SULLIVAN DHHK REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
We pay a million a year for im
ported potatoes.
They are going to erect a monu
ment in New England to the memory
of the man who discovered the Bald
win apple.
New York schoolmastors are urging
that children bo taught vertical hand
writing, as it encourages them to sit
up straight while writing.
Michigan people will have a chanco
to veto on a Constitutional amend
ment limiting tho right of suffrage to
thoso able to read and write.
It is notod in England that Lord
Rosebery, Mr. Balfour and Lord Elgin,
as well as Mr. Rhodes, who botween
them rule tho British Empire, aro all
men unflor fifty years of age.
The belt lino tunnel just opo&od
under Baltimoro was undertaken in
ordor to avoid tho transferring of
trains across tho Patapsco ltivor. It
is seven and a half miles long, being
ono of tho longest soft earth tunnels
ever driven.
Gladstono is a believer in tho theory
that a man can do better mental work
every year to extremo old ago if ho
takes enro of his body. Ho claims
that tho mind grows stronger and
elenrer as tho body loses vitality, and
that it is only discaso of tho latter
that can prevent an intellectual pro
gress that will go on to tho end. Ho
is certainly a good illustration of his
working theory, observes tho Argo
naut.
Tho Now York State Forestry Com
mission has recently mado provision
i'or a State park of somo 80,000 acres
in the heart of tho Catskill Mountains.
It will bo situated in a very beautiful
region in tho vicinity of Slido Moun
tain, tho highest peak of tho entiro
(Jntbkill range. This is a very popu
lous region aud may readily bo roachod
by the local railroad. The announce
ment will doubtless bo received with
great pleasuro by the many thousands
who makd this region their summer
home, thinks tho Chicago Timos-Hor
ald.
Thoro is groat exoitomcnt in Eng
land over tlio discovory that Birming
ham metal manufacturers havo been
engaged in making idols for oxport to
tho heathen Bubjccts of tho Quocu of
India. No doubt English onterpriso
nud skill can turn out a superior, as
well as cheaper, orticlo than nativo
workers iu motal can mnko. But it
seems to tho Boston Cultivator n
strango thing for a profeßsodly -Chris
tian Nation to thus aid and abet idola
ters in thoir dovotious. Perhaps tho
fact that money is made thcroby will
cover tho siu. It is money rather than
unything elso that servos as an idol to
millions who little suspect thcmsolvcs
of idolutrv."
Tho uso of tho bicycle is spreading,
Tho Rev. Henry Fa'rbank, a mission
ary of tho American Board in Bombay,
writes to tho New York Independent
that his touring lias boeu much facili
tated by a bicycle, which ho was on
ublud to purchase through tho kind
ness of friouds in Amorica. Wholo
villages turn out to eco tho "foot car
riage." Somo aro muoh astonishod at
tho speod of tho inaohine. Others
think ho ought togo much faster, and
frequently, whilo going along quietly,
men Bay: "Now, braco up; lotus
BCO what you can do." Ho is fre
quently asked whether tho propolling
power oomos from his foct or his
hands. Wherever ho goes ho finds
plenty of pcoplo willing to come and
liston to his preaching if thoy can only
catch a glimpsoof tho horso that needs
noithor grass nor grain.
Tho ooutcr of our population in
1700 was about twonty-throo miles
cast of Baltimoro; in 1810, about
forty miles northwost of Washington;
in 1820, about sixtoen miles north of
Woodstock, Va.; in 1830, about nine
teen miloa southwest of Moorofield,
W. Va. ; in 1840, sixtoen miles south
of Clarksburg, W. Ya.; in 1830,
twonty-throo milos south of Parkors
burg, W. Va. ; in 1800, twenty miles
south of Chillicothe, Ohio; in 1870,
forty-eight miles cast of Cincinnati;
in 1880, eight miles west of Cincinnati;
in 1890, twenty miles east of Colum
bus, Ind. Perhaps tho most remark
able feature iu this maroh is tho
direotness of its wostnrly progross. Iu
tho full century it has not varied half
a dogree from a duo wost dirootiou or
gouo ufftth or south of n belt about
twouty-flvo miles broad, l'ot in thla
century it ban moved norosu more than
uino meridian?, or a distance of 505
miles westward. .In comparison with
tho oentor of population wo may nolo
tho conter of nreo, which, oxHuding
Alaska, ia Ul tho northern part of
Kansas.
A SONG OF LOVETIME,
Here's a SOUR of lovetlme.
All the world is light,
There's a ripple on the rivor,
And suns and stars are bright.
Hero's a song of lovetlme.
All the world is sweet;
Ealnbows round the heavens-
Flowers nt your feet!
Here's a song of lovetlme,
Sorrow in ecllpsoj
Llttlo children climbing
To tho mother's leaning lips.
Hero's a song of lovotime,
Chorus of the birds,
Aud just tho sweetest musiii
To tho sweotest human words!
Hero's a song of lovetlme^
Ended all the strife,
Aud a heaven that is learning
With a swoct, etornat llfu!
—F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
A TERRIBLE REVENGE,
/*'' 1 i - " HE carriago was
lyT> going at a terrific
i<a!p<r pace. Tho horses,
unusually excited
" by the white wino
that had been
'poured over their
SoSi©! oats, das ho d
ft? through the air
/ J which whistled
JLffim past their ears.
Their hoofs rosounded loudly on the
hard frozen road. The two carriage
lnnterns tlione in tho night like the
glowing eyes of somo huge, prehistoric
monster.
The mad, furious course in the dark
ness had something strange about it,
something mysterious, sinister, and
all tho more so, perhaps, that it was
taking place in the aunee terrible—
the t< rrible year when tho Germans
wero in Alsace.
The carriage, like a vessel in dis
tress on a ragiug sea, oscillated from
left to right and from right to left.
When the vehicle, which had been
flying down the slopes of Ottrot, raced
through tho village, passing lilto nn
express train the houses with their
little low roofs, on which tho moon
cast a silvery light, tho good women,
suddenly frightened, made the sign
of tho cress with a trembling of tho
knees aud a whispered prayer.
"Hon Diett! What is going to be
come of us?"
Tho children crouched terrified
against the knees of the older persons.
Everywhere there was a sense of de
pression nud evil presentment and—a
characteristic sign of general terror—
tho fires in tho huge, whito stoves
wero allowed to sink low and go out,
for no one thought of keeping them
alive.
Tho fact was tho Prussians, for sev
eral weeks post, had been cruelly rav
aging the country.
The flying carriago contained some
Germnu oflleers, who wero tho bearers
of secret orders to S.
"Faster, faster," they cried, whip
ping up tho poor horses, which wero
already brcathiug firo and smoke out
of their nostrils. Tho wretched
driver, terrified, obeyed mechanically.
"Tonnerre!" ho growled, "my
horses will dio when they rench their
s'able if they do not break their necks
going round ouo of theso stecpcnrves I"
Aud the strokes of tho whip redoubled
and the dizzy course becamo still more
reckless.
The trees seomed to fly past. Na
ture herself protested agaiust tho
wild, headlong creer, for at this mo
ment tho moon hid her face behind a
cloud, as if she did n)t wish to bo a
witness to the scene. And ttill thoy
flew onward.
* # * ♦ * *
That afternoon tho onemy had taken
possession of the village of Ottrot,
aud, as their custom was, had installed
themselves in the people's houses.
Four superior ottbers wero domi
ciled with the Mayor. They sat there
in the middlo of his best drawing
room, talking loudly in their gutteial
jargon and smoking their long pipes
of porcelain while they dried their
boots at tho hot lire blaziug in tho
grate.
Their uuwilling host, atnll old man,
with a white beard, served them with
drinks as graciously as he could. His
eye passed sadly from ono to the
other, his venerablo head shaking
melancholy, as if to say : "It is the
right of (he strongest, what can ono
do agaiust a hundred?"
Perhaps his mind was dwelling on
tho past. Perhaps he was looking
forward to revenge. Thinking, it
may be, of tho time when his country
men, by ono of thoso spontaneous
movements that tho French alone are
capable of, would be victorious and of
fering mercy to these very officers,
his guests.
He raised his whito head in a ges
turo of defiance and his eyes shot
lircs. Ho seemed to have grown
twenty years younger, and this trans
figuration was evidence ol his tre
mendous intornal agitation.
Ho was recalled to tho present by a
gentle knock at the door and almost
immediately afterwards he saw in the
porch the tnl 1 , powerful frame of Lux,
who was the foreman of the Mayor's
servants aud a modern Hercules. Ho
was agile as a deer and strong as au
ox, nud cculd break a sou between his
fingers as he would break an egg
shell.
Tho neck of a bull roso out of a
flannel shirt, carelessly fastened across
tho throat by a cotton ucoktie. He
was a man terrible in anger, but in
repose gentle as a lamb and as docile.
"What is tho matter?"
"There is this the ipatter: another
officer wants to quarter himself upon
us here. Shall I strangle him?"
These words oomlug from such lips
made one shndder.
"Non, my old Lux, keep calm, that
Tould dp no good and would only
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1895.
bring worse npon us. Let him in;
he probably wishes to speak with hi?
colleagues."
Lux did as his master told him,
much against his inclination. It
would have given him such a huge
amount of pleasure to twist one of
thoso German necks with his great sin
ewy fingers.
The new arrival burst into the
drawing room. The four Prussian of
ficers uttered cries of surprise.
They rose at once, in a body, and
saluted with great respect the stranger
who had come to disturb their peace.
"Be seated and let us talk," 6aidthe
new arrival in German, and in a voice
of command.
"You will set out at once," he said,
"and take this sealod message to the
Princo of X , at S I" and he
drew out of the pocket of his long
military cloak, white with snow, a
lurge, white envelope, and handed it
( to one of tho officers.
"Go all four of you, and place your
selves at the disposition of the Prince.
Further orders will bo given to each
of you Inter. You must get horses
aud carriage and start at oncot Is it
understood? Thou hasten I"
Then, turning to the host, ho said
in French:
"Please accommodate these gentle
men with a carriage and two frosh
horses. General's orders!"
Lux, who had remained standing at
the door during this scene, anticipa
ted his master's reply.
"It is well, monsieur l'officier, you
shall be accommodated as you desire!"
He spoke in a peculiat tone of voice.
Only his master, however, noticed it.
A mad thought had been born in his
brain, something superhuman, pre
posterous. Any one who could have
read it in his mind would have been
chocked, terror stricken!
While a farm hand harnessed the
horses to the carriago Lux put a sad
dle on Barko, an Arab horse, a faith
ful animal which ho loved and cared
for himself with his own binds.
Ho spoke to it as he spoke to a
friend, and tho noble creatvro seemed
to understand. When Lux mouuted
into tho saddle he was trembling with
joy.
A mysterious dialogue seomed to
commence between tho man aud the
horse, which, suddenly sending the
sparks flying from benoath its four
feet, vanished into the darkness like a
phantom.
Barka, like somo great mythological
creature with wings, devoured space.
Her fiue, nervous legs hardly Bcemol
to touch the earth, aud Lux kept her
going at her utmost speed.
At leugth thoy stopped. Barka was
whito with foam and Lux covered her
frith his cloak. Ho did not feel tho
Cold,,for tho awful thought iu hisuiind
kept his wholo body warm and tiu
gliug.
"it is yonder,'' he said to himself
iu a deep-voiced growl, "it is thcro
that they are to perish."
At this point tho rood made a sud
den turn, and apparently canto to an
abrupt end. As a matter of fact, how
ever, it did not tcrmiuate, but con
tinued in a steep, terrible slope. On
tho right was a dark, mysterious wood,
and on the left a deep and dizzy preci
pice such as aro often seen by moun
tain roads.
Children were afraid to pass it by.
The Gulf of Death, as it was called,
had its legend. The old folk said
that it was within itj gloomy depths
tho monsters lived that ravaged the
country at night.
"If my calculations aro correct,"
said Lux iu a low voice, "they will ba
hero iu ten minutes."
He tied Barka to u tree stem on Ihc
border of tho wood, aud a strange
smile paised over his lips.
An extraordinary sccuo might then
havo been witnessed. Lux knelt down
in this solitary, accursed, haunted
spot in tho night time and turned his
faco to heaven. It looked like a sin
ncr asking forgiveness for his sim,
rather thin one planniug au awful
deed for tho satisfaction of his rago
and hate.
Not a sound was to bo heard in the
surrounding country. All seemed
dead or asleep. Only a murmur of
the wind in tho pines.
Lux placed his ear to the p ,
as tho Indians do in tho wilderness,
and hearing a faint sound of hoofa iu
tho distance striking tho hard road,
he raised his head. His face was
transfigured!
"At last I« shall have my ven
geance!" he hissed.
Then ho crouched dowu on his
hands and knees and waited.
A few seconds more aud tho car
riages with tho four German officers
wonld be upon him.
He uttered a terrible cry of "Vivo
la France!" to which Barka replied
with a joyful neigh.
Tho carriage, which had been ap
pronchiug at tremendous speed, came
to a sudden stop, as if arrosted by an ir
resistible force, aud romaiued there
staodiug.
Lux had not moved an inch. Ho
was not a man, but a stoue wall.
Ho made a last and supreme effort
ond raised himself upon his logs.
Thou with a terriflo heave he pushed
over tho dizzy briuk horses, carriage
and meu.
An awful noise rose ou tho still
ni {lit air ; a sound of crashing, cursiug
and horses screaming. Then there was
a sileueo, heavy, complete, tragio!
Tho man roso and peered over the
edge into the black gulf ol death. He
saw nothing. Thou ho sprang into his
saddle and disappeared liko a slut lo ,v
into the night.—From the French.
The Spanish "Footbath."
It is customary throughout Spain
for tho waiters at oafes to fill a glass
with wine or liquor BO that it over
flows upon the saucer. This custom,
in which it is desired to show an ap
pearance of liberality, is callod the
"footbath," —New York Dfnpi'.oh,
WOMEN TOILING IN IRON.
NEW DEPARTURE IN A PITTSBURG
ROLLING MILL,
An Experiment In Manual Laboi
That Cuts Out a New Field foi
the Enterprising Woman;
SIX sturdy women in Pittsburg,
Penn., are cutting out a line
of work for the sex that may
have interesting effects on the
wige-earning opportunities for men.
Up to this time when women Lave
boldly entered fields hitherto monop
olized by men those lines of work have
been chosen that call for comparative
ly little physical effort. Or, to put it
in another way, the ambitions of the
now womau aro intelleotual rather
than physical. In tho iron mills at
Pittsburg intelligent women are do
ing work which heretofore has bceu
done by men or strong growing young
fellows, "boys" they aro called.
Mrs. Hattio Williams was tho first
woman to mako tho experiment. She
is tho wifo of a hard working Welsh
man, a tinmokor by trade. She knew
something of the work before she be
gan, for she had seen women working
in the mills aud mines iu Wales. Her
example was soon followo.l by live
other women.
Tho labor at which these women
spend their time is termed "opening,"
and tho operators aro known as "open
ers." Tho duties consist iu separat
ing tho sheets of thin, rolled iron af
ter they loave tne rolls and preparing
them for tho process of tinuiug or be
ing soaked in molten tin. Iu rolling
out tho iron sheets from which tho tiu
plato is made, the block plate, after
being given one pass through tho
heavy rolls, is doubled and again sent
through, whon it is onse again
doubled, this being continued until,
whon the plato is finished, it is made
up of oight sheets. Theso sheets af
ter being sheared and thou gradually
cooled, aro separated or "opened."
The work is accomplished by blows
from a hammer on au iron instrument,
shaped liko a chisel. Onco this is
done tho plates goto the tinuiug de
partment.
This is tho only known instance
whero women have workod right in
among tho heavy machinery of the
sheot mills. To the women themselves
the labor is not disagreeable. Mrs.
Williams declared that she prefers the
work to scrubbing. It is not nearly
BO hard, she savs, and whilo it may
seem rough, it really is not except on
tho hands. In handling tho thin tiu
the fingers are often cut or torn by
sharp edges or ragged pointn.
Tho manager of tho Mouougahela
Tin Plate Company tarn that he lias
had considerable trouble with the boys
formerly employed. They would go
out on strike for sonic grievance, real
or imaginary. Not being able to em
ploy other young fellows to take tho
placos of tho boys on strik.o ho hired
tho women for an experiment, 110 is
satisfied so far.
President M. M. Garland, of tho
Amalgamated Association of iron and
Steel Workers, thinks tho innovation
will not result seriously for men.
"Thero is," said Mr. G.vrlaud to a
New York Press representative, "no
scale set for tho work those women
aro doiug. Wo do not consider that
it comes undor tho heal of skilled
work oud lieuco do not cover it iu our
agreements. I hardly thiuk that tho
employment of women as 'openers' is
likely to become general iu this c.mu
try for tho reason that thero aro lew
women HO situated domestically who
can find opportunity to do such work.
Tho work is so really unattractive that
it is hardly likely it will fird favor."'
The dress worn by tho women work
ing in tho tin mill differ* from the or
dinary working garb only iu the use
of a heavy leather apron to save the
clothes.
Tortoise Shell.
The tortoise shell is not tho bony
covering of tho turtle, but it is the
scales that cover or shield tho turtle.
Thero aro thirteen of theso 6calos,
eight of which aro flat aud five ara a
little curved. Four of the flat ones
aro large, being sometimes a foot in
length and seven inches in width.
The fishers do not kill tho turtles,
but whon thoy capture them they
fasten them and cover their backs with
dry loavos, to which thoy sot fire,
Wheu tho heat makes the scales separ -
ate, a large kuifo is inserted undor
tham and thoy arc carefully liftod
from tho backs of tho turtles.
Many of the poor turtles dio under
this cruel operation. The coatiug
sometimes grows again ou thoso that
livo, but when thov are again caught
it is found that ouly ouo scilo forms.
—Boston Commonwealth.
Xoblossc Oblige.
"Whow I" exclaimed Follairo—form
erly Rusty Rufus—after a longtheuod
consultation with his lawyer regard
ing certaiu investments. "I've douo
inoro hard work this uioruing than I
used to do in four years in tho good
old days. Whon I thiuk of tho sum
mer that's oorunig and tho fat lttuch
route covering two whole States that's
waiting for some other fellow to run
it, I'm dinged if 1 don't think that rich
old undo of miuo was in mighty poor
business when he died! I can't take
the road again now—that's certain.
Blamo it all, a man's got to sacrifice
something to his positiou I"
With a dismal sigh Fullaire went
out of doors, climbed iuto hit buggy
and drove aimlessly about towu, stop
ping now and thou to throw a silver
dollar at some greasy vagrant.—Chi
cago Tribune.
Mosaic floors, laid with email pieces
of different colored stones set iu regu
lar patterns, were kuowu to the Egyp
tians 2:110 li. C. Iu Babylon, tloors
vl I his Uiii-l dated from 1100 B. C.
WISE WORDS.
Duty is disagreeable.
Silence doesn't giro a cent.
Like father, like all fathers.
The pin is migntior that the pen.
Handsome is and handsome knows it.
Wo neod sorrow as the flowers need
night.
Don't aslc a mountaineer's judgment
of 6hell-fish.
Tho poorer the man, the richer his
imagination.
Our National anthem is the finest
song unsung.
Prosperity makes moro fools than
adversity docs.
"Youth comes but once," but
neither does old age.
"Pot call kettle black" and then
kettle call pot down.
130 wary in using your influence over
yourself, lest you lose your "pull."
Whosoever tells you what is said of
you, good or ill, relishes tho telling.
Dishonesty is constant in its appeal
that Justice bo tempered with Mercy.
When a woman knows sho is well
dressed it is difficult to ruftlo her tem
per.
Most people who cast their bread
upon the waters expect it to return to
them as pie.
Women ought to learn that matri
mony was never intended as a salva
tion for men,
Points From the White House Ijardcuer.
Tho hoad gardener of tho White
House, tho President's residence in
Washington, tells a reporter for one
of that city's papers some interesting
things about flower pots. Ho says, to
begin with, thut for uso iu tho
grounds and conservatories of which
he is in chargo from eight to ten
thousand new pots are required every
year. Thoy do not wear out, but thoy
get broken, and also decay from mois
ture gatheriug. Tho tiny littlo pots
about two inches iu diameter, which
are used to put littlo slips in, aro
called "thumb pots," and of these
35,000 to 40.000 aro needed in tho
beds about tho White House.
Flower pots are made everywhere,
and arc of two kinds, tho machine
mado and tho hand made. The latter
cost more, but last longer. All tho
potteries havo standard sizes, so that
whother tho pot is mado in Boston or
Philadelphia or somowhero elso tho
sizo of each pattern remains tho same.
In all sizes the depth of tho pot must
bo just equal to its diameter at tho
top. Sorno very large pots aro mado
measuring sixteen inches across the
top, with, of course, an equal depth.
Thoso hrff'expcnsivc, costing fifty-five
cents a piece, and aro used for big
palms and other largo plants. Thoy are
a great contrast to tho tiny two-inch
"baby" pots. Whoever mado tho first
flower pot had a good artistic eyo, for
tho dull red color which they all show
is a good tint togo with auy plant and
never seems to look out of placo.—
New York Times.
The Cost o! Living.
Although tho cost of living has boon
materially reduced iu most articles of
necessity and wages arc much higher
than they wero thirty years ago tho
majority of tho people aro but little
better oft' financially. The reason is
to bo found in the higher scale of liv
ing which has to bo mot to retain any
social position. Thirty years ago men
in moderate circumstances thought
themselves well oft' with living rooms
furnished pluinly aud simply, tho
chambers with enameled bedsteads and
chairs and plain linen and plated sil
ver throughout. This is all changed
and tho living rooms must copy as
closely as possible tho appurtenances
aud belongings of wealthy families.
Thero is no enamoled furuituro for
sale and whero rag carpets were for
merly thought good enough for or
dinary use there aro Brussels carpets,
imitations of imported rugs and all
sorts of useless bric-a-brao that runs
away with many u hardly earned dol
lar. All classes consume and enjoy a
great deal moro than they formerly
did, and everybody, rich, moderately
circumstanced or poor, wants moro
than ho formerly did. All classos
travel more frequently and longer dis
tances than they wero formerly ac
customed to. They have moro clothes,
more food, more finery, moro books
aud papers than their fathers had, but
they do not save as much as thoy did.
—Tho Engiucer.
Story of a Walkinf-stlok.
Rather a curious story has reached
tho London correspondent of tho East
ern Morning News about club thievos
in the West End. A member of a
well-known club iost a special stick,
which he valued highly, and which
had his name eugraved upon it. Some
one saw it in a shop a short timo af
terward aud told hiin about it. Ho
went to tho shop, and thero was his
stick. "I am just going to take tho
name oft for a customer," suid tho
shopman, when tho owner claimed it.
The customer was coming back shortly
for it. The owner waited ; tho mau
turned up—a member of tho sauio
club, a man tho owner knew. Ho be
came confused, was threatened with
exposure, aud accoptod the owner's
terms to avoid it—resignation of mem
bership and payment of $250 to a char
ity. Value of tho stick, $5.
A Famous Tapestry.
A piece ijf Berlin Gobelin tapestry
of the seventeenth century kept iu tho
Holienzolleru Museum has just been
repaired and hung iu tho Royal Palaoe.
It represents tho great elector at tho
siege of Stettin, is fifteen feet by
twelve, and is valued at 875,000. Tho
moth-oaten pieces wero roplaood by
new ones, and the tarnished silver by
new, in the Berlin factory.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
Terms—sl.oo in Advanoe ; 81.25 after Three Months,
PRISON-MADE GOOES.
CARLISLE IGNOIUSS THIS LAW
ON THE SUBJECT.
American Wage Earners Are En
titled to Know Why Ooods Made
Abroad by Convicts Aro Imported
to Tills Counlry'Contrary to Law.
A very interesting debate took
place in tho House of Commons a few
months ago upon tho importation of
prison made goods into tho United
Kingdom. The protection sentiment
existing amoug members of Parlia
ment was very marked, aud tho Gov
ernment endeavored to terminate tho
debate by counting out tho House, but
tho effort failed. It was a long time
before Mr. Brice, the President of the
British Board of Trade, responded to
tho taunts of those who desired pro
tection for Euglith labor. The sub
ject of his remarks was that it was im
possible to check the importation of
prison mado good?, because thero was
no method of proving what goods had
or had not been made by prison labor,
and tho Board of Trade had not
framed any regulations upon tho sub
ject. Referring to our own law to
check tho importation of foreign
prison mado goods into tho United
States Mr. Brycc said :
"do had taken steps to ascertain
what regulations the Secretary of tho
Treasury had made, and ho was in
formed that Lo had mado none."
(Laughter.)
For tho information of our Secre
tary of tho Treasury, Hon. John G.
Carlisle, wo quote Section 21 of the
Gorman tariff as follows:
"That all goods, wares, articles and
merchandise manufactured wholly or
in part iu auv foreign country by
convict labor shall not be entitled to
entry at any of the ports of Iho United
Slates, aud the importation thereof is
hereby prohibited, and tho Secretary
of tho Treasury is authorized to pre
scribe such regulations as may bo
necessary for the enforcement of this
provision."
American labor would liko to know
what regulations our Secretary of tho
Treasury has prescribed to enforce
this provision. Wo aro not aware,
and wo do not supposo Mr. Carlislo is
aware, to what extent foreign prison
made goods aro imported and sold in
our markets. The law, however, is
mandatory that they "shall not bo
entitled to entry at any of tho ports
of the United States."
During the debate in Parliament it
was stated that tho prison labor was
hired out to manufacturers and that
goods wero mado to which English
marks and labels wero nttaohod, tho
goods then being shipped to England
and sold in tho English markets. Un
doubtedly this is being done in our
own markets in the caso of dry goods,
brushes, buttons, coir mattings, etc.
As au instance, wo draw tho atten
tion of Secretary Carlisle to tho fact
that, from tho beginning of Septem
ber, 1894, up to tno end of February,
1895, during tho first six months'
operation of tho Gorman tarifl, our
imports of foreign brushes amounted
to §264,260.
Will Secretary Carlislo kindly ex
plain to what extent thesa brushes
were prison made? Will ho also ex
plain what regulations h» has pres
cribed tinder tho authority given him
by Congress to euforeo Section 24 of
tho present tariff' law. In ease the
Secretary of the Treasury has failed
"to prescribe such regulations as may
be necessary for tho enforcement of
this provision," will Mr. Carlislo bo
good enough to explaiu, for tho in
formation of American wage earners,
why he has failed to prescribe any
such regulations?
Chickens Come Homo to Roost.
A Louisiana correspondent tells us
that "some remarkably fino chickens
havo como homo to roost tliuyear."
The free trado policy is now bearing
fruit of tho heaviest kind in Louisiana.
Wages have been cut down from 30
to 40 per cent. ; sugar ha 3 sold at
prices below tho cost of production.
No money can be obtained for tho ex
penses incidental to the cultivation of
the next crop. Sheriffj and marshals
havo been busy selling out plantations
at unheard of prices.
A few cases in point aro tho Roso
hill plantation of 1200 atyes, with a
central factory which was erected dur
ing tho last bounty year at a cost of
over 8100,000 for tho now machinery
alone, tho wholo property, iuelndiug
factory, mules and tools, beiti# dis
posed of at a forced sale for $15,000.
Another plantation, the Marsh field, of
two thousand acres, with its largo
crop, with mules, tools, sugar house,
dwellings, laborers' houses aud numer
ous other buildings, were all sacrifice!
on tho altar of free trade for the sum
of 85600. At recent sales by tho
United States Marshal iu New Orleans
108 farms aud plantations havo been
gold, most of them improved home?,
at prices ranging from S'3o to $2 per
acre, soveral forty-acre far.in being
sold for $25.
Each day adds to tho long record
of ruin, and very mauy aro now feel
ing the effjot of what they themselves
havo helped to briug about. Surely
this terrible state of affairs will arouse
tho pooplo of Louisiana to shake off
thoso fetters that have bound them to
tho party of l'roo trade, which is
directly responsible for all theii
woes.
Freedom Front Labor, Too.
Tho Democratic party is always for
something free. It has advocated free
whisky and free trade, aud of course it
must next dccluro for free silver. The
only thing which the Democrats did
not want free was tho negro.—Cleve
land Leader.
NO. 36.
A Vital Point.
There is ono point in the whole dis
cussion that wo mast not lose sight of,,
namely, that whatever the causes of
the draining of our Treasury of its'
gold, they can have nothing whatever'
to do with the fact that, under the 1
new tariff, tho inoome -of the Govorn-'
ment is not sufficient to meet its ex
penses.
In other words, it i<3 being demon
strated that the lowering of duties has
not increased the amount of imports
to anything liko tho figures that wero
expected.
What does this show?
That the peoplo have no purchasing
power, and when that is the case they
cannot buy, never mind how cheap
things are.
And why have they no purchasing
power?
Because so many are out of work,
and because even those that are at
work have had to put up with heavy
reductions in wages.
It all eomes down, therefore, to thatj
first principle, that if want greati
National prosperity we must do every-!
thing in our power to provide work!
for everybody at high wages, to up
hold—and constantly increase—the'
purchasing power of the masses, fori
without that wo may pass all the tariffl
laws and financial measures we like;'
we can goon indefinitely issuing
bonds; it will all ultimately end in
just one way—the individual will bo
just as unable to make both ends meet
as will bo the Government of tho Na
tion of which ho is a oitizen.—John
C. Freud, in Music Trades.
Tliat Dollar Wieat.
Iliiy American Cutlery.
A liftlf year's operation of tho tariff
reform free trade bill gives interesting
statistics regarding our imports of
foreign cutlery, which were as follows :
VALUE OF IMPORTS OF CUTLERY.
September 1 to March 1.
1894-95. 1893-94. Increase.
$1,030,003 *393,082 $080,913
During tho first six months ending
February 28, 1805, we bought from
other countries over 81,000,000 worth
of cutlery, as compared with less thau
SIOO,OOO worth during tho correspond l
ing six months a year earlier. Tho
actual increase was $086,913, which is
at the rate of 51,373,880 a year.
We do not bolievo that tho im
proved condition of trade will create
a demand for this excess over anil
above the full amount of our own
cutlery factories. If it does not thero
must be a glut in the market —a sur
plus of cutlery, which will result later
on iu lower prices, so that manufac
turers and importers can exchango
their stocks for money. If this bo
not done tho surplus stocks will in
crease. The workers in our cutlery
factories know what this means.
If tho manufacturers are stocked up
with moro cutler}' than there is a mar
ket for, they must close down and tho
hands 1 hey employ must bo idle. If
tho foreign cutlery secures the trade,
then our manufacturers must either
Khut up shop or reduce their espouses
in somo way. Tho only way in which
this can be done is by reducing wages.
The outlook is not a bright ono for
those who work in our cutlery facto
ries.
Johnnie's Nest Egg. -
Free Trade, Free Farms.
Efforts are being made in tho direc
tion of establishing free farms in Eng
land, tho idea being to employ tho
largely increasing number of paupors
in that free trade country to at least
raise food enough fro,m the soil that
would pay for tho cost of thoir owu
maintenance. This is the result of tho
long experienced free trade iu that
country. But hero in tho United
States we are reaching the same re
sult much more quickly. It is less
than three years ago that tho lirst
threat of free trade was assured us,
yet in tho immediate vicinity of New
York tho use of land has been given
for precisely tho same purpose—to
support pauper labor in this country.
When tho McKiulcy tariff was in fall
force a few years ago wo had no pau
per labor, but the result of tariff re
form compels tho free, use of land, af
ter being plowod free of cost, to en
able those who are free from labor,
through our free trade tariff, [to en
deavor to got food enough out of tho
soil to keep themselves from starving.