SULLIVAN JSBb* REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIII. England h*s 200 men each worth over $5,000,000. Two thousand patents havo been taken out in this country on the man ufacture of paper alone. Greater New York, with 317 squaro miles of territory, would bo threo times as big as London an twelve times the area of Paris. In the past seven years the German production ofboet sugar has doubled, while tho home consumptiou has only increased one-third during tho samo period. A few years ago tho Chinese cabinet advised tho conquest of Japan to stop tho spread of western civilization. It ssoms tho plan was put off a littlo too long. The New York World observes: The courts in Brooklyn are trying tho efficacy of $25,000 verdicts for damago when a trolley car kills a person. Wo predict that tho death rate from this cause will be greutly reduced. Good apples aro said to bo dearer than eggs in tho New York market. The reason is that most of the good ones have been exported to England, where the demand for American ap ples has been unprecedented during the past season. Chitral, in tho region of Upper In dia, tho inhabitants of which tho Brit ish are now attempting to punish and, perhaps subjugate, was, until tho en trance of the British Army, entirely without commerce and without money. Tho people accepted tho rupees given them by tho British officers for tho performance of petty services, esteem ing them highly as ornaments; but they made serious objections to receiv ing too many of them as their uso of ornaments was limited. A shaft into the earth is proposed by M. Taschal Grousset as tho sensa tion for the Paris Exposition of 1900. llis plan is an inversion of tho idea of the Eiffel tower. Elevators will carry tho public down tho shaft; nt inter vals thero will bo restaurants and con cert room?, decorated so as to linr iconize with tho temperature, which will increase with tho depth, as far as 2100 feet below tho surface. Beyond that point, as the heat will bo too great for comfort, a narrower shaft is to bo driven for scientific purposes only to a depth greater than has ever j'et been obtained, possibly 5000 feet. It is a question whether the Semi nole war is over yet or not. Tho Secre tary of the Interior has asked the Secretary of War to tell him, r.3 it in volves a question of tho Seminolo lands. Most of the people who fought in the war are dead long ago. Secre tary Lamont replying to tho com munication from Secretnry Smith in formed him that the first Seminolo war in Florida, from 1836 to 1842, was officially announced us closed August 14, 1842, and that the Becond Florida Seminole war began December lift, 1835, and was officially declared closed on May 8, 1858. When the great Salt Pond of Block Island has been connected with tho ocean by tho ship channel that is now being dug, it will becomo an impor tant roadstead for the laagest ships. It is perfectly land-locked, and covers 1200 acres, of which 800aro navigable, the depth ranging from fifteen to sixty feet. The New York Tribune thinks the value of such a refuge, situated as it is so near Gardiner's Bay, Long Island Sound and New York City, must be of considerable consequence from n naval point of view ; it would surely be worth holding by an enemy preying on our coasts, especially by a fleet of warships operating against New York City. The possibilities aro interest ing. Max Nordau, a German investigator, has published a work entitled "De generation," which is startling Eu rope. He seeks to demonstrate that the brain of man has been put under n suicidal strain by tho enormous in creaso of activity in tho last fifty years, and that it has produced in tho upper 10,000 of every great city a raco of "degenerates," that is, men who, though perhaps brilliant men tolly, are physically uud hereditarily on the down grade, and who are bouud in a generation or two to perish through partial insanity and sterility. In difcussing this overpressure he cites the immense increase of mail matter and declares that "a cook re ceived and sends moro letters nowa days than a university professor did formerly." The increase of p.uicides throughout Europe helps Herr Nor dnu's deduction:.'. St. Petersburg, lor inttance, reporting 445 successful bui cides in tho ptwt twelve mouths. THE ANGELIC HUSBAND. There are husbands who are pretty, There are husbands who are witty, There aro husbands who in public aro as smiling as the morn; Thero are husbands who are healthy, There are famous ones and wealthy, But the real nngolic husband —well, he's never yet been born. Rome for strength of love aro notod, Who are really so devoted That whene'er their wives aro absent they are lonesome and forlorn; And whilo now and thou you'll find one Who's a really good and kind one, Yet the real angelic husband—oh, he's never yet been born. So the woman who is mated To a man who may be rated /Li "protty fair" should cherish him forover ami a day, For the real angelic creature, Perfect, quite, in every feature, He has never been discovered, and ha won't be, so they say. —T. B. Aldrieh, in Boston Budget. "ONE GOOD TURN." fROM the tiny village of Dewhurst to Ber sea, a small town on the English channel, is eight miles by road and nine by river. The train takes twenty min utes between the two places, good 1/ ~*"W going indeed "for one of those South ern lines." Ono dull, heavy, October Sunday night. George Langley would gladly have sat a whole hour in the most un painted, unpadded, draughty and jolty carriage of any "ono of these Southern lines" if he might get from the village to the town. He had been paying a stolen visit to Kate—to lovely Kate Bascott, of Dewhurst. He had said good-by to her at the bottom of her father's garden, and run all the way to the railway station, only to find the last train gone. Eleven had struck and the one street of Dewhurst was as cinpty of people as the church yard. Langley sat down on a hand-truck which ho found chained to a post. He lit his pipe and proceeded to con sider his position. Hardly had he be gun the reflection that ho had walked many miles that day, and was glad of his rest on the haud-lruck, when flashod iiuo his mind the picture of a punt, with sculls in her, seen moored below tho bridge to-day. Then he felt a flush of pleasure when ho brought to mind that it must now be about ebb at Dewhurst. In a light punt, and on tho back of a six-knot tide, he should fly along tho nine miles of water to Bersea in less than half tho time it would take htm to reach tho half-way house on his weary feet. At tho bridge ho had to proceed carefully for ho did not know the ground well; thero was no regular landing place, and hardly a glimmer of light trickled through the lowering clouds. With a feeling of profound relief he found the skiff with skulls ly ing on the thwarts. Casting off the painter ho stepped aboard with a chuckle of rcmorso when he fancied tho owner's urrival later to find the boat gone. Rowing alone through tho damp darkness of that autumn night was fiot inspiring; but ho realized with delight the gr<?at pac.o from the light swiftness with which tho skulls came to him through the water, and from the ponderous, silent sliding by of the black banks. His course lay nearly due south. There was something in tho manner of tho ghostly banks, and in the hur ried whispering of tho water at his bow, which told him ho should not reach home before the storm broke. "In a lew minutes the galo will break," said Langley to himself. "This is a nice sort of cockle-shell to be abroad iu the dark if tho water gets sloppy. It would be no easy job to land here. I suppose if tho storm does come down particularly heavy I must tako it as a judgment sent as puuishracnt for stealing tho boat." All at once the trees on tho bank set up a shrill whistle of alarm, and the woods on the hills took up the alarm and burst into a roar. The channel of the river was filled with a barrier of wiud aud rain, through which, in spite of Langley's utmost efforts, he could not press the Bluff. Water flashed in spray from the bows, and slopped üboard at the coun ter. He tasted the salt water on his mustache. He bent his head under tho rain ilnng upon his ueck, and felt it run dowu his back. The banks wcro steep and almost indiscernible. If tho punt were swamped it would go hard with him. He was strong and healthy; only twenty-seven; full of life and hope; ho was just begiuning to see a road towards competency. Then thgre was Kate—thero was Kate?—there was his Kate! No, no; it would never do to drown here. But the boat was half full,the banks high and dim, tho storm tremendous. It looked as if ho were to perish ufter all! By Jove, that gust had whirled tho punt's head round as if she was a cork! Yet it would be cruel as well as ridiculous to die here. And still the tempest was over whelming ; the water getting sloppy; the punt neavier—deader and deader. Let him try to make oat the exact point of tho river where the water was jolting, aud tossing and wounding his puny skiff. Yes; he was in the Long Reach, where tho bank ou either side is steep. Stay I What was that low-cofllu elmped thing standing back against the ffautic eky? LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1895. That was the old deserted boathouse with the slip! Thank Qod I If ho could only reaoh the slip and jump ashore, scramble ashore, swim ashore, all would be well. Think of it—all wonld be well I He should again see tho sunlight in the fields, and the sails on the shining sea, and Kate in her white gown I He should again move back the straying tresses of golden hair from the fore head- -he should move back her stray ing tresses with this same palm which he was now grinding against the harsh wood of the oar, in desperate endeav or to tear his life from the trough of the water. At last firm earth held his limbs and body up! He no longer rocked and swayed in all his body. Drenched and sodden, he scrambled up tho slip. He made ro effort to save the punt. The moment Jho stepped ashore she had bcon swept away. "I must make that boat good to the owner, though sho has been nearly tho death of me. I'll never put my foot aboard another craft less than a five tonner from this until I die." Oh, what hard work it had been to keep one's feet when staggering up that treacherous olcl slip to gain its place, with its shelter and its security, from the mouths of tho lipping, raven ing waters! This boat-house was now used, they said, by Black Billy, the gamekeeper, as a lair from which he might surpriso poachers by night. Poachers were many and daring in this neighborhood. Black Billy entertained a particular hatred against them and they against him. Bray heaven they might not mistake him for Black Billy, or Black Billy him for any ono of them. No door ou thp boat-hou3e. That did not matter. It afforded plenty of shelter, and that was what ono now needed, and lo! in the light of a match, a heap of straw, a large heap of straw, at the end fur from the door. In his saturated condition to lie down ou the straw would be to seouro illness and invite death. If he walked briskly up and down until ho became warm aud then crept under the straw a fellow would notouly escape a chill, or rheumatism, but enjoy the ad vantages of hydropathic treatment. Langley began pacing tho floor as rapidly as the limits of the building and the darkness would permit. In half au hour he had workod himself into a glow; then ho crawled under the straw, taking caro to cover him self completely with it. Tho heat of tho body increased to such a degree that ho was sorely tempted to creep forth ngaiu, but a chill now would bo disastrous, so he lay still an.l suffered. He listened to the wind roaring iu the wood, and to the flails of the raiu thrashing on tho roof. Little by littlo the burning heat of his body subsided, aud after awhile he fell asleep. Ho was awakened by voices. Tho storm had ceased, and Langley was on the poiut of struggling out and de claring himself wheu his cars caught words which held him still. "It's a haugiug job, Jim," said a deep, gruff voice. "Well, that's your affair. You knocked liim into the river," said a high tenor voice. "We wero both of us in it, and wbeu he started ou us 'twas you clinched." "I was only holding on by his gun, and was holding on with uiy two hands wheu you but-ended hiin and ho tum bled in. I couldn't have struck the blow for my two hands were ou his gun, Sam." "And when I saw you in trouble did I turn tail and run away? Did I?" fiercely; "or did I shorteu my piece and let drive at him? And isu't the dark look of his eyes turned on me ever since?" Sam's tone had become subdued as he went on, and at tho end it had lost all its anger, and was not addrosso 1 to Jim, but spoken tore- j lentlesa vacancy wbero the dead eyes lived. Langley felt a cold shiver dowu his back. He bad been listening to the history by poachers of Black Billy's last encounter with their fraternity. Tho man with the high voice stood so closo to Langloy that his feet were in the straw, and Langloy could feel tho straw move wheu the man moved. Yet Langley durst not stir an inch away. After a pause, Sam, the moro distant man, the one with the rough voioc, tlie striker of the blow, recovered him self, aud said as if awaking from sleep: "What are we to do?" ".Strike a light aud let us see what's in this cursed hole." "But any oue oould see a light from tho river." "And who would bo ou tho river at such an hour, aud after such a night?" Langley's heart stood still. Up to this his only feeling was one of loath* ing and horror of the presence of two men, red-handed from murder. Now the fearful peril of his own position struck him. Hero were two desperate men, fresh from the most awful crime, with no other thought than, How shall we escape the terrible oonseqnenoes? They were armed, they were going to strike a light. H they discovered him? He tried to lie still as a log. A match was struck. The high voice said: "What a heap of straw ! I suppose it was his bed. It looks luoro like as if one had been sleeping under rather than ou it. Noth ing buttlie straw iu the shanty. There, the match is out) What are we to do, Sam? "Twill soou bo day, and t!i'ri I'li y'll find it in the water." With the going out of the match Jim's terrors [returned. Silence for a while. Langley felt sure his breathing, o.' the ticking of his watch, or the beat ing of bin heart must be heard. The cold sweat ran down his face and neck. He was madly impelled to shriek. Tho muscles of lii<* legs twitohed. He had to dig his nail* :uto his palms to keep his hands still. Suddenly, with an o»th, Sam cried: "I have it! I have it!" "Are yoa shouting for the poliee, even beforo thoy have light to find anything in the river?" whispered Jim. "I have it, I tell yon," eried Sam, in triumph. "What fell in the river was carried to the sea in the dark, when there was no light." "What's your opinion, then?" "Old Billy often slept here. There's the straw to show he did—" "I heard tue straw move as if he was on it now," said Jim, in a whisper of horror. "Black Billy is in the ohannel long ago, yon fool!" Jim moaned. "Either the straw moved or I'm mad." "You're crazy with fear. Yoa haven't the heart of a hare. Listen. To-night old Billy slept on the straw—" ; 'Don't! Don't, Sam! Let the straw alone. It hears you! He has come to it up out of the water. I'm nearer the straw than you. I can hear him breathing." "Hold your prate, or I'll put a charge into you. To-night he set fixe to the straw and was burned to dust. What do you think of that, my white livered Jim?" cried Sam, exultantly. "I—l—l think it might do if he was in the river or the sea. But he's here. He's lying on the straw, listen ing to us, and whatever you do or say; he'll hang us. I can feel the straw stirring against mo now. For God's sake strike a light! My hands are shaking so I can't." "Ay, I'll strike a light fast enough." The action followed the words, and Sam thrust the flaming match into the straw. A cone of fire shot up. Langley, pale and resolute, determ ined to make one desperate plunge for the door, leaped from the blazing straw and, dashing the smoke from his eyes, staggered, paused motionless, and stood staring with distended and open mouth at the door. "It's Black Billy himself!" shrieked Jim, cowering against the wall and pointing to the ghastly face of Lang ley. Quick as lightning Sam covered Laugley. "If you move you are a dead man. WIID are you?" "It's Black Billy himself," whimp ered Jim. "Black Billy himself, come out of the river to hang us!" "He's the makings of anothor mur der. It's a spy. His hair is -light, not dark, you fool!" Laugley did not move. He glanced from the muzzle of the gun to tho doorway. Hesp^ke: "I am not Black Billy. There would be no good in my saying I did not hear your conversation." "Then it was a bad hour for you when you did hear it," said Sam, with the gun still pointing at Langley. "I'm not so sure of that, and I think it a very good thing for you I did over hear it." "I don't want to take you too snd don, for you may not have been here as a spy ; but you know too much for ever goiug out of tho door of this place alive." "I know more than you think, and therefore I will go out of that door alive." "Come; the liouso is filling with smoke. You can have tea minutos." "Can't I Lave till day?'' "No. In three minutes this placo will be too Jot aud too lull of smolrt) to stay iu it." "Not till day, not to seo the suu once more, and it is already daWu. Look!" The poachers already turned their eyes towards the door. With a groan Jim fell forward in sensible. With an oath Sam dropped his gun to the ground. Tue ligure of Black Billy, the gamekeeper, stood on the threshold. Jim was dragged out of the burn ing building aud Sum's hands were bouud. "SVhen I was just exhausted iu tho water, after that ruffian had knocked mo in," said the gamekeeper later, "I gripped the gunwale of a half-sw&mped punt, and with tho other half of her kept afloat until I scrambled ashore." "That mu'it have been my boat," said Langly, "so that my punt saved your life, and then you savod mine. Well, 'one good turn deserves an other,' I dare say%"—St Paul's. AnimatcJ Barometer.'. Says an old Pennsylvania farmer: "I always know when there is to be a windstorm by watching tho turkeys and chickens goto roost each night. In calm weather tho fowls always roost on their poles with their heads alternating cacU way; that is, one faces east?, the next west, and- so on. But when there is goiug to be a high wind tliey alvays roost with their heads toward the direction from which it is coming 1 . There are reasons for these different ways of roosting, I take it. Wheu there is no winil to guard against they can see other dau ger more readily if they are headed in both directions, but wheu wind is to arise they face it. because they oau hold their positions better. But the part I cau't uudcistand," he con cluded, "is how the critters know that the wiud is to rise wheu we mortals lack all intimation of it." —New York Tribune. The Butcher's Chopping Block. Butchers' chopping blocks made in sections are now sometimes used in stead of the old-time blook made from a rectiou of a single large tree. Per haps the scarcity of timber has some thing to do with the introduction of the new sort of block. It is made of maple in long parallelopipedons about one and a half inches square. It is said that such a block may be made of uniform hardness throughout, a thint n it' nmilly found in the solid , block.—New York Sua, THE MERBY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ABB TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PBESS. A feign of Spring—Lovers' Lunacy— Her Own—Limited — Conditional —"There Aro Tricks," Etc., Ktc. We know that spring time has como round, For as we walk tho street. We see a shining, brand-new tie On every man we meet. —Hartford Journal. LOVERS* LUNACV. She—"What effect does the full moon have upon the tide ?" He—"None, bnt it has considerable upon the un-tied."—Life. CONDITIONAL. "Will you lovo me wheu I'm gone?" asked Mr. Linger of his sweetheart. "If you'll go soon," replied the faithful girl with a yawn.—Judge. IN THE GLOAMING. Sho (pointing at a star) "Ah, there is Orion!" Voice (from ,the darkuiss)- "Yea aro mishiaken, mum, it's O'Reilly. Life. Una own. "The duke seems to be completely blinded to Miss do Million's true char acter." "Yes; she threw dust in his oyea." —Puck. BEATING AIJOUT THU 131'SH. A.—"What! You called me a swin dler?'' B. "No; but I am prepnred to give ten dollars to any one who proves to me the contrary." LIMITED. Patient (about to have his log re moved, cheerfully)—" Well, doctor, I'm afraid that I won't be able togo to any more dances." Dr. Knifur —"No. After this you'll havo to confine yourself to hops."— New York World. IIIS PREFERENCE. A Milyun Hairo--"My daughter re turns from Europe to-day, sir. Mako arrangements for a stunning reception to her. I give you carte blanche." His Secretary--"I would be per fectly satisfied, sir, if you would only give ine Blanche."—Truth. "rHEnR AHli TRICKS." Visitor—"Arc »11 th'sa ladies wait ing for change?" Merchant Prince—"Oil, dear, no! They are connected with the house. They stimulate trade by struggling with customers who try to approach the bargain couuter."—Puck. A PASSION WITH HIM. She —"And tell rao now, aroyou much intercsto:l in science?" He—"lnterested in science? I nhould say so. Why, I know the his tory of all the champions of the ring, anil there isu't anything about any of the big fights that have taken place in the last forty year.", that I cau'ttell you. Science? The manly art is just food, drink and lodging for me."— Boston Transcript. TEE LONTUVYWOOD HOSE COMPANY. Citilv —"I see you wear a badge of the Lonely wood Hose Company. Isu't it pretty tough to have to rospoud to an alarm on a cold, rainy night, when you've worked hard in the city all day ?" Commuter (lightly) "Poolt, pooh, man! Why, you can stay at home and pay a doilar fine. That's what everybody does except the man whoso house is afire."—Judge. SLIGHTED. "What is this?" exclaimed the pri ma donna, as sho crumpled the printed sheet, threw it upnn tho floor and stamped upon it. "What is tho matter, my dear?" asked her husband. "A brand of piano has beeu placed on tho market without my knowledge, and I have not written a testimonial saying it is the finest instrnment I have ever used. This is the first time such a thing happened and it is an in sult."—Washington Star. JUSTIFIED SUSPICION. "Yes," said tho land lord, who was showing a prospective tenant through the house,"the flat is fitted with all ' modern improvements, good sanita tion, ample heat and light arrange ments, n tine kitchon, elevator servico all night, and the reut is only #25. " "Say no more," interrupted the tfat liuiiter, sadly. "I must refuse tho in viting offor. There'can be only one inference from your low rent—there is a young lady pianist in the flat above."—Chicago Kocord. SUFFICIENTLY r.EWAKDBD. The latest jokt at the expense of the Frenoh Society for the Protection of Animals is to tho following oflect: A countryman, armed with nu im n-cuso club, presents himself before the President of tho society, and claims tho first prize. lie is askod to describe the act of humanity on whioh he founds tho claim: "I saved the life of a wolf," replies the countryman. "I might easily have killcdhim with this bludgeon," and he swings bis weapon in tho air, to the immense discomfort of tho Pres ident. "But whero was this wolf?" inquires the latter; "what had ho done to you?" "lie had just devonrod uiy wife," was tho reply. Tho President reflects an inftar.t, and then says: "My friend, I am cf opinion that you have been sullicieul- W rewarded. "—New York Post. Terms—sl.oo in Adyanoe; 51.25 after Three Monthe. THE WEIGHT OF IT. DISASTROUS RESULTS OF TWO YEARS OF DEMOCRACY. Railway Receiverships, Bank Sus pensions and Shrinkage in Indus tries Represent Losses of Billions —National Prosperity Ifas Been Stifled By Free Trade. Various estimates have been made of the cost to the country of the Fifty third Congress, and of the present free trade Administration. It is difficult to arrive at a true estimate of the losti that the people lir-vo suffered through their folly in November, 1892. This period of our history has been con cisely described by Messrs. Clapp & Co., the New York bonkers, in their weekly circulars. On November 11, 1892, they said: "The recent flection shows the peoplo want to speculate." Four months later, on March 17, 1893, shortly after tho inauguration of Pre "ident Cleveland, thoy said : ' "-e shadow of general liquidation falls over the door ttep of National prosperity." Th.'ee months later, on Juno 30, Clapp's Circular said: "The credit panic appears to have iptl THE WEIGHT OF IT. crossed tho continent, and scarcely four months have passed and a billion of representative money liai disap peared. In their 1893 souvenir, they show that the 6eveuty-five railway receiver ships rendered necessary that year in volved an indebtedness amounting to $1,212,217,033, and the total liabili ties of banks suspended was $210,998,- 808. The business shrinkage in tex tilo Irades was almost $40,000,000 and in other industries i>ver $90,000,- 000. Adding the record of tho trado fail ures they found that the disaster brought upon the country by the free trade party during 1893 was "equal to about twenty-five per cent, of the annual production average for the country during the past decade." Our artist has explained tho extent of the disaster for the two full <year.* from March, 1893, to March, 1894. According to the record of the bank clearings tho shrinkage iu business was $5,GG5,000,000, during tho first six months only that this new tariff has been in force, below tho araouut of business done during the first six months when tho McKinley tariff was in operation. Wheat Needs Protection. Freo trailers and others are already at work trying to invent excuses for the cheap price of wheat, attributing it to any cause but the right one, which is increased production in tho world's supply, as can be seen from the followiug figures of the crops for 1891 and 18J4: TIIK WOBLU'S WHEAT SUPPLY. 1891. 1894. liushols. Bushels. Europe t. 208.51)0.001) 1.538,21 C.OOO \siri 342.611.000 341.959.000 Afrii-a 17,051,000 47.098.000 Australasia 33,875,000 43,360,000 North America . . 688,814,00'J 515.488,000 Boutli America... 15,805.00'J 104,000.000 Totals 2,369,746,000 2,590.121.000 The wheat harvest of 1894 was 220,- 009,000 bushels larger thau iu 1891, tho incroa?e iu Enrapo being 330,- 000,000 bushels, anil iu South Ameri ca 55,000,003. Iu Asia au<l Africa there was practically no change in the supplv, but in North America thero was a decrease of nearly 20,000,003 bishols in C ma la, aud over 150,000,- 000 bushels in tho United States. Not withstanding the fact that the North American continent produced 173,- 000,000 bushels less wheat iu 1891 than in 1891, tho export prioe of wheat foil from 93 cents a bushel in 1891 to 63 J cents iu June of 1891. Our per capita consumption of wheat iu 1891 was 4.58 bushels; in 1892 it increased to 5.91 bushels per head of our population, but in 1893 it fell again to 4.t>5 bushels per capita. This meant a smaller home market for our own wheat by 70,000,000 bushels iu 1893 thau we had in 1892. « Wheu the couutriesoutside of North America increase their wheat supplies by 400,000,000 bushels within four seasons, it is vory evident that tho United States crop is becoming less of a factor in tho regulation of prioe; also, that we shall not ouly feel the effect of this increased foreign growth in a depreciation of values, but that wo may also look for considerable im portations of foreign wheat, unless it is excluded from our American mar kets by a tariff that will afford ample protection to tho American farmer. If our consumption of wheat should still further decrease by the closing of ai.y woolen factories, for instance, and the idleness of the hands, the farmers will still more feel the effeot of free trade upon tho prioe of wheat. Shirking the Tax. It Is estimated that about twenty-flvo per cent, of the very wealthy man of the country have tailed to make any tnoome tax re turn*. , NO. 34. That Rooster's Last Crow. It is amusing to observe how lustily the free traders crow over tho few increases in wages which have taken place since the "Tariff Reform" Con gress adjourned. Wages are going up in spite of the Democratic party and its free trade tariff. After tho elections of last No vember the country began to take hope. It saw the beginning of tho end of Democratic rule. Still fchere was no visible improvement in busi ness—no upward movement in wages. It required tho result of the spring elections to confirm the pccple in the belief that tho reaction hod come to stay. There aro fow who ilb not now believe that the Republican party will fce fully returned to power next year. There is hope for tho future, and ad vances in wages are the fruits of that hope. The real turning point in the great depression was tho final adjourn ment of the Congress that passed the Wilson tariff. Tho Democratic party had done its worst and beeu repudia ted by tho country. Tho Nation hag returned to its senses and business is once more on tho up grade. From this time on we may look for gradual advances in wages, and as they come thoy will bo hoiled with gladness and satisfaction. It will take some time before they are restored to the high water mark of 1892.—Pittsburg (Poun.) Commercial Gazette. An Object Lesson. Hero is a little object lesson in acros tics. Note that these ten American cities aro prosperous, and then dis cover, woveu through them all, the mystic thread that eloquently tells the story: PHILADELPHIA KOCKFOKD OSWKCH* SAINT LOUIS PItOVID KNCK KAU CLAIHE ROCHESTER INDIANAPOLIS TOLEDO YONKEK3 This very day at high noon a large number of gentlemen retired to the "shades of private life," and all be cause they would persist in "snip ping" at this vita! thread with the shears of bogus "reform." See here what occurs in these saiao ten citiec with protection wiped out: YONKEItS ROCHESTER EAI CLAIRE OSWEGO PROVIDENCE I'HILADELi'HLI TOLEDO INDIANAPOLIS ROCKFORD * SAINT LOUIS How necessary it is that we who love our country first should stand as n solid phalnnx against the insidious and unpatriotic attempts whieh have been, are being and will be made to effectually lower the proud banner of protection and trail it iu the dust. Oh. men of America, yo who are wailing To .-".'n the bright ilawu of a morn liopoful Jay. Stand firm for protection. au>l soou you'll discover . That k<JO(l timos have tome back anJ conn: (•a-.-k to ytay. Clysses Grant Waite. Protection Ideas Abroad. English newspapers are urging the farmers of that couutry to practice in tensive farmiug to lessen the importa tions of cereals and meats from Amer ica and Australia. It is a sensible pol icy and shows what practical business seuse will do for any country. It is the fundamental principle advocated by the Republican party for the de velopment of the home interests of the people of the United States. It is wholly a mistaken idea that the Re publican party is committed to a pol icy having in view merely the develop ment of manufactures or the building up of special iutereßtß. Thorough pro tection will care for every general in. tcrost of the couutry. Burlington (la.) Hawk-Eye. Letting Ourselves Out. L "H.. \l •_ 'is r j' liny the American Woods. The imports of woolen dress good* at New York were 750,000 square yards larger during the first halt year's operation of the new tariff than during the corresponding months « year earlier. Of woolen cloths the in crease was 6,200,000 pounds. Stick to It. If we do our work at home our labor at home will be employed and the wages paid at home will be spent n1 home. This is the philosophy of pro tection, and it cannot be abandoned, amendei 1 or abated. - Governor Mo- Kinley. Could Mot Fix the Blame. The Grand Jury, wlilob for three weeks has been investigating the dynamite ex plosion horror at Butte, Montana, In *hloh ilfty-eifiht men were killed, reports that tt has beeb unable to tlx the responsibility. Civil suits tor damages aggregating 9180,001 hare been brought against 'he t«ro hardware oompanies.
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