THE TIMES.
1 short life tha is merry is belter than was silent on these queslions. When i "W"ASHINGTONXjETTER
THURSDAY JULY 19. 1804.
UK, J- II. 1ANIEI Editor a id
I'rojjriutor.
VIEWS OF DEATH-
1 along life that is embittered A
j few years more or le?s count for
I nothi.-.g, and if wc can enjoy our
' selves who cares what it may cost
'others? It is
to get what we want without regard
j ir. r too closely the way of getting it.
1 There is another way of looking at
D3ath takes no bribS- matter, however. You may tel.
Comes to all alike. !. if you piea. Christianity
If therefore tltou shalt not watch, I a tissue of fables and legends; but
will come on thee as a thief, and thou jtlie reply 13 that a fable which makes
shalt not know what hour I will come a raan more manly is better than a
unto thee. Revelation, iii, 3. j iruth which make3 a man cowardly.
The death of President Carnot far j jf woriJ j3 so constituted that a
nishes us with a very serious topic for j jcgenj or a falsehood, accepted In
consideration this morning. j raitb, wlu enable us to endure
For our present purpose we may ig- j the jj3 of ufe with serenity of tern
ncre tke fact that he was the loved j per and die with a smile on our lips.
the preacher sought these subjects a3
a sensation, or to attract public at"
special Corrcspondeuce ol Central Times.
The tariff bill nobody calls it the
tentiun to himself, he degeneraton in j Wilson bill any more has at last
to a pulpit mountebank, and was un- j gone to conference, where it will be
and honored Chief of the French Re
i,ublu and that he was the worthy
representative of an ancient family
whose record of prodity and courage
is unbroken. These serve t lend an
added emphasis to the incident, but
the impressive truth is that Death
stea's upon us unawares, with slip
plered feet, and that neither wealth
while the truth makes us cold and
hard and selfish, then by all means
let us abandon the truth and adopt
the falsehood. We may possibly
wonder how the universe got into
such crooked shape, but if that is its
shape we must make the best of
things as we find them, and if the A
rabian Nights Tales ate practically
nor ancestry will stay his hand for o j worth more than the propositions - of
single instant.
lie comes to all alike, and it makes
no difference to him whether the per
son for whom he holds a summons
lives in a palace, amid the elegant
surroundings which sometimes make
life i he more desirable, or in ihe hov
tl, where the only guests are want and
hunger.
Death never yet took a bribe. Ile
al ways achieves his purpose without
hesitation. It matters nothing to
lum whether the body from which he
has wrenched a soul lies in state, in
the midst of a mourning populace,
or i? cheaply cafflned and carried to
an obscure corner of some country
chunhyard. He is an inexorable
creature, and when he says "Come 1"
you instantly Say aside your work,
however important it may seem to be,
whisper a few hasty tarewells, and
then your tearful friends remark,
with bated breath, "lie has gone!"
The strasge part of it all is that
you cannot reckon on a year, or a
month. r even a day, with anything
like certainty. You must be ready
for this invisible messenger at all
tunes. I f therefore, there is anj's
thing in philosophy or religion which
will give yon quietude and serenity
of mind you must possess yourself of
it at once and hold it for an emer
gency. It is worth more to j'ou than
riches, for riches have a way of de
bertiog you in the pinch of fate. The
fact that you are worth millions docs
not give ou comfort when 30U are
in extremis, neither do you find con
solation in the honors j-ou have won
r in the high position which you
must vacate.
The Stoic of olden lime ground his
teeth when death kuocked at the
door, lie met the conqueror with
grim defiance, and surrendered with
a shrug of the shoulders. He sum
moned whatever indifference he could
command, and died with a scrowl on
his face. It was better so than to
criuge in cowardly fashion, and we
cauuot refrain from a certain decree
of admiration fur the man who be-,
lieved in nothing and 3-et took what-
Eucl.d, we do well to throw Euclid
out of the window and read the Ara
bian Nights i'ales as our daily food
But we may venture to declare that
the universe is not crooked. The
crook is in us. We dare to assert
also that Christianity, with its warn
ing to live honestly because there is
another life in which we must give an
account of ourselves contains the
highest spiritual truth that the mind
of man ever contemplated. The ker-
nal of corn which produces an ear of
corn is true corn. The apple seed
which produces an apple tree is a
true seed. The idea which develops
all the noblest qualities of manhood
j is a true idea. We judge from re
sults, and it is safe to do so.
With the spirit of Christ in your
heart and the principles He ans
nounced in your life 'ou are ready
lor any fate. Your days come and
gn, Karing in their arms whatever
experience God sees fit to send, and
when the last one has been counted
you lie down, saying, "It i3 not the
ecd, but the beginning." " Death
rings your bell and you bid him wel
come, for he is only the door-keeper
who ushers you across the threshold
of the present into the palace of eter
nity. Neic York Herald.
The Nations Crisis.
ITS CAI'SK A.-l ITS CURE
NET FOKTH II V RET. II.
A. JOM' S.
Deutcronray, xv 11: "For the
poor shall never cease out of the land;
therefore I command thee saying,
thou slnlt open thy hand wide unto
thy hrother, to thy poor and to thy
needy in thy land."
Suce wr.s the text chosen bv Rev.
H. A. Jones, pastor of the Cumber
land Presbyterian ohurch for his sers
mon yesterday morning. He said in
substance that perhaps no period in
our national history was fraught with
more danger to the very foundations
of the RepuMic than the scenes
through which we were now passing
in the great railroad strike. The late
war was sectional and its issues clear-
ever came without a groan. That j defined. Political doctrines touching
brutal bravery is worthy of imitation
if we can get no nobler view of the
sulject.
The agnostics of to-day arc the
lineal descendants of these ancient
Stoics. They must needs cling to
life, for it is all they will ever have.
To give it up is the gravest misfors
tune, but still a misfortune which
must be met in a manly way. The
future is eternal darkness, for body
ami soul disintegrate and resolve
themselves into natural forces, as a
State and federal rights were forever
settled, and the institution of slavery
hurried. But this was an internecine
strife. It entered every State of the
Union. It ws a struggle between
mi;ht and might, between force and
force, labor and capital, law and ra
pine. It had not come like the gath
ering of a summer thunder storm,
bursting in 'its suddenness upon a
startled nation, but ihe thoughtful
and intelligent had heard the rum-
blinss of the
tree do-s when it is riven by light- years
rt f a a A V n n J I - - . '
uuu3 uucit wuen it 131
consumed by fire. There is nothin
The speaker said it was unnecessa
ry for him to depict the scenes of the
, t-ou in uays, lor tneiacis had been
to look forward to, and when Death
comes he simply takes the record of. nuhlUhPri .1
; puousned in the newspapers
your years and throws it into the! iip e.;1(i
. . ! 'e said there were those
waste basket of the
there were those who sav
universe. . lhat re,:imia f
- 1 he agnostic does right to live with detail like men of business, nor can
all his might, and if he lives reckless- j discuss economic or politic subjects
ly we can scarcely blame him, for in j like men or the wor'.d or the poliiU
the last analysis we must admit that;cians. Toa certain extent this may
if this life is all it is foolish to exam- j be true, yet where these subjects
ine too closely into the character of; touched upon the morial or social
our pleasures. The fact that they are j wel fare of the people the' preacher was
pleasures oujht to saiUfy us, and a ! recreant to his trust and his God who
war thy of notice; but when be saw
great moral or social wrongs and re
mained silent God would require the
the blood at his hands.
"The primal cause of all this trou
ble," the speaker said "was in the in
tense selfishness of the age. It was
every one for self. The boycott re
presented possibly the worst conceiv
able form of selfishness the wot Id had
ever known, and the next decade will
wonder at the patience of the nations
under this form of national conspir
acy. On the other hand, the greed of
capital has caused the dumping on
the American shores of the worst
and' most vicious classes of Europe.
The rakings and scrapings of the
overgorged cities and countries of
Europe had been shipped like cattle,
and were nut to work at waes that
means starvation to a decent Ameri
can mechanic Capitalists had lost
sight of the fact that every man has a
nu ht to claim a reasonable susten
ance for his labor; that society is like
an organic body, each member hav
ing its functions, its office and its
claims; that God hath made of one
blood all men to dwell on all the face
of the earth; that what affects the
welfare of ohe touches the life of all,
or as our own Lowel says :
For mankind are one in spirit, and
an instinct bears along
Round the earth's electric circle the
swift flash of right or wrong;
Whether conscious or unconscious,
vet humanity's vast frame,
Through its ocean sundered fibers,
feels the gush of joy or shame
In the gain or loss of one race, all
the rest have equal claim.
In illustrating the degredation and
poverty of vast multitudes the speaks
er quoted from Prof. Huxlej, Freder
ick D. Maurice, George B. Sims and
Henry George, and then said anoths
er couse of the nation's crisis was
rotten politics and the reign of the
demagogue. The laws both State
and national were all right, but the
fault was in those who administered
them. The speaker quoted from
Prof. Bryce and Herbert Spencer, as
to weak points of municipal govern
ments, and said : 4 We elect- men to
office, not because they are strong,
capable, brave, honest and efficient,
but because they are weak, pliant
and can be used to serve some po
litical end. Such men are in office
in our own city and county today,
and in most of our American cities.
When a demand was made for an ec
onomical, lawabiding business gov
ernment last winter, the politicians
laughed it to scorn. There art men
today seeking the suffrages of . the
people for office upon which depends
the prosperity' suffrage and morality
of the community that you know and
I know will prostitute their office to
personal and partisan ends if the'
are unfortunately etected. We have
the remedy in our hands, but we do
not rise to the magnitude of our
privileges, and suffer until such an
archistic scenes through which we
are passing brings us to our senses,"
The country, said the speaker, will
not be saved by the politician but dy
the religion of Jusus Christ; not by
the church as such, not by ecclesiass
ticism, but by the incarnation of the
principles of our .holy Christianity
into the warp and woof of our civic
and social life, Amidst the storn
and strife of man, God reigns. A
bove the angry passions of the masss
es and the charlatanry and scheming
of the demagogue, the unfeeling self
ishness of man for man. God is
working out great economic end3,
and the day will come when from the
White mountains of New England to
the Sierras ridge of the Pacific the
golden chords of half a hundred
States will stretch across the conti
nent and God's own fingers wii!
strike the strings that will waft bars
subjected to agitation and irritation
for two weeks or more. If, when it
returns, with the approval of the
conferences, it is unlike
the Wilson bill, the chances are tht
it will be much more unlike the bill
passed by the Senate. The debate
over the reference of the measure to
conference was, for the most part,
very tame. Mr. Wilson made a strong
presentation of the situation, earn
estly defending the original House
bill, and insisting upon the duty of
the House to resist the Senate amend
rnents. Mr. Reed made a very brief
speech, devoted chiefly to facet ious
ness, and then the debate lagged.'
It is understood that Chair man
Wilson's confident beating in his de
fence of the House tariff bill as as
gainst the amendments of the Senate,
rested upon substantial encouiage
ment, aside from the staunch spirit
of opposition among the House Dems
ocrats. The President is said to have
expressed himself is direct terms as
opposed to many of the Senate a
mendments and as favoring a course
on the nart of the House conferees
of courageous action in an effort to
restore the measure to the form in
which it left the House,; or as nearly
so as possible. Before any steps
were taken in the House in regard to
the bill after the Senate finished its
work, the chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee and the President
are said to have bad a conference in
which the latter explained his views
quite freely.
The statemenet has been publish
ed that an effort is to be made to dis
cipline Mr. Hill for his condnct in
voting against the tariff bill, and that
the action would extend to the point
of calling a caucus and reading bim
out of the party. Yesterday a demos
cratic Senator, whose connection with
the caucus is of the most prominent
charactor, said that there was abso
lutely nothing In the report, and that
neither Mr. Hill nor any other Dems
crat who exercised (he priviliage of
lighting the tariff bill would be called
before his colleagues for criticism or
punishment.
During these somewhat troublous
times it is a pleasure to turn to the
office of the Commissioner ot Inter
nal Revenue and observe the hand
some increase in government leceis
pts. The receipts of this office now
average over one million dollars per
day. The anticipation of the increa
sed tax on spirits has resulted in
this tremendous increase in receipts
during the past week. On the whole
the situation in the Internal Revenue
department of the government is in
the most gratifying condition.
Now that the legislative road is
clear of the tariff incumberance, an
effort is making to secure a day in
the Senate for tie consideration of
the Chinese treaty, which has been
hanging fire for a long time.
Secretary Carlisle was out yesterday
for the first time since his recent
sickness. He called at the White
House and subsequently paid a visit
10 the Treasury Department.
A Card to the Citizens of
North Carolina Concern
ing Blind Children.
Raleigh, N. C, July 9th. 18&I.
In view of the completion of the
Morganton institusion for the educa
tion of the deaf, and their removal
from the institution for the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind at Raleigh, the lat
ter institution is better prepared
than ever before to sustain and edu
cate the blind. Our capacity is in
creased, our force augmented and
our methods ameliorated; all of
which enables us to do more efficient
work than we have heretofore done.
We are anxious that every blind
child in the State receive an ednca-
monious music to the millions who1'011 we iah to do all in our power
will join the song of a nation res Kor lue betterment of this unfortunate
deemed to God and the typical home ! c'a,9 to enable them to avail them
of man. j selves of this free . institution in
fhen shall all shackles fall; the stormy ' lich the State so magnanimously
; offers to instruct this class of its citizens.
With a view to this end, we earn-
clangor
Of wild war music o'er the earth .-hall
cease. -
Love shall taeae out the kilcful tire of
anirer.
nd Inlt atl. plant the tree of peace. Weal tUe P'ji,antbroPic peo-
pie of our Coommonwcaku to aid us
in this noble work. We wish to be
put in touch with every blind child
within our borders. We desire the
name, postoffice, township,-. county
and nearest railroad station of every
child of this class in North Carolina.
Also the name of the parent or guar
dian of such child. With such data,
we will correspond with the parents
and guardians of these children, and
in this way put them in reucu of an
education.
Will not the good people of the
State who know of a blind child or
children in their vicinity send us a
card with the iuformat'.an wanted?
We promise to use our best efforts to
get these children in school, if you
will enable as to get their names.
Please forward the data at once, and
greatly oblige,
Very truly,
W. J. Young, Principal.
B. F. Montagub,
For the Board of Trustees ol the
North Carolina lustitution for the
Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,
Raleigh, N. C.
mmmm
W.
A few days ago amid the red tape
proceedins that usually accompany
royal accouchements in England
there was ushered into life in that
country the possibility of a future
King, The whilom Princess May of
Teck, now the Duchess of York,
presented, her liege with a son and
heir. This youngster, who i now
the Duke of Kent anl began to draw
a princely salary along with his
baby breath is beir presumptive to
the British throne. But the Vista
adawn which he looks upon the the
one is a long and dim one. First
there are teething whooping-cough
measles and other infantile ills that
menace the offspring of high and
low alike then there are bis father
and grandfather who would like
greatly to take a whack at the King
business themselves and more than
all there is a probability that being
King will go out of fashion before
his time comes around. Mr Justk'
McCarthy M. P. Who ought to know-
about it says that England is mak
ing tremendous strides towards a re
public. If that be true since there
dose not seem to be any connection
between republicanism and heredita
ry rulers the King would have to go.
It is impossible to tell though con-
8urvatatism in social matters is so
strong in the English breast and the
hope of being presented at court is
so overpowering that the bold Brit
ishers may keep up the succession in
order to give themselves the opport
unity of toddying. To as Americans
it seems a most remarkable thing that
a proud and intelligent people can
be so ridiculous but as Mr. Lincoln
used to say. To those who like that
sort of thing it is the sort of thing
they like,"
When Senator Hill speaks of the
plantation manners of the South and
says that they are worse than those
of the slams of New York, he doubt
less has reference to the manner in
which these "plantations" spnrned'his
impudent canadacy for the presid
ential nomination while the slums of
New York rallied nobly to his sups
port There was a time when Dave
was very sweet on the South, It
was when he was foolish enough to
hope that it was willing to accept the
leadership of a man whose power
was based upon a close confederacy
with the depraved and criminal ele
ments of New York City. The plan
tation manner of spurning a low and
unscrupulous demagogue bas natur
ally become very etfensive to bim
and compares very unfavorable witli
the manners of the polished saciety
that throngs the dancehouses of the
Bowery. Senator HU1 wou'd be false
to his Alma Mater if he didn't stand
up for the slums. He would be ons
grateful to bis political schoolfellow
ers if be were not ready at all times
to bold up the bullsthroated ruffian
Tammany Hall as a paragon of court
ly grace and polished manners. But
the country is not likely to accept
the standard of tbe New York sens
tor. The great criminal organization,
of which he is the idol and most . is-
tinguished ornament, is being beaten
to pieces by the exposure of crimes. !
The penitentiary will soon be garged j
with the political resources of Dave
Hill and prison bars will close up
the path of his selfish ambition.
THE FIRE DIDN'T .BURN ME- qUt
AND I AM STILL TO BE FOUND AT THE SME
OLD STAND, WHERE YOUR
Money
n
Go fill
Ft
THAI EVER BEFORE-
PLEASE COME AROUND AND INSPECT
If.
Lars
WHICH WILL BE COMPLETE IN EVERY
PARTICULAR THIS WEEK.
Respectfully,
E. F. TOM,
Carolina IMa-oliitie Co.
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