SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
"3tateswomen" is the correct thing
locnll tho femalo Australian poli
tician.
Tho Japs will beforo long bo a for
midable factor among the world's
naval powers, predicts the St. Louis
Star-Sayings.
In France it is decided that tho
makers of bicycles are responsible for
ilamagos when an accident occurs
through a structural fault in a ma
chine.
During tho last two months of 1891
iho number of serions crimes reported
in Egypt was 234, as compared with
484 during tho samo period in 1893.
I his is regarded as very satisfactory.
It is estimated by somo that tho
present coinage valuo of gold bullion
is about forty per cent, of its market
value. The remaining sixty per cent,
is the value given it by demand for
use in tho arts.
The Seciotary of tho North Caro
liua Board of Health cites numerous
cases where neighborhoods almost nu
inhabitable on account of malaria be
camo healthy when artesian water was
substituted for that from steams or
surface wells.
The Southern States are dotted
with gold properties from one end to
the other, avers tho Atlanta Constitu
tion. Tho Virginia-Maryland gold
runs in a southwesterly direction
through the middle sections of those
States and continues its course into
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama into Mexico. This
belt covers at least twenty counties in
Virginia, and quartz veins exist of
i mmem-ofeize in Fauquier, Goochland,
Louisa and other counties, quartz
taken from veins at different sections
showing by (ire assay from 810 to
SIOOO gold to the ton. Two years ago
six hundred pounds of ore wero takon
. from a vein near Montgomery County,
Maryland, near the Virginia border,
which yielded $30,000 gold, this be
ing a pocket. Tho ore of this vein
nvoraged SSO to tho ton at a total ex
pense not exceeding $3.
The sod bouses in which many of
the farmers of Western Kansas brave
the blizzards are admirably adapted
to the purpose. It should also be
said that they are the coolest of dwell
ings during tho heated terra. The
manner of construction is as follows:
''The farmer cuts tho slabs of sod for
building purposes just as sod is cut
for transplanting grass. The buffalo
grass indigenous to the Western Kan
sas country grows like a thick mat of
tough herbage. The slabs of this sod,
about fifteen by twenty-four inches
and four inches thick, hold together
with tho consistency of felt. They
aro laid in courses like building stone,
and pressed closely together, and tho
roof is made of timbers and frequently
thatched. The inside is then smoothed
with the native lime, which makes an
excellent plaster. This coat of lime is
sometimes applied outside also, but
usually these sod houses present a
natural dun color like the winter
prairie. In some cases tho floor is
mado by excavating a few feet and
tramping theground solid with horses;
otherwise a regular wood floor is laid.
Tho window and door frames are fitted
as in building stone house. The sod
house contains frequently only one
room, but some have two and even
three rooms." Tho sod house lasts
about five years.
The students of sooiology, and par
ticularly that branch which relates to
our foreign immigration, will be in
terested in a table compiled by Wil
liam E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record,
which shows tho proportion of foreign
born citizens of the United States
who own the homes in which they
live, and the percentage of those
homes that are free from incumbrance.
The following gives the percentages
in fifty-eight cities of more than 50,-
000 population:
Percentage Percentage
Nationality. own"-*, froe homes.
German 31.85 ti1.39
Scandinavian '24.60 45.04
Irish 24.40 68.35
Scotch 25.10 62.00
French 24.00 74.61
English and Welsh 23.40 56.7'J
and Huns 21.93 58.87
English Canadians 19.77 53.51
Busslans and Poles 14.87 43.39
CaniKilan French 13.87 45.79
Italian 6.28 70.82
The average of ownership for tho
whole population of the fiity-eight
cities is 24.88 per cent, and 61.64 per
cent, are free of incumbrance. The
average home ownership for natives of
the United States in these oities is
23.41 per cent., and 61.86 per cent, are
free of incumbrance. It will »e no
ticed that the Frenchmen ure least
given to mortgages, and that tho
Itiiliuu, Hthough ho seldom buys a
home, is accustomed to pay for it.
TREK MEMORIES.
The woodland stretched its arms to mo,
And into its heart I wont,
While by my sldo invisibly
Walkod musing-eyed Contnnt.
The woodland spake no word to me, "*5
I But, oh! its thoughts wore sweoti
Against my spirit like a sea
I felt tho thought-waves beat.
Before my vision starved and dull
Tho wood shapes dropped their gold;
The young child tree? were beautiful-
More beautiful the old.
Within their halls of memory
What heavenly scones are drawn—
The stream, tho wild birds' company;
Tho sky's cool fa.-e at dawn.
Tho golden lanees of the suu,
Tho rain that fools its wav;
Tho twilight steps that one by ouo
Lead to tho moon's white ray.
The multitude of bright loat forms
Engraved on earth and air;
The black and gold of midnight storings
Tho bluo that violets wear.
These throng the greenwood memories
Upon this perfumed track
The thoughts of all the silent troo3
Go wandering back and back
This is the charm that cometh last,
Of all their sweets the sum—
The feeling of groen summers past,
And fair groen springs to come.
—Ethelwyn Wetherald, in Harper's Weekly.
BARCLAY'S* ROMANCE.
SUMMER afternoon
112 f~l drowsed lazily over
\ I the world. A breeze
came faintly up
/C§j—from the south and
drifted through the
'jlwindow and rustled
rJimPrt*' the papers on Bar
elay's desk. Then it
>'i Tw iJE jf died away in an ex
-f- Ilipal> cess InQguor.
Barclay was deep
in the intricacies of a will case. The
boys said if ho had come into the
world and not found sorao kind of a
law case ready for him to plunge into,
and a poky ono at that, he would im
mediately have left it iu disgust.
They also held, with that intolerance
of dulness that is characteristic of
brilliant youth, that it would have
been no special disadvantage if he had.
"If I must have been bo rn an oyster,"
said Lance, "I should prefer to be of
the edible variety, that I might get
rid of myself in same way, were it
only by being eaten."
Elsie Fane camo iu to see Mr. Clogg.
He was an old friend of her father,
and she was privileged to come when
ever she liked. Now that the Mesa
land case was on she found it agree
able to come with soma frequenoy.
Should the Mesa case be lost Will
Arden would have to begin the world
again with no more money in his
pooket and far less hope in his heart
than when he started out ten years
ago ta make his fortune. Then Elsie
would goon dancing at charity balls
and seaside hops with partners she
hated until she had grown too old to
dance even at Mrs. Frump's poky "at
homes," and then she would settle
down as a spinster aunt and devote the
rest of her life to hearing her brother's
children say the multiplication table
and giving them gruel when they were
ill. She wondered if she would ever
learn to administer gruel otherwise
than externally. The last time she
had experimented with her youngest
sister that small rebol had signified
her preference for clear water for
bathing purposes.
Sometimes in her moments of most
concentrated woe she fanoied some
thing yet worse. She might marry
Mr. Qrumple. Mr. Giumple wore a
wig and had rheumatism when it
rained. It rained quite often. Mr.
Grumple could not waltz oven when
he had not rheumatism. How divinely
Will waltzed 1 The ohildren might
grow out of the gruel and multiplioa
tion-table stage, but Mr. Qrumple
would never grow out of rheumatism
and wigs.
When she oamo in the clerks rose
and bowed with what was intended
for exceeding grace, aDd eaoh was glad
that he did not simper as absurdly as
his neighbor.
Barclay looked up. She smiled when
she saw him and disappeared beyond
the inner door which concealed that
vast repository of legal lore, Clegg,
from profane view. Smiled on Bar
clay 1 Was there ever anything so pre
posterous?
The summer day drowsed on until it
fell fast asleep. Barclay folded his
papers in his methodical way and put
them into the flleholder. Lance said
if the building should catch fire Bar
clay would not approach the door un
til the papers had been lolded in their
usual creases and put away, earliest
date on top, and fastened up. Then
he looked the door and went away.
Lance had speculated upon the possi
bility of Clegg's ever being opened or
closed again if Barolay should happen
to die. Any one watohing him—only
that no one ever did watch him; what
would have been the use, when there
were so many more interesting people
in the world to look after?—would
have thought what a plodding fellow
ho was. Why was he so devoid of
that electrio energy which is the only
thing that can transform existence
into life?
He turned off the main street into
a wide avenue bordered with maples
and rang the bell of a huudsome stone
house. When tho door opened he
entered add passed through a hall
which led to a spacious library pan
elled in oak and tilled with that mag
netic oharm which only the presence
of books can give.
Elsie Fane camo out from ft cur
tained window where sho had been
reaning.
"I am glad you have come," she
said.
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895.
He looked at her, thinking how like
a lily of the valley she was. She had
once given him a cluster of the little
white bells, fastening it to his but
tonhole, laughing at the idea of his
wearing a flower.
He had worn it to the office ; where
upon, after the first moment of petri
faction consequent upon such an ap
parition, Lance had rushed out and
secured the largest sunflower the
market afforded and fasteued it to his
coat, where it shone like a mammoth
gold dinner plate. Hal had adorned
himself with a cluster of hollyhocks of
unoxampled magnificence.
"But you are never glad, bo I can
not expect you to be glad to seo me.
Sit here where the wind comes in fresh
and cool. You must get awfully tired
in that poky old office."
"I am a poky fallow; I don't mind
it."
"But you ought not to bo poky.
Mr. Clegg told papa you know more
about law than he does."
"But law is a poky subject."
"Papa said it was you who won the
Moleford forgery case."
"I only did the plodding."
"Papa says it's the plodding that
counts."
"Maybe so. But anybody can do
it who is willing to spend the time.
My time is not worth much."
"How very slow it is 1"
"Yes. Wehavoone caso that has
beon going on for thirty yours."
"I shall be very old in thirty years,
sha'n't I?"
"I don't know."
He could not imagino her being
old. He never remembered that he
was old except when ho was with her.
Then ho realized that ho was thirty
seven, even by the calendar; in
reality he must be about a hundred.
"We won a ease last week that Mr.
Clegg inheritod from his father. All
the people interested in it are dead
except one. He is in the insane asy
lum."
She sat for a moment gloomily si
lent.
"I wish I could understand tho
Mesa case."
"If you could you would be better
informed than any one else."
"Don'i, you understand it?''
"No. Neither does Clegg. Nor
anybody. I'd better go now, in
stead of staying hero and making you
dismal, I'm always being disagree
able."
"No, yon are not. You only tell
me the truth."
"Telling the truth is tho most ob
noxious way in which a man can make
himself disagreeable as a general
thing."
"Will you not stay and dine? You
never stay with us now."
"Thank you, but thefe will be com
pany and I am dull. People don't
want dullness at dinner."
Elsie shrugged her shoulders, after
an expressive but inelegant fashion
she had.
"They usually got it, whether they
want it or not."
She looked after him as ho went
out, wondering why he never could be
like other people. Thon she fell to
musing upon the criminal inadequacy
of the law. It had been evolving for
centuries and was still unable to de
cide the Mesa land ease in Will's favor.
What a fossilized institution it wag !
No wonder Barclay was dull.
In the autumn Barclay took A vaca
tion. He also took away the breath
of the offioe. Barclay had not before
had a vacation since ho was a gram
mar-school boy.
"Next thing," said Hal, "Mount
Shasta will apply for leave of absence
and go oft on a yachting excursion in
northern seas."
The autumn rains were falling on
the Pacific slope. A pale-green vel
vety carpet was being woveu over the
wide plains. The Pacific summer had
begun. Ditches which had by cour
tesy borno the name of rivers had
suddenly put forth legitimate claim to
the appellation. Bridges were washed
away, trains were delayed and ran on
eaoh other's time; a telegram went
astray. Thus it happoned that the
Westward-bound passenger crashed
into a freight that was lumbering
along to the East, and in an instant
became a mass of splintered wood and
bent metal.
When Barclay began to realize him
self he was crawling out from under
two heavy timbers that had so inter
fered with each other in falling as to
avoid crushing him under their weight.
He had always thought the advantage
of having few wits was that if they
happened to be lost it would not take
long to pick them up again. He
breathed a few times to see if he oould,
and in a moment was hard at work
tearing away the heavy fragments of
the wreck, helping to release those
less fortunate than he. One after an
other ho carried out, some groaning
with pain and more quite still, having
passed forever beyond the world of
pain.
He heard a man's voice calling for
help. Putting forth all his strength,
he lifted away the heavy pieces of
wood from tho placo whence the
sounds eame. The man crawled out,
stood erect when he was quite free
from his prison and gave utterance to
a succession of oaths that struck with
grim deviltry against the appalling
awfulness of the soene. Lying at his
feet was a dead woman, her face
turned up pathetically towards the
stars. There was something fascinat
ing about a man who could give way
to a tide of profanity in such a place.
Barclay followed him a few steps.
"How can you say such horrible
words when you have just escaped so
awful a death?"
"The very reason I can,"hereplied,
gruffly. "If I hadn't escaped I
couldn't say them."
Something in his voice rang famil
iarly upon Barclay's memory. He fol
lowed yet further.
"I know you now. I was coming
to see you."
Tho man turned and faced him
abruptly.
"Barolay, by all that's fiendish!"
He stood silent for a while as if
made speechless by surprise.
"You must be growing neighborly.
You aro not used to paying mo vis
its."
"It's tho first time you ever had
arything I wanted."
"I thought it couldn't be for lovo
you had come."
"Not for love of you."
They were walking towards an
adobe hnt that stood by the roadside.
When they reached it they entered
and seated themselves by a table in
the middle of tho floor, facing each
other.
"What is it you want? You havo
boon long in coming for it, whatever
it ie."
"You, at least, should not complain
of my lack of promptness. It has
giveu you plenty of rope to hang
yourself with. Why didn't you?"
"Perhaps I should if I had known
that you were coming. As you are
here you may save me the trouble."
"You are the contestant in the Mesa
case?"
"What is that to you?"
"It concerns you only that it is
something to me."
Ho took a paper from his pocket
and laid it beforo him.
"I want you to sign that."
The man scowled as he read it. It
was a relinquishment of all claim to
the Mesa land.
"I won't do it."
"I think you will."
"Why do you think so?"
"You will romember first tho par
ticular thing for which you are wanted
over on the Atlantic coast. Thon you
will roflect upon the effect of Eastern
atmosphere upon the health of a man
who is wanted as badly as you are.
After mature consideration, you will
decide to sign."
He pulled a pistol from his pocket.
Barclay struck it from his hand, and
it flew through the opou door of the
hut. Then he drew his own pistol and
aimed it at the head opposite.
"I give you three minutes to sign.
Here is a pen with ink enough in it to
sign all tho names you have. One is
sufficient —tho one under which you
claim the land."
The day after Barclay's leave ex
pired Elsie came in. When she left
Mr. Clegg's room her face was radiant.
Sho did not see Barclay bending over
his desk. Perhaps ho did not see her.
His face was bent low over the papers
in the Jarvis vs. Leighton corporation
suit as she went on her unconscious,
happy way."
"Barolay grows more and more of a
stick every day. How oan a man be
such an insensiblo machine?"
"Oh, he's comfortable enough, I
dare say."
"Comfortable !" said Lance, witn a
superior air. "I suppose a log in ■
swamp is comfortable. I would rather
be a little more uncomfortable some
times, and have some life in mo."
llow Two Hun ire:! Llres Were Saved.
Captain Edward Smith, of the
steamer Yesso, which ran out of Balti
more up to last year, once savod 200
lives in a collision similar to that of
the Elbe and Crathie. Ho was mastor
of the stoamer Karo when she ran her
bow into the side of a Russian passen
ger steamer. A mate on the bridge
of the Karo was about to ring full
steam astern and back away from the
Russian, when Captain Smith stopped
him. He kept the engines of the Karo
going half speed ahead, and her bow
fast in the gup she had cut in the side
of the other steamer. Oyer 200 peo
ple passod from the dock of the Rus
sian steamer to the deck of the Karo
and wore saved. The Russian vossel
went to tho bottom. While Captain
Smith was in a foreign port he ro
ceivod a cablegram that his wife had
given birth to twins at his home in
Charleston. Ho camo to Baltimore
last April with tho happy news in his
possession and started for Charleston.
He arrived there to find both wife and
children dead. Captain Smith took
to his bod and died shortly after.—
Baltimore American.
Hlo Cat With a White Tall.
As you seem to be interested in
cats, and as I am too, I make bold to
ask you a question : Did you evor see
a cat with a white tail ? I have been
looking for one, simply as a matter of
curiosity, for about fifty years, and
have never seen one, although I have
Be en many pure white cats, except
that their tails, or a part, were not. I
was asked this question when a small
boy by a person probably as old as I
am now, and he said he had never
seen one, though he was induced all
his life to look for one, just as I have,
and for tho same reason, so this
would make n search of considerably
over a century on this question of
natural history, and as in this long
space there is no authentic aecouut o'
any one ever having seen a cat with <
tail all white, I am almost tempted tc
believe there is no such thing.—Balti
more Sun.
A Unique Exhibit at Atlanta.
M. F. Amorous, of tho Atlanta
Lumber Company, has in view an ex
hibit at the Cottou States and Inter
national Exposition whioh will he an
object lesson of unique and startling
character. It is proposod to combine
all forms of woodworking machinery,
from the log to the finished product.
Logß will be brought from the forest
and given to sawmills of various typos,
thence to driers, planers, finishers and
wood-working machinery. It is pro
posed to make cradles, cotfius and
everything in wood that comes be
tweeu. This novel idea is a practical
ono and the exhibit is expected to be
one of the features of the exposition.
—Chicago Herald.
THAT DOLLAR WHEAT.
IT WAS PROMISKO THK FARM Bit
BY THE FREK IRADKRS.
Bat the Farmer Receives 481-2
Cents a Bushel Short of the Dem
ocratic Promise—Wheat Worth
Something In Protection Times.
The annual report upon tho far u
erops of 1894, issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, suggests an in
vestigation as to tho realization of
those dollar wheat promises that wero
made by the free traders during the
Presidential campaign of 1892. We
accordingly take the averages for the
three McKinley years of protection
and compare them with the averages
during the two years that the free
traders have had tho opportunity to
give the farmers their dollar wheat.
Thus:
Avekaoe annual value.
Per
Team, Totnl crop. Ter bushel, Acre.
1890-2 $390,119,423 *0.767 $10.1(
1893-4 219,536,703 0.515 6.3;
During the three years of protec
tion, 1890-1892, the farmers of tho
United States received an average of
$170,583,720 a year more money for
BjJfL Wheat E
Imm ''5.91 Bashel&! ijs
5 ||f«reach person| ;'•£#
s£s |. ,in the I, ia<*a ; 'l jfefiS
lr»wsw»,
Hl' i—i |.J for «och perwn
igjjj work is ,{ Unfted StatesJj \-
BMcb !'OM w«««
!§ ts&wfl! v
a|s,h«riib> t »*g#|
&§ atlkamleof j ;f -
gp«!, s&dk
if , ITIOT6 ,1 thai
SjjjV i l * m J^ioniyofatojf
UJhjj IDheal Sella Sloui
their wheat crops than they did in
1893 and 1894 under tho free trade
administration. The wheat crop was
worth 53.84 an acre more under pro- '
tection than in tho free trade times.
The average price was 7fi 7-10 cents
per bushel on tho farm under protec
tion, but only 51S cents a bushel since
the free traders have had the oppor
tunity to pay tho fibers that dollar
• bushel.
It must not be thought that tho low
price during 1893 and 1894 was due to
unusually large crops. It was not.
The average harvest during the throe
years of protection was 508,997,000
bushels a year, whereas it averaged
only 428,199,570 bushels a year for
1893 and 1894. Under protection the ■
yield averaged 13.2 bushels an acre,
but during the two years of the free
trade administration the yield aver
aged only 12.3 bushels an acre. Tho
free traders had everything in their
favor for high prices, yet the farm
value of their wheat has been just 48J
cents a bushel short of that promised
dollar. Can this be the resultot sell
ing in the markets of the world?
Cotton Grown (or Nothing.
During the twelve months ending
December 31, 1894, we shipped abroad,
to foreign countries over 1,000,000
bales more of raw cotton than during
the calendar year 1893, the exact
quantity being 614,000,000 pounds of
cotton greater than we sold a year
earlier. This is very encouraging aud
indicates great prosperity for the
southern section of the country where
our cotton is grown, until we turn to
the values, where we find that cotton
growers received $3,700,000 less money
for tho larger quantity of cotton
which they sold in 1894 than was paid
to them for a smaller quantity which
they sold in 1893. In other words
tho cotton growers of the United
States planted, cultivated, harvested
and marketed some 700,000,000
pounds of raw cotton and simply made
a gift of it to tho manufacturers in the
United Kingdom, Germany, France,
British North America and Mexico.
The Gortnan tariff openod these for
eign markets, and they were undobt
edly wide open and waiting to receive
our cotton on suoh terms. This is u
condition that confronts cotton grow
ers ; it is not a theory.
Labor Busy in London.
17 112
R 11
A Chicago Opinion.
Tho speoial representatives of pro
tection iu Congress and elsewhere in
public life have had their day. They
will disappear as party leaders. They
are discredited iu the partisan poli
tics of the country. They will di'op
to the rear of the marching columns.
—Chicago Herald.
Excepting, perhaps, tho army of
251) representatives of protection that
will control the House of it jpresenta
tives in the Fifty-fourth Cougress.
Terms—Sl.oo in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
Ticking in the South,
The Charleston (S. C.,) News and
Courier rejoices at the excellent qual
ity of bed ticking produced by one of
the manufacturing companies of South
Carol in a, and observes:
"There are probably two or three
million beds in the State. Equip
them hereafter with mattresses mule
in the State of homemade cotton and
home-woven ticking. Patronize home
industries; it will help the industries
and help the State."
We are glad to know that the home
market idea is taking root in the
Southern mind, but we cannot see
how our free trade friend of the News
and Courier can hope for a continua
tion of the thrift of the ticking mills
and all the other faotors concerned in
the production of its goods, under the
now competition which will come
under the more than 33-per cent, re
duction of duty provided in the Wil
son tariff, now in operation.
For the ten months previous to the
active operative of the new tariff there
were imported over twenty million
yards of ticking and kindred material,
this under the protectivo rate of
the McKinley law. Now, what can
our contemporary expect under the
present 33-per cent, reduction, but
the most serious competition for the
business now enjoyed by the Southern
mill ? Instead of twenty million yards
of ticking and like material, are we
not apt to have this quantity multi
plied over and over again.
Just now there is some attention
turned to cotton mill building in the
South. If our friend of the News and
Courier would hasten the movement
of the mills in his direction he must
protect them. If ho would have them
earn dividends hem -st protect them.
If he would have e standard of
wages maintained ill -ho South and
the prices for cotK n upheld ho must
protect the industries wnich consume
them. Still we are glad to know that
even the sentiment of protection is
ticking in South Carolina.
Eli Perkins Scores One.
As free frade is mutually beneficial,
why (by tariffs) debar men from mu
tually increasing wealth and happi
ness by trade? Theodore J. Webner.
Newark, N. J.
Free trade is not mutually bene
ficial. It is beneficial to a low wage
eouutrv, but not to a high wage coun
try. Freo trade allows a low wage
country to ship their manufactured
Koods into a wage country and
close their nulls, or compel their high
wage workmen to work for half their
present wages ox starve. When we
have free trade our conutry could
never ship one knife or plate or yard
of silk to Europe or Japau till we had
llieir low wages plus llie freight. Who
would buy u knife made by two-dollar
labor when you could buy the same
knife mado by forty-cent liber in Bel
gium? Protection makes high wages,
prosperity and happiness in America.
Free trade with us would starve our
workmen, close our mills, but it would
make Europe prosperous. Free trade
would drop wages in Amerioa and
stop mills, but it would tuako happi
uess aud prosperity in Europe and
China. With free trade only the
freight (15 cents per hundred pounds)
would separate wages. l)o you want
their low wages? Em PekslNS.
Why Cotton is Cheap.
RFH /HH
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c HE<\p en&USH African
WOOL COTTON
41 Cents. 39 Cents.
Progress Under Protection.
TheNews and Courier, S. C., though
usually very pessimistic, occasionally
has its bright side, as follows:
"The capital employed in cotton
milling industry in the South in
creased from $22,000,00,) in 1880 to
$108,000,000 in 1894, an increase of
nearly 500 per cent, in fourteen years.
The number of mills has increased
in the same period from 180 to 425,
looms from 14,323 to 68,205 and
spindles from 667,754 to 3,033,859."
Surely no other section of the coun
try in the world, not even in free
trade England, can show Mich mar
velous industrial industrial growth.
Why does the Nows and Courier desire
to change the conditions that brought
about this wondrous development?
Industries That, Prospered.
"Tho only American industry which
has prospered under Democratic rule
is the gold exporting business."—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Not the only one. There aro also
the industly of the Sheriff, the soup
house industry, tho free oread indus
try, the free olothiug industry and
the general freedom of labor from in
dustry, which have all prospered biuco
March, 1893.
Two Tears More.
jjabor'.- o!.l f.ieads demand
F.-ou eiion ar.il tellfei;
Thoy l-n.ve • ;st rights in this freo land,
llio "• cor law'' will be brier.
Care.- up my friends, the world still nuv
Hut two years more of blight.
ibon will run on broader grooves:
Wo nee the dawn of lie;'it.
—J. R.
A Market lor Cotton Goods.
The English trado journals speak of
the African demand for British manu
factured cotton goods, which is "in
creased continuously almost day by
day."
NO. 26.
A I.IFE'B EPILOGUE.
1 turn t*io tiny key and scan with eari
My roliquary's treasure unbcholden.
I tell their talc, those hoarded locks of hair,
Tho sheeny-blaek, tho silver-gray, tho
golden.
What envy I yon sinitors, lofty-throned,
Who voieo eaeh mood lu life's eternal
proem?
No sweeter lovo than mino their lips havo
moaned,
They sang their songs—but I havo lived my
poem.
—G -ant Allen, In Ledger.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A bookkeeper is one who borrows
but never returns. —Life.
There is more history to be made
than ever was written—Judge.
Tho very safest train to take is tho
ouo that immediately follows a dis
aster.—Puck.
A curious sociological fact—That
the Old Girl frequently develops into
the Now Woman.—Life.
Some people know a good thing
when they see it, and others think it
ought to take notice of them.—Puck.
It is believed that even tho old
woman who lived in a shoe insisted on
having it several sizes too small.—
Puck.
"See here!" said tho cup to tho
coffee, "your account has been stand
ing long enough. It's about time you
settled." —Life.
"Tho pleasantest way to take cod
liver oil," says an old gourmand, "is
to fatten pigeons with it, and then eat
tho pigeons."—Tit-Bits.
Little Freddie, in a dark cellar
with his uncle, clinging to him in
great fear, said: "Wo ain't afraid, are
we, Uncle Tom?"— Judge.
To-day brown eurls are clustering
Upon her forehead, bless her;
Time flies, twelve hours elapse, and
They're clustering ou her dresser.
—Puck.
Mr. Park Hill—"Were you awaro
of the fact that tho gentleman who sat
beside you at supper was a baron?"
ITr. Harlem Hites—"No, but I judged
from his conversation that ho was
barren of ideas."—New York Ledger.
Attorney—"l havo no fears of
woman filling all the avenuos of pub
lic life." Lady—"And why so?"
Lawyer--"Where is the woman who
will claim to bo tho peer of the mod
ern juryman." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"You brought all that beautiful
china back with you?" exclaimed the
caller. "Didn't you break any
thing?" "Nothing but the customs
laws," replied the smiling youug lady,
who had just returnod from Europe.
—Chicago Tribune.
"I understand," said the masculino
gossip, "that the Due do Binklobeau
is to marry Miss Millions." "Well,"
replied the man who is in the publish
ing business, "that won't be the first
financial success due to a catchy title."
—Washington Star.
"Mamma," said Willie, "do you
pay Jennie sls a month for looking
after me?" "No, §l<>," said mamma.
"She is a good nurse and deserves it."
"Well, I say, ma, I'll look after my
self for $lO. You'll savo $0 by it."—
Harper's Young People.
Chronic Grumbler—"Look hero!
There's no meat in this sandwich."
Affable Waiter—"Thou why do you
call it a sandwich? I am surprised
that a gentleman of your erudition
should commit such a solecism in
rhetoric."—Bostou Transcript.
What's tho use of all this fuss and
worry and questioning about what tho
men are going to do while their wives
are at literary clubs developing their
minds? If worst comes to worst tho
men can stay at homo and look after
the baby, can't they?—Fresno Repub
lican.
"Well, Mrs. Parslow, I suppose you
are doing as many other ladies do
nowadays, taking lessons ou tho bi
cycle?" "No, Mr. Johnson, lam not.
All the lessons 1 have had sd far havo
been off tho bicycle, but I hopo soon
to take them on it, as you suggest."—
Harper's Bazar.
Timid Guest—"l have a delicato
wife, and if I stop at your place I want
to be suro there is a good doctor near
by." Aspiring Clerk (briskly)—" You
neodn't be alarmed, sir. We've got a
fine man within call. Why, ho has
just pulled through six of the toughest
cases of smallpox I ever heard of."
Brooklyn Life.
Son-iu-Law (to Register) —"I jist
cam' tae register the daith o' ma
mither-xn-law." Register "When
did she die?" Son-in-law—"Weel,
the fac' is, sh's no jest deid yet; but
the doctor says she's gaun tae gio us
that grief vjra sune, sae I thocht it
micht bo as weel tae provide against
conteengencies. "—Household Words.
"The other day I was walking be
side a railway line with a man who
was very hard of hearing. A train
was approaching, and as it rounded
the curve < the whistle gave one ot
those ear-destroying shrieks which
seem to pierce high heaven. A smile
broke over the deaf man's face.
'That is the first robin,' said he, 'that
I have hoard this spring.' " —Life.
Early Use ol Cupper and Hold.
Gold, because it was found pure and
fairly tractable, was probably the first
metal used by man. Copper, it is
true, is found us a metal, but only in
one comparatively restricted locality.
Occasionally gold fish hooks have been
discovered in graves in New Granada.
In mining a tunnel in Cauca a gold
hook was tound in 1882 fifty feet un
der the surface of the ground and be
neath what must have once been the
bed of a river. Copper fish hooks
havo been fouud in many of the an
cient burial mounds of Peru. —Chi
cago Herald.