SULLIVAN <HBSI REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. Berlin is said to be the healthiest city in the world. It is said that no less than 8000 Chi cago perton3 mysteriously disappear every year. Judge Henry, ill Kansas City, re cently decided that a man must pay his wife's debts, even if he is Buingher for divorce. It cost SIOOO to tako a carload of fruit from Sacramento, Cal., to Lon don two years ago. The rate now has been reduced to 8700. The universal postal union was vir tually completed when it receivod the adhesion of Cape Colony, South Africa, the only largo civilized community not yet. included in it. Including stocks and bonds the rail ways of the United States are capital ized at sf>o,ooo per mile, while those of Great. Britain are capitalized at 8220,000 per mile, or nearly 400 per cent, higher than in this country. Dr. Conan Doyle picked up consid sidcrablo " liternry material" and 812,000 during his trip in this coun try. "No wonder he finds America a great field for the successful au thor," exclaims tho Chicago Record. The New Orleans Picayuno ex claims: "General Booth is begging money in this country for his "Dark est England" schemes. America takes care of enough foregu paupers on her own soil without exporting money for the purpose. The South in 1894 raised about fifty bushels of corn to every bale of cot ton. The farmer who comes out even on his cotton at present prices is for tunate. The farmer who has a sur plus of corn is ahead. The salvation of the South during 1891 was its great corn and hog product. It is useless, in the judgment of tho Atlan ta Journal, to say more. "The fact," declares tho Now York Tribune, "that the Southern farmers hrc going ahead in a quiet, unobtru sive way, saying nothing, but minding their business in tho most exemplary manner. With a climateunapproaehed anywhere clso on this continent, a soil unsurpassed for its natural fertil ity, a wealth of fertilizers under tho surface, and a dogged peraeveranco of which they have heretofore given am ple evidenco, they are successfully proving their fitness to survive in tho struggle for life, prosperity and hap piness." There has been a singular dearth of invention in naming tho many small lakes of the West, laments the Chica go Herald, and lino eld Indian namos have been deliberately discarded in order that persons unlovely sur names might bo honored geographi cally. The Indian namos when trans lated nro often found to embody an utmost photographic picture of the lakes upon which they were bestowod. The French names that superseded some of tho Indian names, and are likely to be superseded in their turn by modern commonplaces, are often pretty and historically suggestive. According to Major H. H. C. Dan woody, of the National Weather Ser vice, tho weather crop service of tho National bureau ranks next in import ance to tho work of making forecasts. The system of gathering reports upon which the weather crop bulletins are based has been greatly perfected in recent years. The crop bulletins of the States have been improved, and are now more complete than at any prev ious time, and tho increased circula tion that these bulletins have attained amply attests their value. It is be lieved that thore is no other class of information to which so much space is devoted in the public press to-day. A tile of these bulletins for all the States for a year will form the most complete history of the weather conditions attending tho growth and develop ment of tho several crops throughout tho country, More than ten thou sand crop correspondents are to-day co-operating with tho National Weath er Service through the State organi zation ; three thousand voluntary ob servers are furnishing monthly reports of daily observations of temperature and rainfall; and over eloven thousand persons assist in tho work of distribut ing tho weather foreoasts of the Na tional Weather Service. This latter work has been more rapidly pushed during tho past year than any other feature of State Weather Servioe work. With the continuation of the present liberal policy toward these services there will be in a comparatively short time no important agricultural com munity in the United States, with tho proper mail facilities, that will not reoeive the benefits of tha foreoasts. THE DAYS AND THE YEAR. What Is the world, my own little one? Our world belongs to that clock the sun. Stead; its spins ; while tho clock bents true Days and seasons for me and you. And tlok-tlck-tock ! goes tho mlftbty clock Wnlle time swings on below, Now left—now right; now day—now night, With a tlok-tick to and fro. The pussy-willow In coat of fur; A sweet pink rose in tho wind astir; A maple leaf with a orimsou blush ; Then fnllinf? snowflakes, nnt winter's hush— While tick-tiok-tock ROCS tho mighty clock, And the world swings on below, Budding—blowing ; shining—snowing— With a tick-took to and fro. A little song when the heart is Rlad, A little si»h when tho way is sad ; Whether the shadows or sunbeams fall, Sweet rest and dreaming at Inst for all, While tick-tick-tock goes tho mighty clock, And tho world swings on below, Smiling—filßhing ; singing— crying— With a tick-took to and fro. So this is the way, my own litt'iO one, Our world belongs to that dock tho sun, And the ftnn l that somewhere koeps the key Isthesame that holdeth you and me, While tlck-;ick-tock goos the mighty clock, And tho world swings on below, Kow left BOW right; now day—now night, With a tick-took to an 1 fro. —Harr'ct F. Bloilgett.in St. Nicholas. CAfSffELL's'uXPEDIENT. BY EDSON KEMP. NE evening a group of del egates to the convention for tho Broth erh oo d of Locomot iv c E n g i n cers sat in the ro tunda at the Palmer House in Chicago, tell ing stories. them was a grizzled, oldish man from the Old Colouy, who had a curious red scar bending around from his forehead across his right temple and down upon his right cheak, with almost as regu lar a curve as if it had been marked there with a compass. The redness of its oolor indicated that the mark had been inflicted not very long ago. Tho man who woro tho scar had taken no pari, in tho conversation. Presently one <?\f tho Western delegates said to him: "Come, Brother Hawkipp, you ought to have a story to tell. How did you get that scar, now?'* Tho Old CUouy man colored a lit tle and looked uneosj'. "You follows can tell stories," he said, "and I csn't. But I will say this —I was neveT thankful for a hard blow in the face but onoe, and that was when I got this scar." Then he subsided into silence, ap parently supposing that there was nothing moro to say. Of course the engineers about him raised a loud de mand for tho rost of the story, which seemed to surprise the Old Colony man. Under this pressure he went on, a little awkwardly. "I hain't had the scar moren'n about a yenr," ho said. "I was run ning the three-tbifrty passenger out of Boston on the Cape Cod Division, as lam now when I'm at home. We had passed Wareham one blustering, blowing, rainy Norember afternoon; it was half-past fivo by that time, and as the sky was thick with clouds, it was just as dark as pitch. "Between Wareham and Buzzard's Bay there's a stretch of woodsy, scrub by country where the track is protty tolerably crooked, crossing and dodg ing the salt-water inlets. You can't see far ahead of you at any time. "But if I'm going to tell you this story anywhere near right, I've got to get you out of my cab and onto the Flying Dude ; and that's a great priv ilege, I can tell you, for they say it takes a patent of notility to make you eligible to ride on that fast express. It's a swell affair, that runs down on the east sho e of Buzzard's Bay. "By tho hour I mentioned the Dude .should have been a(; Wood's Holl, her run made; but she had stopped at Middleboro oil accouc.t of a hot box, and was way behind time. She had gone on, and was flyiug along through tho woods between Wareham and Onset, not more than fifteen minutes ahead of our lime, when that same box began to snwke again, hot ter than fire. "There was nothing for thom to do but haul up and cool her off. But they knew that we werj coming right behind. The Dude had just made c. curvo where the truck follows the bend of tho bay, and it was a bad place. I shouldn't Lave seen the Dude's reur lights arotiud that curve until we were right on her. Of course they sent a man back with a lantern to signal us. The man they took for tho duty was a yonng brakeman, not over nineteen, by tho name ot Jimmy Caswell. Ho hadn't been working for the road moro than two years, hut he came of a very good family of folks down to Falmouth, and was a mighty bright, gentlemanly sort of a youngster—just the kind that the swells who travel down to the boy like to have on the Flyiug Dude. "He'd been put forward a good deal for a follow of nineteen, and it ras somewhat the result of favor, I dare say, that he was on that train; But thoy all had a great deal of confidence in him. I'll leave it to you to say whether tho confidence was justified. "Well, Jimmy set out in the dark and rain and wind with his red lan tern back along the track. He had to go quite a piece, for there's a second LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1895. curve along back a little ways on that crooked Hue there, and after that a long, clear stretch, and he wanted to get around the second ourve and warn us there. "He was making pretty well along toward the second curve, running his head against the storm, and was just where he was out of sight of both trains—the Dude standing still and we a-coming—with woods along the inner side of the curve, so that noth ing whatever could be seen of him or his lantern at that point from either train. Then suddenly he h°ard my train rolling up in tho distance. "Ho started to run, Jimmy, did, to get around the sosoud turn in season to sigual mo there. It seems that he knew he had plenty of time to make tho bend, as he owned lip afterward, but he wnnled to be mighty sure. "Just as he started up, what do you suppose happened? A stronger gust of wind than auy of the rest come whistling through the scrub, and that and the motion of Jimmy's start to run blew out his lantern. Then mv train coming along roared louder yet, for the wind was coming to him from my way. "Jimmy wasn't at all scared. He knew he had time to strike a light. He put his fingers in his upper vost pooket after matches. No matches there. That made him feel kind of queer. Then he put his fingers in his other upper vest pooket. None there, either. "He heard my train roaring nearer and nearer. It was coming around the second bend. Then, he owned up, Jimmy was a good deal scared. "He jumped right down the middle of the track in the dark toward my train, not knowing what he was going to do, but feeliug that somehow or other he was going to stop the train beforo it went on and crashed into the express. As he run, my headlight loomed out on him through the mist eoming up around tho bend. "He yelled like a madman, but his voice might ns well have been the squeak of a mouse. Not a sound could bo heard through tho racket that the storm and the locomotive raado to gether, as you nil would know very well. "As for me, I never hoard nor saw a thing on the track before me, though Jimmy stood straight in tho middle of it all the while, waving tho lantern with no light in it, and hollering till he was black in the face. My head light seemed to me to be shining about a dozen feet into a kind of thick pudding of rain and mist. "Jimmy told me that ho stopped all at once, when it ssemed that my head light was not fifty feet away from him. Probably it was moro than that. It occurred to him tJ»t be hadn't time to bo scared. He must tAko time to think. So ho thought; and tho lives of two hundred people depanded on his thinking to good advantage. "Ho wondered if it would bo best to throw himself down on the track and let the train go over him. He was willing to do it, if it would do any good. But he thought that the chances were ten to one that his body would throw the train off the track, whereaß there was at least a small chance that if my train went on I might bring it to a stop some way in time to save a bad smash-up. "Anyhow, he resolved not to throw himself down, but to do tho thing he did do. He stopped off tho truck— and by this timo I saw him dimly by tho light from tho heudlight—and measuring hi 3 distance coolly, he threw his lantern with all his might straight through the side window of tho cab! "As luok would have it, the lantern got free of the broken glass beforo it struck me, and the bottom of it hit me fair and square in the side of the head, hero, just where you see the mark. For an instant it stunned me, but by tho time I had got back my senses I found that I had reversed the engine and put on the air-brake, and the train was coming to a stop. "It was just second nature to any engineer—and Jimmy Caswell knew well it would be—to know that any human being wouldn't do a thing like that unless there was good cause for the engine to stop. My fireman would have stopped tha train if I hadn't, when he saw the lantern oome in ; but he says that ho hadn't more than heard tho crash of the lantern through tho window beforo he saw mo jump for tho throttle and the air brake. "After the train had come to a stop, and I, without knowing what had really happened, was wiping the blood off my face and thinking that some body had tried to kill me und wreck the train, that boy came running up alongsido the cab, panting, cleau out of breath, and climbed up, ull wet, into tho cab. 'My gracious!' he managed to get out, pretty soon, 'did I hit you?' "'Somebody hit me,' says I; 'I don't know who 'twas nor what 'twas.* " 'I threw my lantern at you,' says he, as cool as a frog. " 'You did !' says I; "'well, what did you do that for?' " 'To keep you from running into the Dude,' says he. "By this time he was up in the cab, avid he and the firemen were sopping my face with wator. And then my head was swimming around again, and i didn't know any too well what was going on. "But by tho time tho conductor and train hands and About two thirds of the passengers had come swarming around, I was able to order 'em back, and we pulled up and overhauled the express, slowly. "Jimmy, he was full of apologies to me. 'My goodness,'says he, '1 hoped I shouldu't hit you, but I was bound to stop you anyway.' "'That's so,' says I. 'Don't ta'.k about it any more. I might have passed you aud never seen you, or if I had noticed you waving your arm by the side of the track I should have taken you for some fool of a tramp, and like as not paid no attention to you, and gone on at full speed around that next bend. But,'seys I, 'you'd better goon to your own train now.' " 'I wish some of you fellows would lend me a lantern,' says he. "I looked at his lantern, and saw that tho glass had smashed when it went to tho cab floor after hitting me. " 'What's the matter?' says I. 'Haven't you any moro lanterns on your train?' ' 'l'd rather go back with one,' says he. "That made mo laugh. He wasn't going to let on but what he'd stopped my train in the regular way. And I don't believe ho did. There was no occasion to report to anybody. That boy wasu't afttr any hero's honors, or any of that kind of business. "But of course it came out, beoause, though I didn't ask for nny leave, I had togo around for quite a spell with my face all plastered up. "D otor down to Yarmouth fixed me up all right. Jimmy offered to pay the bill, but bless you, I'd never let him do that, even if the doctor had charged mo a cent, which he didn't. "I was mighty glad to get out of that scrape with a scar on my face, and I reckon it won't amount to much after it's bleached out. "How is Jimmy getting on? Ob, first-rate, I guess. If they ever thought of roprimnnding him for not making euro ho had matches with him, when he started out to signal that train, I guo3s thoy reflected that he'd shown qualities that redeemed that fault, and that tho chances were that he'd rnako a first-rate railroad man. "He's still braking on tho Flying Dude. But it won't take many years to see liim a conductor—you can de pend on that."—Youth's Companion. The Tido Turning South. "Georgia oujht to get thousands of settlers from Ohio aud Pennsylvania," says "Sam" B. Webb, who has just returned from a trip to those States in the interest of tho Central Railroad. "Tho people in those States are dis contented und are moving away. They do not want to sottle in Kansas or Ar kansas or Texas, where so many of thoir friends used to go. If Georgia only had sotno literature descriptive of her resources, it would attract thousauds of good, honest, hardwork ing people of tho agricultural and me chanical classes. Tho tido of emigra tion is now setting toward Tennessee, which State issued, probably a year ago, ono of the most complete books on its resources* thtft any State has over got out. That book catches a possible immigrant as soon as he ex amines it. If our State will just let the world know what wo have in tho way of climate, soil, minorals, woods, water power and that sort of thing our uncultivated and low-priccd lands will soon be in demand und the tax able proporty of the State will in crease in value a hundred million dol lars in a few years."—Atlanta Consti tution. Mirror aud Light on a Cuttlefish. The phosphorescent organs of n raro cuttlefish from deep water have been investigated by Joubin. It comprises what tho author calls a mirror and an apparatus for producing light. He supposes that this organ does no function, and that it is like a machine at rest; but if a living creature adapt ed for food wanders near the cuttle fish, this prey, being of a highr tem peruture than the water in which it floats, omits heat rays, which impingo on the reflecting mirror and are then concentrated iu the light producing organ, causing thero a sensation, tho organs acting by reflex action. The wa+cr around it is then lighted up by rays perceived by the eyo of the cut tle. In a word, these organs are those of caloric sense. Ho has also found in another cuttlefish an extremely curious organ constructed in such a manner that it does not perceive light rays, but is solely adapted to receive heat rays, which confirms his hypoth esis as to tho nature of the organs in the other outtle.—New York Inde pendent. A Cild Light. The recent investigations of Pro fessor Ebert form an interesting se quel to the researches of Tesla on the production of electric light with the minimum amount of heat. The goal, of course, is to get the light with no heat at all, except that which natural ly belongs to the luminous rays; that is, to get rid of tho obscure or dark heat altogether. Only about five per cent, of tho eneigy expended in an in cauhescent lamp is tuned into light, the remaiuiug ninety-fivo going into wasto heat. Professor Elbert has now not only deduoed the laws according to which apparatus should be made to produce cold light by means of alter nating currents of high freq-.ienoy, but he has succeeded in obtaining a light of about one-thirteenth of a candle power, with übout one-thousandth of the energy required in one of the standard candle power lamps. Thif, of courso, is a very small light, but Professor Ebert is confident that lights of practical brightness may bo obtained according to his method.— London Exchange. Dyes From Vlne-Lcave.«. Dyes from autumn leaves might seem a natural and matter-of-courso production, but until reoently no such thing has been thought of. Soma German chemists have, however, suc ceeded in extracting a substance from ripened vine-leaves that with appro priate mordants will color beautiful tlmdes of brown and yellow.—New £ork Ledger, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The human skeleton, exclusive of the teeth, consists of 208 bones. Leunhauk once examined a section of human scalp that had nearly 12,000 hairs to the square inch. One horse-power converted into gas equals twelve candle-power ; into elec tricity, equals 1609 candle-power. Solitary confinement is calculated, doctors state, to produce melancholia, suicidal mania and loss of reason. Nino months of absolutely solitary confinement are almost certain to re sult in the mental ruin of the convict. A musical instrument, the pyro phone. has been invented whioh ex tracts all the tones of tho scale from gas flames. Railroad authorities says that an ordinary locomotive has 300 horse power and burns a ton of coke for eighty miles of passenger train travel. The human lungs retain the air in their substance with such obstinacy that it cannot bo expelled by any com pression short of absolutely disinte grating the tissue. A Manchester (England) man car ries on his person a complete pick pocket alarm system. Removal of his watch, pin, or other jewelry causes tho ringing of a bell. The electrio plant weighs twenty-two ounces. An eleotric lighting plant at Ealing, England, is oporated by the waste heat from garbago destructors, and provision is made for condensing tho steam from tho engino with liquid sewage, chemically treated to make it innocuous. A novel plan of strengthening a fly wheel has beou put into successful practice in tho Mannesmaun Tube Company's works in Germany. The wheel eonsists mainly of wire, seventy tons of which are wound around tho hub, between two steel disks twenty feet in diameter, and completely fill ing the space. California is soon to try an indus try that has hitherto been confined in this country to New York City—that of whalebone cutting. While much of the world's supply of whulebono is landed in San Francisco from tho whaling ships, it has hitherto all been sent to New York City and London to be cut for use. Dr. Zacharin, the late Czar's physi cian, has devised a new method for stanching the flow of blood. Steam is injected into the wound through a catheter for a minute or less. Tho patient, under tho influence of chloro form, feels no pain aud suffers no ill consequences. It is said that experi ments show that by this method por tions of the liver, spleen, kidneys or lungs may be removed without serious loss of blood and without fatal effects. Pocket-knife blades aro very un evenly tempered. Even in so-called standard cutlery some blades are hard and some are soft. For tho latter there is no remedy, but the temper of hard ones can easily be drawn slight ly. Tako a kitchen poker and heat it red hot. Have a blade that is to be drawn bright and hold it on the poker for a moment. When tho color runs down to violet blue stick tho blado in apiece of tallow or boef suet until cold. Deadwood is Delunct. Deadwood, North Dakota, of to day is a straggling village of houses and shops in a gulch. The creek that tears through the town makes a noise when men are not talking politics on the bridges. Seventeen years ago tho water of this stream was clear, and men could whip trout from its depths. It is red now, and when a stranger to the village stands upon the bridge he is told by the natives that if he were to wheel a wagon from bank to bank there would be gold enough on tho tires of tho wheels to pay his fare to Spearfish. And Spearfish is a goodly distance. "That water is colored by the waste of the Homostake mine," these same natives will suy. Continu ing they will declare "there is gold in every riffle." The town is dead, though. Its dance-houses are closed, the old-time mail coach is now a fea ture of a show in the East, and tho limbs of the trees to which the vigi lantes of old used to string their vic tims are molting.—Chicago Herald. Derelicts at Sea. The Admiralty and Board of Trade Committee, of England, have reoently published a curious report on the sub ject of the destruction of derelict ves sels. The committee recommends the better reporting of derelict vessels, as to their character and location and the publication periodically of such report. But, on the other hand, they do not deem it necessary to destroy abandonod vessels or to hold interna tional conferences to discuss the sub ject. Tho report further states that the danger of collision with derelicts is probably much exaggerated, and that to publish the information con coring derelicts givon in the charts is sued by tho United States would be likely to mislead and needlessly alarm English mariners. This casts a very unjust reflection upon the value of tho United States charts. If the derelicts are a menace to navigation, as tho committee's report virtually admits, they certainly deserve more serious at tention. —Scientific American. Fine Funeral ot a Pet Pug. Paris is laughing over the extrava gant funeral of the pet dog of au Americen family residing in the gay capital. The body was placed in two caskets, one of oak, tho other leaden, conveyed in a hearse covered with flowers to Vaucresson, and there buried. A number of mourners in car riages followed the hearse to the ceme tery, and a monument costing S3OO was erected over the grave, the total expenditure for the funeral amounting to over 8500.—Chicago Herald. Terms"-SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months, AN IMPLIED THREAT. ENGLAND WANTB THIS COUNTRY TO MAKE "CONCESSIONS." Withdrawal of British Capital From America Hinted at as the Penalty of Our Refusal —lf British Capital Does Not Find Profitable Invest ment Here It Blight Try China. In a recent editorial in the London Times we find the following: "The conditions are such that the United States and the British Empire must either compete for, or unite to hold, the command of the commerce of the World. United, wo safely might defy competition from any other of the machine-using people. The dom inating forces in commerce are usually held to be food, fuel, iron and copper. If to these wo add the human factor, a man, America and Great Britain may claim to own them all in a su preme degree. The exact center of eaoh special industry would matter little. With coal and iron to spare for each other, we should be invinci ble." This is truly an honest admission for the leading paper in the United Kingdom to make, and it is an admis sion which wo must confess we are rather surprised to find. But the ac knowledgment is tempered by the fol lowing : "It may be assumed that the United' States would not lose the customer of half its oxports, without being willing to make some concessions in the direc tion of a mutually advantageous union. It is hardly neoessary to al lude to the large amount of British capital invested in the United States which would have everything to gain by a profitable union." This is clearly an implied threat. England acknowledges that wo are her competitor for the commerce of the world, a condition that we have ar rived at solely through tho adoption of the policy of protection, and Eng land, knowing the extent of our rival ry, desires tho establishment of a com mercial union between tho two coun tries. The Times shonld come right out and state what are these "conces sions in the direction of a mutual ad vantageous union" which we are de sired to make. If we have, under protection, sue* ceeded in becoming such active petitors in the commerce of the world that England feels it, why is it neces sary for us to make any concessions at all? The threat implied is clearly the withdrawal oi "the large amount of British capital invested in the United States." This threat is bunoombe. Tho English capitalist and money lender will send his money to the United States for investment just so long as he can get a better rate of in terest on good security here than he can at home. When he fails to do this ho will withdraw his money, and not one day sooner, all the bosh of the London Times to the contrary not withstanding.) Knocked the Stuffing Out, Changed Conditions and Views. In 1890 a considerable number of New England iron and steel men placed their names to a petition whioh de manded free coal and iron and a low duty on pig iron. This petition was given the greatest prominence by cer tain free 4 trade partisans forja year or two. The truth is that most of the signers gave little heed to the ques tions at stake. They thought, in the midst of their prosperity, that they might be relieved of the payment of duties on what they bought, and at the same time enjoy the advantages of a protective tariff. But theorizing in prosperity and trembling in adversity ore different things altogether. On June 18 the fret-trade Senate, Hill and Irby being the only dissenters, refused to grant free coal; on June 19, Hill ex cepted, it refused to grant free iron ore, and the dose was gulped down by tho free-trade House on August 13! Thus was the answer given to the free coal and iron manufacturers—an an swer over and over again predicted by the protectionist papers and speak ers. The dreadful effects of free trade and the anticipation thereof have practically solidified the iron men. They see now, as they oould not, or refused to, see in 1890 and 1892, that the cartoon of the dog and his reflec tion in the water was meant for them. The Republican party was ousted and Democracy ushered in. Republican protection was dropped and sectional destruction rode in on top of "perfidy ahd dishonor." Prosperity was lost and nothing was gained except a rude awakening to the fact that yon never "miss the water till the well runs dry." Sundry of these iron and steel people have been on deok the past year, but instead of complaining of the measure of prosperity allowed them under Republican protection; instead of demanding tho American NO. 18. market for their own wates and de manding to purchase the raw material turned out by foreign paupers from alian mines free of duty, while Ameri can citizens walk the streets in search of work; instead of this they have re pudiated Democratic free trade and all that pertains to it. Russian Barley Here Already. If our farmers will look into the reports of the Treasury Department they will find that Russia is now im porting barley quite largely into the United States. This was made possi ble by the reduction of duties in the grain sohedule under the Wilson law, now operative. It does not appear that prices have been materially lowered by these imports, therefore no result ing benefits are as yet enjoyed by tho purchasers of the foreign article; but it does appear that the growers of barley in tho United States are mate rially hurt in thnt the homo market for the home product is takon from the home producer by the foreign producer to a more or less injurious extent. It may be contended by free traders that expected benefits to users of bai ley will come after awhile, when the market price breaks under excessive supply through importations from Europe. The inquiry then would be whether the American grower would sontinue to produce barley at Euro pean prioes. There would probably be a general cessation of production of this oereal, and the second inquiry would present itself, viz.: how long after the destruction of the American producer would it be before Europe, having possession of the American market, would advance prices to suit ber own views? What would become of che American users' interest in tho bands of the European producer? Nothing but a return to proteoti.ro duties could reinstate tho equilibrium then so seriously disturbed. Our grain growers, we fear, have two more years of severe trial ahead. The question pf how to meet them should be most carefully weighed by every farmer in the country. And the People Are Delivered. Congressman Marriott Brosius, it the course of his address quoted Car lyle's description of Sir Henry Vane, of England, who flourished some gen erations back. Mr. Brosius applied this description to the distinguished Congressmen of this district, who is leading the fight for the establishment of free trade in Amerioa. These word# of the great Carlyle as applied to Si; Henry Vane are BO apt and approprir ate to Mr. Wilson that we reproduce them here. The lines are as follow): "Grant him all manner of purity and elevation; subtile, high discourse and intellectual dexterity; an amia ble, devout and zealous man. Hit tendency toward the abstract and the oretic is irrestible. Ho holds on the conorete wherein lies everything thai is practical and permanent is not thai of a giant or born practical king. His astonishing subtility of mind con ducts him not to new clearness, but to ever new abstrusoness, wheel with in wheel and depth under depth. His astonishing intellect occupies itself in splitting hairs and not in twisting cordage, or other effectual draught teckle to take road with. Yon can only get away from such a man with the prayer, 'Lord, deliver me from thee.' I want twisted cordage and steady pulling, not split hairs, hysteri cal spasmodios and treble. Thou ami able, subtle, elevated individual, thi Lord deliver me from thee." And, as Mr. Brosius puts it, the American people are now saying to the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to-day: "The Lord deliver us from thee." And the American people were de livered.—Grafton (W. Va.) Sontinel. The Farmer Suffers. The effect of the Gorman Tariff bill is already being experienced in thi wool market. The pric6 of Americas wool has fallen, while that of Austra lian wool has advanced. The Ameri can farmer suffers while the Australia! farmer prospers. At the latest woo sales the price of Australian woo closed firm at an advance on all desir able grades. In this country theri has been quite a movement in comb ing apd fine clothing wool, the bull of the business being sales in bond, s< that no duty should be paid. Thi American clip is twenty per cent, lest than last year, owing to the slaughtel of sheep rendered compulsory by thi mere threat of Democratic tariff tink ering. Our farmers cannot raise wool •at a profit at existing prices. Thi smaller our supply, tho greater thi demand for foroign wool and th< higher its price. The American farmer suffers while the foreign farmer pros pers. This is the result of Demo oratio "tariff reform.-" Foreign Lumber Coming. The lumbermen around the Bay of Fundy will now out their logs long enough to make lumber to suit the New York market, whioh requires longer stook than goes to England. And in doing so they will be in a posi tion to take advantage of either of the two markets. There will probably be lees lumber sent to the British market next year if the American market offers inducements to shippers. It is stated that muoh timber now out into piling at practically no profit will hereafter be converted into soantling for the American market. The American mill owners here, who out Maine logs, will, of course, not profit by the change. Their lumber costs them more than the provincial article costs, and they will have no corresponding advantage in the mar kot.—St. John correspondent of the Northwestern Lumberman.
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