SULLIVAN *JSSII& REPUBLICAN.
W. M, CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
Dairy cows bring mora per lisnd
than horses nowadays in Missouri.
The Government statistics show that
tho farmers, despite their lack of
money, are really better off than any
other elass.
It is announced that thero is to be a
"Woman's Bible," translated under
the auspices of some of the leading
Women of tho day.
Atlanta, Ga., has more churches
than any city iu the South, tho Chi
cago Becord estimates, and their soat
ing capaoity will accommodate 65,000
peoplo.
The Progressive Engineers' Associa
tion, of New York, a colored organiz
tion, is going to send ono of its mem
bers out to Liberia to seo what, if any,
inducements thut country offers for
colonization.
Emin Pasha's death, it appears, was
flue solely to tho vanity of » petty
African chief, who wished to show his
neighbors that ho was not afraid to
kill a white man. Ho was hanged for
it, all tho same.
Bosides the rather numerous Chi
nese, thero are probably le3S than 3000
foreigners in all Japan, though the
number may recontly havo rison alqpve
that. What progress has been made,
then, is clearly due to tho Japaneso
the Japanese thomsolves, and not to
foreign residents.
A farmer named Waldin discovered
that a Burlington, Coda Bapids and
Northern Bailroud bridge, near Bur
lington, lowa, had boen burned, and,
knowing that tho regular passenger
train was d.ue in a short time, walked
two miles down the track and stopped
tho train by waving a burning brand.
The train carried 100 passengers and
much valuablo express and baggage
matter.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
A list of Western Virginians of re
markably longevity is being publish
ed, and cases similar in various parts
of the United States aro cited as evi
dence of the lengthening of human
life. Nothing could be moro falla
cious for most so-thought very aged
people are unlettered and keep no re
cord of birth or death. This is par
ticulary so with tha colored popula
tion of tho Southern States, among
whom centenarians aro said to bo
somewhat common.
"Does slavery survive in England?"
asked tho London Christian World,
ami this is its answer: "After reading
last Saturday's 'special' numbor of tho
Schoolmaster on the subject of 'Half
timers,' wo find it difficult to answer
that question in the nogative. Au in
spector writes: 'I oxamined a child
yesterday who roso at 5.30, worked at
a mill, and then walked a couple of
miles to examination. Tais should
bo stopped. It is cruel.' Another
girl of elovon 'rose soou after On. m.,
and walked through the frost and
snow nearly two milcß to tho mill.
Work commonced at 6 and continued
till 8.30, when there was au intorval
of broakfast, tho child not leaving tho
mill. At 9 work again till 12.30'—six
hours in all—'and then dinner at tho
mill. At 1.30 tho child trudged off
to school.' How many British chil
dren are liable to this sort of experi
ence? Not less than 170,000 ! Shame
on us I" Such faots, comments tho
New York Observer, aro a shame, in
deed, to any civilized, not to say to
any Christian community.
"Tho Cuban rovolt is a continuous
nnd perpetual thing," remarks tho
Atlanta Constitution. "Since 1831
tho native inhabitants of the island
have never been perfectly quiet. When
not in open warfare they have made
it as unpleasant as possible for tho
Spaniards in tho interior. Between
1834 and 1878 offioial statistics show
that it has cost Spain for reinforce
ments sent to Cuba $200,000,000, and
n like amount for property destroyed.
In that period 8000 Spanish officers
have perished and 200,000 private
soldiers—all killed in battle or through
disease. More than 13,000 Cubans
have been killed in war and 43,000
have been taken prisoners and ex
ecuted. These are startling figures,
but thero will be no permanent peace
in Cuba under existing conditions.
The natives are denied all oivil, polit
ical and religious liberty. They are
excluded from all positions of honor,
trust and profit, and they are cruelly
oppressed and taxed to death. Na
turally, Spain suspoots that the Ameri
cans sympathize with the Cnbaas, and
this explainn her continual insults
nnd outrages in dealing with onr mer
chant vessels. We can never feel
secure nor count on peace with Spain
until Cuba is independent or under
our flag.
THE PLACE CALLED EASY STREET.
Oh! what is the way to Easy street—which
turning shall I go?
For many a day I'vo sought tho way that nc
one seems to know.
How do you turn?—do you keep straight on
and get there just the same,
Or is it tho ease that you find the place by
chanoo and happy luoUV
Some say this and some say that, for every
one I meet,
Going it blind or searching to find, is look
ing for Easy street.
Easy street! Easy street! The street so
hard to find!
No sign boards show the route togo save
tho ways that lie behind,
But fortune's smile is worth the while, so
never know defeat,
When tho very next turn for you may earn
tho way to Easy street.
From little Queer street through Hard Times
Court to the Highway of Success,
Is the noarest way, I've heard some say, and
it is true, I guess.
So through Poverty Place my way I trace
(with Queer street left behind),
But in Hard Times Court the way's cut
short—it ends in an alley blind.
In tho Lane of Chaneo I sometimes glance,
but the risk soems all too groat.
To turn and stray down Its winding way'and
blindly follow fate.
So, with courage high. I strive and try, seek
ing with weary feet,
My way to grope, nerved still with hope, the
way to Easy street!
Easy street! Easy street! Whore happy
mortals dwell,
Out of the strife of work-day life and the
battles of buy and sell.
Wearing good clothas, having no foes, with
life's good things replete,
Oh, happy fate! to dwell in state, at last,
on Easy street!
We will all of us live on Easy street when
things have gono our way,
When fortune and fame shall attend our
name and leisure comes to stay,
Through the deed achieved we've had our
minds the long last year or two;
Giving us zest to finish the rest of the things
we-are-going-to-do.
With the toil of these struggling days forgot,
and in our happiness all complete,
No trouble or care will bother us there whon
wo live on Easy stroet!
Easy street! E v-sy street! Where the skies
are always blue,
Aud nil of the schemos of onr well-loved
dreams aro over coming true.
We'll live at our ease nnd do as we pleaso
and find that life is sweet
When through toll and pain at last we gain
our way to Easy street!
—Puck.
JEAN'S HOUR OF TRIUMPH.
fggßl HEY all said it
£ 1W could not bo done;
that is, all but
Jean. Sho insisted
/ijL that it could, even
though Jack
|g/ wj ranged himself on
the side of those
who called her
scheme impractic
able and foolish. And Jack was the
young fellow, a telegraph operator, to
whom she was to bo married the next
week.
When marriage was seriously dis
cussed as tho end of their long court
ship, it had been suggested that they
should cither live with Jean's father—
Jock's folks being in Connecticut—or
take a couplo ol pleasant furnished
rooms nutil they saw their way togo
to housekeeping. Then it was that
Jean gave tho first curious proof of
her woman's impracticability.
"No," sho said, "I want togo to
housekeeping as soon as we are mar
ried."
"So do I," said Jack, "but how aro
wo to manage it? Setting up house
keeping means turning your rooms
into a kitchen."
"No, I den't mean that sort of
makeshift housekeeping," interrupted
Jean. "I mean taking a small flat,
furnishing it, and beginning life as
housekeepers on our own account."
Jack laughed rather uneasily.
"It's all very well to talk of furnish
ing," ho said, "but you know very
well, Jean, I haven't any money for
furnishing a flat, and I'm sure you
haven't."
"Well, I don't know about that,"
said Jean. "Yon keep what little
you've got saved up, Jack, and add to
it as much as you can, dear. I'll
furnish tho flat."
"You?"
"Yes, sir, I. I've got SIOO saved up,
and with SIOO I'll furnish a flat of four
rooms—parlor, bedroom, dining room
and kitchen—nnd I'll furnish it so
nicely that we'll neither of us be
ashamed to ask our friends to visit us
in it."
At this Jack burst out laughing, and
thought it was so good a joke that ho
told tho old folks, and thoy had great
sport at Jean's expense.
"That's all right," said Jean.- "I
don't read tho newspaper advertise
ments and look into store windows
and visit bargain counters for nothiug.
I want to tell you folks that right here
in New York you can furnish four
rooms comfortably, nicely aud neatly
for SIOO.
"Yes," said her mother, "with a lot
of second-baud stuff."
"No," replied Jean, "I mean with
all new, good material; and without
especially hunting for bargains,
either."
"Well, now, look here, mv girl,"
said her father, "maybe you'ro right,
raoybo you'ro wrong. Certain it is
that thiugs aro wonderfully cheap
nowadays, but sloo—my, but that's
a small sum to do anything with in
New York. Now, see hero, Jean, I'll
tell you what I'll do. You go ahead,
pick out yonr four-room flat with
Jack, and then if you furnish it for
SIOO so that it looks neither poor nor
cheap, why, I'll give you another huu
dred dollars, just to cultivate home
talent, on the pr««entation of a re
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895.
ceipted bill for every article in the
apartment."
"I'll do it," said Jean, stoutly,
"and, moro than that, I'll do it in
tbreo days, aud I won't ask a cent's
worth of assistance or advico from
nny of yon—not even of Jaok."
That wi 6on Sunday. The flat was
found by Wednesday afternoon, aud
they saw very littlo of Jean for the
nest three days. She was very quiet
aud veiy tired each evening, but her
mother took charge of her simple
trousseau so as to give her some rest
ing time, and on Saturday evening
when they had all sat down to tea Jean
said very quietly that she should be
very glod if they would go over with
her to Fiftieth street to see her house.
They saw that she was rather ner
vous, and so spoke of other things as
they walked over from Sixth avenno.
When they reached tho flat house,
Jean, who knew the value of effect,
asked the janitor if he would not light
up for her before she took her people
up stairs, and tho janitor, who had
been taken largely into her confidence,
and was not a bit like most janitors,
willingly ran ahead to attend to the
illumination.
Jt had been a week's hard work of
finding and fitting for Jean, but she
was amply repaid when she saw the
look of surprise which the folks woro
when they walked into her parlor grow
into one of wonder as they passed into
the bedroom, and deepen into odo of
amazoment as they saw the dining
room aud kitchen.
"Well, I must say it beats me," said
Jean's mother, while her father pulled
hard at his cigar and felt for the check
in his vest pocket as ho walked from,
room to room, and Jack gave her a
hug right before thom all, aud said ho
always knew she was a wonder.
"Now, then, my girl," said hor
father, when they had made tho graud
tour, "tell us how you did it all."
So Joau took them to the parlor, and
while tho others sat down she moved
around, pointing out each thing, show
man fashion.
"Those curtains," she began, "are,
i of course, imitation Nottingham, but
tho pattern is copied from tho real
article aud thoy uro good enough to
begin with. Tho two pair 3 cost $3,
and the poles and rings, which I put
up myself from tho janitor's step
ladder, cost twenty-fivo cents a set.
This bookcase, oak with movable
shelves, cost $2 ; tho books are mino
and the drapery is from an old crepe
neckerchief. That table in the centre
cost $2.48, without tho work basket,
of course, which used to bo yours,
mother. The smaller two of those
three pictures, which aro imitation
etchings in real white frames, cost
thirty-nine cents apiece; while the
larger ones, which is a good photo
gravure of a masterpiece, cost sixty
, nine cents, polished oak frame and all.
Tho three rockers which you are sit
ting in, ono plush seated, one with a
cobbler's seat, and tho other a Shaker
pattern, cost just $7, and tho draper
ies are my fichus. The two-cane bot
tom chairs cost ninety-eight cents
apiece. The ornaments on the cabinet
mantelpiece, imitation Venetian glass
and imitation Japanese vasos, made, I
believe, in Birmingham, cost $1.04.
As to tho matting, I may as well tell
you now that it took sixty yards to
cover tho three rooms and the bath :
room, with several scraps left over.
In tho parlor aud bedroom I used a
foity-yard roll, which cost mo $3.57,
while tho dining room took ono
twenty-yard roll, whioh cost $2. The
reason why I put tho better matting
in tho dining room is because I knew
tho thin matting would pull up with
tho rolling of the tablo and pushing
of heavy chairs over it. Besides
which, you see, I have covered a good
deal of tho matting here—which is
cotton warp, mind you—with these
two Japaneso rugs which I got at a
bargain at $1.98, nnd this hearthrug,
which is not the real thing, of course,
but which looks Persiau, nnd cost me
just $1.61. The portieres betwoen the
bedroom and parlor cost $3.25, al
though I could havo got a pair with
out the friugo for $2.97. And now,
pray what do von think of my par
lor?"
"Very pretty, fresh looking, and
uice," said her mother.
"Good enough fur me," said her
father.
| [Jack,'without so much as by your
leave, gave her anothor hug.
"Now, then, tho bedroom," said
Jean, drawing asido tho portieres.
"First I thought I would get an oak
set, but when I saw there was running
water here and that tho washstand
would not be needed I very gladly
changed my mind nnd bought this
white iron bed with brass trimmings
for $5.98, which included the spring
mattress. Tho fibre mattress cost
53.48. The blankets (Saxony) 1 picked
up for 98 cents. The sheets and pil
low cases—and see, mother, there are
four more of each in the closet here—
I bought for $3.62 for tho half dozon
of ench. My towels, one dozon, cost
sl.lO. These two chairs cost 60 cents
apiece. The bureau cost $6.65, and
tho mirror is good American French
plate, with real antique rings to tho
drawers of tho very latest design.
These two rugs cost 84 cents, and this
tablo with tho spruwly legs oost 69
cents. Oh, the co intorpano cost 95
cents, and you know Aunt Franc prom
ised me her crazy quilt for 'dross-up.'
"My dining room nearly broko my
heart," said Jean, loading tho way to
that apartment. "I thought sure I
should have tc» ga beyond my limit.
However, by dint of following up cor
taiu newspaper 1 Ji'.ds, running my feet
off, aud by n happy thought I man
aged it."
Tho clever young woman had had
tho tablo set with a light luncheon,
and it was while sitting down to this
that tho rest of the inventory was
gono over.
"This tabic, whioh has three other
loaves to it, I would havo you know,"
said Jean, "cost mc $7.80. The four
ohairs in which we are seated cost me
$2.10, real .Cordova leather from
Philadelphia, and all. These tum
blers only cost seventy-five cents a
dozen, nnd there are plenty thfit are
cheaper, only I do like a thin glass to
drink out of, and I know yon all do.
I got two damask table oloths for
$1.40, and one dozen napkins, quite
fair ones, only they're a little stiff,
yon know, for ninety-nine cents, one
of those cunning prices where you
just miss the dollar. Spoons I had.
For crookeVy I bought a very neat
porcelain tea set for $5.46, and I
added six dinner j>lates, six soup
plates, two platters and two vegetable
dishes for $4.48. I was in despair
over a sideboard till I recollected that
there was another cabinet mantel
piece here, so I determined to make
that do, together with a plain table,
which cost me $1.25 —th&t ono over
thenp with the red cloth on it I mean,
the cloth, I should tell you, costing
just thirty cents."
' 'By the way, Jean," said Jack, '' who
laid your matting?"
"The janitor and I," said 'Jean,
proudly. "I paid him a dollar for
helping me, and gave his wife au old
dress to pay for the tacks. My kit
chen, as you see, is very simply fur
nished, aud I intend to keep it so.
The stove cost $4, utensils>ss.s4, and
the table and chair just $2. Fortun
atoly, thero are stationary washtubs,
and, as tho floor is painted, I don't
eoo any need to cover it, and," con
cluded Jean, with a whimsical smile,
"I don't know that I should have been
able to, even if I had wanted to. And
so, dad, there's my $100; now whero's
yours?"
"Well, I must say, my girl," said
her father, "you'vo done wonders.
But a bargain's a bargain, you know.
Let's see tho reeiptod bills first."
"Here they aro," said Joan, bring
ing out a bundle of papers, very much
thumbed and very much covered with
calculations in irregular pencil fig
ures.
So down thoy sat again, and, when
tho old man had called out oach iterii
and Jack had set it down, they made
tip the following summary:
Tarlor $23 64
Bedroom 24 02
Dining room SO 92
Kitchen 11 54
Matting and laying <>s7
Portieres between parlor and bedroom. II 25
Just as thoy wcro nbout to cast up
tho addition Jean's mother carao iu
from tho kitchen with a look of mis
chief upon her face.
"The landlord has provided wash
tubs," sho said, "but I dou't sos that
he has nut iu a refrigerator."
At that Jean turned pale, and bhe
began to tremble a little,
"Oh dear, oh dear," sho cried. "I
do declare I forgot the refrigerator."
And when she saw failure beforo
her, and knew sho was wrecked i,p
port, she laid her head on Jack's
shoulder quite distressfully. But
her father camo bravely to her res
cue.
"Hold hard a minute," ho cried,
"you're all right, Jean. You'vo made
a mistake hero. You'vo only spent
$99.99 and I'll sell you our old re
frigerator for a cent aid be glad to
get anything for it."
Aud then ho added this itoin:
One refrigerator 01
Total for furnishing four rooms and
bath 9100.03
"Well for sure," ho said, "that
SIOO has gone further than any htiu
dred I ever heard of. But the best of
it is," he added, "that anybody iu
New York can do tho same thing.
Here's your other hnndrod, Jean."—
New York Suu.
A Cough That Slew Thousand*.
Becent history proves to us that it
was a cough that was mainly responsi
ble for tho immonso atnonut of blood
shed that attended the coup d'etat
whereby Napoleon 111 obtained his
throne. Tho field marshal in chargo
of the military operations was unwill
ing to assume tho direct responsibility
of ordering the troops to fire upon the
people. So when tho moment of ac
tion arrived, and tho mob began to
show signs of sweeping the (roops, tho
generals under his orders sent an of
ficer to him at headquarters for in
structions. Just as the field marshal
was about to respond ho was seized
with a violent fit of coughing, which
lasted several moments. When at
length he cease.l, ho managed to gasp
tho words, "Ma sacroo tjuz!" ("My
cursed cough !") The oflicsr waited
to hear no more, but returnod post
haste to his superiors with tho news
that Saint-Arnaud had said, "Massv
crez touz !" ("Massacre everywhere?")
Theso commands being carried out,
thousands of people were shot aud
bayoneted in consequence.
Barbaric Splendor ot a Morten I'rincs.
Tho appointment of Prinaa Lobau
off as Chaucollor and Foreig.i Minister
of Bussia has occasioned new*stories
of the barbaric splondor of his life.
With a lineago prouder than that of
the Czar himself, tb.e Priuoo has iu
dulged himself in an independence
that once led to tho snubbing of a
grand dnke. He is a man of vast
wealth. His horses aro the linost in
Bussia, uud aro uhod with silver
(thongh that is no longer a prerogative
of prinoes), and the numerous pages
iu attendance in his palace aro the
sons of chieftains of the Caucasus.
The Prince is a bacholor and about
seventy years old. Ho is a student
and a historian, uud tho only womau
he has loved, it is taid,
is Mary, Queou of Scots.—Frank Les
lie's Waekly.
Helmet ot Jerusalem's Conqueror.
In tho Doctcr Abbott caso of Egyp
tian antiquities, iu tho museum of tho
New York Historical Socioty, is pre
served tho iron helmot ot Shishnk,
who took Jerusalem from Rehoboam
000 years B. C.~-Chicago limes-
Horald.
LAME FOREIGN GAINS.
QENEKIT TO OTHER COUNTRIES
OF OUR FREE TRADE TARIFF,
An Excess of More Than $26,200,-
000 in the Exports of Other
Countries to the United States
Durlqg the Liast Three Months of
1804 Over Same Period In 1803.
The Department of State has,
through its Bureau of Statistics, been
reoently publishing statements of the
exports of foreign countries to the
United States. This work is being
continued and a summary from ad
vanoe sheets of the exports of twenty
three countries, for the three months
ending December 31, 1894, is given
below :
EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES.
For three months ending Dec. 31-.
increase oi
From 1894. 1893. decrease.
Algeria... *62,569 *4.456 $59,113
A u stria -
Hungnry. 1,968,770 2.242,541 278,771
Belgium. . 2,652,300 3,331,847 679,547
Canada.... 1,366.680 860.172 506.358
Ceylon.... 249,825 47,312 202,483
Danish
West In
dies 10,370
Denmark.. 105,331 43.164 62.167
Dutch West
Indies ... 40.656 14.676 25,980
Franco ... 16.31 C.263 10,836,945 5,473,318
Germany.. 8,774,070 5,520,986 3,253,084
Greeee J35.273 :110,757 175,484
Honduras.. 310.262 . .
Italy r-.885.260 3,648,922 1,786.338
Mexico... 9,695,013 3,760,659 5,924,385
Nether
; lands 1,716,56 ) 2,657,073 2,059,493
New Zea
land 444.537
Hussift... 1.373,645 931,147 442,498
Spain 1,28-1,999 1,283,499 J. 510
Sweden and
Norway .. (W4.12 1 732.94 ', 151J75
Hwit ?■ or -
land 1.431.015 3.378,039 1,057,976
Turkey ... 1,453.005 1.494,761 31,697
The United
Kingdom. 33,591,693 27,235,853 6,356,040
Cuba 3.319.592
Increase 927,360,917
Totals. ..998,505,954 *68,220.773 1.160,499
Net increase #26,200,418
This table has been especially com
piled from forty-eight printed
pages of statistics that give tho ex
ports of different articles in detail
from tho different countries. Tho
total shipments to this country for
the three months ending December
31, 1894, from the countries enumer
ated, exceeded $98,500,000. Omitting
tho Danish West Indies, Honduras,
New Zealand nnd Cuba, for which no
figures for tho 1893 quarter are given,
tho net increnso in theso foreign ex
ports for tho hut three ninths of
18! 1 ! exceeded ?26,2OO,00(l cvsr and
abovo tho exports at the close of
1893.
1892— Explaining Hie Theory,
WHAT FREE TRAOE MEAHS
higher wages . J
CHEAPER NECESSITIES
HfcHfS PittH FW ItfflUll CROOWTi fc&ZS
|
1894 Explaining the Condition.
"Matthew Marshall's" Madness,
The talk so freely indulged in, of the
misery of our working people is hysterical
exaggeration. A number of phllanthropie
women memorialized the State Legislature
the other day to do something for the relief
of 100.000 working women in this city, who,
they .said, were earning only sixty cents a
day. They evidently did not know that in
China and'ludia, where plain food is as dea
lt* it Is in this country, ten cents u day is the
regular rate of wages, and proves sufficient
for the simple wants of the bulk of tho popu
lation. - M-i'tliew Marshall, in the New York
Bun.
Mr. Marshall, tho author of tho
paragraph which we have quoted, is a
keen observer nnd brilliant writer,
and that being the case we aro unable
to account for his apparent disposi
tion to npsnruo that because ten cents
a day is tho regular rate of wages in
Chiua aud India women in New York
who arc earning sixty cents a day aro
in such comfortable circumstances
that they havo no ground for oomplaiut,
and that those philanthropic women
who attempt to better their conditiou
are engaged iu superfluous labor. As
to the statement that in China aa I
India plain food is as dear an it is i't
the United States, it is enough to say
that it controverts popular ideas on
that subject on tho testimony
of peoplo who have live! in thiso
countries.
As to waget., uo one with a proper
regard for his fellows will deny that
when women who aro dependent upon
their own cxertionp, some of thom
with youug children to support, thm ,
being subjeot to more or less frequent
Terms—tl.OOin Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
drains upon their purses as a result of
illness, aro able to earn but sixty
cents a day, there must be mnch hard
ship and some actual suffering. The
fact that this condition exists calls
not only for sympathy, which is freely
given in spite of tho hard conclusions
of Mr. Marshall, but for prompt and
intelligent action.
There is now visiting in New York a
gentleman who, presumably, is good
authority on tho question of wages iu
India. He is Priuoo Imad Nawaz
Jung, Nawab of Bakodor, and accord
ing to a statement which ho mado
since reaching this country, Mr. Mar
shall's estimate of tho regular rate of
Indian wages was altogether too high.
According to this Indian prince, his
fellows who havo to work for a living
receive only $1.50 a month, or five
cents a day. As Mr. Marshall says
that in India ' 'plain food is as dear as
it is in this country," it must be pre
sumed that he is prepared to provo to
his own satisfaction that, leaving out
the item of rent, which it must bo ad
mitted would be higher in New York
than in India, the laboring men and
women in tho metropolis would get
along very comfortably on thirty
oents a week.—Springfield (Mass.)
Union.
The Democratic Way.
. in
Higher Cost ot Production,
Tho effect of tho bond issuo iu ad
vancing the rate of interost to manu
facturers and producers who, in tho
ordinory course of business, are com
pelled to borrow monoy, is stated by
Bradstreet's as follows:
"Another matter which is not un
likely to havo further influence is tho
improvement iu the money market.
Call loans have ruled much firm
er, and though tho demand f£7 other
classes of accommodation is not at all
large, it is noticed that lenders are
ranch firmer in regard to rates, nnd
that the supplies of loanable funds do
not seem as excessive as they wero
only a short time ago. This result
also, it is believed, has a connection
with tho operations of the financial
interests which form the bond syndi
cate. In carryiug out their arrauge
monts they havo accumulated consid
erable amounts of money, audit is
thought that their efforts aro to force
loaning rates to a littlo higher level
and thus aid iu attracting foroigu
money to this country."
That British Smile.
United States Consul Claudo Meek
er sont to tho State Department from
Bradford, tho anuual roview of Brad
ford trade which is published on tho
last day of oach year by the Bradford
Daily Observer, and from which wo
take the following:
"If tho whole world had been ono
vast confederation of States and Eu
rope had elected the Democratic party
to represent its interests at Washing
ton, we could not havo held a stronger
belief that that party was working in
our interests. It raisos, therefore, a
grim smile when it is clearly brought
home to us that tho American Govern
ment havo legislated solely iu the in
terests of the American people."
This "grim smile" must bo tho echo
of tho loud guffaw that greoted a
similar statement made by Professor
Wilson at that historical British ban
quet.
How France Fares.
Our exports from France havo been
increasing tinco our new tariff went
into eflect, and in January there was
"extraordinary activity in tho exports
of all textiles. " The vaiue of tho silk
goods shipped increased from £600,-
800 in January, 1893, to £944,800 in
January, 1894, an increase of 81,690,-
000. Of French woolen goods tho ex
ports wero $1,700,000 larger this
January than in 1893 ; of cotton goods
they were $582,000 larger; of linen
goods they incrcasod from $67,000 up
to $180,500, and of jnto stuffs from
$48,000 in January, 1893, up to $78,-
000 in January, 1894. Much of tho
silks and woolens came to the United
States—a fact that American labor iu
our silk and woolen factories will be
interested to learn.
A Lesson From Uice.
Tho duty on rioo was redue.l 15.82
per cent, by tho Gorman tariff. This
was a slight reduction compared with
many other products, but tho result
has been an increase of 19,770,635
ponnds iu our imports of foreigu rico
at New York sinco tho Gorman tariff
became law, as compared with the im
ports of foreign rico during the corre
sponding five months a yoar earlier.
This is an object lesson to tho Southeru
rice planters, who will undoubtedly
study tho results of his first stop to
ward free trade with much interest.
Here are the figures of total imports
of rice through the New York Custom
House.
SKrTBMBF.iI 1 TO JANUARY 31.
Pounds.
1894-90 (froe trade) 25,979,950
1893-9* (protection) 6,209,315
Increase under free trade...... ..19,770.035
NO. 31.
ADVICE IS CHEAP.
"Get up, young man,"the poel wrote,
"And breathe the air so sweet:
Put on your light spring overcoat
And walk before you eat;
With lambkins in the early moru,
Go sport upon the green'."
Next day the poet forlorn
Arose at ten-flfteen.
It is an easy job to give
Advice—we all can teach-
But suoh an awkward thing to livG
And practice what wo preach!
Of kindly precept none have lacked
So far as I have seen;
But words by good example backed
Are few and far between.
Thaoountry stands in need of those
Who do as Enoch did.
And while their weary jaws reposo /
Walk right side up amid
The mad, discordunt. surging throng
That treads the pavoment blocks -
Such men do more to crush out wrong
Than one who simply talks.
We have too much of vocal noise,
Too great a waste of breath.
This life ie robbed of halt Its joys,
And talked almost to death;
If more would bravely do and daro
The land of heavenly bliss
Would IIBVO a few recuits to spare
From those who die in this.
—Nebraska State Journal.
IIUHOK OF THE DAY.
Strained relations—Stories long
drawn out.—Pnck.
Do not try to push your rival otf
the earth.—Galveston News.
A great many people are in such a
hurrjr that thev have no time to live.
—Texas Sittings.
We have novel - met a pessimist to
whom the bright side of ix dollar
seemed dark.—Puck.
"Ob, Johnl the baby's swallowed
your latch key!" "Oh, that's all
right. I can climb in the window."—
Life.
As the business men and sedate citi
zens enter politics the brass band and
torchlight procession movo out.—
Washington Post.
A New Albany (Ind.) womau kissed
her pug dog in preference to her hus
band. Somo men are born lucky.—
Norristown Herald.
So many fool schemes are suggested
every year that the proper way to re
member p. legislature is by what it
hasn't done.—Boston Globe.
Though timo writes no wrinkle on
the ocoan'a azure brow it writes scores
of wrinkles on every other brow in
reach.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Napoleonic crazo has reached
the boarding houses, and the landlady
nearly always offers her guests the
bony part.—Florida Times-Union.
Kind words are more than coronets,
No doubt of it, and still
Cold cash is better than thetn both,
To pay a bill.
—Detroit Free- Press.
Mrs. Brownstone—"l think Mary's
musio professor has a beautiful touch."
Mr. Brownstone—"l should 'say he
had! Seven dollars a lesson."—New
York World.
When tho olergymau remarked that
there was a novo in tho new ohuroh
the sooiety was building, an old lady
whispered that she know the party to
whom he referred.
Judge (to prisoner) -"Your state
ment does not agreo with the evidence
of tho last witness." Prisoner—"l
don't wonder; he's a bigger liar than
I am."—London Tid-Bits.
Ho—"That's Mrs. Grimshaw, who
leotures on bimetallism. I've heard
hor. How exasperatingiy clever she
means to be 1" She—"Yos, but how
consolingly ugly I"—Punch.
The antique Roman who fell ou his
sword made a muoh better historical
figure than the modern militiaman
who tripped with the same weapon
twisted between his logs. —Pack.
The perambulator is all right for
tho baby; but, after the baby stage
of existenco is passed, one cannot
hope for success who depends upon
others to push him nhead. —Boston
Transcript.
Jaok—"Madge has beautiful hair,
hasn't she?"' Nell—"Yes; she get«
that from her mother." Jack—"l
didn't know her mother had hair of
that oolor." Nell—"Ob, yes! She
has all kinds in her store."—Philadel-
phia Record.
"Shakespeare was a great writer,"
admitted the principal of the Plunk
ville Commercial College, "but how
muoh better writing ho could havo
done had he taken a course in our de
partment of ornamental penmanship."
—Rockland (Me.) Tribune.
The older wo grow tho more sus
picions wo get. When we are young
nnd the looking-glass says wo aro
pretty we belicvo it implicitly, but
later along wo incline to think that
the glass is losing its reputation for
acourucy.—Rockland (Me.) Tribune.
Stopped lor Twelve Honrs.
Tho Buffalo papors of April 1, 1848,
published a wonderful story to tho
effect that the waters ou the American
side of Niagara Fulls had ceasod to
How for an entire day. It was sup
posed to be a hoax, but was afterward
proved correct. The phenomenon was
caused by tho ico in the river becom
ing jammed against tho islands-so that
an enormous dam was formed, and tho
water was held back lor more thau
twelve hours. Tho foot is attei id by
many witnesses.
A Diamond With Amethyst Sett hit?.
A lapidary in London found a tiny
amethyst imbedded in the very center
of a nino-karat diamond which he had
been employed to out. Thero is no
record of any such thing having prev
iously happened in tho history of dia
mond cutting.—Chioago Times-Her
ald.