SULLIVAN JSHFE REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
' Americans are said to eat more than
any other Nation.
Tho trolley has invaded tho land of
tho Pharaohs. Cairo, Egypt, is to have
n system.
Mr. Selous, the celebrated English
traveler and huuter, says that tho
great curse of tho British Empire in
Africa is drink.
Steam street railways are more
common in Italy than in any other
country. There are now nearly 2000
miles of suoh lines.
Captuin L. S. Hinde, of the Belgian
service in Africa, writes that in spito
of their slavo trading propensities tho
Arabs, during their forty years' dom
ination, have brought the Manyema
nnd Malela country to a state of high
prosperity, "the landscapo soon from
tho high hills of Ivassongo reminding
ono strongly of ordinary arable Eng
lish country."
Ono of the proposed two-wheel or
"bicycle" railways from Now York to
Washington promises a speed of 120
miles an hour as a result of tho use of
electricity and tho minimizing of fric
tion. No doubt such speed is entirely
within tho range of what will soon bo
practicable, but it is etill very ques
tionable, declares tho New York World,
"whether sane people will ever bo
willing to ride on auy railroad will
ing to risk it."
Tho wholo population of the United
States could bo concentrated in Texas,
estimates tho New York Sun, without
bringing up tho density of her popula
tion to that of Massachusetts. In fact
if an area equal to that of Indiana
were cut off from Texas the State would
still hold tho entire population of the
United States without crowding us a3
tho peoplo of Massachusetts are
crowded. Delaware would havo moro
than room for us all could tho whole
population be crowded as aro tho in
habitants of New York City.
A plea is being made for tho observ
ance of a "bird day" iu our schools,
with tho hope that it will creato an en
thusiasm and lovo for birds, and a
lovo of naturo which now has its begin
ning and ending in Arbor Day. If
teachers are too busy to make that
preparation noccssary for a successful
observance of such a day, why may not
tho women's clubs, as a writer in tho
Outlook suggests, shed their sweetness
and light on the school children occa
sionally, and end the hour or two de
voted to tho work by a simple after
noon tea to their littlo guests? This
surely would bo a practical work, in
tho estimation of tho New York Post,
quito worthy their efforts, as well as
of the Sunday-schools, and an occa
sional sermon from tho ministers on
an important chapter of human con
duct.
A number of prominent New York
physicians wero recently interviewed
in regard to tho uso of hypnotism in
their practico. They all admitted
that they resorted to hypnosis when
other moans failod, and that by this
nreaus they often cured obstinate
cases of insomnia and of dipsomania.
Tho euro ot tho drink habit by hypno
tism is no new thing, but it is a nov
elty to find loading physicians resort
ing to it. In tho same way some fa
mous surgeons hypnotize patients
who object to auiosthetics, and in this
way perform opefations while tho sub
ject is unconscious of pain. Tho sub
ject is a very interesting one, and de
spite the study made of it by many
experts in medicine no one has yet
been ablo to explain why ono person
is an easy subject and another a diffi
cult ono.
A curious oaso of dual brain action
is describod in Braiu. An insane pa
tient varied considerably in his men
tal condition ; in one state ho was sub
ject to chronio mania, spoko English,
was fairly intelligent, and was right
handed; in another stato ho was sub
ject to dementia, was almost unintelli
ble, but what could bo understood was
Welsh, and ho was then loft handed.
In his English intervals ho remem
bered clearly what had happpuod iu
previous English periods, but his
memory was a blank to what oecurrod
during tho Welsh stagos. Ho pre
ferred to writo with his right hand,
and then wrote from loft to right, but
if asked to do so, would writo with his
loft hand, and thon tho writing win
from right to left. Mr. Bruce, who
observed tho case, infors from it that
tho cerebral hemispheres are capable
of individual mental action, that tho
ono montally acti'vo at any timo can
control tho motor functions, and that
tho pationt livos two separate exist
ences during tho two stages through
which ho passes, tho mental impres
sions in caeh cxistonoe being recorded
iu one cerebral hemisphere only,
DAY BY DAY.
Walking with patienoe whero tho way is
rough,
Besting in quiet when the storm is nigh,
Knowing that lovu Divine is strong enough
To boar mo up, as weary days go by;
Trusting that sorrow is but lovo's disguise,
And all withholding, yet another way
Of making richer by what lovo denios—
So grows the soul a little, day by day.
—Mary C. Seward, in Independent.
GRANDMA'S HEROINE.
BY EDNA O. BOBBINS.
fHEN the now baby
went to sleep
"Maum" Penny
turned tho other
children, Teddy,
Tom and Penelope,
out of tho nursery
that he might rest
undisturbed. For
a minute or BO they
stood at the hall
window feoling a
tiDy bit lonely and
friondless, then
Penolopo thought of grandma, and,
with one accord, they sought her room,
told their grievanoe and begged for a
story, and, as a fitting compensation
for the loss of Maum Penny's society
and tho freedom of the nursery, Ted
dy and Tom settled themselves com
fortably on a rug at grandma's feot,
and wee Penelope nestled in her arms.
"Tell ns a new story, please grand
ma," said Toddy.
"And not a Biblo story, grandma,"
added Tom, " 'causo they're for Hun
day."
"Tell us about a beautiful prin
cess," said Penelope.
"No," said Teddy, "don't tell a
princess story. Tell us a heroino
story. Did you ever know a heroine,
grandma? A real, live heroine?"
"Yes, Teddy. I believe I did,"
grandma answered gravely, then
laughed as Teddy and Tom scrambled
to their knoes, and all tho children
looked at her in wonder and delight.
"Was sho very, very beautiful and
all dressed up in feathers and velvet
nnd laeo like tho picture in Teddy's
new book?" askod Penelope.
"Did yon know her across tho ocoan,
grandma, and did she run a boat and
savo people off wreoks?"
"Did they burn her, grandma—did
you seo them burn her?" askod Tom
with a vivid remembrance of tho fate
of Joan of Aro.
Grandma smiled at tho difforent
ideas of a heroine, ilier, whou their
excitement had somewhat subsided,
Eaid quietly: "My dears, I will toll
you the story of my heroine, and you
shall decido for yourselves what it
means to bo truly horoic. Tho baby
is to be christoned to-morrow, and, as
my heroino story has something to do
with a christening of long ago, it will
perhaps mako the ono to-morrcw
dontly interesting to hoar it. Now I
must not bo interrupted, to settle
yourselves and be quiet."
Tho children settled themselves
down comfortably and grandma began
her story liko an old-fashioned fairy
tale:
"Once upon a time, a long time
ago—not in Europe—but herj in
South Carolina, and not far from our
own city of Charleston, thero was a
beautiful, old-time house on a vast
plantation. It was owned by Mr.
Hugh Porter, and was called 'Porter's
Hall.' Mr. Porter was a young man
and an orphan with no brothers nor
sistors, so ho found tho big place too
lonely to be pleasant, and, leaving it
to the care of his overseer and his
slaves, ho spent his timo in New York
City and in Europe. Finally ho mot,
loved and married a very beautiful
young lady of New York, named
Lillian Farley, and immediately after
tho wedding they sailed for
Europe. Witli her soit, whito skin,
big blue eyos aud curling, golden
hair, my little Nell was beautiful
enough for a heroine and her gowns of
velvet and laco and her plnme-laden
hats would, I have been told, have
graced the most royal of princesses,
but Lillian was no heroino for all
these, sho was only a shy, spoilt ohild,
dainty, delicate and fragile as a China
shepherdess. They wandered about
from p'.aco to place, now in France,
now in Spain, then in Italy, lingering
among tho beautiful, old ruins of
Rome and feasting lazily about tho
water-streets of Venice. From Italy
they went to Switzerland, and they
were in a little village at the foot of
a giand old mountain when Hugh re
ceived word that business required his
immediate attention at home.
"They had then been in Europe
more than a year, and they had a lit
tlo blue-eyed baby daughter, so Hugh
was really glad to roturn for ho want
ed to havo the baby christened in the
littlo stono church near his homo
whore ho aud many, many Porters be
fore him had been christened. l!ut
Lillian wept at the thought of return
ing. Sho droadod the long ocean
voyage, and moro than all else, sho
dreaded living at 'Porter's Hall,' sur
rounded by strange beings of anoth
er race and color.
"Her husband laughed at her prej
udice aud told her sho would learn
to love dear, old Maum, Dinah, who
was black as ebony and almost as
shiny, but with a heart of gold aud
tho only mother his orphaned child
hood had ever known.
"Tho baby's nurse, a French girl,
named Rose Pugnon, accompanied
them on their return. Rose had form
erly been Lillian's maid, and when
they arrived at 'Porter's Hall,' Hugh
advised his wife to reinstate her in her
old office, and allow Maum Dinah to
take charge of baby and the nursery.
"But even Maum Dinah's kindly
face, beaming with love for 'Massa
Hugh' and his wife and baby failed to
remove Lillian's deep-seated repug
nance, and BUBO reigned supreme ill
the nursery,
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1895.
"Sometimes when Rose was in at
tendance upon her mistress, Maum
Dinah was permitted to take oare of
tbe baby, and the baby soon learned
to know and love her. When baby
had the colic, and all Rose's efforts to
relieve her were in vain, Manm Dinah
was called, and very soon the cries
would cease and baby would lie in
peaceful slumber oh Maum Dinah's
knees.
"Now in those days it was customary
to givo to a baby a black child to be
the playmate of its childhood, and the
attendant, maid or body-servant when
the child grow up.
"Well, belonging to Hugh's uncle,
who owned the adjoining plantation
was Mattm Dinah's only grandchild,
a littlo orphan girl, twelve
years old, the blackest, the
spryest and the neatest little
colored girl that ever was seen, and
much to her own delight and Maum
Dinah's, this little girl, Penny, was
sent as a present to the baby.
"Penny arrived feeling very im
portant and very happy, and pre
sented herself, looking very fetching
in hor gray, red dress and white pina
fore, with her big eyos and white
teeth shining, before her now mis
tress.
"Lillian looked with surprise upon
this queer present to her little daugh
ter. Hugh explained to her the cus
tom and advised her to lot Maum
Dinah tako charge of baby with Pen
ny to assist her, but Lillian said cer
tainly not, and bade Maum Dinah tako
Penny to the 'Quarters' and to keep
her there—on no account to allow her
to come into the house.
"Lillian's ill-health mado her a lit
tle bit impatient, and all was so strange
to her, so Hugh seldom opposed her in
any way, aud poor Penny, her smilos
gone and her eyes fall of tears, was lod
away without even a glimpse of the
baby she had thought and dreamed
and talked so much about.
"Rut Penny's interest in tho baby
was not to bo so oasily disposed of.
After a long cry over her disaj>point
ment, sho left tho littlo room at tho
'Quarters' and set out upon a tour of
inspection. Sho went up to tho house
nnd stood under the nursery win
dows, feeling very lonely and strango ;
but when Maum Dinah appeared at
ono of tho windows with baby in her
arms, tho sight brought the grin back
to her round, black face. Trufe, she
could seo littlo moro than a bundle of
clothes, but even that was bettor than
nothing. When tho baby was taken
_away from tho window Penny began
to take noto of the surroundings, and
she noticed that u limb of tho big livo
oak treo against which sho loaned ex
tended beneath ono of tho windows of
tho nursery. Penny looked at it care
fully, than grinned aud fairly hugged
tho old treo for joy; tho limb was
small, but so was she, aud sho could
climb liko a squirrel.
"It did not tako long for Penny to
learn that Maum Dinah was alone with
tho baby in tho nursery every evening
while Roso was in attendance upon
her mistress.
"Ono evening whilo Maum Dinah
sat with tho baby laying iu her lap,
watching it lovingly and crooning to
it softly, Penny buddenly appeared
beside her.
" 'W'y, chile! Weh yeh come
frum?' sho cried under her breath;
'how yeh git in hcali?'
" 'Neveh como up no stai' steps,'
answered Penny with a grin, dropping
upon hor knees the better to seo the
baby. e
"And so it earno about that Penny
visitod tho baby every evening and
learned to lovo her, and tho baby, who
had not inherited tho mothor's preju
dices, laughod and gurgled, kicked her
littlo pink toes and grabbed with her
chubby hands at Penny's kinky head.
It had been deeidod that tho baby was
to be christened on Easter morning,
but it had not been decided what was
to be tho baby's name. Hugh wished
her called for his mother, but Lillian
declared that she would never, no never
call her baby Penolopo!
" 'Why Hugh,' sho exclaimed,
'Penelopo is tho namo of that little
black monkey your unclo sent here—
would you really namo baby that?'
"Thoy wero walking on the lawn
when this discussion arose, and Penny,
who was hiding behind a treo near by,
heard Lilliau'd remark. 'Humph!'
she mused, wrinkling her black fore
heal and nodding her kinky head
thoughtfully, 'reckon Pe-nol-o-po mus'
be me, 'cause missis alius calls mo er
black monkey.' And all that day
Penny repeated over and over to her
self tho namo Ponelope, Penolopo, ad
miring tho grand, long sound of it and
wishing it might really be the baby's
nime.
"When she paid her usual visit to
tho baby thatoveniug, she asked Maum
Dinah if her name was Penelope.
" 'Yes, chile, but who dono tol' you
so?' asked Maum Dinah ; 'I namo yeh
that mys'f fcr 010 Miss,' elie added
proudly.
'The day before Easter Lillian was
far from well, but sho looked care
fully after tho decoration of the little
ivy covored stono church.
"Back of tho chancel and tho pn!-
pit the walls wero almost hidden in
greenery, feru3 and palms, ivy and
myrtle, and against this rich back
ground tho tall, palo lillies loaned
their I'tj.'ping heads. Night found
her very tired und weak, and she
leanad l»cr fair head against his
brca t and said coaxingly, 'Let's call
our baby Jean, Hugh, please; lot's
call her for a heroine.'
'• 'Jean, you know, children, is the
French for Joan,' explained Grandma.
"Hugh sighed, but consented. His
girl wife wns looking so dolieste th it
his heart misgave him, nnd ho t.
hor that as soon as he could so ar
range his business they would go
North and remain till sho grew
strong. So Lillian went to sleep con
tented.
"Hugh dropped into an uneasy
slumber. Tho old clock ou tho stairs
tolled out the hoar of midnight.
Sometimes it seemed to strike loader
than usual, and Hugh was awak
ened by its clangor. While ly
ing half awake, he fanoied he
heard the sound of crackling flames
and a strange roar filled his ears. He
sprang from his bed and opened the
door into the hall. The hall was filled
with smoke, and the lower story
seemed to be on fire. Hugh ran first
to the nursery and roused Rose.
Wrapping the baby well up'in blankets
and giving her to Rose he bade her
follow him. Returning to his room
he carefully wrapped his wife in a
blanket and, taking her in his arms,
fought his way through the smoke and
flames down the stairs and out into the
open air.
"By that time all tho black people
from tho 'Quarters' were huddled, an
excited, frightened, frantic mass, in
ront of the house. The men wero
confused and helpless, the women and
children crying and screaming. Old
Maum Dinah came forward, and Hugh
gavo his half-fainting wife into her
keeping, and though his face and hands
wero blaokened and blistered, he
started off to seo if anything could be
done.
" 'Attend to your mistress and the
baby, Maum Dinah,' he had said, and
with Lillian in her motherly arms,
Maum Dinah called for tho baby.
'Tho baby! There was Rose, a
frightenod, weeping creature, but no
baby I
"Lillian suddenly grown strong in
her mother-love and anguish, rushed
toward her and caught her by tho
shoulders. 'Where is my baby? Rose,
whero is my baby?' sho cried.
" 'There, there,' cried tho girl,
pointing wildly toward tho nurs
ery windows. 'I was so fright
enod. O, mon Dieu! I laid her
back in ze crib I'
"With a cry of awful agony Lillian
rushed toward tho burning house, but
beforo sho could enter, hor husband,
knowing nothing of their baby's peril,
caught and held her fast. Ho thought
her delirious from exoitem ent when sho
cried that tho baby was burning; but
when ho saw tho horror on tho faces
around him terror froze his heart and
paralyzed his brain.
"Beforo ho recovered Maum Dinah
seized his arm and pointing to tho
tree beneath the nursery|wiudow,cried :
•Oh, wait, Massa Hugh; Penny will
savo tho baby I' And then they saw a
little, black figure, clad only in a
short, whito gown, showing weirdly in
the red light of tlio flames, creeping
carofully along tho limb bo-'
neath tho nursery window.*
"Breathlessly they watched her.
Sho reached tho window, aud without
a moment's hesitation climbed into
the room. Tho throng below stood
with upturned faces, still and silent as
though turned to stone; tho horrible
roaring aud crackling of the flames
alone broko the silence. The minutes
seemed hours beforo sho reappeared
with tho b»bv, still wrapped in her
blankets in her arm?.
"Firmly she held the baby in ono
arm, and nimbly and with cat-liko
caro she climbed out of the window
and settled herself astride tho limb,
then she slowly 'hitched' herself inch
by inch along the limb till sho reached
tho body of tho tree. Thero Hugh
Porter's arms received both her and
tho baby and bore them safely to tho
ground, and whilo tho old houso
burued shout upon shout of thanks
giving arose to God. Penny, in hor
littlo night gown, did not look much
liko the ideal heroines of romance,
not thoso real ones made immortal by
history ; but children, I think sho was
cno of tho heroines God knows and
will mark for His own.
"Notwithstanding tho terriblo
events of that night, the baby's chris
tening occurred on Easter morning
and Penny, proud aud happy, carried
her into tho church and stood near
among the tall, white lillies, whilo
the old minister baptizid hor in her
own name, Penelope, and prayod that
God might bless both tho baby Pene
lope and her bravo littlo rescuer for
whom she was named.
"Hugh moved his wife and baby to
Charleston, and Maum Dinah and
Penuy, who refused to accept their
proffered liberty, wero giveu entire
charge of tho baby and the nursery.
"Dear, faithful Penny! Sho it was
who, more friond than servant, cared
for hor mistress tenderly all tlio years
of her suffering life, for she
never recovered from tho effects of
that terrible night—sho it was who
closed tho tired, bluo oves at last, and
somo timo, when God wills. Eho will
closo the eyes of tho babysho so brave
ly saved, for Penny at seventy-two is
halo and strong, while my race, a3
you see, is noarly run."
"Oh! Was it our Maun Penny?"
asked Toddy, oagerly.
"Yes, dear, and the littlo baby—"
"Was you, Grandma!" chruused tho
children.—Sunbeams' Young People.
Measuring Cauuon-Uall Velocity.
Tho velocity of a cannon-ball is now
measured by tiring it through two
screens, eaah one of which has au cloc
tric apparatus connected with it. As
the ball strikes tho screen tho circuit
is broken and tho time at which it
passed through each screen recorded
on a clock connected with it by wire,
so that tho difference iu the timo at
which it struck eaclfscreen is accur
ately recorded. All that is necessary
then to work out the problem is to
find how far apart tho screens staud
Irorn oach other.—Now York World.
A IVe'illar Ili-m iiv'iiau I'obbr.itlou.
A peculiar method of cjlebratiug
tho name of a member of the Reich
stag who voted against eou.'rutulatiug
tho rx-CUaneuU>r, —Chieijo l'imes
llerald.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY KEN OF THE PRESS.
The Latest Idol—Not In Stock—A
Slur —A Champion Feat —Jus*
Cause—Shorter, Etc., Etc.
The statesman now becomes obscure,
His glory has gono hence;
The public's looking (or the man
Who bats it o'er tho fence.
—Kansas City Journal.
NOT IN STOCK.
Customer (in hardware store) —"Do
you sell the Golden Rule?"
Clerk—"We don't oven keep it"—
Philadelphia Record.
WHERE HE WASN'T.
Cleverton—"Strange I didn't see
yon at the theatre last night. I looked
for yon between the acts."
Dashaway—"Perhaps you looked in
tho theatre, old man."—Harlem Life.
THAT WAS DIFFERENT.
She (tenderly)—" Sometimes I won
der why you love me."
He (assentingly) "So do I."
Sho (indignantly)—" Sir!"
Ho (explanatorily) —"I mean why
you lovo me."—Life.
A CHAMPION FEAT.
Prospective Tenn nt (to agent) —' 'You
say this houso is just a stone's throw
from the depot."
"Well, all I havo to say is I have a
great admiration for tho man who
threw the stone."—Life.
JUST CAVSI2.
"What perfect sympathy thero is
between Mrs. Plainface and her daugh
ter."
"I should think so! How could sho
help sympathizing with a daughter
who looked liko her. "—Life,
A SMTH.
"I never borrow trouble," said Bil
ton.
"Well," replied the man who had
onco lent him money, "there's never
any telling how bad a man's credit
will get to be."—Washington Star.
AVITnoVT DOCBT.
Hordso—"Don't those Chicago peo
ple boat tho earth for being stuck on
their own town?"
Saidso—"Well, rather; tho papors
there would print the story of tho end
of the world as locs'- «jAvs."—ruck.
SHORTER.
She shook her Lead sadly.
"My past is a sealed book," sho
answered with a sigh.
"Say, rather," ho implored, "say,
rather, a sealed brochure."
Tears of gratitude sprang to her
eyes. —Detroit Tribune.
BROWN-STONE.
He—"Wasn't Brown's wife named
Stone beforo she was married?"
Sho---"Yos; audit, was a very suita
ble name."
Ho—"Whet do you mean?"
She—"Oh, nothiug; only she throw
herself at his head. "---Life.
A BAR TO COMPLETE ENJOYMENT.
"I suppose you aro looking forward
to tho baseball season with pleasureV"
said Hobbcs to his friend, tho baseball
crank.
"I don't know," said the crank,
pathetically. "You see, my vocal
chords are in wretched condition."—
Chicago Record.
DISCIPLINE IN THE lUNKS.
First Lieutenant—"By Jovo, as wo
wero going over the river on tho plank
bridge it gavo way and the men fell
iu."
Second Lieutenant—"What did you
do?"
First Lieutenant---"! ordered them
to fall out, of course. "—Pearson's
Weekly.
NO DISPUTE so FAlt.
"Well, old man, this is the first
timo I've seen you since your mar
riage. Allow mo to congratulate you."
"Thanks, dear fellow, thanks!"
"Have you aud your wife decided
who is to bo tho speaker of the house?"
"Well, no; we usually occupy tho
chair together."—Pit tsburg Chronicle-
Dispatch.
tJXUTTEIUBLE.
"Do you not sometimes havo soul
ful yearuiugs which you loug to con
voy in words, but cauuot!" askod tho
sentimental girl.
"Yes, indeed," replied tho youug
man."l was om <3 dreadfully anxious
to send home for money and I didn't
have the price of a telegram."—Wash
ington Star.
THE -LADIES' TERROR.
"Why," thuudored tho King of Da
homey, lowering his lield-glass, "is
the left wing of the Amazons tiring
without orders, and breaking into re
treat?"
".Sire," auswered the chief of staff,
"a courier auuouuces that a cow has
appeared iu front of the liues at that
point. "---Puck.
THE LAST WORD.
"The ostrich is a queer bird," said
Air. Blykins. "There's no excuse for
its behaviug iu tho way it does. When
it sees au euemy coming it sticks its
head into the Baud instead of run
ning."
"That's its nature," replied his
wife.
"I know it. But just tho same it
isn't logical."
"Oh, yes it is, dear."
"How do you make it out?"
"It's ornithological."—Washington
Star.
Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months,
WOOLEN WORKERS.
VORKIGX GOODS ENOUGH TO IN
JURE GO.OOO HANDS.
Over Five Hundred Factories May
Close Their Doors—A Reduction
of $20,000,000 In the Amount of
Wages to Be lsarncd "betting
Ourselves Out'' of Work With a
• Vengeance.
A summary of tho value of our im
ports of all woolen goods during Jan
uary ond February since the woolen
schedule of the now tariff went into
effect, compared with our imports
daring tho corresponding months a
year earlier, is as follows:
IMPORTS OF WOOLEN OOODS.
January and February.
1894. 1895. Increase.
Value ....$8,529,431 i11.940,390 $8,410,959
It appears that during the two
months wo havo bought $8,411,000
worth more of foreign woolen goods
this year. This increase is at the rate
of over a year.
According to tho census of 1890, the
jiroduct valuo of all woolen and wor
sted manufactures in the United States
WM 8212,700,000 a year.
It is thus clear that tho increase in
our imports of woolens under tho
present tariff is almost equal to one
half of tho entiro product of our own
woolen and worsted mills in 1890.
This is a very serious matter for our
1450 woolon manufacturers to con
sider.
In 1890 there were 122,914 hands
working in our woolen aud worsted
factories. Thoy earned over $44,000,-
000 a year. An increase in our im
ports of foreign woolens at the rate of
more than 850,000,000 a year moaus
that tho earning power of the workers
in our woolen aud worsted mills must
bo rednced by nearly 820,000,000 a
year, unless thero should be a sudden
demand for tho larger quantity of for
eign goods that wo are buying over
fcnd above the rogalar supply from our
»wn mills. We do not believe that
this is tho ca3e. Tho outlook is a se
rious ono for our wago earners as well
as for the mill owners.
If tho output, of our mills bo de
creased by $50,000,000 a year, then
the cost of production will bo higher
for thoso goods that aro sold. Tha
greater competition at the same time
must make profits smaller.
If our imports of foroigu woolons
and worstods bo increased by more
than 850,000,000 a year, aud our mills
are compellod to restrict their output
by that amount, thou frilly 550 out of
our 1450 factorios will be closed. In
stead of thero being §14,000,000 of
wages earned and circulated, there
Will only bo 825,000,000 earned and
circulated, thus injuring local trade
whore the factories are established.
The process of letting ourselves out
BO as to reach the markets of tho world
must result iu also letting out tho valuo
of our capital employed in our own
woolen aud worsted mills. Its earn
ing power will be loss. It will also
result in letting 45,000 hands out of a
Job and it will also result in not lot
ting out for circulation nearly 820,-
000,000 of wages a year. The ovil re
sults of free wool have not yet beeu
fully experienced.
Those who are iu any way iuterest
«d in tho manufacture of American
woolens should study the following
table, which gives the quantities of
tho different leading articles imported
during tho first six months of the
present tariff as compared with the
corresponding six moatli3 a year
earlior:
QUANTITIES OF IMPOSTS OP MINCFACRUBES OF
WOOL.)
Sojitoui'jer 1 In March 1
Articles. 1391-93. 1393-91. Increase.
Carpets ail I
carp otiii^-'.
sq. yds 339,350 153.933 135,371
CllotU, lbs 10,01)9,271 3,10(3,990 0,902,234
Dress goods,
women's aud
children's, sq
yds 11,803,359 9,Gi1,323 '.'.224.531
Dress goods,
lbs 5.900,021 5,900,021
Haas, muugo,
Hook.-, noils,
shoddy and
wastes, lbs.. 1,073.381 31781 1.039,597
tfarns, lbs. . . 333,151 259.439 578,903
English Free Trade n Failure.
I am inclined to think that iu our
itaple trades—for instance, iutho coal
trade, iu the iron trade, in the cottou
irade, aud, abovo all, iu tho greatest
jf all our trades, the trade of agricul
ture—the margin of profit has entire
ly disappeared. Up to the present
time wages have not fallen at all iu
proportion, but if tho present stato of
things continues it is simply inevit
able either that wages will havo to bo
jonsiderably reduced or that works
will be closed, land will lie idle, and
the numbers of tho unemployed will be
largely increased. * * * I find
that there area number of people, aud
I think an increasing number, who,
under tho present conditions of trade,
are coming to tho conclusion that oui
free trade polioy lia3 been a failure,
and who would, therefore, be ready
togo back in tho direction of protec
tion.—Mr. Chamberlain on British
Depression in Trade.
Canadian Lumber Agency.
One of tho largest Cauadian lumber
dealers is about to establish an agenoy
in Pittsburg for tho sale of Canadian
lumber. This is one of the results of
the pauper tariff act which the Cleve
land Administration has lovled upon
the peoplo. Just how the introduc
tion of foreign lumber is going to
start up the American lumber interest
is just as foggy as the boom of Ameri
can wool by tho introduction of for
eign wool. Nobody but a Democratic
editor can explain it and nobody but
au ass belioro it. —Meadvillo (Peuu.)
Tribune Kepublican.
NO. 35.
1 ACTS FOR UfiJIOCRATS.
Tin Plate Truths for Free Trade
Fanatics.
Look here, you Democratic editors
and stump speakers!
A few short years ago you said tin
plate could not bo made in {his
country.
You ridiculed every plant that *as
established.
You said they were erected for cam
paign purposes.
You said it was all being done for
political effect.
You lied about the matter and de
ceived your readers and hearers.
You said tin plate was not thon
made and never would be made iu this
country.
Now what do you think of it?
There are now 156 tin plate mills in
operation or under construction in
the United States.
And there are more than fifty-eight
projected.
And now for some figures takon from
Democratic records.
The aggregato output of the mills
now and soon to be in operation is
80,000 boxes each per annum.
This means an aggregate output of
4,680,000 boxes in all.
When the projected mills aro com
pleted the total annual output will
reach 6,420,000 boxes, or enough to
supply the heme market.
That, Mr. Demoorat, is a result of
Republican protection.
It is a'result achieved in gpito of
Democratic falsehoods and sneering
predictions of failure.
It is a result of legislating in the
interest of America and Americans.
If thero were such a thing as shatne
in the Democratic party it would hang
its head at the growth of thi'j iufant
industry. —Toledo Blado.
That Rooster in Trouble.
One Month Only.
Lot us glance at the workings of
cho Gorman tariff during a period of
i mouth ouly. By comparing the de
jreaso in our exports for nine months
ending March 31 with our exports to
February 23, a month earlier, wo have
the following:
PErnEASE IX EXPORTS.
July 1. 1891, to— Value.
February 28, 1895 .ijfiJ.7lG,sW
March 31, 1893.. .... 79.066,314
It is clear that the month of March
ijave a loss, iu round numbers, of
§10,000,000 iu our exports over and
above the loss recorded up io Febru
ary 28, comparing the shipments of
American products and manufactures
for the curreut fiscal year with those
of the precoe.liag fiscal year. Carry
ing a similar comparison to our im
ports, wo iiul it to bo as follo.vs:
INCREASE IS IMPORTS.
July 1, 1894. to— Value.
February 28, 1895 *50.821,285
March 31,1895 ... • 54^655,413
Where the increase to February 2S,
1895, was nearly 000,003 more
thou in the corresponding mouths of
the previous liseal year, it was almost
81,000,000 larger by the end of March,
showing that our purchases of foreign
goods were 81,000,000 more costly to
us at the end of March than they
were at tho beginning of that month.
Thus the total mouey los 3 iu our
trade, both for exports aud imports,
during tho siuglo month of March
amounted to very nearly SII,OOO,OJJ.
The Result ot Protection.
Presidont Harrison paid off $296,-
000,000 of tho public debt and turned
over to Mr. Cleveland's Administra
tion 8124,000,000 surplus. Therewas
not a moment from the inauguration
of Mr. Harrison to succeed to the sec
ond inauguration of Mr. Cleveland in
which we did not collect for every day
of every year sullicient revenues to pay
every demand and obligatiou of tho
Government.—Governor McKiuloy.
The Principle the Sa'ne.
Democrats pretend to oppose tariff
and bounty, but we notice our lead
ing Democrats are right on han.l to
induce manufactures to locate here,
even if they have to put up a good
big bonus. We fail to soo a differeuco
in principle. Peabody (Kan.) Ga
zette.
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