FLTTTJJVAN JBB REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. The Germans number 3,000,000 ot Our population. Out West they are said to be turn ing their wire fences into telephone lines. Sir Edward Braddon, a now author ity on big game, says that the elephant is revengeful and treacherous, and ia an arrant ooward. Tho police census reveals tho fact that thero aro moro than 50,000 chil dren in New York City who are with out school facilities. Dr. Leslio Phillips, a well-known scientist, warns tho now woman against wearing her hair short, and says that tho cause of baldness in mau is due to the fact that ho cuts his hair. Three-tenths of tho earnings of a Belgian convict nro given to him on the expiration of his term of impris onment. Some of them thus save more money iu jail than they ever saved before. The Agricultural Department is making arrangements to lmvo a corre spondent in every township in tho country to tnuko reports on the condi tion of the crops. It will mako the reports much fuller and moro ac m .irate than heretofore. Newest wrinkles in dining-cars are to be tound on tho Chicago and East ern Illinois, where, according to a Western paper, the passenger who dines on tho train now has his atten tion drawn away from tho high prices on the bill of furo by musio from a Swiss music box. Eitoh box has three cylinders, and each cylinder plays eight tunes. It is said that there are in tho Stato. of Kansas twonty well-built towns without a single inhabitant. Saratoga, iu that State, has a $30,000 opera house, a large brick hotel, a 820,000 school house, and a number of fine business houses-, and yet thero is not a single person to claim that city as his home. At Fargo a herder and his family constitute tho solo population of what was once on incorporated city. There is no room for doubt that the construction of good roads puys in the end, says tho Now Jersey Forester. In wooded districts roads servo as fire breaks. A road is always an excellent point of vantage in fighting a fire. Were the sides of roads in forests dis tricts kept free from compustible matter there would be much loss dan ger from forest fires. Tho value of timber is rated mainly by tho nature of tho road over which it is necessary to haul it. In Germany some roads for transporting timber ure mac adumized and ono is mentioned in the the Chief of tho Forestry Division for 1893 which Baved its cost in two years. "Thero is no such thing as law,'' was tho surprising and cojafari-jng piede «112 information given by Gover nor Clarlf-ft of Arkansas, to the last graduates of tho law department of tho Arkansas University. The Gover nor had but just presented diplomas to the young men, which tho recipi ents might naturally supposo were ' evidence that they know somo law, as a result of several years of study. Governor Clurko explained that there wero rules accepted as law, but theso were so complox in principle as to render tho law a myth. Ninety per cent, of appoalod cases could be decided cither way, ho averred, and lawyers on tho bench very frequently divide on the quostion of what is tho iuw. Says Harper's Weekly : There is a cry now and then for cleanor paper money, aud not long ago thero was a rumor that tho Treasury proposed to do better by us in the way of provid ing us with clean bills. Whether it tried or not does not appear, but cer tainly our money is not oloan yet. The owner of a big department store in a Western city took a notion the other day that ho wonld give his customers clean money in change. So he bought two thousand one-dollar bills, and one morning ho filled tho money-drawers of his cashiers with them. The money had not been in use half an hour be fore the head cashier applied for help in making change, and said ho would have to have another assistant if clean money was used. The now bills, it seems, are stiff, and it is slower work to handle them than to handle old bills that havo been lubricated by use. Bank of England notes, which are al most always clean and fresh, are so thin that it is probably easy to handle them even when they are new. But it would seem that there are practical objections to new greenbacks, oven if they could be furnished. THE WORLD GOOD ENOUGH. I sat upon the ziff-zag fence awhile lost Sunday morn An' looked about across my Holds of rustltn', dew-touched com; I looked upon the browsing sheep within tho pastur green, Tho cuttlo an' the horses—sleek as any that is seen; An' further on, upon tho shooks of wheat 'nt sproad away; An' further, an* yit further on, whero riso my mows of hay; An' lookin' on this scenery, I'd naught to say, you see, Agin tho wuy tho world is run—it's good enough for me! I sat upon my gallery stops la9t Sunday eve, I did, As down behind tho Western hills the sun, all sleepy, slid, The honeysuckles' fragrancy was sweet as any flowers That ever gleamed all red and raro about the Euen bowers; An' over at tho barn tho girl was milkln' of tho cows, Whilo katydids sent up their songs from shrubs around the house; An' lookin' on this scenery, I'd naught to say, you soo, Agin the way the world is run—it's good enough for mo. —Memphis Commercial Appoal. THE NARROW WORLD. BY CHARLES DWIGHT WILLARD. fOMETHINQ had happened! There was such a rosy flush on her cheek, so bright a gleam in her eyes, and on his face »uch an utter Abandon of joy, that any ono— oven u man— could have guessed tho truth. Fortuna tol y they had ohosen the hill road, tho least traveled of all the ways that lead down from tho Monteeito Valley into Santa Barbara, and for the first half hour after the event they met no one. It was what the inhabitants of tho Channel City call a "genuino Santa Barbara day." Tho sun shone warm and bright, and a soft perfumed breezo camo out of tho woßt. Thero was June in tho air, although tho cal endar was set for mid-winter. Tho birds sang in tho trees above them, the squirrels chirped from the hill side, and their horses, wandering at times from tho road, sank to tho knoo in a waving sea of flowers. "First of all," sho said, breaking tho silcnco of a wholo minute, "you must tell my father." "Certainly," said the young man. "Who's afraid?" "You have never seen papa do the role of the cruel parent," said tho girl; "ho can be quite a dragon. As you are a kinsman, however—" "A fifth cousin," cried the youug man, with a laugh. "Woll, fifth cousins are better than nothing, aren't they?" "Truly; how else should we be hero to-day?" Then tho young mnn added with peculiar and significant emphasis: "I am inclined to pride myself on that littlo scheme." The girl brought her horse to a sudden stop and turned her clear brown eyos, half openod under their long lashes, upon her companion. "That little scheme," she repeatod, slowly. "I dou't understand." The young man laughed uneasily. "Why, Catherine," said he, "you don't mean that you havo believed in tho entertaining fiction about our great-great-et-cetera-graudfathor?" "Old Ebenezer Strong?" exclaimed tho girl. "How dare you call him fictitious, when 1 saw his portrait at my own grandfather's." "As your anoester, my dear one, ha is au undoubted reality—but as mine, I regret to say, ho is meroly a figment of your worthy father's imagination. In short—l would fain break it to you as gently as possible—we aro not fifth cousins at all, but just plain cr dinary—" "Not fifth cousins!" "No, darling; and if you are going to faint, please fall on this side, with your head right here on my shoul der." "I won't! Wretched boy, how could you decoive poor papa so?" "I didn't deceive him. He deceived himself. From the very beginning of our acquaintance ho seemed determ ined to locate me somewhero on the Weston family tree, and you aided and abetted him in tho attempt." "Richard Strong, how oftn you!" "I have a sweet and gentlo disposi tion and when ho askod me if I was not descended from Ebenezer Strong, of West Brighton Centre, and you looked at me so appealingly—" "I didn't any sach thing!" "Why shouldn't I assent? I have doubtless had several hundred ances tors named Strong, and I took the chances that some oue of them re joiced in tho prenomen of Ebenezer. It is just the sort of a name that iny forbears wero given to putting upon themselves." "You may laugh, if it pleases yon," said tho girl, severely, "but if papa had known you were not a relative we should not be riding alone together. He generally disapproves of the East ern people who spend the winter at the hotel." "If yon really feel that I havo been guilty of false pretenses," said the young man, drawing his horse a littlo nearer, "suppose wo begin all over again." "Keep your distance, sir I" ex claimed the girl, steering for the op LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1895. posite side of the road. "If we are to start afreob, let it be from the very beginning, three weeks ago." "Now, as to your father," resumed the young man,"l think I understand bim pretty well, because ay one and only parent, the governor himself, is constructed on much the same plan. Wherever he goes he is continually in search of the lost tribes of -the Strong genealogy. The last letter I had from him in Colorado, where he is spending the winter, contained the announce ment that he had unearthed four or live now cousins—choice specimens, I doubt not, that ho will dxpect me to meet and embrace on my way home. "Perhaps it was wrong," he contin ued, after a momont of reflection, "to play upon that littlo peculiarity of your father's, to get into his good graces, but you must consider the ex traordinary provocation, dear. * • seemed liko my only chanco—ai r ->u sorry I took it?" She- looked her answer y /id not speak it, and then, avoidii. /mo hand extended to seize her own, she struck her horse a light blow and dashed down the road ahead. A long, even canter in silence fol lowed, and they wero well into town before the conversation began again. Then, fearful of observation, they spoko in commonplaces. They turned into State street, and stopped at the postoffice, tho morn ing's mail having constituted the ohief cause for the trip to town. Richard Strong dismounted and presently ap peared with a letter in his hand. "None for you," ho said. "This is for me, from the governor. I'll wager it has something in it about cousins." "Let me see," said the girl, hold ing out her hand. Ho tore tho letter open and gave it to her. Then ho swung himself into his saddle, and they started slowly down tho stroet. Suddenly the girl gove a faint cry. "Papa has been writing to him 1" she exclaimed. "Writing to him? What for?" "Ho has asked him to pay us a visit on the score of relationship, and your father —" "Well?" said tho youug man, ex citedly. "fie says be will start immediately —the very noxt day. 1 " "Lot me see tho dato of tho letter. Yegods! It has been delayed! Ho must have got here this morning!" "The train has been in two hours," she 6aid, glancing at her watch. "I must seo bim immediately," said her companion, nervously turning his horse first ono way and then another. "Who would havo droamed that both tho old boys would tako thut cousin ship so seriously?" "I did, sir. I knew from tho very beginning that it would make trouble some time." "From the very beginning?" re peated the young man, pausing iu his excitement long enough to note the force of this chance admission. "So you acknowledge, do you—" "There's tho hotel "bus," criod the girl, hastily changing tho subject. "Perhaps tho driver can tell us some thing." A long empty vehicle was passing them on its way up the street. Strong called to the driver und he stopped. "Did you br up a tall gentle man this morning ; th a white mus tache and goatee am. gold oyeglasses?" "Yos, sir. Your father, don't you mean?" Tho young people exchanged star tled glances. "How did you know?" "He was inquiring for you, sir, as soon as ever he got to the hotel; and when ho found yon wero gone, ho went and hired a buggy." "A buggy—what for?" "He asked tho way to Judge Wes ton's place in tho Monteeito. He said tho Judge was a rear relativo of his." "A near relative!" groaned the hor rified Strong while his companion turned away her face, although whether to conceal a look of anguish or a laugh will never be known. Tho omuibus proceeded on its way. "We must hurry," said tho young mau, spurring his horse to a canter. • 'The less timo they have together be fore explanations are mado tho bet ter." "What do you think they will do?" asked the girl. "I don't dare to think. You seo on everything except this family tree business our respective parents are as far apart as oivilized humans can bo. Your father, now, is an elder in the church, while mino has never recov ered from tho habit of using swear words acquired during years of ser vice in tho regular army." "Heavens! Let us ride faster. Papa will havo slain him before wo get there." "Roally, Catherine,' said tho young mau, when they had slackened their paoo to climb tho hills, "it would not surprise mo if they positively refused to enter into partnership as fathers in-law." "Never mind, liichard," said the girl, smilingly. "Father has never yet refused me anything, when my happiness was at stake—as it is now." Strong shrugged his shoulders. "Mine has," he answered. "He is made of flint, the old General; and if he should take it into his head to say no, it would bo awkward in ways I dou't like to mention.".' "Never mind," said tho girl, smil ing again and lifting her veil to the rim of the jaunty Bailor hat. And a moment later tho yon 7 man felt much encouraged, and the gallup was resumed. On a slight knoll surrounded by a grove of live-oaks and faced wiMt "au avenue of old palms, there stn.r! ;'ip ample residenco of Judge Weston. As the young people came through the gate and entered upon the gravelled roadway, they observed two elderly gentlemen emerge from a small forest of rose bushes and start briskly down the path toward them. Presently the shorter of the two took his com panion's aim and they walked along in evident peace and amity. "They haven't foand it out yet," the young man whispered. Judge Weston asisted his daughter toalight. "Catherine," said he."this is General Strong, the father of our young friend." The General bent low in an old fashioned obeisance, and Miss Catherine instinctively made him a courtesy out of the minuet. "Father!" "Dick, my dear boy?" "See here," exolaimed the Judge suddenly. "You were mistaken, Rich ard, in whit you told me about old Ebenezer Strong." The young man braced himself for a struggle. "And to think, Dick," cried the 'General, reproachfully, "that you never once mentioned to the Judge that your great-great-grandfather, Hezekiah Strong, married a Weston." ' 'And that brings us even uoarer than we had supposed," added the Judge. "Fourth cousins instead of fifth." "It was stupid of me to forget that," said tho youug man, huskily. "And now that I havo seen Miss Catherine," Baid the General, taking her hand and passing his arm about her waist, "my only regret is that tho relationship is not several degreo nearer yet." Then Cathorino looked at Richard, and he told what had happened on the way to town. Straightaway there was a great amount of handshaking and a good deal of kissing douo in broad daylight under the palms.—The Land of Sunshine. Mortars and Men. During tho recent trial of tho new Sandy Hook coast defences it was found desirable that tho striking points of the big mortar projectiles should be accurately determined. At the long range of 6000 yards, or three and a half miles, the 800-pound mass of cast steel buried itself ten feet deep in tho sand, and it is the duty of the observer at the target to mark the po sition by a stake in order that the shot may bo afterwards dug up and ex amined. Two sergeants of artillery had been detailed on this dclicato ser vico, and when tho party of officials and guests arrived at tho targot grounds the observers met thom smil ing and enthusiastio and with their hazardous work successfully .per formed. A newspaper reporter asked ono of tho men how ho enjoyed tho task of retrieving cannon-balls. "It was beautiful, sir; beautiful," said tho smiliug sergeaut. "I stood thoro (pointing at a spot twenty-five yards from one stake) and I could see 'om coming. They turned straight and camo down point down. They throw the sand up liko water and scattered it in every direction. It was beautiful, sir." "Were you not afraid?" demanded one man. "What would I bo afraid of, sir?" asked the sergeant. Was there ever a finer example of truo pride iu one's profession? Tho fuiniliarity that breeds contempt could never have spoken thus of a peril compared to which tiger-beating in au Inuiau jungle is but a dull aud sopo ritic pastime. It is indeed uu adinir ablo quality of moral courage that is here presented, the educated sang froid of tho man who neither underes timates a danger nor runs away from it, tho pure impulse to duty that looks for no reward and seeks for no end outside of itself. It is still tho mcu who aro behind tho guns.—Harper's Weekly. Work and Weather. So marked is the indueuco of tho weather on certain temperaments that the employers of large numbers of men aro begiuning to take this into account in promising to fill largo or ders. Iu somo establishments, it is said that in very gloomy and what is called depressing weather from ten to twenty-five per cent, less work is done than on bright, clear days. A littlo investigation showed that accountants are much moro likely to mako mis takes iu bad then in clear woather, and scientists sometimes decliuo to pursuo their investigations when tho atmospheric conditions aro uncon genial. This being the caso, thero is little wonder that foggy, dreary, chilly days havo frequently been oalled "suicide weather."—New York Led- Ker " _ Nlpplu' Nick's Muzzle. Nippin' Nick is a Mauayunk horse, owned and driven by a young fellow in Mauayunk who makes a livelihood by hauling dirt and rubbish. The animal has aoquired his name by bit ing everybody around the dumps ad jacent to Mauayunk. The other day tho horse bit a small boy and a police man recalled to Nick's driver that he had before been ordered to muzzle the horse. "Now, if that horse ain't muzzled to-morrow I'll pinch yer," said tho officer. Nothing more was thought of it until the noxt day, when the owner saw tho policeman shuffling along up the street, aud quickly hang ing an old ooal scuttle on tho horse's head he made it answer for a muzzle and saved himself. arrest and fine.— Philadelphia Record. A Fnitlilul Dog. Rufus M. Merrill, aged seventy nine, a well-known ship builder, while walking on the Portland and Rochester Road at Portland, Me., was struck tiy au engine and received in juries from the effect of which he died two hours later. His dog, his oon stant companion for many years, tried to drag his master from the track, and had both hiud legs out off. Mr. Merrill aeremed more concerned about his dog than himself.—Trenton (N. J.) Ameri can. TOE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ABE TOLD BT THE FUNKY MEN OF THE PRESS. A Gentle Hint—Needless Cruelty— Another Objection— Ad Opportun ity Not to Be Missed, Ktc., Etc. She wore a looket round her neck, A looket of shiniugr gold; Tho shape of a heart and largo enough A picture petite to hold. I opened the locket to ascertain Who was her particular pet; tint instond of a miniature photograph SVaa a sign which read "To Lot." —Spare Moments. NEEDLESS CRUELTY. He—"l can tell a woman's age, no matter how old she is." She—"You must, be a brute 1" Puck. BAD HABITS. She—"There are 60,000 people iu Chicago who smoke opium." Ho—"That's nothing. Just think how many there are who smoke hams." —Detroit Free Press. NOT CONFINED TO REDSKINS. "All the good Indians, they say, aro dead Indians." ' 'So aro all tho good white people. Go and read the epitaphs on the tomb stones, will you?"— Chicago Tribune. GOT ALL THEY WANTED. Pennuck—"A gang of burglars entered the Houso of Correction a short time since." Dullyer—"Did they get anything?" Pannuck—"Yes, five years apiece." —Boston Courier. MONEY IS FEMININE. Teacher —"What is the gender of 'money.'" Scholar—"Feminine.' r Teacher (severely) "Why?" Scholar—"Because money talks."— Detroit Free Press. ANOTHEK OBJECTION. Dick Singleton—"Does your wifo object to your going to tho club of au evening?" Benny Dictus—"No, but she ob jects to my ooming homo from it in tho morning."—Harlom Life. AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED. Young Mr. Callow—"Yos, Miss Jump, tho woman I would marry must iu every way roalize the highest ideal in beauty and mental qualities." Miss Jump—"Oh, Mr. Callow! This is so sudden !"—New York Mail and Express. A MODEL HUSBAND. Friend Porrichon, accompanied by his wife, took a trip to the outskirts of Paris. Very tired and hungry, they entered an eating house. Tho pro prietor declared that ho had nothing but a chop to offer them. "Only ono!" exclaimed Perrichon; "thou what is my wifo to have." — Paris Gaulois. A YEARNING. "Do you not sometimes have soulful yearnings which you long to convey in words, but cannot?" asked the senti mental girl. "Yes, indeed," repliod tho young mau. "1 was once dreadfully anxious to send homo for money, and I didn't have the price of a telogram."—Read ing (I'ouu.) Telegram. IS A MEEK SFIItIT. Judgc---"Prisoner at the bar, you aro charged with breaking into the complainant's store and carrying away a large amount of goods. What havo you to say in your own defeuee?" Burglar- - "I did it, your Honor, out of compassiou. He had a sign up that he was solliug his goods less than cost, aud by taking them I saved a big loss —soe?"- Boston Transcript. A SAVING INSTANCE. "Tell mo honestly," said the novel reader to the novel writer," did you ever see u woman who stood and tapped the floor impatiently with her toe for soveral moments, as you de scribe?" "Yes," was the thoughtful reply; "I did once." "Who was she?" "She was a clog dancer."—Wash ington Star. RECKLESS THOUGHTLESSNESS. The judge of a Western court, in order to secure a safer and more civi lized coudition of affairs iu the oourt room, asked the twelve jurymen and the ten attorneys present to place their pistols in a pile in the corner of tho room, but there seemed to be somo hesitancy in complying with tho request, and the judge insisted. "If your Honor will put his down first," suggested the foreman of the jury, "I guess the balance of us will foller suit." "Certainly, gents,' replied his Honor, and laid his gun down iu the corner. In a few minutes all tho others had done the same, excepting the Sheriff and his deputy, who were not includ ed, and tweuty-three pistols wero re posing peacefully on the floor. "Now, gents," said his Houor, sud denly whipping out a gun, "the first man that goes near that pile gets it in the neck." In an instant every man's hand went tohisother hip pocket, and as his Honor dived behind the desk twenty-two bul lets went through the window back of where he had been sitting, and twen ty-two men were waiting for him to stick his head up, but he did nothing tio rash. "Put up them guns," he yelled; "put up tham guns, or I'll fine every one of you for contempt of court." - I New York Sun. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 81.25 after Three Months, GOLD AND SIOT. THKIIt OUTPUT COMPARKD WITH Ol'lt MAKUKACTUHKS. Mills and Factories Provide Work for Fifty Times as Many People as Gold and Silver Mines. According to the 1890 census report the total output of the gold mines was l,s9o,Bfl£onnoes, of a coinage value of #32,880,741. The total output of tho silver mines reached 51,354,851 ounces, of a coinage value of $66,396,- 988, though the value of all tho silver at the mino's month to the mine own ers would practically be about the same worth as the value of the gold that was mined. Combining the coinage value of the gold and silver output in that year, it was slightly loss than one hundred million dollers, as compared with tho output of our manufactures, worth more than six and a quarter billions of dollars, as shown below: GOLD AND SILVER PBODUCT. Ounces. Coin value. Gold 1.590,869 i? 32,836,744 3ll*or 51,854,851 66,396.988 Total coinage value *99,283,782 Value of manufactures $(1,278,333,470 According to the census report tho value of the gold ond silver plants was $465,960,566, to which must bo added the values of the mills and reduction plants, worth $20,362,772, makingthe total mininor plant value to be $486,- 323,338. On the sido of tho manu facturing industries we have hired property worth $533,173,008 and di rect cash investment aggregating 83,- J90,705,734. Thus while the total gold and silver mining plant value of the United States was worth four hun dred and eighty-six and one-third millions of dollars, tho total valuo of the investments in manufactures was ten timos as much, or nearly live oillions of dollars. There were at the time of the tak ing of our last census 180,000 more factories in the United States thau gold and silver mines. The amount af capital invested reached nearly $5,- 300,000,000 in tho manufacturing in dustries, while it was less thau half a billion dollurs in the gold and silver mines. Where tho gold and silver miuoe gave employment (o 57,307 people the factories found work for fifty tioios as many, or 2,907,882 hands. Where the amount of wagos distributed to those who worked id connection with tho gold and silver mines reached $43,180,690 a year it was nearly forty times as much in the case of the fac tories, which in the earner year paid out over a billion and a half of dollars in wages. With thirty timos as many factories as there were gold and silver mince; with ten times as much capital invested in factories as in the mines, it is still surprising to learn that the total valuo of tho products of tho fac tories was almost seventy times as great as the entire value of the product at otir gold and silver mines, the latter reaching less than §100,000,000, while the product valuo of tho factories ox-, seeded six and a quarter billions of dollars. In the item of miscellaneous expenses, too, where the mines dis bursed $20,270,440, tho factories dis bursed nearly twenty-three times as much, or $454,814,850. It must furthsr bo remembered that the fac tories paid out $3,363,177,034 for raw material purchased for their own use, whereas tho gold aud silver mines rapply ttoir owu raw material, from which alone they can deriva their produot. Now let us glance at the average output and earnings of both mines aud manufactures por annum for each employe, and that this exhibit may bo moro Interesting wo give the aver age output aud earnings of the coal miners aud of the workers iu the granite minos us follows: AVEKAOE OUTPUT AND HAU.IIXU3. Per employe per annum. Output, mruln^s. Gold and silvor <>1,732 >729 Coal 675 474 Orautte 613 431 Manufactures 2,159 G3J Wo beliove that there is nothing loft to complete this industrial comparison beyond showing tho relative import ance of our gold and silver mining in dustries with our manufacturing in dustries, per oapita of our population of 62,652,579 persons in tho census year. This is briefly dons as follows: PRODUCT PEU CAPITA, POPULATION 62,052,579. l'er Cap. Valuo. of Top. Gold and Silver $99,233,732 *1.5847 Manufactures 6,278,333,470 109.2031 Tho product of our gold and silver mines was worth, at its coinage value, 11.58 per onpita of our population. In the same year the products of our fac tories were worth over SIOO per capita o( our population. For each $1.58 per oapita of wealth added to tho oountry through tho gold and silver mines there were SIOO, more than sixty times as much, added through tho pro daots of our manufacturing industries, if should be remembored, however, that every dollar of tho precious metals produced is an enduring addition to the world's wealth. They aid the in dustries of the East and agriculture everywhere. The products of fac tories, on the other hand, are not gen erally of lasting value, being consumed from month to month und from year to year. Solid Irish Sense. A second measure to prevont tho outflow of gold is to chock tho inflow of commodities we can make for our selves. We will reduce tho power of the foreigner over our gold supply by reducing our purchases of the foreignor. That means that wo must restore the protective duties upon foreign commodities, aud otherwise discourage the use of foreigu articles where home made will serve tho pur pose.—lrish World. NO. 42. Drover's Urcat Journey. It is stated that the Hon. Grovor Cleveland at the expiration of his Presidential term will journey aronnd the world in a palatial yacht, visiting the high and mighty ones of earth and sauntering through scenes made beau tiful by nature or grand through his toric associations. One of the news paper correspondents, who seoms to know all about it, says that Mr. Cleve land is ambitious to eclipse the trium phal tour made some years ago by his predecessor, General Grant. There is probably no man living who oould enjoy suoh a trip more in tensely. Thero is plenty of evidenoo to show that he regards himself as one of the greatest individuals ever born, and he will take keen satisfaction in comparing himself with those whom he must regard as his inferiors. While in Europe Mr. Cleveland will liavo an opportunity of contrasting himself with the crowned, heads, living and dead. Ho can boast that nono of them ever equaled his great act of causing a tremendous panic by manip ulating customs duties. He can say proudly to the manufacturers of Ger many, Franco and England that he has done more to increaso their pros perity than any of their own rulers has done. His unquenchable egotism will prompt him to exult in the belief that his blundering messages contain as mnch wisdom as the writings of tho famous economists and philosophers. Some time ago he sent to various monarehs and to the Popo oopies of his writings. His opinion of tho in telligence of these dignitaries will hinge entirely upon the dogroe|of flat tery in tho compliments which their consciences will porniit them to give him. While in England Mr. Cleveland will look with contempt upon tho pow ers of the Queen. Ho will call to mind how his own Cabinet officers were mere clerks, obedient to all his whims, and will be astonished to see that in England tho heads of departments are men of character, with minds of their own. In Asia and Africa there are plenty of despotic rulers who may boast that they havo killed more men than their American visitor, but ho can easily close their mouths by rotorting that he has thrown more men into poverty and idleness. It is not stated whether tho trip will include Honolulu, but if it does, tho ex-President will be ablo to mingle his tears with those of the Widow Dominis. Altogether the trip can hardly fail to be moro pleasant and gratifying to Mr. Cleveland than would a tour through the industrial and farming regions of tho United Statos.—Freeman, Kingston, N. Y. The Loss to Sheep Owners. The Department of Agriculture has furnished the number uud value of tho sheep in the United States at the be ginning of this year. We find there are 2,753,953 less sheep in tho United States than thero wero on Jauuary 1, 1894, but their valno has docreasod by $22,500,343, which is at tho rate of forty cents per head. Sheep that wero worth $1.98 on January 1, 1894, were only worth $1.58 on Jauuary 1, 1895. This was tho result of free trade iu wool. But to carry the comparison back a little further, so as to make it still more interesting, wo give tho number of sheop in the United States on Janu ary 1, 1892, with their total valuo and their averago valuo per head as fol lows : 1892. 1895. Number 44,938,365 42,294,06'. Value * 116.121.270 J66.685.76' Value, each 52.53 £1.58 This shows that tho total loss iu the value of tho sheep flocks of Amerioan farmers was almost $50,000,000 within three years. Since the country was enjoying undisturbed protection at tho beginning of 1892, when there was no talk of free trade and no free trade Congress had been elected, the effect of free trade and its threats among our sheep has beeu a direct money loss of $49,435,503 divided among the sheep farmers. According to Presi dent Cleveland they are nil men with a small number of sheep, from twouty five to flfty belonging to each farmer, who can ill afford tho loss of exactly one dollar per head in tho value of their sheep, which is just the differ ence between what they wore worth uuder MoKinley protection aud what they are worth now under free trade, and which has causod them a total loss of $50,000,000 within three years. Free Farms 1895. A Had lliUaucr. If any benefit has como to anybody through the operation of the Gorman tariff it will bo found, upou examina tion, that ruin and mischief have also resulted, far outbalancing the good. The World's Cotton Crop. Tho total consumption of cotton In the world Is 12,00\000 bales a voir. Of this amount 9,003.000 are produced In the United States and 3,000,900 bales - 3ne-fourth of the world's consumption— are produoed in Texa«,
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