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.