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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«,