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I THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER. ' THE RIGHT KIND OF TARIFF. The rows created by unnaturalized j foreigners in this country are lieeoming more frequent every day and it is about time that the people of this country SUBSCRIPTION RATES. called for a new protective tarifT in $2 00 which the citizen of the United States One Copy, per year, in advance.. , I 00 is the protected article. The justice of Oce Copy, six months in advance the killing of the Italian assassins in New Orleans has never been questioned Entered at the poetoffice at McMinnville except by Italy, nevertheless, the kill Oregon, as second-class matter. ing almost precipitated war with their mother country. Future killings of this TUK AGVERTI.-1M. R\TUS Of T h E T e IE- nature can be stopped now and all in piione -R egister are liberal, taking in consideration the circulation. Single ternational difficulties arising from inch, 11.00; each subsequent inch, $.75. them lie cared for, by this country put Special inducements for yearly or semi- ting lietter laws in force regarding the yearly contracts. landing of foreigners on our shores. -» » Jos W ork N eatly A nd Q uickly E xecuted America for Americans and all good at reasonable rates Our facilities are the best in Yamhill county and ns good citizens of foreign countries, blit pre as any in the state A complete steam serve us from the rag-tag and l>ol>-tail plant insures quick work. of Europe. The Huns of Pennsylvania * * R esolutions of C ondolence and all O bit - have been desirious of running things uary Poetry will be charged for at regular in the coal mines of that state for some advertising rates. * time and last week they attempted to A ll C ommunications Must P» r S igned B y do so, and now some fifteen of them lie the person who sends them, not for pub lication, unless unaccompanied by a “non dead for violating the laws of our coun de plume,” but for a guarantee of good try. Not one of them was a citizen of faitii. No publications will be published the United States; not one of them was unless so signed. tit to be a citizen, but they enjoyed all » * * A ddress A ll C ommunications , E ither F or the freedom that is given a citizen of the editorial or business departments, to T he T elephone -R egister , McMinnville, this country and repaid the lalior of Oregon. our forefathers by an attempt to violate * * * S ample C opies O p T he T elephoxe -K ecis - our laws. Fifteen of them are dead; tek will be mailed to any person in the that is Home satisfaction, but not United States or Europe, wlio desires one, enough. Let us have a protective tar free of charge iff so large on this class of foreigners * * « W k I nvite Yor To C ompact . T he T ei . f .- that not one of them can enter tills phone -R egister with any other paper country. published in Yambill county. HARDING & HEATH, Publishers. All eubecribers who do not receive their paper regularly will confer a faror by im mediately reporting the tame to thin office. THE SURPLUS IS DEAD. Mr. Joseph G. Cannon, who i was chairman of the appropriations com . mittee in the late house of representa Thursday, April 9, 1891. tives, has published as a supplement to the Congressional record the report of a Bishop Keane wants to know what post mortem on the surplus. His con the coming American will lie. Well, clusions are buried up in a pile of lan your reverence, there lie people who be guage and a fog of figures, but still the lieve that the coming American will careful reader will learn from his state lie a woman. ment the essential fact that tlie surplus is no more. The day of its decease it Gen. Miles is still of the opinion that may lie difficult to fix, but it was some the Indians will take to the warpath time in the month of February, Mr. in the spring. The Indians, then, Cannon proves that it was already dead have not been awed by their late visit on the 28th of February. to the Great Father at Washington, Mr. Cannon gives a statement of the which is strange. net cash balance in tlie treasury, plus Mr. Ingalls carries as a souvenir the the national bank redemption fund, on the first of March for each year from last dime paid to him by the govern 1885 to 1891. On March 1, 1891, lie ment in his salary for senator. It is states the sum of these two items at understood that Uncle Sam is content $42,714,840.4.5. He does not say how to let this particular ten-cent piece l>e much of tills is net cash and how much the very last Mr. Ingalls ever gets is the redemption fund, and he doesn't from him in the way of salary for al tell why the redemption fund, which leged services rendered. does not belong to the government, Andrew Carnegie has given $2,000,- should l>c added to the net cash, but we 000 to Pittsburg for a public library, but shall presently see the reason. A care the city council will not allow him to I ful search of the public debt statement have anything to say about where it for March 1, 1891, will result in the dis shall be located. David Sinton made a covery that the redemption fund is a gift to Cincinnati, and when he en- liability of the government, and that it coun- amounted on that date to $47,165,816.25 countered this same spirit in the I Now if the net cash plus the redemp cil he promptly withdrew his gift, Pittsburg should be careful that Mr. tion fund amounted on March 1 to $42- Carnegie hasn’t a string to > his two 714,840, and the redemption fund amounted to $47,165,816, how much millions. was the net cash? It must have lieen When excavations were made recent, just $4,450,974 less than nothing In ly for the foundation of the twenty other words the surplus was gone; there story Masonic temple, which is rapidly- wasn't any net cash, and the treasurer going up at the corner of State and of the United States hadn’t enough Randolph streets in Chicago, an eight to meet his current liabilities by four een ton mass of iron, cop|>er and other and a half million dollars. metals was discovered. A wholesale On Monday last the treasury gave hardware store stood on the lot at the out the statement that the surplus was time of the great conflagration of 1871, $13,000,000, but as the redemption fund and this mass or iron represents a jxir- is now counted in the cash in the treas tion of the stock which was melted by ury this means that there is a deficit the intense heat and precipitated into of over $30,000,000. Mr. Cannon’s ex the sulsliasenient It will beexhibited planations about the reasons for the at the World's Columbian Exposition. vastness of the appropriations become unimportant in view of the fact that The following is an approximate the surplus has been wiped out, not statement of appropriations made at only by reducing taxation but by in both sessions of the Fifty-first congress, creasing expenditures. prepared by the clerk of the senate Mr. Cannon’s figures were compiled committ.se on appropriations. Amoun t in the treasury for a purpose, which of regular bills, including deficiencies was to give the reader the impression and miscellaneous appropriation for that the management of the finances the first session, $361,700,000; amount by the republicans compares favorably of regular bills, including deficiencies with that of the democrats. Notice, and miscellaneous appropriation for the therefore, the way he states the figures second session, $405,000,000; permanent for two dates; March 1. 1.889. Marcii 1, 1891. appropriations for 1892 estimated at Net cash balance in 1122,000,000. This makes a grand total treasury........ $48,096,158 $42.711,810 Fund held for the of $989,700,000. say: "Why, they are all destroyed; we A PLAGUE OF UNBELIEF. tors don’t have any more chloroform or ether, but I have got something a great deal bet ------- I ter. I’ll read you a pamphlet against THE MOVING CAUSE OF ALL THE James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloro PLAGUES OF CITIES. Dr. Talmage's Masterly Contrast of the Effects of Christianity and Agnosticism. The Glorious Results of a Living Faith. What Has Infidelity Done? N ew Y ork , April 5. — Continuing his course of sermons on “The Ten Plagues of the Cities,” Rev. Dr. Talmage today took forliis subject “The Plague of Infidelity.” The discourse was delivered to Large and appreciative audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and the New York Academy of Music in the even ing. The text was Romans iii, 4, “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” That is if God says one thing and the whole human race says the opposite, Paul would accept the Divine veracity. But there .are many in our time who have dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. In fidelity is not only a plague, but it is the mother of plagues. It seems from what we hear on all sides that the Christian religion is a huge blun der; that the Mosaic account of thecreatioD is an absurdity large enough to throw all nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam and Eve never existed; that the ancient flood and Noah's ark wero impossibilities: that there never was a miracle; that ths Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman’s tyrant and man’s stultification; that the Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a hum bug, a sham, a lie; that the martyrs who died for its truth were miserable dupes: that the church of Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic, said, “The Bible is a noble book,” he was dropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker declared in Music hall, Boston, “Never a boy or girl in all Christendom but was profited by that great book,” he was be coming very weak minded; that it is some thing to bring a blush to the check of every patriot that John Adams, the father of American independence, declared, “The Bible is the best book in all the world;” and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a sniveling coward when he said, “That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests;” and that Daniel Web ster abdicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being the great expounder of the constitu tion and the great lawyer of his age turned into an idiot when he said, “My heart as sures and reassures me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. From the time that at my mother’s feet or on my father's knee I first learned to lisp verses from the sacred writings they have been my daily study and vigilant con templation, aud if there is anything in my style or thought to be commended the credit is due to my kind parents in instill ing into my mind an early love of the Scriptures;” and that William H. Seward the ilipliffhatistot the century, only showed his puerility when he declared, “The whole hope of human progress Is suspended on the ever growing influences of the Bible;” aud that it is wisest for us to take that book from the throne in the affections of uncounted multitudes and put it under our feet, to be trampled upon by ha tred and litssing contempt; and that your old father was hoodwinked and cajoled and cheated and befooled when he leaned on this as a staff after his hair grew gray, and his hands were tremulous, and his steps shortened as he came up to the verge of t he grave; and that your mother sat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of the better country, and of the ending of all her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with the chil dren she had buried witli infinite heart ache, so that she could read no more until she took off her spectacles and wiped from them the heavy mist of many tears. Alas! that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion and had it under their pillow when they lay a-dying in the back loom, and asked that some words from the vile page might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow of the old country meeting bouse where they sleep today waiting for a resurrection that will never come. This book, having deceived them, and having deceived the mighty intellects of the past, must not be allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupen dous intellects. Aud so out with the book from the court room, where it is used in the solemuization of testimony. Out with it from under the foundation of church aud asylum. Out with it from the domes tic circle. Gather together all the Bibles— the children’s Bibles, the family Bibles, those newly bound, and those with lid nearly worn out and pages almost obliter ated by the fingers long ago turned to dust—bring them all together, and let us make a bonfire of them, and by it warm our cold criticism, and after that turn un der with the plowshare of public indigna ; tion the polluted ashes of that loathsome, i adulterous, obscene, cruel nnd deathful book which is so antagonistic to man’s liberty, and woman’s honor, and the world s happiness. form as an anaesthetic, and against. Drs. Agnew and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott and Harvey and Abernethy.” “But.” says the man, “I must have some anes thetics.” “No,” say the doctors, “they are all destroyed, but we have got something a great deal better.” “What is that?” "Fun.” Fun about medicines. Liedown, all ye patients in Bellevue hospital, and stop your groaning; all ye broken hearted of all the cities, and quit your crying; we have the catholicon at last! Here is a dose of wit, here is a strength ening plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken np and take a spoonful of it after each meal, and if that does not cure you here is a solution of blasphemy in which you may bathe, and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton of death with a repar tee! Make the King of Terrors cackle! For all the agonies of all the ages a joke! Millions of people willing with uplifted hand toward heaven to affirm that the goepel of Jesus Christ is full of consolation for them, and yet infidelity proposes to take it away, giving nothing absolutely nothing, except fun. Is there any greater height or depth or length or breadth or im mensity of meanness in all God’s universe? Infidelity is a religion of “Don’t know.” Is there a God? Don’t know! Is the soul immortal? Don’t know! If we should meet each other in the future world will we recognize each other? Don’t know! A re ligion of “don’t know” for tho religion of "I know,” “I know in whom I have be lieved,” “I know that my Redeemer liv- eth.” Infidelity proposes to substitute a religion of awful negatives for onr religion of glorious positives, showing right before us a world of reunion and ecstasy and high companionship and glorious worship and stupendous victory, the mightiest joy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor awaiting all those who on wing of Chris tian faitii will soar toward it. Have you heard of the conspiracy to put out all the lighthouses on the coast? Do you know that on a certain night of next month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bell Rock lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Mon tauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New London lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse, and the 640 lighthouses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished ? “Oh,” you say, “what will become of the ships on that night? What will be the fate of the one million sailors following the sea? What will be the doom of the mil lions of passengers? Who will arise to put down such a conspiracy?” Every man, wo man and child in America and the world. But that is only a fable. That is what in fidelity is trying to do—put out all the lighthouses on t he coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the “Narrows” of death with no light, no comfort, no peace—all that coast covered with the blackness of darkness. Instead of the great lighthouse, a glowworm of wit, a firefly of jocosity. Which do j’ou like the better, O voyager for eternity, the firefly or the lighthouse? What a mission infidelity has started on! The extinguishment of lighthouses, the breaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal of all the pilots, the turning of the inscrip tion on your child’s grave into a farce and a lie. Walter Scott’s “Old Mortality,” chisel in hand, went through the land to ent out into plainer letters the half obliter ated inscriptions on the tombstones, and it was a lieautiful mission; but infidelity spends its time with hammer and chisel trying to cut out from the tombstones of your dead all the story of resurrection and heaven. It is the iconoclast of every vill age graveyard and of every city cemetery and of Westminster Abbey. Instead of Christian consolation for the dying, a freez ing sneer. Instead of prayer a grimace. Instead of Paul’s triumphant defiance of death, a going out you kuoiv not where, to stop you know not when, to do you kuow not what. That is infidelity. TOE FALSE TLEAS OF INFIDELITY. Furthermore: I cannot be an infidel, be cause of the false charges infidelity is all the time making against the Bible. Per haps the slander that has made the most impression and that some Christians have not been intelligent enough to deny is that the Bible favors polygamy. Does the God of the Bible uphold polygamy, or did he? How many wives did God make for Adam? He made one wife. Does not your common sense tell you wlieu God started the mar riage institution he started it as he want ed it to continue? If God had favored polygamy he could have created for Adam five wives or ten wives or twenty wives just as easily as he made one. At the very first? of the Bible God shows himself in favor of monogamy and antago nistic to polygamy. Genesis “ ’ ii, " 24, “Therc- fore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto liis wife.” Not his wives, but his wife. How many wives did God spare for Noah in the ark? Two and two the birds; two and two the cattle; two and two the lions; two and two the human race. If the God of the Bible had favored a multiplicity of wives he would have spared a plurality of wives. When God first launched the human race he gave Adam one wife. At the second launching of the human race he spares for Noah oue wife, for Ham one wife, for Sheni ' one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that ( ” AGNOSTICS ATTACK THE VERY LIFE. Now that is the substance of what infi look as though God favored polygamy? : delity proposes and declares, aud the at- j In Leviticus xviii, 18, God thunders his j tack on the Bible is accompanied by great prohibition of more than one wife. God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as I jocosity, and there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than he permits today’s murder nnd theft anil redemption of na arson and all kinds of crime. He permits ! the Bible. I like fun; no man was tional bank notes 82.577,250 (’> about Now that the protraeteti senatorial Total net cash, in ever built with a keener appreciation of it these things, as you well know, blit he I There is health in laughter instead of harm does not sanction them. Who would dare struggle ill the Illinois legislature is cluding national bank fund $130,073,408 $42,711,840 —physical health, mental health, moral to say he sanctions them? Because the over, the question of an appropriation The fumi held for redemption of nation health, spiritual health — provided you presidents of the United States have per for the state’s exhibit at the World’s al bank notes was deposited in the treasury laugh at the right thing. The morning is mitted polygamy in Utah, you are not, Fair will lie taken up and disposed of ami added to the general cash in July, 1890. jocund. The Indian with its ownmist bap therefore, to conclude that they patronized it, that thej- approved it, when, on the as speedily as possible. As the fair is The first thing this shows is that in tizes the cataract Minnehaha, or Laughing contrary, they denounced it. All of God’s Water. You have not kept your eyes open j to be held at its metropolis, Illinois feels two years the republicans have spent or aucieut Israel knew that the God of the your ears alert if you have not seen the called upon to set the example for other $88,000,000 more than the revenue. sea smile, or heard the forests clap their Bible was against polygamy, for in the ' four hundred and thirty years of their I stati“« by making a handsome appro But why doesn’t Mr. Cannon state hands, or the orchards in blossom week stay in Egypt there is only one case of priation in aid of its exhibit. An ap the amount of the redemption fund on aglee with redolence. But there is a laugh polygamy recorded—only one. All the ter which is deathful, there is a laughter propriation of $1,064,000 has lieen asked j March 1? Simply because he had to which has the rebound of despair. It is mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from for, and it seems very probable that the take the whole of it to make up the not healthy to giggle about God or chuckle polygamy except those who, falling into crime, were chastised within an inch amount, large as it is, will be voted. i cash deficit and leave an apparent “net about eternity or smirk about the things the of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Jo-' Besides the amount named above, the ! cash balance.” If lie had stated that of the immortal soul. sepli, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But You know what caused the accident. lady managers intend to ask for $50,-1 the redemption fund was $47,165,815, years ago on the Hudson River railroad. ! you say, “Didn’t David and Solomon favor 000. Illinois enjoys the enviable dis lie would hav been obliged to confess It was an intoxicated mail who for a joke | polygamy?” Yes; and did they not get punished for it? tinction among the states of being en that there was $4,450,975 less than no pulled the string of the air brake and well Read the lives of those two men and the train at the most dangerous tirely out of debt. Its resources are net cash balance at all. That is the stopped point of the journey. But the lightning you will come to the conclusion that all scarcely second to those of any other fact he was trying to conceal. train, not knowing there was any impedi the attributes of God’s nature were against state, and it is felt that it can well af While the population of the United ment in the way, came down, crushing out their behavior. David suffered for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Mas- ford to do what state pride prompts, .States has increased 40 per cent., the of the mangled victims the immortal souls eada, in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in that went speeding instantly to God and and what may naturally be expected, expenditures of the government have judgment. It was only a joke. He thought the bereavements of Ziklag. The Bedouins namely, spend a million dollars or increased 189 per cent. it would be such fun to stop the train. He after him, sickness after him, Absalom af stopped it. And so infidelity is chiefly ter him, Ahithopel after him, Adonijah af more on the exjxisition. According to j anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, ter him, the Edomites after him, the Sy-! the plans already adopted, $860,000 will No more silver dollars will be coined and the long train of the churches, and the rians after him, the Moabites after him, be spent on the state building at the after July 1, owing to the fact that the long train of Christian influences, while death after him, the Lord God Almighty ■ fair, more than $200,000 in furnishing silver law enacted by the last congress coming down upon us are death, judgment after him. The poorest peasant in all the married to the plainest Jewess was and maintaining it, mid the rest of the authorised the secretary of the treasury aud eternity, coming a thousand miles a empire minute, coming with more force than all happier than the king in his marital mis-! appropriation on the exhibit. behavior. How did Solomon get along ' to discontinue the coinage at that time. the avalanches that ever slipped from the polygamy? Read his warnings in I with discretionary power to resume Alps, coming with more strength than all with It is a mistaken idea, that many peo the lightning express trains that ever whis Proverhs: read his self disgust in Ecclesi I whenever it becomes necessary to re- tled or shrieked or thundered across the astes. He throws up his hands in loath ple have been led into from a lack of i deem the silver certificates. The 4,500- continent. ing and cries out, “Vanity of vanities, all trustworthy in fori nation, to suppose 000 ounces of silver bullion purchased Now in this jocularity of infidel thinkers is vanity.” His seven hundred wives that all the men elected to the fifty-sec pestered the life out of him. Solo- ' | each month thereafter will lie paid for I cannot join, and I propose to give you nearly ond congress, by the farmers alliance, reasons why I cannot be an infidel, omon got well paid for his crimes—well ! .'i in treasury notes. The mint will put some paid. and so I will try to help out of this present are uneducated. Just the reverse is I repeat that all the mighty men of the ! in a big part of its time for quite a condition any who may have lieen struck true! Senator Peffer, of Kansas, while Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save i while after the first of July in recoining with the awful plague of skepticism. not well up in the dead languages and First, I cannot lie an infidel because in as they were pounded and flailed and cut classical lore, is nevertheless an educat tlie mutilated and abraded fractional i fidelity has no good substitute for the eon to pieces for their insult to holy marriage. currency, now in the treasury, which l solation it proposes to tako away. You If the Bible is the friend of polygamy why ed man and as an authority upon mat amount to several millions of dollars. know there are millions of people who get is it that in ail the lands where the Bible ters relating to the United States gov their chief consolation from this book. predominates polygamy is forbidden, and ernment and its domestic affairs, he | The .“ total number of silver dollars now Wliat would you think of a crusade of this in the lands where there is no Bible it is has few superiors. Representative John ' i !-i existence is 397,000,000, of which sort? Suppose a man should resolve that favored. Polygamy all over China, all over India, all over Africa, all over Persia, Davis from the same state, will lie one 1 i 67,1X10,000 are in actual circulation, :«X>,- he would organize a conspiracy to destroy all over heathendom, save as the mission 1 900,000 are represented by silver certifi- all the medicines from all the apothecaries of the best educated men that will sit ; and from all the hospitals of the earth. aries have done their work, while polyg in either house of the fifty-second con 1 cates in circulation, and 24,000,000 are The work is done. The medicines are amy does not exist in England and the held by the treasury for which no eer- gress. Indeed, he is so close a student taken, and they are thrown into the river, United States, except in defiance of law. The Bible abroad, God honored monogamy. that he has earned the title of “crank." Itifleates hwe evc,‘ ,>cc" is8Ued- or the lake, tir the sea. A pat ient wakes up at midnight in a par The Bible not abroad, God abhorred polyg But he is the kind of crank that the : oxysm of distress, and wants an anodyne. amy. government can always find room for. While there is a dispute as to wiietli- “Oh,” says the nurse, “the anodynes are TOE GLORY OF CHRISTIAN WOMANHOOD. Another false charge which infidelity ha.i He is the originator of the idea of state er the United States senatorship in all destroyed; we have no drops to give against the Bible is that it is antago agricultural colleges, and the author of California, which has just lieen secured you, but instead of that I’ll read you a made nistic to woman, that it enjoins her degra the bill passed by the Illinois legisla-1 by Mr. Felton, was bought and paid book on tlie absurdities of morphine and dation aud belittles her mission. Under on tlie absurdities of all remedies.” But ture establishing the first one of those for or not, there is no question in re the man continues to writhe in paiu, and this impression many women have been colleges in that state. He will be heard gard to the fact that the Pacific rail the nurse says: “I’ll continue to read you overcome of this plague of infidelity. Is Bible the enemy of woman? Come from in the house, and any member road« have got another representative <omc discourses on anodynes, the cruelties the anodynes, the indecencies of anodynes, into the picture gallery, the Louvre, the that tackles him under the impression in the senate who will oliey their com of the absurdities of auodynes. For vonr Luxembourg of the Bible, and see which that he doesn’t “know beans" will get mands at all times. Whatever money groau I ll give you a laugh.” pictures are the more honored. Here is Eve, a perfect woman; as perfect a woman I was expended to secure Felton's elec badly left. alas ! roi: the sorrowing . tion doubtless came from the treasuries I Here in tile hospital is a patient havinga as could be made by a perfect God. Here gangrened limb amputated. Hesays: “Oil, is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling Where has Oregon's summer gone to? I of these companies. for ether! Oh. fur chloroform!” Thedoc- a host into battle. Here is Miriam, lead ' lng the lsraeliush orchestra on the banks of the Red sea. Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving hand replenishing the wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet. Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot of the mountain until the four hun dred wrathful men, at the sight of her beauty and prowess halt, halt—a hurricane stopped at the sight of a water lily, a dew drop dashing back Niagara. Here is Ruth putting to shame all the modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her country, and faces wild beasts and exile and death that she may be with Naomi, her husband's mother. Ruth, the queen of the harvest fields. Ruth, the grandmother of David. Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The story of her virtues and her life sacrifice is the most beauti ul pastoral ever written. Here is Vashti defying the bacchanal of a thousand drunken lords, and Esther will ing to throw her life away that she may deliver her people. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philanthropic needle, and the woman with perfume in a box made from the hills of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on the head of Christ, the aroma lingering all down the corridor of the centuries. Here is Lydia, the merchantess of Tyrian purple immortalized for her Christian behavior. Here is the widow with two mites, more famous than the Peabodys and the Len oxes of all the ages, while here comes in . slow of gait and with careful attendants and with especial honor and high favor, leaning on the arm of inspiration, one who is the joy and pride of any home bo rarely fortunate us to have one, an old Christian grandmother, Grandmother Lois. Who lias more worshipers today than any being that ever lived on earth except Jesus Christ? Mary. For what purpose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth ’ To relieve the embarrassment of a woman ly housekeeper at the falling short of a beverage. Why did Christ break up the silence of the tomb, aud tear off the shroud, and rip up the rocks? It was to stop the bereavement of the two Bethany sisters. For whose comfort was Christ most anx ious in the hour of dying excruciation? For a woman, an old woman, a wrinkle faced woman, a woman who in other days I had held him in her arms, his first friend, his last friend, as it is very apt to be, his mother. All the pathos of the ages com pressed iuto one utterance, “Behold thy mother.” Does the Bible antagonize wom an? A CALL FOR THE WITNESSES. If the Bible is so antagonistic to woman, [ how do you account for the difference in woman's condition iu China aud Central Africa, and her condition in England and America? There is no difference except I that which the Bible makes. In lands where there is no Bible she is hitched like a beast of burden to the plows, she carries the hod, she submits to indescribable in-I dignities. She must be kept in a private ; apartment, and if she come forth she must I lie carefully hooded and religiously veiled i as though it were a shame to be a woman, i Do you uot know that the very first [ thing the Bible docs when it comes > into a new country is to strike off, the shackles of woman’s serfdom? oj woman, where are your chains today?! Hold up both your arms and let us see your handcuffs. Oh. we see the handcuffs. They are bracelets of gold bestowed by husbandly or fatherly or brotherly or sis terly or loverly affection. Unloosen the warm robe from your neck, O woman, and let us see the yoke of your bondage. Oh, I find the yoke a carcenet of silver, or a string of carnelians, oracluster of pearls, that must gall you very much. How bad you must all have it. Since you put the Bible on your stand in the sittiug room, has the Bible been to you, O woman, a curse or a blessing? Why is it that a woman when she is troubled will go to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why do you not go for comfort to some of the great infidel boolcs, Spinoza’s “Ethics," or Hume’s “Natural History of Religion,” or Paine’s “Age of Reason.” or Dedro's Dramas, or any one of the 260 volumes of Voltaire? No, the silly, deluded woman per- sistsin hanging about the Bible veins, ‘T^t not your heart be troubled,” "All things work together for good,” “Weeping may endure for a night,” “I am the resur rection,” “Peace, be still.” Furthermore, rather than invite I resist this plague of infidelity liecause it lias wrought no positive good for the world and is always a hindrance. I ask you to mention the names of the merciful aud the educational institutions which infidelity founded and is supporting, and has sup ported all the way through—institutions pronounced against God and the Christian religion, and yet pronounced in behalf of suffering humanity. What are the names of them? Certainly not the United States Christian commission, or the sanitary com mission, for Christian George H. Stuart was the president of the one, and Christian Henry W. Bellows was the president of the other. COMPARE THE HOSPITALS AND COLLEGES. Where are the asylums and merciful in stitutions founded by infidelity and sup ported by infidelity, pronounced against God and the Bible, and yet doing work for the alleviation of suffering? Infidelity is so very loud in its braggadocio it must have some to mention. Certainly, if you come to speak of educational institutions it is not Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Prince ton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cam bridge or Oxford, it is not any institution from which a diploma would not be a dis grace. Do you point to the German uni versities as exceptions? I have to tell you that all the German universities to-day are under positive Christian influences, except the University of Heidelberg, where the ruffianly students cut and maul and man gle and murder each other as a matter of pride instead of infamy. Do you mention Girard college, Philadelphia, as an excep tion, that college established by the will of Mr. Girard which forbade religious in struction aud the entrance of clergymen within its gates. My reply is that I lived for seven years near that college and knew many of its professors to be Christian in structors, and no better Christian influ enees are to lie found in any college thau in Girard college. There stands Christiauity. There stands infidelity. Compare what they have done Compare their resources. There is Chris tianity, a prayer on her lip; a benediction on her brow; both bands full of help for all who want help; the mother of thou sands of colleges; the mother of thousands of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the sick, the lame, the imbecile; the mother of missions for the bringing back of the out cast; the mother of thousands of reforma tory institutions for the saving of the lost; the mother of innumerable Sabbath schools bringing millions of children under a drill to prepare them for respectability and use fulness, to say nothing of the great future. That is Christianity. Here is infidelity; no prayer on her lips, no benediction on her brow, both hauds clenched—what for? To fight Christian ity. That is the entire business. The com plete mission of infidelity to fight Chris tianity. Where are her schools, her col leges, her asylums of mercy? Let me throw you down a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with the names of her lieuefieent institutions, the colleges, and the asylums, the institutions of mercy and of learning, founded by in fidelity and supported alone by infidelity, pronounced against God and the Christian religiou, and yet in favor of making the world better. “Oh,” you say, “a ream of paper is too much for the names of those institutions.” Well, then, I throw you a quire of paper. Fill it all up now. I will wait until you get all the names down. “Oh,” you say, “that is too much.” Well, then, I will just hand you a sheet of letter payer. Just till up the four sides while we are talking of this matter with the names of the merciful institutions and the educa tional institutions founded by infidelity and supported all along by infidelity, pro nounced against God and the Christian religiou, yet in favor of humanity. WHERE ARE TOUR FRUITS, AGNOSTICS? “Oh,” you say, “that is too much room. We don't want a whole sheet of paper to write down the names.” Perhaps I had better tear out one leaf from my memoran dum book and ask you fill up both sides of it with the names of such institu tions. “Oh," you say, “that would be too much room. I wouldn’t want so much room as that.” Well, then, sup rose you count them on your ten fin ders. "Oh,” you say. “not quite so much as that.” Well, then, count them on the fingers of one baud. “Oh,” you say, "we don’t want quite so much room as that.” Concluded on third page. IT ■7 New Inauguration! Having survived that Dreadful Ordeal cf a Trial By Jury: And having secured the help of Mr. Amidon, a gentleman highly recommended for his ability and thirty years experience in Merchantil'e life, I am better prepared than ever to accommodate the trade; and hav ing decided to make room by Sacrificing Certain Seasonable Goods. And prefering to give our patrons the benefit of the loss rather than ship them elsewhere to be sold. And in order that our competitors may bff saved the.trouble of sending over to get our prices hence the New Inauguration Inaugaration of giving all the benefit of the following Price List of goods reduced. Wo are offering in Dress Goods— A line of Satines for 15 cents former price 25 cents ll ll 25 “ “ Dress “ “ 08 “ iC $1.50 Rubber Goods, Circulars $1.1X1 1C it 4.00 “ “ New Markets 2,75 Cl Cl 2.00 “ Gossimers with sleeves 1.25 1C it 2.50 Ladies’ Fine Shoes 1.00 ci 2.50 “ Full Stock Calf 1.00 11 ll 1.75 Children and Misses’ Shoes 1.00 1C ll 1.00 50 Mens’ Wool llats Cl 2.50 1.75 Felt “ I 3,00 2.00 It Stiff “ c (l Clothing. All Summer Weights Must Go! $20 suits reduced to $15 $15 suits reduced to $12 $10 and $12 suits reduced to $9. We are showing a special line of Biys’ and Childrens' Suits in four pieces of goods, consisting of Coat, Cap and two Pants, ranging in price from $3 to $C>. These are especially good values. We Want a Share of the Grocery Trade. Look at our prices and compare them wtth what you have been paying elsewhere. Best Oregon bacon, hams, 12c per pound a ll 10c •c “ “ sides ii <1 “ shoulders 08c 5 gallon keg Pickles, plain and mixed, $1.50 peg keg. worth that at wholesale. All Produce, except Butter, taken in exchange for goods at its market value. WANTED—Wool and Mohair for shipment All wholesale houses requiring settlement every thirty or ninety days, and so many merchants throughout the county having already- adopted cash or 30 day credit and having to compete with these, we shall hereafter insist on settlement every 90 days fixing dates as follows: January, April, July and October 1st of each year. No account allowed to run over these dates. Recognizing as I do the inability of many good customers to always raise money at any fixed date, all those wo regard as good will lie allowed to settle by notes liearing interest, so that if we don’t get cash and have to borrow money to pay wholesale dealers, we lielieve those who get the accommodation should pay interest, as no man in any kind of business can afford to pay interest and taxes on what other people owe him without getting some return for the same. If you dont want to pay merchants interest for such accommodation, then go to one of the Ranks, borrow the money and pay for what you buy and save all booking. ar. UFU/ITT RRilQ KEEP ON HAND IjLvVIll DnUu. ALWAYS A COMPLETE LINE OF BOOKS, STATIONARY, MUSICAL GOODS, -A.T THE LOWEST PKIOES. WHY WILL YOU PAY REKT! IF YOU WANT A STYLISH I Offer You Lands in Large or Small Tracts, or City Lots at Low Prices and Easy Terms CHEHALEM ORCHARD HOMES ” - » Or anything in the Line of Is just the place for a Small Farm; only three-fourths mile from Railroad station and one and one-half miles from Steamboat landing. Acre Tracts within One Mile of Court ! or Boys’ Goods ( ALL AT OOOZD I have four lots as fine as can be found in Chand ler's addition. Cheap. NO EXCUSE FOR YOUR NOT HAVING A HOME ! Call and. See T. S htthtleff KAY & TODD’S, As they are the Only Exclusive Clothing and Gents’ Furnishing Goods House W. T. SIH RTLEFF, General Real Estate, Insurance and Loan Broker. Collections Promptly Attended to. Office Cor. Third and E Sts. McMinnville, Oregon. IN TIIE COUNTY. You will find the Latest Style Goods and Largest Assortment. THEIR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST. NEW GOODS NOW IN Call and See Them Before You Buy. A Fine Line of Piece Goods and Good Tailors to Make Them Up. KAY & TODI), McMinnville, Or EE STILL A MINUTE AND LISTEN! Great Bargains in Every Grade! And an Immense Stock to Choose from. Ladies and Misses, Old and Young, Large and Small Feet Infants’ and Big Babies’ Feet Be sure and bring your feet along if you want to lie fitted with Tlxe I-igitest Stories of Slxoes 1 Which lias Just Arrived at the Opposition Boot and Shoe Store F. DIELSCHNEIDER HORSE BILLS NpM1YSke.