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SOME RESULTS OF THE WORKINGS OF
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THE MCKINLEY BILL-—OLD INDUS-
TRIES EXPANDING AND KEW ONES
SPRINGING UP.
Day after day come accounts of new
industries established or new manufac-
turing works opened in this or adjacent
States. These accounts give the number
‘of hands employed, showing that thou-
sands of American workers have thus
found employment; the rate of wages
: Deid, showing that they receive about
ouble the wages paid in any ather
country for similar work, and in msay
cases more than double; and the former,
and present cost of products, showing in
| almost every instance that consumers
6
articles more cheaply because of the
growth of American industries. The
astonishing variety of these new works,
the great range of wants which
they supply, deserve the attention of
Americans who doubt whether the new
tariff has done any good.
‘Not merely in the creation of new in-
dustries, but even more in the expansion
of industries long established, this tariff
produces remarkabie results. Of this ex-
‘pansion evidence is given in official re-
ports of foreign trade. Those industries
which depend wholly or mainly upon
foreign materials find in the record of
imported goods an accurate measure of
their progress, not only in the increased
quantities of materials here required, but
in the diminished importations of prod.
ucts from other countries.
' The silk manufacture, for some years
‘much depressed by changes in fashion,
"has reached within the last year a pro-
duction greater by twenty-five per cent.
~. than it had ever attained in any previous
year. The imports of raw silk were
7,521,342 pounds, agaipst less than 6,-
- 000,000 pounds in 1890, when the quan-
tity was greater than in any other year,
~and only 2,562,246 pounds in 1880.
manulacture has thus increased
about threefold since the census of 1880,
when it employed 31,000 hands and
- + yielded products worth $41,000,000,
.. The manufacture of india rubber re-
quired during the last year imports of
9,976,205 pounds, against 33,712,089
~ pounds in 1891 and about the same in
1890, an increase of eighteen per cent.
‘intwo years.
In one previous year,
1888, the imports rose to 36,000,000
pounds, but in no other were they
., within twenty per cent. as large as in
1892, Yet n 1890 this manufacture had
~ “substantially doubled in ten years, for
imports of india rubber and gutta-
percha were but 16,682,516 pounds in
- 1880, and ir twelve years rose to 40,-
284,444 pounds, a gain of 141 per cent.
The various manufactures in which
se
pig tin is used as a material required in
+1892 ‘mo less than 43,908,652 pounds,
* against 39,787,622 pounds in 1891 and
' | 84,933,099 pounds in 1890.
The in-
_crease had been but small for ten years,
"a the imports in 1890 were 31,694,544
‘pounds, so that the gain was barely ten
‘percent. But, in the two last years un-
der the new tariff the imports of this
material have increased more than
twenty-five per cent. The imports of
bleaching powder, used in several manu-
factures, have increased mcre than ten
per cent. in two years, and have gained
forty-five per cent. in twelve years. The
imports of kaoline and other clays have
increased in two years 17,500 tons, or
thirty-five per cent., and are now 67,186
tons, but in 1880 they were but 19,723
tons. :
Supplies of wool are in part obtained
from American farms, but the domestic
- production has increased too slowly for
the manufacture. Hence the imports
‘last year were 148,670,672 pounds,
“against 129,303,648 poundsin 1891 and
105,481,285 pounds in 1890, a gain of
more than forty per cent. in two years.
After a period of serious depression
under the old tariff, the manufacture
still consumed in 1890 about 371,000,-
000 pounds domestic and foreign wool,
against 331,000,000. pounds in 1880.
But during the last year the consumption
must hare been, domestic and foreign,
about 439,000,000 pounds, an increase
of seventeen per cent. in two years,
against a previous increase of twelve per
cent. in ten years under the old tariff,
The value of woolen goods imported
has diminished $21,000,000 in two
ears, and the value of silk goods
,500,000, i
Is there an American who. would
rather have the new mills and works in
this country destroyed, and the Ameri-
can hands deprived of employment, and
“the goods imported as they formerly
"were? If so, he ought to vote for Mr.
Cleveland. —New York Tribune. *
Tin Plate Made At Homo,
The official report of Special Agent
Ayer, of the Treasury Department, on
production of tin and terne plates in the
United, States during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1892, is a document of
unusual, even extraordinary interest, in
view of the emphatic, repeated and still
continued declarations of the Free
Traders that not only have no such
plates been produced but that the man-
ufacture of them in large quantities in
this country in competition with Wales
is impracticable. Despite such declara-
tions, the industry has taken root and
flourished to such an extent that in the
first: twelve months after the new law
took effect, there were produced in the
United States 13,646,719 pounds of tin
and terne plates, and more than 4,-
.B00,000 of American sheet iron or steel
were made into articles and wares tin or
terne coated. As the. latter manufac-
{ tures constitute tin and terne plats
. within the_meaning of the law, it now
* seems probable that when full returns of
the same are
‘edeived the total produc-
j year, inclusive of such man-
‘will not fall much short of
ys the Free Trader, ‘‘but alt
plates used have to be im.
: ‘which entered
ture of tia and terne
year, was by quarters as follows: Quar-
ter ended September 30, 1891, 785,547
pounds; December 31, 1891, 1,200,661;
March 31, 1893, 2,132,082; June 30,
1892, 5,178,263; total, 9,296,583. To
which add black plates sold to stamping
companies, made Into arvicres sud wares,
and tinned or terne coated as per returns
so fate, 4,828,228; aggregate, 14,124.
In other words, of the production of
tin and terne plates proper fer the year
over sixty-eighe per cent., and of the
total production over seventy per cent.
were made from American black plates.
During the first quarter of the fiscal |
year five firms were engaged in the manu.
facture of tin and terne plates, eieven
durigg the second, twenty during the
third and twenty-six during the fourth.
The probability is that at least eight new
names will be added to the list of manu.
facturers at the end of the present quar-
ter. § ;
Under the circumstances the growth
of the industry has been phenomenal.
The production of tin and terne plates in
the quarter ended September 30,1891;
was only 826,922 pounds; in the next
quarter it was 1,409,821 pounds; in the
uarter ended March 31, 1892, the pro-
uction amounted to 3,209,225 pouuds,
or more than double that of the preced-
ing quarter, and in the quarter ended
June 30, 1892, the production of the
preceding quarter was again more than
doubled, and amounted to 8,207,751
pounds.
It must not be forgotten that all the
figures given in Mr. Ayer’s report are
based on the sworn returns of the manu-
facturers for each quarter of the year,
In each case the name of the company,
or firm muking the returns is given in
the report, as well as the name of the
place where the establishment is situa-
ted. These returns impart verity, and
the report is therefore entitled to as much
weight and credence as any other report
made by a sworn official of the Govern-
ment, and something more than the loud
and wild assertions of Free Trade editors
and stump speakers, however often re-
peated, will be required to discredit it.
—New York Trikune.
I
The McKinley Law Vindiested.
The annual report of the Democratic
Commissioner of Labor for New York
State ‘which has just been published)
constitutes an argument for the McKin-
ley tariff which is absolutely unanswer-
able. The report is purely a business
and non-partisan document. This makes
it of the highest value as a vindication
of protection. Its figures are official,
They were not prepared with a view to
help either party. The sole object ot the
Labor Commissioner's investigation into
the condition of industry in the State
was to ascertain the facts. The collec~
tion and publication ‘of these facts are
simply a part of his duty to his employ-
ers, the people of this commonwealth.
Here is Commissioner Peck’s official
statement as to the effect produced by
the McKinley law on labor in New York
State. :
He finds that in the wholesale manu-
factories of this State the wages paid for
the year ending August 31, 1890,
showed an increase over the wages paid
during the year ending August 31, 1890,
of $6,377,925.09. :
He finds that the net increase of pro.
duction in the same time was $31,315,-
130.68.
He finds that of sixty-seven industries
investigated seventy-seven "pér cont.
show an increase in wages or production,
or both.
He finds that the number of individual
increases of wages in these industries re-
ported for the year ending August 31,
1891, was 89,717.
He finds that the average increase in
the wages of the entire 285,000 employes
represented was $23.11, while in fifty.
one of the trades represented the average
increase in wages per individual was
$43.96.
These statistics demonstrate beyond
all doubt the influence of the tariff in
promoting industrial development, in-
creasing production and raising wages.
They prove that under the McKinley
law the manufacturing industries in this
State are steadily growing more prosper-
ous, that the level of wages paid to
operatives is being raised year by year,
and that the workingman of New York
is becoming more and more independent
and more and more able to surround his
family with comforts and to provide for
the future.
The Democratic Party is pledged, if
it goes into power, to repeal the McKin.
ley law, to destroy it root and branch,
and to put the American workingman in
open and unrestrained competition with
the pauper labor of Europe. The Re-
publican Party is pledged fo uphold
protection. It is the party of prosperity,
The Democracy is the calamity party,
the party that is for the foreigner against
the American, the party whose policy
would close factories by the thousand
and lower wages in every factory that it
did not close. ~The facts contained in
Commissioner Peck’s report have a sig.
nificance that not all the ravings of the
calamity shriekers, from Grover Cleve:
land down, can obscure. They show that
a vote for Republican protection 1n No-
vember is a vote for steady employment
and higher wages for the workingmen of
America.—New York Press.
EE
The Short Story of a Great Triumph.
Official reports show that since the Mc-
Kinley tariff was enacted there has been—
A decline in the cost of 215 leading
necessaries of life of 3 4.10 per cent;
An average advance in wages of 2 of
one per cent. a) the textile mills o
Massachusetts o per cent; :
A gam in the purchasi
wages of more than four per
Kain of $10,000,00 ia ‘the com.
Larger exports
Such a gain in exports, through reci-
procity in non-competing articles, that
the balance of trade in our favor exceeds
$200,000,000; . 1
the production of more than
8,000,000 pounds of tin plate per quar-
ter, which has brought down the foreign
price $1.21 a box, or to within 8 cents
of the duty.
Unofficial but wholly trustworthy re.
ports show that—
Our vast internal commence has sur-
passed all record; : :
We are importing industries instead
of the products of industries;
We have gained 1,500,000 sheep.
More than 260 new factories have
been established, and many more old
plants have been enlarged;
Manufacturing capital has been in-
creased about $40,000,000, and by latest
returns 29,307 new hands were em-
ployed.
And all this, achieved in the face of
Democratic opposition, is but, the begin-
ping of such an era of prosperity as no
nation las ever known if the Republican
Party is continued in control.—Home
Market Bulletin.
rere Rect
Harrison’s Administration.
The administration of President Har-
rison has been in keeping with his per-
sonal character—clean, able, conserva-
tive, dignified and patriotic. He has
maturally gathered about him men who
sympathize with him in his ‘views and
resemble him more or less in character.
The general tone of the administration
has been imparted to it by its Chief, and
there haves been no grave scandals, de-
falcations or other stains to mar its good
name. The search light of political in-
vestigations, seeking campaign ammuni-
tion, have brought to view nothing that
challenges criticism. Au opposition
Senator, in an article on the administra-
tion published in the North American
Review, does not even hint at anything
to the discredit of his personnel, mo-
tives or methods; while. Senator Dawes
says: . i
* “‘He called .into his Oabinet as his
advisers men who commanded at once
the fullest confidence of the country;
some of them already so tried in the
public service that they had been desig-
nated by common consent for the places
they filled. Some of them ware new
men in public life, but brilliant service
has in each case proved the sagacity and
wisdom of the selection. Subordinate
offices have been filled with able and
clean men; commendation of this ad-
ministration does not demand or claim
that there has' been no exception. In
the vast machinery of this Government,
in operation at a thousand points, many
of them thousands of miles beyond the
eye of the Executive, it never has been
and never can be the case that men who
operate it will in every instance prove
themselves fit and faithful, But one who
has witnessed the successes and mistakes
of administrations in this particular
during nine of these quadrennia: periods
challenges without fear for the present
administration a comparison with any or .
all of the others.”—Hon T. J, Morgan,
in Review of Reviews. : {
The Calamity Craze.
The calamity. craze sprang into exis-
tence as the result of poor crops. It
was prevalent in the Western and North-
western States. . The farmers in those
.lcealities were poor men whe were
struggling to make for themselves and
families homes upon the lands the Re-
publican Party had given them under the
provision of the homestead and pre-emp-
tion laws. The failure of each succeed-
ing crop reduced them financially lower
and lower, until in their desperation they
were willing to believe that the Govern-
ment, and especially the Republican
Party, was responsible for their misfor-
tunes.
Schemicg politicians took advantaga
of the situation and the result was the
calamity party.
and fanaticism reigned supreme. = With
the year 1891 came good crops. Kan-
#as alone released over $14,000,000 of
indebtedness. Nebraska fell in line with
nearly as much more. ‘I'he farmers
prospered. Reason returned, resulting
in the gradual decline of the calamity
howl. The present crop prospects for
the Western States were never better,
and with returning prosperity will return
the old time Republican majorities.
eee
A Free-Trader's Opinion.
There has never beea a period in the
history of this or any other country when
the general rate of wages was as-high as
it is now or the prices of goods relatively
to the wages as low as they are to-day,
nor a period when the workman, in the
strict sense of the word, has so fully
secured to: his own use and enjoyment
such a ‘steadily and progressively increas.
ing proportion or a constantly increasing
product.—Edward Atkinson in the
Forum.
ne III cert.
Reciprocity is Making a Market.
Reciprocity has made a market in
Cuba for over a million barrels of Ameri-
can flour every year. In the year 1890
the value of exported hams to Cuba was
only $24,899. Under reciprocity, how-
ever, in November, 1891, these exports
amounted to $40,854. The farmers of
‘the West and Northwest can appreciate
these facts, as wheat and pork are the
principal things they have to sell
“DON'T yez ve toird av that police-
man yet?” said the up-stairs girl to
the cook. ' “¥is. But Oi can’t have
any other company.” “Why?” “Be-
cause Michael says that if Of do he'll
arrest 'im fur contimpt of coort.”—
Washington Star.
Réason was dethroned
_ EENESAW MOUNTAIN.
An Iowa Man Who Wants to Know
‘Who Commasxded on His Part of the
Line. ;
I desire to re-
late a few inci-
dents that came
under my obser-
vation in the bat-
tle of . Kenesaw
Mountain, June
27, 1864. 1 have
read several ac-
counts as to the
battle
opened, some
placing it as late
NZ 289 a m., others
SS\San hour earlier,
lf =% My recollection is
BR that on the part
“ALG the line where
EST was (nearly to
the extreme right) the order to ad-
vance was given but little after sun-
rise. Theregiment to which I belong-
ed (4th Iowa, First Brigade, First
Division, Fifteenth Corps) was ordered
to take position in our outer line of
skirmish-pits just at break of day,
which we did, and at the same time
received orders to advance on the
enemy's works at the sound of the
bugle. Now, it seemed to me to be a
very short time from the time we occu-
pied the skirmish-pits until the bugle
sounded forward. I think the time
could not have been later than 7 o'clock
a.m. We ‘were stationed in an open
field, facing nearly due east, and pro-
bably 800 yards from the rebel works.
Between ours and the rebel works, and
about two-thirds of the distance to
them (the rebel : works), was a small
stream with some timber'and a good
desl of underbrush. The enemy’s works
(first line) was just ut the edge of the
timber on the east side of the
creek. Their m:in line was on the
crest of the hill some distance back.
From our line to the creek was moder-
ately-sloping ground. (This position
was to the right of the mountain.)
When the bugle sounded we started
on the run to reach the cover of the
timber. As soon as we left our works
the rebels opened fire on fis with can-
non and musketry, our cannon mean-
time firing over our heads. We reach-
ed the timber with but small loss, and
up to this time we had not fired a shot.
Upon reaching the timber we began
firing and continued advancing and
drove the rebels from their two ad-
vance lines of rifle-pits, and sent them
flying up the hill to their main line;
but our success was of short duration,
for we had just got comfortably settled
in our new quarters waiting for more
help when I chanced to look to my
right a short distance, and saw a col-
umn of Johnnies eight deep marching
right up the lines of works we were
in, driving all before them.
The writer also began to look up a
line of retreat. To my left and rear,
some little distance, I saw a large oak
tree, but did not see a deep gully
which lay between :me and the tree,
and into: which-T'went head first, and
my musket muzzle down in the mud.
I pulled myself out, also my gun, but
cast the gun to one side and picked
up another which some soldier had
lost, I gained the tree in safely and,
upon looking around for my friends,
the enemy, I found they had in turn
been attacked and driven back; but
they returned to the charge and our
troops were compelled to fall back
again, which about ended the fighting
w )
-
at that point. There was still heavy
fighting to our left, as firing was quite’
heavy at times. ' Reports’ had been
reaching us for some time through the
wounded and stragglers that our
troops were being worsted in their
attack on the mountain. ° 1 worked
my way back to the position we occu-
pied in the morning in our main line.
There was one thing that I have not
been able to account for as far as our
part of the line was concerned, and
that is this: I did not see an officer
above the rank of Captain during the
battle, and do not know who had
charge of that part of the line. Each
soldier seemed tn be fighting on his
own hook. I should be pleased to
hear from some others who were on
that part of the line.—W. H. BooTH in
National ‘I'ribune.
wasn ILON.
Two Instances Where Soldiers Bslieved
They Would be Killed.
At the risk of being classed with the
“unsophisticated,” I desire to say that
on the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, at
the battle of Antietam, as the com-
mand was about to move from the field
where we had lain under the fire of
rebel batteries all day of the 16th, my
attention was called to Private Isaac
P. Hopkins, who had been ailing for
several days’ but who would not give
ap. He was clearly unfit for duty,and
was ordered to remain behind. “No,”
he said; “I would rather die than. be
called a coward; but I know very well
[ am going to be killed to-day.”
He was the only man of his com-
pany who died on the field that day,
though many were wounded, mortally
and otherwise. :
Another case in point. My chum
was Aaron C. Jenkins, as cool and as
brave a boy as was ever under fire. We
shared each other’s confidence, as well
as blankets and rations. On the morn-
ing of May 3, 1863, at Chancellors-
ville, the regiment was in line near the
Plank road, where the Eleventh Corps
had fallen back the previous evening,
apparently waiting orders. Brigade
after brigade of our ‘troops had been
successively driven back through the
woods, when I noticed Aaron out of
ranks sitting. on a pile of old rails.
His attitude and demeanor betokened
L g “Approaching him, and
p on the back, I ask
SOLDIERS’. COLUMN
be saved
od him if his girl had got marri
rl had got married.
“No,” he ssid quietly, “but this is my
last battle. I know I will be killed
to-day.” ; :
Ten minutes latter Gen. Carroll led
us into that woods; a volley was fired
and a charge was ordered, and within
80 minutes that woods : was cleared of
Johnnies, breastworks and all, pan-
ning out 808 prisoners. Aaron C. Jenk-
ins was the only man of his company
who lost his life that day. There is no
ground for presuming that all or any
considerable proportion of soldiers
about to meet the enemy are troubled
with a premonition of disaster, much. |
less men like the two I have named, |’
who, their surviving comrades will tes-
tify, were absolutely without fear in
action, and always ready for duty.—
Frank L. Hicks, in National Tribune.
SUNDAY SCHOOL:
LESSON FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 18.
uarterly Review. Golden Text, Eph.
Q 20 y E
, Commentary.
Hoe READINGS. —The first: eight chap-
ters of Agies.entire, ‘containing lesson
X : “The Ascension of
Christ” (Acts 1., 1-12). Golden ‘Text,
‘When He had spoken these things, while
they beheld He was taken up, and a cloud
received Him out of their sight” (Acts i.
9). The Gospels tell what Jesus n to
do and teach; the Acts tell what He con-
tinued to do and teach through His ape.
tles. They were to rely upon the Holy
Spirit as their only power, and their one
business was to testify of Jesus. Their joy
was that the same Jesus would retura in
due time to restore the kingdom to Israel.
He will come in person, His saints will meet
Hinvon the way and return with Him (L
Thess. iv.. 16, 17; iii., 13; iv., 14).
Lesson II.—Topic, ‘“‘Yhe Descent of the
Spirit” (Acts ii., 1-12). Golden Text, “When
e, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will
ide you into all truth” (John xiv., 13).
‘hey prayerfully and expectantly waited
from day to day for the promised Comfort-
er. See John xiv, 16, 26; xv., 26; xvi., 13,
If Jesus had not ascended, He would not
have come (John xvi., 7), and the disciples
might have labored in vain. But when the
Spirit of God works or speaks then work is
done and fo some . Our wisdom
and power is nothing, but He who at crea-
tion brought light out of darkness and order
and truitfulness ins of chaos and empti-
v
ness can shine in men’s hearts and give the.
knowslcga of God (Gen. i, 2; 2 Cor. iv,, 6;
Tl Topic. “The. Fitsb Chuistia
Lesson IL. —Topic, “The First Christian
Church” (Acts ii., 37-47). Golden Text,
*‘Ihe Lord added to the church daily suc
as should be saved” (Acts ii., 47.) As Pater.
spoke the word in the power of the Spirit
and testified of the resurrection of Jesus
from the dead, the people wera convinced of
their sin and earnestly asked what to do.
Thus began to be formed the urch or
Body of Christ (Eph. i., 22, 28), of waich
He 1s the Mead, and which when completed
will be brougnt to Him as Eve was to
Adam. Then -the marriage of the Lamb,
and after that the kingdom (Rev. xix).
Lesson 1V.—Topic, ‘The Lame Man
Healed (Acts iii., 1-16). Golden Text, “And
His name, through faith in His name, hath
made this man strong” (Acts iii., 16.} Jesus,
though absent in body and invisible, has all
power in heaven ‘and on earth (Matt,
xxviii., 18), and is pleased by His Spirit in
His people to show His power on behalf of
our bodies as well as our souls. Observes.
that again Peter preaches a risen Christ:
(verse 15).
Lesson V.—Topic, “Petter and John Bev
‘fore the Council” (Acts iv., 1-18). Golden
Text, “There is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must
' (Acts iv., 12). The preaching of.
the resurrection of Jesus so enraged the re-
ligious rulers, and especially the Sadducess,
who did not believe in a resurrection, thas
Peter and John wers imprisoned and the
next brought before the council. Again
Peter boldly proclaimed that Jesus whom
they had crucified was alive, and that the
healing of the lame man was His doing. If
the power of a risen, living Christ was sesn
in us, people would learn of Jesus through
us.
Lesson V1i—Topic, “The Apostles’ Con-
fidence im God” (Acts iv., 19-31.) Golden
Text, “They spake the Word of Gol with
boldness (Acts iv., 31). The council having
threatened them and commanded them to
speak no more in Jesus's name, let them go.
‘Re apostles said that they must speak in
His name, and departing went to the other
believers and told their ‘story. The result
was prayer amd. praise and another mighty
baptism of the Holy Spirit and increased
testimony fo a risen Christ. i
Lesson VIL. —Topic, ‘‘Ananias and Rap
phira” (Acts v., 1-11). Golden Text, “Be
not deceived, (God is not mocked; for what-
soever a man soweth, that shall he aiso
reap” (Gal, vi.,, 7). We have thus far seen
the pewer of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of
Truth, in holy and true men who wers
faithful witnesses; but now we see the de-
ceitfuiness of the human heart in a man and
‘his wite who thought they could deceiva
God and not be found out. Keeping bacc
part of the price, lack of whole-hearted con-
secration to God, is the great hindrance in
the church to-day.
Lesson ViII.—Topic, ‘The Apostles Per-
secuted” (Acts v., 28-41) Golden Text, ‘We
‘ought to obey God rather than men” Acts
v., 29). So many mighty works were
wrought by She apostles that: the rage of
Satan again caused their ‘imprisonment; but
the Lord by an angel set them free in the
night, and told them to keep on preaching.
They are found in the temple at their work,
are arrested and brought before the council
and again testify to. a. risen Christ. The
council are ready to kill thegi; Gamaliel ad-
vises moderation, so they arg beaten and let
80 2s50N 1X.~Topic, “The First Christian
' (Acts vil, 54-60). Golden Text,
‘He kneeled down and cried with a loud
voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge”
(Acts vii., 60). Out of seven men, full of
faith and the Holy Spirit, who werechosen
to sea to the temporal affairs of the church,
Stephen so spake and wrought miracles and
accused the council of the murder of Jesus,
that what they thought to have done to
Peter and John they actually did to Stephen,
and stoned him to death, Saul being a wit-
ness to the deed and cons enting to its
Lrssox X.—Topic, “Philip Preaching at
Samaria” (Acts , 5-25), Golden Text,
“And there was great joy in that city”
(Acts viii,, 8). The command Jesus was
to testify of Him in Judea, Samaria and un-
to the ends of the earth (chapter i., 8), but
up to the death of Stephen they not
done 80. After thatthe believers were scat-
tered everywhere, preaching the Word, and
Philip, another of the seven, had such suc-
cess in
Samaria that Peter and John were
sent. from Jerusalem that the vers
might receive the gle of the Holy 0st,
Then is revealed the heart of Simon
Sorcerer, who thought that money could buy
the gift. Compare this with the sin of An-
£ the
anias.
Lxsson x Topia ap and the
Ethiopian” (Acts viii., 26-40). iden Text,
‘He that believeth on the Som hath ever-
lasting life” (John iii, 86), Philip is called
k from the great work in Samaria to
desert and lead the Ethiopian eunuch to
Jerus. Our business as servants of Christ
is not to meek great rng for ourselves
y
(Jer. xlv., 5), but to ol m and follow
where He leadeth. We cannot estimate the
value of one soul, and as we are laborers
with God, not he with us, He must have full
control of us, ~-Lesson Helper.
A Foor thinks
tae very far.
‘and by a competent tuner.
| that the intervals may be long or shor€,
_.and darkens the fruit.
| is better for standing for hours in the
- fect may ruin another.
freshly picked, as well as the need of
: ht because | C-» where he owns some
ho 1a MEhL Douauss | od ade tolare
No piano can be thumped or in
upon with impunity. A
A piano should be frequently tuned.
An if
capable workman can easily work
parable injury fo the most perfects
‘costly instruments. For the first yi
piano should be frequently tuned; a
according as the instrument is in co
stant or occasional use.
Dampness is the most dangero
_enemy to contend against in the care
the piano. If it be kept iv a damp
room, or a draft of air be allowed
play upon it, any instrument would
ruined, the tuningpins and the metal
portions becoming rusty, and the cl
used in the construction of the keys
the activn becoming swollen. BSuch
piano is an aggravation to temper if ol
attempts playing upon if. Coke
If the keys of a piano become di
colored or dirty, they can Ue whitened
or cleansed by removing the front
the slip of wood over them: theu li
each key separately, wipe off wit
damp rag which has been wetted
clean, cold ‘water. Dry with a
cloth. If the keys are sticky from ch
dren’s fingers, the cloth used in the
ginning can be dampened with alcohol.
Yellow keys should be exposed to stror
sunlight daily until they whiten.
Ladies’ Home Journal. ; er
FRUIT, PRESERVES AND JELLIES,
The concluding remarks of Mis
Parola’s talk on the preserving of frui
before the Massachusetts Horticult:
Society were devoted to preserves and
jellies. She said: Ede
- Preserving with sugar pound for pound
is not extensively practised now, most
ople preferring the simpler and mo
healthful mode of canning with a smalk
quantity of sugar; still, there are some:
things that are better for the followi
of thismode. I think there is no fra
more delicious than the strawberry,
either fresh or preserved; yet there
none shout which the housekeeper f
more uncertain. It is som ‘that
cannot be preserved without plenty of
sugar. : pi
. If you wish to preserve the pineappl
by cooking care must be taken that it
not exposed to a high temperature fc
any length of time, as cooking hardens
+o. All fruits are prepared for preserving
in sugar the same as for canning. Then
a rich syrup is made—four pounds of
sugar tc a pint of water—and the fruié
is simmered in it until tender and clear.!
Buch fruit as quinces and hard pears
should be cooked until tender before
being put in the syrup. :
Some kinds of fruit are better for hay:
ing : the ‘sugar added to them when
partially cooked, while others shoul
always have it added the moment they
are placed on the fire. Again, one kin
sugar, while others should not have the
sugar touch them until they are ready
to go on the fire. There are a few fruits
which are far better without sugar than’
with it. This is the case with the prune,
with which sugar should never be put,
long, slow cooking serving to develop a
fine, rich flavor. Cranberries, on the
other hand, should have a pint of sugar
to a quart of berries, and the sugar,
water and berries must go on the fire at
once and be cooked rapidly for a short
time. No other method will give &
satisfactory result. These last two sug-
gestions do not come under preserving,
but I use them to illustrate the fact that
the treatment that makes one dish per-
In no department of preserving does
the housekeeper feel less sure of the re-
sults than in jelly-making, so much de-
pends upon the condition of the fruit.
This is more pronounced in the case of
small fruits than with the larger kinds.
When currants are over-ripe, or have
been picked after a rain, the result of’
using them will be uncertain. Perhaps
we notice it more with this fruit than
with any other, because it is so generally
used for jetly. An understanding of the
properties of fruits which forms the
basis of jellies may help the housekeepers
to a better knowledge of the conditions
and methods essential to success.
Pectin, which forms the basis of vege-
table jellies,'is a substance which, in its
composition, resembles starch and gum.
It gives to the juices of fruits the prop-
erty of gelatinizing. This property is at
its beat when the fruit is just ripe; better
a little under-ripe than over-ripe. When
boiled for a long time it loses its gela-
tinous property and becomes of a gumm:;
nature. These facts show the import:
ance of using fruit that is but, ripe and
care not to over-cook the juice. 2
One form of preserves which is most
useful, convenient and wholesome shou
be more generally adopted than it i
namely, the canning of fruit juice for
creams, ices, che Certainly every
housekeeper ought )
the juices of the strawberry, raspberry,
peach, apricot, grape, etc., for her own
use. They can be preserved with
without sugar, but I should always ad-
‘vocate sugar, ray
hy ———e
George Vanderbilt is the only one
the well-known family who is reall
enthusiast on the subject o
‘Where color is concerned,
‘scarlet. On his place at A
have sn uari