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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-9, Page 3THE LABOR STRIKES. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON EMPLOYES AND EMPLOYED. Be Thinks the Law of Supply and Demand lea Diabolical One and Se43S No 1101.110dy rOr the Labor Troubles Save by the Ap- plication of the Gospel. Washington, Sept. 5.—Dr. Tanne,ge's plan for settling the industrial troubles of ow: day is set forth ix% thi's sermon. His text is Matthew vii, 12, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do do you -even so to them." 'the greatest war the world has ever seen is between capita and labor. The strife is not like that waloh In history is called the Thirty /*tars' war, for it Is a war of centuries: it is a war a the five stontinents; it is a wax hemispheric. The =ladle classes in this country, upon wham the nation has depended for hold- ing the balance of power and for noting as mediators between the two extremes, are diminishing, and if things go on at the scone ratio as they are now going, it will not be very long before there will be no middle class in this country, but all will be very rich or very poor. mei:ices or paupers, and the country Will be given up to palaces and hovels. A Great Conflict. The.antagonistic forces are closing in upon each other. The Pennsylvania miners' •strike, the telegraph operators' strikes, the railroad employes' strikes, •the xnovements of the boycotters and the sdynamiters, are only skirmishes before a general engagement, ,or, if you prefer it, escapes through ,the safety valves of an explosion of •society. You may poohpooh 14; you may say that this trooble, like the angry child, will cry itself to sleep; you may belittle at by calling It Four- ierism, or sooialism or St, Simonism, or tihlllsin,,or •communism. but that will not hinder the fact that it is the mighti- est, the darkest, the mosb terrific threat of this century. All attenapts at pacifica- tion have been dead failures and mon- opoly is more arrogant and the trades nuions more bitter. "Give us more wages," cry the employes. "You shall -have less," say the capitalists. "Compel %us to do fewer hours of toil In a day," 'You shall •toil more hours," say the others. "Then, under certain condition, we will not work at all," say these. 4".aben you Abell starve," say those, and, the a orlonen gradually using up that which they accumulated. in better tittles, ,unless there be some radical change we shall have aeon in this country 4,000,000 hungry men and women. Now, 4,000,000 .hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All the enactments of legislatures and all -the constabularies of the cities, and all the army and navy of the United States cannot keep 4,000,000 hungry people quiet. What then? Will this war between -capital and labor be settled by human wisdom? Never. The brow of the one becomes more rigid, the fist of the other =ore clinched. But that which human wisdom cannot (achieve will be accomplished by Chris- tianity if it be given full sway. You have heard of mealoines so powerful that one drop will stop a diseaae and restore .a patient, and I have to tell you that one -drop of my text, properly administered, will stop all these woes of society and give convalescence and oomplete health to all classes. "Whatsoever ye would. that alien should do to you. do you even so to them." I shall first show you how - this guar - e1 between monopoly and bard. work ,.attnnot be stopped, and then I will show yon how this,controversy will be settled, Futile remedies. In the first; place, there will come no pacification to this trouble through an outcry against Teta men merely because they are rioh. There is no member of a trades union on earth that would not be rich if he could. S0100- -times through a fottunate invention or through some accident of prosperity a 'loan who had nothing comes to a large estate, and we see hint arrogant and supercillions and taking people by the throat, just as other people took him by the throat. There is something very =eats about buinten nature when it comes to the top, but it is no more a sin to be ,rich than it is a sin to be poor. There are those who have gathered a great estate through fraud, and then there are mil- lionaires who have gathered their for- tunes through foresight in regard to sehanges in the markets and through brilliant business faculty, and every dol- lar of their estate is as honest as the dollar which the plumber gets for mend- ing a pipe or the mason gets for build- ing a wan. There are those who keep in -poverty because of their own fault, They might have been well off, but they gave themselves to strong drink, or they :smoked or .chewed up their earnings, or they lived 'beyond their means, wnile others on the same wages and on the %same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who is all the time aim- eplaining of his poverty and crying out against xicit men, while be himself keeps twa dogs and ohews and smokes and is dined to the chin with wbisky and beer. Futile Efforts. • Mica,wber said to David Copperfield: •s"Copperfielce, nay hay, 41 income, 90 %shillings and 6 pence expenses; result, misery. Bot, Copperfloal, my boy, a1 'Income, expenses 19 shillings and 6 pence; result, happiness." Anthere are west multitudes of people who are kept poor because they are the victims of their town improvidence. It is no sin to be •rich, and it is no sill to be poor. I pro- test against this outcry which I hear against those who, through economy and aelf denial and assiduity, have come to Urge fortune. This bombardment of oommercial success will never stop this squarrel between capital and labor. Neither will the contest be settled by cynical and unsympatheio treatment of the laboring clas,ses. There are those who speak of them as though they were only senate or draft horses. Their nerves are nothing, their domestic oonsfort is noth- ing, their happiness 18 nothing. They have no more sympathy for them than a "hound has for a hare, or a bawk for a nen, or a tiger for •a calf. When Jean Valjean, the greatest hero of Victor Hugo's writings, after a life of suffering • and brave endurance, goes into incarcerae tion and death, they clan the book shut and say, "Good for himl" They stamp their feet with indignation and say just the opposite of "Save the working class- es." They have all their sympathies with Shylook, and not with Antonio and Portia. They are plutocrats, and their feelings are infernal. They are filled with irritation and irascibility on this subject. To stop, tbis awful imbroglio between capital and labor they will lift not so stanch as the tip end of the little finger., Neithee will there be any pacification of' thie angry controversy through vio- lence. Goo never blessed. murder. The poorest use you can put a man to Is to kill him. Blow up to -morrow all the couutry seats on the banks of the Hudson, and all the fine houses OD Madison square, aud Brooklyn Heights, and Bunker Hill, and Ritteehouee square, and Beacon street, and all the bricks and timbers and stone will just fall lack on the bare head of Arnerlean labor. The worst enemies of the working classes in the 'United States and Ireland are their demented coadjutors. Assassin ation—the assassination of Lord, Fred- erick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, Ireland, in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned away from that afflicted people millions of sympathizers, The attempt to blow up the House of Gam- mons in London, had only this effect— to throw out of employment tens of thousands of innocent people in England. In this country the tarok put to the factories that have discliarged hands for good or bad reasons; obstructions on the rail track in front of midnight express trains because the offenders do not like the president of the company; strikes on shipboard the hour they were going to sail, or in printing offices the hour the paper was to go to press, or in mines the day the coal was to be delivered, or on house scaffoldings so the builder fails in keeping his contract—all these are only a hard blow on the head of American labor, and cripple its arms and lame its feet and pierce its heart. Traps sprung suddenly upon employers, and violence, never took one knot out of the knuckle of toil or put one farthing of wages into a callous palm. Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark that! Fredeilek the Great admired some land near his place at Potsdam, and he re- solved to get it It was owned by a mil- ler. He offered the miller three times the value of the property. Tile miller would not take it because it was the old homestead, and he felt about as Naboth felt about his vineyard when .Ahab wanted it Frederick the Great was a rough and terrible man, and he ordered the miller into his presence, and the king, with a stick in his hand—a stick with whieh he sometimes struck his officers of state—said to this miller, "Now, I have offered you three times the value of that property, and it you won't sell it, I'll take it anyhow." The miller said, "Your majesty, you won't." "Yes," said the king, "I will take it." "Then," said the miller, "If your mat jesty does take it, I will sue you in the chancery court." At that threat Fred- erlok the Great yielded his infamous de- mand. And the most imperious outrage against the working classes will yet cower before the law. Violence and con- trary to the law will Dever accomplish anything, but righteousness and. accord- ing to the law will accomplish it. Looking for Relief. Well, if this zontroversy between capi- tal and labor cannot be settled by human wisdom, if to -day capital and labor stead with their thumbs on each other's throat —as they do—St is time for us to look somewhere else for relief, and it points from my text roseate and jubilant, and puts oae hand on the broadcloth shoulder of capital and. puts the other on the hornespui covered shoulder of toil and says, with a voice that will grandly and gloriously settle this and settle every- thing, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them." That is, the lady of the house- hold will say: "I must treat the maid In the kitchen just as I would 'like to be treated it I were down stairs and it were my work to wash and cook and sweep, and it were the duty of the maid in the kitchen to preside in this parlor." The maid in the kitchen must say: "If lny employer seems to be • more prosperous than 1 that is no fault of hers. I shall not treat her as an enemy. 1 will have the same industry and fidelity down stairs as I would expect from my subor- dinates if I happened to be the wife of a silk importer." The owner of an iron mill, having taken a dose of my text before leaving home in the morning, will go into his foundry, and passing into what is called the puddling roorn, he will see a man there stripped to the waist and besweated and exhausted with the labor and the toil, and. he will say to him: "Why, it seems to be very hot in here. You look very much exhausted. I hear your child is sick with scarlet fever. If you want your wages a little earlier this week, so as to pay the nurse and get the medi- cines, just come into my office any tinse." After awhile orash goes the money markee and there is no more demand for the articles manufactured in that iron mill, and the owner does not know what to do. He says, "Shall I stop the mill or shall I run it on half time, or shall I cut down the men's wages?" He wallts the floor of his counting room all day, hardly knowing what to do. To- ward evening he calls all the laborers to- gether. They stand all around, some with arms akimbo, some with folded arms, wondering what the boss is going to do now. The manufacturer says: "Men, times are very hard. I don't ina,ke 220 where I used to make $100. Some- how there is no demand now for what we manufacture, or but very littlettle- mend. You see I am at vast expense, and I have called you together this after- noon to see what you would advise. I don't want to shut up the mill, because that would force you out of work, and you have always been very faithful, and I like you, and you seem to like ,me, and the bairns must be 'looked after, and your wife will after awhile want a new dress. I don't know what to do." There is a deed halt for a minute or two and then one of the workmen steps out irom the ranks of his fellows and says: "Boss, you have been very good to us, and when you pxospered we prosper- ed, and now you are in a tight place and I am sorry, and we have got to sympa- thize with you. I don't know how the others feel, but I propose that we take off N por cent. from our wages, and that when the times get good you will re- member as and raise them again." The Workman looks around to his comrades and says:. "Boys, what do you say to this? .All in favor of my proposition will say aye." •"Aye, aye, aye!" shout 200 voices. But the mill owner, getting in some new machinery, esposes himself very much, and takes °old, and it settles into pneumonia, and he dies. In the proces- sion to the tomb are all the workmen, tears rolling down their cheeks and off on the ground, but an hour before the procession 'gets to the cemetery the wives and the children of ,those workmen are at the grave waiting for the arrival of the funeral pageant. The. minister of relittton may have delivered an eloquent eulogiurn before they started from the house, but the most impressive things 4•••••••••••••••.msom.... are gala that day by the working classes standing (trotted the tOMin uhrietes toettootion. That night In all the Cabins of the working people whore they have tamilY prayers the wicloWlietd and the melbas - age in the mansion ale, reMernbered, No glaring populations look Mr the trete fence of the cemetery; bttle lievoring aver the scene, the benedlotiou of tied and man is coining fax the felfilltottret ot the Christlike ird weal on, hateoever ye mould that oleo should do to you, do you eveo so to them," "Oh," says some .map Imo, "that all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is impossible," No. 1 out out ot a paw this: "One of the pleasantest inaidente recorded In a long time is repotted from Sheffield, England. Tbe wages; ot the men in the iron works at Sbeillela are regulated by a board of arbitration, by whose deolsion both masters and Mert are bound. • For some time past the Iron and steel trade has been extremely un- profitable, and the employers cannot, without mach loss, pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employes nor employed have the power to change. To avoid the difficulty, the workmen in one of the largest steel works in Sheffield Mt upon a device as rare as it was gen- erous. They offered to work for their employers one week without aoy pay whatever." But you go with me and I will sbow you—not so far off as Sheffield, England —factories, banking houses, storehouses and costly enterprises where this Christ - like injunction of my text is fully kept, and you could no more get the employer to praotioe an injustice upon his men, or the men to oonspire against the employer, than you could get your right hand and your left hand, your right eye and your left eye, your right ear and your left ear, into physiological antagonism. Now, wiser° is this to begin? In our homes, in our stores, on our farms—not waiting for other people to do their duty. Is there a divergence now between the par- lor and the kitchen? Then there is some- thing wrong, either inthe parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in both. Are the clerks In your store irate against the firm? Then there is something wrong, either behind the counter, or in the private office, or perhaps in both. The great want of the world to -day is the fulfillment of this Cbristlike injunc- tion, that which be promulgated in his sermon Olivetio. All the political econ- omists under the archivault of the hea- vens in convention for 1,000 years oannot settle this controversy between monopoly and bard work, between capital and labor. During the Revolutionary war there was a beavy piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for some fortress, and a corporal was overseeing the work, and he was giving copamancts to some sold- iers as they lifted: "Heave away, there! Yu heave!" Well, the timber was too heavy; they could not get it up. There was a gentleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal: "Why don't you help them lift? That timber is too beavy for them to aif b." "No," he said, "I won't; I am a cor- poral." The gentleman got off his horse and came up to the place. "Now," he said to the soldiers, "all together—ye beave I" and the timber went to its place. "Now," said the gentleman to the corporal, "when you have a piece of thither too heavy for the men to lift, and you want help, send to your commander- in-chief." It was Washington. Now, that is about all the gospel I know—the gos- pel of giving somebody a lift, a lift out of darkness, a life out of earth into hea- ven. .That is all the gospel I know—the gospel of helping somebody else to life. Supply and Demand. "Oh," says some wiseacre, "talk as you will, the law of demand and supply will regulate these things until the end of time." No, they will not, unless God dies and the batteries of the judgment day are spiked, and Pluto and Proser pine, king end queen ot the Infernal regions, take full possession of this world. Do you know who supply and demand ate? They have gone into part- nership, and. they propose to swindle this earth and are swindling it You are drowning. Supply and deinanct stand on the shore, one on one side, the other on the other side of the lifeboat, and they cry out to you, "Now, you pay us what we ask you for getting you to earth, or go to the bottom!" If you can borrow 25,000 you can keep from failing in busi- ness. Supply and demand say, "Now, you pay us exorbitant usury, or you go into bankrutpoy." This robber firm of 'supply and demand say to you: "The crops are short We bought up all the wheat and it is in our bin. Now, you pay our price or starve." That is your magnificent law of supply and demand. Supply and demand own the largest mill on earth, and all the rivers roll over their wheel, and into their hopper they put all the men, women and children they can shovel out of the ceuturies, and the blood and the bones redden the val- ley while the mill grinds. That diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand aside, and instead there will come the law of love, the law of oo-oper- ation, the law of kindness, the law of sympathy, the law of Christ. Have you 00 idea of the coining of such a time? Then you do not believe the Bible. All the Bible is full of promises on this sub- ject, and as the ages roll on the time will come when inen of fortune will be giving larger sums to hunianitarian and evangelistic purposes, and there will be more James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William E. Dodges and George Tea- bodys. 4.5 that time copies there will be more parks, more picture galleries, more gardens thrown open fax the holiday people and the working classes. I was reading in regard to a charge that had been made in England against leunbeth palace that it was exclusive, and that charge demonstrated the sub- lime feet that to the grounds of that wealthy estate 800 poor families have free passes and 40 croquet companies, and on the half holidays 4,000 poor peo- ple recline on the grass, walk through the paths and sit under the trees. That is gospel—gospel on the wing, gospel out of doors worth just as mueli as in- doors. That time is going to come. That is only a hint of what is going to be. The time is going to come whets, if you have anything in your house worth looking at—pictures, pieces of sculpture—you are going to invite me to come and see them, you are going to invite my friend to come and seo them, and you will say, "See what I have been bleesed with. God has elven me this. and so fax as enjoying • it, it is yours also." That is gospel. • A Sublime Posture. In crossing tbe Allegheny mountains many years ago the stage halted and Henry Clay dismounted front the stage and went out on a rock at the very verge of the cliff, and he stood there with his oloak wrapped about him'and he seemed to be listened for oomething Some one said to him, "What are 904 IlatenlPg f0a2" Standing there on the top of the mountain he mad, "I am listening to the traem of the looteteps of the coining millions of this continent's A sublime posture for an American stateensan ! You ape 1 toolay stand on the mountain top of prlvilege, and on the Rook of Ages, tad we look off, and we hear conlina from the future the balmy industries,and smiling populations, and the consecrated fortunes, and the innumerable prosperi- ties of the closing nineteenth and the opening twentieth centary. • The great patrtot of France, Victor Hugo, died. The 210,000 in bis Will given to the poor of the city was only a hint of the work he did fax all nations and for all times. I wonder not that they ellowed 11 days to pass between his death and his burial, his body meantime kept wader triumphal ante, for the world could hardly afford to let go this man who for more than eight deoa,des had by hie unparalleled genius blessed it. His name shall be a terror to all despots, and an encouragement to the struggling. He made the world's burden lighter, and its darkness less dense, and its chain less galling, and its thrones of iaiquity less secure. But Victim Hugo was nob the overtow- ering friend of mankind. The greatest friend of capitalist and toiler, and the one who will yet bring them together in complete accord, was born one Christmas night while the curtains of heaven swung, stirred by the wings angelic. Owner of all things—all the continents, all worlds, and all the islands of light, Capitalist of immensity, crossing over to our condition. Coming into our world, not by gate of palace, but by door of barn. Speuding his first night amid the shepherds. Gathering afterward around him the fishermen to be bis chief attend- ants. With adz, and saw, and chisel, and ax, and in a carpenter shop showing himself brother with •the tradesmen. Owner of all things, aud yet on a hilloek Ms& of Jerusalem one day resigning everything for others, keeping not so much as a shekel to pay for his obse- quies, by charity buried in the suburbs of a city that had, cast him out. Before the cross of such a capitalist, and such a carpenter, all men can afford to shake hands and worship. Here is the every man's Christ. None so high, bub he was bigher, None so poor, but he was poorer. At his feet the hostile extremes will yet renounce their animosities, and counten- ances which have glowered with the prejudices and revenge of centuries shall brigaten with the smile at heaven as he commands, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even So to them." The Corcoran Gallery of Art. In the new home which has been pro- vided fax the colleetion of works of art formed by the late William Wilson Cor- coran,and added to by gift, loan and purchase, there is at 130 an opportunity for intelligent and profitable study. The architect has made excellent provision fax the esssential requisites of space and light, and by treating the interior with a dignified and broad simplicity has se- cured for the exhibits a noble setting. The bronze entrance doors in the center ot the longitudinal facade open into a vestibule, from which marble steps as- cend to the atrium. This, as the name implies, is open to the skylight and is flanked by two halls 85 foot in length, which communicate with snuffler rooms —the whole floor, with the exception of a part devoted to the boardroom, library and office, forming an 'impressive sculp- ture gallery. Here are displayed the very complete collection of casts from the antique, the smaller but fairly represent- ative collection of replicas of renaissance sculpture, ana a magnificent array of Barye bronzes, said to be the largest in existence. Around the atrium stand 40 Doris columns of Indiana Innestone, surmount, ed by a gallery from which rises another order of columne—th this case Ionic— which support the roof. From this gal- lery extend the various rooms occupied by the paintings and exhibits of clois- onne, porcelain ami glass and electrotype reproductions. The collection of pictures includes a large number of portraits which possess great historical interest, and in some oases oath -tic merit. For the rest the motive of the collector was rather to buy what elettsed him than to complete a representative collection. The old masters clan be counted by ones and twos. There is no example of the Italian renaissance, and of Amerman works only a hprinkling, and these, with a few exceptions, not represenstative of our best achievement Still Washington Is ONE OF MANY. Sad Domestic Scene hat Had Its Bonn - ting in Treating a Boy. • Turn back 'with me on life's pathway fax the space of about 40 years and will take you, in imagination, to a small, one-story, two -roomed house in the stiburbs of a growing western town. It is a dreary Ootober evening,, arid a lightediamp sets on a table within. The • curtains are nudrawn, and one can see the interior of the room, where the lanip illumines a dismal scene.. • There is a cheap oztrpet on the floor, a bed in one corner, the table, a lounge and some chairs, a few pictures hang on the wall, a neat lannble home. On the bed in a faint lies the young mother, a week-old babe besede her and an 18-montbs-old baby in a sound sleep on the fax side of the bed. The young husband and father, velao is not more than .27 years old, sits at the Jiead of the bed in a maudlin coudition, leaning over till his breath, laden with the mixed fumes of tobacco and whisky, puffs into the sick woman's face and saing,les with the scent of the camphor with whiab he is trying to revive her; while his sister, a girl of 18, stands at the foot of the bed with shining eyes, a mortified, distressed and disgusted expression on her bright, young face. She is here on a visit, and this is the first time be has come home In such a condition. After a time the poor sick wife opens her eyes and, begins to sob and moan, and the girl passes into the kitchen to prepare a soothing potion. The room is smaller than the other, and, contains one small window and a door; the furniture consists of a cook stove, table, cupboard, lounge, chairs and a large ohest, and the room is pretty well filled up. The young man owns this tiny house and the lot on which it is built in the suburbs of the town. He is a printer, and might have continued fax years to make a comfortable living and add to the beauty and comfort of bis home had It not been fax the demon of drink that possessed and, overpowered Mau, The pair were rearriecl in $t. Louis, and left there to get away from his old haunts and the associates who followed bina up persistently with their threats and other devilish devices to get him drunk. They bad been here fax aver a year; he had been sober and industrious, had procured this little home and they were prospering; but at the office they heard that he had another boy, so the man must treat—now what sense is there In that I never have been able to learn. No one ever thinks is necessary or even proper to brliag beer or vItriolized whisky to offer the mother, even when it is her first attempt. Now, if that is what they call congratulating a fellow, I believe tbe mother who has passed through such an ordeal is the ono to be congratulated; but ib would not be deemed proper or even safe in her case to do so in that style; neither Is it in bis; but men are always on the lookout fax an excuse to "take something," so they treat and. are treated, aud thus many a poor wretch who would never buy a glass fax himself and could keep his pledge Is dragged into the gutter. In tbe case of this young man it re- quired several years, but at last he gave way, and was 80 entirely crazy when driuking that his wife had. hina confined In an asylum where he remained fax two years and then escaped. His wife bad gone to Canada to rela- tives and taken her three bays with her. He had no desire to live with her, so be wont to Chicago, where he lived for years before he died. The lesson of the asylum was a salutary one, but I have means of knowing if be ever fell back into his old intemperate habits or not. Those whs. knew him when he was a boy say that he was very bright and in- telligent, moot% superior in every way to the majority of boys, but he lost bis mother at an early age, and lived fax a couple of years with an uncle who kept a taaern in a small village in Ohio. The usual barroom was kept in the house, and the usual loungers hung about the bar, treating, each other, singing sougs and telling yarns. Harry was only eight or nine years old, but tbey treated him, and if he got tipsy occasionally they thought it great fun. The uncle did not always know what was going on, but was too nnich afraid of offeoding his customers to say much if he had, and thus a young life and soul were wrecked that a few tipplers might bave what they called fun, and thus one poor, motherless boy acquired a easte for intoxicants.—Jennie Watson in Lever. the Mecca of the people and the influence Notes by the Way. of these galleries far-reaching and good, Two-thirds of the members of the On- tario Government are total abstainers. No man who is intoxicated, or whose -breath is even tainted with strong drink, is allowed to take his post on a train on The famous steamship Great Eastern the Grand Trunk railway. historioally associated with the iirst The juvenile temperance force in Great efforts to lay Atlantic telegraph cables Britain is authoritatively estimated at has hitherto been regarded as the largest 2,813,800 members, nthintenth of whom vessel ever launched. Its laurels as a sea are in Band of Hope unions. leviathan, however, are of late endan Capt. Wiggins, a well-known explorer, gered. The new freighter Pennsylvania testifies to the beneticence of total abstin- although scarcely attaining the external mace to Arctic travelers and never carries measurements of the former celebrated anything alcoholic with hint on his voy- ship, will carry fax more cargo. The ages save what the board of trade Qom - capacity indeed of these new freight ships pets him to take. is a matter fax astonishment to a lands- Human nature is a cheerful study, and the increased accommodation will no doubt stienulato a growth in the col- lection itself.—Harper's Weekly. , What an OCCall Steamship Carries. man. The Pennyslvania, fax example, is rated at 20,000 tons burden and will Dag out a spring bi the roadside, fix it up with a nice barrel to hold tbe water, place a nu tin dipper by the side ov it, and see how long " will be before the carry loads such as may be briefly items ized thus: 160,000 bushels of wheat In weary traveler, after slakeing his thirst, bulk, equal to 320 car loads or 16 trains will steal the dippen—josh Billings. The stirs:eon th charge of the troops of Vancouver barracks has a stern and effective treatment fax drunkenness, the Main features of which are, in brief, the stomach -pump, stomach cleansing with a strong solution of soda, a bowl of bot beef extract with cayenne pepper, an hour's rest, return to work. The malady is said to be on the deorease. The berroona is a bank. You deposit your money—and lose it. Yotir alm— ond lose it 'Your character—and lose it. Your health—and lose it. Your strength —and lose it Your self-control—and lose it. Your home comfort—and lose it. Your wife's happiness—and lose it. Your children's haminess—and lose it. Your own soul --and lose it.--Nettic lirerr carried a burden of 1,800 tons of coal, or in Ontario Mirror. more than 100 carloads. Self Culture il,Nt. If we were to say teat the entire agri- After all is said about our duty to cultural product of 00 New England others, the fact remains that our first towns, or 20 western counties, could all and greatest duty is to ourselves. The tree that does not grow, drawing its sub- stance and strength from where it may, will never give sbade to the wayfarer nor fruit to the }Angry. It is well to help others, but it is presumption to offer to give what one has not. The blind cannot lead the blind. Teo many of us are so anxious to be "doing some- thing for the world" that we neglect the very necessary self culture that anuet precede all work for others.--Wornans of e0,oare each; 1,000 tons of flour, 80 carloads; 4,000 boxes of bacon, 75 car- loads; 3,000 tierces of lard, 48 carloads; 1,300 bales of cotton'40 car loads; 1,200 head 42 live cattle, 80 carloads, and 8.600 quarters of dressed beef. In addition there will probably be a thousand tons of miscellaneous merchan- dise, say 80 carloads snore; in all not less than 7S0 carloads or 89 long trains of 20 cars each. Nor is the alsove by, any means the en- tire load of this modern ark, The Penn- sylvania will have accommodations fax from 800 to 1,000 steerage passengers, as also fax a crew of 150 men and 50 cat- tlemen, with food tied fodder for all. In the fuel bins, too, there will be be stowed away in this mammoth sbip, we shonld not exceed the facts --Youth's Companion. To Try Our Faith. Our Heavenly Father sends us fre- quent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire but gold Is not; the paste gem dreads to be touched by the diamond, but the true jewel fears no test grWrIAMMIRSOMM\ + Extract From the Laiit Elton of "This' American System of Surgery." "Boils are caused by Microbes, (or g,erins) called Cocei, which penetrate thei skin, lieu:Illy along a hair follicle, and, unless destroyed they cause Boils and, Carbuncles; being favored by constitu- tional klisturbances and certain atmOs- pherio conditions Carbuncles, are like easais—st first superficial, but are caused when the aniorobe penetrates deeper, or, Into denser tissue. All Boils •appear at first as pimples or pustules." These facts ziro not universally 'MOW"' as many people think Boils and Carbun- cles always proceed from iriside the body' and lay to "draw the2n" by POultioingP eto., which only prolongs the pain un- necessarily, The treatroent to -day con- , sists af "Jancing deeply to remove the Microbe, or else to apply an agent that will destroy the microbe and remove pain and swelling and "the Boil is healed :"--or if the Boil Cocci • has pene- trated very deeply, renew "Quickoure" every sis hours. This treatment ihould remove the boil without needing to have It lanced; and it relieves the pain at once. Sividenee. Tbe judge looked thoughtful. "you say that these men were about to engage in a prize fight?" he said to an officer who had made the arrest. "There can be no doubt about it, your honor," replied the policeman. "And yet you admit." persisted the judge, "that not a blow had been struck1 when you made the arrest?" "Not a one, your honor, I beat 'em out," returned the policeman jubilantly. "Then haw can you be so sure of their intentions?" °emended the judge. "Why, yOur honor," explained the policeman, evidently surprised at the question, "didn't I see the kinetoscope In position?" $100 Reward ,$100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that seieitee has been able to euro in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall' Catarrh Cure is the only positive care known to the medical traternity. Catarrh being a eonsatutional dis- ease, requires a constitutionaltreatrnent. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct- ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the touudation of tes disease, and giving the patient strength by im the counitetion and assisting na- ture iu aelug its wvrk. The proprietors have so much faith bi its eurative powers, that they oder One Hundred Dollars for any ease that it fails to eure. Snail for 1185 of testimonials, Addrees F..1, CHESNEY et Ca., ite'Suld by Druggista. 75C. Toledo, 0. Easy for Them. Narrow-minded and uncultivated per- sons can easily find fault, and can usu- ally mingle seine degree of truth with their harsh conclosions. They judge rigidly and. blame severely, not because they are wise, accurate or discerning, but rather because they are deficient ix% same of those qualities. It may be only a trifling cold, but neg- lect it and et will festen its fangs in your lungs, and you NV111 soon be carried to an untimely grave. In this country we have sudden changes and must expect to have cotighs and colds. 'We cannot avoid them, but Ntrel MU effect a cure by using Bickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup, the medicine thet has never been known to fall in cur- ing coughs, colds, bronchitis aud id af- fections of the throat, lungs and chest. Duty. The climax of a human career is reaohed not necessarily when what the world calls success comes, but when, in the presence of probable defeat and sur- render, the resolve is made to walk alone, if need be, and do one's duty.—Rev. Linkeley. Dyspepsia or Indigestion is occasioned by the want of action in the biliary ducts, loss of vitality in the stomach to secret the gastric juices, without which digestion cannot go on ; also, being tae principal cause of Headache. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills taken before going to bed,for never fail to give relief and effect a cure. Mr. F. W. Ashdown, Ashdown, Out., writes; Parinelee's Pills are taking the lead against ten other inak-es which I have in stock," One View. Jones—Don't you think tbe taxes on personal property should be abolished? Smith—Why? What is the need of abolishing taxes that you can swear off? Mrs. Celeste Coni, Syracuse, N. Y., writes ; "For yea: I could not eat many kinds a food without producing a burn- ing, excruciarthe pain in any stomach. I took Parmelee':Pills according to direc- tions tinder the head of 'Dyspepsia or In- digestion.' One box entirely cured ins. I can now eat anything I choose, without tiierressing 10510 the least.'" These Pills ' i10 not cause pain or griping, and shduld be used wheu a cathartic is required. The City Fellers Were Wholly Unable to Fool 1111m. "I reckon them city fellers must think they pieked up the wrong man," declared ' Uncle Hiram with great satisfaction after I - he had returned to.the farm from a brief outing. "They got an ides that any chap hallin front the country is a greeny, but I guess I give 'ern somethin to think about. "When I put my verlise down to one of them big hotels while I writ my name, some slick lookin feller kim along and leeks the bag up. If I'd ever hit him, they'd bad to set a jury on Iiiin. He tried to 'pologize by sayin be jist wanted to carry my grip to my room, but I tol him I was a durned sight more alder to carry it then he was. "Up stairs I disalvered a sign on the wall, s.ayin not fax to blow out the gas. I I Was jist gob% to turn in and lot it blaze l away all night when I see another sign, 4 tritest they charged •extry fax burnin gas 1 after midnight. I s.es right through the i Irick, and walks clown four flights to tell s that clerk I'd either blow out that gas or he'd give me a receipt in full for what might burn extry. He tried to laugh ib oil, but ho sent a boy up to blow it out after I was abed all right. He showed nae whore to punch a button if I wanted any- tbing iu the morning, So I waked up pretty early and I €i'iNe the button a few prods so's to aek what time they sot on breakfast. 'Twarn't three minutes till up, conies a new boy with some kind of drink. I wasn't goin to ask no fool questions. So ' I sipped it like and then swallered it down, It was powerful eigoratin and I tole the boy if the landlord had plenty of it he might bring another if beeves comin ' up again. 'Twarret long, and that time i he said it was a men.shaton, or somethin.1, Iike that. 1 went down stairs singin, walked straight out the front door with my carpetbeg, wandered round waitin till breakfast time, and (hauled if I didn't get I lost. I got a good meal fax 15 cents, and ,..' when I %vas nosin 'bout for my tavern I 1 found the depot, and 1 'ain't seen or heerd %ninth of the hotel since."--Detrolt Frei, press.