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CITY AND COUNTRY.
Dr. Talmage Talks of the Good
Done by the Former.
lie It la tl%«* Hlrtliplaee of i 1% 111-
cat ton and >ot Kereaaurlly
BrlMotue A«l\lce to
the Vouns.
in some respects I have to tell you f of the firm: "I can1'
thnt all cities impress upon me ami I am willing^to sell. mr< in <
oupht to impress upon you three Lords dnj . for I think that it rig t
four very important lessons, all of and necessary, but I can t sell t 11.
■ patent blacking." He was discharged
from the place A Christian man hear
QUIET DETECTIVE WORK.
does not make any difference in what
part of the country we walk the
directs of a great city there is one
lesson I think which ought to strike
every intelligent Christian man, and
that is tiie world is a scene of toil and
struggle. Here and there you tlnd a
man in I lie street
[Copyright, 1900, by Louts Klopsch.l
Washington, Aug. 12.
From St. Petersburg, the Russian
capital, where he was cordially re-
ceived by the emperor and empress
and the empress dowager. T>r. lal-
mage sends this discourse, in which he
shows the mighty good that may be
done by the cities, and also the vast
evil they may do by their allurements
to the unsuspecting and the unguard-
ed. The text is Zcchariali 1:17: "My
cities through prosperity shall yet be
spread abroad."
The city is no worse than (lie coun-
try. The vices of the metropolis are
more evident than the vices of the ru-
ral districts because there are more
to be bad if they wish to be. lhe
merchant is as good as the farmer.
There is no more cheating in town
than out of town—no worse cheating;
it is only on a larger scale. The coun-
tryman sometimes prevaricates about
the age of the horse that he sells,
about the size of the bushel with
which he measures tho grain, about
the peaches at the bottom of the
basket as being as large as those at
the top. about a quarter of beef as
being tender when it is tough, and to
as bad an extent as the citizen, the
merchant prevaricates about calicoes
or silks or hardware.
And as to villages, I think that in
some respects they are worse than
the cities, because they copy the vices
of the cities in the meanest shape, and
as to gossip its heaven is a country
village. Everybody knows everybody's
business better than he knows it him-
self. The grocery store or the black-
smith shop in day and night is the
grand depot for masculine tittle tat-
tle, and there are always in the vil-
lage a half dozen women who have
their sunbonnets hanging near, so
that at the first item of derogatory
news they can fly out and cackle it all
over the town. Countrymen must not
be too hard in their criticism of the
citizen, nor must the plow run too
sharply against the yardstick.
Cain was the founder of the first
city, and I suppose it took after him
in morals. It takes a city a long
time to escape from the character of a
founder. Where the founders of a
citv are criminal exiles, the filth, the
vice, the prisons, are the shadow of
those founders. It will take centuries
fur New York to get over the good
influence of the pious founders of that
citv - the founders whose prayers
went up in the streets where now
banks discount and brokers bargain
and companies declare dividends and
smugglers swear custom house lies,
and above the roar of the wheels and
the crack of the auctioneer's mallet
ascends the ascription: "We worship
thee, () almighty dollar!" The old
church that used to stand on Wall
street is to this day throwing its
blessing on the scene of traffic and on
all the ships folding their white wings
in the harbor. In other days people
gat he red in cities for defense none but
the poor, who had nothing to be
stolen, lived in the country, but in
these times, when through civilization
and Christianity it is safe to live any-
where, people gather in lhe cities for
purposes of rapid gain.
Cities are not evil necessarily, as
some have argued. They have been
the birthplace of civilization. In them
popular liberty has lifted its voice.
Witness Genoa and Pisa and Venice.
After the death of Alexander tlir
Great among his papers were found ex-
tensive plans of cities, some to be
built in Kurope, some to be built in
Asia. The cities in Kurope were to he
occupied by Asiatics; the cites in Asia
were to be occupied, according to his
plans, by Europeans, and so there
should be a commingling and a fra-
ternity and a kindness and a good
will between the continents and be-
tween the cities. So there always
ought to be. The strangest thing in
mv comprehension is that there
should be bickerings and rivalries
among our American cities. Xew York
must stop caricaturing Philadelphia,
and Philadelphia must stop picking at
New York, and certainly the conti-
nent is large enough for St. Paul and
Minneapolis. What is good for one
city is good for all the cities. Here
Is the great highway of our national
prosperity. On that highway of na-
tional prosperity walk the cities.
A city with large forehead nnil
great brain—that is Boston; a city
with deliberate step and calm manner
—that is Philadelphia; a city with its
pocket full of change—that is Xew
York; two cities going with a rush
that astounds the continent—they are
Ft. Louis and Chicago; a city that
takes its wife and children along with
it—that is Brooklyn. Cincinnati,
Louisville, Pittsburgh, all the cities
of the north and all the cities of the
south, some distinguished for one
thing, some for another, one for pro-
ing of it took him into his employ,
and he went on from one success to
another until he was known all over
the land for his faith in t od and his
good works as for his worldly success.
When a man has sacrificed any tern-
wiio has his arms j poral, financial good for the sake ol
folded and who seems to have no par- his spiritual interests the Lord is on
errand but if you will stand at 1 his side, and one with t.od is a major-
ticular
the corner of the street and wateh the
countenances uf those who go by you
will see in most instances there is an
intimation that they are on an errand
which must be executed at the earli-
est moment possible, so you are
jostled hither and thither by business
men, up this ladder with a hod ol
bricks, out of this bank with a roll
of bills, digging a cellar, shingling a
roof, binding a book, mending a
watch. Work, with its thousand eyes
it v.
I Hut if you have been raueli among
I the cities you have also noticed that
! they are fu l of temptations of a polit-
1 ieal character. It is not so more ir
^ one city than in all the cities, linn
dreds of men going down in our cities
every year through the pressure of
politics. Once in awhile a man will
come out in a sort of missionary spirit
and say: "I am going into politics
now to reform them, and 1 am going
to reform the ballot box, and I am go-
and thousand feet and thousand arms, . :
Work. work. j ing to reform all the people 1 i ohh i
ontact with." That man in the fear
goes on singing its song.
work!" while the drums of the mill
bent it and the steam whistles fife it.
la the carpeted isles of the forest, in
the woods from which the eternal
shadow is never lifted, on the shore
of the sea over whose iron coast tosses
the tangled foam, sprinkling the
cracked cliffs with a baptism of whirl-
wind and tempest, is the best place to
study God, but ill the rushing, swarm-
ing, raving street is the best place to
study man.
Going down to your place of busi-
ness and coming home again I charge
you look about; see these signs of
poverty, of wretchedness, of hunger,
uf sin, of bereavement, and as you go
through the streets and come back
through the streets g: • her up in the
arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all
the losses, all the sufferings, all the
bereavements of those whom you pass
and present them in prayer before an
all sympathetic God. In the great day
of eternity there will be thousands of
persons with whom you in this world
never exchanged one word will rise tip
and call you blessed; and there will
be a thousand fingers pointed at you
in Heaven, saying: "That is the man,
that is the woman who helped me
when I was hungry and sick and wan-
deringand lost and heartbroken. That
is the man, that is the woman;" and
the blessing will come down upon you
as Christ shall say: "I was hungry
and ye fed me, I was naked and ye
clothed me, 1 was sick and in prison
and ye visited me; inasmuch as ye did
it to these poor waifs of the streets
ye did it unto me."
Again, in all these cities I am im-
pressed with the fact that life is full
of pretension and sham. What subter-
fuge, what double dealing, what two-
facedness! Do all people who wish
you good morning really hope for you
a happy day? Do all the people who
shake hands love each other? Are all
those anxious about your health who
inquire concerning it? Do all want to
see you who ask you to call? Does all
the world know half as much as it pre-
tends to know? Is there not many a
wretched stock of goods with a biii-
liant store window ? Passing up and
down the streets to your business and
your work, are you not impressed with
the fact that society is hollow and
that there are subterfuges and preten-
sions? Oh, how many there are who
swagger and strut and how few peo-
ple who are natural and walk! While
fops simper and fools sn.cker and sim-
pletons giggle, how few people are
natural and laugh! I say these things
not to create in you incredulity or
misanthropy, nor do I forget there are
thousands of people a great deal bet-
ter than they seem, but 1 do not think
any man is prepared for the conflict
of this life until he knows this par-
ticular peril. Ehud comes pretending
to pay his tax to King Eglon, and,
while he stands in front of the king,
stabs him through with a dagger un-
til the haft went in after the blade.
Judas Iseariot kissed Christ.
One of the mightiest temptations in
commercial life in all cities to-day is
ill the fact that many professed Chris-
tian men are not square in their bar-
gains. Such men are in Baptist
and Methodist and Congregational
churches, and our own denomination
is as largely represented as any of
them. Our good merchants are fore-
most in Christian enterprises; they
are patronizers of art, philanthropic
and patriotic. God will attend to
them in the day of His coronation.
I am not speaking of them, but of
those in commercial life who are set-
ting a ruinous example to our young
merchants. Go through all the stores
and offices in our cities and tell me in
how many of those stores and offices
are the principles of Christ's religion
dominant? In three-fourths of them?
No. In half of them? No. In one-
tenth of them? No. Decide for your-
self. The impression is abroad some-
how that charity can consecrate in-
iquitous gains and that if a man give
to God a portion of an unrighteous
bargain then the Lord will forgive
him the rest. The secretary of a ben-
evolent society came to me and said:
"Mr. So-and-iio has given a large
amount of money to the missionary
cause," mentioning the sum. I said:
"I can't believe it." ile said: "It is
so." Well, i went home, staggered
and confounded. I never knew the
Former President l ie
I i«> ii lt> lleln 11* I
ftlou Cuar
elmiil'M Uevo-
CONQUEST OK CHINA.
It Has Been Planned for Years by
the European Powers.
fessiounl ability, another for affluence, man to give anything. But a.'ter
cnother for fashion, but none to be
spared. What advantages one advan-
tages all. What damages Boston com-
mon damages Washington square.
Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn. Green-
wood, weep over the same grief. The
ttatue of Benjamin Franklin in New-
York greeting the bronze statue of
Edward Everett in Boston. All the
cities a confraternity. 1 cannot un-
derstand how there should go on bick-
erings and rivalries. I plead for a
higher style of brotherhood or sis-
terhood among the cities.
But while there are great differences
awhile I found out that he had been
engaged in the most infamous kind
of a swindle, and then lie promised to
compromise the matter with the Lord,
saving: "Now, here is so much for
thee. Lord. Please to let me off!"
1 want to tell you that the church
of God is not a shop for receiving
stolen goods and that if you have
taken anything from your fellows you
had better return it to the men to
whom it belongs. In a drug store in
Philadelphia a young man was told
that he must sell blacking on the
Lord's day. Ile said to the head uiau
and love of God goes into politics with
that idea and with the resolution that
lie will come out uncoiitaiiiiiuned and
as good as when he went in. But gen-
erally the case is when a man steps
into politics many of the newspapers
try to blacken his character and to
distort all his past history, and after
a little while has gone by instead of
considering himself an honorable citi-
zen he is lost in contemplation ami in
admiration of the fact that lie has so
long been kept out of jail! if a man
shall go into politics to reform politics
and with me right spirit, he will come
out with the right spirit and unhurt
That was Theodore Frelinghuysen, of
New Jersey. That was George Briggs,
of Massachusetts. That was Judge Me
Lean, of Ohio.
Then look around and see the al-
lurements to dissipated life. Had
books, unknown to father and mother,
vile us the reptiles of Egypt, crawling
into some of the best families of the
community; and boys read them while
the teacher is looking the other way,
or at recess, or on the corner of the
street when the groups are gathered.
These books are read late at night.
Satan finds them a smooth plank on
which he can slide down into perdi-
tion some of your sons and daughters.
Heading bad books- one never gets
over it. The books may be burned,
but there is not enough power in all
the apothecary's preparations to wash
out tile stain from the snnl. Fathers'
hands, mothers' hands, sisters' hands
will not wash it out; none but the
hand of the Lord can wash it out.
And what is more perilous in regard
to some of these temptations we may
not mention them. While God in His
Bible from chapter to chapter thun-
dered Ilis denunciations against
these crimes people expect the pulpit
and the printing press to be silent on
tlie subject, and just in proportion as
people are impure are they fastidious
on this theme. They are so full ot de-
cay and death they do not want their
sepulcliers opened. God w ill turn in-
to destruction all the unclean, and no
splendors of surrounding can make de-
cent that which lie has smitten. God
will not excuse sin merely because it
has costly array and beautiful tapes-
try and palatial residence any more
than He will excuse that which crawls
a blotch of sores through the lowest
cellar. Ever and anon through some
lawsuit there flashes upon the people
of our great cities what is transpir-
ing in seemingly respectable circles.
You call it "high life," you call it
"fast living." you call it "people's ec-
centricity." And while we kick off
the sidewalk the poor wretch who has
not the means to garnish his iniquity,
these lords and ladies, wrapped in
purple and in linen, go nnwhipped of
jiublic justice. Ah. the most dread-
ful part of the whole thing is that
there are persons abroad whose whole
business it is to despoil the young.
What an eternity such a man will
have! As the door opens to receive
him thousands of voices will cry out:
"See here, what have you done?" and
the wretch wilt wrap himself with
fiercer flame and leap into deeper
darkness, and the multitude he has
destroyed will pursue him and hurl at
him the long, bitter, relentless, ever-
lasting curse of their own anguish.
If there lie one cup of eternal dark-
ness more bitter than another, they
will have to drink it to the dregs. If
in all the ocean of the lost world that
comes billowing up there be one wave
more fierce than another, it will dash
over them. But there is hope for all
who will turn.
1 stood one day at Niagara falls, and
I saw what you may have seen there
—six rainbows bending over that tre-
mendous plunge. I never saw any-
thing like it before or since. Six
beautiful rainbows arching that great
cataract! And so over the rapids and
angry precipices of sin, where so
many have been dashed down, God's
beautiful admonitions hover, a warn-
ing arching each peril—six of them,
50 of them, 1,000 of them. Beware,
beware, beware!
Young men, while you have time to
reflect upon these things and before
the duties of the office and the store
and the shop come upon you again,
look over this whole subject, and after
the day has passed and you hear in
the nightfall the voices and footsteps
of the city dying from your ear. aad it
gets so silent that you can hear dis-
tinctly your watch under your pillow
going "tick, tick," then open your
eyes and look out upon the darkness
and see two pillars of light, one hori-
zontal, the other perpendicular, but
changing their direction until they
come together, and your enraptured
vision beholds it—the cross.
"[ had an interesting ant! unex|ieot
•ii experience with former I'its a.< in
Jlcvelaiitli during has first term, sail
* i-aval officer of high rank, to a Wash
ngton Star reporter. "wliicl taugli
ine a lesson 1 ought to have known l><
fore, and illustrated how he some
limes went behind the record when be
tvishcil to Inform hltwelf of the
juraey of official documents.
•*l was at the time chief of a division
n the navy department. A woman,
utilise i ame ii is not necessary to nu n
ion. used to annoy ine greatly b\ so
iciting my aid to secure her a p ace
i.s charwoman in t-lie war, state am.
JJ,vy building. She would come to in;,
office cv< ry da) until her pres. nee be-
en ine exceedingly distiistilul to me.
••One day she produced a petition
for a pension id' $Ul) a uiortli for dis-
abilities alleged to lime bf. ti inciirr. e
in an explosion in the old. arseival
building in the reservation e.n the 1 o-
totniic during the war. and where .-lie
had been employed In owe capacity,
flu petition w;is headed bj the name
of all officer superior in rank to my-
self and bore lui'.f a dozen names of
other persons of comparative promi-
nence in llw capital. I'o get rid ol liur.
1 affixed my signature.
"Her private pension hill wnstlr.ally
'aken up and passed, by congress. It
was vetoed by Mr. Cleveland, lief ore
the veto message was sent up to the
capitol I was visited by a polite young
man, who snid that lie represented the
president, lie desired to know whether
1 was personally acquainted, with tin*
applicant. I said that I was not. lie
asked if I knew anything of her an-
tecedents, the nature of her vvouih.s,
her past and present moral character,
all uf which 1 had vouched for to the
presidicnt bv my signature to her pe-
tition. I was forced to confess, to my
great, chagrin, as I was. personally ac-
quainted with the president, that I
knew nothing about her beyond what
I had seen of her in my office.
"Mv polite inquisitor then Informed
me that private inquiries made at the
instance of the president had proved
ti"- falsity of her petition in all re
speets save that she had been em
11loved by the government at the tin
of the explosion. Nothing In the pu
per* showed that she had been ill th
building lit the time of the explosion,
anil she was otherwise unworthy of
ffoveriLmeo t assist once.
"In his veto message Mr. Cleveland
made those in the war, state am!, navy
building feel uncomfortable by Ids
sarcastic remarks about officers ant.
gentlemen who testified, to the eliai-
aeter and worthiness of those of u lioin
tiu'y knew nothing, and scored coiv
gross for passing a bill with the prool
of-Injuries absent from the record.
"In Washington the petition'«signr
ing habit, form, rly much in vogue, ha
fallen into disfavor, and oflieials are
very cautious upon whose p1
they place their signatures."
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[Special Washington Loiter 1
\i; ,,f tin* first things to be
thoroughly learned bv tlu
youiijr men who lire seek
jpor to enter upon the profession of
jouri ftlfom i8 i hat t he> muit ha*e ab-
solute and complete rcsptet for the
confidences re|>ot e<! in them, anil they
must never betrax tlhe source of their
news, rules:- this le*>on i> learned the
young men who niter the profession
will never achieve success.
(ieorge IJouzer was a clerk in the war
departnicut. and he was also a newspa-
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SOLDIERS LOVE BOBS.
IIIIM 1* OIK
ol° tin* ISenson* Tlint <ien-
Lortl Holier!* Ih So
Foil u I it i'.
was
of the city,
of mi interesting and touchiri
Xot to Ile Iloubted.
Jane—My husband's sight was popr
before I married him.
Annie—1 supposed so.—Tit-Bit*.
A New York business man wlit
in Glasgow when Lord Roberts
presented the freedom
tells
sight, relates the New York Com-
mercial. "The public ceremony in
the city hall." lie said, "was followed
by a luncheon in the municipal build-
ings. In the open carriage ill which
Lord Roberts eat there were his aide-
de-camp—C'apt Freeman tie, I think
(Jen. Chapman, commanding the
forces in Scotland, and also, of course,
tile lord provost, all in full uniform.
But alongside the carriage, and hold-
ing on to the door, there ran an old
man, whose broken-down appearance
and excited manner of speech took
away all dignity from the scene, and
made it, indeed, nothing less than
ridiculous. The spectators who lined
the streets were visibly annoyed. I
remember that one man, standing in
a group beside me. said: 'Why liasn t
the coach man the sense to cast the
fellow off?" The coachmnn anfl the
footman beside liiui turned around
and looked at the man more than
once, but that was all, and the mail
continued to run, holding on and
speaking evidently with great emo-
tion.
When the carriage drew up at the
main entrance in (ieorge square the
man kept on speaking, and. to the
amazement of everybody. Lord Rob-
erts kept on listening. The man was
apparently an old soldier with a
grievance. After listening for some
time. Lord Roberts left the carriage,
but presently his aide-de-camp came
forward, led the man aside, took out
his note-book and wrote down some
words :* his dictation. What hap-
pened after that I do not know, but
1 am sure the gracious, kindly court-
esy that made 1 .ord Roberts listen to
the man would keep him from forget-
ting liini, and that his cnsc. whatever
it was. would he inquired into."
I« lhe (| iiei-n 11 Htijiil O'Co 0rt
The queen is of the old Irish royal
struin. She is not only a Uuelph and
a Stuart, she is one of the royal Ot on-
Mors. The last irisli sovereign of the
whole island was Roderick O'Connor.
Ilia sons were slain. His daughter
married Hugo de Laey. I heir daugh-
ter married a lie llurgh, earl of l ister;
from them descended Kllen, wife of
Rolx rt nruee, king of Scotland. I lie
granddaughter of Robert Itruee. Prin-
ccss Margery, married the lord high
steward of Scotland, and through her
theStuartselainied the Scottish crown.
From tlience it is easy to truce how
the roynl blood of Ireland, Scotland
and I'nglanil meets in the person of the
reigning Queen Victoria.—Irish 'fuu**-
Wfc.
per ulan, ne was working his
slow I\, hoping to become successful
Bio! prominent, and that he might lie
able to leave the civil service anil tie-
vote all of his time to journalism. On
one occasion lie received valuable in-
formation from an army ollicer. ami
printed it. Senator Proctor, of Ver-
mont, was secretary of war at that
time, a ioi he sent for Mr. Rouxer to as-
certain the source of his information.
If Mr. Roii/er hail given the name of
the otlieer wiio had given him his news
he might have I ti dismissed from the
army. The army ollicer had 110 idea
that the disseininat ion of tile news
*voul.l cause such a stir, and he had In-
nocently given the news to help Mr.
Utilizer in hi- ambitious work. Mr.
llouzer declined tti name the mail.
"If vtiu will not tell me where you got
your i ii for mat ion, I will order your
discharge from the war department,
tail I Secretary Proctor.
"Then you will have to discharge
no-." was the bvaie reply oftheyouug
man.
lie protected his friend, and thereby
lost his official position at a time when
lie could ill afford to be thrown out of
employment. However, he very soon
received valuable newspaper work
which paid him a hotter salarj than
that which he received in the war ile-
icnt. and for a number uf years
- iu charge of the Washington of-
f one of the greatest new papers
is continent. The story of his
v character and conduct became
well known in the capital city, and he
had t he continence of all public men. re-
gardless of their political affiliations.
In September, |s'.i,' . the correspond-
ent of a Philadelphia newspaper had an
intcri icw v\ith Senator Blackburn, of
Krntucki. in which Secretary Carlisle
w:is vigorously criticised and tle-
d. In February, 1896, Secretary
sic used copies of the Philadelphia
r containing the interview to in-
liispersonal friends to defeat Sen-
ator Blackburn, who was a candidate
for reelection. At thill time the Wash-
ington correspondent wrote Senator
Blackburn a- follows: "The interview
was written from memory. No short-
hand notes were taken, and hence you
might tt clinically deny the interview,
if ion want to protect yourself.' liver
since that time Senator Blackburn lias
been a stanch friend of the corre-
al though he dit! not dt i.y t lie
years by the Italian banditti, the
Frt acli assassins, the Herman commun-
ists, the Russian nihilists, and t he Brit-
ish buccaneers. With outward suav-
ity ami base pretenses of friendship
under the guise of comity and inter
national eipiity. these civilized (?) iia
tions have been encroaching upon tin
kindness, the forbearance, the pa-
tience and the abused endurance of the
heathen ('.') of the orient.
••But the people of China have not
been deceived. Their learned men are
shrewd diplomats, accomplished court-
iers and skillful statesmen. They have
given the entire 4110.000.000 of their peo-
ple to understand that it would be sim-
ple a question of time when the in-
tcuritv of their empire would be as-
aalled. Those people have therefore
known for years that the I hristian na-
tions of the world were gradually
bringing about conditions which niisrht
seem to warrant the partition of China,
riiese Christian nations, like so many
bunded pirates, have believed that
China wo ultl lie an easy mark, ami that
ultimately their rapacity would be re-
warded with rich lootings.
"in the meantime China has been
preparing for the inevitable, ller ene-
mies have reckoned without knowledge.
Far ill the interior of Ihat tremendous
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"I WILL DISCHARGE YOU,
the confidence of public men. and the
importance of respecting their confi-
dence, but to show the render that at
this time it is necessary for the pres-
ent writer to protect th* confidence of
a certain senator, and to give his
views without mentioning his name.
You must understand that there are
occasions of great national and inter-
national importance when public men
must necessarily be reticent and se-
cretive. At the present time, when this
republic seems to be drifting into en-
tangling alliances, all senators and rep-
resentatives are careful not to allow
their names to appear in public print as
offering suggestions which might
ove to be embarrassing to others in
high public position. Under thesecon-
ditions one of the greatest men now in
public life, in the confidence of per-
sonal friendship, in his own parlor,
said:
"The manifest culmination of the
plins for the dismemberment of the
Chinese empire, and the landing of
American troops on the soil of China,
inevitably entangles this republic in
Bravc international conditions. We are
bound to take no hasty forward step in
diplomacy, and we are bound to take
no backward step in war. It is im-
portant that all of our people should
understand the situation; and that
they should be united in purpose and in
aim. When we engage in diplomacy
*e should all try to be patriotic broth-
ers. and be sure we are right in all
things.
"All of the principles of internation-
al law and all of the courtesies of the
comity of nations have been violated in
the treatment of China during the past
LI I It'NO CHANG AND THE CZAR.
■ in pi re Chinese soldiers have been
drilling under competent masters.
The outside world knows nothing of
what China has done to m 'ct 4hc mani-
fest contingency. All the nations >f
the world cannot partition t hinn anil
reduce her to servile dependency, as
Poland was reduced.
-Gen. Grant stated that Li Hung
Chang was the greatest statesman he
had met with in his journey around the
world. Onlj :i few j ears ago Li 11 ung
Chan'g accomplished the greatest feat
of diplomacy that wnsever undertaken
in the history of the world, lie jour-
neyed from point to point around the
world, and in so doing, out in the open,
he fooled and hoodwinked all of the
shrewd masters of statecraft ant*
diplomacv. He made that trip around
the world for the sole purpose of hav-
ing a few hours of confidential pprsnnnl
conversation with the emperor of Uus-
sia. because in no other way could lie
secure a private interview with the
czar without attracting international
attention to such an interview. They
who imagined that Li IIung Chang put
himself to all of the inconveniences of
such a tour merely for personal pleas-
ure must have a very narrow insight
into the ways and purposes of states-
men and rulers. That there is a secret
alliance between China and Russia the
other nations of Kurope will find to
their cost, when it is everlastingly too
late. I
"China will not be partitioned.
Armies of allies will march against her
some day; if not this year in some very
near future year. They will penetrate
far into the interior of the vast empire,
just .'is Napoleon led his hosts into Rus-
sia. They will announce to the world
victory after victory. Ultimately those
victorious allied armies will disappear
and be lost to the world.. They will be
destroyed by the Chinese millions, not
only with weapons and missiles ot mod-
ern warfare, but with scientifically
disseminated diseases and pestilences.
After they have penetrated Chinese ter-
ritory for hundreds of miles, they will
have only scattered a few torches about
the fringe of that vast empire. For
every allied army that invades China
there will l>«* a Moscow. You may bo
very sure that China will never be par-
titioned."
Those are the Words of wisdom, from
the lips of learning, prudence and ex-
perience. Hecause of the fact that
American marines have been landed on
Chinese soil, and because a small army
of American soldiers has been ordered
to China, the senator giving this inter-
esting information declines to permit
the use of his name, lest superficial
critics might infer that he is making
remarks criticising the government at
Washington, whe^i nothing could be
mete remote from his intention. He
has simply favored the writer with
facts and opinions, as he says: "In
order that all of our people should un-
derstand the situation, so that they
may be united in purpose and aim. so
that we may all be patriotic brothers.**
The ominous clouds in the orient at-
tract and command our attention. It
is well that we may thus have light
thrown upon them in order that we
may, in some degree, pierce the gloom
and endeavor to see our national and
international duty, so that we may
act within our own domain, and in in-
ternational affairs, "with malice to.
wards none and with charity for all.
SMITH D. FRY.
Written to
"Is that a good summer novel. Flos-
sy?"
"Yes;
heroine
Record.
in nearly every chapter the
gets a boat ride."—Chicago
Still 1'anettled.
"Briggsy is an old settler, isn't he?'*
"I think not. He has owed tne seven
dollars for eight years.M-*-Cievelaud
l'luiu Dealer.
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