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NO. 51. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY; -MAY ,2, 1890. rffiiss surgery: .. fvn, vaiAgk describes tub ok. VlSLOPMENT OP THE: ART . OF HHALIKU. Chrlit Always Sought the Oldfctt and M Mt Hopeless Cmi oik Which to Perform Ills ttlratlea. Tests "Ae bffnd recmrte taei tfyh ond tfte toww vMr, Vie lepers tfvk OWinsect, nd Doctor," I said to a dintinguished sur fceou, "do, jTOft fiot -get worn out with con stantly sertttg so many rounds and broken bones tint! distortions of the human bodyf ' "Oft, no," he answered, 'all that ia over rule by m y joy in curing thorn ." A sublimer br more merciful art never eanie down from hfcaven than the art of surgery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of toe world was a doc tor. Our crippled and agonised hitman race mlled forsurMOn and family physician for many years Tefore they came. - The first Mirgeons who answered this call were minis ters of relieionnamelys the Egyptian priests. And what a grand toirtg if aft clergymen were also doctors, all D.. J.'s were M. D.'s. for there are so many cases where body and Kul need treatment at the same time, conso lation, and medicine, theology and therapeu tics. ". , As the first surgeons Of the world were also tninisters of religion, may these two profes sions always lo In full sympathy ! But un der what disadvantages the early surzeons WOTKM. irOftl tnn TRCS thlt. th riiseOTt.inii nf th human body was forbidden, first by the pagans end then by the early Christians' Apes, being the brutes most like the human race, were dissected, but no human hndv might 1 unfolded for physiological and ana tomical exploration, and the surgeons had to guess what was inside the temple by looking attue outside of it. If they failed in any surgical pperation they were persecuted and driven out of the city, as was Arehagathus because of his bold but unsuccessful attempt to save s patient. , '. But the world from the very beginning kept en iJng for surgeons, and their first skill isspokf?nof in Genesis, where they .employed theic art for the incisions of a sacred rite, God making surgery the predecessor of bap tism; and we see it again in II Kings, where AUaziah, the monarch, stepped on some tracked lattice work in the palace and it froke, and he fell from the upper to the low r floor, and he was st , hurt that be sent to i the village of Ekron for aid; 'and Esculapius, who wrought such wonders of surgery that he was) deified nrd tnmnlna wnr Vmilf. for his worghi at Pergamos; - and Epi daurus and Podelirius introduced ' for the relief of the world phlebot omy; and Damocedes cured the dislocated anklo of King Darius and the cancer of his queen; and Hippocrates put successful hand n fractures and introduced amputation; and Praxagoraa removed obstructions; and He' rophilus began dissection;' and Erasistratus removed tumors; and.Celsus, the Roman Klirflnn rmnvwl raUraf fi-nm t.ha arra inrl C3 , w vua vwv vjv used the Spanish fly ; and Holiodorus arrested nlsease of the throat; and Alexander, of Tralles, treated the eye ; and Rhazas cauter ised for the prevention of hydrophobia, and Pe rcival Pott came to combat diseases of the : spine; and in our own century w have had a Ptoux and a Larray in France,- an Astley , Cooper and an Abernethy in Great Britain, and a Valentine Mott and Witlard Parker and Samuel D. Gross in America, and a gal axy of living surgeons as brilliant as their predecessors, i What mighty progress in the baffling of disease since the crippled and ; Kick of ancient cities were laid along the1 Streets, that DOODle who had ever been hurt or disordered in the same way might suggest what had better be done for the patients; and the priests of olden time, who were con stantly suffering - from colds received in walking barefoot over the temple pavements, had to Di'eacribe for themselves, and f ran-' tsHs were considered so iar Deyona au hmiifca m cure that instead of calling in the surgeonVthe-pople only invoked the gods I ' But notwithstanding all the surgical and '. medical skill of the world, with what tenacity; the old diseases, hang on to the human race, and most of them are thousands of years old, and in our Bibles we jread of them: the car-' buncles of Job and Hezekiah;the palpitation of the heart spoken of in Deuteronomy the sunstroke of a child carried from the fields of tihunem, crying. "My head! my head!" King Asa's disease of the feet, which was jotning but gout, defection of teeth, that called for dental surgery, the skill of which, .quite equal to anything modern, is still seen in the filled molars of the unrolled Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia caused by the Juice of the newly ripe fig, leaving the people blind at the roadside; epilepsy, as in , the case of the young mau often failing into the fire, and oft into -the water; hypochon dria, as or jjiebucnadnezzar, who imagined himself an ox, and going out to the fields to pasture; tbe withered hand, which in Bible limes, as now, came from tbe destruction of tbe main artery, or from paralysis of the chief nerve, the wounds of - the manwhom the thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho, and whom the good Samaritan oursed. .pouring in oil andwino wine to clesse the wound and oil to soothe it. Thank God for what surgery has done for the alle viation. and cure of human suffering J But the world wanted a surgery without pain. Dr a. Parre and Hickman and Simp ton and Warner and Jackson, , with 'their amazing genius, cam a on, and with their anesthetics benumbed the patient with nar cotics and ethers as the ancients, did with hasheesh and mandrake, 'and quieted him for ' awhile, but at the return of consciousness., distress returned. . The world has never seen but one surgeon who could straighten the trooked limb, cure the blind eye or recon struct thedrum of a soundless ear or reduce a dropsy, without any pain at the time, or any pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grandest,, gentlest and most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw or ever will see; and He deserves the confi dence and love and worship and hosanoa of all the earth and hallelujahs of all heaven, . "The blind receive their sight and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and. the deaf bear." ; 3 nf irA thta fiurtrnnn hnA a fondness for i : ...... tf.M a vaj-in z7 Vi an hatiao d a pat ent .brought to him, baa said? ''Why 'was not this attended td five years ago? You bring him to me after all power of recuperation is gone. You have waited until there fs a complete contraction, of the muscles, and false ligatures are formed, and ossification has taken place. It ought to have been attended to long ago," :But Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. -One was a hemorrhage of twelve years, and He stopped it. Another was a curvature of eighteen years, and He straightened it. An other was a cripple of thirty-eight years, and he walked out well. The eighteen-year pa tient was a woman bent almost double. If you could call a convention of all the sur geons of all the centuries, their, combined sk ill coul.1 not cure that body so drawn out ofshap1. . ' .,." Perhaps they might stop it from getting any worse, ; perhaps they might contrive Ul-ps by which she might be made more comfortable;- bat it is, humanly speaking, in crale. Yet this divine Surgeon put both I.:s l.'.nH en h-.-r. and fro-n that doubled un -ist"re blio (;: t a to rise, and the etrpurplei Tace began to take on a healthier hhe and the muscles began to relax from UtetP rigid ity, and th spinal Caiurrin began to adjilst ib self, and the Cords. 8f the neck began td be more supple, and the eyes that could sea only XM ground before, how looked into the face ' f Christ with gratitude, and Up toward neaven iri transport Straight! After eight een weary and exhaustive years ' straight ! .The pdisej the gracefulness, the beauty of healthy womanhood reinstated. The thirty-eight years' rase was a man who lay bri a mattress near the mineral baths at Jerusalem. There were five apartments wh$f e lame people were brought, 60 that they could get the advantage of these min eral baths. The stone basin of the bath is , still visible, although the waters have dis appeared, probably through some convulsion of nature, the bath, one hundred and twenty feet long, forty feet wide and eight feet deep. An, poor man, it you have been lame and helpless thirty-eight years, that mineral , bath cannot restore yoU , Why,thijfy-eight ye&rs , is more than the average Of human life! Nothing but the grave will cure you. But Christ the Surgeon , w&lks along these baths, and' I have ho doubt passes by somy patients who have been only six months disordered, or a year, or five years, and comes to the mattress of the mat who had been uedrly four decades helpless, ftnd to this thirtyeight 'years' in Valid said t "Wilt thou be made whole?' The question asked, hot because the Surgeon did not understand the protractedness, the desperateness, of the case, bnt to evoke the man's pathetic narrative. "Wi'1 thou be made wholef "Would you like Oo get Well?'. "Oh, yes," says the man, "that is what I came to these mineral hatha for, I have tried everything. All the surgeons have failed, and all the prescriptions have proved valuneless.and I have eot -worse and worse. sand I can neither move . hand or foot of head. - Oh, if I could only be free from this pain of thirty-eight years? Christ the Surgeon could not stand that.-. Bending over the man on the mattress, and in a voice tender with all sympathy, but strong with all omnipotence, He says, -'Rise!" And tbe invalid instantly scrambles to his knees, and then puts out his right foot, then his left foot, and then stood upright as though he had never been prostrated.- While he Stands looking at the Doctor with a, joy too much to hold, the Doctor pays: "Shoulder this mattress! for yon are not only well enough to walk, but well enough to work, and start out from these" mineral oaths. Take up thy bed and walk!" Oh, what a Surgeon for chronic cases then, and for chronic cases now! . ' This is not applicable so much to those who are only a little hurt of sin and only for a short time, but to those prostrated of sin twelve years, eighteen years, thirty-eight years. Here is a Surgeon able to give im roortal 'health. "Oh," you say, "I am so completely overthrown and trampled down of sin that I cannot rise.'? Are you flatter down than this patient at the mineral baths? No. Then rise. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the Surgeon who offers you His' right hand of help, J bid thee rise. , No cases of icute sin, but of chronic sin those, who have not prayed for thirty-eight years, those who have not been to church for thirty-eight vears, those who have been gamblers, or libertines, or thieves, or outlaws, or blas phemers, or infidels, or atheists, or all these together, for thirty-eight years. A Christ for exigencies! A Christ for a dead lift I A Surgeon who never loses a case! V In speaking of Christ as a surgeon, I must consider Him as an oculist, or eye doctor.and an aurist, or ear doctor. Was there ever such , another oculist? That He was particularly Sorry for the blind folk3,I take from the fact that the most of His works was with the dis eased optic nerves. I have not time to count up the number of blind people mentioned ; who got His cure. Two blind men in one bouse, also one who was born blind; so that it was not removal of a visual obstruction, but the creation of the cornea, and ciliary . muscle, and crystalline lens, and retina, and optic nerve, and tear gland; also the blind man of Bethsaida, cured by the saliva which the Surgeon took from the tip of His ' Own tongue and put upon the eyelids also two blind men who sat oy the wayside. In our ciyilized lands we have blindness enough, the ratio fearfully increasing, according to the statement of Boston and New York and ' Philadelphia oculists, because of the reading of morning and evening newspapers on the jolting cars by the multitudes who live out of the city and come in to business. ; But in the lands where this Divine Surgeon oDerated. the cases of blindness were multi plied beyond everything by the particles of . It . . " .1 - 1 .L. :L1 J sanri ucaunR in voe air, anu . uia mgui urm falling on the eyelids of those, who slept on the top of their houses: and in some of these lands it is estimated that twenty out of a hundred people are totally blind. Amid all that crowd of visionless people, what work for an oculist !; Aud I do not believe that more than one out of a hundred of that Sur-' peon's cures were reported. He went up and down among those people who were feeling ilowly their way by staff, or led by the hand of man or rope of dog, and introducing them to the faces of their own household, to the sunrise and the sunset, and the evening star. He just ran His hand over tha expressionless tace, and the shutters of both windows were iwung open, and the restored went home, a-ying- "I see' I see! Thank God, I see!" That is the oculist we all need. Till He touches our eyes we are blind. Yea, we were born blind. By nature we see things wrong If we see them at all; Our best eternal inter ests are put before us, and we cannot see them , The glories of a loving and pardoning Christ are projected, and we do not behold ihem. Or we have a defective sight which xiakes the thines of this "world larger than the things of the future, tims bigger than sternity. Or we are color blind and canno ; seethe difference between the blackness o.' iarkness forever and the roseate morning o.' an everlMting day. '. But Christ the Surgeon "somes in, ana though we shrink back, afraid to have Him touch us, yet He puts His fingers on the closed eyelids o the soul and midnight becomes mid-noon; and we understand something of the joy of the young man of the Bible, who, though he had nevev before been able to see his hand before his face, now, by the touch of Christ, had two headlights kindled under his brow, cried out in language that confounded the' jeering crowd who were deriding the Christ that had effected the cure, and wanted to make Him out a bad man ''Whether He be a sinner or no, I know not; one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see." 4 But this Surgeon was just as wonderful as an aurist. Very few people have two good ears. - Nine out of ten people are particular to get on this or that side of you when they sit or walk or ride with you, because they have one disabled ear. Many have both ear damaged, and what with the constant rack et of our great cities, and the catarrhal troubles that sweep through the land, it is remarkable that there are any good ears at all Most wonderful instrument is thehu- man ear. It is harp and drum and telegraph and telephone and whispering gallery all in one. So delicate and wondrcas is its con struction that the most difficult of all things to reconstruct is the auditory apparatus. The mightiest of scientists have put their skill to its retuning, and sometimes they stop the progress of its decadence, , or remove temporary obstructions, buy not more than one really" deaf ear out of a hundred thou sand is ever cured. It took a God to make the ear, avid it takes a God to mend it. That I makes me curious to see hovj Chnat the iiuri een tucceeds as b aqritit, t , ' We af e told of dnTy two cases He operated' On as Ah eAr" surgeon. His friend Peter, nat urally high tempered, saw Christ insulted by a mail by the name of Malchus, And Peter let his sword fly, aiming at the man's bead, but the sword slipped and hewed off the out side ear, arid our Surgeon touched the lacera tion ana another ear bloomed in the place of the one that bad been slashed awayi But it is not the outside, ear that hears. That ia only a funnel for gathering sound arid pour ing it into the hidden and more elaborate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee our Sur geon found a man deaf and dumb. The pa tient dwelt in perpetual silence, and was speechless. . He could not hear a note of mu sic or a clap of thunder. He could not call father or mother or wife or children by name. What power can waken that dull tympanupi or reach that chaitt of small boflesor revive that auditory nerve or open the gate between the brain and the outside world t The Sur geon put His fingers in the deaf ears and agi-r tated them, and kept on agitating them until the vibration gave vital energy to all the dead parts, and they responded, and when our Surgeon withdrew His fingers from the ears, the two funnels of sound were clear for all sweet Voices of music and friendship. For ' the first time in his lite he heard the dash of the waves of Galilee. ; Through the desert of painful silence had been bu'lt a king's high, way of resonance and acclamation. But yet he was dumb. No word had ever leaped over his Up. Speech was chained under his tongue. Vocalisation and accentuation were to bim an impossibility. He could express neither love nor Indignation nor worship. Our Sur geon, having unbarred his ear, will now melt the shackle of his tongue. The Surgeon will . use the same liniment or salve that He used on two occasions for the cure or Diina peopie, namely, the moisture of His own mouth. The application is made. And lo, the rigidity ot the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth were born a whole vocabu lary, and words flew into expression. He no'i only heard but he tatked. One gate of his body swung in to let sound enter, and the other gate swung out to let sound "depart. Why is it that while other surgeons used knives and forceos and probes and spectro scopes, this Surgeon used only the ointment of His own lips? To show that all the cura-' tive power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. And if He tpuches us not, we shall be deaf as a rock and dumb as a tomb. Oh, thou greatest of all aurists, compel us to hear and help us to speak! : But what were the Surgeon's fees for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withered hands and crooked backs The skill and the painlessness of the operations were worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do not think that the cases He took were all moneyless. Did He not treat the nobleman's son? Did He not doctor the ruler's daughter? Did He not effect a cure in the house of a centurion of great wealth, who had out of his own pocket built a synagogue? They would have paid'Him large fees if He had de manded them, and there were hundreds of wealthy people in Jerusalem, and among the merchant castles along Lake Tiberias, who would have given this Surgeon houses and lands and all they had for such cures as He could effect. For critical cases in our time great surgeons have received a thousand dol lars, five thousand dollars, and, in one case I know of, fifty thousand dollars, but the Sur geon of whom I speak received not a shekel, not a penny, not a farthing. ' o In His whole earthly life, we know of His having had but sixty-two and a half cents. When His taxes were due, by His omnis cience He knew of a fish in the sea which had swallowed a piece of silver money, as fish are apt to swallow anything bright, and He sent Peter with a hook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth was extracted a Roman stater, or sixty-two and a half cents, the only money He ever had; and that He paid out for taxes. This great Surgeon of all the centuries gave all His services then, and offers all His cervices now, free of charge. "Without money ' and . without price" you may spiritually have your blind eyes opened, and your deaf ears unbarred, and your dumb tongues loosened, and your wounds healed, and your soul saved. If Christian people get hurt of body, mind or soul, let them remember that surgery is apt tn hurt but it cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory. Beside tnat, there are powerful anaesthetics in the divine promises that soothe and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or cocaine ever made ona so superior to distress as a few drops of that magnificent anodyne; "All things work to gether for good to those wholove God;' "Weeping may endure for a night, tut joy cometh in the mornin?." , 'What a grand thing for our poor human race when this Surgeon shall have completed, the treatment of all the world's wounds! The day will come when there will bono more Hospitals, for there win be no more sick, and : no more eye and ear infirmaries, for there will be no more blind or deaf, and no more deserts, for the round earth shall be brought under arboriculture, and no ' more blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmos phere will be expurgated of scorch and chill, and no move war, for the swords shall come out of the foundty bent into pruning' hooks. While in the heavenly country we shall see those who were the victims of acci dent or malformation, or hereditary ills on earth, becomes the athletes in elysian fields. Who is that man with sush brilliant eyes, close before the throne? Whyf that is the man who, near Jericho, was bund, and our Surgeon cured his ophthalmia! Who is that erect "and graceful and queenly woman be fore the throne? That was the one whom our Surgeon found bent almost double, and could in no wise lift up herself, and He made her straight. Who is that listening with : such rapture to the music of heaven, sqIo melting into chorus, cymbal responding to trumpet, and then himself joining in the anthem? Why, : that is the man whom our Surgeon found ' deaf and dumb ou the jeach of Galilee, and by two touches opened ear gate and mouth gate. Who is that around whom the crowds are gathering with admiring look and thanksgiving, and cries of "Oh, what He did for me! Oh, what He did for my family! Oh, what He did for the world !" That is the Sur geon of all the centuries, the Oculist, the Aurist, the Emancipator, the Saviour. No m 14a fjnlr rm Aaft-.h fVhma Tin LV fin A lof. all heaven pay Him with worship that shall never end, and a love that shall never (ie. On His head be all the crowns! In ill's hands be all the scepters! and at His feet tt all the worlds! Good Reason to Change the Text. . A fvw Sinndavn turn n.n Atlanta tpreaohsr. had selected, as his text for his morning discourse: It is easier for a camel to go through t tho eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." . lie intended to "scotch 'em." When he entered the pulpit he found a note from the richest member ot: the congregation, andit read as follows; "When. the collection for foreign missions is taken tip this morning put me down for $500. n The sermon was preached on the text: "Take heed that ye do not give your alms before men to be seoa of them. Savannah Ve.w. Bask fai.i - the ball cf the heel. THE NEWS. The totrh of Kyle, Texas, was visited by a cyclone. Much damage was done. -Tnomas Norris was killed at the Delta slate quarries in Yotk, Pa., by the falling of a hoisting ma chine. -Thomas Trowbridgp, of Home, NV J., was arrested for raping his thirteen-year-old daughter: Thieves robbed Hugh Caff y' tailor-shop, in Boston, ot three thousand dol lars' worth of oods.- The ChiddgS police rfi enforcing the order to stop the sale of cigarettes to boys. New York bricklayers demand tn same pay for the men employed by the city as is received by outside men. The coke work-' era in Pittsburg threaten to strike.- J.McD.J Cromar , the agent of the People's Bank, at4 Halifax, who absconded, has been captured. Rev. W. A. Harrison, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, in Knoxville,Tenn has been suspended. An effort isbefngmade by a British syndicate to purchase the flint glass industries in this country. Three men were killed and six badly injured by an explosion at the Etna Mills, .in' New Castle, Pa. -Sam ael F. Plerson, president of the Lehigh and Western Railroad, died In Philadelphia. Wilkes Smith, of Parkersbnrg, Iowa; was ar rested, charged with forgery.- Dr. Hagen dorn and his companions, Uagcman and Kauss, have been convicted of stealing chickens in Racine, Wis., and sent up for two years. -Holzhay,the lone highwayman. Imprisoned in Marquette, Mich., is trying to starve himself. Egbert Williamson, a coachman, and three horses were burned to death in Ithaca, N. Y. John G.-Wagner's Sve-story block, on South St. Paul street, Rochester, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Three Chinamen -were arrested in Bunalo,N.Y,forsmugglingopium. Officer Peterson, of St, Paul, Minn., was terribly beaten by a gang of tramps. ' He shot Neil Cushman. one of his assailants. William J. Lord, bookkeeper for Fresh & Hook, painters of St Louis, systematically robbed the firm since 1883 and then turned a book-maker for the races. He'waa arrested and attributed his downfall to horse-racing. Two men were killed and five injured by the falling of a rock in a shaft of the Great Eastern mine near Norway, Mich. Malig nant diphtherial is epidemic among the Scan dinavians in the village of Vining, Minn. -The King and Hamilton Implement Works at Ottawa, 111., were burned. Loss $70,000. The city treasurers of Chicago for years past have been pocketing the interest on city funds as a personal emolument, and they are now called upon to refund.- An iron fence fs to be put around theJLincola monument at Springfield, 111., to keep off the relic-hunters. The dead body of Frank R. Harbison was found on a farm near Roekford, I1L? with a revolver, razor, and a bottle of laudanum be side it. The court martial of Commander Bowman H.McCalla, cf the Enterprise, U. S. N., began at the Brooklyn' Navy Yard.- -J. W. Craddock was committed to jail in Henrico county, Va., for attempting to wreck a train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. By the explosion of one of the Colebrook furnaces at Lebanon, Pa., huidings were shaken, Wm. P. Wright, jhe engineer, severely burned, and the roof of the works blown off. Joseph Kearney was shot by his mistress, Lizzie Dear, at Syracuse, N. Y. -Joseph C. Hitch- ner's cracker bakery and warehouse at West Pittston, Pa., were burned.. Loss $8,000.- Rabbi Cohn, of Mount Carmel, Pa., was bru tally assaulted by two thieves. Nicholas C. Miller, of Philadelphia, who sold the Lake Gas Company to the Chicago Gas Trust, is now suing the latter for the cash value of $213,000 trust certificates of stock, charging false representation.- -Chicago carpenters resorted to rioting and assaulting non-union men. " A foreman and a police sergeant were injured, and fifty rioters were arrested. The Indianapolis carpenters have been granted the eight-hour day. Mayor Cregier ordered all the pool-rooms in Chicago closed.- Heavy rains and high tides have increased the Mis sissippi river's overflow in Louisiana, and the Crevasses are widening and inundating town and laree sections of country. The Pan-American delegates have aban doned their trip to tbe South, a majority being anxious to return home. A desperate fight is being waged against the Butterworth bill by boards of trade throughout the oonntry. Fred McKee, of Prince George's, hat been appointed a cadet to West Point. -Charlee E. Kincaid, the slayer of William Taulbee, has been admitted to bail. Rev. John Vetter was seized and forced out of a Chicago Church Sunday, the exercise of the bouncing process being the outcome of the trouble in the Illi nois Conference of the Evangelical Associa tion. Nathan Doll, a German shoemaker of Chicago, tried to beat his eleven year-old son to death.- Henry Byle, a life convict in the prison at Joliet, Illinois, committed aui. cide by hanging himself with a towel in his cell The Moline Buggy Company's works at Moline, Illinois, were damaged $20,000 by fire. Small boys set fire to the opera house at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and property to the value of $160,000 was destroyed. Bishop Wadhaws,'of Watertown; NlY has silenced Priest Peter Ryan for extorting "money from I members of his congregation. The indict ment against Frank Woodruff, alias Black, charging him with complicity in the murder of the late Dr. P. H. Cronin, was dismissed by consent of the state in the Chicago court, bnt an indictment for horse stealing still stands against him. James : Morgan, an operator in the Erie Signal Tower at Howells, N. Y, was examining a pistol, when it was acciden tally discharged, the bullet entering the head of Frank' Grier aged twelve years, killing him. Edward Hall and Leopofd Alexander, private detectives, pleaded guilty in Philadel phia to conspiracy to defraud Mrs. Emily B. Hooper out of $18,000. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, says that the eight-hour movement ia at present the sole idea of the labor world, and that the Federation is determined to secure it Ex-Governor Swinefonl, of Alaska, will .... it. nf Vau, Mi,,t.fnni. Ma predicts that in ten years tbat city will have 100,000 inhabitants, Secretary Rusk Sends Out a Circular Letter. He Olacneses Agricultural Drprrislon and Suggest tame Ilemedlta Farmer -Moit be Protected. flecretafy Rusk has sent out to the farmers a eirculaf letter, In which he discusses agricul tural depression, its cnttses and possible reme dies. He says much of the depression la due to careless culture, wantof business-line' Meth ods, too large bodies of land, the oppression of mortgages, the troubles arising from transpor tation, the intervention of the middleman,' gambling in farm products by exchanges and rombina'. ions. lie says that our imports of pro-- auets sold In competition with those actually ? reduced on our own soil, amount to nearly! 115,000,000, and as much more could be pro-: duced on our own soil under favorable condi- tions. He calls attention to the wonderful in- crease, totally disproportionate to our increase; in population, of our imports of agricultural, products. In lSfWouriniports of farm products trora fntv mill, nr. AnUnro- in 1 SttQ ? V! fYl OlVt ' jun increase of nearly 000 per cent'., while the increase in population In the same period was, less than 300 per cent. Over 70 per cent, of our totnl exports are the direct products of the' soil. During the past decade, in which the greatest increase in imports has taken place,; there has been a steady decrease in the prices of home-grown products. The reason for this he traces to the competition of tho pauper' labor of Europe with our own. : The price of our wheat, of which we grow a surplus, is forced down by competition with Russia and India, and regulates the price of the entire crop. Farmers have to use their corn, for which there isan insignificant foreign demand, for fattening cattle and hogs. He continues: "The foreign market for live cattle which exists in Great Britian is so ham-i pered by the oppressive regulations requiring; slaughter at point of landing, as to exercise little or no beneficial influence on the price of his product, while the obstructive measures' adopted by several of the Continental conn-1 tries in regard to American pork has "reduced the exports of that product since 1881 over forty percent, annually. Under such circum stances there can be but one cause assignable for the neglect by American farmers to turn their attention to other crops in the line of such agricultural products as we now import, and that is that in this they would meet an even more overwhelming and disastrous com petition than they are now confronted with, in the raising of cereals and live stock. The only course possible, to enlightened statesmanship; is to assure to the farmer adequate protection in the diversification of his crops and produc-. tion of a larger proportion of the articles which we now import. "These may be summarized as follows; the fienres .riven beine for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and the values those at the ports r : i o J . 1 n:t Qft oa.i. - ! ' Ol csporis; DiiKUranu ihuiuhscb, toyi.cra, u-; mals and their products, except wool, 42,263,- 014; fibers, animals and vegetables, 59,453,936;- miscellaneous, mciuuiiJK ureausiuus, nuns, hay. hops, oils, rice, seed, tobacco, vegetables and wines, etc., 71,254,894. ' For obvious reasons I omit any reference here to the ninety millions expended for tea. coffee and cocoa,, but omitting these, we have, still the enormous sum of $266,273,738 imports, of agricultural products, the tar greater part of which, aniountlngprobablyto not less than 240 or 250 millions, could, with proper encour agement, be produced on our own soil. Self-, interest demands that we should afford him the benefits of a home market for all that he may be able to produce on onr soil. This includes all the tugar and molasses, all animal pro-, duct, woof, silk, flax and other fibres, all our breadstuffs, fruits, hay, hops, rice, tobacco,' vegetables and wines; but many of these things will never, can never be produced on Ameri can soil in competition wjtli the labor of Euro pean nations, especially when, as in the case of sugar, the industry abroad has been helped by liberal government bounties. , " ; COMPETITION ON OCR OWit SOIL. Of the seven or cieht million dollars' worth of live animals imported into this country, the freater proportion were of ordinary marketa le stock, as contra-distinguished from pure bred stock imported for breeding purposes and admitted free. Of all other animal products, including wool, there is not one that is not now being raised upon our own soil, and yet, in cluding wool and hides, the imports of these animal products amounted in the year referred to, to over sixty million dollars; to this add twenty millions for fruits, eight million for , barley, over two millions for hay and hops, three aud a-half millions for rice, eleven mil lione for tobacco, three millions for oils, two and one-half millions' worth of vegetables, the same for eggs, over a million dollars' worth of cheese these represent some of the imports, aggregating nearly ene hundred and fifteen million dollars, which, in spite of the produc-' tiveness of our own soil, are brought into this country and sold In competition with our far mers. F0RKIG5 MABKETS. , If there are products grown to better advan tage in other countries, remission of duty on which would seem to be in the interest of a large portion of our population, such remis sions should only be accorded as the result of reciprocal concession in the way of a remis sion of duties by such other countries on pro ducts more readil y grown there. M an y of those countries which would be specially benefited by a remission of the duty on sugar by our gov ernment, would afford an excellent market for our breadstuffs and dairy and meat products, were it not for the high duties imposed thereon lw thpm. So with other products, aud when ever duty on such products is lowered or re-,. moved and protection to our iarmers mus ui minished. it should be as the price of conces sions made to us in the tarifl'of other countries, in favbr of our own farm products. In this way," and in this way only, can our farmers be adequately protected, new markets being thus thrown open to them for those products which they can mo6t easily and cheaply produce. To farmers producing, as do ours, a vast sur plus of agricultural products, the question of foreign markets is and should be deeply inter esting. Not only do they offer an outlet for this surplus, but if untrammelled by irksome recfri.t inn and uncontrolled by combinations such as I have referred to elsewhere, they serve as useful checks upon those who might otherwise succeed in controlling our home mar kets. . Unfortunately, irksome restrictions do exist, and especially is this the case with ref erence to our live stock industry. Evidence is not wanting that a demand exist in Great Britian for our Jive stock, and but for the op pressive restrictions imposed by the British government, and said to be necessary owing lo the alleged existence of contagious disease anion? American cattle, there is little doubt but a large proportion of ous product of live, rattle would find there a prontaoie marxet, thus greatly relieving our home markets. So with our pork products, oppressed by the em bargoes placed upon thera by certain European powers, with the result of an enormous de crease during the past six years in our exports of bacon and hams; for whereas these exports In 1S79, lftSO and 1881 average about 745,000, 000 pounds, they had fallen in 1SW to less than 400,1(00,000, and until lastyear never exceeded 4J),000,000. The effect ot this has nsifturiilly iteit tn crrpatl v rest rii'tcomrx-tit ion aroontr pur- chiisers, and to seriously duress the price of our hogij. ' TI,...tii.nii1 irAtraramnf nw it tl the flirm. X lie liawifima g.v ""'vi" " - - . ing and rattle-growing community that no et- those restrictions upon our live stock and rnear. traae. ve inusi mainimuHu tuwiu -; ficient control of cattle diseases, ana pursue with the utmost energy the course which na! resulted to-day in the almost complete extirpa ..., i,n,'i.an nnil fift.ha mmt dreaded' I ivll Hum iiuiu kt... , disease of all, contagious pleuro-nncumonia. .... J - T rnnKllt , tk AS to our mcai prouuem, x vu i-t -- . . . u . Aam,iaA vAdiiha arwl tnAT. IA' lO BCCOinpilBU lire iirciivvin""."'!""- - --. by theenactmentofathoroughly efficient meat - 1 .. jnspecuun Jaw- e . The Secretary thinks onr system of taxation: also needs improvement in certain directions He cnlls upon the farmers to eland firmly to gether, demand their rights and leaist all en croachment upon them. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. "; The Dcke of Edinburgh is said to be look-. jdg worn and old. GEX. MlLEB is considered the handsomest officer in the United States Army. r.miRnm'a nn Mpnnftl. is ft member of the Italian Parliament and an Alderman of Rome. Mns. Stanford is said to support thirty or forty free kindergartens for the poor of San Francisco. - M. Meissonieh, the famous artist, has been rather indolent since his recent marriage and claims that his life work is done. Governor Campbell of Ohio, retains his ability to dance, and recently astonished hia friends by his waltzing and polkaing. Senator Morriix, of Vermont, has just celebrated his eightieth birthday at his resi dence in Washington City with a grand recep tion. ' ' ' William D. Howells recently remarked to a friend that he considered foreign travel detrimental to the career of an American nov elist. , Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is attracting . a good deal , of . attention at Palatka. Fla. Though her hair is white, she is remarkably active. . ". . General Greelt, Chief of the Signal Ser vice, is in receipt of at least twenty letters a day from cranks who solemnly hold him re sponsible for the weather. President Carnot of France has lost thi rty pounds since he assumed his present office. He cannot afford to grow much thinner, as hia natural figure is very slender. "Mrs. Lizzie Mead, widow of Professor Hiram Mead, of Oberlin, Ohio, has accepted the presidency of Mount Hclyoke College. She is now studying in Germany. , ' , : Representative McKinley expects to spend the Summer in Enrope. He is com pletely worn out with hia effort to frame a tariff bill that will please his party, . JOSEF Hofmasn, the boy pianist, who is living at Eisench, ractices steadily, and has been composing more or less, but has not play ed in public since he was in this country. Herb I. P. S. Estbupp, Prime Minister of Denmark, is a consumptive, weakly liking little man of unprepossessing appearance. During the fifteen years that he has held the Premiership, he has ruled th 3 country with an iron hand. . . M. Tisza, the Hungarian statesman, has the reputation of being "a little near." The bud get allows the Prime Minister 20,000 florins a year for table money, but M. Tisza gave one official banquet a y?ar, and no other sort of entertainment all the year round. The Sultan of Turkey recently submit ted the manuscript of a eomedy to a Parisian manager under &nom deplume The play was carefully examined , ana displayed certain marks of crude abiuty, but its motif was too Oriental for even the Parisian stage. - General MacAdaras, a member of tho French Chamber of Deputies, is an Irishman who organized the well-intentioned but rather luckless Irish Legion at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, and fought bravely against Germany. Cadet James M. Anderson, of Co. A,' First Class, at West Point, when called on re cently to explain in writing why he had his feet on the table during inspection, replied. "It was necessary tnat l enouia nave my xeet on the table, as my room-mate was present and had his feet on the floor.- I live with Cadet Grimes." Isaac Pitman, the inventonof ohonotrranhv. is a hoary-haired man with a scholarly stoop and still presides over the Phonetic Insti tute at Bath, England, where he has resided uninterruptedly tor more than nail a century. He is rising 78, yet he supervises a correspon dence of 30,000 letters a year, besides editing the Pkonttic Journal and compiling the num erous books which he annually publishes. " Madame Juliette Adam, the brilliant editor of the Nouville Rttme, of Paris, is writ ing a series of articles on American society, the information being obtained from newspa per reports and gossip in the past two seasons. She is belived to have written the articles on society in foreign capitals under the name "Count Paul Vasili." She will probably pay fier first visit to America in the Autumn. - THREE MEN KILLED. A Boiler End Collapse tnd the Woxk ; men r Thrown Fell Mell. An explosion occurred at the Etna . Mills' New Castle, Pa., at 6.30 A. M1 three men be ing killed and six badly injured, i wo of whom will probably die. At that hour while all of the men were workine. the flue end of the bie boiler, col lapsed with a deafening roar, and in a moment the place was drenched with scorching steam. A full half hour was lost before the injured men could be rescued and the last dead boay recovered. . : Those instantly killed were George Kiugpit- smith and John Welsh., Johnny Murphy could not be found for some time. His body was finally discovered in the fly whorl pit. where it had been hurled and ground to l ne jnjurea are: narney riepan, norrjoiy scalded; L. Shifnocker, badly hurt by flyinsr debris and scalded; Lawrence Flynn,scaldei; Andy Myers, scalded; Joe Rounds, arm broken and bruised; Johnny Myers, burned. So cause can yet be given for the breakage of tUo boiler. : . KISSING FOR tWO TEARS. . A Bailor Retnrnt Home After a Itemar k ' Able Experience. J. n. Rodger, of Charleston, S. C., former! y second officer of the Cherokee and Clyde li ne steamer, left here early in 1888, and shippi r.? from New York, on a Hamburg Line sit i " turned p here a day or two agooflrr an , senca of over two years, during which sl traces of him were lost. He say1? tbt Ik v.v with the crew of the Biontros', whU i v- burned off Cape Horn in 1W, and ti .U and the crew Ur ed for o rt r a yei- r o -j t ' c of Patagonia before they weve t kf ok b- i passing ship. '. During this rinse i-ie. -u". -i entirely on muBcels aad si'Rls. iU.- ii his wife here on bis return, r-he Js t nrdoss on the Clyde ste,in-r Iror ;e , instead of marrying, bad sptntl of 1 is s bstviee ia i;uniir.-r for tr.- " s : . husband. . ' ,, . . -
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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