SULLIVAN JHKFTJI REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
Tho returns from an acre of beets
in Germany are S4O while that from
wheat and other cereals only S2O.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt an
nounces tho intention of the British
Government to stand firmly on the
gold basi?.
The shore of land falling to oaoh in
habitant of tho globe in tho event of
a partition might bo set down at twen
ty-three and n half acre?.
"This age is prolific is striking
phrases," says the Christian Standard.
"We have had 'the masses' and the
'submerged tenth,' and now wo hear
tho expression 'the unreached major
ity-'"
It is now stated by science that in
digestion i3 caused by a microbe.
This discovery, tho Washington Star
remarks, makes tho microbo responsi
ble for every known inconvenienco '
except tho overhead trolley and hard
times.
Marion Crawford, tho American
novelist, recently delivered at Sor
rento, Italy, an addroes on Tasso at
the celebration of thothreo hundredth
anniversary of the groat poet's death.
This address, which was in Italian,
was noteworthy, observes tho Sau
Francisco Chronicle, because Craw
ford ileclarod that tho influence of
Tasso's workß could be traced in tho
writings of ihrco famous English poets
—Milton, Byron and Wordsworth. Per
haps Crawford's best point was his
claim that we should never have had
"Paradise Lost" had not Milton loved
and studied Tasso's "Jerusalem De
livered."
Chicago is after tho trade of tho
South, notes the New Orleans Pica
yune,tho importance of which it is just
beginning to realize, and moans to
grab for it with both hands. A largely
attended meeting of railroad and busi
ness men was held in that city a few
days ago to discuss ways and means of
securing the Southern trade, and ono
of them said that if the people inter
ested iu the ilifi'orent sections of the
South—and by the South ismcantthe
oonntry lying south of tho Ohio and
east of tho Misuissippi—could have an
understanding with tho various trans
portation lines, and somo efforts in
tho direction of unity and a common
interest could be reached, largo results
would necessarily follow. Mr. Stono
is enthusiastic on tho subject, and a
vigorous pusher. J. S. Buckley ex
pressed himself in similar language.
In his opinion tho tido of immigration
was sooc to move southward, and tho
southern section of this country would,
iu a very near future, occupy rela
tively tho same position as that held
by the great Northwest in tho past.
New Orleans is the proper and natural
distributing point for tho larger part
oi this grand territory, but she will
liave to bestir herself and improve her
methods if sho wants to hold her own.
The system of kindergartens re
cently established on somo of tho
Indian reservations lias proved eo suc
cessful that it is soon to bo widely ex
tended, especially in tho Southwest.
The Indian children there aro un
usually shy. Under tho influence of
the kindergarten games they have
been found to rapidly lose this shy
ness and reticence, and to becomo
friendly with each other and with
their teachors. A number of new day
schools will also soon bo opened iu
that part of the country. It has been
found best to educate the children as
fur as possible in kindergartens, rather
than in boarding schools. After a
time those whose cases seem advis
able can bo transferred with little op
position from their parents,who prob
ably would have objected strongly if
the children had been taken away to a
boarding school at tho outsot. The
principal work of the schools at pres
ent is in the line of industrial educa
tion. The girls ure being taught cook
ing. sewing, washing clothes and the
like, and the boys plowing, tilling,
tending cattle and using tools, rather
than even reading and writing. They
learn English with considerable ease,
but have no inherited aptitude for
mathematics. Indians have very little
appreciation of numbers, being fa
miliui only with addition and sub
traction. Some of tho Indians have
reached a high degree of proficiency,
and the Indian Office is daily receiving
applications from ludiau girls, who
havo been graduated from high sohools
for positions as teachers. Places are
found for some, but not many, aud
tho remainder usually return to their
tribes and relapse iut. their formei
ways of life. Superintendent W. H.
Hailman, of the Indian schools, is very
anxious to find positions for more of
these girls iu nearly any class of work.
He says they make excellent servants,
and he would like to hear from any
one willing to employ them.
WHICH ARE YOU?
Tlioro aro two kinds of people on earth to
day,
Just two kinds of people, no moro, I say.
Not tho siunor aud saint, for 'tis well under
stood
Tl>« £:« d aro half bad, and the bad are
half good.
Not tho rich and tho poor, for to count a
man's wealth
You must first know tho state of his con
science and health.
Not tho humble and proud, for in life's little
spau.
Who puts on vain airs is not countod a man.
Not tho happy aud sad, for tho swift flying
yours
lJring each man his laughter and each man
his tears.
No; tho two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the poople who lift, and tho people who
Jean.
Wherever you go, you will ilud tho world's
musses
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And oddlv enough, you will flud, too, I
wean,
There is only ono lifter to twenty who lean.
Iu which class are you? Are you easlug tho
load?
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?
Or aro you a leaner. win lets others bear
Your portion of labor aud worry aud caret 1
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox, iu Harper's Weekly.
THE FAlft BICYCLIST.
fl'S quite useless
waiting for me,
Fred. It will
take at least an
hour to overhaul
my machine and
adjust those con
founded bear
ings. You'd bet
ter ruu onto St.
Albaus and order
u rattling good
dinner for two at
tho George. By
tho time it's
ready I shall be
with you again."
"It will be bet
ter than hanging
about here when
- Icondonogood,"
I agreed. "It was a nasty spill, and
you may think yourself lucky to have
got off with nothing worse thau a few
bruises uud a little delay. 'Pou my
word, I was afraid our tour was al
ready at an end. Trust to me, Harry,
old follow, to havo ull ready for the
iuuer man."
"Aye, I'll trust you for that," ro
torted my cyclist cliu-tn, Harry Holmes,
as I gripped the handle-bar of my ma
chine. "And not having to listen to
your edifying remarks concerning my
appearuuee, I shan't, perhaps, be so
long repairing dumages us you
think."
With this frienßy pieco of parting
bauter to spur me on, I pressed the
pedals in earnest, and the next mo
ment was speeding along the high
road to St. Albaus, distant some six
miles.
It was a bright, bracing morning,
aud a sharp spin at my own pace was
undoubtedly preferable to sitting
smoking ou a bauk, watching my un
lucky friend tinkering with a spanner,
and listening to alternate giowls at
treacherous roads aud all such misfor
tunes as side slips.
I hud traversed half the distance,
when rounding a curve iu tho road I
observed a lady cyclist a short' dis
tance ahead. Apparently something
hod gone wrong with her mount, for
sho was standing with it propped up
by the side of the road, and was view
ing surrounding objects with an air of
evident dejection.
True to the spirit which prompts
every cyclist to help another in dis
tress, I slackened speed, and as I drew
nearer noticed that the lady was both
young and pretty—a discovery which
at once mude my impressionable heart
hope that she might be glad to avail
herself of my services in some way or
other.
My wishes in this respect were
speedily gratified, for as I dismounted
and politely inquired if anything had
gone wrong with her machine, the
young lady's face became sufiused with
the most winning of smiles.
"Oh, thank you, so very much, sir,"
was the response, spoken without the
slightest trace of frigidity. "I must
confess that I'm in a wretched fix.
Tho handle-bar of my machiue has
become loose, and I haven't a tool of
auy description that will tighten up
the nut. And to make matters worse,
my brother, Mujor Gwynue, has lost
me—or, I suppose, I havo lost him;
and I'm afraid he liasu't tho least idea
that my plight is such a bait ono."
"Oh, we'll very soon set things
right," I said, reassuringly, and the
look of gratitude bestowed upon mo
madu me think 1 had nevor before met;
with so charming or so handsome a j
girl as this Mis 6 Gwynue.
Whipping out my spanner, I ad- 1
justed it, and prooeeded to tighten up ■
the loose nut of the steering-bar. I
noticed that tho young lady's machine I
was anything but a good one. In faot, :
I was quietly telling myself what an
inferior and old-fashioned mount it
was for so winsome and apparently
well-to-do a rider, when, to my dis
may, tho screw broko short off, and
the nut attached to it rolled in the
road.
"Now, here's a pretty go!" I blurlo.l
out, reddening with miugled confu
sion and vexatior. "Whatever shall
we do now, Miss Gwynne?"
"Oh, I'm sure I don't know,"was
tho reply, uttered in tones of conster
nation, which almost overwhelmed me,
and made me call myself everything
the reverse of complimentary. "Anil
it must be at least twenty miles from
home, too: and my brother will, I am
LAPOHTE, PA., FHIDAY, JULY 19, 1895.
Quito certain, never troufcis himself to
tnrn back 1o look lor mo. He'll sim
ply keep on driving ahead. But,
there, 1 suppose he is just like other
brothers—quite useloss as escorts."
For my own part I felt deidedly
pleased nt the prospect of the broth
er's continued absence.
"Well, l'vo landed you in this
scrape, and you must allow me to see
you out of it, that's all."
Secretly I began to feel rather glad,
as I perceived what a very pleasant
duty had suddenly devolve! upon me,
and for tho time, at all events, my
chum Holmes was quite forgotten.
"But what can either of us do? You
can't pick me up and give me a ride.
Yours isn't a bicycle built for two,
you kn ow," and the young lady laughed
with such perfect good humor that I
felt quite at my easo again.
"I sincerely wish it was, for once,"
I returned, boldly, and then, as sho
turned a pair of bright, laughing eyes
upon me, I blushed at my unusual
temerity, tho while I was growing
positively eager to become the slave
of this fair cyclist.
"I can only suggest," I added,
"that OH you aro for from home, you
will allow mo to see you to somo hotel
while I try to get a new bolt and nut.
Possibly you can toll mo of a likely
place to put up for on hour or two, as
I am a stranger about here. I can
easily manago to wheel your machine
and my owu along."
Somewhat to my surprise, however,
Miss Gwynue was visibly embarrassed
by my proposition.
"There's one great objection to such
a thing," she said, after a pause. The
fact is, Dick—l mean my brother,
Major Gwynne —has left me without a
peuuy in my pocket." Sbo colorod
up charmingly at the confession, and
went on : "Of course, he doesn't know
tbat, and it's my own fault. 1 often
go out without bringing my purse,
but I declare I never will agaiu."
She gavo a little laugh, as if to con
ceal her vexatian, and added: "And
so I can't accept your kind sugges
tion."
"On tbo contrary," I returned, moro
eagerly still, "it is tho greater reason
why I shouldn't desert you, especially
as your predicament is entirely duo
to my carelessness. You Jon't know
how annoyed I am at having rendered
your machine useless, and, under the
circumstances, I feel in honor bound
to repair tho mischief, and if you will
afford me the happiness of sooing you
made comfortable, I can, no doubt,
very soon got your mount put right."
Miss Gwynue hesitated, and I flat
tered myself that she seemed in no
way averse to my company. Cer
tainly I was making a very favorable
impression upon her.
"Ob, but if I allow you to spend
anything upon me it must only bo as
a loan. No, please don't interrupt
that must be distinctly understood.
My brother must, and will, bo only
too happy to settle with you. Be
sides," the girl contiuued, with a
smile, "whatever would he say to me
if 1 allowed a perfect stranger to spend
money upon me?"
"He'd say it served nie right for my
carelessness. But you will allow me,
then, to see you made comfortable
somewhere while I try to repair
damages?"
"Really, 1 don't see what else I can
do, under tho circumstance," was the
auswer, with a little sigh, as of regret.
TheD, with a light laugh aud in a
mock-menacing tone, sho added : "Oh,
but won't 1 make it warm for brother
Dick when we meet! A deal ho cares
about me. You see, he husu't oven
troubled to ruu back to find out
whether l'vo bruiteu my neck or not
—aud, between you and mo, he hates
the idea of lost grouud. But let us be
moving, Mr.—Mr.—"
A little hesitation, some apparent
embarrassment, ono half-shy glance at
me, and my heart was no longer my
own. I knew I was, oven already,
niadly in Jovo with pretty Miss
Gwynue.
"Fred Brandon—quite at your ser
vice. "
"Well, Mr. Brandon, there's a turn
ing half a mile down the road which
will take us to just the place we want.
Then you will be able to ruu onto St.
Albaus to got what you need for my
machine. There's no place nearer,
and I'm afraid you will bo very glad
when you have done with such a very
troublesome compauiou as I am prov
ing."
"On the contrary, quito a pleasant
interruption to my journey," I
gallantly ventured, and I really
thought that Miss Gwvnne was the
most charmiug and unconventional
girl I had ever met. In fact, wo
presently reached the inn she iiad
spoken of all too soon to suit my newly
awakened emotions.
I found, on inquiry, that I could
roaoh St. Albaus quicker by taking
somo short cuts across the fields than
by riding round tho roud, and so I de
termined to leave my machino at tho
inu. As for poor Harry, I was by
this time uttorly oblivious of his ex
istence.
Looking in upon Miss Gwynue be
fore leaving the house, I found her
already enjoyiug an appetizing repast
I—a sight which momentarily gavo me
i some qualms of conscience concerning
; the dinner I had promised my chum
should be ready for him by tho time
he reached tho George.
"Pardon me, Miss G wynne," said
I, "I haven't had a chance to settle
with the landlord yet, and ho may
look for payment before i cvj return.
Except for a few copper?, this note, as
it happens, is tho smallest amount 1
have about me; so pray accept it us
the loan which you say you will iusist
npou you brother. Major Gwyn to, rj
turning."
I delicately placed a JES noto upon
ihe table, and then blushiug furiously
ut the rather curious look aocorded
me—which i recalled soon afterward
—I hastened from tho room.
Having prooured what I wuuto 1 in
St. Albans, I was back well under the
two hours. Of Miss Gwynne, how
over, I could see no trace.
"Oh, tho lady went soon after you
left, sir," said the landlord, in answet
to my interrogations. "Sho said
said you'd know whioh way she'd
gone, and she would take her brother's
ioycle, as you'd arranged to come
back for hers and to settlo up with
me."
"What!" I fairly gasped, "gone off
on my machine—said I was her broth
er? And left me to settlo up? Why,
what on earth aro you raving about,
man ?"
"Ain't raving at all," snapped tho
landlord, oyoing me suspiciously.
"But—but—l hope it's all right.
Sho-"
"Hope it's all right," I interrupted
furiously. "It's all wrong. If sho
said I wes hor brother—and gono ofl
with my almost new 20-guinoa mount,
and my £5 note, too! Oh, yes, it is
all right for her, no doubt, and a very
clever swindler that girl must be.
That muchinc she's loft behind isn't
worth tho price of old iron. And you
let her slip away under your very
nose I"
I could hardly repress a groan as I
saw how neatly I had been deceived,
for I felt very hard hit both in pocket
and vanity—especially the lattor. My
mortification, moreover, was no doubt
commensurate with the knowledge of
what a thorough fool I should appear
to everybody.
"Well, it's your own fault, sir,** tho
landlord retortod, gruffly. "If you
let the girl soft-soap you down like she
seems to havo done, you'vo got no one
but yourself to blame. And it's my
belief that she ain't a girl at all, but a
chap dressed up as such, so as to
swindle gents easier. I had my doubts
when she left, but now I'm sure. Ten
to one you've been dono by a young
follow called Dan Ford, a clever bi
cycle thief, much wanted by tho po
lice iu these parts. He's better known
as Dolly Ford, because he makes such
a good looking girl when ho drosses
up. You ain't tho first gent as he's
swindled in just this same way. I
daresay he'd no sooner got out of
sight of this place than he ussuracd
his true character, and by this time
your bicyclo has put him miles out of
reach, aud maybe it's already sold."
To learn that I had been ignobly
duped by u common bicycle thief
maddened me still more ; but tho only
consolation I had was iu wishing ull
sorts of dreadful things toward tho
pseudo-Major Gwynno's sister.—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Prehistoric Footprints.
An Austrian student, Ilcrr Low,
who has been traveling in Central
American, has recently obtained aud
forwarded to the Imperial Museum in
Vienna twelve large stone slabs bear
ing footprints iu the solid rock. The
slabs wero taken from the quarry over
Luke Managua, in the territory of
Nicaragua. These footprints had
been overlaid by eleven different lay
ers of stone, extending to u depth of
four metres, and indicating an anti
quity for our race quite transcending
all coujoctures hitherto hazarded.
They are about three-quarters of a
metre square aud are sutik into the
stone to a depth of from eight to ten
ceutimetres. The footprints are said
to be very conspicuous and seem to be
those of three distiuct persons, one ol
whom was a child, lo what race or
to what ago they belonged no one yut
has ventured to guess.—New Orleuus
Picayune.
The Sunflower.
Some mouths ago wo called atten
tion iu this columu to the wonderful
productiveness and profit iu cultivat
ing this plant which grows independent
of drought or rain. We now take
pleasure inquotingtho following from
the Boston Transcript:
D. Cone, a South Dakota farmer,
will this year plant 100 acres of Hus
sion sunllowers. Tho yield is from
thirty to forty bushels per acre, aud
the seed produces about one gallon of
oil per bushel. The oil is high-pricod,
and is what is known as the nearest
approuch to the oil of olive. After
the oil has been extracted the seed
meal makes a good cake for cuttle uu.l
horse feed, much superior, in fuct, to
that made from the llax. Theu the
stalks, which will number about 13,000
to the acre, will yield five to six cord
of fuel about equal to wood, and worth
in the neighborhood of sls per acre."
—Atlanta Constitution
A Small Uuy's (Jaf.l Memory.
One of tho dentists of this city has a
precocious child of about four sum
mers. The bright little fellow keeps
his fathor aud mother wideawake dur
ing the whole day by his wit and koeu
ness. When the child was about two
years of ago his parents visited Ni'
agara Falls. B.iby went aloug. The
other day a friend of tho family was
at the house, uud she spoke of Niagara.
The four-year-old quickly spoko up
that he had been there. His mother
told him that ho certainly could not
remember it, but the child said that he
conld. His mother asking him what it
looked like, Johuuio replied: "It
looks like u grout big ocoun going aw
ful fast."—Albuuy (V. Y.) Journal.
Uses of the I.i'lien.
The lichen's most importuut func
tion Beeins to be to beautify the land
scape, though somo tiny ones are util
ized by mother humming-bird to
cover tho outside of her nest, in order
to couoeal it as much as possible. Iu
Icelaud tho lichen called Iceland moss
is gathered every year by tho boys and
girls. It is boiled iu milk and eatcu.
fanny Bergen, iu her little book on
"Plaut Life," tells us that the Indians
gnided themselves through, the track
less forests by observing ou which
sides of the irees tho lichens grew
thickest, thoso being tho northern
sides.—St, Nicholas.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Electrical mechanism has been in
troduced for opening and closing the
new Van Bnron bridge in Chicago.
An inoandescent lamp gives off
about one-tenth tho heat of equivalent
gaslight, and an aro light about one
fiftieth.
In Copenhagen, Denmark, last year
16.28 per cent, of the animals whioh
entored the slaughter houses wero
found to be tuberculous.
By means of compressed air, water
can be lifted from a well of any rea
sonable depth without working parts
of any kind being placed in the well.
A prize of 8200 has been offered by
tho Bologna Academy of Scienoes for
the best system or apparatus for pro
venting or extinguishing fires by
chemical, physical or mechanical
means.
Some recently granted patents for
woaving machinery have been put into
such practical shape as to justify tho
prediction of an imponding revolu
tion in tho economics of the art of
weaving.
A novel suggestion is~a houso of
steel skeleton frame construction, with
walls and partitions of fire-proof til
ing. Such a house, it is said, will bo
cool in summer aud warm iu winter,
besides being fire-proof.
Opaline laminee is a new vitrified
material which can be made into plates
of any size and used for deoorativo
tiles. It is made from fifty-four per
cent, of silica, thirty-nine per cent,
of barytu and seven per cent, of soda.
Standard motors for stroet railway
work are now designed to give a
twenty-foot car, loaded, a speed of
from tweuty to twenty-two miles an
hour on a level, and to develop their
full rated capacity at a spaed of ten
miles an hour.
Much of the success of tho new gas
engine boats is duo to the atomizer by
which tho gasoline is dividod aud
mixed with tho air previous to igni
tion. For lighting, an electric spark
produced iu the interior of the engine
is used. Tho absence of a constantly
exposed flame is also a decided ad
vantage.
A new use has been found for tho
electric search-light. In Connecticut
u woman and child recently disap
peared, audit was believed u murder
hod been committed. Two electric
search-lights of 3000 caudle-power are
being used in the examination of the
swamp where the bodies aro thought
to be hidden.
A Frog in the Elephant's Trunk.
Jess, the big elephant belonging to
Sells & Bentfrow's circus, was slumber
ing quietly ou the ground in the
mouagerio tent at Salt Lake City,
Utah, when a frog, mistaking the
nozzle of hor trunk for a holo iu the
ground, jumped into it. Nothing sj
terrorizes an elephant as tho prosonce
of a live insect or anitnul in its trunk,
aud tho big brute broko loose and
went on a rampage.
The keepers wero eating thoir lunch
at the time, aud the mouagerio tent
was entirely deserted. A great crash
was heard, and the men rushed back
just in time to see Jess go through the
side of the tent and amble off toward
tho business centre of tho city. A
scene of wreckage was presented
within the tent. The big brute had
brokeu her chain, apparently, and
amused herself by tossing the cages
about before leaving. Four caget:
were thrown over on their sides as
though they were so many toys, and
then theelephaut walkedright through
tho side of tho tent. The cages were
those containing tho badgers, hedge
hogs, monkeys and kangaroos, but
fortunately none of the animals were
injured aud very little damage was
doue to tho wagons.
Fifteen mounted men were sent in
pursuit of the elephant. Jess catnc
straight down town and astonished the
few pedestrians on tho street by pro
menading up aud down Main street,
occasionally strikiug tho curb with
hor trunk and uttering cries of dis
tress.
Mr. Sells was with the men who
overtook hor, and soon discovered tho
causo of her discomfort. By x~
pressing tho trunk tho frog wiy»' d
down, and finally blown oy' J
elephant. She then bocutu/ and
was tukeu back to tho t-
Republican.
Appearance of the Musk-Ox.
Tho appearanoo of the musk-ox is so
odd and strikiug that when once scon
it is seldom forgotten. You see an
obloug mass of tremendously long
brown hair, four aud a hulf feet high
by six and a hulf long, supported upon
wide hoofs and very short, thick legs,
almost hidden by the body hair. There
is also a blunt. aud hairy muzzle, a
pair of eyes, a pair of broad, flattened
horns thut part like a woman's hair
and drop far downward before they
curve upward—and that is all. Tho
mass of hair is so thick that as tho
robe lies on the floor it is about as
easy to walk over us a feather bed.
Over tho loins you will find, if you
look closely, abroad "saddle-mark" of
dirty white hair, sho.-ter than the rest
of tho Cout.
Next to the body is a matted moss
of very fine aud soft hair, like clean
wool, so dense thut to snow and fog it
is quito impenetrable. Over this lies
a thick coat of very long, straight
hair, often twelve inches iu length and
sometimes twenty, like the grass raiu
coat of a Japanese soldier. Sometimes
it actually touches the snow as the
animal walks.—St. Nicholas.
Chinese Wisdom.
A Chinese proverb says: "Let every
man sweep the snow from his own
doors and not trouble himself about
the frost in his neighbor's tiles."—
Tho Scotchman.
Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months,
FIGURE JUGGLERY.
A NEW YORK EDITOR TOPS
MOUNT MENDACITY.
Official Figures Expose the Inven
tion of a Humbug—Wild State
ments Swept Away by Solid Facts
—Democratic Methods of Decep
tion Exposed.
The editor of tho Now York Even
ing Post is never so unfortunato as
when ho writes upon the tarifl ques
tion. Mr. Godkin's recent silence iu
this direction had almost led tis to
believe that ho was beginning to com
prehend the vastness of his ignoranca
upon this subject. As a juggler and
falsifier of figures Mr. Godkin's ability
is so well known that it hardly needs
fresh confirmation, but it is well to
point out that his most recent offorts
to uphold the existing "tariff reform"
measure was entirely devoid of the
slightest semblance of fact or veracity.
This Baron Munchausen of the "tariff
reform" party says:
"That under the MoKinley tariff
tho importations of woolen goods wore
greater than under tho present tarifl.
If a schedule of exportation? of
woolens were made up for the corre
sponding periods, they would probably
show a contrary result—that is, larger
exportations now than then.''
Mr. Godkin was too lazy to add to
gether each month's figuros of our im
ports and exports, but ho published
an imaginary half year's imports
simply by cutting in hulf the returns
of our imports for tho year ending
Juno 30, 1892, comparing theru with
our imports of woolens during tho six
months en ling February 28, lS„r,
which latter wero given at $17,383,-
'292. Mr. Godk ; "ouieutly forgets
to tell his readflv his turiff re
form rates on 'annfaotures
did not tako effeot . 1,
1895, and that during v. months
only, ending March 31, 18i/5, our im
ports of all woolon goods reached $16,-
200,500 as follows:
TBEASCBY DEPAUTMENT VALUES OK GOIIMAN
TAIUFI IMPOSTS Oi' WOOLEN MANUFACTURE!}
aoons.
For three months
January. February an 1
Article. March, 1895.
Carpets ami carpenting $173,537
Clothing, readv made etc 315,852
Cloths. 7,409,010
t)p-ss goods, women's aud chil
dren's.... 0.793.123
Kuit fabrics. 205,'.13"i
Shawls Oi»,'J27
Varus 605,978
All other 490.097
Total is 16,200,5W
Godkiu llgures, six m jutlis i > V ■ -
ruary 23,1895. *17.333.292
Tho forogoiug statistics tint wa
give in detail aro take a fro'.u tho
monthly reports of the Bureau of Sta
tistics of the Treasury Department,
the totals for oaoh month—January,
February and March—being added to
gether. Godkin was too lazy to do
this, but forced a balance for half of
a year that is not yet en led. Whether
»mong his other imaginary talents he
Amj F F\IVR^A
m w' m
deems himself to havo been git'tel by
the Almighty with a forekuo .vie Ige oi
onr trade in foreign woolen go > l<, or
whether ho has receive I alvatioo in
formation from his English friou 1< ui
to the extent of their export! during
the ooming mouth", wo ure unable to
Bay, but people will be inciiue l ratlur
to rely npon tho statistics o' t'a.s
Treasury Department than upon a ly
divvy of au imaginary "year's iiu;>.no
tations by two" that E litor Go.lkiu U
pleased to juggle.
As tho present tariff ou woo'.oa
manufactured goods took eft jet only
on January 1 last, therefore a proper
comparison of its workings with the
McKinley tariff can only be institute I
by showing the value of our iai.iortt
of foreign woolen goo Is during tin
earlier months of the McKinley tarid,
immediately subsequent to its pass
age, taking *he same number of
months directly after the passage of
the Gorman tariff. Those imports wo
give from Octobor 1 to December 31,
1890, immediately after the euactmeu«
of the McKinley tariff, adding thereto
NO. 41.
a line showing the value oi tbo im
ports daring the first three months of
the Gorman tariff, and also appending
the Qodkin divvy computed from our
imports of a year that has not yet end
ed, divided by two:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT VALUER OF M KINLKV
TARIFF IMPORTS Of WOOLKN MANUFAC
TURED GOODS.
For Three Months
October. November aud
Article. December, 1890.
Carpets unil carpeting $330,032
Clothing, ready mnde 395,650
Clot lis . 2,248.740
Dross goods 3,708,702
Kuit fabrics 127.743
Shawls 127.878
Yarns , 159,881
All others 1.023,703
Total 48,122,335
Gorman tariff, tliron months' im
liorts, January Ito Marrli 31.
1895 fin.2oC.sofl
Goilkin liifures. six months t. Feb
ruary 28, 1895 $17,888,29?
A comparison of the figures of the
Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury
Department shows that our imports
of foreign woolen goods under tho
first three months' operation of tho
Gorman tariff reached $16,200,500, as
against imports wortU only $8,132,335
during the first throe mouths' opera
tion of tho McKinley tariff. Under
tariff reform, in three mouths, wo
havo bought double tho quantity of
woolen goods from Editor Godkin's
foreign friends, who, no doubt, will
appreciate the effort made ou their
behalf in the issue of the Evening
Post of May 18, and recognize the
master juggler's crafti-work in his
very successful efforts to reach the
bummit of Mount Mendacity.
l>liy Prosperity is Returning.
It is undoubtedly true that business
is looking up all over the country. To
no one will this be such good nows as
to the believers in a protective tariff.
The great object of tho tariff is to
keep business humming and wages
high, and everything tonding to suoh
a condition of affairs is wclcomod
with an enthusiasm proportionate to
the strength of tho movement.
But the attitude of the froo trado
and tariff reform nowspapers at this
time is very funny. Every opening
up of a closed factory is greeted with
an enthusiasm not evoked by the hun
dreds of factories which were built
and opened for tho first time under
the beneficent effects of tho McKinloy
bill. Every increase of ten per cent,
in wages is heralded far and wide, in
striking contrast to tho silence with
which they have greeted every cut of
twenty-five per cent, in wages made
during tho last two years.
These tariff reform newspapor af
fect to believe that protectionists will
be sorry to see any revival of business
while a tariff reform President sits in
tho White House. We would assure
them that every protectionist rejoices
at any improvement in business con
ditions. Wo would, however, like to
have these papors give us somo speci
fic roasons for this revival of businoss.
Is it because there is a tariff reform
President at WashingtonV Business
was all right before that tariff reform
President was elected. There was no
need for a rovival of business then,
and a revival has come ouly after two
years of stagnation which followed tho
election of that President.
We are willing to assist these tariff
reformers in their uttempts to discov
er tho specific reason of the revival of
business, and wo would respectfully
call their attention to tho fact that,
there were some elections held last
Novomber. Wo would further remind
them that by those elections Congress
was given into the control of tho
party pledged to put an end to tariff
reform. Not to tariff reform, but to
tho hope of a return to protection,
basod on the Bepublicau victory of
last November, is duo this revival of
business. We wolcome our free trade
friends as converts to the cause oi
protection.
Iron's Great Index.
Tho statistics of iron production
tell a sad story of the damage inflicted
on homo industry by tho free trade
agitation that attended the election of
President Cleveland and a freo trade
tariff Congress in 1892, aud culminated
in the passiug of the Gorman bill in
1894.
In 1890 the United States producod
9,202,703 gross tons of pig irou. In
1894 the production fell to 0,057,388
gross tons.
Under protection tho production of
pig iron had increased with steady
strides until it attaiuod tho high fig
ure naruod in 1890, beuoliting tho
whole country, South as well as North.
All this was in accordance with tho
geuoral development of our industries
under which progress was the normal
condition. Hence it might have been
expected that the production of pig
iron would have gone ou satisfactor
ily, aud that it would hive passed the
10,000,000 tons mark by this time.
Instead, tho figures quoted show tint
our furnaoes produce I 2,515,315
gross tons less in 1891 than they did
in 1890.
What did this shrinkage luean? It
meant less wages for the workmon;
loss mouey for the shopkeeper and
furmer ; loss demand for iron ore au.l
ooal. It ineaut less dividends foi." tho
capital investod ; smaller iu.luojuiaut.s
to develop irou lauds, and a heavy do
crease in tho general wealth of thj
country.
In the South, where irou ore is so
abundant, these facts, which concern
the whole couutry, should tuoei witli
special consideration. The addition
of 2,545,315 gross tons to tho iron
smelted iu the South in 1594 would
have made places blossom iuto pros
perity where gauut poverty prevailed
and American workmen, able, honest
and industrious sought employment iu
vain. _
New York's Watermelon Supply.
Now York City recoives 20,000,000 water-"
melons a yea 112 for n.se and distribution.