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THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “Tongues of Fire,”
Text: “Ilavo ye received the Holy Ghost.”
—Acts xix., 2.
The word ghost, degraded which means a soul, or
spirit, ha3 been in common par¬
lance, We talk of ghosts as baneful aud
frightful But and in a frivolous of or superstitious who is
way. my text speaks a Ghost
omnipotent and divino and everywhere pres¬
ent and ninoty-one times in the New Testa¬
ment called the Holy Ghost. The only tirno
I ever heard this text preached from was in
the oponing old days of my ministry, when help a
glorious Scotch church. minister came up to of
mo in my village On the day my “If
ordination ana installation he said,
you get into tho corner of a Saturday Sunday,
night without enough sormons for
send for me, and 1 will come and preach
for you.” The three fact ought to pastor’s bo known life
that the first years of a
are appallingly arduous. No other demand profes¬
sion makes the twentieth part of tho
on a young man. If a secular preadier politi¬
prepares one or two speeches for a
cal campaign it is considered arduous. If
a lecturer prepares ouo locturo for a year,
ho is thought to have done well. But a
young pastor has two sermons to deliver
every Sabbath before tho same audience, be¬
sides all his other work, and the most of
ministers neverrecover from the awful nor
vous strain of the first three years. Be
sympathetic with all young ministers and
withhold your criticisms.
first My call aged and Scotch [friend and preached responded from to tho my
oamo
text that I now announce. I romombor noth¬
ing but tho text. It was the last sermon ho
over preached. On the following Saturday ho
was called to his heavenly reward. But I
remember just how ho appeared os, leaning
over the pulpit, he looked into the face of
the audionee, and with earnestness and
pathos and electric force asked them, in tho
words of my text, “Have yo receivocl tho
Holy Ghost?” The ofileo of this present dis¬
course is to open a door, to unveil a Person¬
age, to introduce a'Jorco not sufficiently rec¬
ognized. He is as great as God. Ho is God.
Tho second verso of the first chapter of the
Bible introduces Him—Genesis i., 2. “The
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters”—that is, as an albatross or eagle
spreads her wings ovor her young and warms
them into life and teaches His them to fly, broad, so the
Eternal Spirit spread great,
radiant wings over this earth in its callow
and unflo.lged stato and wanned it into liie
and fluttered over it and set it winging its
way through immensity. It is tho tip top of
all beautiful and sublime suggestiveness. Can
you not almost see tiro outspread wings over
the nest of young worlds? “Tho Spirit of
God moved upon tho face of tho waters.”
Another appearance of tho Holy Ghost was
at Jerusalem during a great feast. Strangers
speaking seventeen different languages world. wore
present from many pnrts of tho But
in ono house they heard what seemed like tho
coming of a cyclono or hurricane. It mado
tho trees bond and the houses quake. Tho
cry was, “What is that?” Aud then a forked
flame of fire tipped each forehead, and what fire
with the blast of wind and the dropping
a panic took place, until Peter explained that
it was neither cyclone nor conflagration, but
the brilliance nnrl anointing and baptismal
power of the Holy Ghost.
That sceno Bev. was John partially Easton repeated preach¬ in a
forest when was
ing. There was tho sound of a rushing,
mighty wind, and the people looked to tho
sky to see if there wero any signs of a storm,
but it was a clear sky, yet the sound of the
wind was so great that horses, frightonod, and tho
broke loose from their fastenings,
Whole assembly felt that the sound was su¬
pernatural and penteoostal. Ob, what an
infinite and almighty and glorious brooded person¬
age is tho Holy Ghost! Ho this
planet into life, and now that through will sin it
has become a dead world Ho brood it
the second time iuto life. Perilous attempt
would bo a comparison between the three
persons of tho Godhead. They aro equal,
but there is some consideration which at¬
taches itself to tho third person of the Trin¬
ity, tho Holy Ghost, that does not attach
itself to either God tho Father or God the
Bon. Wo may grieve God the Father and
grieve God tho Son and be forgiven, but wo
aro directly told that thoro is a sin against
the Holy Ghost, which shall never be for¬
given either in this world or in the world to
come. And it is wonderful that while on the
street you hear tho name of God and Jesus
Christ used in profanity you never hear tho
words Holy Ghost. This hour I speak of the
Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, as a hu¬
man constructor, as a solace for tho broken
hearted, as a preacher’s ro-onforcement. contradictions,
Tho Bible is a mass of an
affirmation of impossibilities, unless the
Holy Ghost helps us to understand it. The
Bible says of itself that *ho Scripture Is not
for “private interpretation,” but “holy men
of God spake as they wore moved by the Holy
but Ghost”—that Holy Ghost is, interpretation. not private interpretation, File on your
Btudy table all the commentaries of tho Bible
—Matthew Henry and Scott and Adam Clarke
and Albert Barnes and Bush and Alexander,
and all the archaeologies, and all the Bible
dictionaries, international and all the maps of Palestine,
and all tho series all of Sunday- will
school lessons. And if that is you not
understand tho deeper aud grander mean¬
ings of tho Bible so well as that Christian
mountaineer who, Sunday fodder morning, tho after
having shaken down tho for cat¬
tle, comes into his cabin, takes up his well
worn Bibio, and with a prayer that stirs tho
heavens asks for tho Holy Ghost to unfold
the book.
No more unreasonable would I bo if I
should take up The Novoe Vrornya of fit.
Petersburg, all printed in Buasian, and say,
“There is no sense in this newspaper, for I
cannot understand one lino of all its col¬
umns,” and than without for any getting .nan Holy to take Ghost up tho 11
Bible, “This
luminatlon as to its meaning sayj
Book insults my common sense. I _ cannot
understand it. Away with the incongruity!”
No one but the Holy Ghost, who Inspired
the Scriptures, can explain the Scriptures.
Fully realize that, and you will be ns enthu
siastic a lover of the old book as my vener
the fifty-ninth time, and it became more at
tffi-oughTt 4 ‘in'tlm sad'Rebags'that
Salem down to the Dead^a and np S toDa- hang
flashed flashedmpon Sron fta Mm more meaTOls vivid amu”-iatfon of
*£*££ re?communication without di
from the throne of God
JuiL. w.thout^esLw- £££$* ilfurnina*ion things^bout the
Dorans‘solomon dal te* his* an bow
many A.--. had who stables, or
h Voah’a ark or given' wat the
onlv H-rinrarS woman whose- full thembldle^erseof name is in the
and'ali or which will is th ■
|an Bibb- that how* do you no more beanies good
to be able to teU many
q'he'leam^ Eari'of Chathamlieard the
famous Mr. Cecil preach about the Holy
Ghost and said to a friend on the way home
frorn church: “I could not understand it.
and do y4” you suppose anybody understood it?
“Oh, said his Christina friend, “there
were uneducated women and wan*- little
children present who unrierstood It.” I war
nt y« > , x tbm t the English soldier had under
g U nerna! influence read the book, for after
the battle of Inkermann was over Me was
found dead with his hand glued to the page
of the open Bible by his own blood, and the
words adhered to bis bands as they buried
him, “I am the resurrection and the life; he
that believeth in Me, though dead, yet shall
ho live.”
Next consider the Holy Ghost as a human
reconstructor. Wo must.bemadeover again.
Christ and Nicodemus talked about it.
Theologians call it regeneration. I do not
care what you call it, but we have to be re¬
constructed by the Holy Ghost. Wo becomo loved
now creatures, hating what hated. wo once
and loving what we once If sin wore
a luxury, it must becomo a detestation. If
we preferred bad associations, wo must pre¬ is
fer good associations. In most cases the world it
such a complete change that
notices the difference and begins to ask:
“What has come over that man? Whom has
he been with? What has so effected him?
What has ransacked his entire nature?
What has turned him square about?” Take
two pictures of Paul—one on the road to
Damascus to kill the disciples of for Christ, Christ. tho
other on the road to Ostia to die
Como nearer home aud look at the man who
found his chief delight in a low class of club
rooms, hiccoughing around a card table and
then stumbling down the front steps after
midnight and staggering homeward, witli and that his
same man, one week afterward, mooting.
family on the way to a prayer something
What has done it? It must be
tremendous. It must bo God. It must bo
the Holy Ghost. sotncor
Notice the Holy Ghost as tho of
broken hearts. Christ calls Him the
Comforter. Nothiug does the world so much
been want abused, as comfort. misrepresented, Tho most cheated, pooplo have lied
about, swindled, bereft. What is noodod is
balsam for the wounds, lantern for dark
roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, a
lift from the marble slab of tombstones. Life
to most has been a semifailure. They have
not got what they wanted. They have Friends not
reached that which, they started for.
betray. Change of business stand loses old
custom and does not bring enough custom
to make up for the loss. Health becomes
precarious when one most needs strong
muscle and steady nerve and clear brain.
Out of tills audience of thousands and thou¬
sands, if I should nsk all those who
have been unhurt in the struggle of
lifo to stand up, or all standing to hold
up their right hands, not one would morn
Oh, how much we need the Holy the Ghost
as comforter! Ho recites sweet
gospel promises to tho hardly bestead. Ha
assures of mercy mingled with the severities.
He consoles with thoughts of coming release,
lie tolls of a heaven where tear is never wept
and burden is never carried and injustice is
never suffered. Comfort for all tho young
people who are maltreated at home, or re¬
ceive insufficient income, or aro robbed of
their schooling, or kept putting back forward from positions of others
they earned by the
less worthy. Comfort for all those tnon and
women midway in have the already path of life, worn through, out
with what they gone
and with no brightening future. Comfort
for these feel agod themselves ones amid many tho infirmities in
an I who to bo in way
tho home or business whioli themselves es¬
tablished With their own grit.
The Holy Ghost comfort, I think, general¬
ly comes in the shape of a soliloquy. You
find yourself saying to yoprsolf: “Well, I
ought not to go on this way about my
mother’s death, Hho bad suffered enough.
She had boi;no other people’s burdens long
enough. I am glad that father aud mother
are together in heavon ( aud they will be
waiting to greet us, and it will be only a lit¬
tle while anyhow, and God makes no mis¬
takes.’’ Or you Soliloquize, sayingi “It is
hard to Jose my property. I am sure I
worked hard enough for it. But God will
take care of us, and, as to tho children, tho
money might have spoiled them, and we
find that those who have to struggle for
themselves generally turn out best, and It
will all ha well if this upsuttingof our world¬
ly resources leads us to lay up treasures in
heaven.” Or you Soliloquize, saying:
“It was hard to give up that
boy when the Lord took him. . I ex¬
pected groat things of him, and, oh, how we
miss him out of the house, and there are so
many things I come across that make one think
of him, and he was such a splendid follow!
But then what an escapo he has made from
the temptations and sorrows which como to
all who grow up, and it is a grand thing to
have him safe from all possible harm, and
there aro all those Bible promises for p aronts
who have lost children, and we shall feel a
drawing heavenward that we could not have
otherwise experienced.’* that relief And after which you have
said that you got comos
from au outburst of tears. I do not say to
you, as some say, do not nry. God pity peo¬
ple in trouble who have the parched shod eyeball
aud the dry eyelid aud cannot a tear.
That makes maniacs. To God’s people tears
are the dews of tho night dashed with sun¬
rise, I am so glad you can weep. But you
think these things you say to yourself Com¬ arc
only soliloquies. No, no; they are the
forter. who is tho Holy Ghost.
Notice also the Holy Ghost as the preach¬
er’s reinforcement. You and I have known
preachers encyclopedic in knowledge, brill¬
iant as an iceberg when tho sun smites it,
and with Chesterfleldian address and
rhetorical hand uplifted with diamond big
enough to dazzle an assembly and so sur¬
charged with vocabulary that when they left
this life it might bo said another of eaehfof in the them as of
Do Quinoey said of that act
dying ho committed a robbery, absconding
with a valuable converting polyglot dictionary, sanctifying yot no
awakening or plain or with humblest re¬
sult, while some man,
phraseology, has seen audiences whelmed
with religious influence. It was the Holy
Ghost. What a useful thing it would he if
every minister would give the history meeting of his
sermons! Years ago at an outdoor
in tho Btato of New There York had I been preached much
to many thousands.
prayer on the grounds for a great outpouring
of the Holy Ghost at that service, and the
awakening power exceeded anything I ever
witnessed Bince I began of to preach, three occasions. with per¬
haps the exception and Christian two or workers by the
Clergymen and hundreds expressed themselves
score as
having been blessed during the service.
That afternoon I took the train for an out¬
door meeting in tho night State of Ohio, where day. I
was to preach on the of the jiext
As the sermon had proved so useful tho day
before and the theme was fresh in my mind.
I resolved to reproduce it, and did reproduce nothing
it as far aslcould, but the result was
at all. Never had I seemed to have any
thing to do with a flatter failure, What
was the difference between the two serv
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fzfi&ASEMi > j upon t £„ ministers of Amsri
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Hath th;it Scripture, “Net by might nor by
. ^, w „r, l.ut by my Hpirit, inlth tho Lord."
1
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| l’«rs-;md many of them baptizedbyiImmer
! '‘mtfnmei tram half ‘pU ten in the morning
until half past two la the afternoon. From
that service we went home exhausted be-
1 cause there is nothing bo exhausting as deep
emotion. A messenger wa- ssent out to
obtain a preacher for that night, but the
-search was unsuccessful, as all the
T^U for
the evening sendee, except the looking in
Cruden’s Concordance for a text and feeling
almost too weary to stand up, I began the
service, saying audibly although while the opening
-ong was being sung, because "l
the singing no one but God heard it: “Ob.
Lord, Thou knowe.st my insufficiency
this service! Come down In gracious |K»wer
upon this people." The place was shaken
with the divine presence. As far us we could
find out. over to-i [errsonj, were converted
! that night. Hear it, all young men entering
j the ministry; hear it. all Christian workers,
It was the Roly Ghost.
In the Second Reformed Church, of Somer¬
borne, ville, N.J., in my boyhood days, hold Mr. special Os¬
the evangelist, come to a the
service. I seo him now as hi' stood in
pulpit. Before he announced his text and
before he had uttered a word of his sermon
strong men wept aloud, and it was like the
day of judgment. It was the Holy Ghost.
In 1857 tho electric telegraph boro strange
messages. One of them read, “Mv dear pa
rents will rejoice to hear that l have found
peace with God.” Another read, “Dear
mother, the work continues, and I, too, have
been converted.” Another read, “At last
faith and peace.” In Vermont n religious
meeting was singing the hymn, “Waiting and
Watching for Me." The song rolled out oft
tho night air, and a man halted and said, “I
wonder if them will be any one waiting and
watching for me?” It started him heaven¬
ward. What was it? The Holy Ghost. In
that 1857 Jaynes’s Hall, Philadelphia, and tel¬
Fulton street prayer meeting, the number New York, souls
egraphed each other of
saved and tho rising of the devotional tides.
Noonday prayer meetings wore held in
all the cities. all Ships sailors came iuto lutrhor, that
captain and the saved on
Voyage. Police and fire departments met in
their rooms for divino worship. At Albany
the Legislature of tho State of Now York Appeals as¬
sembled in the rooms of the Court of
for religious services. Congressional union
prayer mooting was opened at Washington. From the
From Whence eamo the power?
Holy Ghost. That power shook New York.
That power shook America. That power
shook tho Atlantic Ocean. That power shook
tho earth. That power could take this en¬
tire audienco into the peace of the gospel
quioker than you ooukl lift your eyes hea ven¬
ward. Come, Holy Ghost! Come, Holy
Ghost! Ho has cornel He is hero! I feel
Him in my heart. There are thousands who
feel Him in their hearts, convicting some,
saving The some, sanctifying in evangelical some. usefulness is
difference
not so much a difference in brain, in schol¬
arship or elocutionary gifts as in Holy
Ghost power. You will not have much sur¬
prise at tho extraordinary earner of Charles
G. Finney as a soul winner, if you know that
soon after his conversion ho had this oxpori
onoo of tho Paraclete. He says:
“.is I turned and was about to take a seat
by tho fire I received a baptism of tho Holy
Ghost. Without any expectation of it, with¬
out over having the thought in my mind
that there was any such tiling for me, with¬
out any recollection that I had ever heard
tho thing mentioned by descended any person in mein tho
world, the Holy Ghost seemed to through upon
a manner that go me,
body mid soul. Indeed, it Boomed to come in
waves and waves of liquid love, for I could
not express it in any other way. It seemed
like tho very breath of God. I can recollect
distinctly that it seemed to fan me like im
mouso wings. No words can express the
wonderful love that was shed abroad In my
heart. I wept aloud with joy uml love.
These waves came over me and over me and
over me, one after the other until, I recall I
cried out, ‘I shall die if these waves uonUnuo
to pass over me.’ I said, ‘Lord, I cannot hear
anymore.’” let 500 of whether
Now. my hearers, us, divine
clerical or lay workers, got such a
visitation as that, anil we couhl take tills
world for God before the clock of tho next
century strikes 1.
How many marked instances of Holy
Ghost power? When a black trumpeter took
His plaoe in Whitofleld’s audience point proposing in the
to blow the trumpet at a certain
service and put everything into derision, his
somehow lie could not get thntrumpot to
lips, and at tho close of tlm mooting ho
sought out the preacher and asked for his
prayers. It was tho Holy Ghost. What was
tho matter with Hedley Viears, with his the Bible memora¬ before
ble soldier, when ho sat
hbn in a tout, and Ills deriding comrades
came in and jeered, saying, “Turned Metho¬
dist, eh?” Anil another said: “You hypo¬
crite! Bail an you wore I never thought then you
would Oome to this, old follow.” And
ho became tho soldier evangelist, and when
a soldier in another regiment hundreds of
miles away telegraphed Ids spiritual anxie¬
ties to Iledley Vicars, saying, “What shall I
do?” Vicars telegraphed as thrilling “Believe a mes¬
sage as over went over the wires, on be
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall
saved." the
Wbat power was being felt? It was
noly Ghost. And what more appropriate? of ilro,”
For tho Holy Ghost is a “tongue along
and tho electricity that Hies the wiro.s
is a tongue of lire. And that reminds mo of
wlmt I might do now. From the place whore
I stand on this platform thoro aro invisible
wires of lines or influence stretching to and ovory
heart In all tho seats on tho main floor up
into the boxes and galleries, and there are
other Innumerable wires or linos of influence
reaching out ftom this place into the vast
beyond and across continents and under tho
Hoas, for in my recent journey around the
world I did not Had a country whore I ba l
not been preaching this gospel for many
years through tho printing press. Ho «
telegraph operator sits or stands at a given
point anil sends messages in all directions,
and you only hear the click, dick, click o(
the electric apparatus, God help but the telegrams touch go
on their errand. mo now to
the right key arid send the right message
along tho right wires to the right places. shall
Who shall we llrst call up? To whom I
send the message? I guess I will send the
llrst to all the- tired, wherever they are, for
there are so many tired souls. Here goes
theChristly message, "Come unto Me. all yo
who aro weary, and I will give you rest.”
ONLY TWO FEET TALL.
Death of a Dwarf Who Lived Twentv-two
Years ami Never Walked or Talked.
Charles E. Mintram, a dwarf, widespread whose slngu
lar existence lias created atten¬
tion, died a few days ago at the home of Ids
father, E. Mintram, at Pine Bush, Orange
County, N. Y., of pneumonia. He was in
his twenty-second year and was only Worten- twenty
four inches tall, lie was bom in
(lyke, N. J., and was ono of nine children.
The first year he was as bright and thriving
as tiie others, aud increased a little in weight
and stature, but he never walked or talked,
and grew to manhood with the same baby tho
face that he had twenty years ago and
same helpless body. The boy had been ex¬
amined by many physicians during bis life,
but none of them could give any satisfactory
explanation of the case. As a child he was
as bright mentally as any other child until
development ceased, aud no became an ordi¬
nary baby all the rest of bis life. Ho was
passionately fond of music and understood
all that was said to him, and was healthy un¬
til his last sickness.
MONSTER CRAPE FRUIT FARM.
To IS« One of the Largest Fruit oreliar.U
in California.
Ono of the larg'wt enterprises in the plant¬
ing ol fruit orchards now In progress in Cali¬
fornia has just been begun within thrw miles
of Pomona by Henry M. Loud, a millionaire
of Detroit, Mich., who owns 000 acres of lino
fruit land in tbo valley. Mr. Bond is the llrst
SS to undertake the production of grape
on a large scale on this coast. Ho has
cafin .
that* r*rt oMhe
; .state for immedmte p
p-r.-'t b^fralTgrow'rs and followers in all
j parts of the country, demand
Grapefruit hat come to bo in at
good prices in the Eastern markets, and has
been One of Florida’s most along profitable the Atlau- -r >ps,
but the recent cold weather
tic eoast killed every grape fruit tree in that
^
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Japan’s National Kxhlbltlon.
The fourth Industrial Exhibition of Japan
I will be held this year at K oto. *
| on April 1 and will continue until July -il.
ibis is the Japanese . .ittonal - > m . ,
; also be.ng held It. commemoration of the
IhOOth anrin er.-ary of the foundin,, o h o >
as the old capita! of Japan. Kioto is now
known as the Western of capital, though aud in
reality no longera seat government,
is the most fascinating city of the empire.
Temples abound in and altout hioto ana it
j is the home of the finest products of Japau
*i looms.
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Rates
And prompt settlement in
case of loss by fire.
Apply at this Office.
VOL. XXI V. NO. 14.
THE SUGAR TRUST.
A GIGANTIC MONOPOLY AT ITS OLD
TRIOKS.
Regan to Advance Prices as Soon ns
Congress Adjourned—Its Record
of Fraud and Hypocrisy—No Un¬
friendly Legislation Anticipated
From a Republican Congress.
The Sugar Trust is continuing its
business of rofiuing sugar, bribing
legislators, juggling stocks, advanc¬
ing prices and making Anarchists.
From September, 1891, to March,
1895, tho Sugar Trust declared that it
was making no money; that thoro was
but littlo protection iu tho now law ;
that foreign competition was keeping
prices ruinously low ; and that tho fu
turefor the refining industry in this
country was very uncertain. When
it declared its regular quarterly divi¬
dend of three por cent, last Decem¬
ber it declared that it was not from
profits under tho now law but from
surplus accumulated boforo August
98, 1894.
Those who havo watched the tricks
of tho trust during tho past eight yonrs
aud who understand present condi¬
tions knew that tho trust was simply
playing a big game of bluff. They
know that it made millions of dollars
during these hix mouths from tho
sales of sugar refined from raws im¬
ported boforo the duty wont iuto ef¬
fect. They know that tho prioo ol
refilled sugar was kept down by tho
trust—first, to prevent antagonistic
legislation ; second, to obtain, if pos¬
sible, inoro favorable legislation;
third, to prevent orders froir coming
in and thus to give color to tho state¬
ments that tho trust was suffering hoard
from severe competition. They
that tho trust was importing Dutch
sugars and selling small quantities at
a Iohs to cause tho quotation of prices
on imported roliued sugars that would
impress Congress aud tho “howlers”
against the Sugar Trust. Thoy know
and prophesied adjourned that as tho soon trust as would Con¬
gress had
begin to advance prices, boom stocks
and to doolnro dividends from prosent
profits. 4
Betwoon March and 7 tho price of
granulated sugar was advancod 4 of a
cent per pound. On Maroh 7, tho di¬
rectors met and doolarod tho rogular
quarterly three pereont. dividend and
gavonotico that “tho stockholders of
the sugar company should got it firmly
in their minds that they havo a property
of groat earning capacity,” and that
overythmg is saccharine and lovoly for
tho future. Sugar Trust stock ad¬
vanced from ninety-three on March 2
to 1094 on March 12. Disregarding
its gloomy forebodings for six months
tho Sugar Trade Journal (organ of tho
Trust) said on March 14:
“Refined. As anticipated in our
last issue, a furthur advance of 1 -10o.
per pound was raatlo this weok iu re
iinod sugars, bringing tho prioo of
grauulatod to a'low SLHiic. por pound nett,
whioli is still price, compara¬
tively speaking. Tho demand for re¬
fined increased under the stimulus of
improving prions; everybody liltos un
advancing market and the end of a
continuous depression. The soason is
favorable for larger business, and
April to July aro always good months.
In this connection wo call attention to
tho bettor outlook, >s given by au¬
thority, in oonnoction with the declara¬
tion of tho regular dividends by tho
American Bugur Refining Company,
Thoro can he question that tho stocks
of this company aro now regular divi¬
dend paying investments.”
It will lie many months boforo tho
next Congress meots. Besides, tho
trust does not anticipate unfriendly
legislation from tho Republicans; it
has owned them in tho past, and it ex¬
pects to own them in tho future, in
spite of public opinion, which it has
so grossly outraged. The not whole¬
sale price of granulated sugar is now
3.86 oentspor pound, whilo tho price
of raw (centrifugals) is throo cents.
The price of granulated may be ex¬
pected to advanco until it is ono cent
above tho price of raw. It may go a
few points above, but it cannot long
remain thoro or importations will be¬
gin. At that difference, the trust
will make, clear profit, about $15.68 hovoii
tenths of a cent on every pouud,
per ton, or $30,090,900 a year on re¬
fined sugars sold.
The trust contributed to both po¬
litical parties in 1892, and undoubted¬
ly to the traitors of both parties in
tho Senate in 1898 and 1H9 L' Its total
contributions were probably less than
$2,900,000. lienee its total not profits
for tho first year will bo $28,000,000.
As about one-half of this profit comes
from tho protection duty tho trust
has certainly mado wise and judicious
political investments.
In tho meantime what are tho peo¬
ple going to do ubout it?
iivito.v W. Holt.
France’s McKinley.
It will bo quite interesting to watch
the progress made by M. Moline, tho
McKinley of France, in his efforts to
induce the French people to result pay of a
higher price for meat as tho
excluding tho American supply. It
will be hard to convince the average
Frenchman that cattle-raising is au
infant industry which needs protec¬
tion, or to make him believe that the
foreigner pays the tax when tho price
of meat goes up. Borne of our Mc
Kinleyites should take a trip to France
and help M. -Udine out.--New York
World.
A POSEK FOR THE POET.
“The paths of glory lead but to
grave present, Mr.
Ah, yes, but were you
Dray. would
An answer to this query wo
crave:
What path, if any, doesn’t
that wav?
American 'Woolens in England.
Tho sale of American woolen cloths,
at a profit iu Bradford, England—the
citadel of the great British manufac¬
tures of woolens—is reported to tho
Stato Department by United States
Consul Meeker. Tho Consul says that
American cloths, suitablo for men’s
clothing, shown him by a Bradford
merchant, had been purchased in
Btadford aud that the representative
of a Now York horse lias just placod
orders for Atnorican goods in Glas¬
gow and Aberdeen, and expects to sell
them in London.
Why should thoro bo any surprise
that American manufacturers thus
boldly attack tho British lion in his
favorite don—the contro not only of
British but of tho world’s woolen
manufacture and woolen trade? Did.
not tho Wilson tariff law givo our
manufacturers free wool more than
six months ago? That law lifted di
roctly vast loads from all our woolen
industries, enabling them to proeuro
far cheaper and more suitable wools,
whilo indirectly it reduced all other
expenses which enter into tho cost of
production.
England, after clothing her own
people, exports and soils annually
woolen* to tho value of $120,000,009
or more. Tho United Btates, though
manufacturing annually $300,000,000
worth of woolens, lias boon until now
prevented by our own high tariffs
from competing in foreigu markets,
aud hence our exports of woolons
havo been insignificant. Now, how¬
ever, thanks to tho Wilson free wool
bill, American woolens will have an
entrauce into tho markerts of every
Nation on tho globe, and tho new trade
will eventually become enormously
profitable to our manufacturing
classeo.—Now York Herald.
What the Congress DM.
Tho Indianapolis Sentinel says:
“Ordinarily tho passage of any ono of
throo great measures, tho ropoal of
tho BUorman law, tho passage of tho
Tariff law and (bo repeal of the Fed¬
eral Election laws, would havo boon
considered a pretty largo accomplish¬
ment by ono Congross, because of tha
groat fundamental chnugo embodied
in onch. Tho repeal of tho Sherman
law was tho abandonment of a policy
which tho country had followed for
fifteen years, and unriug a part of the
time with almost universal approval.
No ouo was perfectly satisfied with it
it any time, but it was looked upon
»s the most uvailablo makeshift that
could bo secured for tho time, and so
was toloratod until its results had be¬
come so clearly disastrous that all
parties abandoned it, and tho only
real quostiou in the ropoal was what,
if anything, should bo substituted for
it. Nevertheless its ropoal struggle was an
onormous work and tho re¬
quired to accomplish it provos this.
The ropoal of tho Federal Election
laws was also an abandonment of a
policy long followed and one of groat
significance.
“In addition to those tho inaugu¬
ration of tho income tax system in tho
Tariff bill and tho passago of tho law
for tho taxation of greenbacks are
radical measures of reform which,
standing by thornselvoa, would have
attracted much groator attention than
thoy have, whilo minor measures of
reform, like tho Richardson Printing
law, havo almost oseapod notice. The
truth is that almost everything that
has como up in Congress has beon ob¬
scured to a lurgo oxtent by tho pen¬
dency of tho silver question.”
I he Unprotected Landlords.
Tho ropoal of tho corn luws in Eng*
land gave tho people cheaper bread.
It took tho tariff duty from wheat and
brought that staple English produc¬
tion into direct competition with tho
wheat raisod upon tho choap virgin
prairie land of tho Western Btates of
tho United Btates. The onormous in¬
crease iu tho production of American
wheat and tho cheapening of transpor¬
tation to the seaboard and across the
Atlantic have produced results which
were probably not dreamed of when
the freo traders triumphed in England.
Tho Now York Bun says: “Whether
tho British Houso of Lords is to be
mended or ended by legislation, it is
in tho most important sense being
practically ended by natural causes.
Tho hereditary titles would have little
power without the entailed estatos
and tho entailed estates, or at least
the revenues derived from them, aro
fast slipping away. Tho price of
wheat has fallen, apparently mover to
rise again, and tho tenant farmer can
no longer pay the rent. The land in
England will no longer be able to
maintain the three grades, landlord,
tenant farmer and laborer. The land*
lord must suffer first. A good deal of
land has already gone back from
arablo into pasture; soma has gone oat
of cultivation altogether. Many of
tho estates aro mortgaged. Most of
them aro burdened with jointures or
with pensions to younger children.
The*e have to be paid as fixed charges
while tho rent is falling off. Tho last
blow has been dealt to the landed
aristocracy by a radical chancellor of
tho exchequer, who has carried a
budget manifestly framed to expedite
its ruin.”
Bread and Typhoid Fovar.
A serious note of alarm was struck
last summer by Surgeon Major Ken
nie who sent a communication to
the Lancet, which was published
ou September 15. showing that ty
hoid fever was spread at Meerut, in
India, by half baked, doughy plum
cukes eaten by the soldiers of the
army’ at that station, making where the impure dough.
water was used in
\ month Inter Urs. Waldo and Welsh
published their experiments on the
temperature at which bread is baked,
and carefully recorded the bacteria
found in British breads.