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Volume XVII-Na 34.
LANCASTER, PA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1880.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TAKUAI'3! tsABGAlXS!!
SELLING OFF! SELLING OFF!!
Eathven & Hsher
Offer their entire-stock et
Ready-Made Clothing
at and below Cost, with a view et discontinu
ing the READY-MADE CLOTHING business,
and devoting their attention exclusively te
CUSTOM WORK.
CLOTHING made promptly te order, and
Malefaction In all cases guaranteed. A select
line or Cleths, Cassimcres, Worsteds, Coatings,
Suitings. Cheviots. Meltons, Overceatings.
Vestlngs,ftc.,alwavsen hand and orders re
spectfully solicited. Alse, a general line or
Furnishing Goods.
RATH VON & FISHER
Merchant Tailors mid Drapers,
Se. 101 North Queen St , Lancaster, Fa.
SPECIAL These in want of Itcady-Made
Clothing will consult their own interest by
giving them a call before purchasing else
where, as their Clothing are mainly or their
own manufacture and substantially made.
scp29-lmd
1SSO
1SSO
Fall Season.
The mejt attractive aud Recherche Line of
PARISIAN,
L ciide ami New Yerk
NOVELTIES,
FOR
MEN'S WEAK
OPEX THIS DAT AT
SM ALI NG'S
THE ARTIST TAILOR,
121 If. OUEEN STREET,
CLOTHLNGT
CLOTHING!
We have new ruidv ler -alu an Immense
Stock et
Ml and Winter,
which aie Cut and Tritnmed in the Latest
Style. We can give you a
GOOD STYLISH SUIT
AS LOW AS $10.00.
PIECE GOODS
In great variety, mail te order at short notice
at the lowest prices.
D. B. Hosteller & Sen,
24 CENTRE SQUARE,
G-lyd
LANCASTER. PA.
HALL VAVEllS, Ox.
TXTK AUK OFFERING THE ONLY
PBRFfiOT
Extension Window Cornice
ever manufactured. It is perfect In Its con
struction, simple and liandy te adjust and
very cheap. It can be regulated te lit any or
nary window by means of a thumb screw, and
ea,-"be adjusted Irem one feet toflve feet wide.
Tlicv ire made er4J Inch Walnut Meulding
or a New i-:ttcrn and we liave them In eight
different styles. Come and see them.
CURTAIL POLES
In Walnut, Ash and Ebony, Ends, Rings and
Brackets complete.
ORDERS TAKEN FOR
PIER AND MANTEL MIRRORS.
OPENING FALL STYLES OF
WALL PAPER
AKD
SHADES.
PHARES W. FRY,
Ne. 57 NORTH QUEEN ST.
TINWARE, AC-
GAS FIXTURES,
IN ENDLESS VARIETY,
AT
Shelter, Huniphreville & Kieffer's
EAST KING STREET.
ATTORNEXS-AT-LA W
HBNRYA.BILKY
Attorney and Counseller-at-Law
a Park Rew, New Yerk.
Collections made In all parte of the United
States, and a general legal business transacted
Refers by permission te Stelnman & Hensce
Ready-Hale Clothing
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
S(
CBOOL BOOKS.
SCHOOL BOOKS
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
for Lancaster City and Cennty, at
L M. FLYNN'S
Ne. 42 WEST KING STREET.
OCHOOL JtOOKS,
BLANK BOOKS
AND
Fancy Stationary
AT
FOI DERSMITH'S
Ne. 32 East King St., Lancaster, Pa.
aug28-4td
SCHOOL BOOKS
for Tan
Schools of Lancaster City,
NEW AND SECOND-HAND.
At tlic LOWEST miCE, at the Reek Stele of
JOHI BAER'S SOIS,
IS and 17 NORTH QUEEN STREET,
LANCASTER, PA.,
COAL.
B.
It. MARTIN,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In all kinds of
LUMBER AND COAL.
-Yard : Ne. 430 North Water and Prince
streets above Lemen. Lancaster. n'J-lyd
COAL! COAL! COAL! COAL
Ceal of the Best Quality put up expressly
for family use, and at the low-
est market prices.
TRY A SAMPLE TON
43- YARD 150 SOUTH WATER ST.
n e'2'J-l yd PHILIP SCIIUM, SON & CO.
c
IOAL! COAL! COAL!!!
We have constantly en hand all the best
grades of COAL that arc in market, which we
arc selling as low as any yard in the city.
Call and get -ir prices befera buying else
whi'rc. M. F. STEIGERWALT & SON,
s27-lyd S!l NORTH WATER STREET.
"C0H0 & WILEY
SBO NORTH WATER ST., Lancaster, V.i.,
Wholesale and Retail .Dealers in
LUMBER AND GOAL.
Connection With the Telephonic Exchange.
Branch Ofilcc : Ne. 3 NORTH DUKE ST.
lebSS-lyd
L
UMHKK AND COAL BT TELEPHONE
The undersigned arc new prepared te re
ceive eidcrs for
Ceal, Lumber, Sash, Deers,
Blinds, &c,
by Telephone. Step in at the Excliange ami
de your own ordering free of charge.
G. SENER & SONS.
S. E- Cor. Prince and Walnut Streets.
jia-tfdSJ
pi O TO
BEILLY & KELLER
FOE-
GOOD, CLEAN FAMILY COAL,
and all ether kinds of Ceal. Quality and
quantity guaranteed. Manure by the car lead
ut Philadelphia stock yard prices.
Yard, Harrisbnrg Pike.
Office, 20S East Chestnut strcet. J angl7-tfd
dry GOODS.
LADLES' COATS.
Opened this day a large stock of the above
goods, te which special attention Is Invited.
Silk and Cotten Yelvets
FOR TRIMMING AND SKIRTS.
BLACK AND COLORED SATINS
FOB TRIMMING, &e.
BLACK SILKS
Black and. Colored Cashmeres.
We have all the above goods In lull supply,
and te be sold at our usual Lew Prices.
FAHNESTOCK'S,
Next Doer te the Court Heuse.
CARPETS.
DARGAINS FOR KVLRYBODY.
BARE CHANCE IN CARPETS,
Positive sale te Reduce Stock et
6,000 Yards Brussels Camels,
AT AND BELOW COST.
Call and satisfy yourself. Alve, Ingrain, Rag
and Chain Carpets in almost endless variety .at
H. S. SHIRK'S
OAEPET HALL,
203 WEST KINO STREET,
LANCASTER, PA.
ROBES, BLANKETS, CC
s
ION OF THE BUFFALO HEAD.
ROBES 1 ROBES!!
BLANKETS! BLANKETS
I nave new en hand the Largest, Rest and
Cheapest Assebtxxnt of Lined and Unllncd
BUFFALO ROBES in the city. Alse LAP
AND HORSE BLANKETS of every descrip
tion. A full line of
Trunks and Satchels,
Harness, Whips, Cellars, &c.
O-Repalring neatly and promptly dene.Ga
A. MILEY,
108 North Queen St., Lancaster.
25-lydMWftS
KXDNEX AND ZITEB CURE.
Warner's Safe
Kidney i Lifer
CURE.
$1.25 PER BOTTLE.
A Positive Remedy for ALL Kid
ney, Liver and Urinary Troubles of
both Male and Female.
READ THERECORD:
"It saved ray life." J5T. B. Lakely, Selma,
Ala-
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diseases peculiar te women." Mether's Maga
zine. " It has passed severe tests and wen endorse
ments from sonie of the highest medical talent
In the country." New Yerk World,
"Ne remedy heretofore discovered can be
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C. A. Ilarvey, D. D., Washington, D. C.
This Great Natural Remedy Is for Sale
by Druggists in all Parts or the World.
TRY IT AND TAKE NO OTHER.
H. H. WARNER & CO.,
ROCHESTER, N. T.
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DRUGS, JtC.
flWUSSES ! TRUSSES! ! TRUSSES! I!
JL Sufferers from Rupture will find the safest,
easiest and cheapest Trusses in the world en
exhibition and ter sale by
ANDREW G. FREY, Druggist,
Cor. N. Queen anil Orange Sts, Lancaster, Pa.
Call and see.
Alse, the only sure cure for Piles,
PREY'S UNIVERSAL PILE SUPPOSITORY.
Never tails. Price. 50c. and 75c. a box.
nlO-yd
TTULlS
ORUtt STORK.
for
PRESERVING CIDER
NEUTRAL
SULFITE OF LIE
DIRECTIONS FOR USING WITH
EACH PACKAGE.
FOa SALE AT
HULL'S DRUG STORE
Ne. 15 WEST KING STREET,
aug23-lyd .LANCASTER, PA.
JfURNITURE.
HEINITSH,
FINE FURNITURE
An
Cabinet Manufacturer.
All In want or Fine or Fancy Cabinet Werk
would de well te call and cxwntne specimens
el our erk.
OFFICE FURX1TUIIE A SPECIALTY.
HEINITSH,
15 East King Street.
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS.
T ANCASTER
BOILER MANUFACTORY,
SHOP ON PLUM STREET,
Opposite ihk Locemotivs AVerks.
The subscriber continues te manufacture
BOILERS AND STEAM ENGINES,
Fer Tanning and ether purposes
Furnace Twicrs,
Bellows Pipes,
Sheet-iron Werk, and
Rlacksmithing generally.
W Jobbing ptemptly attended te.
anelMyd JOHN REST.
ENGINES AND MACHINERY
Ot all Kinds, repaired at Short Netice.
IRON AND BRASS
CASTINGS Al PATTERNS,
MADE TO ORDER.
BRASS B07CES,
PACKING RINGS.
GLOBE VALVES,
Of all Sizes. All Kinds of
RRASS AND IRON VALVES
AND REER SPIGOTS REPAIRED
S3- Veundry and Machine Shep rear of W
D. Sprcchcr & Sen's Saud Stere, Grant and
Christian strects.
JOS. H. HUBER.
al7-3mdS
GENTS' GOODS.
F
OR LINEN COLLARS
GOTO
ERISMAN'S.
nUR FANCY STOCK1KUS
GOTO
ERISMAN'S.
PUB SUSPENDERS
OOTO
ERISMAN'S.
TJ-OR NEW STYLE
LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, GO TO
E. J. ERISMAN'S,
60 NORTH QUEEN STREET.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
THE-
Lancaster Orp Martin
Without a doubt furnish the FINEST IN
STRUMENTS in the Market. Warerooms 320
North Queen street. Manufactory in the rear.
Branch Office, 15J East King Street.
Alex. McKillips, Proprietor.
Alse Agent ler Lancaster Cennty for
CHICKERING& SON'S Celebrated
PIANOS.
A Full Line et Sheet and ether Music, Small
Instruments. Violins. Ranjes, Rand Instru
ments, Ac always en hand. 113-lydStlyw
Lancaster Intelligencer.
BATUEDAY EVENING, OCT. O, 1880.
A DARK RECORD.
JUDGE BLACK. ON REPUBLICAN FI
NANCE. The Party That Has Been the Champien of
Dishonest Meney, of Repudiation, and
of Special Interest Grinding the
Peer Man te Fatten the
Rich Man's Purse
(uetinsr History
by the
Card.
BUSINESS MEN,
Read What a Great Iren Manufacturer Mas
te Say Upen the Situation Hew the
Business Interests Will be Con
served by Hancock's Elec
tion and Demo
cratic Acces
sion. SATURDAY NIGHT MISCELLANY.
Feed for Reflection for Churchman and Pol
itician. The Debasement cf the Currency.
Frem Judge Rlack Yerk Speccli.
Te debase the currency of a country is
the most pernicious of all crimes. When
it is done by a private individual, no mat
ter en hew small a scale, we put the oflend eflend
er in the penitentiary. If it be done in the
form of a law, or the decree of some su
preme power, the iniquity aud the odium
of it become almost infinitely greater.
When James II. was struggling in Ireland
against the rebellion which had driven
him from the English throne, his necessi
ty for money became extremely urgent,
and, te supply himself, he resorted te au
old plan, practised several times before by
the worst of his predecessors. He caused
the lawful coin te be debased by mixing it
with lead, and this was repeated several
times ; that is te say, when he wanted
mere money he put in mera. lead, aud still
paid it out. compelling everybody te take
it at the original value of se much geed
money. This continued until a hard sil
ver shilling was worth thirty times as
much as the soft leaden coin which the
king had made a legal tender. The Iiish
called this time long, which in their lan
guage signifies selt money, and hence
comes the word humbug, which in all
English-speaking countries expresses the
detestation which just persons feel for a
sham or a cheat of any description. Pre
cisely this kind of an eime bong
the abolitionists practised upon us.
They retired the real honest money of the
country and substituted in its place incon
vertible paper, which they fabricated
themselves, aud by a legislative decree
made that a legal tender in payment of all
debts, public and private. Yeu may say
what you please about the necessity of
this, but nothing can alter the fact that it
was a stupendous cheat. It compelled
creditors te take in full satisfaction of
their debts the half or the third of what
was due te them ; states and municipal
corporations paid a similar proportion of
their debts with it and repudiated the
balance. Of course the men of small
means, who worked for their living, could
net keep this depreciated paper; they
spent it as fast as they get it, for they
could net othcrwise provide for the days
that were passing ever their heads. It
went necessarily into the hands of the
great capitalists at home and abroad. They
exchanged it for bends at par that is te
say, the government agreed te give
its own bends for its own notes. Yeu
remember that at one time thrce hun
dred millions of these bends were sold in
Germany for an equal amount in greenbacks
when greenbacks were worth here at home
only 35 cents en the dollar, and would net
pass at all anywhere else. Really and
truly, we get for these three hundred mil
lions of bends only a little mero than one
hundred millions. Other transactions of
a similar character were made during a
period of many years, which, when taken
together, will show that probably we did
net realize mero than au average of 50 per
cent, en all the bends that were sold.
Thus, one result of our paper system was
te make a debt of $0,000,000,000 for a con
sideration of $3,000,000,000 received. The
people were taxed te pay the whole sum.
We steed up te it faithfully, but it was
the heaviest burden ever borne by human
shoulders. The taxes, national, state and
municipal, absorbed all the profits of all
the labor of the country. The men who
created wealth by their work were obliged
te part with all their earnings, above what
kept life in their bodies, te swell the color celor coler
sal fortunes of these who did net work at
anything but a paper machine. Thus the
great body of the pcople were twice
robbed, first, when paper, worth only
50 per cent., was forced upon them,
and secondly, when they were com
pelted te work out the redemption
of it at full price. Everybody knows hew
much distress this brought en all except
the favored classes. Legitimate business
was evcrwhere in hideous ruin, and hun
dreds of thousands of men, the most meri
torious among us, were actually starving
in the midst of the wealth which their
own labor had created ; and when they be
came turbulent (as hungry people always
de), the only relief offered them was pre
sented en the point of the bayonet ; starve
and starve quietly, or else be slaughtered
like wild beasts. They buckled te it again
and yet they arc at it and still their earn
ings are swallowed up by the government,
which takes them te pay the debt of
a hundred dollars for fifty received.
Let me make my preposition dis
tinct as well as undeniable. I
aver that under the operation en their
money system, and in direct consequence
thereof, mere fortunes were lest by honest
people engaged in legitimate business and
wen by mere speculators than were ever
lest or wen in any ether country in the
same length of time. A large proportion
of all the wealth we had passed from the
many te the few. Industry lest half its
bread when it took paper in place of coin,
and then lest the ether half when it paid
coin for that same paper. Never in the
world did the process of making the rich
richer and the peer poorer go en se rapidly
or te such an extent. If there be one thing
which the Republican party ought te be
mere ashamed of than another, it is the
money revolution they have put us through
from geld te paper and then back again
from paper te geld.
In answer te this we arc told that the
war made it necessary te abandon the use
of honest money and resort te a dishonest
system of finance. I deny that any actual
necessity ever did exist or can exist for
doing se huge a wrong. They have no
right te say that a just and honest plan of
raising money for the war would have
been unsuscessful for they did net try it.
Ne doubt they thought it necessary te
adept a false financial policy in the same
sense that it was and is necessary for them
te de many ether evil things, such as kid
napping free citizens, suppressing n ews
papers, squandering money en fraudulent
jobs, giving away the public lahds, fasten
ing thieves en the state governments, fab
ricating election returns, bribing Legisla
tures, and screening convicted offenders
from punishment. Necessity is the knave's
plea as well as thejtyrants.
On this subject mere than any ether our
enemies habitually de us gross injustice.
In all our platforms, from Jeffersen's first
inaugural te the last declaration of prin
ciples at Cincinnati, the preservation of
the public faith was acknowledged as a
fundamental part of our creed, and thev
dare net deny that we have opposed every
national measure tending towards repudi
ation. But here again they charge us
with offenses of which they themselves are
guilty. Under their legal-tender law all
public debts of every class were paid with
inconvertible paper worth sometimes
50 and sometimes net mere than 35 cents
en the dollar. Surely it will net be de
nicd that this was repudiation quead hoc.
When we opposed this law en moral and
constitutional grounds, they would net
listen. When we besought them te repeal
it they told us it was net convenient.
When we appealed te the supreme court
and get it declared unconstitutional they
packed that tribunal with anti-constitutional
judges and reversed the decision.
That is net the worst of it. They put into
the fourteenth amendment a prevision con-
pclling the Southern states te repudiatea
certain portion of their debt, which was
I de net say whether contracted for a geed
purpose or net, but as binding in law and
honor as any debt that was ever due from
the state of Pennsylvania. And this
amendment was forced upon them by
military violence and by the basest frauds
against the right of suffrage. The privil
ege of being just te their creditors and
true te their own integrity was tern from
them amidst their cries and struggles te
retain it. Dees it become the men who
have done this te charge us with rcpudia
tien? They knew very well that all such
accusations are false. We give them credit
for making the debt, and we double the
credit for making it twice as large as it
needed te be. We will net deny them the
honor of flooding the country with depre
ciated paper but assert that it was the
productive labor of the country which paid
the debt and redeemed their greenbacks.
If we had net given our earnings for this
purpose their bends aud notes would have
been as worthless as waste paper.
Te Business Men.
Ringing Letter Frem a Prominent Iren Man
ufacturer. New YenK, October 5, 1880.
Mr. Holleway, Chairman Business Men's
Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohie:
I regret that your invitation has reached
me se late that I can only send a brief re
sponse by telegraph. I sympathize fully
with the indignation of the men of busi
ness of Ohie and elsewhere against the
impudent assumption of Republican
speakers that the accession of the Demo
cratic party te power will be injurious te
the industry and prosperity of the coun
try. Having utterly failed in their appeal te
the common seuse of the people, they new
resort te the last desperate expedient of
aieusing the fears of men who can be
reached only through selfish arguments.
Happily, in this country of general educa
tion, such appeals are justly regarded as
an insult te the intelligence of the people.
They arc equivalent te the assertion that
a majority of the voting population are se
sunk in ignorance that they can net be
trusted te protect their own rights and in
terests. Such appeals amount te a denial
of the fundamental principles en which
the doctrine of universal suffrage is based,
aud afford the best answer te the hypocrit
ical lamentations of the Republican lead
ers in regard te the alleged failure of
negre suffrage.
Fer my part I am quite clear that the
only way te preserve the public credit and
te refund the national debt at a lower rate
of interest is te prove the utter fallacy of
these Republican slanders by putting the
Democratic party in power, and showing
te the world that a debt resting en the
votes of the debtors is a safer and better
security than one credited by mere arbi
trary power. During my recent visit te
Europe I saw and conversed with many
men who have invested in our securities.
The feeling was universal that the election
of Hancock would greatly strengthen our
credit abroad, because it would afford con
clusive evidence that sectional animosities
had been forever buried, and the people of
the North and Seuth alike had ceased te
leek backward toward the bloody scenes
of civil war, and that their energies, here
tofore se powerful for destruction, would
all be devoted te works of industry, pro
gress and development. Moreover, the
Democratic party is every wheie regarded
as the conservative clement in our national
life. It has fixed principles and definite
policy. These principles and this policy
enunciated by Jeffersen havebcen the source .
et our growth and our greatness. They
are based upon securing freedom te indi
vidual action. They de net rely upon
gevermeut for protection, but upon the
unshackled energies of the citizen for the
promotion of the general prosperity.
This consideration presents the true is
sue in the present contest. The Republi
can idea is a strong, centralized govern
ment, based upon property, with a power
ful army for its protection. The Demo
cratic idea is that the powers and progress
reside in the citizen ; that he is the best
guardian of his own rights, and the best
judge of his own interests ; that individual
liberty is the fundamental condition for
the true prosperity and the real greatness
of the nation ; that we shall prosper and
grew just in proportion as the shackles
arc removed from trade and the area of
commercial liberty is enlarged. Nature
is the best and most bountiful distributor,
and under her free grace labor will get all
its share, and capital will be productive
in the hands of these who have a just
right te its control. At present politi
cians cxercise this control, and all capital
is at the mercy of the treasury depart
ment. When the Democratic policy is estab
lished the treasury will be powerless te
distribute the proceeds of industry te its
favorites, but equal andexactjusticcwillbe
meted out te the productive classes by the
free play of natural laws. The Republican
policy tends te the unequal distribution of
property and the degradation of the labor
ing classes te the condition of serfs. The
Democratic policy leeks te the mere equal
and general distribution of the proceeds of
industry by preserving and exalting the
rights and liberties of the masses te a condi
tion of comfort and prosperity of which we
have had a foretaste, but by no means the
full fruition in this country. This fruition
can only be prevented by converting the
government of our fathers into a self-per
petuating oligarchy of office-holders. This
is the great danger te capital and labor
alike, and the coming election will decide
the question whether our government is
henceforth te be of the people, and for the
people, or whether it is te be run as a
machine for the benefit of a select riujr of
office-holders and of their patrons who
find it for their interests te pray for the per
petuation of ring-rule.
I appeal then te the "men of business
everywhere, and te the men who toil for
their daily bread te settle the question
new and forever whether this govern
ment is te stand upon the basis of equal
rights te all its citizens, or whether it is
te be run in the interest of the special
class who have had their grip en the Re
publican party for the last twelve years,
and wne will nave an underlying mort
gage en the next administration if it
should be Republican, with an irrevocable
power of attorney for General Garfield te
distribute its patronage and determine its
policy in favor of property without regard
te the rights of labor. If these rights are
net successfully asserted new, the whole
structure of the government will be chang
ed from a republic te an oligarchy, based
en special interest and for the welfare of
special classes. "
Abraham S. Hewitt.
Staying Away Frem Church.
St. Louts Glebe-Democrat.
A great many disappointed ministcis
have recently asked the question, " Why
don't people go te church ?" and net get
ting satisfactory answers from any one
else, are compelled te put up with unsatis
factory answers furnished by themselves.
The question is one of these delicate ones
which are se much easier te ask than te
answer, and we really think that the bur
den of answering is ene which should net
be put en these who stay away from
church. If an editor were te ask, "Why,
don't peeple buy my paper ?" or an auth
or, "Why don't pcople buy my book ?"
or an actor, "Why de I se often play te
empty houses ?" or if a lady should ask,
"Why don't the men propose te me ?"
every person with the least sense of polite
ness would at once ask te be excused
from a response which involved net mere
ly a question of taste, but a question of
direct personal criticism ; and when the
preachers ask, "Why don't the peeple go
te church ?" the absentees, te whom the
question is addressed, may very properly
decline te give any reason for their pref
erence in the matter.
Net hearing any answer from the outside
world te the oft-repeated question, the
Rev. Mr. Wcndte, of Cincinnati, has nn-
dcitaken te find the reason, aud, if possi
ble, the remedy, for a condition of affairs
which naturally discourages him, and he
gives a great many reasons, all of which
are insufficient, lie alleges as the first
reason " the aversion te all spiritual real
ties en (c.taiued by the carnal mind," but
as he points out that this aversion existed
in the days of the apostles and of Martin
Luther, there is no special application of
it te the conditions of the present time,
except te prompt the remark that if even
the apostles and Martin Luther could net
get people te co te church, there is a very
slim chance of the modern divines suc
ceeding in that undertaking. Mr. Wcndte
gives many reasons, but they are all bad
ones. He alleges the dullness of the ser
mons as one of the reasons, but we affirm
with all the pesitiveness of conviction that
the sermons of te-day are net at all duller
than these of the days when our forefath
ers went te church almost universally.
The great preachers of church-going times.
have published their sermons, and in point
of dullness they would held their own
against a file of public documents. Neith
er is it logical te say that the modern love
of sensationalism is at the bottom of our
absenteeism. The pulpit has done as
much in the way of pandcrment te the
taste of sensationalism as any ether cle
ment of modern life has done, and if it
were net for sensationalism in the churches
the complaint of empty benches would be
louder and juster than it is new.
Perhaps the truth is that church-going,
as an essential of religious life, has passed
away. The modern world, or at least the
thinking portion of it, whose opinion alone
is of any value, rates little for sermons
and less for forms. Instead of being at
tracted by the form of a religious exercise,
the tendency of the age is te be repelled
by it, and these whose assent te a doctrine
of creed is the most valuable are the peo
ple who arc least likely te care for ritual or
liturgy ; and se between these who cease
te care at all for religion and theso who
care for its deepest meaning, church-going
is a weakening custom. It is net that the
world is less religious than it used te be,
the craving for sensationalism .stronger, or
the church services duller, but as the
world gets elder and wiser and better, it
learns te substitute realities for forms, aud
is gradually dispensing with forms alto
gether. The clergy, however, have no grievance
against the world in this matter as long as
there arc mere people who go te church
than there arc who believe in the doctrines
picached te them after they get there.
The prophets and teachers who have seen
their influence gradually decay and their
calling pass out of reverence, have
threatened the world with various direful
consequences if it did net incontinently
abandon its new ways and return te the
old ways. As the world has successively
abandoned the divine right of the churches
te persecute and the divine right of
kings te misgovern, it has been told that
these were essential and Ged-given institu
tions of society, without, which, indeed,
society could net exist. Yet society some
hew manages te get along and the world
somehow gets better, a it doubtless win
de even if tiic churches should finally be
closed and church-going cease te exist, as
it new, according te Mr. Wcndte, premises
te de.
Ont Fer Hancock.
The "Mlltenlan," the Oldest Republican
Paper in Its Section, Deserts the
Sinking Ship.
The Miltenian, the eldest paper in its
section of the state, and long au organ of
the Republican party, comes out for Han
cock. Wc have been furnished' a copy of
the editorial announcing the new depart
ure, as fellows :
Our 'ev Departure.
We have te-day raised the name of
General Winfield Scott Hancock, the gal
lant and illustrious son and soldier of our
our mother commenwealth.for president of
the United States. Forecasting the na-
tural result of this step and desiring te
support the Hen. Simen P. AVolvcrten for
state senator, wc have concluded te burn
the bridges behind us and give our support
te the party which supports he here of
Gettysburg. It requires a strong convic
tion of duty aud a high sense of the obli
gation which a journalist ewes te the pub
lic te break away from party shackles and
te make a new departure, even though it
be dictated by reason and sanctioned by
the highest motives of patriotism. But
what Herace Greeley, Andrew G. Curtin,
Alexander McClure, Jehn W. Ferney and
a host of ether illustrious names have done
we may be allowed te de without much ex
cuse or comment.
Gen. Hancock, with whom we have had
the honor te meet en social occasions, and
whom wc kneic te be a man Bans peur et
sans repreche, has a record second te none
as it stands as a soldier, and had fortuitous
circumstances se combined might have
had the laurels of a Grant (as he has his
honors) wen by the might of his glittering
sword en a hundred et eameueias.
Ou him are the scars of long and honorable
service, and with his bleed left en the field
of Gettysburg, the utmost scrutiny of his
political fees has bat added lusture te bis
.civil and military fame. e If
we are te be a united people let us avoid
that which betrays our unity. 'Let us fos fes
ter our inter-commercial relations at home
and enlarge our commerce abroad. Let
us recover our lest power upon the high
seas, and, through the existence of peace
and friendly relations among our own
United States, make our country what it
ought te be, the ranst prosperous and
powerful nation upeu Ged's footstool.
Of the dangerous tendencies te corrup
tion at home and abroad and the in
creasing power of the political rings, we
have net time new te speak, but all sahll
be guided in the future by that indepen
dence which dares te fellow right and re re
buke that which wc conscientiously believe
te be wrong.
Did net Read the Secular Papers.
The Presbyterian congregation at Brus
sels, Ohie, madeup apurse of $100 for
their pastor, the Rev. Mr. Cunningham,
te meet the expenses of his vacation. The
reverend gentleman decided te spend the
time and mouey in St. Leuis, where an in
dustrial fair was in progress. He had net
been in that city an hour before he met an
affable young man, who knew all about
him and the folks at Brussels, and who
brought him te a room where a game of
chance was going en. The manager per
mitted the clergyman te draw several times
without charge, and then informed him
that t here was $700 te his credit. The gam
bler propeyd te pay this with a "geed as
geld" check for $800, which he professed
te have just wen from a solid merchant,
teking the $100 difference iu meney. The
pastor fell into the trap, and parted with
his $100. receiving a worthless check. At
the police station he was asked if he had
never read the newspaper accounts of such
swindlers. "I only read the religious jour
nals," he replied, "and never pay much
attention ts the secular pre-s."
Jacob Leeckman, 274 Clinten Street, Ruttale,
X. Y., says he has been using Dr. Themas' Ee
Icctrlc Oil for Rheumatism, he had mich a
lame back he could net de anything, but one
bottle as te use hts own expression "cured
him up." He thinks it the best thing In the
market. Fer sale by II. IS. Cochran, drnggiat,
137 and 1.1!) North Queen street, Lancaster, Pa.
37
statistics preve that twenty-nve percent
or the deaths in enr larger cities are caused by
consumption, and when wc reflect that tills
terrible disease In its worst stage will yield te
abottlcef Leclier' Renowned Cough Syrup,
shall wc condemn the suTercrs ler their negll
gence, or pity them for their Ignorance? Ne
9 East King street.
It lite is a flower as Philosophers say.
"Tisa very geed hint, understood the right
way.
Fer it lire is a flower, any blockhead can tell.
If you'd have It leek tresli yen must moisten
it well.
Rut If moistened tee much, and yen get a sick
headache.
A bottle or Spring Riossem U the best thing te
take.
Price 50c., trial bottle 10c.
Fer sale by II. R. Cochran, druggist, 137 and
139 North Queen street, Lancaster, Pa. 38
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