SULLIVAN JHFE REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
Ohioago has averaged one suicide a
day this year.
Scientists predict that in a century's
time there will be no disease that is
not curable.
The emigration from Ireland last
year is the lowest recorded since the
collection of returns commenced in
1851.
Probably tho most complete series
ol court records in America are said
to bo those of Northampton County,
Virginia. Tho series commences from
1632 and is complete up to the present
time.
Dr. Biohardson, a famous English
physician, thinks that seven cut of
ten would reaoh tho age of 110 if they
would keep cheerful, take proper
exercise, bo temperate in their habits
and sleep onough. He does not re
gard the stomach as a factor of longev
ity* =——===========»
What will bo known as serum ther
apeutics—i. 0., the treatment of dis
eases by the injection of serum that
has been "immunized"—is likely to
bo extended to other diseases than
lockjaw, hydrophobia aud diphtheria,
remarks the New York Independent.
A series of highly interesting experi
ments has lately boeu conducted by
no less than six of tho progressive
doctors of the day, in tho treatment
of pneumonia by serum with satisfac
tory results, and it is quite certain
that these experiments will be carried
still further.
A writer in the Overland Monthly
has seriously proposed the introduc
tion of the kangaroo in this country
to take tho place of the now practi
cally extinct buffalo as a food supply
on the Western plains. It is urged
that the kangaroo is hardy, easily ac
olimated, domesticated without diffi
culty, breeds easily in captivity, is
cheaply maintained, has a large
amount of excellent and very edible
flesh, is valuable as a fur and leather
producer and can bo cheaply and
easily procured.
It is ruled by tho postal authorities
that any reduction of tho size of a pos
tal card by clipping, rounding off the
corners or otherwise, will subject tho
recoiver of tho card to a charge of one
cent on delivery. This makes the cost
of a postal card equivaleut to letter
postage. Many persons enclose postal
cards to correspondents in envelops
too small, and imagine that a little
clipping won't make any difference.
Others round off tho corners for orna
montal purposes or convenience in
handling. But tho practice is wrong.
Tho private carrying of pistols in
England appears to havo reached tho
proportions of a ntenaco and a nuis
ance, and Lord Carmarthen recently
introduood abillin Parliament to regu
late tho conditions under which that
dangerous instrument may be sold,
and define thoso under whioh it may
be carried. Tho object of tho bill was
to keep it out of tho hands of roughs
and minorp, and in a genoral way to
discourage tho practice, except where
it was manifestly necessary. It pro
vides that tho vender must take out a
license, and that the pistols nmsfc be
consecutively numbered, so that they
can bo at any time identified. Tho
buyer's namo must bo registered, and
ho must not bo a convict or a ticket
of-leavo man, or under eighteen years
of ago. It contains other rather
stringent interdictions, showing that
tho abuse whioh it sought to rectify
had grown into considerable propor
tions.
A company has just been incorpor
ated at Springfield, Ohio, for tho dis
oovery of tho hoira of the vast Holmes
cstato in England, said to be worth
8400,000,000. It waa left by James
Holmes, a South Sea trader, and Will
iam Himrod, of New York, is said to
be one of tho heirs. Tho odds aro 100
to one that there is no such estate, de
clares the Atlanta Constitution. Simi
lar announcements are made from
time to time, and thousands of people
in this country have been bled by un
scrupulous swindlers. Thero are no
estates in England worth millions of
dollars awaiting Americau claimants.
Our ministers and consuls have fre
quently made this statemont, but it
has no effect. Just 60 long as peoplo
love money and lack ccmmou scuse and
information they will bo the victims 01'
the lawyers and agents who work tho
unclaimed estato racket. In the past
few years it has boon announcad that
various persons in Georgia wore at
tempting to recover million-dollar in
heritances in Europe. Not one ever
succeeded. They spent what money
they oould spars on tho agents who
were swindling them, and that was the
last of it. Peoplo hunting big estates,
as a rale, will have to accumulate them
bjf their own efforts.
HB TOOK TIME TO DIE.
There was an old fellow who never bad time
!For a fresh morning look at tho Volume
sublime,
Who never had time for tho soft hand of
prayer
To smooth out the wrinkles of labor and care,
Who oould not And time tor that service most
sweet
At the altar of home where the dear ones All
meet,
And never found time with the people of God
To learn the good way thut tho fathers have
trod;
But ho found time to die,
Oh, yes!
He found time to die.
This busy old fellow, too busy was ho
To linger at breakfast, at dinner or tea
For the morry small chatter of children and
wife,
But led in his marriage a bachelor life;
Too busy for kisses, too busy for play,
No time to be loving, no time to be gay,
No time to replenish his vanishing hoalth,
Mo time to enjoy his swift-gathering wealth;
But he found time to die;
Oh, yes!
He found time to die.
This beautiful world had no beauty for him;
Its colors were black and its sunshine was
dim.
No leisure for woodland, for river, or hill,
No time in his life just to think and bo still,
No time for his neighbors, no timo for his
friends,
No timo* for thoso highest immutable ends
Of the life of ft man who is not for a day,
But, for worse or for better, for ever and oye.
Yet ho found time to die?
Oh, yes!
He found time to die. '
—Amos R. Wells, in Harper's Weekly.
FIVE BLACK MARKS.
HE most miserable
r* ""*y M * over
F my life," said Dr.
Macpherson one
day as we sat cbat
/L ting in his cosey
jJ drawing room,
" was spent in a
P 6 gunboat off tho
Pi vr/t iJfflsW coast of Guinea. I
if Mil
'tsS:::
"J,(I'll But as the Doctor
seemed intent on telling the 6tory I
did not interrupt him by saying so.
"Wo had been cruising about in the
Mediterranean," ho went on, "when
wo wero unexpectedly ordered to tho
Bay of Lagos to overawo somo miser
able little tribe near tho coast which had
not been behaving itself as a properly
regulatod little tribe under the pro
tection of the British Empire ought to
do. Kakoga's tribe, it was called,
and Kakoga came in for a good share
of honest abuse from the officers and
men of the Dragon-fly, when our
orders came. The worst of it was, as
far as the officers and men were con
cerned, that we were not at unity
among ourselves. The engineer, called
Lashton, had been disappointed in
love, aud was naturally moroso in
consequence. What mado him more
so was the fact that bis successful
rival was tho Sub-Lieutenant, an aw
fully nice fellow, and the only man
on board that I cared for. Lieuten
ant Gilby had met Miss Callan at
Malta, and had become engaged to her
without the least idea that the en
gineer had intentions that way. not
that it would havo mado auy differ
ence to him if he had, I suppose.
Lashton's unconcenled enmity against
him made lifo on board pretty un
pleasant, and divided us into two
cliques. The Lieutenant's clique, con
sisting of himself and me, certainly
had the liveliest time of it, for tho
successful suitor of Miss Callan was
the merriest fellow on earth, and
while we were in the Mediterranean
we suffered very little from the en
gineer's hostility. But directly we
steamed off for Lagos a most remark
able change came over my friend, and
he turned as taciturn as Lashton him
self.
"It puzzled me to discover the roa
sou, for though we were all sorry to
leave the Mediterranean, still it was
not liko Gilby to sulk over it. He
could not see less ot his fianoeo than
he had been doing for two or three
months, and wo had the prospect be
fore us of a small for which he
had been wishing. Lashton suggested
to me in his sinister way that it was
the prospect ot |figliting which caused
the change iu my friend, and though
I answered tho suggestion in the tone
it deserved, still it seemed the only
explanation.
"Gilby said, when I asked him, that
it was tho weather, and the irritation
with which ho answered prevented mo
continuing my inquries, and made me
more than over conviaoed that it was
•fun'f," and a very severe form of the
disease, too. In iact, ho took very
little pains to conceal it.
"'I hope to goodness that I shall,
not have to goon shore,' he said, when
wo had nearly reached our destination.
'I wish tho Commander would lead tho
party, and leave me here to look after
the ship.'
" 'lt is not likely,'l answered, gruff
ly, and I was glad that Lashton was
not about to ovcrhoar him. I an
swered his next suggestion more gruff
ly still.
" 'I supposo you would not liko to
certify that I ought to be on tho sick
list, would you, Mucpherson?' he asked
me, hesitatingly.
"I refused flatly.
"If ho had told :ne the true reason
of his fear I might have acted dif
ferently, for he looked ill enough, poor
follow I His face had grown qnita
white and was since we started
"It looked whiter still next day
when he had togo in oommand of the
landing party, which I accompanied,
of course.
"When we were fairly embarked on
LAPOBTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1895.
the enterprise, his one idea seemed to
be to get it oyer with all possible speed,
and the haste with which he advanced
to Kakoga's country would have been
impossible if the men under him had
not themselves been so anxious to get
into action, and introduce a little
chance into the monotony of life on a
gunboat.
" However, the'ohange was less than
tbo majority of the blue-jackets hoped
for, the miserable little tribe did not
show fight, aud our business was ac
complished. In live days from the
time wo left the Dragon-fly we were
back again, none the worse for our
trip, except that we were all wore out
by Gilby's forced marches.
' 'The Lieutenant seemed more ex
hausted than any of us, and as soon as
he had received the congratulations of
the Commander, he retired at once to
his berth. What surprised mo was
that his spirits did not show any im
provement after the chance of fighting
was at an end. It seemed to me as if
he wore still expecting some calamity
to happen to him, and I began to
wonder whether there might not be
something seriously wrong with his
health to account for all that had sur
prised mo in his manner. This ex
planation, which had not occurred to
me while there was any real danger,
struck me forcibly, now that wo were
safe on the gunboat, and, as soon as I
had onjoyed the luxury of a bath after
my five (lays of discomfort, I strolled
down to the Lieutenant's cabin to
have a look at him in tho new light of
a patient.
"Tho door of my friend's oabin was
ajar as I approached it, and when I
glanced into tho room before knock
ing, I was surprised to catch sight of
Engineer Lashton standing by tho
side of tho Lieutenant's bunk.
"The fact of Lashton's onmity for
my friend was so undisputed that at the
sight of his figure In his enemy's cabin
1 felt quito justified in watching what
was going on before malting my pres
ence known. Gilby was lying across
his bunk, half undressed aud appar
ently fust asleep. Tho engineer was
standing over him with u bottlo of
some black iluid in his hand. While
I watched, ho made five small marks
with it on the sleeping man's arm. The
operation seemed such a mysterious
and inexplicable one that I watched
him till ho put tho cork back into tho
bottle, without moving a step to inter
fere with tho man, but Ipouncodupon
him as ho turned to leavo the cabin.
" 'What on earth have you been do
ing?' I asked, unceremoniously, and
the fellow seemed rather taken aback.
" 'lt is only a practical joke,' ho
said, wilh a feeble attempt to smilo
unconcernedly.
" '.Toko or no joke, I demand to sec
what is in that bottle,' I said author
itatively, my miiul full of mysterious
poisons, and tho enginoer handed it
over tamely.
"The bottle contained nothing but
ink."
"Ink !" I exclaimed, when tho great
brain specialist reached this point in
his narrative, and Macpherson smiled
in the peculiarly quiet way ho has
when he has perfectly mystified a
hearer.
"Yos, ordinary ink," he wont on.
"The discovery naturally made mo
feel rather foolish, but not so much as
it would havo done if I had not been
conviced still that his action was in
somo way a malicious one. What his
idea could be, however, it was impos
sible for mo to divine, aud I felt so
serious about it that I should have
roused my friend at once to enquire
how five black marks on his arm could
possibly affect his happiness, if he had
not looked so thoroughly worn out
and in need of sleep. As soon as
Lashton was gone, I left tho cabin at
onco for fear of disturbing the sleeper,
without stopping cvon to try and re
movo the ink-stains, a piece of stu
pidity at which I have not ceased to
wonder. You see, it was impossible
for mo to guess how desperately seri
ous the plot was that tho engineer had
formed against the man whom ho con
sidered his rival. I retired to my own
cabin opposito Gilby's, keeping the
door open to make suro that Lashton
did not return to do moro mischief,
but I made a poor sentry. I was tired
out, liko tho young Lieutenant,
through not having my proper amount
of rest for four nights, and I fell
as'eep still wonderiug about the five
black marks.
"When I woke, I do not know how
long after, it was to find Gilby stand
ing in my room, half undressed as I
had seen him in his bunk, but with
his slnrt sleevo buttoned up over tho
iDk-stains on his arm. I was too full
of sleep, however, to notice the fact at
the time, or even to remember for the
moment anything about what I had
seen. Sleepy as I was, I could not
help noticing tho look of complete
misery and despair on my friend's
face. He was standing at tho side of
my buuk, holding an envelope, and
when I started up, rubbing my eyes,
he put it into my hand.
'I am glad you aro awake, Mac
pherson,' he said, in a strangely con
strained tone. 'I wanted so ask you
to do me a favor. AVill yon give this
letter to Miss Callan personally when
you see her? Ido not want to take
the risk of sending it by the mail.'
" 'But you will see her yourself as
soon as I shall,' I said, in surprise at
the request, and Gilby did not reply.
Instead, ho turned and walked out of
the cabin, leaving mo staring at the
letter in my hand and wondering what
it meant. I was so stupid with sleep
still that it took mo two minutes to
think of any explanation at all. When
I did I was out of my bunk and run
ning across to tho opposite cabin in a
secoud. Just in time, too, for Gilby
was in tho aot of locking his door
when I burst it open and rushed in
without ceremony. The fact that the
young Lieutenant's revolver aud a
couple of letters, one of them ad
dressed to me, were lying on the ta
ble, served to assure mo that mjr
foara were not ungrounded. The first
thing I did was to secure the revolver.
Then I turned to my friend.
" 'What are you going to shoot
yourself for?' I demanded, bluntly.
"Gilby mado no attempt to deny
his intention.
'' 'I am sorry you have disturbed
me, Maopherson,' he said, with per
fect coolness, 'because it cannot make
any differenoe.'"
"And the reason I" I asked, with
interest, for the Doctor had paused to
light another cigarette. Macpherson
blew a whiff of smoke from his mouth,
and continued his story.
"I suppose you have never heard of
a disease called 'Guinea Madness?' ho
asked, and when I shook my head, he
went on:
"Neither had I, until Gilby told mo
about it, although lam a doctor. It
is one of those strange diseases that
limit themselves luckily to a particu
lar district, and is only found among
a few tribes along tho coast of Guinea.
It is generally thought that Europeans
cannot tako it, but the idea is an
erroneous one, or, at any rate, thoro
are exceptions, or Lieutenant Gilby's
father died of it, when my friend was
a boy of ten. His father was Captain
of a trading vessel, and tho Lieuten
ant was accompanying him on a voy
age when they callod at tho Guinea
Coast. He thereforo saw his father in
all the indescribable agony of the dis
ease, which seems more liko hydro
phobia than anything else, althougK it
is infections.
"The sight made a great impression
on him, and, since his constitution
was quite similar to his father's, ho had
always suffered from an almost super
natural terror of tho Guinea Coast.
He was quito persuaded that if he ever
went ashore there he would catch tho
diseaso and die like his father. Lash
ton, it seems, was aware of this mono
mania of his; tor it almost amounted
to monomania."
"And he had really caught the dis
ease?" I asked.
Macpherson smiled. "Ho thought
he had. The first symptom is the ap
pearance of small black marks on the
arm or leg."—Pall Mall Budget.
The Rice-Paper Tree.
The rico-paper tree, one of tho most
interesting of the flora of China, has
recently been successfully experi
mented with in Florida, whero it now
flourishes, with other sub-tropical and
Orientnl species of trees and shrubs,
says tho St. Louis Republic. When
first transplanted in Amerioau soil tho
experimenters expressed doubts of its
hardiness, fearing that it would beuu
ablo to staud the winters. All these
fears havo vanished; however, and it
is now -the universal opinion that it is
as well adapted to the climato of this
country as to that of tho famed Flowery
Kingdom.
It is a small tree, growing to a height
of less than fifteen feet, with a truuk
or stem from three to livo inches in
diameter. Its canes, which vary iu
color according to season, aro largv
soft and downy, the form somowl
resembling that noticed iu thoso
the oastor bean plant. Tho ce'obra
tod rico papefr, the product of this
queer tree, is formed of thin slices of
the pith, which is taken from tho body
of the tree in beautiful cylinders sev
eral inches in length.
Tho Chineso workmen apply tho
blade of a sharp, straight knife to
these cylinders, and, tnrniug them
round either by rude machinery or by
hand, dexterously pare tho pith from
tho circumforonce to center. This
operation makes a roll of extra quality
paper, the scroll being of equal thick
ness throughout. After a cylinder lias
thus been pared it is unrolled and
weights aro plaoed upon it until tho
surfaco is rendered uniformly smooth
throughout its entiro length.\
It is altogether probable that if rice
paper making becomes an industry in
tho United States these prirnit ivd
modes will all be done away with.
The Chiropodist on Pointed Shoej.
"1 am sorry to seo a tendency on
the part of men to forsake the sharp
pointed shoe that has held tho fashion
for so long and to return to the broader
style of extremity," said a leading
chiropodist. "The change, if it come
abont as I expect it. will, will havo rf
protty substantial effect for tho worse
upon my business. Two-thirds of the
patients who come to me suffering
from painful callous growths on their
feet aro the victims of sharptoed shoe<.
There is only one foot in u thomaud
that can wear such an article with
anything like comfort, but tho 999
who can't, staud the misery in order
to mako a pretty pedal uppearauce.
The contracted space allowed for the
toes in such shoes orowds them to
gether as iu a vise, aud circulation in
them stops and corns and bunions aro
the result. No one should wear a shoe
which does not allow tho joints of tho
toes to work naturally, but it should
always fit the foot closely and snugly.
A loose shoe is as provocative of corns
and other foot ailments ns a tight and
narrow one."—Washington Post.
Illustrating What lie Meant.
Latter day speakers of English arj
getting to be very wordy and pom
pous iu tho uso of our lauguage, ac
cording to tho distinguished linguist,
Professor Whitney, nnd ho thinks wo
ought to get back to tho modesty and
simplicity of our ancestors. This ad
vice of Professor Whitney is no donbt
timely. But iu advising us not to uso
big words and to bo clear, pure and
simplo iu diction ho employs the fol
lowing words: "Avoid all polysilla
bical profundity, pompous prolixity
and ventriloquial verpidity. Shun
double entendroand prurient jocosity,
Whether obsoure or apparent. Iu
other words, apeak truthfully, natur
ally, clearly, purely, but do not we
large words." —Boston Globe.
THE BROKEN WALL.
WHEAT FARMERS PAY TO
REACH FOREIGN MARKETS.
It Costs Them Seventy Millions a
Year—Much Moro Cotton Sold for
Fur Less Money—The Process of
"IjettliiK Ourselves Out" Proves
Very Costly.
Advanco sheets of our exports of
raw cotton and breadstuff's during
February afford an opportunity for
still further showing how tho process
of "letting ourselves out" into for
eign markets progresses. Dealing
first with raw cotton, we give tho fig
ures as follows:
EXPORTS OF BAW COTTOK.
February, February,
189-1. " 1895. Decrease.
Bales 491,675 -175.704 15.971
founds.. 247.175,802 238,244,577 8.931,225
Value... .$ 18,852,88!) *13.484,218 $5,368,171
SIX MONTHS, SEI'TEMIIEK 1 TO FEBRUARY 28.
Per pound.
Pounds. Value. Cents.
1893-94 2.048,290.803 *162,411.788 7.93
1894-9 2.000.264.563 151.832,755 5.70
Increase.... 611,973,760 •10,579,033 *2.2?
* Decrease.
The first table shows that our ex
ports of cotton last month were 8,931,-
225 pounds less than in February,
1894, but tho loss iu value reached
$5,808,171. Taking our exports of
cotton for six months sinco tho Gor
man tariff became law, asshown in the
second table above, wo find that sinco
tho wali cf protection was broken
down we havo exported almost G12,-
000,000 pounds of cotton more than a
year earlier, but at a loss of $10,579,-
000, Iho money paid for tho larger
quantity shipped this season being
thut much less than was received for
tho smaller quantity a year ago, owing
to a decrease of almost two and a
quarter cents per pound in its export
value. Looking next to our exports
of breadstuff?, we give tho figures and
values for February iu each year as
follows:
EXTORTS OP BBEABSTCFFS.
'r— Bushels—\ , Value ,
Feb., Feb., Feb., Feb.,
1894. 1 h95. 1894. 1895.
flnrley. 288.081 42.775 *124,590 $20,016
Corn.. .5,643,050 2,501.406 2,567,947 1.248.674
Oats.... 37,493 31,102 13,651 10,338
Wheat. 4,010.056 4.600,920 2.497,177 2,513,533
Flour,
bbls. 1.133,632 947.793 4.581.269 2.952,851
Total values $9,784,634 46,715,412
Outside of nu increnso of nearly
600,000 bushels in last month's ex
ports of wheat, thero was a decline iu
our shipments of barley, corn, oats
and flour; the aggregate loss in value
for the month slightly exceeded
$3,000,000. Taking tho total values
of our exports of cereols for the eight
months ending February 28 last, thoro
was a loss of $17,500,000, as compared
with the corresponding bight months
a year a»o, as follows:
EIOUT MONTHS ENDING FEBRUARY.
1894. 1895.
Barley $1,879,332 $614,778
Corn 20.262.943 6.032,582
Corn meal 484,529 430,297
Oats 1.935.805 127,604
Oat meal 159,268 278,140
live 126,370 5.072
Wheat 46,157,977 29,485,104
Wheat Hour 47,773,:i06 84,304,806
Totul $118,779,530 471.278.383
Farmers should study this table.
They will seo that in eight mouths the
markets of tho world havo paid sl,-
205,000 less money for American bar
ley sinco the wall of protection was
broken down. Foreign buyers, more
over, havo bonght $14,230,000 worth
less of American corn and $51,000 less
of corn meal. Of wheat their pur
chases wero $10,G00,000 less under
tho Gorman taiiff, and of flour, $14,-
470,000 less. Of oats they bought
$1,800,000 worth less, and oat meal
alone shows nu increase of less than
$120,000 during eight mouths.
Fnrmers should note theso figures
and contrast the actual performance
of the free trade tariff law with tho
predictions and promises that wero
made to tho farmers during the cam
paign of 1892. That was a theory;
this is a condition. Tho process of
letting ourselves out to tho markets
of tho world has cost those farmers
who grow cereals the sum of $17,500,-
000 in eight months.
The Republican Way.
Tlie Democratic Way.
Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 81.25 after Three Month*.
THE SOUTH FEELS IT.
Income Tax Works Both Ways, and
Protection Good for Everybody.
Free traders here rejoiced when tho
income tax becamo law, because "It
will hit hard tho Yanks and scarcely
notice the South." Thoro aro not
many who pass tho SIO,OO exemption,
while very many con o within the
specified amount requi ig reports to
be made and sworn to, viz., $3500.
But almost this cntiro contingent
labored under tho assumption that
$3500 meant net after deducting gen
eral expenses; but Instruction 9 on
the blank puts a very different light
on the scope of the law to that which
they had regarded as correct. Hence,
it is not a very difficult matter to find
many who now wish they hadn't. It
is found that many, who were over
joyed at the thought this was intended
solely for the North aud had but littlo
or no effect on tho South, are about
tho first to curso tho Democrats for
enacting it. Again, it is now dawn
ing upon them that there can be
really no such thirg as class legislation,
strictly speaking.
Heretofore, it was quito fashionable
here to oppose protection on tho
ground it was for the benefit of the
North and East. Our folks would
never occupy half way ground, hence
they wero out and out free traders.
Now, it is not unusual to hear many
say I never understood this question
of protection. I seo what it is and
how detrimental its effects aro upon
the whole country. I am conyinoed
there is 'nothing but protection that
can lift this country out of tho unpar
allelod condition wo aro in. And I
am ready to vote for a very Chineso
wall of protection for both commerco
and immigration.
The gentleman who made tho abovo
romarks was a drummer for a whole
sale dry goods house in this city, and
cited, as tho basis of his argument,
tho article of hose. Ho carried sam
ples of imported French hose retailing
bt eighty-five cents per pair, while ho
also carried American made hose that
sold at retail for less than one-half,
and [said: "Now if my wifo or your
must havo imported hose it is right
that they pay for this fad, for it is
nothing less than a fad." Upon im
migration he said : "1 kuow of sqveral
instances where foreigners now havo,
at SOS per mouth, places that Ameri
cans formerly filled and got sl'2s for,
and these foreigners could hardly
speak English well enough to wait on
a customer.
"Now I want to say this to you," ho
continued. "I used to scorn you for
no other icasou than you wero a Re
publican—becauso you wero a protec
tionist—aud I feel very much liko I
owe yon an apology lor entertaining
such an opinion of you. For I now
see you were right, when 1 was wrong.
And I do actually feel hotter sinco I
made this admission."
I asked him how his sales now com
pared with 1891 and 1892. His face
at once assumed a sad expression and
looking mo in the face said: "What's
the use asking such a question? You
know it's liko comparing dimes with
doubloons. Every merchant who had
no trouble two or three years ago to
sell, now acts as if ho looked upon mo
with suspicion—not glad to soo mo, as
in the past—and all tho men on the
road tell the same tale." Audit is a
fact. Yor KNOW WHO.
Louisiana, April 10, 1895.
Their Goads Aiv Cumin?.
ML TE
Where -Business is Booming.
A stroll through tho wholesale dry
goods district of New York City will
convince tho most skeptical that
wholesale houses, large aad small, are
taking advautago of this era of Gor
man freo trade to buy everything in
their line auywhere but iu tho United
States. The sidewalks along the dry
goods sections aro blocked with thoso
strong, heavy boxes bearing tho in
scription, "Made in England," "Made
in France," "Made iu Germany," etc.
This looks to tho casual observer liko
good times and prosperity, but when
we consider that each one of theso
foreign boxes and bales throws a damp
ening shower on our own furnace
fires, and that the prosperity is over
the water and not here, the whole bus
iness assumes another aspect. An em
ploye of the New York Ctutom House
has stated that during his twenty
years of service ho ha 3 never before
seen suoh a volume of imports as is
now entering the country. Tue whole
Custom House force, as well as many
substitutes, are employed on full
time. This is prosperity for the Cus
tom House employe, but it is destitu
tion for the American workmau.
Louisiana lor Protection.
Louisiana has taken a decided step
forward toward protection in arrang
ing for the erection of a new sugar ro
finery that will enable tho sugar pro
ducers of that State to maintain their
independence and secure protection
from the trust.
NO. 32.
THE SOVEREIGN POET.
Heslts above tlio clan# and dust of time,
With the world's secret trembling on hii
lip.
Ho risks not converse nor companionship
In the cold starlight whore thou canst no'
climb.
The undelivered tidings in his breast
Suffer him not to rest.
He sees afar the immomorable throng.
And binds the scattered ages with a song.
The glorious riddle of his rhvthmle breath.
His might, his spell, we know not whuf
they be:
We only feel, whate'er lie utteretli,
This savors not of death,
This hath a relish of eternity.
—William Watson.
HUMOR OF THE HAY.
Although money talks, woman can
meet it half-way and get in the last
word.—Puck.
A new broom may sweet clean, but
a now towel does not wipe clean.
Atchison Globe.
Yon will not find one spring poot in
fifty who does not need liver medicine.
—Galveston News.
"That Bagley is a chump." "Why
so?" "Ho paid me ten he owed me,
right before my tailor."---Life.
A piece of limburger clieese is like
a tack in one respect—you. can always
find it in the dark.—Toxas Siftings.
"The whole world loves a lover
Then I really do not see
Why my suit didn't prosper—
Sho was all the world to me!
It is a clangorous business i'or mou
and women to lie to each other until
they are married. Detroit Free
Press.
A womau should havo learning ; but
she should convert her learning into
wisdom, that sho may know how to
conceal it.—Puck.
The blindest kind ot lovo
That ever did exist.
Is the unweening kind
That m.irks the egotist.
—Tuck.
Mrs. Nuwed—"Our landlord thinks
of nothing but the rent." Nuwed—
"You wrong him, my dear. I'm sure
he never thinks of tlio rent in the
roof."—Judge.
The proprietors of a West Philadel
phia snle-stablo have this sigu ontsido
thoir establishment: "If you are
looking for mules don't forget us."-
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Watts—"So it was in tlio Chi
cago wheat market that von lost your
all?" Everett Wrest—"Yes, mum,
all save me honor--and an elegant
thirst."—lndianapolis Journal.
A maiden lady in Newburg keeps a
parrot which swears and a monkey
which chows tobacoo. Mho. sayH be'
tween the two she doesn't miss a hus
band very much. - -Atchison Globe.
She—"How old would you say 1
was?" He—"Um-well, I should say
you were old enough to know better
than to think I would answer a ques
tion like that,"- Detroit Frea Press.
Burglar Bill—"Wot's becomo o'
Sliokfinger'a sister?" Sncoky Sam—
"Servin' time fer follerin' a fashion
able fad." Burglar Bill—"Wot fad?"
Sneeky Sam— "Kleptermanier. "—New
York Weokly.
"Who is that gentlemau engaged iu
conversation with Mrs. Sobright?" "I
don't know him; but ho must be ouo
of tho most distinguished men iu tho
country." "What makes you think
so?" ""His portrait his never ap
peared in tho newspapers."—Norris
town Herald.
Chineso Emperor—"Why did you
lose that battle?" General Wuu Run
"The Japanese attacked us in the
rear." Chinese Emperor—"l was in
formed that they attneked you in
front." General Wun Run—"Y-c-s;
but that was our rear when they got
there." —Now York Weokly.
"Have you been able to catch tho
speaker's eye?" asked tho first ludy
legislator. "Have I?" rejoined the
second legislator. "Well, rather. I
wore my navy bluo bengaline with tho
heilotrope sleeves, and the speaker
couldn't keep his oyes off me." Upon
tho call of the houso they oeparated.
—Detroit Tribune.
"Hypnotism," said tho professor,
"in our present stato of knowledge,
may be defined as the power exerted
by one person over tho mind of an
other." "Why," giggled tho fluffy
girl, "that is just tho same as fulling in
love." "I said 'mind,' my dear young
lady," retorted tho professor. —Cin
cinnati Tribune.
Sympathetic Old Lvly—"Will you
please tell me if tho lady is in who
writes the 'Mothers' Column' iu your
paper every week? 1 want to tell her
liow much pleasure I had in perusing
her articles on 'The Baby in tho
Cradle.'" Offloe Boy—Ho'a yonder,
ma'am. That's him who is standing
there with a pink shirt on andsmoking
his pipe."—La Semana Comioa.
Novel Food for llosr?.
Fresno Couuty (California) grape
growers are considering of establish*
ing a bi3 pork-packing house, Tho
second crop of grapes, if dried, seri
ously interferes with the first crop of
raising, hence the now scheme is to
turn hogs into tho viuoyards and fat
ten them on these late grapes, which
mature iu November. It is estimated
that 50.0J0 tons of these seoond crop
grapes are produced every year uround
Fresno.—New York Tribune.
The Greek Colony hi Georgia.
A Greek colony has been established
at Edt>n inEfungUain Couuty, Georgia.
They lia.-o purehusod eighty acros of
laud from Mrs. Ruhn, and about a
dozen of thorn are already thoro and
others are expected soon. Thoy will
raise vegetables and other farm
produots, but their priuoipal objoot
is to raise fruits and grapos, Thoy
are a thrifty, hard-working lot of
people.—New York Journal.