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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.