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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1889.

THE House of Representatives wisely
defeated the bill providing for levying
special taxes upon the salaries of officers.
The measure was an ill-considered one,
at the best. If it had been enacted into
law, the result would have been that the
men taxed would have found some way
to shift the burden of the tax levied upon
them, by charging additional fees, or in
some other way.
Gentlemen of the Legislature! the rem
edy needed is a reduction of expenses,
rather than an enlarged basis of taxation,
and better facilities for correcting abuses
in county, township, and municipal gov
eminent.
General Beatty states the cold truth
when he says the office of Commissioner
of Railroads and Telegraphs should be
abolished. 1t is an Office that ought to
be useful, but there is little hope that it
will be. In Massachusetts, organized by
Charles Francis Adams, who by patient
investigation and study became author
ity on all matters relating to the trans
portation interests, the Office at once and
ever since has been of immense service
to the public. Here, on the other hand,
except during the brief term administer
ed by General George B. Wright, it has
been treated as a lying-in hospital for
disabled politicians, who know nothing
of the relations of transportation COM
panies to the public, and have not even
the energy to study the reports and meth
DDS of Mr. Adams and General Wright
Abolish it, and require the needed sta
tistics to be gathered by the Auditor of
State.
And then our elaborate and highly or
namental and expensive war bureau is
deserving attention. There is no imme-
diate danger of Ohio getting into war,
since Cleveland is about to be removed,
and the pruning knife may safely be ap-
piled there. There is no occasion for
more elaborate and costly
bureau than Tod and Brough had, when
regiment after regiment was being or
ganized and equipped for war.
The contingent fund provided for the
various State officers is another source of
and waste.
No member need go around the capt.
tol like Diogenes, with lantern in broad
day, if he really wants to retrench ex-
penses and avoid an increased tax rate.
The proposition to tax salaries is not
the true solution of that question. If |
they are too high, reduce them, instead
of furnishing the officer with an addi-
tional incentive to mulct the people with
unlawful fees, and for which the State
provides no adequate remedy.
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THE WAITING TINE.

There are days of deepest sorrow,
In the season OF our life:
There are wild, deSpairing moments,
There are hours of mortal strife:
There are times of stormy anguish,
When the tears refuse to fall,
But the waiting time. my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Youth and love are oft impatient,
Seeking things beyond their reach;
And the heart grows sick with hoping,
Ere it learns what life can teach.
For. before the fruit be gathered,
We must see the blossoms fall:
And the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Loving once, and loving ever,
Ii is sad To watch for years
For the light whose ftful shining
Makes a rainbow of our tears.
Ii is sad TO count at morning
All the hours to even-fall;
Oh, the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all!
We can bear the heat of conflict,
Though the sudden, crushing blow,
Beating back our gathered forces,
For moment lays US low.
We may raise again beneath il,
None the weaker Tor the fall;
But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
For II wears the eager spirit,
As the salt waves wear the stone,
And Hopes gorgeous garb grows threadbare
Til its brightest tintS are gone.
Then, amid youths radient treSSeS,
Silent SHOWS begin to fall:
Oh, the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Yet at last we lear the lesson,
That God knoweth what is best,
And a silent resignation
Makes the spirit calm and bleSt;
For We know day is coming
For the changes of fate,
When our hearts will thank Him meekly
That He taught us how to wait
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Established in 181 3.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

aRESBTTERIAN CHURCH-Bev X. Ale1.
ander. pastor. Public worship every Sabpdui
morning and evening; Sabbath seho0i y.SO q, IN.
yonng DeoDles society of Christian endeaFor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, % v neuhesAds
evening Strangers welcome 70 al services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHI RCH--Rev,
ri Hollingshead. pastor. Sabbalh preaching II
!. M; p m; young peoples meeting, MONDAY
EVENINGS; general prayer meeting, lAuTsaay eve eve
1in@S. mems meeting, Friday evenings; SaDbdIn
.ehooi go pm. Strangers cordially invited TO all
erviceS.
UNITED PRESBHTERiAAt thC th, NJ 20 NJ : - e.
rbomas Ralnh paStor SabDath school, 10 a. m
public worship, ii a. m; weekly prayer meeting
FRIDAY D. m monthly prayer meeting ldsl oatuI @
day OF each month, p. m; woman ; nllsslohai!
sIciety last Saturday Of each month, p m us
triet Drawer meetings, first Tuesdays, Mednesda!S
THURSDAYS and Saturdays each month"; p. IN
young wonen's prayer meeting second SATURDAY
each month at the parsonage, p H.
LFRICAVM E. CHURCH-Rey. j NJ wilkes,
pastor Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p m; SAD
hath school 2:SO D. m; weekly prayer meeting,
THURSDAY evenings. Strangers welcome
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WHEN Governor Foraker was inaugu-

WHEN Governor Foraker was inaugu-
rated the Republican party of Ohio was
united and harmonious. After three
years of his administration factional
quarrels prevail, and on the Threshold
of an election for Governor and Legis-
lature which will choose successor to
Senator Payne, the wretched quarrel is
at its height. The Governors office and
some of the State bureaus filled by him
are nests of plotters and intriguers, the
persons in them seeming to think the
offices they hold were designed for the
advancement and glorification of their
chief. The benevolent and reformatory
institutions of the State are treated as
the personal belongings of the executive.
Apparently, the well being and harmony
of a great party, to whom all of them owe
what political preferment they have en-
joyed, is a matter of indifference.
These are cold truths, however disa-
greeable their utterance may be; and to
undertake to disguise or belittle the dan
ger is not good politics nor fair treatment
of men who look to Republican newspa-
pers for the truth.
The Republicans of Ohio owe nothing
to any man. The men they elevate to
office owe them everything. The party
will not be bossed, and men who under
take it are apt to be hurt.
The crisis is serious one. If Repub-
licans are equal to the occasion, all will
be we'll; if they are not, the probabilities
are the people of the State will have an
other era of Democratic rule.
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IT has been settled that the explosion
of its boiler caused the destruction of
the Hartford hotel with nearly all of its
inmates, and that no engineer was on
duty at the time of the explosion be-
tween midnight and daylight. The GUS
tom of the engineer was to bank his
fires and go home to the sleep of securi-
ty, while those in the hotel remained to
the kind of sleep boiler left to itself
was bound in time to give them. He
has been arrested. but he cannot be held
to account. He had to have sleep. and
the boilers could not be watched while
he slept. The fault lies with the own
ers of the hotel, whose parsimOny would
bear the expense of but one engineer
when there should have been two, one
for the night and the other for the day.
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HALE MILLION STRANGERS.

Between four and five hundred thous-
and people are expected in Washington
for the inauguration ceremonies, and the
inaugural committee on public comfort,
in view of arrangements already made,
announces that it can accommodate them
all. The PENNSYLVANIA Lines for this occa-
sionwill place in service their entire equip
equipment, running through cars from all
principal points. and rules have been
adopted that will ensure their prompt,
safe and satisfactory movement. The
sidetracks and yards at Washington will
be kept clear in order that trains may be
run in and out on schedule time. For
full information regarding the cheap ex-
cursion rates and other matters apply to
the nearest passenger or ticket agent of
the Pennsylvania Lines.
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AT one of the recent Moody revival
meetings on the Pacific Coast the GUS
tomary request was made that those suf-
fering from any particularly heavy bur
den should stand up and ask for the
prayers of the assembled multitude
After few moments silence tall.
meek looking man arose, and in voice
choked with emotion asked that the
prayers of the congregation might be
offered for his mother-in-law. Instead
Of praying, the congregation first began
to litter, and finally roared with laugh
ter.
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Col. JAMES A. WOOD died recently
at his home in Bloomfield, KY, aged "A
years. Col. Wood went to Texas in 1885
and took part in the rebellion against
Mexico. He was at the massacre of the
the Alamo, and with two others escaped,
they being the only survivors of that
bloody event. Col. Wood, in his account
of his escape, said that when Santa
Anna ordered the prisoners to be shot
he dropped to the ground, as if he had
been killed, at the first discharge. He
began to roll over, and continued roll
ing until the river was reached, when he
sprang to his feet and got away. He
never stopped travelling from the Alamo
until he reached Kentucky.
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IT is asserted that nearly all the idols
now worshipped in India are of English
manufacture. John Bulls principle
would seem to be "Let me but make the
idols of a country and l care not who
makes its religion"
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REMEDY FOR TYPHOID FEVER.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
The attending physician to the Man.
haitian General Hospital, DR.. Simon
Baruch, has published some facts in
connection with the treatment of ty-
phoid fever which go far to show that
the cold bath is the most efficacious rem
edy known for that peculiarly fatal dis
ease. The fact demonstrated is that
under the present methods of treating
typhoid fever patients the death-rate is
frightfully large Out of 7,712 cases
treated in New York Ciiy, from 1875
to 1885, there were 3, 1S4 deaths, or II %
per cent. The deaths in New York
hospitals in 1885 were 24.66 per cent.
In Germany, under similar treatment,
out of IL, ,124 cases reported there were
21.7 per cent. of deaths.
Now for the second fact. DR.. Baruch
quotes statistics obtained in the German
military hospitals which show that out
of 1907 cases treated with ''all kinds
of cold baths" there was mortality of
10 per cent. Out of 2,S41 cases in
which the treatment was intermediate,
with water" the mortality was 12.2 per
cent. Out of 2,19S cases treated with
''strict cold baths" the mortality was
IL per cent, and in the same cases
2,150 patients. who were treated before
the disease had progressed five days all
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1t is not to be wondered at that, in
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method of treating this dangerous dis
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Hydropathy is not as popular as it once
was, but it still occupies an important
place in therapeutics, and deservedly so
in the light of these results. The schools
may not take kindly to the new remedy,
but why should patients be permitted to
languish and die by thousands when
they can be saved by cold baths?
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THE TREASURE-CHEST.

n Spanish Moor, being on the eve OF
setting out on a pilgrimage to Mecca,
entrusted all his money to a man. who
had hitherto borne reputation for un-
blemished probity.
His fortune consisted of two thousand
besants. On his return he was not little
surprised when the reputed honest man
denied all knowledge of himself or his
money.
The pilgrim entered complaint against
him, entreated the Judge to help him to
his property, and took his oath on the
truth of his statement all in vainI
The old mans good name Outweighed
all he could say; the plaintiff was non
suited, and went away in despair.
Presently he met an old woman, who
was toddling along with the help of a
staff. Touched by the strangers grief,
she stopped him him, halted him in Al
lah's name, bade him take good heart,
and listened to his unvarnished tale.
"Be of good cheer, young man." said
she; 'may be, with Allah's aid, shall
get back your gold. Do you buy chest,
and fill it with sand OF mold; only let it
be bound with iron and well locked.
Then choose three or four discreet men,
and come to me. We shall succeed, nev-
er fear"
The Spanish Moor followed her ad-
vice punctually. He came with four
friends, bringing chest which the
strongest porters could scarcely drag
along.
"Now follow me-" said the old woman
kindly.
On reaching the door of the supposed
honest man, she went in with the Span
iard's four friends, bidding the latter
wait below, and not make his appear
ance until the chest had been carried
upstairs. She now stood in the pres
ence of the hypoerite, when she intro
duced Ter four companions.
"Beh0ldI" said she. "Here are some
honest Spaniards about to make pill
grimage to Egypt. Their treasures are
boundless. They possess, among other
things, ten chests full of gold and sill
yer that they know not where to stow
away Just at present. They desire to
entrust them to safe hands for time;
so l, well knowing your honesty and un-
sullied reputation, have brought them
hither. Pray fulfill their wishes"
Meanwhile she had the heavy chest !
brought in, which the pretended honest
man gloated over with greedy looks
But just then the despoiled pilgrim rush.
ed in, impetuously claiming back his two |
thousand besants.
The faithless depositary was frighten- |
ed lest the young man should reprOach
him with his treachery in the presence
of strangers, who would then take away |
their chest with its untold treasures, |
which he had already determined to ap- |
propriate to himself.
"Be welcomed" he cried to the Moor. !
81 was almost fearing YOU would never |
come back; and was puzzled what L /
should do with the two thousand beSants. |
Allah be praised who has brought you
back safel Here is what belongs to
you"
The Spanish Moor went away with |
his treasure as triumphant as though he /
were carrying off so much booty.
The old woman begged the master of
the house to put this first chest in safe !
place, while she went and ordered the |
rest to be sent. She went off with her
four companions, and, of course, never
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