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WEEKLY C0URIER.Sfri2fS, SS" "ta
"ouaxod about my maltster. Wa'al.
C. DOA.NIÜ, lbll-hur. n seel, a bad man He w8 a
JASPER
INDIANA
THE BURDEN OF AGE.
"Ah, how the yoars exllo us Into drcaund"
Walttr Curoy.
There I" a dancing In tho morning drams,
Tiieruis u rainbow sown umld tho low,
There U Klint or sold shot through tho and
a molten supphiru in tho moun nuns' nuo,
Anil Hope down comes with all her slnglnfr
kwuH.
Jay. nay, It Is not so: 'twna long uro!
There tea u dancing In tho morning beams:
"Ah, how tho years oxllo us Into dreams 1"
There In a glamour In tho iiioou'h whlto gleam,
There U the touch that charmed Kudymton's
ojch,
A plrlt mounting from tho clod und stone,
A spirit bending from tho bendlug sides
At'd fovo In midst of nil sets up his thrunol
Nu nay. It Is not so; 'twas long ago!
There va a glamour In tho tnoon's whlto
Oleums:
Ah. how tho years exllo us Into dreams t"
There Is n wonder light on woodland streams,
A murmur In tho green o'erhangliig boughs,
A ruMle in tho fronded ranUs or fern
Ar.d, lo' tho Muso wltn raptenwreathed brows,
Am! i'Vi's that seen und unseen thliiL's tl!ivrnt
', nay, it is not so: 'twas long ago!
1'X re ud a wonder light on woodland streams:
"Ali, how tho years oxllo us Into dreams!"
Borne other world, jxirclmncc, our loss ro-
di-ems
Muht to dead eyes and speech to Hps all dumb
llrniRi hack brings us and ours from banish
muni!
Ho may our dreams a living Joy become;
Hut here all things that ure, with doubt arc blent,
Within the mists that blow from long ago!
r-omo other world, not this, our loss redeems:
Ah. how tho years exile us luto dreams!"
Killth M. Thomas, In Century Magazine,
WHERE IS GEOJtGIETTA?
A Quory Left Ovor from Days Bo-
foro tho War.
UNT ELLEN
camo to talk
with me about
the old times
before the war.
She had hesitat
ed w Ii e n the
daughter of a
family in which
she had worked
off and on for
years, and to
whom she was
much attached,
hud aslccd her
lo make the visit, and had emphntical
y declared the wasn't coming to have
that lloston lady make a monkey
of her. Hut having been assured
that nothing of the sort was intend
ed, she consented, and one forenoon
In .she came, as neat as possible
In a tidy light print dress, with a
fresh muslin hnnderchief crossed on
her breast. During our talk she told
ine that she usually wore a bandana
handkerchief on her head, but had left
it ott that day on account of the ex
treme heat. 1 hoped to hear from her
much of the customs and traditions of
her people, but before wo were
launched into such lore she told me a
Mory out of her own simple life, the
life for many yearn of a slave mother,
afterward of a hard laboring woman
Mdioso character for honesty and indus
try was unimpeachable. A simple ex
istence it would bo called, I suppose,
ind yet this chapter which she nar
rated contains a tragedy that, had
"little Georgietta" been a princess,
would have made a thrilling folk-tale.
Aunt Ellen is a tall, massive mulatto
woman, very advanced in years, though
neither she nor anyone knows her exact
age. Mio sat with folded hands, scarce
ly moving as she talked, savo that now
und then she made a slight gesture of
the head, but before this bit from her
early life was half told slow tears ran
down her brown cheeks, and no listener
could with dry eyes hear her quiet, un
impassioned narration of the sorrow
ful story of how she lost her little
t'eorgietta:
"Ye wants ter heah about tho olo
times, .Miss Sally tells tne. S'poso ye
means the times 'fob the war, ma'am.
Wa'al, I ken tell ye a neap about tho
ole times yore, for I alluz lived right
ycre. Lived yens cversenee I wuz born.
Ve asks me of I think do colored peo
ple is better off no w 'n they wuz in tho
slavery times. Wu'ul, in my 'pinion
Wime of em is and some of 'em ain't.
I mean ter say some of 'em in the ole
times didn' have so hard a time's they
hev sencB 'n had more to eat an' drink
they do senco thcy's free but
ma'am" (here a dramatic pause and a
"ignuiert, sarcastic smile over the pos
sibility of such n question) "wo is freo
now nn' that's a great thing. 1 b'liove
cvorylxidy wnnts his freedom. Yes, I
wuz a .slave until wo wuz all snt froe.
Ihn I didn' have so bad a tiine's a great
'"any of de slaves did. Fact, most uv
usyerc on do cast'un sho' wuz well off
to the colored folks that wuz slaves in
ucorgy un' Louisiany 'n other places
way off in tho south.
"i)ld I have a good tnahster? Wa'al,
I s'sposo I might say I did. As I toP
, ma'am, I didn'. hev so'bad a time
that is to say I never wuz whipped nor
sol' awny frum ray husband and ehil'itn
-but one of my chll'un wuz carried off
mim mo,"
"You had children, then, Aunt Ellon?
How ninny children had you?"
yes, ma'am. Hut" I eau't 'zacly
t'U ye how many head o' chll'un I hod.
Jttofyo kon count, I ken toll 3-0 the
names of every ono of 'era. I never for
faits their names, not ono of 'um. You
wunt now n I'll say 'era over. First
there wuz Hamilton an' then there
wuz George Washington an' then Sam-"cl-bam
wo always called him but
e dicd-fm. then by 'n by there wuz
another boy 'n then wo called him Sam
l,xj- Hut thero wuz two girls between,
'uly an' Violet"
i,)."'1. h0 n. natno after name, with
"uio Incidents and bits of remlniscenco
"t this and tint child, until tho aged
lTaUJmd raeUoned ifwenteen chll-
oul cv',cral had w whB yw
fcn-t Jiad Krow UP and D
cnSu n M Mr eldest son, had
credibly serve on the union aide
Mag three yw, Qf th. va Uut I I
noli man an' some wild ruther a hard
nmn, but ho wuz wort o' 1ollv an frco-
spokon-likc. They uscter e:tll him Olo
Hickory Hickory! Ho wuz ulluz u-rldln
nbuout the ltcntrv for ho OWIleil IL
heap o' Ian along tho enstun Kho'
an'
rodoall abaout tho keittry ter l(Mk after
tilings, i-ollcs sum thet ho owned so
many slaves he didn't know his own
nigguhs! They useter tell haow when
he wanted to light fum his boss ter
oversee somo pieeo uv work, he'd cull to
some boy or man: 'Como ycre, boy, 'n
hop my boss!' Then he'd say: 'Whose
boy uro ye?' Then, llko 's not. the niir-
ger'd say; Yours, Malis Tisdale,' an'
then ole massa would throw him a lip
penny bit, and he would uaw-hnw and
so would all de col'ud folks that wuz a
standin' about, because .Malis Tisdale
didn't know his own nlirirahs! Wa'al.
uimehy ole
Malis Tisdale. bodied, 'n
ovcrytlimg wuz loft in olo mistus'
hands, .she hep' things up mighty well
fcr a woman, but thet wuzn't ullavs
jest as ole massa, her husband, had
done afore her, n once 'n awile she'd
sell some o' her slaves."
Did you know your old mistress
well. Aunt Ellen?"
'V co'so I knowed her. 'n she
knowed me, 'n 'z talked ter mo many a
time. I'll tell ye pres'n'ly haow she
come ter my little cabin ter tell me
when we wuz all set free, by the
proelamation-'v-einancipation. Ve' see
after 1 wuz srrown un 'n married ter
Uncle Horace (that's mv husband) I
didn't live in ole mistus' house. Did I
tell ye as my husban' wuz a freo man
fum befoh we wuz married? Wa'al,
he'd bought his own freedom, ma'am,
an' wuz his own rauhster. Sometimes
ole mistus hired mo out t5 cook at the
hotel fer cookin' wuz my work.
That's what my olo mother larn'd me
to do, fur back as I ken remember.
They counted me a fustrato cook, too,
in those days, ma'am, 'n I cooked a
heap at the hotel, though we most gin
erly said tavern then. I'd go anil work
all day 't tho tavern 'n at niirht iro
home ter the cabin where wo lived,
Horace an' mo an' the chil'un but fur
ther on, jest befoh the wah, Horace
mostly hired me to keep house fer him
an' paid olo mistus jes' same 's any
bodj JIos' all do Mmc 'v the wah I wuz
hired this yer way by my husband.
Ho wuz a smart man in dose davs,
'n could do a sight uv work 'n could
pay ole mistus a good price fer my
time.
Wa'al, do wah wtfnt on 'n on, an' we
heard a heap er talk 'baout freein' uv
the slaves an' some said 't wasa-oomin'
sho' nn' some said thev guess we'd
wait u while 'foali that day come. Hut
at las' we all knew for sho' an' sar-
tain that we wuz frcc,sho'mtff,'u even-
üouy wuz a taiicm n a taiuln', 'n a won-
derm' what 'd come nex. Den mv ole
mistus she come to tell me I wuz
free. Hut o' co'so I bed heard a day or
two afoh abaout the proclamation-of
emancipation." (This last phrase pro
nounced very slowly, but correctly, and
with the least perceptible straighten
ing of her person and lifting of her
chin.)
"Wa'al, in comes Mistus Tisdale, a
lookin' purty black an' sour-like. I
nevah let on, but I knowed her arrant
mighty well. I jes' dusted a cheer an
placed it fer her, an' axed her to sit
daown."
That was very kind and polite of
you. Aunt hllen.
"Oh, I know what's manners, ma'am.
I doan' know how to read, 'n I doan'
know how to write, not even my own
name, but, madam, I knowed what
wuz belonghr to mo in my own house."
(The dignity with which these last
words were uttered, and tho substitu
tion of "madam" for the usual "ma'am,"
is utterly indescribable, but was most
impressive.)
"Weht away sez she: 'Ellen, I'm
come to tell yo that yore free.' 1 o
see, she lied to come an' tell us, fer thet
wuz tho law. Do law 'bilged every
body who owned slaves to tell them
thet they wuz free, n I s pose sho
thought ef she didn' tell me V all uv
us tho law would git hoi' uv her. Fer
ye could see she didn' relish comin' an'
tellin mo any too well. 1 hen she sez
All iiuon yu vi; jui. yu ru irccuom,
. . - . , 1
what ye goin' t' do, Ellen? IM like f
know what yer a-goin' t' do? Ü
think ye kin take cab 'v yosef?'
"Then I sez t' her: "Wa'al, mistus,
I s'peets 1 kin. 'X' 1 s'peets I'll keep
on a-siingm pous air unties. 1
reckon I kin dotliatjis' as well now,
that I'm sot free, as b'foh; and that's
what I've been at fur back ez I kin
recollec' a-slinglu' pots V kittles.
H'foh I could carry an iron pot I nster
push the kittles, ono at a time, across
IX C0MK9 MISTUS TI8DAI.E.
do flo' 'n' put 'em on do low shelf whah
all seeh things wuz kep' in de olo
kitchen whah my olo mammy did dc
cookin'. Yo' know, mistus, I lurned
cookin' whop I wuz a little gal, 'n' I
s'pose that'll still be my work, fur
thet's 'baout all I do know.'
"Olo mistus she didn' sav much mo',
but went off right quick a-lookin' sort
o' eross-llltc. Yo remember ni hus
band hired me uv mistus to keep house
fcr him. So every month, at the end
uv the month, I took my wages ter Mis'
Tisdale. When we got our freedom
'twuz a llttlo waya in the month, so
Horace didn' owe her much, but we
Mlk'lftted jea' what it would be amy-
Mff wi ( (3 lllnfitn ivtnvt a m I?
Z?Z ÄÄ? "
de house with it jesMnVamc 'I nana. 1
to givo it to de inistu. "üt
iiiinic as sho would tak It. u.ntn
tvuz so little. Hut, ef yoti'H believ
it, she took it without so much as elvln'
me back a Hp! Yes, ma'am, she did,
sum 'z I sit hero an' tell ye.
"Ohl 'Hout little (Seorgietta, you
wants to know. Wa'al-she wa'n't'my
youngest chile ez I tole ye. tha'h wuz
a good many younger 'n she wuz, but
when she wuz sole she wur. jes' a llttlo
toddlln' girl maybe three years ole. I
wuz a-cookin' at tho tavern then an'
Oeorgietta, sho wuz too young t' leave
at home, un I useter take her 'long
with me daytimes an' she'd play rou.i
in de kitchen all day. Sometimes she'd
curl up In onu corner an' go fas' asleep
an' hev a good nap.
"Wa'al, 'one foahnoon somebody
comes into de kitchen un' tells me ez
.Miss Georirietta wuz in do hall nw.-titin'
I fur ter see me. Miss (Jeorgietta wuz
my young mistus, an' she wuz alius so
pleasant-spoken an kind-like thet wa
all thought a heap o' her. 1 hurried
right out ter de hall an' thar she stood,
an' sho sez: 'Ellen, ina sez ye' mus' git
Georgietta ready t' go back with
brother day after to-morrow.' Her
brother wuz th' oldest chile uv my olo
mistus, an' lie wuz married an' lived
way off somewheres in Georgy. Ono
uv my girls, Snl)j lived with him wuz
nuss to his chil'un. My Sally wuz much
ez fifteen years olo by this time, an' lied
ben off thar with Mai' John a long
time, 'n I wuzn't afeard uv their
sellin' her, but I knew well enough
thet my little Georgietta could n' he uv
any use to 'em, 'n I felt auro fum do
first minute 't sho was a-goin' to ba
sole.
"1 jes' begun to cry an' I. sez: 'Miss
Georgietta, does your ma want fur to
kill me? Kf she does, she might jus'
as well cut my throat or sell me to
Georgy at once! Why, how upon earth
Icon I lot this chile go? An' haow could
I get her ready, I wonder, anyway,
"IIOKS YOl'K MA WANT TO KIM. ill:?"
when I haven't a thing- to get her ready
with?' Hut Miss Georirietta said: 'WelL
Ellen, you know I can't help it, and j
don't know as Georgietta's to be sole,
but ma said you must sure hev her
ready to go back when brother goes
home.'
"Wa'al, I went back to my cookin',
but I tell you 't wuz a mighty hart! day
on me, 'n I wuz a-thinkin' all do, time
abaout what I could do, but when night
come 'n I went home I wuz no better
off. I knowed when olo mistus said that
Georgietta must go she must go, so I
went to work, best I could, to wash 'a
iron her little clothes. Thar wuz few
enough of 'em anyway, but I knew
she must be clean. Georgietta, sho
didn't know anything about it, 'n sha
wuz all the time a-lookin' at me nn
a-wonderin' what I wuz so sober
abaout.
"Wa'al, thar wasn't much more said,
but the second day after 1 got the word
to get the chile ready, ole mistus sent
after her and she had to go. An' thet
wuz tho las' I ever see of her. Yes,tna'am,
they took her oil to Georgy and wo
alius 'spected she wuz sole. Fur awhile
when I'd ask any uv the family about
her and wanted to know ef she wa'n't
ever a-eotnln' back to Maryland, they
put me off and made believe she would
come bimeby, but Horace 'n I did n be
lieve 'em, an' we wuz right, you see,
fer that wuz a long time befoh tho war
and fum that day til now we never
heard one word about that chile. I
don' even know ef she is alive or ef
she's dead..
"Yes. I'd a heap more chil'un 'n a
good many uv 'em growed up, an' somo
settled right abaot here near me. but
ma'am, I can't tell you jes' haow 't is,
but someway I've alhiz tho't a heap
abaot this one I los', my little Georg
ietta. Yes, I often talk 'bout her yit,
or sit wonderin' whar she is or what in
the world ever did become o' her."
Springlleld Republican.
I'ovrrtjr nnd Luxury.
Little Girl Was your folks poor when
you were a little girl?
Grandma We thought wo were, my
dear. We were pioneer farmers and
lived in a log cabin, hut it was largo
and comfortable. The floors wero
warmly carpeted. We had plenty to
eat and plenty to wear. Hut we raised
evcrytliingourselves and made our own
cloth. We had no money to go to the
stores, even if we had becu near any,
and so we felt very, very poor. Thero
were two things wo were all fond of,
and oh, how w longed for them, and
how wo wished we could afford them,
but we couldn't, and it made us feel
very miserable to bo so poor. These
two things wero salt mackerel and storo
molasses.
Little Girl O-o-oh! Why, what, did
you have to eat, then?
Grandma rvothing out uecr, mutton,
chickens, venison, quail, squirrels, wild
ducks, brook trout and such things, and
as for molasses, wo hadn't anything
but maple sirup. X. Y. World.
Extract from a Xcw Novel. "Stand
where vou are, Reginald do tourseyl
Advance ono step nearer and I will tell
VOU Wliat l saw av vuu v.uriuiin
'Foiled airalnl" liisseu 1110 villain, as no
faded from view. Philadelphia Record.
A Domestic Debate "Those por
celain tiles they are advertising at re
duced rates nro very cheap," remarked
Browne, economically. "Yea Mid hit
wife, "and you ought to buy one. I
keard you say you seeded a sew tile.
REPUBLICAN ROT.
Idiotie G. ). 1. Ilrlv.l on
Matter.
th Hawaiian
"A Nation's Shame" is tho title of the
.New Wk Press' leader on tho
4 Inwaiian affair; "Our National Shame'
Is, the way tho Philadelphia Press put
jt. aim so it goes all along tho lino of
tho thick-and-thln brigade of the
G. C haztxis. "Every American
who L elicves in tho immortul princi
nles of 1110 ueclaration of indenend
ence." b 0,V!i the Xew York bazooter,
"every A. eriean who holds that tho
tyranny of. 'i monarch ia treason against
tho Inalienax MJvcreignty of tho peo
ple, every An 't-'Hean by whom the star
ry symbol of tno republic is held in
roveronee and 1 'mor, and to whom the
dignity and auL Wity of the republic
ure sacred, will n 'ffaril tho outrageous
purpose of the CU veland administra
tion to restore the h awniian monarchy
with intense indigiiat 'on and profound
shame. Grovcr Oerel. and there-
publican renegade wlkm he has re
warded for party treachcT "Ith a seat
in his cabinet have cono about their
infamous task" and so on j, nd 0 on to
the extent of a column of hysterics, ex
clamation points and language' of such
a character that it would have ben
more in accordance with common usagre
if it had been represented by 's in
stead of spelled out in the full exposure
of type.
Of course, none of this sort of fustian
has anything to do with the case. There
is no question of the Americans prefer
ence for republicanism to monarchy.
Even as bold, bad vilyuns as tho press
holds Messrs. Cleveland and Gresham to
be would not bo stupid enough to make
such an issue as that before the Ameri
can people. The simple and only ques
tion which confronted the administra
tion in this Hawaiian matter was, not
one as to tho formof government which
the United States would prefer to see
in the islands, but whether the pro
visional government had been estab
lished with or without tho illegitimate
action of our own otlieials and forces.
The evidenco which the administra
tion has taken tho pains to gather
und weigh for the last seven or eight
months shows clearly, according to
Secretary Gresham's report, that the
Hawaiian go-erntnent was overthrown
and the provisional government set up
through the complicity of tho United
States minister at Honolulu and his un
justifiable use of our naval forces at that
station. That being the case, we violated
our national policy and did the Hawai
ian government a wrong1 which can only
bo righted by restoring the status
which existed before our interference.
The fact that the government which
wo pulled down, and which we are,
therefore, in duty bound to set up
ngain, was a monarchy, and a very
shabby and disreputable bpceimen of
one at that, has no bearing whatever
upon the ethics of the case. Wo can
not cut our Ideas of justice by our own
special fashion-plate of government.
We cannot claim to keep our flag un
sullied by dealing honorably and just
ly, and in practice deal honorably and
justly only with republics. We had
nothing to do with the original selec
tion of Hawaii's form of government,
and, unless we annex Hawaii and be
come responsible for its government,
we certainly havo no right to change
that government. Least of all have we
the right to change that government,
through an intrigue with a few aliens,
in order that we may annex the coun
try irrespectively of the wishes of the
great body of its citizens. That is just
what our former minister did, and that
is what wo must undo if we are to con
tinue to boast of our national integrity,
and to keep "the starry symbol of the
republic" worthy of 'reverence and
honor."
It ha never been our policy to go
about the world overthrowing mon
archies because we think a republic is
the only true form of government On
the contrary, it has been our announced
and observed purpose to maintain our
own sovereignty, to interfere with no
body and to prevent foreign interfer
ence in the Americas. When we pro
claim our intention to abandon that
policy, which has been the source of so
much of our national ower nnd pride,
it will bo time enough to forsake our
own affairs and enter upon tho mili
tant work of republicanizing the na
tions of the earth, whether they wish
to be repnblicanizcd or not
"Our national shame" would be, not
in rectifying the wrong we have done a
puny power, as the administration pro
poses to rectify it, but in condoning it,
persisting in it. and even profiting by
it, as the republican bazootcrs demand
that wc should do. Louisville Courier
Journal. OPINIONS AND POINTERS.
Let Brother .McKinley enjoy his
presidential boom whilo it lasts. It is
three years till the next presidential
election, and In those three years many
a boom-ta-ra will become a boom-ta-rain't
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The democratic congress has been
specially commissioned to reform the
tariff, and the most violent opposition
from tho specially protected and subsi
dized interests cannot turn it aside.
McKinlcyismi must go. liuffalo Cou
rier. The McKinley presidential boom
Ls now at its zenith. When it comes to
spreading the advocate of high tariff
over the entire country ho will flatten
out considerably. This wa-i clearly
demonstrated in 1890 and 1S92. N. Y.
World.
Whilo tho tariff will bo revised
with a view to lessening- the burden of
taxation, especially upon the materials
of manufacture, tho policy docs not
contemplate a reduction ol the customs
revenue, hut rather a more equable
distribution. Philadelphia Times.
Let no democrat be deceived.
Tho duty of tho hour for the democratic
party is tariff reform. Tho country
has a right-to expect a prompt settle
ment of this question In tho liuo of the
promises of the democratic platform,
and the failure of the party to under
stand its duty and perform its mlaalon
at this time will be its ruin. Xo party
caucuses are seeded to hatch compro
mise and evatioHai Let tho work oe
epen and thorough Bnd be promptly
4o.-KaaaM City Tlama
A SOUND COMMITTEE.
The "Paalc" Election W1H Hava ?fa Ef.
fert on Tariff Urform Mrature.
According to the most trustworthy
information from Washington tho re
sult of tho recent election will not in-
liucnco any of the democratic msmbcrs
tho committee denounce such talk as
cowardice, and they dcclaro that tho
election inspires them to radical re
form rather
01 no ways and means committee to , "' ÜI anw in light-Col
favor the emasculation of the taritf bill mTU-Wrltten bettreea a. d. a and
now in course of preparation, bays a atwut the tlawof -First Timothy, in tharelxn of
recent dispatch: "Without a single Xcf0' an,! durin tils creat persecution.
exeint!nn tlm lnmnn.,i.. 1. .. Tin: I'LACH of wrltlntr was Ilahvlnn
i ...v. KI.IUUV.1 iiLiu iiiciii will n III I
than frightens them into fa,t.w,.?l!l M,nor' an() thl nrins tho opla
t 11 t .1 1 'on that Peter w rots from Habylon.
to revision." If there is To Whoji.-To ChrUUans in tho northern
more moderato
to bo any cowardly retreat it must bo
made after the bill has been reported
to tho house
Tho statement is further to the ef
fect that protests from coal and iron
mine owners and representatives of
other special interests In tho Virginias,
iMuoaum and elsewhere will not
swerve the committee from their pur
pose to put raw materials on tho iree
list- The committee will not be moved
by appeals because they come froai
professed democrats vr from dem
ocratic states. They will do what tho
democratic party standi pledged to do.
aud what thev believe to be to tho
best interests of the country, recard-
Iei of all mere partisan comidcrations.
That is the right kind of tnc It is
indicative of backbone and .uiil.y ad
herence to principle that cannot bo
bent or swayed by the outcome of a
panic election. Jtis expressive- of tho
courage and tho sense of justien-and
duty which a party must possen. in
order to achieve or deservo more- ühaa
ephemeral success. A single step back
ward from the tariff reform position
now held would be fatal to the demo
cratic party. It would provo that Mo
party in its leadership is fickle, incon
stant and destitute of fixed principles
aud convictions as tho floating crowd
that is to-day with this party and to
morrow witli that, according to the d
rection of the titful breezes of prosper
ity or adversity. The party thai
stands for the right, unmoved by tem
porary reverses, strong in tho faith
that reason and right will prevail in
the end, will achieve enduring success,
because it will deserve continued confi
dence. The committee is right in excluding
bcctional considerations from tarilt re
vision. Such considerations necessar
ily enter into the scheme of protection;
they must necessarily be excluded
from a system of tariff for revenue.
They have operated under protection
to the special advantatro of certain
portions of the country and the special
injury of other portions, but in the re
form of the iniquitous system there
must be no attempt at retaliation, for
that would involve the retention of the
same vicious system, with a change only
in the victims, w
The only way to effect a reform worth
having aud to secure prolonged ascend
ancy to the party of reform is to ad
here strictly to the doctrine of tho
democratic platform that no taxes,
tariff or excise, should be laid for any
other purposo than to raise needed rev
enue, and that it is essentially unjust
for government to promote the Inter
ests of any class or section by means of
taxes or in any other way. Let tho
democratic party hold fast to this doc
trine and apply it fearlessly, regard
less of selfish appeals from any quartor,
and it will win and hold tho confidence
of the people. But if it revises tho
tariff on protection lines and goes vote
hunting among the populists and other
cheap money cranks, it will bo turned
out of power as soon as people got a
chance at It after they recover from
the demoralization of the silver panic
Chicago Herald.
THE HAWAIIAN AFFAIR.
Ilchoca from the Democratic IVess on the
I'rrildeat'n I'ollry.
The republican papers are loudly de
nouncing President Cleveland's "unpa
triotic Hawaiian policy." If to bo, just
to the weak and to condemn tho greed
and ambition of unprincipled adven
turers is to bo unpatriotic, then Presi
dent Cleveland is guilty. Otherwise
not St Paul Globe.
Tho gentlemen of the provisional
government of Hawaii arc probably
kicking themselves now for not taking
Claus Spreckel's advice to postpone tho
revolution until tho next presidential
election. He was the only ono among
the adventurers who saw that Cleve
land's election was likely to upset the
game of plunder. St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Jingoes and excitable fools will assail
tho Cleveland administration. The mass
of citizens who havo a regard for na
tional decency will be glad that the ad
ministration refuses to turn our govern
ment into a tool of bold private
schemers. They will commend tho
president for firmly preserving the tra
dition established by Jefferson and
Slonroe. St Louis Republic,
Perhaps .if ox-Minister Stevens haul
not been such a persistent advocate of
Hawaiian annexation long before tho
deposition of the queen, and the cstal
lishtncnt of the provisional government
ho would find it anensier task to induce
people to believe that ho took no part
in that annexation conspiracy. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
President Cleveland's decision in the
Hawaiian case is the only just one pos
sible. He has simply undone tho wron
which Minister Stevens acting with
out authority, committed in the name
of tho Harrison administration, and
which that administration i'tsclf was
forced to disavow after it had made
thoroughly discreditable use of it N.
Y. Press.
With thosowhodo not stop to con
sider tho importance and significance
of this policy and its necessity fo tho
preservation of American diplomatic
influence, the courso of tho adminis
tration is not popular. It Is just now
the object of violent attack. That was
to have been expected. Hut it Is nono
tho less right and for that reason it
will be approved as soon a& it is really
understood. Those who are howling
the loudest would have howled je-,t at
loudly whatever this administration
might have done. The great heart of
the nation always coaaea out right a
ÜM e(L-PJillsdlki That
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
laferaatlonat tmoa for DNMkr I,
IHM The Heavenly IuherlUace-1 1et
1:1-12.
Specially ArracRcd from Peloubet' Notes.
(jOLUENTEXX (llvitur thank tim K t.-.
1 YTl Wih,ch halh ma1 niW)t to he partaker
and doubtless tho Uabylon on tho Kiinhm..
though somo havo regarded It as a mystic name
for Home. Tho order of tho places nanicd lo
verse 1 would Imply that tho writer wa on th
portions of Ala Minor. Seo on ver. I.
Tin: Autuou was I'oter. tho apostle.
Tub OccASio.N.-Sllvanut, a form of ho
namo Silas, and probably tho Slla who was a
companion of Paul In hU second mUslonary
Journoy, had brouht tidings to Peter of tlery
persecution apainst Christians Ja these re
filons. Thoy wero accused of belnu evil-doers,
ol prcachlm; revolutionary doctrines (I Vet.
3: l. Ity. Tho very namo of Christian then, ai
attcrwards under Pliny'rf rcsjlmc. exnosed
them to odium and outrage (1, 1'oV. 4:W). Tho
teachers to whom they owed so much, Paul
and Abulia una I.uke, were no longer with
thein, When wave of fanatic hatred directed
against tho name of Christian was tlowlns well
nigh over the IetiRth and breadth of tho em
pire, rulers in tho provinces wero but too
likely to follow the example whUh Nero had
leuhein In tho capital. Tho apostle felt that
lo could noi withhold hl word ot comfort
wd counsel f rosa those who wero Stun süßer
in;
TnB INUKICTTANCE OK TIIK SAINTS.
Tho Hope of the Inheritmcc.
8. "Messed:" Praised, well spoken of,
honored. "T God and Fathef of our
Lord .Testis Christ;" As well as our
rather, and therefore binding- us to
Him as an older brother and diuwing
us nearer to God, wUoti wo hnve not
fceen, by means t the Son, whoaa wo
have seen. "Wliidi according t His
abundant mercy:" And not becauso
wo had any claiini upon Him. Salva
tion was a freo güa, and therefore de
manded praise, "Ilath begotten na
again:" Made us- His ehUdren in spir
itual lifo and holy character, as He
had before given tu- our natural li.fe.
"Unto a lively (living;) hope." A hope
born of the new lifoa hope that can
not perish nor decay, lake most human,
hopei-, but is fresh, bright, perennial
a hope that is active, growing,
fruit-bearing, flourishing. "By tlue
resurrection of Jesus. Christ from the
dead:" This was tlio- sourto of the
hope, since if Jesus- did. not rise from,
tho dead, then thero was no proof that
Ho was the Sou of God, and .could save
us and give us tho inheritance de
scribed in the next verse;
The Inheriting. . "To an inheri
tance:" A jMirtioii of good coming to
tis, not becauso wo have earned it or
deserved it, but because we are chil
dren. God hath begotten us; our
npiritunl life comes from Him; there
fore wo are His children, and if chil
dren, then heirs. In English law tlieru
is a well-known maxim, Nemo est
heres viventis (no ono can be heir to a
living person), but this was no princi
pie ot tho Kornau law. T1m moment a
child was born he was his father's,
heir. In pure llorann jurisprudence is
tho principle that a man lives on in his.
heir, the elimination, so to speak, of
the fact of death, Maine's Ancient
Law. Thus according: to law, under
which wero living tho- people to whom
Peter was writing, children were
heirs whilo tho testators wero living,
nnd thus they aould lie heirs of the
living God.
The Inheritance. "An inheritance
incorruptible:" Its substaneo cannot
bo destniyed; there is- no decay as of
worldly habitations, of our physical
bodies nnd of all material tilings.
"Undefiled:" As with stain or mire.
"That fadcth not away:" Tho em
phasis being on tho indestructibility
of its grace and glorjv sfs incorruptible
emph-'bizes tho indestructibility of its
substance. "Reserved in Heaven for
you:" A perfect participle indicating
the inheritance of one reserved
through God's care for Bis own from
the beginning down to the present.
"For yon:" For you, sojourners in a
land that is not your own.
Tho child inherits from his Heaven
ly Father (1) Bis holy nature; (0) His
care nnd love; (n) His home; (4) His
possessions. He partakes of His joys,
of His work, of Bis character. Ho
is joint heir with Christ, his elder
brother.
Tho Condition 5. (For you) "who
are kept:" Literally garrisoned. But
the child of God is kept "by 'the power
of God," so that no power can break
through the protection. Tho only way
that injury can como to any of tli6m is
by their refusing tho protection by
wsinderingaway from God. "Through
faith:" on our part.tho faith that holds
onto God, that lives in and through
Him. "Unto (a) salvation, ready to bo
revealed in the last time:" Disciples
havo foretastes of this salvation here
and now. Even in this world eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into tho heart of man tho
things which God hath prepared1
for them that lovo Him. (1 Cor:, 2-9);
but the fullness of God's salvation can
never bo known till wo reach tho
heavenly city and experience its joys,
unspeakable and full of glory, at the
time of tho restitution of all things.
I'HACTICAT. 8ÜOOK8TION8.
Some of the most comforting truths
grow out of the most mysterious doc
trines. God's gifts of grace and peace como
to His children in increasing ratios as
they open their hearts to receive them.
Only children of God can bo heirs of
God, and they prove themselves to Ikj
children by living1 as children.
The inheritance of tho saints U
blessed and glorious beyond compare.
There is a great difference between
1 living und a falso hope; the one in
creasing, bearing fruit, becoming
stronger, tho other fading and grow
ing useless.
The hope of this inheritance brings
triumph over temptation and sorrow,
toss, and death.
Tho more precious anything is, tho
more need there is that it should be
purified and proved by trials.
Tur. one exclusive sign of a thoroaf kr
Knowledge Is tho power of Uachlaf .
Aristotle.
1.1. LEMON