e175 40,000. ; ted at d by r-Five n was night. others =~ almost + yards id for ontin- aham, tified. ls and roken. ch 25; of the 30,000, te of n the over ray tos 12 and: Ky.to 3 =O . = HERO SRGRHSIILSISESIULUBEANRR BIBI LYLS pt pg po i 1 ie Go B38 Gus reno LOO Aerin Seomo 888 Seuss | g8geg g . 7 coll = escapement. And the pinion wm : “oucreation of ‘the world. v “TEE 8U The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. 11. Here is the first clock or watch ometer or Simopises of which the — any kno statecraft and the cares of office he invented by which he could tell the time his sundial may havs been a great hen ihe shadow of that col. pom it was nine o'clock fas and when it reached another point it geometh as three o'clock P. M., and all the hoursand f hours were so measured. Or it may ave been a flight of stairs such. 7 found in 28 SA oe twas ten o'clock A. M., or another step it was four o'clock p. M., and likewise other ‘hours may have been indicated. “The clepsydra or water clock followed the dial, and the sandglass followed- the <clepsydra. Then came the candle clock of Altred the Great and the candlewas marked tn 3 and. into three parts, and while the first 6 was burning he gava himself to Cr rats ‘while the second. was burning he gave himself to politics, and while the third part ' was burning he gave himself fo rest. After awhile came the wheel and weight clock, and Pope Syivester the Second, was its most important inventor. And the skill of cen- turies of exquisite mechanism toiled at the ~~ ‘timepieces until the world had the Vick's clock of the Fourteenth centu: and Huy~ a ithe itiventor, swung the z st pendu- . But it was a watch anda clock that did nos indostan and other old “coun- and when the shadow reached one step buy the day before the tha crop of grain we sowed is found eurselves thousands of « off than, we expected. Who rr cumstances says, “This loss is from must have been allowed to go into that un- fortunate enterprise for some good God controls the east win wind? i as eight hours a night and rise that cannot easily wait for ( ‘you some flatter- g thing he has just beard said about you, and you find that all the styles of goods in which you deal have advanced fifteen per : on your way your children in fuil A are roses on the center of the tea ta and roses of health in chesks all round the table, what more 40 you want of consolation? I don’t pity you a bit. You feel as if you could boss the world. But for those in just opposite circumstances my text comes in with an omnipotence of meaning. The shadow! Oh, the shadow! Shadow of bereavement! Shadow of sickness! Shadow of bankruptcy! Shadow of mental de- “| pression! Shadow of persecution! Shadow um: and Dr. Hooke contrived the res | oh.eath! Speak aut, oh sundial of Ahaz, 4 pe. “*endless chain” followed “and the “ratchet and lever” took its place, and compensation balance and the stemwinder followed, and now we have the * buzz and clang of the great clock and watch factories of Switzerland and Germany and {England and America turning out what is eems to be the perfection of timepieces. It “took the world six thousand years to make .. the present chronometer. No : with ‘the | mneasurement of longer: spaces than minutes and hours, Time was ulated from new moon to new moon; then from harvest to harvest. Then the year was pronounced to be three hundred and fifty-four days and then three hundred and sixty days, and not until a long while after three hundred and sixty-five days. Then events were calcu. © lated from the foundation of Rome, after- .ward from the Olympic games. Then the Babylonians had tueir measurement of the year and the Romans theirs and «the Armenians theirs and the Hin : theirs. Chronology was = busy 1 . centuries studying monuments, inscriptions, coins, mummies and astron- ' omy, trying to lay a plan by which all question of dates might be settled and «events put in their right place in the pro- cession of the ages. But the chronologists . only heaped up a mountain ot confusion and bewilderment until in the sixth centur, Dionysius Exiguus, a Roman abbot, sai y Huet everything date from the birth as Bethlehem of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.” The abbot proposed to have things dated backward and forward’ from that great event. What a splendid thought for the world! What a mighty thing for Christianity! It would have been most natural to date everything from the : i But I am glad ‘the chronologists could not to) easily guess ‘how old the world was in order to get the nations in the habit of dating from that occurrence in its documents and his- tories. Forever fixed is it that all history is to be dated with reference to the birth of Christ. and, this matter seitled, Hales, the hief chronologist. declared that the world was made five thousand four hundred and eleven years before Christ, and the delug came three thousand ona hundred and fifty- five years before Christ, and all the illus- rious events of the nineteen centuries and all the great events of all time to come have been or shall be dated from the birth of Christ, These things I say that you may know what a watch is, what a clock is, what an almanac is, and learn to appreciate through what toils and hardships and per- plexities the world came to its present con- veniencess and comforts, and to help you to more respectful consideration of that sun- dial of Ahaz planted in my text. “We are told that Hezekiah, the king, ‘vas dying of a boil. If must have been one of the wort kind of carbuncles, a boil without any central core and sometimes deathfuli _ A fig-was put upon it as a poultice. Hezekiah * .did not want to die then. His son, who was to take the kingdom, had not yet been born, and Hezekiah’s death would have been the death of the nation. So he prays for re- - covery and is told he will get well. Buthe ‘wants some miraculous si to make him sure of it, He has the choics of having the shadow on the sundial of Abaz advance or retreat. He replied it would not bs so won- derful to have the sun go down, for ital. ‘ways does go down sooner or later. He asks that it go backward. In other words, let the day instead of going on toward sundown, turn and go toward sunrise, ' I see the invalid king bolstered up and wrapped in blankets looking out of the window upon the sundial in the courtyard. While he watches the shadow on the dial the shadow begins to retreat. Instead of gone on vowara siz o'clock Tn the evening t goes back toward six o'clock in the morn- 2. The big poultice had been drawing for some time, and sure enough the boil broke and Hezekiah got well. Now I expect you will come on with your higher criticism and try to explain this away and say it was an optical delusion of Hezekiah, and the shadow only seemed to go back or a cloud came over and it was uncertain which way the shadow did go, and as Hezskiah expected it to go ‘back he took: the action of his own mind for the retrograde move- ment. No; the shadow went back on all the dials of that land and other lands. Turn to 1I Chronicles xxxii.,, 81, and find that away off in Babylon the mighty men of the palace noticed the same phenomenon. And if you do not like the Bible authority turn over your copy of Herodotus and find . that away off in Egypt the people noticed that there' was something the matter with thesun, The fact is that the whole universe waits upon God, and suns and moons and starsare not very big things to Him, and He can with His little finger turn back an en-: tire world as easily as you can set back the hour hand or minute hand of your clock or rv of thi ! . ‘At the openin the new. year péople are shoreline on Hho flight of Sear pele all feel that you are moving on toward sun- down and many of you are under a conse- quent de; on, this morning + 10 set the hands of your watches and clocks to going the other way. I propose to show | by the time be was thirty-five years. And“ and tell the people that God manages the shadow! As Hezokiah sat In his palace rapped in invalidism and sarrounded by anodynes and cataplasms and looked {out upon the black hand of the only clock known at that time and saw it move back ten dezr he 1learnsd a n that a majority of the human race “meed this hour to learn—that the best friend” a man ever controls the shadow. The ‘setbacks are sometimes the best things that can happen. The great German author, Schiller, could not work ualess he had in his room the scent of rotten apples, and the de- cay of the fruits of earthly prosperity may “become an inspiration instead of a depres- 4 Robert Chambers’s lame feet shut him up from other work, and he became the world renowned publisher, and helped tash- ion the best literature of the ages. The painful disorder like that of Hezekiah called a carbuncle is spelled exactly the same as the precious stone called the cars buncle, and the pang of suffering may become the jewel of immortal value. Your setback, like that of Ahaz’s sundial may be recovery and triumph, f never nad a setback but it turned out to bs a set for- ward. You never would. have bzscome a Christian if you had not had a setback, The highest thrones in heaven are for the set- backs, In 1861 the shadow of the sundial of this nation was set back, and all things seemed going to ruin, and it was set back farther in 1862, and further in 1863, and still further in 1865, but there is not an intel- ligent and well balanced man—north or south, east or west—but feels it was set’ back toward the sunrise. But I promise to show you how the shaw- ows might be turned back. First, by going much among the young people. In most family circles there are grandchildren. By this divine arrangement most of the people who have passed the meridian of life can compass themselves by juvenility. If isa bad thing for an old man or old woman to sit looking at the vivacity of their grand- children: shoutin “Stop that r: 1 2: tun, of the eight ar- id 5:3 sht-yeat-old [ er Ly fatherand Red children and A y er eighty. ge “| grandchildren and great grandchildren, and a more boisterous crew were never turned ! out on this sublunary sphere, and they all seemed to cry to ths old folks, “Keep young,” and they did keep young. Don’t walk with a cane unless you have to or onl as a defence in a city afflicted wit too many canines. n't, wear glasses stronger fhan neces | puliting on au ber tens when @ightdens ‘will doy as "well. Don’t go into the company ef thosa who are always talking about rheumatism and lnm- bago and shorthessof breath and the brevity of Raat life. It is too much for my gravity to hear an octogenarian talking about the shortness of human life. From all I can find out he has alwaysbeen here and from present prospects he is always going to stay. Remain young. g up your stockings in Christmas time. Help the boys fly the kite. = Teach the girls how to dress their dolls. Better than arnica for your stiff joints'and catnip tea for your sleeplessnights will be a large dose of youthful companionship. ; Set back the clock of human life. Make the shadow of the sundial of Ahaz retreat ten degrees. People make themselyes old by always talking about being old and > wishing for the good old days, which were never as good as these days. From alll can hear the grandchildren are not half as bad as the grandparents were. Matters have been hushed up. But if you have ever been in aroom adjoining aroom where some very old people, a little deaf, were talking over old times, you will find that this age does not monopolize all the young rascals. It may now be to get young people up early enough in the morning, but their grandpa- rents always bad to be pulled out of bed. It is wrong now to play mischevious tricks on the unsuspecting, but sighty years ago at school that now venerable man sat down on a crooked pin not accidently placed there, “and purposely drove the sleigh riding party ‘too near the edge of the embankment that he might see how they wonid look when tumbled into the snow. And that man who has so little patience with childish exuber- ance was in olden times up to pranks, one- half of which if practiced by the eight-year. old of to-day would set grandfather and andmother crazy, Revive your remem: rance of what you were between five and ten years of age, and with patience capable of everything join with the young. Put back the shadow of the dial not ten degrees, but fifty and sixty and seventy degrees. . ‘Set back your clocks al§3 by entering on new and absorbing Christian work. In our essays had much to say about what has been accomplished. by she young; of Ro: mulus, who founded Rome when he was twenty years of age; of Cortes, who had con- quered Mexico at. thirty years; of Pitt, | who was Prime Minister of England at twenty-four years; of Raphael, (who died 1 at thirty-seven years; of Calvin, who wrote his “Institutes” at twen ; ‘of Melanc- thon, who took a ‘learned rofessor’s chair at twenty-one years; of Luther, who had conqueréd Germany for the Reformation ou how you make the shadow of your dial | ifisall very well for us to show how earl jke the shadow on the dial of Ahaz to stop going forward and make it go back. think 1 have a big undertaking ward. on i "on hand, but it can be done if the sams Lord who reversed the shadow in Hezkiah's court- | nonagenarians. Ind there is Cy ‘While looking at the | mundial of Hezkiah and we find the shadow ard moves upon us, retreating we onght to learn that ‘controls the shadows. yeady to acknowledge = His ment of the our feelings if not with so man ‘ *ihis lites from God, this warm God.” Or, we have arush of ‘and we say, > are What a providential thing nat lot just before ther J to God I 1 Why, dividend! What a Lai 1 sold out my shares befors that col We are all 0 Sasha oy as in 1 t and we sa; ~ glow of a bright morning esd is from y great things for God and the welfare of the world, but some of the mightiest work for God has been done by septuagenarians pnd octogenarians aud worl which none tut such can do. Hey pe serve the equipoise of senates, of ri us denominations, of reformatory movements, in life one can do v sel. Instead of any of you beginning to fold up your es, arouse anew your el ~ With the experiance IL ave ought to be able to do in one year now more than you did in ten years right after you have passed out of your teens. cal wer less, your spiritual power ought to e more, Up to the last hour of thair lives ve ood old Dr. Archibald is nothing but to realize that chill from God. Or we he market retreats, or a ; ‘we make an investment that never or or Text: “And Isaiah the prophet cried | W° 3 t we cannot dis) mtg the Lord: and Heb OAGhE the Shitd of, or a ow degrees backward by which it had by drought or fresh when took down in the dial of Ahaz.’—I1I King | count of stock og hg "frst of Ja i | only the scissoring off desire to inspire the’young we have in our. Young men for action, old men for coun: Dr. ‘Hawes, : old Dr. - Holmes EAA 5) + ~vancal, ? Let me say to those inthe noon of life: Don’t be putting off har ness; when God wants ic off he will take it off. Don’t be frightened out of life by the p as many are. At the first sneeza of an influenza many give up all as lost. = No new terror has come on the earth; The microbes as the cause of disease were described in the Talmud seventeen hundred years ago as ‘‘in- visible legions of dangerous ones.” Don’t be scared out of life by all this talk about heart failure. That trouble has always been in tha world. That is what all tae people that ever passed oyt of thislife have died oi—heart failure. “Adam had it and all of his descend- ants have had it or will haveit. Do not be watching for symptoms’ or you wiil hava symptoms of everything. Some of vou will yet die of symptoms. Symptoms are often only what we sometimes ses in tha country —a dead owl nailed on a barn door to scare living owls. Put vour trust in God. go to ‘bed at ten o'clock, have the window open six inches to let in the fresh air, sleep on your right side, and fear nothing. The old maxim was right, *‘Get thy spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax.” But while looking at this sundial of Ahaz and I ses the shadow of it move, I notice ‘that it went back toward the sunrise instead of forward toward the sunset—toward the thing the world is willing now to ao, and in many cases has done. , There have a greac many things been written and spoken about the sunset of life, 1 have said some of them. myself. But my text suggests a better idea. The Lord who turned bacz that day from going toward sundown and started it toward sunrise is willing to do the same thing for all of us. The theologians who stick to old re- ligious technicalities until they become sopo- rifics would not call it anything but couver- sion. Icallita change from going toward sua- down to going toward sunrise. That man who never tries to unbuckle the clasp of evil habit and who keeps all the sins of the past and the present freighting him and who ignores the one redemption made by the only one who could redeem, if that man will examine the sundial he will fini that the shadow is going forward "and he is on the way to own. His day is on the road to night. All the watches that tick all the clocks that strike, all the sand glasses that empty themselves,all the shadows that move on all the sundials indicate tha approach of darkness. But now, in answer to prayer, as in my text the change was in answer to prayer, the pardoniny Lord reverses things and the man starts toward sunrise instead of sunset, He turnsthe other way. The Captain of salvation gives him the military command, “Attention! Right about face!” He was marching toward indifference, marchin toward hardness of heart, marching towa prayerlessness, marching toward siu, march- ing toward gloom, marching toward death. Now he turns and marches toward peace, marches toward lizht and marches toward . comfort and marches toward high hops and marches toward a ‘triumph ‘stupendous and everlasting, toward hosannas that ever hoist and hallelujahs that ever roll. Now if that is not the turning of the shadow on the dial of Ahaz from going toward suthdown to go-_ ing toward sunrise, what is it? Liane seen day break over Mount Blanc and the Matterhorn, over the heights of Lebanon, over Mount Wasbinzton, over the Sierra Nevadas, and mid-Atlantic, the morning after a departed storm when the billows wereliquid Alps and liquid Sierra Nevadas, but tne sunrise of the soul is more effulgent and more transporting. It bathes all the heights of the soul, and'illumines all the depths of the soul, and whelms all the faculties, all the aspirations, all the ambi- tions, all the hopss with a light that. sick- ness cannot eclipse, or death extinguish, or eternity do anything but augment and magnify. I préach the sunrise, As I look at that retrograde movement of the shadow on Ahaz's dial, I rememoer that it was a sign that Hezekiah was going to get well and he got well. So I'have to tell all you who are by the grace of God having your day turned from decline toward night to assent toward morning, that you are goin to get well, well of all your sins, well of all your sorrows, well of: all your earthly dis- tresses. Sunrise! But; says one, all that you say may be true but that does not hinder the horrors of dissolution. = Why, you who are the Lords are not going to die. All that the grave gets of you as compared with your Shieh) your immortal nature, is as the clippings ol your finger nails as compared with your whole body. As you run the scissors along the edge of your thumb nail and cut off thay which is no use but rather a hindrance; you do not mourn over the departure of that fragment which flies away. Death will be of that which could be of no use, and the soul has no funeral over that which would be an awful nuisance if we could nob got rid of it. This body as it now is, what a failure it would make of heaven if our departing soul had to be burdened with itin the next world. While others there ten thousand miles a minute we would take about an hour to walk four miles, and while our neighbor immortals could see a hundred miles we could see only ten miles, and the fleetest and the healthiest of our bodies if seen thers would make it necssary to open in heaven an asylnm for cripples. No, no; one of the best possible. things that will hap- en to us will Pe the sloughing off of this y when we have no more use fort in its present state. . When it shall come up in its resurrected form we will be very glad to get it back again, but not as it is now with its limitations and bedwarfments innumerable, Sunrise! y ; There shall 1 bathe my weary soul In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll 38 my peaceful breast, Acro eful breast, Sunrise! But not like one of those morn: fogs atter you bad gone to bed late or did not sleep well, and you get, chilled and yawning and the morning sion and you feel like saying to the morning sun shining into your window, ‘I do not see what you find to smile about; your bright- ness is to me a mockery.” Bub the inrush of the next world: will be a morning after a sleep that. nothing can dis- pebbles of that beach that arch the scene are a commis, oe an a he blue, and oe ron at js orange, and the purple, * and the and the green wrought on thous skies in shape of garlands, of banners, of ladders. of chariots, of crams, gor Shrones. : What rise! Do you not feel its warm on : faces? Scoville MeCullum,the dyin boy of our Sunday -school, uttered what sha be the peroration of this sermon, ; Throw back the shutters and let the sun in!" And so.the shadow of Ahaz'ssundial turns from aunset to sunrise. . A Long Dinner. ’ y George the Fourth asked Dr. Greg- ory what was the longest sederunt after dinner that he had ever heard of on credible authority. 'Thedoctor answered: “The longest I know of was at the house of a learned’ Scot- tish judge, Lord Newton. A gentle- man called at his house, in York Place. Edinburgh, at a late hour, and was informed that his lordship was at dinner. Next day, the same gentle- man called at an early hour, and, be- ing again informed that the judge was at dinner, expressed surprise that the dinner of that day should be so "much earlier than the dinner of the "day before. ‘It is the very same din- ner,’ replied the servant; ‘his lordship ) ot yet risen from the table.” morning instead of toward the night. That | GRIND ARMY COLUMN. bn 1ST MASS. CAV, Partial History of a Gallant Regiment That Suffsred Severe Losses. My regiment, the 1st Mass., Cav, was organized in September, 1861, at Readville, Mass., with Robert Williams (formerly Captain in the Regular cav- alry) as Colonel. It saw its first ser- vice in the expédition against Poco- taligo. Later on it participated in the battle of James Islands, 8. C., and I will venture to say there was no better cavalry school in the country than that established and actively presided over by our Colonel at Hilton Head and Beaufort. Who will forget that, to us, unmerciful introductory exercise— bareback riding ? By it many were sorely wounded. To be sure, the wounds were not deep and would heal over daring the night, but to go out day after day and be rewounded‘in the ‘same place was a trial of patience of which Job had no conception. But we were credited afterwards with having good seats; and I might add tough ones, thanks to our tutor, who knew his business. May 80, 1862, two battalions: under Lieut.-Col. Horace Binney Sargent, were seat to join the Cavalry Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, and they followed its fortunes most actively from that time to the end. Of the many fights in which we took part in Virginia I will speak of but one, and that briefly. This took placeat Aldie, June 17, 1863. Here we sustained our heaviest loss. It was about 3 p.m. that Gen. Kilpatrick, misunderstand- ing the enemy’s force, ordered the 1st Mass. and the 2d N. Y. to “gain those hills,” pointing up the road. Near the top of said hillsstood the residence of a Mr. Farr, with its usual accom- paniment of outbuildings, fences, ete., around and about which the enemy were posted in force. The 2d N. Y. took to the woods to the left of the road, and soon waked up old “welkin” and rang him vigoursly, while the 1st Mass., my company (H) deployed, went up on the right. Our course lay over clear fields, excepting one or two fences’ so we were in full view of the enemy from near our starting point to finish. : ‘What a beautiful opportunity the rebels had to practice on living tar: gets, with at first but little dangér to themselves. How we envied the 2d N, Y. theircover. Strange to say; bul few of us were hurt. They generally over-shot us. When near the creek, we gained the intervening space with a rush, but en- countesing a regiment of the enemy, ‘which appeared to me to be from 5,000 to 10,000 strong, we were soon rushed back, as was squadron after squadron of our boys, as fast as gent in, result- ing, of course, in knocking our regi- ment all to pieces. Then up came our support (God save the mark), who turned, and led the enemy, yelling in triumph, into and through us, and nearly a quarter of a mile beyond where we had held them. But there the scene shifted, for when near our battery they ran into and rudely jostled some of the 1st Me.Cav., who were just coming up. Great Scott! how mad the Maine boys got over it. In fact, it seemed to me that they always traveled with a “chip” on their shoulders. The result was that ere the enemy reached the place of safety, which was far within their own lines, they had received many striking reminders of Maine grit, and from that time on things were more to our lik- ing. That made our boys rested on their arms victorious. But of this, however, I was not fully advised; for I was a tired, hungry, and crestfallen prisoner, fearing the worst for my regiment, for many of its members were my compa- nions in misery. Had we seen the fol- lowing returns our hearts would have sunk within us: Number of regiment present for duty June 17, 1868, 206; killed, wounded and prisoners, 198; percentage of loss, 66.89 per cent.; or virtually 67 per cent. At our last reunion, (the 25th.) held at Boston, October 28, our committee on Aldie Memorial reported in sub- stance as follows: On a patch of ground 10 feet square, which has been deeded to the First Massachusetts Cayelry Association by Farr (son of the one above referred to) thers has been erected a monument of Quincy granite, seven feet high by 16 inches thick, and about two and a half feet wide. On the face next the road near which itrests, is carved a horse’s head. bridled and the regimental badge (which consists of cross-sabers, horshoe and sus burst) in half relief. In this, a reproduction of the one at Gettysburg. Under this is the follow- ing inscription: ~~ 1st Mass. Cavalry, Third Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, June 17, 1863. $ Erected by the 1st Mass. Cav. Association, 1891. On the sides of the monument are the names of the killed and wounded. This we believe to be the only monu- ment of a N.rthern regiment on South- urn soil - I have seen in the best of all papers the per cent. of killed in the charge of the Light Brigade, but do not remem- ber having seen total losses. Will you kindly furnish me full particulars thereof. Not, however, that I expect our casualty list will bear comparison therewith. In fact there is no com- parison between a regiment that fought | once, and rested on its laurels, and an- other that fought and never rested un-. til its laurels, with those of many other THE NEW TARIFE 4 REVIEW OF THE SITUATION BY MR. HORR—THE PROTECTION SHIP HEAD- ING TRUE FOR NATIONAL PROSPERITY AND NOW BAILING WITH A FAIR ‘WIND. Ex-Congressman Horr, of Michigan, gives in the New York 77idune a mas- terful review of the work accomplished by the McKinley tariff law during the past year. We quote from the article as follows: The first year's business under the new tariff law has been completed and its re- sources are now known. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury is made, and from it, the President; in his. mes- sage to Congress, has condensed the whole result. Igiveit below. This statement should be read by every man and woman in the United States. It contains an answer full and complete to every false statement made and re- ported so often in the fall of 1890. Here is what the President says: “It is not my purpose to enter at any length into a discussion of the effects of the legislation to whieh I have referred: but a brief examination of the statistics of the Treasury and a general glance at the state of business throughout the country will, I think, satisfy any impar- tial inquirer that its results have disap- puinted the evil prophecies of its oppon- ents, and ina large measure realized the hopeful predictions of its friends. Rare- ly, if ever before, in the history of the country has there been a_time when the proceeds of one day’s labor or the produgs of cne farmed acre would purchase so large an amount of those things that enter into theliving masses of the people. I believe that a full test will develop the fact that the turiff act. of the Fifty-first Congress is very favorable in its aversge effect upon the prices of articles enter- ing into common use. “During the twelve months from Oc¢- tober 1, 1890, to September 30, 1891, the ' total value of our foreign com- merce (imports and exports combined) was $1,747 806,406, which was the largest of any year in the history of the United States, The largest in any pre- vious year was in 1890, when our com- merce amounted to $1,647,130,039, and the last year exceeds this enormous ag- gregate by over $100,000,000. Tt is in- teresting, and to some will be surprising, to know that during the year ending September 30, 1891, our imports of merchandise amounted to $824,715,270, which was an increase of more than §11,- 000,000 over the value of the imports of corresponding months of the preceding year, when the imports of merchandise were unusually large in anticipation of the tariff legislation then pending. The average annual value of the imports of merchandise for the ten years, from 1851 to 1890, was £692,186,522, and during the year ending September 30, 1891, this annual average was exceeded by $132,- 528,469. ‘The value of free imports during the twelve months ending September 30, 1891, was $118,092,387 more than the value of free imports during the corre- sponding twelve months of the preceding year, and there was during the same period a decrease of $106,846,508 in the value of imports of dutiable merchan- dise. The percentage of merchandise admitted free of duty during the year to which I have referred, the first under the new tariff, was 48.18, while during the preceding twelve months, under the old tariff, the’ percentage was 84.27, an in- crease of 13.91 percent. If we take the six months ending September 80 last, which covers the time during which sugars have been admitted free of duty, the per cent. ol value of merchandise im- ported free of duty is found to be 55.37, which is a larger percentage of free im- ports than during any prior fiscal year in the history of the Government. “If we turn ‘to exports of merchan- dise the statistics are full of gratification. The value of such exports of merchan- dise for the twelve monthg ending Sep- tember 30, 1891, was $923,091,136, while for the corresponding previous twelve months it was $860,177,115, an increase of $62,914,021, which is nearly three times the average annual increase of exports of merchandise for the pre. ceding twenty years; this exceeds in amount and value the exports of merchan- dise during any year in the history of jthe Government. The increase in the value of exports of agricultural products during the year referred to over the cor- responding twelve months of the prior year was $45,846,197, while the increase in the value of exports of manufactured products was $16,838,240.” ‘What about that Chinese wall? What about the advance in the price of manu- factured goods? What about no new manifests? How about no new industries? How about the balance of trade which those gentlemen said would be so largely against us! How about the general dis- tress which they told us was sure to fol- low? What about that bankrupt Treasury they predicted so loudly and so long? Have there been no treaties formed un- der the reciprccity clause of the bill? Is: the treaty made with Brazil a lie? Is the one made with San Domingo false? Is the Spanish treaty a myth? office and settle. * Not one single prediction which they made about the result of that legislation has come to pass. = A square fight was made on the merits of that law in Ohio this year, and the speeple sustained the law. New industries have been estab. lished; and more are soon to follow. Manufactured goods. are cheaper, not higher. The products of the farm are bringing better prices. Mortgages are being paid off. Labor is well employed. More money is in circulation per capita than ever before; and it is all good “money. Every dollar is worth its face in gallant commands, were woven into crown of victory for onr whole army.— L. W. Bartrerr, in “National : ol pi | We are about to enter upon another National campaign, and the Republicans full of courage and confiden: the Democrats have ceased their gibber- \ Come, gentlemen, you did all the ly- ing. Now, walk up to the captains |. mnt rnin. ish about the Republican party dead. Their leading journals agreed that without the State of York in the coming election the D racy is doomed to defeat. The Repu cans may win without that State. The Democracy, by no manner of means, do so. The great Northwest is age practically conceded to the Republicans. They are therefore going to win the con test united and strong. Sh ‘We Republicans know in what we lieve. We are in favor of protection, favor of honest money, in favor of ciprocity, and fair elections and an hou- est count. We are in favor of this American Republic, and purpose. to stand by our own country. Se How about our friends, the Democrats? They are divided and at war among themselves. They have just closed a test for Speaker, in which they things about each other as hard as bave ever charged them with. They are not agreed on any great public policy. Bome of them are for and some against the free coinage of silver. Some are for and some are against free trade. Some are for Mr. Cleveland and some against him. Some claim that reciprocity is a good thing for this country, while others pronounce it a fraud. The Democrats seem able to unite upon only one thing. They can at any rate join in denouncing’ the Republican party and its principle They cannot agree upon any policy of their own. can Meantime the new tarifflaw is proving the wisdom of its authors by blessing the entire nation. The fruit it bea shows tlie nature of the tree. The National debt is being paid. Our sl: diers are receiving their welcomed | sions. A navy is being built. treasury of the nation is in excellent co dition. Our people “are prosperou The United States is getting ready produce its own tin plate, and is opening up mines of pure tio. pigs of tin metal taken from Al mines are sold weekly in our Linen factories are being built on American soil, and are const fibre of American flax. Fac the manufacture of beet sugar ar process of erection; and’ the cultur the sugar beet will soon be one great industries of the farmers of country, The wild theories as to fin and Governmental aid have had run, and people are once more con to their senses. Cranks have had th day, and now men of sound ' busin sense dre fast coming to the front. One such able, clear and convingin statement as is made by Secretary Fost: in his report is worth more ¢ cl .away the mist and teach the people fin: cial wisdom than a dozen volumes such vagaries as are daily published b the Jerry Simpsons, and set afloat by «fiat money” fiends of the Unk States. i Hence I say to the Republicans of nation be of good cheer. Qur t was never in better form for a squal stand-up fight than it is to-day. situation is in every way more promisin than it was four years d¢go. The Demo cratic House of Representatives in Con. gress has just organized. <If there is an! thing in the situation unfavorable to Republican cause, you can safely trust that House to remove it. The Adminis tration is being run carefully, conser tively, and with consummate skill and marked ability. Borrow no trouble about the coming candidate! He will be isome one in whom our people believe, in ‘whom we can safely trust. The conven- tion at Minneapolis will decide that ‘question wisely and well. In the mean- time let us all unite in an old-fashioned, well-directed effort ‘to present a solid front. Jewish Colonization. ; Recently various schemes hive bee) advanced to ease the condition of th Jews—the persecuted race of all modern history. The latest is th of Dr. Paul Friedman, a native oi Berlin, who proposes acquiring th Land of Midian, which lies on thi northern side of the Red Sea and th Gulf of Akabab, and colonizing with Jews. Although the territor is small, 160x70 miles, it is extrem fertile and capable of supportin 500,000 people. It is now inhabited by about 10,000 Bedouins, a. somewhat akin to the Jews. ; Historically the Land of Midian interesting, being mentioned in t Bible and by Jewish writers ma times. It was to that land that Moses fled when he killed the Egype tian. The Midianite race, moreover, is said to have been descended from Middan, the fourth son of ..Ahyaham of Keturah. The story of the over throw of the Midianite race is one ot the most graphically told in Holy i It began during the wanders ings of the Israelites, whom Mose was training to warlike methods. The Midianites, probably through fear of the multitudes occupying t! pastures, became hostile to their dis tant kinsmen. Tt was then that the Midianitish women sought to sed the men of Israel from the paths ¢ virtue and the worship of the true God to that of Baalpeor. = Then ti fatal command of Moses went fori “Avenge the Lord on Midian,” a 12,000 Israelite soldiers went ba Ho all male children and all wome had borne a child is told at I After a lapse of two cent Midianites again grew power sought revenge. The second ite war followed, which ended in tefrible battle of the Valley of when Gideon and his little ai 300 men destroyed “120,000 men drew sword,” and 15,000 more this the Midianites lifted up ‘heads no more, and they Tad h ‘| Hébrew history, and 8 references for the poets and proj
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