SULLIVAN JSSilfe REPUBLICAN.
W. M. C HENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XII.
Ohio possesses more colleges than
any other State.
The United States is the only conn
try spending more for education than
for war equipments.
A stonelcss peach has been culti
vated in California. It has an insipid
flavor, and is of no value except as a
curiosity.
The Anglo-Saxon raco is in posses
sion of one-third portion of tho earth
and rules over 400,000,000 of its in
habitants.
Ex-President Orton, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, declared
that the English language was twenty
five per cent, cheaper for telegraphic
purposes than any other.
By order of the postal authorities
the final "h" in tho spelling of towns
and cities ending with "burgh," has
been dropped in official communica
tions. . The general public ceased us
ing "h" at the end of Pittsburg and
Harrisburg twenty years ago.
The popularity of novels is proba
bly nowhere so great, declares the
New York Tribue, as in Australia. It
is said that ninety per cent, of the fe
male and seventy-five per cent, of the
male frequenters of the public libra
ries read novels almost exclusively.
R. Lahann, a Danish resident of
Monmouth, 111., took out naturaliza
tion papers twenty-six years ago. A
few days since he had occasion to ex
amine the papers and found that he
had renounced his alligance to Queen
Victoria, instead of the King of Den
mark. So it appears that ho is not a
citizen, and as he wants to be Mayor
of the town, ho is very much disap
pointed.
The new catalogue of the romances
in the British Museum begins with the
record of the unique and priceless
manuscript of "Beowulf," and tells ol
tho escape of the manuscript from the
conflagration at Ashburnham House
in 1731 ; and of its still having a l'air
pretension, despite all the scholars, to
be the very oldest poem in any modern
European language—a monument of
English which is asserted to be hun
dreds of years older than tho first lit
erary stammerings of the Romance
language, and probably much the
senior of any Teutonic literature.
The gentle art of shoplifting is on
the increase, according to Mr. White
ly, the great London provider. It is
sad to think women of the middle and
upper classes are said to be tho chief
offenders, although it is dillienlt to
credit such a statement. One of the
commonest tricks is to have several
largo pockets in a dross into which
things can be pushed easily without
incuring observation. Very often
long, loose cloaks are worn. It canuol
be urged that kleptomania is the rea
son for these thefts, because the shop
lifters usually hunt in couples, one
engaging the attention of the atten
dant while tho other does the thieving.
For every man caught at tho work
there are three hundred women!
Russia is evidently not a paradise
for photographers. Kvery amateur
photographer in that country ha* to
communicate »ith tho pulico aud se
cure a liceuse. If he happen* to hu
•ecu photographing in the vicinity of
a fortress, he stands a ehattcn of beiug
dispatched ou a free excursion to hi
berta, whence return ticki ls are not
supplied. Of every picture taken a
copy must be gtvou to the police aud
auothar copy tiled for rufereuot-, and
the police have tho right at any tiluu
of the day or uightto enter your dark
room aud exauiiue cvervtluu.• then in,
a* Weil an to search all your photo
gtapfeiu patapberuulia. Purthertuorc,
all dry plain* liuve to lot luiptl l,
aud each ItoX t* opeU> I an I every plate
examined
«b»y» Ihu New York Wutld "|l t*
ptelly generally ku .anlhal tkm
la to Im> a ureal ■—ti '•»il|--§ at th
eioae uf lite UlUelet Ulit tU Mtttfi an I
IW uaiteitng tit ul in lai nlft tit \
glutkl >Ual of ettolt M iwtug luadv lo
• airy uui a •< r» tiun|ue, though t t*u I
plan It t« piope..id in.i in, i
btan l.tbi rty aud i'> a*- lb li be t
uA lite 4|tul a bete Ik* »lti pUi.t uk' aid
lis. eltulu* 4 angeliu tuu.w« pt>» la'ut .
*'i'eaee wl» wMUt, gwoil alii t.ali
lank Ibe i lea alet • • In* t.v i|
nwg Heelti.j ail pa#t* MI Ibe *ii Iny
ltlegl*j baud I I. at ..
. n i ito. ail i i •
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i* lb* ft ''gl' rW" *u|bi to Lv a uiitkd
in tto i fa--* «l ih
ati* * '*ttaial> t. * iin lit- In |
*ll v *tt i iHt* lh d - »l|»tj lb* We II b*
IM| <MM*I Um 1(H• *m' >4 to**-* ba
I>.|D t «»«i Mm >** kb
CARPE DIEM.
The things to eomo are bubbles,
That we have had is ours ;
The frosts may doom Hopo's dearest bloom,
But never Memory's flowora
To-morrow Is a maybe,
But Yesterday has been ,
And dear To-day Is hero to say,
"Who use mo well are men!"
—•Charles F. Lummls, in Harper's Woekly.
A GOOD TURN.
BY WALTER LEON SAWYER.
ASY-GOI NO Mr.
Balcom rose early
that morning, and
fIW jw! hurried off to tho
igf fffil Y\ city as soon as he
nL/ — J swallowed
breakfast. That
waH no * wa J>
an d Mrs. Balcom
wondered ; but, be
ffiTPPßm inga good wife, she
wJfSasked no questions.
1 c f° ru ha d
' fullly acco mm o
dated herself to the
novel event, the
fc-.;man- of-a 11-work
- »«55r gave her another
eurpriso, presenting a telegram which
set forth that his sister was ill and
needed him. Of course Mrs. Balcom
let him go. It did not occur to her
that the double departure left her and
the children unprotected, and if
it had she would have smiled at the
idea of danger. She did not know
that there was a burglar in town.
Mr. Balcom did know. As ho came
up from the train tho evening before,
his neighbor Jones had stopped him
to whisper that the Hartshorne house
had been entered and judiciously ran
sacked. The Hartshornes were in
Europe. Their care-taker had been
sojourning in that other foreign land,
a drunkard's paradise, but as soon as
he came out of it he discovered the
robbery and hastened to ask Jones's
advice. Jonos, who had a nervous
mother-in-law, suggested that the mat
ter be kept as quiet as possible ; and
ho wanted to know if Mr. Balcom—
"You did just right!" Mr. Balcom
interrupted, when the story had gone
thus far. "These country constables
would frighten every woman into hy
sterics, but they wouldn't catch a bur
glar once in a thousand times. Profes
sional, is he?"
"So I suppose. He seems to have
gone into tho houso and through it as
though ho knew his business."
"I'll back my burglar-alarm against
him!" Mr. Balcom chuckled, confi
dently.
"How about Ben Ezra?" the neigh
bor asked.
"No foar of him. You see, my stable
isfts well protected as my house," Mr.
Balcom explained. "Fact is, I'd
sooner lose half thero is in tho house
than that horse. Little oil' his feed,
the poor fellow is. I had a veterinary
out yesterday to look at him, and I
can't drive him for a week. I guess
''l supposo we ought to do some
thing," Mr. Jones ventured to hint.
He knew that it allowed togo on Mr.
Balcom would talk about his horse
until the burglar—and the listcnor—
died a natural death.
"Oh, of course we must trip the fel
low before he goes any further.
Tell you what: I know a private de
tective who was on tho ISostou force
for yearn—long euough to get ac
quainted with every rascal in the
country. I'll bring him home with
me to-morrow to look over the ground.
It would be better to pay him a hun
dred than have the thing get out and
scare the women."
"Yen, indeed J" mud Mr. Jones, fer
vently.
Ho it was decided. And after the
neighbors had exchanged tho annul
reiuurkH on the dryness of tho ariwon
and the ueed of raiu, Mr. Ibtlcoui
sauntered homeward, calm in that
Couteutlucut which a managing mall
haH a right to feel. Hu kissed his
wife ami children and then ho weut
out and caressed his horse, With the
burglar'* accomplishments in mind he
lookt'd carefully to the lock* and
tho alarm*. They were perfect anil
iu order. Hu weul to hod iu peace.
That night, however, hu hail a hor
fill dr uiu. It Mt'iuwl that lieu K/ra
watt atohu ; that hu had expended hu
fortune iu booking the horse; that,
tiuaUy, when he had *uuk to a beggar
ulltiiwl, he fouud the wreck of Hi u
K*ra hauliug a gurliage cart! '[be
dream no wrought upon Mr Halcoui
that he aaoke in a cold perspiration
11l- rtlahcd to tho laldu aud proved It
ouly a dream Hut it might be a
waruiug ! That »upi r*tltlou* laucy
lingered with butt through the hour*
bt la k aud lawn, aud the eaily rflar.
of an Vuguat aUU did uot di»p I 11. ||
hurried htm to the citi, a» lut* been
lull!
Looking at It lit the light of hut new
knowledge, Mr. lUltstiUi eouid wg
m»u> MMMI ahj Map]i I'atk •h..uld
attract a butglat It* i •••laid and un
guar tie I le»'attuu t* „uu ; the *iuall
U» «* aud «lewpiu, ** of lite town mat it
If tug* * t* another. Meufcuukei haa
ouiy tan trou*tabii 4 *ud one hand iliv
life eugtm ibuugU, Iu b« »uiv, tt ha*
fuel ' Itutele » aud the att*loet*|te
»• ideut* ml liti m>in » ft ffotu *tl
III' •« b| wtUg* I'I bullltlt-, I'U lU>
lallb t *l4v uf tin. mIh«I'» Itol 1»
ll i( is i'atk bobi* ab"d ll'<U4 Hu ik'.e
k*t, «m m-k'.uk'i km* **•» 1»..m
U»pK I'atk , a» I 4i b«l ,rn m«t,
b< l tit • t in t .1 11.
in.,i . . i
life > at- M», " I'm* ~««ti!«t lb*| t
wl III* «|(i M<«l»t U*< <-■*• I if?.*! at.
frl' * Ifcttt#* •*•<. Ii 4 btl ab't**, U>
LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1894.
be disposed of in a bunch at the day
of judgment. She was young enough
to enjoy her money, and old enough
to appreciate her health; and since
her daughters had not reached a mar
riageable age, neither her health nor
her money seemed in danger. Of
course she should have been, as she
was, a happy woman. She spent her
day as the truly happy must—in small
activities that amuse one and make
one feel useful but not fatigued. So
accustomed was she to a routine of
quiet, that when Abbie tho cook ap
peared excitedly before her she was
slow to realize that this particular day
might prove an exception.
"The stable's afire, Miss Balcom!"
the cook proclaimed.
"Is it?" the mistress absently
answered. "Tell Henry to put it out,
please. Oh, I remember; I allowed
Henry to visit his sister." She closed
her writing-desk and stood consider
ing. "Oan't you throw some water on
it?" she asked, presently.
"It's the roof. I s'poso it caught
with a spark from one o' them pesky
ingines—bein's's everything's dry as
tinder. Ain't nothin' to git scairt
about, 'cause tho wind's away from
the house, what little the' is. But the"
hoss is in the stable, you recollec'."
"Oh, my!" Moved beyond hor
wont, Mrs. Balcom swept electrically
through the kitchen and out of the
backdoor. "Oh, my!" slio repeated
as she canto in sight of tho blaze,
"Bon Ezra will bo burned, won't he?
What will Mr. Balcom say? What
can we do?"
"D' know,"was the depressing
answer, "I sent Jane to the corner
a'ter the firemen ; but the land knows
how long it'll take to git 'em here."
"Ben Ezra must come out!" Mrs.
Balcom asserted; but there was an
accent of despair in the words, deter
mined as the sentiment was.
' 'Can't break that door down ! 'n'
that air paytent look on—Mr. Bal
com's got tho key with him."
"Mrs. Balcom stared straight be
fore her like one fascinated into help
lessness. The sorvaut's conscience
would not let hor rest until she had
kicked tho door and thrown herself
against it. It did not even tremble.
She mopped her Hushed face with her
apron and, shaking her head mourn
fully, drew back beyond tho heat of
tho flames that were laying bare the
rafters.
"Bon Ezra must comoont'" Mrs.
Bftlcom said again. The horse's ftf*on
izod whinny hail broken the spell that
was upon her. Her eyes filled at the
sound, and sho ran forward aimlessly
and glanced desperately about her.
"Man! You man!" sho cried, all
at once. "Come hero and get onr
liorse!"
Though the stranger had scorned to
spring from the ground, he showed no
alacrity about coming further. He
took time to survey the landscape be
fore he climbc-d the fence. He looked
past the women, not at them, as
though ho feared a possible somewhat
behind. And when he had advanced
to where they stood, though he
abruptly took the manner of haste and
impatience, his shifty eyes seemed to
cover every point of the horizon.
"Now, then." he demanded,
"where's your ax?"
"In the stable, 1 suppose," was Mr.
Balcom's dejected reply.
" 'N' it's a paytout lock !" the cook
chimed in, tragically.
"Hoy?" The stranger started and
stared at thom suspiciously, but the
wretcheduess iu their faces appeared
to reassure him. Ho turned again to
scau the hill road. Then he ran up
to the door.
"Huh! That thing!" the women
heard him say, contemptuously.
Through the waveless atmosphere of
the August uoou the smoke tloated
lazily off and left the vision nuob
soured, and the spiteful Huap of tlaiue
overruled every other noise. Tho
woiueu looked and listeued with au
intentneuii that would have l>oeu paiu
ful had it long endured. From the
bag he carried the »tranger took a
tfillteriUK something which he applied
to the lock. lu»taatnueoualy, almost,
the door swung open. Htrippiug off
his blouse, the man passed through,
and wheu ht< reappeared the horse,
safely blluded, uuinjured, wa« with
hiui. Mrs. Haloom lluttered after as
he led the trembling lirtitu to it safer
place. Kveuta had sliakeu her accus
tomml caliu. For onee iu h<-r life she
could not meet the occasion with
graceful words.
"Oh, t don't know how to thank
you!" she (altered, at length. "Mr.
Halcouie values lieu K/ra so! I'm
•nre he'll " Why, here hu cornea!
Oh, Jautus !" she cried, as her husband
hatl.ss, coat less and visibly perspir
lug took the feuce at a boi|n>l aud
i.th.l up to the group. "I Ml, J antes T
It it hadu't Iwmu lot this this honest
workingutau, tku l.tra would ham
Uueit bnrn> I
Mr Hslcoitt's eye aa* on his (avut
it.), hut hu hand went into hi* |<uukct
and brought ont a r.dl of bills.
' Ih .uk ye, " the stranger «atd,
so .illy.
"Nut i nought" Mi lUiouui found
breath to a. 11, "fall It. ntullut at my
•ittee give yon as inneii
It.w la*. tonal Itn rnad til light,
I'aikui I' h« ftUk't "Nu leiHj '
" All light' th. tttan Ua I jn*t
mm» into tt„* 1t..1. 1.1 I hit IMM*
Mt< t th> 'il»4 i It, e• M| ■<- « »«.
tjlnnwe in in- dtif tiwn ol tu. -rlhtf-,
hu +111**1) tgftnfed tit iu. an i
at th .tall. 4e4e#w«i hi* ai
.« . M. u.. ~» ... >ib a
'"ttftitg Hin I n Ihi hw«». in
"■*••• • T .. « I ... IMIM l|«
km M-*4»» lu -s«li Im
again. "Thinks to this worthy man-
Why, where is he?"
Mr. Parker smiled serenely to him
self as he began to lift Ben Ezra's leg*
but he said nothing.
"Uuss he must 'a' been in a harry,**
the cook putin ; "he went off 'n' left
his satchel. I s'pose I better lay it
away, hadn't I, 'fore these 'ere firemen
goto trampin' round."
She offered the stranger's bag to Mr.
Balcom, but Mr. Parker took it from
his unresisting hand and coolly pnlled
it open. Then, while the hand-engine
men yelled and fell over each other
preparatory to deluging the neighbor
hood, he drew Mr. Batcom to one side
and bade him look in."For," said
he, "you won't often seo a noater set
o' burglar's tools than that is!"
Mr. Balcom seemed less horrified
than he should have been; but it was
evident that ho was puzzled. He looked
from tho bag to Parker and back again,
like one who wishes but half fears to
speak.
"Well," he suggested at length, "ho
isn't likely to hang around Maple Park
any more, is he?"
"I guess not!" the detective made
proud rejoinder. "He knows me—
knew me's quick's I knew him !"
"Yes—well—you see—"Mr. Balcom
buttonholed Parker, in his turn, and
led him still further from the crowd.
"Of course—l'm responsible—l pay
all the bills," he went on, with dis
jointed earnestness. "I--you—don't
you understand, I haven't anything
more for you to do here? Why, hang
it all, man, he saved Ben Ezra!"
"Oh, I know how you feel," the de
tectivo answered. He spoke as though
he really did. "I like a good boss
myself. See? There's a train back
to town 'bout twenty minutes, ain't
the'?"— Leslie's Weekly.
A Monkey Farm.
"Tho funniest thing I witnessed dur
ing that briof but exciting period
known as the boom, in Birmingham,
Ala.," said Dr. Everett, at tho Lin
dell, "was tho formation of a company
t.> establish a monkey farm. About
the time that excitement was at its
greatest height, two bankers from a
country town came with $40,000 in
cash, and were very anxious to got
into tho little group of capitalists who
wero making big money. They haunt
ed two or three of the leading invest
ors until finally Dr. Jackson, who
stood at the head of tho local financial
world, told them he had a friend with
a scheme in which he himself was put
ting 320,000, and if they really want
ed to invest ho could, as a personal
favor, secure a like amount, if one
half was paid down, the other half to
bo paid iu at a meeting to be held in
a few days. The banker wrote a check
for SIO,OOO, and felt jubilant that at
last he had been admitted into the
ehurmed circle of financiers.
"In a few days he was notified to
attend a meeting of the stockholders,
which he did. Then the promoter of
tho enterprise explained it. His plan
was to buy on island near Mobile.
Send an expedition to Africa and
South America to secure monkeys.
Stock the farm with 100,000 monkeys
and raise them for tho market. An
elaborate array of statistics was given,
showing the cost and market price of
monkeys and figuring out immense
profits, but it was necessary that the
entire amount subscribed should be
paid in at onee. The hanker jumped
to his feet. 'I don'd vaut no monkey
farm. I knows nodings about dose
monkey business. You can keep my
£IO,OOO if you release me from dot
subscription.' This was done, and ho
swallowed his chagrin and disappoint
ment at the loss as best ho could. In
a few weeks the money was returned
to him and it was explained that it
was all a joke, but the hanker had a
8200 dinner to pay for."—St. Louis
Ulobe-Democrat.
(irowtli of llalr Alter heath.
T. L. (>gier, un investigative writer
of Westchester, Peuu., says:"l, for
one, place no faith iu the superstition
l of hair growiug after death. There is
no growth of hair after death. There
: may be, however, u shrinkage of the
j tissue of the face ami body which will
force the hair of the face through akin
to an to give the corpse the appear
auce of having a beard two or three
i weeks old ; it is not a growth, it is
! ouly the result of the shrinkage."
Iu thin department of the Republic
| I have giveu many "Botes" which sup
port a contrary view to that Kiveu
above, and have but lately added to
ut,v slock of luforuiatiou on that |>oiut
l itis late additiou la from tliialmtli
I'rtslcau, ami is as follows:
"Lord Howe, who served iu America
in ITftft aud waa killed iu tiie Freuch
ludlait walk, w*» tinned at Albany
Just prior to hia .l< -tilt he had had bis
hall cut short su that it could not Imi*
come wet from e t posit re and cause
. ol.ls Many year • afterwards, wbun
iti* r> mains were being iviu««.'.', it
i we* found that his bair Itad grow n sev
vial nobis, and was sutouib and
flossy HI Louts lli puUl ic.
Mat's W»i in a l Ivt'k
% le*ld> ul MM the bill bid a suuti'
a bat k iiiutis etj.tfi. itve tbe wtber
l»t ul tn> bold it »» u4 a rst ('ommn
du a u obe he lining to lb. dining luoiu
b*. found tbat tbu * lo.'k on tbe utautb-i
pit « b« I<l .pp. I, and. Ibiuktug It
Lad mn 4-.au, bi wound it up and
put Ibfc bah.ls to tb« plupsl b"UI
Mwitting tbatd »liu»k iba
aoiitl d way, us it 4..*b to:»■
autlut tb« w >tks at* 1 aa» W
tin lib *l|iki<ia S|<t--I«t-.
sitb p. laU ••*4 t k» 4 i»«n« sm I
I'll- 4| ip t I .l|b,t ti.M.itaH'.u
• lbab'« I litat lb V mI l« and «lt4t
i I it b a» ,wl b 4
I .is t -„
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A locomotive is made of 5416 pieces.
"Powellite" is a new metallic com
pound.
Strawboard is used in tho manufac
ture of passenger car wheels.
The Health Commissioner of Brook
lyn has started a crusade against un
sanitary Sunday-schools and dancing
academies.
Tho Liverpool (England) electric
railway, which has been in existence
about a year, has proved completely
successful in operation. It is five
miles long.
Edison has perfected and taken per
fect plates with his kinetoscope, an
instrument by which a serious of pict
ures can be rapidly taken of a person
or object in motion in what is practi
cally a single picture.
• A new enemy of the vino in Franco
is a galleyworm, or myriopod, which
has been observed by M. Fontaine to
invade the buds in numbers ranging
from five to ten on a bud, forming balls
of the size of a small pea.
It is anuounced that Paris is to
build,, for the purpose of handling
World Fair visitors in 1900, a tubular
railway eight miles long, in which trains
will run on two minutes' headway.
Electricity will bo employed for mov
ing the trains.
In water in which decaying vegeta
bles have been infused the microscope
discovers things so minute that 10,000
of them would not exceed in bulk a
grain of mustard, though they are sup
plied with organs as complicated as
those of a whale.
As a the result of a series of experi
ments, Professor Baily, of Cornell,
has proved that peppers can be graf
ted on tomatoes and vice versa. In
the use of material for herbaceous
grafting the wood should not be too
young, but rather approaching matur
ity.
Dr. von Blarcom, one of the most
distinguished physicians in Berlin, ex
presses the opiniou after careful in
vestigation that coffeo long boiled pro
duces moro indigestion than any other
substance taken into tho human
stomach, and that a simplo infusion
facilitates digestion.
An instrument has been invented
for sounding the depths of tho sea
without using a lead line. A sinker is
dropped containing a cartridge, which
explodes on touching the bottom ; the
report is registered in a microphone
apparatus and the depth reckoned by
the time at which the explosion oc
curred.
In tho coiu. ''i of some experiments
on the effect of changes of temperature
in the pupal of butterflies by Mr.
Merrifield, some Vanessaio showed tho
gradual disintegration by exposure to
a low temperature of the eycliko spot
on tho fore-wing, which, in the ex
treme specimens, ceased to bo an
ocellus.
Experiments have been tried with to
ascertain if color has an effect on cer
tain forms of disease. In making this
test a number of smallpox patients
were placed in a room to which only
red light was admitted. The patients
were for the most part those suffering
from unusually severe attacks, and
about half of them being unvaccinated
chililreu. In spite of the violent form
of the mulaily, they all made speeily
and safe recoveries, with very little
fever and but few scars.
Benedict has relieved a easo of
writer's cramp by injecting carbolic
acid in the neighborhood of a sensitive
poiut in tho course of one of the flexor
tendons of the related forearm. Langes
has succeeded in overcoming writer's
eramp by having the pen hold between
the second ami third fingers in such u
way that the holder rests upon the
latter at an of from 110 degrees
to 125 degrees, while it is supported
below by the thumb, the index finger
resting lightly above.
Those who have made a study of
bird habits say that birds of almost
all sorts are rather the friends than tho
euomieM of farmers and gardeners.
Not only do the soug birds by destroy
ing insects earn their right to eat a
few berries, but even the crow that
generations of farmer* have seared and
killed, Is said to prefer insects to uoru,
and often to lie iu the very oct of de
stroying peats when fanners suppose
him to bu maliciously lieut on undo
ing the work of the sower.
A Duck llrowiie I li) au ll)*ter.
Captain Edward A. ('sulk of the
steamer I'huju r yesterdut m* a doad
"llshcriusu" duck floating ou the water
neat t'lailiorue, Md The duck was
ptuked Up au I lite ctiisu of its death
then became apparent tU>- llsheriuwu
duck feeds oil li»h and oy Ufa I'llu
duck slilvli wa» found ilvml had uVI
duutlv stuck it* !""« aud narrow lull
IMto tbi open »lo IU of a lul ling oy«-
tel. Ilia oy »t> r sUut in shells together
nil tile lull tl la supposed that I hit
duck tiled to »bak« oil ilw oy«u>r lull
tailed, and that the weight of tbe ojfs
Ui bangiUH t»* tbe bill Anally pulled
ltl» duck's Iliad under waltl aud
>lf own> 4 lite fnwl fbu uj>»ti | Was
Um| lively enwUMk to pull ibe duek's
body beu.atb tkt. water lialllmur*
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Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; 81.25 after Three Months,
THE LOW PRICE OF WHEAT.
SOME INTERESTING AND VALUA
BLE IMFORMATION.
Increase In Wheat Contribut Ing Coun
tries—What Farmers Must Do to
Meet Competition.
<* T ILL wheat ever again be
\/\ / a profitable crop for ex-
V V port ?" a correspondent
of the New York Tri
bune asked a prominent official of tho
Agricultural Department at Washing
ton. The latter answered:
"In the first place, wheat is now and
for many years to come will bo a crop
which invites competition from coun
tries in which farming is poor and land
or labor abundantly cheap. It is es
sentially a crop of cheap lands or in
ferior tillage, or both. In India, in
Egypt and some other countries the la
bor is cheap ; in Australasia, and here
tofore in our own Northwestern terri
tory, -while the labor is high, the lands
are cheap and the farmer, moreover,
ruthlessly robs tho soil. Now in South
America wo find cheap wheat lands,
and, compared with our own, cheap la
bor. So in Southern Russia, where
thore are comparatively cheap lands
and positively cheap labor.
"In arecentstatementof tho world's
wheat supply issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture are found a dozen
countries contributing whose existence
is probably ignored by the majority of
American wheat raisers, and of whom
little is known even to Amorican com
mercial men. Among them wo may
mention especially the Caucasus, Ru
mania, Bulgaria, to say nothing of
European Turkey, Turkey in Asia, Ser
via, Persia, Poland, Cratia and Sla
vonia, and in Africa, Egypt, Tunis and
Algeria. In the aggregate tho coun
tries mentioned have contributed a
yearly average of over 290,000,000
bushels to the wheat crops of the last
three years. The aggregate popula
tion of the first three countries named
is in all about 12,000,000, and of this
a largo number are not users of wheat
flour, using for their own wants rye.
Henco the average home consumption
per capita is not more than two-thirds
as much as ours, and yet these threo
countries produced wheat in the years
giver as follows: In 1891, 100,575,000
bushels ; in 1892, 171,960,000 bushels,
and in 1893, 140,529,000 bushels an
average of 159,688,000 bushels, with
probably a home consumption barely
exceeding 40,000,000 bushels. A few
years ago the products of those coun
tries, or at least their exportable sur
plus, was too insignificant for record.
"Tho LonUou Miller states that the
total figures for Russia show the ship
ments from that country for January,
1894, to be 810,000 quarters, compared
with 210,950 quarters iu January, 1893,
and 575,950 quarters in Janury, 1891.
In 1892 they were prohibited.
"Another factor, and one that
promises to count more thau all tho
rest in the next decade, is to bo found
in tho rapid increase in the wheat
crops of the Argentine Republic, an
increaso which promises to be phe
nomenal. Accordiug to the paper al
ready quoted, shipments from Argen
tina to tho United Kingdom were, for
the six weeks ending February 10th,
over 280,000 quarters, or at the rate
of 2,444,000 quarters (over 19,000,000
bushels) per annum; but, adds tho
paper quoted: 'March and April ship
ments will show a material increase.'
The director of tho Department of
Agriculture of Argentina, recently iu
this country, assured me that within
ten years that country would export
more wheat than is now exported by
tho United States. Moreover, Chile,
Australasia and tho great Northwest
territory of British North Amcrioa
seem likely ere long to show their
ability to supply any deficiencies
which may occur iu thu other countries
named.
"According to tho Department au
thorities the wheat supply of the
world for the three years IH9I, 1892
and 1893 was respectively, in round
numbers, 2,300.000,000, *2,303,000,000
and 2,360,tM 10,000 bushel*, an ample
supply for the world's demand, with a
very considerable surplus in 1*92, to
say nothiug of the alleged underesti
mates of the department iu the years
1891 and 1892. It is true that without
a marked increase in thu supply there
haa been a steady diminution lu price,
but that is readily accounted for by
the largo available increase from ooiiu
trie, not formerly contributing iu auy
marked degree, but which, by the de
velopment iu uieau. of trau.porlation,
tin 111 the i'i»»e of the Caucasus, or
uwuug to change, iu I heir political
statu., as iu Bulgaria, aud from other
causeo, have ii->w peiutaueully joined
the rank, oft vportiug countries, aud
are able to sell at low price..
"I'lu situation >u Ibis country can
only be met b> a gvitvtal reduction iu
aefeage and a i>ouaid*»ruble increase in
yield per acre Hill farmers must
lealu Iu attain the yield winch prevails
lu the more uivilut I euuutriea of
Kufopv, Hi t- ad of nwuii4 the
more backward Hill pilllut thu li eu
bu.bt.ls to the acta u*u»t be Increased
• igblwt nof I went.!, aud out *l» si
*e#i -atfv I educed from Hi,'MM, noil o
i?,lfcM,l*Ml ». to J"l (toil 'MM
i-ijbii «u bu»h- Is t-> the sci. , an s»«i
a* I. iux|e than vqnalh Ib> t I ante and
,|i.tl) . ltd by Olilaiu altd
ft. l.iuui. Its lalmtls on lb »b. a|>
lands <>f lb Viithw' -4 ■an wake a
•mall I'iUl a. in abuttal hflj l <>i >nl)
•amts a bn«li< I. * >ul4 »»l thiib -n
bashi-U ismii" . ■ *'t'<*i k,* lii inis
t< lu I<"U In * « *l*l- tb* »'l l't
tut.., ''*»• ■ mi tn-<tau4>
ahi- k I '••■ l*' ■ I a 'Hf •'S,•*»•«.
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NO. 33.
SONO.
Thflro'a boauty in the dawning HgM,
And twilight fair or starlit night
Has eaoh its charm and grace;
But lovelier still on earth to me,
The fairest thing my eye oan see,
The beauty of thy face.
There's calmness on the ocean's breast,
As deep and blue it seems to rest
'Neath bluer heavens above;
But deeper, oalmer still to me
Than ever sea or sky can be,
Thine azure eyes, my love 112
There's music in the running stream,
And music when the woodlands seem
Awake with songs of birds ;
But sweeter, dearer still to me
Than nature's voice can over bo,
The music of thy words.
—G. Roxby, in the Ledger.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
More dead than alive—Heroes.
A repeating rifle Plagiarism. —'
Truth.
The rule of the minority—That of
tho first baby.
"One-half the world doesn't know
how tho othor half lives." Neither
doos tho other half. —Life.
He—"Hero comes Mrs. Gadabout.
That woman goes everywhere." She
"Yes, except home." —Harper's Ba
zar.
Va—"Why is the leader of the choir
liko a pine tree?" Pa—"Give it up."
Va—"Both give the pitch."—The
Hullabaloo.
Man shows his teeth and growls;
but woman shows her teeth and smiles;
with far bettor chance of attaining her
object.—Puck.
Few people can stand prosperity;
but they are legion compared with the
people who never have a chance to
stand it. —Puck.
Nervous Wife—"l hear a burglar."
Nervous Husband—"Woo ! I'll crawl
undor the bed and see if he is there."
—New York Weekly.
"Er—has young Hill come into his
money yet?" "Come into it? Great
Scott, man ! He's gone clear through
it."—Buffalo Courier.
There is nothing like a certainty;
and yet most people prefer the un
certain prospect of starvation to the
certain prospect of death.—Puck.
Tho whole system of right and
wrong hinges on the question whether
a disagreeable thing disagrees with
us, or wo disagree with the disagree
able thing.—Puck.
Teacher—"Now, remember, that in
order to become a proficient vocalist
you must have patience." Miss Flip
kins— "Yes; and so must the neigh
bors." —Washington Star.
"You say you have been in Kansas
City. I suppose tho place was built
almost wholly on bluffs." "I guess it
was. There seemed to be little money
around."—Buffalo Courier.
Mr. Gusher (a self-satisfied bore)
—"I can tell just what people aro
thinking of me." Miss Pert "in
deed ! How very unpleasant it must
be for you."--Brooklyn Life.
An Irish lawyer said to a witness:
"You're a nice fellow, ain't you?"
Witness replied: "I am, sir, and if I
was not on ray oath I'd say tho same
of you."—Oakland Enquirer.
"It pains me very much to spank
you. Johnny," said his mother with
deep feeling, "and I shall have to turu
you over to your father. His haudtf
are harder. "—Chicago Tribune.
Elder Sister —"I'm writing to Amy;
is there auythiug you'd like to say to
her?" Younger Sister (who hatos
Amy) —"Yes, plenty ; but you'd bettci
only give her my love."- Tit-Bits.
Employer "Boy, take this letter,
anil wait for an answer." New Hoy—
"Yes, Hir." Employer—"Well, whal
are you waiting for?" New Hoy—
"rin-answer, sir." Harper's lla/.ar.
"Grandpa, said Tommy, examin
ing critically the bald head of his an
cestor, "may task you a question?"
"Certainly, Tommy." "Doyoncomt
your hair with a razor?"— Test* Sift
ings.
"That's what I call hush money,"
remarked tlu- daddy when he plauked
down the cash for a bottle of paregoric
t>> take home for two among the in
fautile portion of the family. Hrook
lyu Life.
"I aui collecting lulls tor Sugar,
S|>l«H' A- Co." "Collecting bitU, are
yon? Vefy well; I have two or three
of tlit ir bill* which you are welcome
to add to yoUl collection " New York
Weekly.
Mamma "Why ha. I.ucv gone
lioiut ao . all.* ' I thought she wan to
stay all day ■ Wart i-ouibb uiially i
"W«-U, mamma, I just fontid ah< wasn't
a Iron I I could quarrut with ' Kale
field'. W*»biuglou.
t Urgyiuaii >i»ii M «t "Mu
you were arreted passm* bad
lU"UU»< lut iwau found V,|
Mir 1 Von mm, if lha money
had |'H<h 1 I woiiMu I bavu beau a<
ft.Ud i'blla i.ipui • MrtHifd
M th» ll(v«l CU-m M.ll, |l|
it*, i "I'UMUK i IMMM W lik
utahti*4 h>»« lit* kuuhl li »• t • itku
the qmmn . * oil «i> ut.ui li) lUv
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