonished the Most Skeptical, The fondest hopes of ancient or nodern seekers after the fountain of perpetual youth, cm scarcely have limed higher than the results achieved by the marvelous compound. known Ihroughnut the East as EL MOKBIIt, ' Travellers returning to Europe have, "rom time to time, brought astonishng tales of the rejuvenating effects produced bv this Wonder of the Orient. Crudely compounded by the Women >f the Ilarem, from formulas handed low n orally from generation to gener- # ition, the secret of this preparation bus jealousy guarded and known only .0 the inmates of Uie harem and the :onrt physicians, EL MOKBIIi has . jeen practically unobtainable, exceptng by the favored ones for whom it sas intended. Recently, however, a prominent native Arabian Physician, banished from lis country for political offense, and t,i M* v;i?t. nos.iessi6ns. has tvuiled liim?elf of his knowJec^ge, to ;arn a livelihood befitting his Station, >v supplying this marvellouscompound, EL MOKOIR. to the nobility and ivaalthier classes of all Europe, who lave cheerfully paid him large fees iu "eturn for tho benefits received. Content with the laige income de ived from litis practice, this aged physician lias repeatedly refused vdry iberal offers made to him for the fornula of liis remedy, but lie has finally lgrced with the importing house of 1'lle Xoyes-Fcllkh company, of Philadelphia, to put it up in corver.ient "ortn tor sale exclusively in the United States and this firm having the cxclus ive agency, now offers It lor tuc nrsi iime to trie American public. Tliis Remedy must not be confonndd with t,he numerous nervous exlaustipn. lost manhood, and self abuse emedries which aie advertised under a. rariety or names, as there ishbsolutely iothin? which scientific chemistry has x:en able to produce, which can even Ipproach the peerless EL MOKBIR. a surely vegetable compound, extracted rom rare tropical roots and herbs. EL MOKBIR is a remedy for one pecilie purpose, which is to strengthen lie vital force and prevent decay in nen, its marvellous effects in arresting lecay of the vital principles, especially n the male, being unparalleled and lever-failing, and as its use is univerai all over the East, where strong, irile men with large families of de cendants are the rule, there must be io doubt, either as to Its efficiency or >enefit to the general system. While it is an absolute specific and jositively guaranteed to cure the worst nse of nervous debility, lost manhood, ir similar weaknesses clue to excesses ?r youthful errors' it is also used with he greatest success as a vitalizer. givng power to all weak parts, and dereloping and maintaining the full * '4"Af manhnnH jailii ?l* VI iHMIxvw, It is put up for the American trade 11 tabh t form, and though extremely powerful, it is perfectly haimless and asily taken, one tablet being a dose uid doing the work at once, and so svidently as to leave no doubt in the nlnd of the patient- It will cure youo as to stay cured. Every package is opened and care,'ully examined by the importers when > eceived, and is then repacked under heir seal ahd jiositlve guarantee to :ure. It will he sent prepaid, under ilain cover, with full and complete li root ions, on receipt of the price, $1.01 )er package, or six packages for $o.00. Address The Xoyes-Fclleb Company, il'arkct and 24ili Sts.. Philadelphia. In the South of China silkworms have icen reared and silk manufactured for >ver 3.000 years. ^ /