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i'll E NOTKD IHVINK’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “The Gospel Ship,”
Text: “Thou shalt come into tho ark,
thou an 3 thy thee.”—Genesis sons and thy wife nnd thy sons'
wives with vi., 18.
In this day of tho steamships Lucania and
Majestic and the Paris I will show you a ship
that in some respects eclipsed them ail, and
which sailed out, an ocean underneath and
another ocean falling upon it. Infidel scien¬
tists ask us to believe that in tho formation
of the earth there have been a half dozen de¬
luges, and yet they are not willing to be¬
lieve the Bible story of one deluge.
In what way the catastrophe came we know
not—whether by the stroke of a comet, or by
flashes of lightning, changing tho air into
water, the stroke or by a stroke of the hand of God, like
of the ax between the horns of tho
ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catas¬
trophe be God ordered a great ship built. It
was to without prow, for it was to sail to
no shore. It was to be without helm, for no
human hand should guide it. It was a vast
structure, modern probably as It largo the as two or three
steamers. was Great Eastern
of olden time.
lizards Tho ship crawl is done. The The door is open. The
in. cattle walk in. Tho
grasshoppers invitation hop forth in. The Noah, birds “Come fly in. Tho
goes to thou
aud all thy house into tho ark.” Just one
human family embark on the strange voy¬
age, anti I hear the door slam shut. A great
storpi sweeps along the hills and bends
the cedars until all the branches snap in tho
gale. Thoro is a moan in the wind like
unto tho mean of a dying world. The
blackness of tho heavens is shattered by
the flare of lightnings, that look down into
the waters aud throw a ghastliness on the
faco of the mountains. How strange it looksl
How suffocating tho air seems! The big
drops turned of faces rain of begin to plash upon the up¬
those who aro watching the
tempest. Crash! go tho rocks in convulsion.
Boom! go the bursting heavens. The inhabi¬
tants of tho oarth, instead of flying "have to house
top and mountain top, ns men fancied,
sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For
when God grinds mountains to pieces and
lets tho ocean slip its cable there is no place
for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tum¬
ble in the surf, while from its windows the
passengors look out upon the shipwreck of a
race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe
to the mountains! Woo to tho sea!
I am no alarmist. When on the EOth of
September, been blowing after from the wind has for three days
the northeast, you proph¬
esy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you
simply state a fact not to be disputed,
Neithor am I an alarmist when I say that a
storm is coming, compared with which Noah’s
doluge was but an April shower, and that it is
wisest and safest for you and for mo to get
that safely housed for eternity. The invitation
went forth to Noah sounds in our ears,
“Como thou and all thy house into the ark.”
into Well, the how ark? did Did Noah and climb lus family come
dow, down they roof? in at tho win¬
or come the No; they went
through the door. And just so. if we get in¬
to the ark of God's mercy, it will bo through
Christ, old the have door. The entrance large to the ark of
must been a very entrance.
Wo know that it was from tho fact that thoro
were mODSter animals in the earlier ages,
and in order to get them into the ark, two
and two, according to the Bible statement,
the door must have been vory wide and very
high. So the door into tho mercy of God is a
largo door. We go in, not two and two, but
by hundreds, and by thousands and by mill¬
ions. Yea, all the Nations of the earth may
go in, 10,000,000 abreast 1
Tho door of the ancient ark was in the
side. Bo now it is through the side of Christ
—the heart pierced side—that side, the wide Aha, open side, the
we enter. tho Roman
soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour’s
side, expected only to let the blood out, but
he opened tho way to let all the world in !
Oh, what a broad gospel to preach! If a
man is about to givo au entertainment, lie
issues and 200 or 300 invitations, carefully put up
directed to the particular persons whom
he makes wishes toeutertain. But God, our tho Father,
a banquet aud goes out to hands front
door of heaveu and stretches out His
over land and sea, and with a voice that
penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and tho Green¬
land ice oastie, and Brazilian grove, andEng
lirdi factory, and American homo, cries out,
“Come, for all things ore now ready!” It
is a wide door! The old cross has been
taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up
for the doorposts, so far apart that nil tho
world can come in. Kings scatter treasures
on days of groat rejoicing. jewels Bo Christ, our
King, comes and scatters the of boa von.
Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get
into heaven through the crevices of tho
door. Bat he was not obliged thus to go in.
After having preached tho gospel in Surrey
Chapel, going up toward heaven, the gate¬
keeper cried, “Lift and let up your this heads, ye ever¬ in!"
lasting gates, man come
The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter
and Robert Newton wont in. Europe, Asia,
Africa, through North this and wide South door Amorica without may crowd¬ yet
go Ho! one—all conditions, all
ing. people! every said
ranks, all Lutlior that this
truth was worth carrying on one’s knees
from Romo to Jerusalem, but I think it wortli
carrying all around (he globe and all around
the heavens, that “God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.” Whosoever
will, let him come through tho largo door.
Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to
place his lever, and then he said ho could
move tho world. Calvary is the fulcrum,
and the cross of Christ is the lever, and by
that power all Nations shall yet be lifted.
Further, it is a door that swings both
ways. I do not know whether the door of
the ancient ark was lifted or rolled ou
hinges, but this door of Christ opens both
ways. It swings out toward ail our woes; it
swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It
swiDgs in to let us in; it swings out to let our
ministering ones comes out. All aro ono in
Christ—Christians on earth and saints in
heaven.
One army of the living God,
At His command wo bow.
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
Swing in, O blessed door, until all the
earth shall go in and live. Swing out until
all the heavens come forth to celebrate the
victorv
But, further, it is a door with fastenings.
The Bible says of Noah, “The Lord shut him
in.” A vessel without bulwarks or doors
would not be a safe vessel to go in. When
Noah and his family heard tho fastening of
the door of the ark, they were very glad,
Unless these doors were fastened the flrst
heavy surge of the sea would havo whelmed
them, and they might as well have per
ished outside the ark as inside the ark.
“The Lord shut him in.” Oh, the per
feet safety of the ark! The surf of the
sea and the lightnings of the sky may be
twisted into a garland of snow and fire -
onTinLfaS
“God shut him in." There comes upon the
good man a deluge of financial trouble. He
had his thousands to lend. Now he cannot
borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in
New York and had branch houses in Boston,
Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned
four horses and employed a carriageandenr- man to keep the
dusto ff his coach, phaeton,
“LTliiurr££e P Ae“ the waves struck
him. But he was safely sheltered from the
storm. “The Lord shut him in!” A flood of
domestic troubles fell on him.” Sickness
and bereavement came. The rain pelted;
the winds tiew. The heavens are aflame,
Iw cubits deep. But, standing by the
empty crib and In the desolated nursery anti
lathe doleful haU, once a-rieg with merry
voices, now silent forever, he cried, “The
Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away ;
blessed be the name of the Lord.” “Th o
Lord shut him in.”
All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his
overthrow. The broken vows, the dis¬
honored Sabbaths, the outrageous profani¬
ties, the misdemeanors of twenty years,
reached up their hands to the door of the
ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of
his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a
simoom, raving the like an eurqclydon. But,
looking out of window, he saw his sin
sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The
dove of heaven brought au oiive branch to
the ark. The wrath of the billow only
rushed him toward heaven. “The Lord shut
him in!”
The same door fastenings that kept Noah
in keep the troubles out. I am glad to know
that when a man reaches heaven all earthly
troubles are done with him. Here ho may
have had hard work to get bread for his
family; there he ho will Jnover have hunger bitterly; any
more. Hero may wept
there “the Lamb that is in the midst of the
throne will lead him to living fountains of
water, and God will wipe away ail tears from
his eyes.” house; Hero but he in may Father's have hard house work to
get a and my are
many mansions, rent day never comes.
Here there are deathbeds and coffins and
graves; there no sickness, no weary watching,
no choking cough, no oonsumiug fever, no
chattering chili, life no shall tolling beli, and no grave. knock
The sorrows of come up
at the door, but no admittance. Tho per¬
plexities of life shall come up and knook on
tho door, but no admittance. Safe forever!
All the agony of earth in ono wave dashing
against the bulwarks of tho ship of celestial
light shall not break them down. Howl on,
ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord—
“the Lord shut him in!”
Oh, what a grand old door! with So such wide, so
fastenings. easily swung No both burglar’s ways and key pick sure that
can
lock. No swarthy arm of hell cun shove
back that bolt. X rejoice that I do not ask
you to come aboard a crazy craft with leak¬
ing hulk nnd broken holm and unfastened
door, but an ark fifty cubits wide and 300
cubits long and a door so large that the
round earth, without grazing the post,
might be bowled in.
Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a
place in into which the ark. to live Know and die well and that triumph, the door
come
that shut Noah in shut others out, and
though, when the pitiless storm came door, pelt¬
ing on their “Let heads, in! they Let boat upon in!” the the door
saying: diil mo For 120 me they in
not open. years were •
antediluvians vited. They expected said: to “We come in, cultivato but the
must
the3e fields; wo must be worth more flocks
of sheep and herds of cattle; wo will wait,
until we get a little oldor; we wilt enjoy our
old farm a little longer.” Tho But fountains meanwhile of
the storm was brewing. being
heaven were fill ing up. The pry was
plaoed beneath tho foundations of the groat
deop. Tho last yoar had come, the last
roonlb. tho last week, the last day,
the last hour, the last moment.
In au awlul dash an rolled ocean dropped
from the sky and another up from be¬
neath, and God rolled the earth and sky ln'o
one wave of universal destruction.
So men now put off going into the ark.
They will say they have will little wait longer twenty time years with their first.
They worldly a
associates. They will wait until
they get older. They say; “You cannot ex¬
pect a man of my attainments and of my
osition to surrender myself will just now. Yes, But I
afore the storm comes I go in.
will. I know what I am about. Trust me!”
After awhile, one night about 12 o’clock, go¬
ing homo, he passes a scaffolding plank just as a
gust of wind strikes it, and a falls.
Bead, and outside the ark! Or, riding in
him, the park, and his a horses reckless becomes vehicle- unmanageable, crashes into
and he shouts, “Whoa, whoa!” and takes
another twist in the reins and plants his
feet against the dashboard and pulls down back. tho
But no use. It is not so much
avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. body
Out of the wreck of the crash his is
drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled
behind a swifter courser into tho great fu¬
ture. Dead, and outside the ark! Or some
night he wakes up with a distress that mo¬
mentarily increases until he shrieks out with
pain. The doctors coma in, and they give
twenty dops, but no relief; forty drops, fifty
drops, sixty drops, but no relief. No time
for prayer. No time to read ono of tho
promises. No time to get a single sin par¬
doned. The whole house is aroused in
alarm. Tho children scream. The wife
faints. The pulses fail. Tho heart stops.
The soul flies. Dead, and outsido the ark!
I have no doubt that derision kept laughed many
people out of the ark. The world
to see a man go in and said: “Hera is a
man starting for the ark. Why, there will
be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable
ship will not weather it. Alia, going into
the ark! Well, that is too good to news? keep.
Here, fellows, have you heard tho
This man is going into the ark!” Under
this artillery of scorn tho man’s good reso¬
lution perished. there hundreds kept out by tho
And so are
fear of derision. The young man asks him¬
self: “What would they say at tho store to¬
morrow morning if I should become a Chris¬
tian? When I-go down to the club house
they will shout, ‘Here comes that new Chris¬
tian. Suppose you will not havo anything
to do with us now. Suppose you are pray¬
ing now. Get down on your knees and let
us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a
touch. Will not do it, eh? Pretty Christian,
you are!' ” Is it not tho fear of being
laughed at that keeps you out of tho kingdom help
of God? Which of theso scorners will
you at the last? When you lie down on a
dying pillow, which of them will bo there?
In the day of eternity will they bail you out?
My friendsJand neighbors, come in right
away. Come in through Christ, the wide
door—the door that swings out toward you.
Come in and be saved. Come and be happy.
“The Spirit and the Bride aay, Como, " Boom
in the ark! Boom in tho ark!
But do not come alone. Tho text invites
you to bring your family. It says, “Thou
and thy sons and thy wife.” You cannot
drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive
the pigeons and tho doves into the ark he
would only have scattered them. Borne par¬
ents are not wise about these things. They they
make iron rules about Sabbaths, and
force the catechism down tho throat as they
would hold the child’s nose and force down
a dose of rhubarb and calomel. You cnn
not drive your children into the ark. You
can draw your children to Christ, but you
cannot coerce them The cross-was lifted
“ ot to drive, but to draw. If I be hftid up
I will draw all men unto Me. As the sun
draws up the drops of the morning dew so
‘Bo sun of righteousness exhales the tears of
repentance. bring husband , . , , 1
Bo sure that you your an
wife with you. How would Noah have felt
if, when ho heard the rain pattering on h
roof of the ark, he k, I fiW ‘ fa at his wifi w
outside in the storm? No; she wont with
And yet some of you are on , h [
outward hound for heaven. But your
companion is unsheltered. You remember .
»>«i day when the.marriage ring was set
Nothing has yet Ijeen able to break it. 8 c
and the finger shrank, but the
ou ‘
tombswalS’uLathA^nd mmeb r t ttm
hopes, hut
the dropped not into the open grave.
Days of poverty came and the h a
many a hard day s work, but the robbing
brighter. ^shalfthat HM 1 that ring ring ever ever be b,l lost? nit? Will wui
£•£« forever? J pray uoui nar you wuo nave
“ a (1 > v fhe ou ATflils of yourSrthly
ffto see to it that you both get into
the ark. ■
Come in, and bring your wife or your hus
band with you—not by fretting about relig
ion or ding-donging them about religion, but
t.y a eonsi-tent life and by a compelling prayer
read it together, and thentkneel down
and commend your soul* to Him who has
you aii these years, and before
rise there will be a fluttering of wings orei
your they pray!" head, angel crying to angel, “Behold,
But this does not include all your family.
Bring children! the children too. God bless tho dear
What would our homes bo with¬
out thorn? We may have d mo much for
them. They have done more for us. What
a salve for a wounded heart there is in the
soft palm of a child's hand! Did harp oi.
flute over havo such music as thero is in a
child’s “good nighti” From our coarse,
rough life the nugels of God are often driven
back. But who comes into tho nursery with¬
They out feeling that angels infancy nro hovering straight around.
who dio in go into
glory, but you are expecting your children
to grow up' in this world. through Is it all not tho a ques¬
tion, then, that rings depths corri¬
dors and windings and heights and oi
your soul, what is to become foi of your eternity! sons
and daughters for time and
"Oh,” you say, “I mean to see that they have
good manner?.” Very well. “I mean to
d ress them we) 1, i f I hare give' toyself to go shabby. ’ ’
Yorygood. “I shall them an educa¬
tion; I shall leaves thorn a fortune.” Very
well. But is that all? Don’t you mean to
tako them luto the ark? Don’t you know
that the storm is coming, nnd that out of
Christ thoro is no safety, no pardon, no hope,
no hcaveu?
Noah How had to get thorn in? Go in yourself! that II
staid out, do you not suppose
his sons—Shorn, Ham and Japheth—would
havo staid out? Your sons and daughters
will be apt to do just as you do. Bejeet
Christ yourself, and the probability is that
your children will reject Him.
An aooount was taken of the religious
condition of families in a certain district.
In tho families of pious parents two-thirds of
tho children wore Christians. In tho families
where the parents were ungodly only one
twelfth of tho children were Christians.
Which way will you tako your children? Out
into tho deluge or into tho ark? Have you
over made oue earnest prayer for their im¬
mortal souls? What will you say in the
judgment when God asks, “Where is George
or Henry or Frank or Mary or Anna? Where
aro those precious souls whose interests I
committed into your hands?"
A dying son said to his and father, good i,“Father,
you gave mo an education manners
and everything that the world could do for
me, but, father, you never told mo how to
dio, and now my soul is going out in the
darkness.”
Ob, yo who have taught your children
how to live, havo you also taught them how
to dio? Life hero is not so important as the
great lieroaftor. It is not so much the few
furlongs this side of tho grave as it is tho
unending leagues beyond. O eternity,
eternity! Thy looks whito withtho agos, thy
voico announcing stupendous destiny, all thy the
arms reaching across all tho past and
future! O eternity, eternity! altar. Yon
Go homo and erect a family may
break down in your prayer. But never
mind, God will take what you menu, whether
you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all
your house into tho ark. Is there ono son
whom you havo given stopped up? Is counseling he so dissipat¬ nnd
ed that you have
praying? Give him up? give How dare up? you While givo
him havo up? Did single God articulation ever you of speech left,
you a for tho return of that prod¬
cease not to pray
igal. He may oven now be standing on the
beach at Hong Kong or Madras, moditating a
return to his father’s house. Give him up?
Never givo him up! Il03 God promised It is not to
hear thy prayer only to mock tlioo?
too late.
In St. Paul's, London, thoro is a wliispor
ing gallery. A voico uttered most feebly at
ono side of the gallery is heard distinctly at
the opposite side, a great distance off. So
every word of earnest prayer goes all around
tho earth and makes heaven a whispering
gallery. Go into tho ark—not call to until sit all down, tho
but to stand in the door aud
family "David, come in. Aged Noah, Where is Japh
eth? where is Absalom? Hannah,
where is Samuel?
On one of tho lake steamers there were a
father and two daughters journeying. They
seemed extremely poor, A benevolent gen¬
tlemen stepped up to tho poor man to prof¬
fer some form of relief and said, sir," “You replied scom
to bo very poor, sir.” “Poor,
the man, “if there’s a poorer man than me
u-troublin the world, God pity both of us!"
“I will take ono of your children nml adopt
it, if you say so. I think it would bo a great
relief to you." "A what?” said tho poor
man. “A relief! Would It bo a relief to nave
tho hands chopped off from tho body, or tho
heart torn from tho breaal? A relief indeed !
God bn good to us! What do you mean,
sir?” However many children we havo, w#
have none to givo up. Which of our families
can wo afford to spare out of heaven? Will it
be the oldest? Will it bo the youngest? ago? Will
it Ijo that ono that was sick sometime
Will it be the husband? Will it lie the wife?
No, no! We must have them all in. Let us
lake tho children’s hands and start now.
Leave not one behind. Como, daughter; father; come,
mother; come, sister! son; come Only step nnd come,
brother; come, one admit W<J
aro in Christ, the door, swings out to
us. And it is not the hoarseness of of n stormy loving
blast that yon hear, but tho voico ft
and patient God that addresses you, saying, tho
“Gome, thou and all thy house, into in!
ark.” And there may the Lord shut us
ARTIFICIAL COTTON CLOTH.
A Cheap Substitute Made From Wood
J’ulp In lielgiuin.
As if tho unfortunate cotton planter had
not enough to contend with In natural
forces, the science of chemistry has been in¬
voked to enter into competition against the
groat staple. United States Consul Morris
at Ghent, Belgium, in a special report to the
Btate Department, at Washington, describes
a new process of making artificial cotton
which has been remarkably successful, tho
product being much cheaper than the natural
cotton and possessing most of its qualities. changed
Tho basis Is wood pulp, which into is thread and
into pure celulose and spun
then woven into cloth. It resembles ordi¬
nary cotton, but is not as strong as tho natural
product. It weaves and works By coating well, and it with can
be dyed as well as cotton.
paraffine and passing it over glass a beauti¬
ful brilliancy may be given to it. parch- Much
greater strength can acquires be imparted semi-transpar¬ by
rnentizing when it a
ency.
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tho next Congress meets at Washington,
Ever since Congress has been Inexistence the
members havo called tho pages Electricity by lightly | j
clapping their handstogethor. is
will nnd button his j !
meets, every member a on j
desk, which will require only a slight pres
sure to Insure tho coming of a page. An j |
electric wire will ho connected with a call
hoard similar to those used in hotels. .
AN ALUMiNUM FIDDLE. ,
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Time *t Cincinnati in Public. for the Flirt j
At Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, Ysaye ;
. ^ aluminum violin, the first time >
“uch an instrument has been metal played which in pub- vt- !
Utes Aluminum is the only The j
without producing f jj .Alfred ow-rtones. Hpranger, the
v ,. r y ^ ooe 0 r
scientist. Ysaye was shown the Instrument,
The ---— Halibut geawn Ended. j
Halibut fishing in British Columbia waters ,
has closed for the season with a total catch |
Ud 800,000 pounds, the price realized being
j about seven cents per fish. j
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moodhonart. on the Police Force. ■
j bloodhounds Anderson, to Ind., add has to lU bought ponce two force. trained j
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FIRE INSURANCE!
Rates
And prompt settlement in
case of loss by fire.
Apply at this Office.
VOL. XXIV. NO. 15 .
A PROTECTION WHINE,
CALAMITY HOWLERS DISTURBED
OVER THE BUSINESS BOOM.
The Chief Organ of tlia Protectionists
Takes Alarm at tho Evidence of j
Returning Prosperity—Cold Kuets
for Its Dismal Forebodings.
Under tlio heading, “Whore Busi
ness is Booming,” tho American
Economist of March 29 says:
“A stroll through tho wholesale dry
goods district of Now York City will
convince tho most skeptical that
wboloEalo houses, largo hud small, are
taking advftntago of this ora of Gor¬
man free trade to buy everything
in their lino anywhere but in tho
United States. * * Thin looks
to tho casual observer like good times
nml prosperity, but when wo consider
that luiah ouo of theso foreign boxos
and bales throws a dampening shower
on our own furuaua tiros, and that tho
prosperity is over tho water and not
hero, tho whole busiuoss assumes au
other aspect.”
Does it? How do the people pay
for theso imported goods? There is
but ouo way—by exchange. Tho faot
that tho Ainerioau people aro taking
advantage of tho opportunity to so
euro cheap goods shows that thoy nro
producing something to exohnngo for
theso foreign goods. Thoy are at work
making what thoy can produce most
cheaply to exchange for what foreign¬
ers can produce most ohoaply. This
will givo us far greater prosperity than
wo could attain by attomptiug to
make thoso thiugs which wo cannot
produce cheaply. J
When wo see n furmor purchasing
largo supplies of grooerios, drygoods
aud furniture at a storo, do wo think
it a sign that somebody olso is pros¬
pering aud that ho is not? What is ho
doing but exchanging tho products of
his labor for tho products of tho labor
of other pooplo? Ho gets more for his
labor by snob au oxchango than ho
could possibly get iu any othor way;
and tho cheaper goods aro, and tho
moro ho can get for what ho has to
soil, the moro prosperous will ho bo.
It doesn’t matter whether ho ex¬
changes with a near neighbor or a
man on tho opposite sido of tho world.
Tho farmer gives ns little aud gets as
much as possible in exchange.
Iu so doing not only himself, but his
town, county, State and oouutry aro
tho gainers. Anything that provonts
him from soiling or buying to the best
possible advantage injures not only
himself, but his town, county, Htnto
nud country. This is so because tho
same statement holds truo not only to
every other farmer, but also to every
laborer, mechanic, clerk or profes¬
sional man. Wlmt is good for onoh
and overy individual in a group in
good for tho whole group, A tariff
wall provonts each individual from
getting an much ns possible soli iu ex
clmugo for what ho has to aud
therefore injuros each individual and
tho whole country.
Tho American Economist is mis¬
taken. Exclmngo is a Mossing nnd
not a curse. It is a good omen that
business is booming in the wholosalo
dry goods district of Now York City,
and that everybody is “taking advan¬
tage of this ora of Gorman freo
trndo." It is a pity that thoy havo
not a Wilson freo trade ora to take
advantage of. Wilson was willing to
givo our pooplo even greater bar¬
gains than was Gorman.
IIykon W. Hor/r.
Aii Encouraging Outlook,
Tho signs of the times grow daily
moro favorable for a safo and
considerable business revival, Like
tho incoming tide, tho waves of re¬
turning prosperity advance und re¬
cede, bat each suoeooding ono ap¬
parently raises tho general level. Tho
improvement is not felt uniformly, by
any means,and insoruo linos of trade it
is not sousiblo as yet, bat tho course
of tho staples and of tho stook ox
change, the bank statements and those
of transportation companies of soom to to
warrant solid hopes a return
normal business conditions in tho near
futuro. The advances witnessed dur
ing tho past week have boon qnito
marked. Our market reports show
tho rise of cotton and of raw silk.
Wool ii at least steady, and tho
strougth of tho foreign market, to¬
gether with the employment of our
woolen mills here, forecasts a rise in
that commodity, Wheat is up a
little, and tho iron situation may bo
safely said to bo one of hopeful ex¬
pectancy. Imports aro vory hoavy,
and while a gloomy view of this cir¬
cumstance is taken by thoso who hold
tho position that all such imports are
at the expense of American industries,
thoy at least show that our people Our
want tho stuff and can pay for it.
various maraet roports rolled coudt
tions of each denartmont more in dy
tail The whole effect of them, lmw
ever, is hopeful to buoyant, and the
general outlook seems to us bettor
t[ iari H ny time since tho spring of
1Hr l^d.—Dry .„ _,. woods /• ; Economist t.conomist.
Signs of Better Times.
Signs of improving . , busineil . are
seen in many directions. Architeo
taro and Building notes »M advance
of 40 per cent, in the number of land
purchases in New York and 7 ) per
cen t, j n the number of building per
^ j per cent, in the lan 1 pur
chases m Chicago, an Isays that this
city is likely to see more wor.c in tuts
j; ne K ta.rtod this spring than has beau
toke /, o{ the H M m 9 sort. At Uxbridge,
•> it was said that business in the
-
woollen mills had . , taken t a ,i«niiln aeoi tau l
spurt,” and they are being ‘pushed
with orders.” At Conuellsville, Penn.,
the 10,000 cokeworkera of the Frick
Southwestern compauiet were
f,y notice of an advance in
wages averaging about 15 per oent, —
Hew York World.
bill arils letter.
HE IS ASKED TO CHIP IN FOR
SHERMAN’S MONUMENT,
But Declines, and Gives Ills Reas<Mis
at Length for so Doing.
Mr. Blickinan—Sir: I received your letter,
asking for 2ft cents to belt) build a amonum ut
<o General Sherman, tho hero of th; march to
the H« a, and wanting me to send throe other
names and warning rao not to break tho chain,
etc. I will go as far as any rebel so-called fo
keei) tho peace ami bury tho past and be friend¬
ly; out you must excuse me. I havo Jived all
my life in tho path of that march to tho sea,
and for thirty years I havo beou straining
m,v mind to see the heroism in it, and I
can t do it. It just shows how blinded wo
poor mortals are. All tho heroism I see is in
the retreat of Joe Johnston, who, with 40,000
men, resisted that nnrcli of Sherman with
threo times that nurnbu- and kil ed more, man
for man, th m he bad soldiers. There is where
the heroism comes in. Rut we will mako a
far compromise with you. If yon and your
boys will contribute 25 cents each for a monu¬
ment to Joe Johnston, tho real hero of the
march to tho sea, we will let you build ono to
Sherman and say nothing about it. We
thought that the time was about out for brag¬
let’s ging, but if you aro determined to keep it up
to to fair. It Keens to us that it requires a
good deal of cheek to brag about au army of
near three millions of men whipping an army of
three-quart 0 ‘ H of a million in four years’ rime,
I wouldent mention it if I were you. Wo are
very tired of all this ridiculou) gush about tho
Grand Army of tho Republic, especially
when you know or ought to know that
you huvo on tho pension rolls more
men than we had m our army
during with tho war. You can’t knock tho truth out
monuments. Wo will help you build a
monument lo all tho brave soldiers who fought
on either Hido and we will bury tho tomahawk
and stock say in hurrah Tecumsch lor Americans,* Sherman, but we tako no
nor would any other
Sherman tlut in kin to him. Wo if wo
could, but somehow or other wo can’t. Bo
chain. you will please excuse those mo for breaking the
Homo of days, when this ever¬
lasting panic is over, wo will build a monu
mont to old Joo Johnston that will tell tho truth
and commemorate tho heroism of that march
to tho BOH.
This reminds me of old John Hhermnn, tiro
statesman, so-called, and »>f a little paper-cov¬
ered book that is called “Coin’s Financial
Hciiool” and ih going the grand rounds on its
silver mission. It did not come from our sido
of the country, but it is capturing tho people.
I don’t know who is -behind it, but I do know
that it is the brightest, clearest arid most at¬
tractive book on tho silver side Unit has been
placed before the American people, and if not
answered in an effective, convincin' way will
sweep this western country as liio sweeps tho
prairies. It will not do fur the gold standard folks
to say, ‘ Ob, it is all boidi and is paid for by
tho silveiiteH." Tho book must be, answoreil.
Mnybo it 'HiRon can’t bo. I don't know. I can’t an¬
swer a p in it and I am au avorago man.
The truth is, I um afraid to believe all that is
in it for fear somebodv will call iuo a too 1.
I asked Joel Chandler Harris about it yester¬
day and what ho knew about W. II. Jlarvey,
who wrote it. He smiled and said: 4 Ilarvey is
a silver crank, just like I am. They call me a
crank, but nobody can answer tho argument
on the silver side ami hence their only reply is
that tho book is a humbug—a deceitful suaro
and all that, but the book is taking the west¬
ern and southern country. They cannot print
them as fast as they are called for*. Yon will
find them on all tho railroads, but as yet they
have not got in tho book stores. It L said that
simple 250,000 colloquial copies have already been sold. Tho
and tho illustrations stylo of questions and an¬
swers c.ipturo tho common
people.” Now,
there are a whole lot, of us who have
been reading both sides of tho newspapers for a
year or so, and we have got all mixed up nnd
eomo to the eonclmion that nobody knows
much about it. But thin little book has told
us more than all the newspapers, and if some¬
body don’t publish a reply to it I’m afraid wo
will ftllslido down the silver toboggan and stay
thero. Coin says that, tho Yaluo of all the prop¬
erty in the United Htatus is $25,(XX),(HH),000 and
the indebtedness of the nation is $ 17,000,000,
000, Weil, and lie gives all tho figures in detail.
if that’s so, we are Im-tnl, and tho ap¬
pointment railroads of a national receiver is in order. Ho
says the alone owe $5,000,000,000 to
Europe, and tho annual interest is $240,000,000,
payable in gold. He says that every kind of
property has been shrinking in value since tho
crime of 1873 that old John Hherman whs tho
author of. Tho crime of demonetizing silver by
an act passed between midnight and day,
when everybody was drunk or asleep and
even General Grant said he dident know th&t
he had signed any such an net. It takes twice
as much property now to pay a debt as Jt did
five years don’t ago, and as wo all owe nearly bankrupt, as much
as we owe, tho country is about
and a few thousand millionaires will soon own
draws, the whole and concern. This believe is the picture ho
to read it and it makes a man
fool like taking bis double-barrel shotgun and
joining the the army of bread debt, winners, and whiio Tho
masses of people are swell in
properly shrinks, the debts and taxes in¬
crease until they are a burden. The jaw/plo
realiz) this. Not $800 long ago I I sold a piece for of
property for that refu-ed -f 1,500
three years ago. I was forced to sell to pay
debts and taxi s. Home so-called statesmen say
that wheat and cotton aud other things have
como down from overproduction or from
cheaper methods of growing and harvesting.
Rut Coin says how about wool that has not in¬
creased in quantify but ha4 decreased (50 per
cent, in price? How about horses that havo
been gelling iu Colorado for $5 a head?
Tho fact Is that Coin’s book is either a dan¬
gerous fallacy or an alarming truth. Cleve¬
land is not in it, nor the tariff, and neither will
cut any figure iu tho next presidential back election. dollar
Tho shibboleth will be “Give u« tho
of our daddies, and coin it free!” Tho old
aligumont of parties will not ho in it, but tho
cry from the west and tho south will be: “Bil¬
vi r and gold! One and inseparable, now and
forever.'’’—Rill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Why the Sugar Trust Hates Warner.
A man is known by tho enemies ho
has made. If ho is not on spoaking
terms with tho devil he is iikoiy to be
a pretty good sort of a man. Tho man
most hated by tho Sugar Trust people
is ox-Congressraan John DoWitt War
ncr. They bate him like the devil is
said to hato holy water. Why ? Be¬
cause he has done more than any othor
man to expose their false statements
and to prevent them from getting their
hands deeper into the pockets of tho
people. could neither be cajoled
He nor
bribed into silence. Ho carried his
Free Sugar bill through tboHousoand
came near giving the people absolutely
free sugar. A sugar clique in the
Senate prevented this desirod result,
but tho days of Sugar Trust protection
are numbered. Ho monopoly, how¬
ever powerful, can long continue to
rob the people after its business has
been so thoroughly exposed, No mat
ter which party is in Dower the pres¬
sure from the people will become so
great that all protection must soon be
removed from the Sugar Trust.
THOKOUGHLY SUBDUED.
The returned ore — What has
come over Thorpe? He seems to
have lost all his liveliness.
The one who stayed—Don t you re¬
member how lie used to boast that
hi* sweetlieurt was not afraid of
mice? Well, he married her,