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
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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.