Pittston Gazette

              Established 1850. I TOL. XUX No. 9. t Oldest Newsoaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. C•100 a Ini . iu Advance. MRS. HEARNE'S * ® CHAUVIES. •* 'Uept some coia potatoes," corrected the child with the baby. "And her," tapping the baby's curly head, "her had to have most of them. Jimmie and me let her eat all her oould, 'cause her's been sick." slth up with 'er rye ail alone oy myself. '' to the corners of his mouth, to nls cheeks, to his eyes, to his chin. It wrinkled his forehead. FREE SILVER IN MEXICO. absolutely certain that they would accompany the free coinage of silver wherever it may be adopted. Mexico i* at the present time and has been during recent years in extreme need of more capital for the development of her great natural resources. During this time of need the mines of Mexico have been enormously increasing their output of silver and the mints of the republio have been open to free coinage, but the circulation of money has not increased, and the government and the common people alike are impotent and powerless relative to all that affeots the currency of the oountry, its volume and its value. The free coinage of silver in Mexioo has no effect in determining or sustaining the value of silver, and the experience of this oountry will be repeated wherever such a system is adopted. All lines of legitimate trade and business transactions are hindered and embarrassed by the fluctuating value of the currency, but this fluctuation and uncertainty have added largely to the profits of speculation and even to the dividends of the banks of Mexico, whioh always make their interest oharges include all risks as to fluctuations in the uncertain value of free coinage currency. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. "Go to bed, both of you, pals. Mandy will stay till the morning. Sleep in the tent or the wagon. I'll have my blankets here by the fire." "I never tried a better cigar. I beg your honor's pardon, what was that about Mrs. Hearne? You see, the old man she fleeced is my wife's uncle and I was expected to do all I could. You see how it is." Topic For the Week Beginning Aug. SS. Comment by Be*. 8. B. Doyle. Topic.—"With your might."—Ecd. iz, 10; John iv, 27-86. How It Works Hardship to the LESSON IX, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- "Get the kettle for me, Jimmie," I said to the lisper. "You shall soon have some hot tea to warm you. It's a flue ■upper we'll have when it's ready." Poor Wage Earner. NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 28. When I had put them to bed in the tent, I spread some blankets I found in the wagon over a pile of fresh straw near the fire and lay down to watch the embers until they were ashes, then to watch the stars till they faded into the gray of morning. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest" (Eccl. ix, 10). —BY Text of the Limod, II Kings t1, 1-18. Memory V«r»e», 15-17—Golden Test, Ps. zxzIt, T—Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Hit—. ... PAUL KESTER ... . B "Tell your wife all about it." SILVER AT ITS MARKET VALUE. "Willie'll get 'er kettle," quoth the lisper, who now seemed to be master of the situation. "Get 'er kettle, Willie. I'll poke 'er yog." And the mayor told the story. "Why, my boy lisps," smiled the sheriff, letting the ashes fall from his cigar where they had clung until it was half smoked away. free Coinage Baa No Effect Id Determln- This exhortation of the wise man suggests to us what we are to do with our might and a reason why we are to do it. I had just drawn my blankets around me, thinking the chauvies asleep, when, hearing a sound, I turned to the tent door, to behold the lisper advancing to me in the dim light, something outstretched in his hand. lug or BuUlnlni the Value of the White Metal In Mexioo, According to aa Kx- 8. "Then the king of Syria warred against Israel and took oounsel with his servants, saying, In suoh and such a place shall be my camp." From the story of Cain and Abel onward all the characters In the Bible are either for God or against Him and are seen either leaning upon His wisdom or upon their own. Bug the borrowed ax at the bottom of the river tells the condition of all men apart from God. All are lost and helpless to reoover themselves, and how can such think to do aught for or effectually against God? The stick that caused the iron to swim and be recovered is, like the tree cast Into the waters of Mara, suggestive of Him who is the Tree of Life, who only can reoover lost souls or make bitter waters sweet. [Copyright 1898, by the Author.] In a few moments the kettle hung 011 the sarshta over the fire, the steam slowly ourling up into the leaves of the elm tree. 1. What we are to do with our might, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to da" We are to do what lies to our hands, what we have the opportunity and the ability to da "Whatsoever" is both limited and comprehensive. It limits us to our abilities and opportunities. The impossible may be possible to God, but God does not expect impossibilities of man. But He does expect us to do what we have the opportunity to do. To dream of great impossibilities will not excuse us for neglecting or refusing to do the possible duties of life. "Whatsoever" is also comprehensive. It includes the duties of the schoolroom, the home, the business world, the work of God's kingdom and the work of developing the spiritual life of the man. "My wife says she don't like it, but I tell you it just pleases me better than any other kind of talk. 'Why, you look here,'I say to her, 'he'll get over it long enough before I wish he would. Boys grow up too fast nowadays. You wait and see.' He's a sort of delicate child. I wish you'd take him off with you sometimes on your long walks," turning to me. 'He plays too much in the jailyard, I think. He'd be no trouble. Take him out to the gypsy camps with you. It would do him a world of good." pert—Foreign Capitalist* Aided. [ThU aeries of letters is the result of a personal visit to Mexico made by the writer early in 1898 as a special representative of the Mlohlgan Republican Newspaper Association to investigate the monetary system of that country.] CHAPTER 1 "By the God's truth, I say I never heard the equal of that. I ask you, young man, was that right? May I never lell another lie as long as I live If I stays in a tem where the Gorgious carries it off so high. Here I jaws over the river int' gav, as who has a better right *' ""aryptian? Here am I set on .ntle devjjs in barefoot and stockings, by all the dogs in the town. Now, I says nothing to that, for have I not my staff to Arive off tb» juekels and my vast to cuff the ohauvies about their ears? Indeed have I both my staff and my vast, as they learns to their sorrow. But by the God's truth, I will no longer remain in the land where •very chicko muskro, every dirty policeman, may chiv me to staraben for tolling a fortune and asking my lawful v pay for the dukkerin." man ana Ms son. ma iuck do upon them." I thrust a pronged stick through a thin piece of bread. "Will you toast this for me, Jimmie?" I asked. "What is it, pal?" "Ith your sweth." "But the money be gave you?" "Fool that I was to keep it about me. They searched me." "And found it?" "My what?" I questioned. "Your sweth," he repeated, extending some sticks of tho candy. "Willie'll toast 'er bread," was the lisper's response. Then turning to Willie, all smiling now in the firelight, he held out his short little arms. There is muoh in Mexioo to please and interest the tourist and traveler and more that will reward and gratify the student and lover of history. Although separated along its northern boundary from the United States by only a narrow, shallow river and imaginary territorial lines, yet so unlike the greater republio has been its history, so distinct has been the manner and matter of its civilization and so varied its governmental career that with all its progress and development of recent years the Mexico of today Is more foreign to the United States, so far as relates to the customs and peculiarities of its people, than is any country of Europe. "May it burn out their pocketa May it pay for the bane whioh shall be their destruction when their children mi*X3 it in their food. I hates them." "Ith going to give you half of mammy's. Mine and Willie's all gone, aud you ain'th had any." "Gimme'er baby, Willie. Now toast a nice pieoe for 'er rye." The obedient Willie toasted the bread, holding his hand up to keep the glow from his face, whfll I laid out the supper and looked to the tea, and the lisper busied himself with the baby, which now perched on his tiny knee. "They have their money again. Tomorrow, dye, I promise you shall go back to yoar ohauvies." "Keep it all for your dye, little brother. Mandy don't want any sweets." 9. "And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a plaoe, for thither the Syrians are come down." Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants, the prophets (Amos lit, 7). As He told Samuel about Saul whom He would send to him to be anointed king, and also told him what would happen to him the day be left him, adding, "Do as oocaslon serv» thee, for God is with thee," so He sees the end from the beginning of every day for each of us, and if we leave our way with Him He will bring it to pass and order our steps to His glory and to our highest good. Even in the dim light I was sure I oould see the look of self sacrifice fade from the face of the lisper, to be replaced by an expression of the deepest contentment "Now, about Mrs. Hearne," gently remonstrated his honor. The attendant returned with the prisoner's supper. "Why, by noon I guess she can go back to her babies. I'm glad you told me about those children. It'll make it easier at home. But, I say, I think there'd be less occasion for that old fool she played the game on to talk if she'd just pack up and go." There is not one-third the amount of money in circulation here for each inhabitant as in the United States, and, notwithstanding its restricted circulation, the silver currency of Mexico, following, as it must, the day by day experience of the silver market, has lost more than half its former value in the hands of the laborers and small producers here, thereby reducing their wages and profits to that disastrous extent. No system of coinage could be further removed from consideration of the needs of the people or influence by them than is the free coinage of silver as practically illustrated here in Mexioo. It is independent of both the government and the people, the silver mines of Mexico, as in the United States, being largely owned and controlled by foreigners, who control and dispose of their outputs as will best serve to advance their individual and corporate interest* Mine owners of Mexico find markets for some of their silver in the free silver coinage countries, as do the silver producers of other countries, but further than that Mexico- possesses no opportunity or advantage not fully shared by all gold standard countries in trading with free Bllver nations. Silver is bought and sold and exohanged between such countries at its market value, no attention whatever being paid to the ooinage assumptions of the several silver using countries. The market value of silver is not determined in Mexico or in Ohina, nor would it be in the United States if the latter oountry should adopt the free ooinage of silver. England and Germany and France and the other countries of Europe have more to do with the production of silver than have the oountries which are dependent upon it for coinage purposes, and. they will persistently profit through any attempt to give fiotitious value to silver bullion or silver ooin and profit, too, at the expense of the country making such an attempt"The sheriff says your time is up. You can come in again in the morning." When it was all ready, we gathered close to the impoverished table, the seat of a wagon that had been used as a resting place by the campflre until thus pressed into our service. With the baby now on my knee I did the honors of the simple repast I found that the baby, despite the oold potatoes with which its brothers generously fed it, still could honor our supper with an appetite worthy of a better occasion. 2. Why we are to do the work of life with our might Because there is no opportunity to do it in the grave. This is the day of our opportunity. The night is coming when no man can work. If the work of life is done at all, it muBt be done now. This is a sad and melancholy reason for doing the work of life and for doing it well. Ohrist in John iv, 84, gives a much loftier reason. "My meat" He says, "is to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work." It is God's will that we should do the work of life with our might In so doing we are assisting in the work of God. Christians find another motive for doihg the work of life with their might in the love of Christ, not so much their love for Ohrist as Christ's love for them. "The love of Christ constraineth me," says Paul, and the love of Christ should so oonstrain as as to make it impossible for us to do anything else than with our might, with all the power and energy of our being to perform the work and duties of life in all its relations. The work of life is worthy of the best we have to give. Success cannot be aohieved under any other banner than "with oar might" God expects and demands oar best Can we refuse to give it? *■ "Tomorrow, dye, it will be settled in a few hours. Kushto rattL " "You ith a nicer rye than the one what lelled off with the luvver that our dad talks about," he murmured in sleepy approval, as he retired into the gloom of the tent to his bed and his slumbers. '' Tomorrow.'' Her voioe rang strangely in the lonely place, making me pause in the doorway. "But tonight. My chauvies. They are waiting for me in the van pardel the doyav. They are hungry." She turned to the keeper. "Can't a woman go to her children?" she pleaded. Mrs. Hearne was indeed a tragic figure as ahe stood in the dusky room where the deputy sheriff, who made the arrest, had seen her looked safely a half hour before. She stood near the barred window, a tall, gaunt figure, with the last gleam of the lingering light of the yellow sunset gilding her tawny face. CHAPTER IV. There ia in present practical operation in Mexioo a monetary policy the adoption of which is being vigorously advocated by one of the great political parties of the United States, and the candidate of this party at the last presidential election visited Mexico, and upon his return announced that he was more than ever oonvlnoed that the interests of our oountry demanded the adoption in the United States of such a financial policy as Mexico now possesses, the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. This visit of Mr. Bryan to Mexioo for the evident purpose of learning by actual observation what conditions accompany or were coexistent with the free and unlimited coinage of silver at practically the same ratio favored and demanded by the party of which he is the spokesman and leader gives present and practical value to a candid review of the policy and conditions here, the observation of which seems to have added to Mr. Bryan's desire for their adoption in his own oountry. CHAPTER IH. "By the God's truth, young man," quoth Mrs. Hearne as we went down the side street together, "it'll be a fine present I'll make you when I meets you again, and my rom, when he oomes back from California, will make you another. I'll be going on today, if you think best, but me and my family may be this way before long. 1 wants to settle my score with that old man, and when we comes you shall know it" It is well to sleep under a tent in the summer time; aye, till the heavy hoar frosts whiten the grass in the mornings it is better than to sleep beneath any roof, and better it is to lie with nothing 10. "And the king of Israel sent to the plaoe whloh the man of God told him and warned him of and saved himself there, not onoe nor twioe." Thus illustrating II Cbron. xx, 20, "Believe In the Lord, your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper." There is nothing on earth so sure as the Word of God, for it is forever settled in heaven (Ps. oxlx, 89), and, though all else may fade and fail, the Word of our God shall stand forever (Isa. xl, 6). "No," said the keeper roaghly. With an oath the gypsy turned to the window. Warmed by the fire, its hunger appeased, how the Romany chavi could gargle and crow, could wink and chuckle and laugh, too, in a most bewildering way I "Have no fear for them, Mrs. Hearne. They shall be oared for." I saw her faee twitch in the dim light. "Dawdyl Dawdyt What are the poor people coming to when they cannot take what they can get from the dinello Gorgious without a gresy muskro put- "Dick 'er chavi," smiled the lisper, lavishly spreading great pieces of butter over his toast with his thumb, while his other hand was lost to the wrist, immersed in the pint cup which held his tea. "Dick 'er chavi, Willie. Her's blinking her eyeth. Ain't her our own pretty sister'/" "Will you take them this bite of bread for their supper? They are hungry. 1 have been gone from the oamp all the day." Then on and over the river and down to the lane we went. 11. "Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing, and he called his servants and said unto tbem, Will ye not shew me whloh of us Is for the king of Israel?" For unless there was a traitor among his men, bow else could bis plans be made known to his enemy? Thus reasoned the king of Syria, for he knew naught but human wisdom, and yet he knew that the incurable disease of leprosy bad been healed in Israel, and was it not possible that one who had oonneotion with suoh power might also be able to reveal secrets? "Mammy, mammy!" piped the voices. "It's dearie, mammy I" She stretched out the poor food in her gaunt hands. "I won't take anything, rye," Mrs. Hearne made answer, as she hitched the horses before the van in which she packed all her belongings. "Mandy don't like the feel of luvver when it comes from the hand of a friend. We shall do well enough. But I thanks you kindly for thinking of it." "No, dye, I'll not take it. But they shall sup well enough. Make your mind easy. I'll see to them. Knshto ratti." He withdrew bis hand from the tin cup to pat the baby affectionately upon her head, the baby crowing and gurgling all the more, much pleased by her brother's attention and by the tea that ran down from her curls to the tip of her little dark nose. "you've the poor person's blessing, my son,'' she called after me as I passed out through the dim, chilly corridors into the warm summer night. To my joy at this moment a long delayed grooery wagon turned into the lane. "Gu," laughed the baby, throwing her arms around my neck in a fashion truly abandoned. 19. ."And one of big servants mid, None, my lord, O king, but Elisha, the prophet, that Is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speaketh in thy bedchamber." Oan any bide himself in secret places that I shall not see himf saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? said the Lord (Jer. zzili, 84). Thou oompassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways, for there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether. Tea, the darkness hideth not from Thee, but the night shineth as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee (Ps. oxxxix, 3, 4, 12). It was one of the servants who told the king about Elisha, and it was the servants who persuaded Naaman to wash and be clean. Bible Readings.—Deut vi, S; Zech. iv, 6; Math, xxv, 14-80; Lakexiii, 24; John ix, 4; x, 87, 88; I Cor. ix. 25-27; x, 81; xv, 58; Eph. iii, 14-21; vi, 10; Col. i, 9-11; iii, 17; I Pet. iv, 7-11; Bev. ii, 10. Over the hills came the moonlight, fresh with the wind that blew from the west Under the trees shone the street lamps, breaking the shadows with patches of light (Jp from the square into the hush of the evening floated the faint clatter of trafflo, while a carriage rolled silently by over the smooth drive to lose itself soon in the shade of the great elms. Over all the town, peaoe; over the hills, the moonlight; in the tree tops, the robins, hushing their last notes; over the world, the soft wind, the white stars. CHAPTER IL "What is your name?" Willie, the elder bcJJr, suddenly asked, looking up in my faoe with a wistful expression. "You're not the man that lelled off with the pot of luwer what I've heard my dad tell about? My dad said he was the pleasantest gentleman what ever he see. Lord, my dad said he had all the money there was in a bank 'cause he broked open the safe with a crowbar and lelled away with the luwer—more'n the price of a hundred horses, my dad said. You ain't him, are you?" "Here's a basket for you," the boy told Mrs. Hearne as be handed it out "Get up, Sally," he cried to his horse, and his mission being done he drove whistling back to the town. I desire, however, to have it well understood that it is not my purpose to charge against the currency system of Mexico conditions which it neither created nor could remove, but to confine myself to conditions as I have observed them, which the free coinage system does unquestionably affect to the several industrial indications, to which Mr. Bryan himself alludes, and to the theoretic claims made by the advocates of the free and unlimited coinage of silver in the United States as oompared with the Sraotical operation of such a system in [exioa Throughout the entire discussion of this question on the part of the advocates of free silver there have been certain peculiar claims which they have persistently advanced, certain classes to whom they have constantly appealed, and certain interests which they have confidently asserted would be favorably and other interests which would be unfavorably affected by the adoption of their policy. These claims and assertions are in great part founded upon theory and assumption. The experiment they seek to have made has never been satisfactorily or successfully made in the history of the civilized world, and it is therefore Important and necessary that so far as possible we subject these claims to such tests of experience and illustration as can in Mexico or elsewhere be secured. There were tears in Mrs. Hearne's eyes. The Teat of "Can't a woman go to her childrenf" ting them to staraben, to prison, with never a thought for their children? Here's the mush with the dud." "The mayor sent it" I hastened to say. "He told me be would, but I thought he'd forgotten." The real test of men and nations comes in qniet days. If then they are faithful, they are fit for sudden alarms , and trying strain. If after the excitement has died out the soldiers are at home again, the ships pat off their battle oolor and Bail on peaceful errands np and down the highways of . the sea—if then we as a people are ready to devote ourselves to the nation's highest good, these lives of brave men and these broken homes will not be too large a prioe to pay for the ends attained. But if patriotism dies with the excitement, if we are puffed up, not sobered, by the responsibilities that follow after victory, then our triumph will be of little avail either for ourselves or others. It is in peace that men prepare for war, and self devotion now will be of small avail unless it lives in quiet/ days as well as in excitement, unless the sense of duty that by the witness of the honor that we pay the dead befits the battle beoomes the rule of home and mart, of social life and political activity as well. —Oongregationalist at all 'twixt one's faoe and the stars when the night is a clear one and warm. "We wantt our mammy." A prison attendant brought in a light We live too much in the shadow and limit of our own handiwork, too little in the space and freedom of God's. Like childreu, we magnify the work of our own hands, thinking we have heaped up a mountain or built us a palaoe, when indeed our mountain is but a dust pile, our palace Lui..t. »,l tort of prison. "He's a fine gentleman," Mrs. Hearne murmured. "I've seen worse gavs than this after all's said." "It's closing time. You can't stay much longer,'' he said. Then, locking the door upon us, he continued his rounds. "Ith got some sweth for mammy, sweth the rye gave nth. Doth mammy wauth them?" queried the lisper. My footfall awakened the pleasant echoes as I went on treading the uneven bricks of the pavement bits of song filled the evening, stealing out from half opened windows where the breeze gently stirred the white curtains, or, like a benison, ringing richly from the church doors as the congregation gathered for prayer meeting. To my great regret truth compelled me to make answer that I was not the pleasant gentleman who had lelled off with the pot I tnrned again to the gypsy. A further assumption that a healthful and helpful degree of protection is afforded through the free ooinage of silver finds no existence in fact here in Mexico. It is necessary to pay more than double prices in the purchase of any artiole imported from other countries because of the little comparative ▼alue of the currency of Mexico, and this increased price is the muoh vaunted protectio* said to be afforded by free silver. It applies to the tea of free silver China as well as to the coal and clothing of the United States, and it adds the same doable prioe to the fuel and machinery, much needed and not produced in Mexioo, as to the few articles of importation which compete with home production. It is a bo called system of protection which seemingly finds most favor with those who have always opposed the home favoring protective system of the United States. Its effect has been to place all the profitable industries of Mexioo in the hands of foreign capitalists and foreign corporations. The extreme poverty of the masses and the inability to buy anywhere, rather than stimulative of home buying, have been the result of the free coinage of free silver In Mexioo. 18. "And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetoh him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan." How blind and stupid people are who know not Qodt Even the devil himself seems at times to act like a perfect fooL. Might not the king of Syria have said, "Well, if this man somehow knows my secret plans and tells his king, there is no use in my trying to get him, for he will know that I am coming and oan hide himself from ma." But be is blinded by his master, the devil, and goes heedlessly on, bent on his own purposes. "You must tell me what has happened, dye, or I can do nothing for you. It is growing late." "Keep them yourself, dearie," Mrs. Hearne answered. "Only give Willie some and some to little sister." "I can't remember him very well, but my dad said he used to travel with us sometimes when the dirty muskros was a-after him. He oould rakker, and he gived me sweets and soch. Are the muskros after you?" All night long the iresh wind rustled the leaves on the boughs of the elm tree, above me all night long the whippoorwills called by the river, all night long the pure air gladdened my nostrils, till I awakened, refreshed, to see the yellow sun rise over the misty reach of the  valley. "Ith divide ith," sighed the lisper with the air of a martyr. "I.will tell you, young man. 'Tis growing late of a truth. I can feel the night coming on dark over my heart, for my ohauvies are all alone in the van across the doyav, the river, and they are young ahildren. They do not know where their mother is. They are waiting for her to come home with their sapper. But she cannot come." "Good luck, rye," Mrs. Hearne said as she leaned from the wagon to shake hands. "The chauvies will never forget you, nor will their dye. Kushto bok." Across the oool square into the heart of the town, down the main street and over the bridge, with only a pause here and there to fill a good wicker basket or to change a word with a friend; so on and so over the bridge, so on to the great elm in the lane where Mra Lee and my pal Anselo had onoe made their oamp, so to the van and the tan of my friend in the gloomy room with the barred windows. "I hope not," I said, glancing over my shoulder to bide the smile that oame to my lips. Over the grass of the lane for a space, followed a space by the great elm tree's shadow, then with a tugging of harness, a rattling of kettles and wheels, the van turns out upon the highroad and goes slowly southward, raising a white olond of dust as it passes away into the heat of the sultry sun. All the beauty of the night, all ltd wonderful stillness and rest, which only those know who pnt by the cares and the comforts of houses, all Its peace and its healing had been apon me, soothing the unrest, bringing life back to a truer proportion, giving me strength to awaken glad that a new day had dawned. "There ain'th none there," whispered the lisper to reassure ma "Ith been watching. When Ith seeth the muskros, Ith just runned away till Ith got other aide 'er big house. Then Ith throwed a stone round the corner and Ith runned and runned." "Are they all alone, dye?" 14. "Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great host, and they oame by night and compassed the city about." He must have felt that Elisha was more than an ordinary man or be would not have thought it necessary to send such a host to take one man. So he does the best he knows how to gst his man, and to be more sure of taking blm he does it seoretly by night, so that no human eyes can see what he is doing, for he knows nothing of Him to whom the darkness and the light are alike. "All alone with the horses. The dog Wis killed the last fortnight. Ha, he took up some meat a farming mush threw him with some poison upon it The pitiful Gorgious. They loves nothing the poor person has. "Kushto bok," say I as I turn back to the town. '' Good luck to Mrs. Hearne and her chauvies." I paused at some little distance to put my basket down in the tall grass while I reconnoitered. For all the soft summer night and the lights of the town just over the water the oamp had a lonely, desolate look, as a hearth has when the fire burns low and tired children huddle over the ooals awaiting the return of their mother. A fire was smoldering out near the tent. From the wagon came the sound of a child's voice, a child singing a child to sleep. The voice trembled Suddenly the song ceased. The singer's sharp ears had caught the sound of my steps on the path. Here the baby crowed with delight, and her brothers laughed like merry Romans to think that the lisper had thrown a stone at a policeman. "Wash 'er baby's face, Willie," I heard the lisper direct as I lighted the fire. Presently he came and stood by me, watching the preparations I was makiug for breakfast, but with a wandering eye. The Vice of Unrest. "When the yellow light fades, my chaavies will sit in the tan waiting for me, but I will not oorne. I will not, for the Gorgious are slow to open the doore of their prisons. Candid Comparison*. Unrest is not modern. It is as ancient as the carnal mind. Carnal unrest cannot be removed by resting from work. We cannot rest from worry till we are cleansed from carnality. Too many are too lazy now to need any exhortation to rest from work, even under the plausible guise of devoting working time to warship. We may pray too little, we may worry too much, but we can hardly work too much Dr. Adam Olarke said that the old proverb about having tbo many irons in the fire was an abominable old lie. Have all in it—shovel, tongs and poker. —Christian Standard. THE END. If it shall be said that Mexico and the United States are too far apart in consequence and characteristics to permit of such comparisons being fairly made or to allow of their possessing practical and present value in the United States even when so made, I will only ask that such a presentation as I shall make shall be candidly and carefully considered. The reader himself can easily decide as to whether the facts presented possess any information which will assist in best determination of the Important issues at stake. Almost every interest which it has been urged would be favorably or unfavorably affected by the free coinage of silver in the United States is in some degree represented in Mexico at the present time, and surely observation of day by day Mexican experience, whatever may be its limitations as to application elsewhere, is worth more than promises based on contradictory theories or declarations born of personal interest or partisan frenzy. "Gimme 'er baby," Jimmie begged, well pleased with himself and his prowesa A Crank on Problems. William Pengelly, an eminent English geologist, being in the neighborhood of a clerical friend, decided, though his time was short, for the sake of auld lang syne, to sacrifice an hour or two. On reaching the rectory, he was kindly received by the clergyman and his wife, to whom he said: "It is now 8 o'clock. I can't remain with you one minute after 8 o'olock." 15. "And when the servant of the man of Ood was risen early and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city, both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master, how shall we do?" In two oases we have seen servants wiser than their masters, but this servant does not seem to have profited as he might by having such a master. Even our Lord had to say to one of His disciples, "Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Phlllp?"( John ziv, 9). 16. "And he answered, Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." Here 1s faith seeing the unseen. Moses endured as seeing Him who is invisible. The things seen are temporal, but the things unseen are eternal Happy are those who have learned to see the things that are invisible to ordinary eyes, who, like Stephen, look up steadfastly into heaven and see the glory of God and Jesus and find comfort in His words, "Because I live, ye shall live also" (John zlv, 19). God would have His people without fear, and a prayerful study of the "fear nots" from the first one in Gen. zv, 1, onward would greatly tend to this happy state of mind which would be very much to God% glory. "I will tell you, then, quickly, how It befell. My rom, Mushie Hearne, ■hipped to California in the spring to bring some vans back which his brother left hint by will. Coming overland is ■low traveling. It's some time before I expects him. Now I travels with some at my people; also I travels alone. As you may know, it is not easy for me to cook the dinner, to care for the horses, to mind the chauvies, dukker and alL Many's the day it is little I have to put In the kettle, or to fry in the pan—aye, many's the day I have but a crust for my mouth. But the chauvies are fed and I asks no more. Now come I to this gav, the curse of the beng be upon it and upon me for pitching my tent within sound of its church bells. Here do I come to pen dukkerin. Here do I find a foolish old gentile who asks me if his aoo has not robbed him. "When ith mammy tumin back to her chauvies?'' he asked. " We wants our mammy. We know she ith lonesome wifout nth." "My daddy's taller'n you," Willie said, looking me over as he took up the thread of the conversation, "and the muskros been after him. But my dad never minded. He just hitched up the horses faster'n blazes and drove off like lightning. That's what he said, and they never ketched him at all. Did they, Jimmie?" "She will come soon,"I told him and set him to work to lay out the dishes while I led the horses down to the creek. I recognise the fact that these assertions are general and perhaps inclusive of more than the acoomp&nying details may seem to warrant, but they will be followed by a series of presentations relative to the past and present effects of free and unlimited coinage in Mezioo, whom it favors and whom it injures, which I believe will leave little to be desired in the line of illustration and detail. Perry F. Powers. It was pleasant to hear the plash of the river over the ripples, pleasant to see the thirsty animals plunge their noses deep into the swift current, pleasant to startle the birds from their branches and to hear them echo with their voices the voioe of the ripples. "Mammy, mammy," cried two little voioes. In the moonlight 1 saw three dark little heads crowd to the front of the van. "No," Jimmie replied, rolling the baby over on its back while he patted its stomach forgetfully. "They'th never ketched dad." "Then we must improve the shining hours," answered the clergyman. "Jane, my dear, be so good as to order tea.'' Then he left the room and in a few minutes returned with a book under his arm and his hands filled with writing materials, which he placed upon the table. Opening the book, he said: Is church attendance on the decline? So say some papers, and so say some preachers who happen to see the dark side of things in their own parishes. The question may be answered both ways. In some large cities it may be on the decline; in others on the increase. In some sections of our large cities it is falling off; in others it is growing. In congregations where the gospel is not preached in truth and in earnestness it declines; in congregations where the pastor delivers his gospel message as if it were sent direct from God ifcgrows. —Lutheran. "Is it you, mammy? Nevader won't go to sleep. I'ae been singing a gillie to he. But it won't shut its eyes." "I thought you might be the man what lelled off with the pot 'cause he always bad sweets in his pockets," Willie remarked, staring at my swollen pookets with longing. When breakfast was over, I left my tawny Romans to watch the camp while I returned to the town. "Ith's not mammy, "a seoond voice lispingly whispered; "mandy's atrash, I'm afraid " City of Mexioo. I roused his honor the mayor from bis last slumbers to hear Mrs. Hearne's story. I told of her lonely oondition, of her hnsband absent in California; I told of her brave little chauvies alone in the camp over the river; I pleaded her cause as well as I could. "This is Hind's 'Trigonometry,' and here's a lot of examples for practice. Let us see who can do the greatest number of them before 8 o'clock. We can drink our tea as we work, so as to lose no time." Th« Widow's Opinion. "Mammy," tremblingly questioned the first voioe. "Ain't it you, mammy?""Ath you got any sweets in 'er poteta?" questioned the lisper, uew light ooming into his eyes. In one of the suburban towns near the capital lives a widow well endowed with worldly goods, whose husband, with a sort of posthumous jealousy, has guarded against her re-marriage by providing that she shall lose all her property if ever she takes another husband. She has been receiving attentions for several years from an elderly Grand Army of the Republio veteran. She has been very good to him too. Onoe when he wanted to parade with his comrades she bought him an expensive blue suit with brass buttons on It He wanted to marry her, but the will of the selfish dead man stood between. So after a time he married somebody else. The widow was broken hearted. She recalled the suit with the brass buttons. She recalled a hundred kindnesses shown the old soldier. She bewailed his perfidy to her friends. "Knowing it Is the way of the Gorgious for the son to rob father, father to rob son, I answers that no doubt be has. Thereon I takes some of the young man's hair which the father brings me, a few threads, and 1 lays them between the leaves of a certain book which is mine, and I says an incantation, boiling my kettle, walking backward to the water, washing my hands behind my back, having nothing better to do, for which silly dealings and the like he give* me in lills in vonger, which is none too much to pay me for being a fooL "Willie, hold 'er baby. Ith think 'er rye ath some sweets in ith potet" During my sojourn in Mexico I have visited some of its most important iron and silver mines and have had the privilege of observing the Mexican miners at work in the depths of the earth. From the mines I have gone to the smelter and from the smelter to the mint I have sought to ascertain as to the present output of silver in Mexico its cost of production and its possibilities for the future, and everywhere my inquiries and investigations have been courteously received and kindly assisted I have visited woolen and cotton factories for the purpose of ascertaining as to tiw wages paid and output secured; have interviewed American workmen and American business men here wherever found; have observed and investigated as to the operations of the monetary system of Mexico so far as it affects capital and labor, the employer and the employed, corporations, monopolies and other interests related to those which it is asserted will be affected by the adoption of free silver In the United States. It is not my purpose to review conditions and relations in Mexioo for tha mere purpose of criticising or condemning them, but to secure from the persistent and necessary effects of the fre« " Why don't mammy come home from the gav; mandy's atraah?" lisped the seoond voioe. He gave the baby to Willie, and being thus unincumbered and free crept olose to my side with smiles enough to oozen a bushel of sweetmeats from the sternest of grooera "All right," said Pengelly, though working out examples iu trigonometry was not the object for which he had oome several miles out of his road. They set to work; not a word passed between them; they drank now and then the tea which the lady poured out. At a quarter to 8 Pengelly said: "We must stop. In a quarter of an hour I must be on my way." "Mammy? Ain't it you, mammy? Dearie mammy, ain't it you?" "Well, well," said the good man as he buttoned his ooat tight up to his chin, "we shall see, we shall see." 17. "And Eliaha prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and oharlots of fire roundabout Elisha." We read in Rev. v, 11, that the angels are 10,000 times 10,- 000 and thousands of thousands, and a few of these would be sufficient to take care of Elisha. Our Lord said that His Father would give Him 18 legions of them if He asked for them, and we are told that they are ministering spirits, ministering unto the heirs of salvation (Heb. i, 14). '' Sarishan 1" I cried, ooming forward "Romany chelI Romany ohell" Eiped the voices. Then the three little eads sunk into the gloom of the wagon, and profound silenoe reigned. But I knew that my cause was won when later as we went into the sheriff's office he pinched my arm gently, saying: Boon his tiny hands had rummaged the swollen recesses, bringing forth a little heap, abot-e which the baby crowed Mid gurgled gleefully, while a deep peace spread over the countenance of the lisper, and Willie's eyes opened wide. A war of which no one can see the end ia not to be undertaken lightly. But if war oomes its sacrifices must be cheerfully made, its burdens patiently oarried, and those who are responsible for its oonduot be supported loyally and generously.—Christian Register. ChMrfallr Made. "So you managed to get through the night without keeping the lisper awake. Well, well, to think that you oould have dispensed with his company!" "Sarishanl" I repeated, knowing nothing more soothing to the ear of a gypsy than the old mystic greeting. "Very well," answered the friend "Let us see how our answers agree with those of the author." "Sar'san," piped a faint, frightened voioe from the wagon, "but you ain't mammy." "Good morning, your honor," the sheriff said as we entered his offioe. "The next day I do the same and the next For each I gets the same luvver, nor would you do it for less. If the mush would make me a fool, he must pay. Now, on the fourth day I tells him for sure that his son is a thief, that he has taken his money. What does the old man do then but ask me to come With him into the gav that I may show him where it is hidden! I makes my excuse, saying I have my other engagements, but be will have it that I go. So I jaws with him, meaning to give him the slip, for 1 likes not his way. Once we gets into the gav I suspects something wrong by the look in his eye as well as by his laying his hand on my Mm. Seeing a muskro coming toward I thinks it is time I am jawing. So 1 shakes off his hand and hurries away down a lane to'rds the fields. Now, What should the fool do but set up a great cry andtotart after me as fast as n* can. I waits for no more, but being • good runner I mends me my pace, leading him a pretty chase on down the lane. Ha, now oome the little boys and the dogs after me with the mush and the muakTO yelling behind and the fields and the woods getting nearer and nearer. Dawdyl Then I catches my foot in a Ct in my gad, and I falls flat in a p in the gutter, with a crowd coming up all about me, the little boys pulling my eases, my dress, while the Rockies snap at my feet. Then runs up toy pretty old Gorgious, all out of breath, and when he can speak he calls me a thief for taking his money—ha—and a mischief maker for setting him against bis son. What then does the muskro? What indeed does the muskro but take Sup rough by the arm and drag me • for no reason. Then do I learn t the thieving son has given the Cger back to his father. 'Tis for this t they put me to prison. "By the God's truth, when my rom jgmef back he shall strangle that old "And yon ain't the man what lelled off with the pot either," Willie repeated in wonder. "Good morning, John," said the mayor, smiling blandly as he held out bis oase. "Won't you have a cigar?" The clergyman had solved one more example than the geologist, who said, "Goodby." "Goodby." answered the mathematician. "Do come again as soon as you can. The farmers about here know nothing of trigonometry."—Exchange.The Bwt Life. "Tute tan't turn into our tan," lisped the second voioe; "mandy's atrash." "But you ith a pleasant gentleman anyway," beamed the lisper. '' Ain't lie, Willie?" 18. "And when they came down to him, Ellsha prayed unto the Lord and said. Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And He smote them with blindness, according to the word of Ellsha." Notice also Kllsha's third prayer and answer In this Inoldent in verse 80, and if you earnestly covet such Intimate fellowship with God, make John xlv, 18, 14, a very prayerful study, understanding that "In HU name" means at least "on His business," and asking such things as He Himself would ask. We must not imagine Elisha speaking anything but truth In verse 19, for the man whom the king of Syria wasted was really the king of Israel. A Christian should be a striking likeleas of Jeans Christ You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written ont In the words and actions of His people. —Episoop&l Recorder. "I don't smoke so soon after breakfast, '' the sheriff said, eying the mayor with suspicion and the cigars with that half interest the most indifferent oonnoisseur must feel at the sight of a good weed. D "You need not be afraid, pal, fori come from your mother. Get down from the wagon and let's have supper. Mammy can't oome home tonight, so I have oome to stay with you. Come down and let's be acquainted." " Why," said one of them, "what did you expect? He wanted a wife to make a home for him. You couldn't marry him. So why do you complain?" "Don't yon choat, Jimmie, and keep all the big pieces," bis brother protested as the lisper made a separate pile of the longest sticks and most desirable choco- Jates. Tit-tat-to. The widow wiped her eyes. "Put it in your pocket until you are ready,'' his honor insists gently as the sheriff weakens and holds out his hand. Then, after a pause, which gives the sheriff time to sniff the fragrant Havana:In the Century Dictionary the derivation is given from tit, tat to, "three meaningless words" used in counting. "I know I couldn't marry him," she said. "I didn't really want to marry him anyway, but, you see, it was such a heap of comfort to have a steady beau."—Washington Post. It Merer Stops. "Who ith you?" asked the lisper. "I am the man with the supper." "These ith for mammy," said the lisper, clearing himself of the charge and overwhelming me with the sense of his goodness. "We mustn't forget mammy." We sleep, bat the loom of life nevef •tops, and the pattern whioh was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it oomes up tomorrow.—Pres- Presbyterian Journal. "Where ith the supper?" quoth the lisper, venturing his head a little way out of the wagon. "Mandy tan't diok 'er tupper." However, the East Friesio name (see Koolman's "E- Fr. Diet.") is tik-taktuk, evidently a more original form. In Mils name the word tik has the same sense as E, tick, a mark, lu allusion to the mark made by the player on the slate, while tak, tuk, are variants of the same theme, made on the principle of altering the vowel, as in Germanic verba of the third strong conjugation, such as sing, sang, song. "Dick adovo tuoheni adoi, look at that basket there. The supper is in it" "No," assented Willie ruefully. "But she won't eat 'em, and you'll have 'em all yourself tomorrow." "In the matter of the gypsy woman, Mrs. Hearae, I think, John, we had better let Mrs. Hearne go back to her children."aiffl^unlimited coinage 01 stiver nere such ideas as may be fairly formed as to what would be the first and most important effects of the adoption of a similar policy In the United States. Peculiarities of the Potato. The opinion has prevailed among housekeepers that it is the good potato which breaks open when it is boiled. A scientist wbo has made potatoes a study insists that the good potato is the one that remains quietly in Its coating of brown during all of the processes of cooking. Instead of the swelling and bursting of the skin being caused by the presence of starch it has been ascertained that albumen is the substance that causes this breaking open. An ordinary potato is made up of threqfourths of its weight in water,"twotenths in starch and one-fiftieth of nitrogenous matter. If it cracks and falls to pieces during the process of boiling, it is deficient iu albumen, and therefore lacking in the most important oonstltC uent.—New York Ledger. "Many highwaymen, remarKS a Hoeton paper, "are now operating In broad daylight in Chioaga " Such a statement does this olty a grave injustice. The footpads are as busy as ever, but Chicago never has broad daylight.—Chicago Times- Herald. "Ith donth know," sighed the lisper, a shadow crossing his brow, " 'er baby may get 'em." How the Old Man Gained His Comforts. "You are old, Father William," the young man "Ith there much tupper?" demanded the lisper. "It is just as you please, but for myself I believe we should make an example. There are too many gypsies ooming our way this summer." cried; "The few locks which are left are gray; Ton are hale, father William, a hearty old "There is enough." "Jth that all?" plaintively wailed the lisper. "Why can't mammy come back tonight?" the elder boy asked, his voice trembling a little. The fire had burned low now, while the hush of the nighttime Increased with the hours, bringing a feeling of loneliness, too, as the new moon sank to the ridge of the gray western hills. Some degree of acquaintance and familiarity with general conditions here in Mexico as affected and Influenced by its coinage system promptly and fully reveal the foundation claims of the advocates of free coinage in the United States as assumptions which find no existenoe In the practical experience of Mexloo, nor would they find existence Jn any country where the free and unlimited coinage of silver prevailed. 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PITTS TOR, I M ANCHOR" STOMACHAL best for I I yi prri~uu«.i* 1 J "Do you want more?" "Yeth, I wauth more," sighed the lisper. "It may be so," said the mayor gently, looking from the window of the sheriff's office aoross to the barred windows that lighted the jail, "it may be so, John, but 1 think when we make our example we will not take a lone woman away from her children. We will take a man, John." Hence the name is by no means "meaningless," but has an obvious reference to the ticks, or marks, made by the players, and the word is threefold instead of reduplioated, because the object of the game is to make three tlokf in a row.—Notes and Queries. "In the days of my youth," Father William replied, "I remember'd that youth would fly faat And abased not my health and my vigor at first, That 1 might never need them at last." I turned to the smoldering fire, breaking some dead boughs that lay hi the grass into fagots and flinging them upon the embers. Soon the flames burst from the twigs, throwing a merry light over the camp. Then I told them how It was with their mother, cheering them with the thought that they should see her soon in the morning. "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "And pleasures with yonth pass away. And yet you lament not the days that are gone. Now tell me the reason, I pray." "Oh, it's just as you please,"said the sheriff. "You say that's a good cigar you gave me?" "Is Miss Blinkins at home?" asked Mr. Saunders of the Irish girl who answered his ring at the door. Mer»lj From Observation. "Now come down, pals, andyouphall see what I have in the basket. Come now or I'll be jailing baok to the gav." "Yob must jal to \voddraii now, pals, " 1 told them, for their little heads bent wearily on their tired shoulders. "Indeed you must go to bed now." "In the days of my youth," Father William replied, "I remember'd that yonth could not last; 1 thought of the future, whatever 1 did, That I never might grieve for the past." "It comes from Cnbft, " The sheriff looked at his watch. "Not with 'er tupper?" pleaded the lisper. "Yes, I b'lave she is, sir." "I ith sleepy," the lisper said, yawn ing. "But if 'er ain'th nobody to be company for you you'll get lonesome and jaw back to the gav. Put 'er baby to bed, Willie. And you go to sleep too. Ith'11 be company for 'er rye. You wonth be lonesome with me?" he asked bravely, blinking his eyes to keep back ihe tears, "you'ill thay if I 6ith up ith you?" There was a pause while the sheriff eyed the cigar. Then he rolled it reflectively between his large hands, then he bit off the end, accepting the lighted match I extended with a very grurf "Thank you," accompanied by a look which said plainly enough, "So this is your doing." " Well, I guess I can light it" "Is she engaged?" Me ininp inM «»■« Kor Peace. "Come, then." "An is it engaged you say? an I oan't tell you, but she kissed Mr. Vincent last evenin as If she had never seen the like uv him, an it's engaged I b'lave they are, sir."—Exchange. The Bible has a great deal to say In commendation of peace, but at the same time strongly oondemns those who ory peace, peace, when there is no peace, and declares with vehement emphasis that there is no peace to the wicked. It discriminates between a true and a false peaoe, approving the one and condemning the other. We sometimes hear men say "Let us have peace" while they do the things that render real peace im possible. True peaoe mns». have its foundation in righteousness. "You are old. Father William," the young man cried, "And life must be hastening away; You are cheerful and love to converse upon death. Now tell me the reason, I pray." They came, first cautiously descending the lisper, oloaely followed by the ohild whom I heard singing when I approached, the latter bringing the baby, three as gaunt little Romans as ever played by the roadside or begged a penny for sweetmeats. " We ith so hungry," wailed the lisper, pausing by the tongue of the wagon. "Dtli bath 'ad nuffln to eat all 'er day." "Ub is ooming." Thoee Ulrl(, "I am cheerful, young man," Father William replied; "Let the cause thy attention engage- In the days of my youth 1 remember'd my Ood. And be hath not fargotten my age." She—He kissed me when I was not dreaming of such a thing. How Colutft Affect* Condition*. For a moment the smoke rose in silence.Conditions almost the opposite extreme from those suggested by such claims exist here in Mexico, and they are so directly related to the ooinage tfPHUU operation h$r« M to fii&ke it "I will sit up, too," Willie said Her—I'll wager you were not You always were wide awake when kissing was in sight.—Cincinnati Enquirer. "No," said the lisper, still blinking, "take 'er baby to bed, Willie, lth'll "It's a good cigar," said the sheriff. He puffed on. "A very good oigar." A •mile dawned upon his lips. It —Southej. qnfcacrlbe for the Q Airm.