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ECItMBER 17. 11887. BOOM the Gu Trait contracu! 6I5CB 1862 we have paid In pehalooe. Ihbiasapous ia a fair way to do wall for hereelf. JOHir O.

Whittieb ia eighty year old to day blessing oa fal good, gray head! No CITT la the country to day baa euota aolld aad brilliant proa pacta aa Indianapolis. i Tna holiday, Meson promisee to bo aa anasually good one, both for buaineea and pleasure. 1 In the ruah of i modern buaioeaa no man an atop to rest, lie muat either get oat or bo run over. Tub growth of publio eeoliment in the matter of enforcing law ia aa remarkable aa it ia THE Evaasvill Tribune haa been inter Viewing the leading Democrat there, and finds a uniferaal opinion against holding an early State eonTention. A.OA1S it ia propoeed to abolish the se eret session's ot the Senate.

It ia high time. Ia effect they are not secret, and are chiefly an elaborate humbug aa much of a bum bug aa "aenatorial oourteay," though aot ao dangerous. A BARK caae of getting "a wooling" ia that which the high tariff folk a are getting from wool manufacturers. Everv where the great manufactures ia that line of gooda aro speaking out in lavor of tree raw material. SOME railroad' traina in Germany are lighted by electricity, the power being sup plied by a connection with the axle ot the oar.

The machine haa an accumulator ao that when the car a to pa electricity ia atored and the light continue. We are abolishing the car atoro in thia eouotry, and the oil lamp should go Thk way in which Blaine'a protective meaaago from Paria waa dropped out of aight ia ono ot the most remarkable of aadden disappearance. Cleveland'a mea aage ia a text for every paper in tbe land, but oven the hide bound high tariff paper have eeased to quote ttlaine'a. It wasn't oven a nine days' wonder. What Ilefirjr Irvine la to hitr.onlc our own Jol.u JU bullivan is to nstrioutca.

Thus does Ampiican prowess outshine even the Knglish Blase carpeuter. Philadelphia Chronlule. There, you correct yourself. Histrionic are Irving'a weak point. It ia aa a master ot mechanism that he shines, llis art.ia the fnbtimation of atage carpentry.

Ilia effaota partake little ot bic 'oniam. EVKX Missouri ia ahead of Indiana in dealing with the liquor traffic. Under the operations of the high license law thirty counties out of forty seven that have voted bawo become "prohibition," and ten towns out of fifteenl the largeat being Springfield about 25,000 inhabitant. Over 200 saloons have ceased to exist since the law went into operation. Senator Morrill's statement in Introducing a bill to restrict immigration may well make the country think.

He said that 70 per cent, of Boston's population, 60 per cent, ot New York's and 91 per cent, of Chieago'a were of foreign birth, and that one third of tbe population of the country, or 19,340,000 persona may be classed aa foreigner. Our only aafety ia a universal education, in tho English language, which a hall include the history of the country and ita institutions. Mb. Blaixb aaya "These men the folk a to whom ho wante to give a 'cheap chaw' not only pay tho milliona of tho tobacco tax. but pay oa every plug and every cigar an enhanced price which tax enables tho manufacturer and 'retailor to impose." Then by tho eame token on all of tho more than 4,000 article which conati tnto food, clothe, fool, tools, tho nscessi tiea of life, and which oar tariff taxes at an average of 49 cent on the dollar, tho eon aumera pay not only tho milliona of tax, but oahanned price which tho tax enablea tho' manufacturer and retailer to impose.

Mr. Blaiao haa admitted everythlag that tariff reformer assert. Ebbb ia a very clear statement by tho Chicago Times of how thinga work which we com mead to th intelligent voter who ia honestly maddled by tho protective fal ey: Within a few year one of the most Important of our staple products wneat has faliea 36 oe0 per cent, in the markets of the world. That is bad for the American farmer, and th more so because the tarin adda about one third to the prices of the thing be has to bur. Whether made at home or abroad.) Tbe production of one of our mo Important article of export ia thus discouraged Oive the farmer a ehanoe to make hi purchases at competition prices, aa he is obliged i sell his wheat at competition prices, and he w.ii be encouraged to Increase his production for export, and at tbe same time he will be better able to compete abroad.

Moreover, he will be better able to clear thai mortgage pS hla farm, and get tnto a position to be a more liberal consumer of American manufactured goods. AH International exhibition of science and InJnatrie ia to take 'el ace at Brussels, beginning with May of next year. England to taking a largo iatereat ic it, and this to urged aa a roaaoa why this eonntry ahould bo well represented. Tho manager guarantee th protection of ore party exhibited, ttd all good for exhibition, will be free ot duty. 8 pedal facllltl Uaaaportatloa.

are alee offered, aad tho advaatageona location at tho exhibition, insuring a largo attendance of Interested visitor from all European eoontrie, i urged. Bate for space aro reasonable, and the prize aro attractive. Tho authorised representative jn thia country, aro Armstrong Knaoer de Coot 822 Broadway, 2few York. 1 I I Tub Republican Cluba adopted a string of resolutions aa long aa 'the moral law and Dot half aa interesting. Among; other thing it aaya Wo are in most thing Independent of foreign prod action for the couimoaitn and necessaries whir.li our people require, and at lew cost than tor aimilar article before 1S, wben we had comparatively free trade, so that to day labor is better paid and manufactured commodities cheaper in price to all our people man they were before the present protective system waa adopted.

Undoubtedly many thing are cheaper now thaa they were In 1860, but they are much cheaper elsewhere than with us. They are cheaper because of improved machinery aad new method of manufacture, and aro prevented from being as cheap aa they would bo with ua by reaaon of a tariff which artificially raise the prices thereof. Yon can't get away from the truth. No amount of sophistry can make it appear that th way to cheapen an article ia to clap a fin of aay aeventy cent on tho dollar on it. It 4 pertinent to note alao the olaimthat aa tain? have thus cheapened wage have risen.

Very well, then; now relict the manufacturer of the tariff on hi raw materials and that would cheapen tho price of hi product and with that cheapening wage would rise. They would, aurely, for they rise with a brisk market, and giving our manufacturers free raw material and lowering general duties would enable them to make their goods for less, while opening our market would enable them to sell abroad where they can not now Mil. Th reasoning of tho protectionist run la a circle, Speaking of tbe period ot high tariff in thia country th Republican club assembled in New York say: It ha been sccompanled, also, by, a change In the balance of trade with foreign countries, enabling us to retain at home tbe gold and silver product of our mines and our earnings, instead of aending them abroad fur the enrichment of aliens. Tbe implication ia that thing ran th other way with ua during the preceding period of low tariff. Mr.

Blaine, ia thia preaidential bid, went further ven, and said gold and silver flowed out bounteously iu 1816. On the contrary, from lS iO to 185Qi4ur import of gold and silver were aud our export $3,190,000, a balance 'in our favor of $29,996,000. In the last year above mentioned our California gold discoveries began to appear in the market, and ia 185(3, th last year of the tariff of. 1846, our gold and silver production amounted to $55,000,000. During these ten years our total product of gold and silver was $101, 389,000, which, added to our importa ot coin made a total of $197, of gold jand silver, of which, in one way or another, we came into possession under tho tarriffof 1340.

During thexo very year, although we produced over $451,000,000, we exported only $221. 000,000 of specie, so that our stock of bullion was, nnder thia very tariff, actually increased by $230,000,000. Assertion is essy, but facts knock the life out of it frequently, as again, for instance, when it is catalogued how much the country increased in wealth or population during the high tariff period. By the same token it could be assertod that during the high tariff the 'country had a war which coat a million lives, two thousand millions of dollar in national debt, nearly a thousand million in pension, and so on. Th on is a greatly chargeable to the tariff aa tbe other.

I Mr. For lee, of Wayne County, in this State, has recently mad the: best, exposition that we have encountered of tbe relation of Russia to tbi It haa been frequently remarked aa one of tbe inr consistencies of human nature that, while tbe dsspotism of the. waa the most exacting in Christendom, and most utterly at war with the whole history and spirit of our government, it was th ono foreign power that jhad always main tained kindly relation With na. have quarreled and fought a ittle with the only European ally we ever 'had. We hare quarreled frequently anc fought twice with the nation nearest ua in political atructure and kinahlp.

We have only just, escaped a war with another European despotism by the impossibility of fighting, except on tbe sea, and tbe certainty that ao fitcating.that oould be don there in a lifetime would eUle our controversy. But with Russia we have never had even a "croas word." Tho most liberal, 'popular government, and the most oppressive, unpopular despotism, have beep uniformly as good friends aa if they had intereata in common that be die astroualy affected by any jar or difference. Mr. Toulke points out the origin and endurance of tbi strange misfit of national ympathiea. Tho Czar ha no inter! that can bo' easily brought in collision with ours.

Hi aggreasion and acquisitions aro all confined to th lands and peoplea he can reach by the march of hia armies. Ho baa. thus stood ohr frind for th earn reason that Thompson, tho poet, had for lying ia bed late, "I hao nao motive to do otherwise." We, haying no difference of Interest with him, bav ao motive to: manifest any anti Russian feeling. Bo wo have gone on a If we were neighbor la tho aease of the scriptural story. have never tried or thought to separate th despotism from th nation, bnt have aocepied one aa th choice and exposition of tho feeling tho other.

Abundant and indisputable evidence of it error ha not changed thia notion. It ia the detpot who to onr friend and entitled to our regard, aot tho people who are hounded from post to pillar by th despot polio and soldier aud spies. Mr. Funlk iays: Tory justly, th Bourbon, the royalty of France, Was our ally in our revolution, bat that did not pre rent our sympathy from going out to tho French people against th dynasty that had ridden then to th bono ia th preceding 200 yaar. Our friendly relation with the government of England do not keep from tree aoocs to the Irish our sympathy in their contention with that Government.

MtV'hy then should not tho real American entiment, that favor th enlargement of these people from political durance, go oat as freely to tho Slav on th White aea as to th Celt oa the Irish eT Why should not our sympathy be a prompt and earnest for th victim of Alexander policy aa for the victim of Balfour'a? The Decadence of Cremation. Cremation seems to bay passed out of publio interest, except as an occasional allusion bow that ker and there, "ia apoto," there are beliovere la It propriety 'THEE in ATTATTnnrH HATUTJD UJSUKMKEK 17, I5ST. or hygieai value. Thia week a ease waa reported lrom Detroit, tho first that haa occurred ia Michigan. Th owner ot the crematory and it first subject are both foreigners, and th case goe to cosfirm a general Impression that the innovation oa old custom come to this country from abroad usually.

Few are indigenous, and not very many are naturalized herej Considered aim ply in the direct aspect fbat an act ot incineration presents, a a method ot disposing ot tbe nselea habitatioa ol a aoul tbar need aa "earthly tabernacle" no ii trer. there is nothing in it that need shock national feeling or affectionate sentiment. In all it procesaea it is as cleanly, prompt and effective a way of 'putting out of the way that which can aever be needed for any purpose apain as burial or embalmment. There irnoj defacement, aa there muat be partially jln embalming, and there ia ao auggestion of tbe dusty origin of th body that ia inevitable in burial. The remain disappear in the furnace as promptly aa in th grave, and there ia no pile ot earth in one case that lies heavy on many a aurviving aoul long afterward.

The practical advantage of cremation would seem to be eufScient to cointueuiiit to general adoption by Christendom. But it is very doubtful it the practice ever gain much on it present advance! in thir country. Iff fact, it ia by 'no mean clear that it ia not Jesa favored now than it waa when first proposed as a. means of disposing of the dead. A good many readeraj of Th New will remember that a decade ago, when th subject was first brought prominently to public attention, an association waa formed hr to support th practice 'and devise the meana to carry it through.

It contained a few prominent citizene, whose1 intelligence and social position ware enough to assure it respectability. Where is that association jnow? Little ha been heard of it aince jit chief advocate through the press, the lat George C. Harding, died, and nothing eeeme to have been donej to tor ward; the cam it undertook to develop into a national fashion of dealing with the dead. What has happened here is but a sample of th general tendency and result. A generation accustomed to burial, to th aolemn service for th dead; to the infinite, play of poetry and metaphor over the grave anl the tombstone; to the constant association of bereaved affection with the grave; to tbe sentiment that presejves th form oi the lost aa th last association with tiie dead; to tbe religions convictjon that at the last day the graves will open and tbe dead appear as th'ey were kimwn in' life and ia the form that they were last seen; to the beautiful cities that have grown up about the graves till they seem as if they must be a pleasure to their silent residents a well aa to the sentient survivors; for whom every tie that "reaches from tbe heart and the hearthstone" penetrates the grave not the furnace, the coffiu'acd not the urn, finds it little less eaay to.

divest itself of all tbe sacred memories, apd even all tbe convictions of life, than of these association with buriaL i Positive convictions, practical opinions, schenies'of work or pleasure or duty may all change readily with changea of condition or evidence of effeet, but changes of sentiment that live wholly in associatioua, that come to the cradle and stay for a bearse, can only be changed iy such habit and associations as will outlive tbe earliest aad purest teachings of lite. Cremation is a cleanj quick, wholesome war to be rid of the dead, but for that very reason is hard to mjjve forward in popular regard. We. don't want to be rid of the dead in tbe associations that preserve them to ua as we kuew them before death. it ia just because crema tion deatrova that lorm before our eves and shows the changed condition of the grave.

body that can uever be a en ia th that it is repugnant to the strongest senti ment of our hearts. FernJotou llabit tit Chewing Shaft I New York sun. "Chewing sou is a bad habit greatly on the increase in thia aaid a Bowery tobaocoeisl the other day. j'Youug woinen'are uually oar largest customer. Webuy the stuff specially prepared lor chewing purposes.

Most of it is mad of half tobacco and half salt, and the remainder ia prepared by the addition ol various ground spices. I "We generally sell it in five cent packets. When our customers get it tbey immediately proceed to make an imitation scoop jwitn a piece of paper and fill tbe space between their lower lip and teeth with, their purchase. As the snuff gets gradually wet with saliva, the watery extract filters into the I mouth through the crevices between tbe teeth. "Tne effect of the snuff is to make these women feel dazed and stupSd.

With single glas of beer and the requisite quantity ot snuff the appearance produced is that of beastly Intoxication. I believe tbe custom was introduced originally from, the South, where the 'class of people styled. by the colored 'poor white are in the habit of chewing a fibrous piece of wood which ha been previouay impregnated with snuff." The Market os a Metropolis, rw York Bun. Great city. New York.

Just think of it, Albany ia surrounded by a splendid farming country, yet Albany is supplied' with cream by New York. Thia city alao supplies Washington, Baltimore, and' other cities with much of thoir cream. The farmer of tbe State just pile their eream into this city instead ot disposing of it Bearer home, and the farmer would hardly do it nnlea It paid, Satisfactorily Explained, (The Epoch. 1 Mistress Why. Mary, I told you to make up my room an hour ago, and her it la in terrible disorder.

Mary Yis, mum, an' I did make it up; bnt the master came in to put oa a elan collar mum, an' he lost th button. I More Work For Electricity. An English engineer proposes, by mean of electricity, to condense the solid part ot moke and send the solidified poxtloa baok to tne furnace. Diagnosing tbe Case. Oshkosh ICortnwestern.

1 Th average Congressman hain't very much to aay, aad it take him a long time to Bow Wo Oet Our Champagne. American win firm import about half a million dollars' worth ol champagae cork every year. I I Cora For Dyepepeta. There Is ao better cure for dyspepsia than the knowledge that Utere to nothing to eat la the bouse. The Monopolist's Platfoi Petersburg Democrat.

Sentiment of th monopolist, "Tariff for aa only." Stick To TH Puddle Duck.j Four dollar for a canvas back duck ia the prloe at New York club. Qui Its From Wed cling Gardenia, Collecting bit of wedding dress to mak a quilt la th latest. 7 be California) Frait Crop. Value thia year is estimated to be $12,000, 000. Ah There! I Bustle were first kaowa a "dignifiirs.1 Bestttatioa.

Cpoa her fie were line of pain and doobt; Lev cam Instead of death and swept them out. Within her breast raged tempest strong and wild; Soiled Into calm whan Love said, "Peace, My child." Her weary fret by Love were meetly shod With sandals of the holiness of God. Her arms drooped nerveless, after their fierce strain Love lifted them, and they were strong sjain. Her ears were deafened with the rut hies cry, Vit vtcfuS crashing up against the aky. Kweeter than silence came Love's voice divine: "Thou ahU arise agaiu, for thou art mine." Thrilled throneo the agony of awful fears, "I wiil restore the locuxt eaten yeara" So fn Lore's light her fsce trinsEgured aaona.

And ahe grew very fair to look upon. Oh vineyard, wasted once of beaata of prey. Thou hast put fortn thy glorious iruit to dayt Oh Jewel flung 'neath trampling feet of swine. Love's band haa set the In th crown divine. Maker, Redeemer, Sanctlfier, Thou liaat signed Thy sign upon her breast and brow: And every power superb, and each bright grace Flame ia the perlect luster of Thy face.

Macmlllan's Magazine. Sf, Louis consumes 2,000 tub of oleomargarine every month. Flowers are again pnt on ball dresses, bnt without any stiffness. Select oysters are scare ia Baltimore, aad the trade suffer thereby. Whit bear sell in the New York mar ket at 28 cent a pound, dreased.

The Peniacola Commercial to trying to get Floridiao to grow pepper. Kind wuds er pleaxart too do eah, but meal makes boeciik. Judge. St. Paul expended $11,543,314 la new buildings during this year of 1SS7.

The great bulk ot tbe world's supply of pencil wood come from the awamp lands of Levy county, londa. Tne Saturday Review write of "th sterilizing and deteriorating effect oi the extra religious religiosity of Emerson." Henry George and Dr. MeGlynn have been offered! 8,000 acres of good land ia New York Stat to start a colony on their theories. The statue of the late Lord Shaftesbury, to be erected as a memorial ia Weitminster Abbey, will be ready lor unveiling early ia January. It i now said that Remenyi waa not drowoeel off Madagascar after all, report of his recent appearance in Bio Janeiro having been published.

Theodore Thomas has made the most of himself and has done prei'y well. lie was at one time a fiddler in the old Broadway Theater at $0 a week. Poor While (taking a fistful of change from contribution box) Thankee, deacon, '1 I'd a known yer paid for comin' I'd a been here alore. Tid Bits. Kansas has a larger proportion of women rroperty owners than any State in the Union, Kansas what a mao haa is his wife's, and what a woman has is her own.

"Why. old man, what are yon doing on a bicycle?" "It's my only chance to get a little fresh air without taking the old lady along, see?" Texas riflings. Mistress of the Houe What is this blotch on the wall iiaper, Bridget? Bridget That's an ile painting m'ein. The stopper kirn out oftlie can. Burlington Free Press.

It has been found impossible to raise $5, 00! for a monument to Chicago's murdered po liremen, but the anarchists are to have a thirty thousand dollar granite shaft. It is proposed to chng the jury law in Jersey so that the selection of jurymen be made according to the talent, knowledge, independence and integrity" of the tale. men. During her twenty years of married lif, Mrs. John Guest, of Wichita, ha presented her husband with twenty two children.

She has twice given birth to twins and once to triplets. After All 1 can not say yes, "Walter. I aitHil always be sis "Sister to me? you wonL" "Yes, Walter; your brother' Charles proposed to me last night and I accepted him." Life. Wanamaker, the great Philadelphia clothier, was employed for years in his lather' brickyard at scant wage, and his first work away from home brousrht him only $1.50 a week, lie now haa 3,000 clerks to do his business. The city of Lecompton.

which thirty years ago was one ot the most promising towns in the Watt, is to dny a striking example of a "buted boom." Town lots tuat sold readily tor $1,000 each in. 1 Sol can not be dih pused of at $00, aud the halt a million dollar State House, then under way, ia now a mass ot ruins. A drunken laborer named John Davves, at Dowla fviclanii, on war home lay down beside the railroad track su close to the rail that, a train coming along, the efig.n rnn over and cut off the heel ot his booL When the train stopped and backed uri mao was still asleep, and wasi indignant at being made to get up and go home. Georgia ha one fortuneteller who can be depended on. She is a youog girl, an.

i wan recently thought to be a Gypsy by a widower who is lookiug for a young wile, and was therefore anxious to know the future. The girl said she'd tell the past and the future, and. having first received a good fee. she told the man to take off bis hat. lie' did.

Then she said: "You took off your hat; you will put it back on. God love you, and if you don't look sharp the devil will get yon." The fortune teller then walked away aud left him standing looking "like the boy the calf ran over." Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New York World, is undergoing an ordeal partioularly trying to a man accustomed to personally conducting a big and active journal. For three weeka be has been confined in a darkened room taking treatment for his eyes, and to insure absolute rest he has been compelled to keep iu bed. Arduous work rendered one eye long ago almost useless, and double duty oa tbe other brought it to a condition where all work had to cease. The oculist says he will have to keep his patient la door or three week longer.

A Buffalo milkman wear a nickel five cent piece a a watch charm, and gives this reason: "Over a year ago I took this nickel, which was then beautifully gold plated, as a five dollar gold piece, in payment of a bill. As as I detected the fraud I took it back to the woman who passed it on me, but she refused to make it good. So I fastened it to my watch chain and kept on supplying her with milk. But now every day I make her quart one fourth water, aod once a week I credit her with one fourth the amount of her milk bill. When the sum total standing to bercredit ia $4.95 ahe shall have pur milk once more, and not on til thea.

She knowa the milk is warered, but whenever she shows an inclination to complain, I handle the nickel and say that my milk to aa 'pore as gold That set Ilea it." Horace Warner, a farmer near Bridge water, N. met with a Strang accidsnt one day recently. A larg oak tree stood on a high bluff on hi farm overlooking the Housatanic The heavy rain waa bed th oil away around it, and on day the top became too heafy for th roots to hold up, and it fell over away from the river. lr. Warner fonnd it lyiag upon th.ground, and, as coal is high, he determined to cut it up for hi fireplace.

lie began at the top and lopped off some of the (mailer limbs and brush. Then he mounted tbe trunk and cot away on a larger limb. He had just severed it when he waa astonished to find himself flying through the air toward tho river. The tree, relieved of it weight, bad sprung baek Into iu original position, and Mr. Warner went with it.

ile fell into th icy water of tbe llousatooie, and managed to reach the hunk with nothing more than a sever wetting. What he mourn over is the loss ot aa fine an ax as ever was swung on a handle. It followed him into the river, but where it fell Mr. Warner was too much occupied to see. A GOOD NCE.5K Should not hesitate to wait upon those ill with such diseases as smallpox, cholera or scarlet lever.

There 1 little to be feared by person waiting on th sice if they will ne Darby Pro hylactie Fluid freely. In sick room It should exposed on a plate or aauoer. and the patient sponged off with the Valid inted. For safety, cleanliness and comfort la the. sick room the luid Is indispensable.

i i TOPICS OF TUB TIME. Following close upon the meeting of the lie publican National Committee ia Washington cornea the convention of Repablican clubs in New York. It is easy enough to see the 'necessity for the first meeting, but just what the need for a preliminary gathering of tbe political worker In any party is, is not quit so clear. There was certainly harmony in th Bepublican party or at least th working part of it, which the clubs representand further than hsrmony toward a given end the country does not want and the party can aot stand. Dictation by heads of political clubs will kill any organization, and particularly a minority one.

It ha been industriously given out that tbe New York gathering is not in th interest of any candidate. So much the better, and it ahould be religiously kept from dabbling ia tbe fortune of any man. That country i greater and far more important than the ambition of any iadviduaL However, there i nd question that the convention has developed into a Blaine love feast. Tbe name of th Maine man baa com to th surfac oa a great many timely and untimely occasions. In fact, since the President's message appeared, it ha been pretty well settled that we are to have the fight or 16S4 over again in 1S88.

and that about all the two conventions of the leading parties would have to do would be the formulation of principles already well understood aad the nomination of candidates for tbe second place on the national tickets. Almost all the leader in the New York Club meeting are followers of Blaine. The head ot the Pennsylvania delegation is Charles Emory Smith, who is known as the Maine man's newspaper right aand man, and the balance ot the delegation are or a similar stripe. There fa ot course no objection to Blaine if the party wants it is the party for it, but a good many peple are saying that the convention ia Chicago next June is tbe place for the party to apeak and that it aotion ought not to be unduly influenced by kupersarvioeabl political clubs. Th idea of holding the present Republican Club gathering in New York this week originated with James P.

Foster, president of one of the New York City clubs, who suggested it in a speech before the American Club of Pittsburg in April last. Tbe scheme proved popular, though it would never Lav developed into anything had it aot been for the personal endeavor ot Foster himself, who has worked early and late all summer and autumn to get the party clubs together. Innumerable pamphlets have been eircnlated and hundreds ot letter written. The whole thing is a New York undertaking, and what its ell'ecta may be upon tbe iuture or tbe party it is designed to aid is a yet doubtful, it is a new tactic in political party warfare, and may prove to be a political gun loaded at both ends. A good many citizen are fearing that such may prove to be the esse.

Still it will verve to formulate party measures and to bring to light weak spots in the party ranks and as such will bear watching by the Democrats. The Republicans have been cemeuied by defeat, and are going to fight in earnest next year. Th number of Republican leader who isvor a temperance plank in tbe platform of their party for next year's campaign is rapidly increasing. It will be a pronunciation advocating a vote on the subject by the people in the several State. In Pennsylvania tbe new high license law is causing an enormous reduction in the number of aloona.

Tbe necessity of procuring bondsmen who will become surety for the law abiding conduct of those taking Out licenses is in us way a great restrictive influence as the high fee. in order to keep a liquor store iu Philadelphia, for example, under the cew law, a man must first pay a fee of 500 in advance. Then he must get two reputable freeholders of the ward in which he wishes to open bis saloon, eacn of whom must own unincumbered real estate worth over aod muat not be engaged in the manufacture of liquors, to go oa hia bond. Next he must have nis petition for a license accompanied by the certificate of twelve reputable electors of tbe ward that tht have knowa him fr aix months, that they indorse his application, aod that they bare signed no other similar petition within a year. Their bondimen must be among these indorsers and must take oath to their indorsement.

It is not surprising that, in the face of such requirements in two of the worst wards in Philadelphia, where there were under the old law 500 saloons, there are under the new law but 153. There were not eiiough different freeholders in tbe whole wards to produce the old number ot licenses under the new law. liven had the profits been suQicient to warrant a fee ot the other requirements of the law could not be complied with. The result is that from being among the worst localities in the city, the' wards in question have come to be respectable by comparison, and property i looking up in value accordingly, f. The requirement of bondsmen who are not engaged in the manufacture of liquor is one of the most direct blows which could bo aimed at the traffic.

In most oi the cities of the country the nominal owners of the saloons are not the real owners. The latter are the brewers who employ the keepers as their agents. This is true in New York and in boston in both of which thousands of the most eligible locations in the best resident section, have been pre empted by the liquor traffic This latter tact alone haa strengthened th temperance people enormously. Tbe saloon people were not content with the earth. They wanted everything oo it.

The provisions ol the Pennsylvania law are being copied by many Stalest and several' legislature that meet next month will be called upon to pass judgment upon What they do will have weight in the next national campaign, for the issue can no longer be kept out of national politics. All signs point that way a fact that is generally admitted. Christian' workers in foreign lands are continually met with tbe query: "If this that you teach be the truth, why don't you people settle among yourselves just what it is before coming here to preach to us?" It is to endeavor to settle among themselves just what Christianity is and just what it ought to do that there baa just closed its session in Washington an alliance of ministers of varioua denomination. Nothing was definitely settled and the problem still confronts the Christian world. The Protestant Episcopal convention which met in Chicago in October of last year, atarted tbe ball rolling by "passing a resolution in which advances were made to other Protestant denomination.

Not long after thia advance waa frankly met by the Presbyteries of both New York aad Philadelphia, and out of the discussion then set going grew the late Washingtoa conference. It is not for a moment intended that any denomination shall sacrifice their forms of church government, or shall abolish their manner, of publio worship. There to danger ot professing a confraternity they do not feel. All that, is practicable is combination instead of eompe 1 tition a cessation of denominational backbiting and a long and strong pull all together for the benefiting and uplifting of the masse. There is no room for bickerings; with anarchism and labor troubles and ignorance generally, there to plenty ol the sort of work that carries tbe loaf of charity in one hand and the spelling book in the other.

Tbr I another feature that a modeet layman ought to be permitted to mention, even if it does, respectably of course, speak plainly of and to the clergy. And that to the fact that th lattar ar not giving th Deo Die what the oeoDla demand. It ia in ehureh just as it in the newspaper. The editors edit the journals, but th peopl edit the editors. With the.

clergy, th peopl have lest this power, and. the clergy have therefore, to a great extent, lost their control over them. Not that in either case tbe popular notions of the masses should be permitted to (control. By no means. But tinmanitv ean ba lad: it pan sot ilrls Th newapaper baa flee ted a mighty im liisTimNi im literary tae ana general intelligence by limply beginning it th people's level aad steadily aad persiateatly raising tbe There ia not an editor in tbe country who is not daily striving to belter his publication; and wherever the paper aeents to be going backward, reat assured the particular evidence of it appears ia answer ton pronounced demand.

I speak of the ninety and nine among the journals of this country; there are black sheep in every tamly, journalistic as well as any others. Contrariwise, th clergy of all denominations have held up standards wholly unattainable except by the favored few. They have fallen Into a biblical aiyle of preaching that is doubtless correct, bnt which few ean understand. Threadbare theme handled in language so familiar aa to have no meaning in particular, never did and never will interest the people. Why, I know several churches where the oldest attendant can not remember the last time a thinglaa a fresh idea came over the pulpit rai4 What nnder heavens tbe clergyman does through the week, or what he is thinking on Sunday to imagine that hia congregation ia in need of the sort oi talk he give them, i more thaa the average church goer can imarine.

There are innumerable live tonic that can be handled ia good, nineteenth century English not sensationalism, but religion, which latter ia just what people want to hear about. Tbe clergy must interest tbe people firt and convert tbem afterward. It ought to give ua aonie theological bur that will prick our Sunday hearing aod stick ia onr week day memery. People want point. Tbey are tired of theological chestnuts; they are sick ot listening to ministerial drone men who taik learnedly ot sin in the abstract, but, like policemen, rarely fall foul of the concrete sin about them men who have soarings after the infinite and divings after the unfathomable, but who never give you an idea that to not toothlesa aad gray headed.

Now I aaw thia, not aa an outsider, sot as a fault finder, but as ono who, out of three sermons a week for many years, can eonnt all th really suggestive, intellectual, humanitarian, practical, nineteenth century sermon be ha besrd in the time npon the finger of both hands omitting thumbs. Let tbe people onee learn that the pulpit give them something worth their time and attention and they will be on hand to hear it. Judaism has lately held a convention for the purpose of ascertaining, if possible, why it is getting left behind. Alter debating some day it sensibly came to the conclusion that its successful rival was the printing press. There is a valuable lesson in its conclusion.

There Is a vast work to be done. The youth of tbe South, particularly children of colored parents, are clamoring for instruction. Any who ean furnish it will be liberally supported. Once interest the people and denominational unity will take care of itself. Euoexb GtXP, Tbey Should Ho 'on Partisasu EvansviU Courier.

Non partisan control of tbe benevolent institution of the State ia another important reform for which there ia crying need. The objection of these munificent establishment for the afflicted to tbe eontrol of party bouses of any party ia a great wrong, not only to the unfortunat benefioiariea, but to tbe people who generously provide tor their maintenance. In two ot the pities of this State, Indianapolis and Evaasville, the police work under tbe Metropolitan police regulations, aod it is the universal sentiment of the people of Evansville, that we have never before had aa efficient, reliable and responsible police protection. Why should the beasvolent institutions of tbe State be made the prize of party contest, when we have removed the police force of the two Iirincipai cit.e of Indiana from th political ottery? Use of lnstantaueous Photography. Instantaneous photography is no longer a question to determine by study and experiment, but has assumed tbe place of an accomplished and familiar fact.

One ot the most interesting achievements in this direction, a desoribed in a London paper, originated in the question as to wheaber tbe upper part of the wheel of a vehicle when in motion travel faster than the lower part. In determining' thia matter by iusJantaneou photography, the artist took tbe photograph ot an ouioibus wheel en route, and in this photograph, while tbe lower ends ot the spokes immediately adjacent to the ground are not perceptibly unshapened by the motion, tbe tops of the npper (poke show an angular motion, corresponding to about ten degrees. Tbe photograph in this case most successfully expresses the fscl that the wheel it represents is in rapid motion. Sell! a Va. abODil.

"Old Tim!" in Crawrordsvilie Journal. In the year 1836 tbe writer witnessed the sal spectaole of the sale of a white man, because be oould show no visible means of support. He was arrested under the then vagrant law as a vagabond and sold for one year to keep him from becoming a county charge. Old man Garret' bought him for 12 cents, took him home and set him to splitting wood, but while his new master went dowo town on an errand, the vag took to the woods, then not very remote, and made hi escape. The vilest tramp in our day of advanced civilization would resent suoh an indignity with ineflsbl scorn.

Decrease ot English Pan per s. The English Board of Trade has made a report in which it alleges that the number of paupers in tbe countrv now are only 24.7 to tbe 1,000. while in 1S70 there were 40 to tbe 1,000, and that the total nnmber baa fallen from 000,000 to 697,000, while tbe population has increased by 5,700,000. In London, it is alleged, there are now only 21 paupers to 1,000 inhabitant. Park County's Progress la Koads.

There are eighteen gravel roads centering in Rockvllle and parts of the 'county, ef which seventeen were built under the new law which assesses the property holders and the assessment may be worked out by the real estate owners along the line, if ao desired. Five roada will pay ent ia 1887, aeven ia 1888 aad five in 1889. Tho Small Boy's View. I JTtd Blta "Ah, my son," aaid the minister, "I'm glad to see' you in Snnday eeheel a last, la this four first Sunday?" "Yes, air." "Ho do you Ilk it?" "Oh, gus I kin stand until aiUr Christmas tree." Ob, Tss'r OAT Oa Tkst, I iBockvllle Tribunal Th rest of th country has gone on so long ignoring Indiana that tt has eome to be generally recognised that the State ean aad ought to be snubbed on every poaalale ooca Cholera In South America. Aaiatio cholera haa reappeared ia Chili a month earlier than the aimilar visitation tost 7ar; and, siace tbe warm season ha alreadv began ia that eouatry, the disease will be likely to spread and increase in virulence.

To Tall Wan Egg Are Good. Journal ef "One way to tell whether or not aa egg ia good to to throw it at aa anarchist. You eaa fudge the quality of the egg by the quality ol the anarchist's remark. Hateful Worde. Qort EHoL Hard speech between' thoee who have loved to hideous in th memory, lik th ight of greatne aad beauty sunk into vice aad rag.

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ENGLAND CREDITS AMERICA WITH THE most srccEssroi, aaxixr.ojr skjlwigs London, December 18. At th test recently made wh dlOurent devices for the relief of deafness, gathered from all part of th world, th Verdict was unanimously In favor of the Invention of A. Wales, of Bridgeport, Conn aa In many case where all others failed this Invisible a vice THE TOBACCO TAX It BsHstoval tVould Not ASVct Prlc A to Substantially Benefit. Sir. Blaine ba said that would aot oaly repeal th tobacco tax at once, bnt that it ahould be assessed only as th tax oa tea or cofTee to assessed, be 3a rise the Government needed It, and not at all because it was a revenue derived from a luxury.

this latter point what he say I th expression of aa opinion so general among th supporters of a customs revenue against internal taxation that it is worth repeating, that the country may have a full aad fair understanding of the views of men who are or are going to be tbe moldera of th Government' financial policy. The repeal of the tobacco tax, he aaya, would "bring great relief to grower of tobacco aU over the country," aod it "would necessarily lessen the price of tbi articl to consumers." It there ia any faith due to facta in. settling questions of finance, Mr. Blaine haa stepped outaid of th line of their support in this, to put it mildly, conjectural statement. The repeal of this tobacco tax "would materially lessen th price." Logically and inevitably a red notion of th tax would cause a proportionate reduction of price.

But It didn't. We tried it a few year by cutting the tax down about one half. The effect, if any discernible effect appeared at all, waa the substitution ot "plug" for fine cut, aad the addition ol a shaving to lb five cent plug. The' New at th time noted, and made specially prominent, th sett list a low rate ol tobacco tax did not mean a low price to the consumer ot tobacco. It gsv the opinion of oo ot toe largest retail dealer in thia city, who had at one time been en of th largest manufacturers ia th State, that th tax reduction mad nO practical difference in the coat to the ret tiler, aod of course oould make none to tbe eoosamer.

The change from the old war rate to less than bait, west iato th pocket of the big manufacturers, the Lorillarda and their kind, and didn't give tbe patrona of "navy" and their kind the benefit of a "chaw'! a week in the increased size of their five cent plugs. The price of smoking tobacco, which 'was then, and ia now mnuh more largely consumed than all th different kinds of chewing tobacco, waa not affected at all. A ten or five cent "bag" of any kind of smoking tobacco was not biggor after the reduction of tbe tax than before. Tbi may look lik a small matter to build a discussion on, but a question of taxation that touches tbe habits ef people is not a small matter in any fair view of the ease. Mr.

Blaine is reported as saying, "Watch, if you pleae, tbe number of men at' wore on tne larni, in tne coal mine, along the railroad, in the Iron foundry or in any calling, and you will find ninety five of 100 chewing while ihey work. After each meal the aame proportion seek the eolace of a cigar or pipe. Tbeae men net only pay the milliona of the tobaoee tax, but pay on every plug and every cigar an enhanced price, which the tax enables tbe manufacturer aad retailer to impose." Here again a faot, as ascertained by tbe continuoua and close observation of a ebewer and smoker takes iasue with Mr. Blaine. The hulk of jrltingrnen on railways and in mills iu vital conditions 'being mueh tbe same on farms and in mines do not chew tobacco.

One half of these that daily come in contact with the observer to whom we refer, have never used tobacco except for smoking. Jf Mr. Blaine had kept in miod the fact that tbe workingmen of whom he speak are five times in six Irishmen or Germans, who never chew tobacco at home, and rarely learn to do ao here, he would have aeen bow widely hia estime of that kind ot tobacco consumption varies from truths or reasonable probability. Tbe informant of The News is an old offender against both canons ol restraint, and has constant occasion to see how tobacco is used by Not the theoretical kind who leo ur on the "tvranny of capital" and th "slavery of but the aotusl, positive workers who eut up hogs, level rail wsy tracks, feed engines, rua machines, and live by the sweat of their brows. His observation i that a large msjority never chew tobacco, while a larger majority smoke.

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