SULLIVAN J8B& REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
Oar colleges have at least $100,000,-
000 whence they derive tho incomo
for their support.
Tho New York Hun wants the namo
of tho city changed to Manhattan,
which, it thinks, would mean some
thing.
Colonel Waring, of New York, states
that he can clean asphalt for two
thirds the cost of cleaning granite
blocks imperfectly.
In the Loo Choo Islands in the
Pacific, though there arc neither ve
hicles nor public lighting, the inhab
itants have letter boxes and tele
phones.
Tho fruit and market garden busi
ness of the South now brings into that
section $50,000,000 a year and the
Atlanta Constitution predicts that in
the next few years it will be doubled.
Recent statistics show, especially in
European countries, that tho number
of horses used in cities and tovns in
creases every year in a more rapid
proportion than the population of the
same, and is owing, no doubt, to the
greater number of public conveyances
and the traffic stoam and electricity
bring.
Tho Soldiers' Colonization Com
pany, of Indiana, has just bought
113,000 acres of lacil in Wilcox and
Irwin Counties, Georgia. It is esti
mated, in the Now York Tribnne,'that
5000 families, or about 30,000 per
sons, will sottle within the next two
years on tho laud which has been
bought. It is the intention of the'col
onies to settle on farms of Bizes ac
cording to their means. They expect
to bo prepared out of their present
savings and resources to tide ovor tho
period betweon this harvest season
and the next. In addition to farmers,
tho colony will inolude artisans, fruit
growers and others seeking more fav
orable labor, climate and health con
ditions. They will come from Ohio,
Indiana, llliuois, lowa, Nebraska,
Wisconsin and other Western States.
Tho company purchasing the prop
erty is a joint stock organization
formed several years ago, and num
bering about 7000 stockholder* As
sessments have been paid in at inter
vals, and the stockholders will con
tribute their paid-ap shares in pur
chase of farms in the section bought
by tho company.
Report is mndo of a new application
of electricity which will drive a first
class ocean steamer across the Atlantio
at an expenditure of S2OO, whereas it
now costs SIO,OOO. It is a tale of
magnitude, surpassing that of tho
Aubtralian kangaroo, which is larger
than tho animal it grows out of, bnt
there may bo something in it. So
many wonders havo been wrought
with this unseen, mysterious forco
that tho promise of a new one, no
matter how great, need not excite in
credulity. It is reasonable to expect
it to bo appliod to the propulsion of
oil sorts of craft, ocean or other, but
such a saving of expense as that prom
ised is beyond .anything heretofore
dreamed of, and there may be some
mistake about it. Its economies need
not bo so cxtremo to enable it to rev
olutionize the commerce and business
of the world. One thing about the
force is apparent, and that
is that its work is only begun. It is
to spread through tho whole system of
man's activities around the world,
with influences upon his career and
destiny not yet measured or measur
able.
According to tho Now York World
the farmer who has hay to sell this
year will find it a paying orop, and
generally through the States east of
theAUeghanies there has been enough
rainfall to bring the yield nearly to
the average. But in the valloys of
the Ohio, the Upper Mississippi and
tho Missouri a deficiency of from six
to eleven inohes in the rainfall during
the spring months has made the grass
crop unusually short, a large propor
tion of tbe meadows being soaroely
worth cutting. The hay crop of last
year was nearly eleven million tons
less than the orop of 1893, and the
prospect of another and much greater
deficiency in the marketable surplus
has put a fancy price upon the avail
able supply oat West. Farmers can
generally provide for homo use a sub
stitute in the form of corn fodder, or
eke oat a defloienoy of olover and tim
othy by turning under winter wheat
stabble and sowing millet. Bat *
shortage in the hay orop is a big loss
to the country. The farm value of
this crop of 1898, aooording to tho
statistican of the Agricultural De
partment, was $570,882,872, or moro
than twioe tho farm valuo of last
year's whoat crop and 910,000,000
more than the value of li »t year's «rn
•rop.
UP OAF BET.
What a world of fan we hail,
You a la.s« and I a lad.
Up garr«t!
In the sweet mysterious ilusk,
liudolunt of mint and musk.
With the herbs strung overhead,
And the "peppers"stiff nnd roil.
And, half hidden by dangling corn.
Grandpa's flask and powder-horn!
Such a store of treasures raro
We were sure of finding there,
Up garret.
Hats and coats of pattern quaint;
Dark old paintings blurred and faint;
SpinninK-wheels, whose gossi|>-wliir
Might havo startled Aaron Burr;
Old lace eaps of saffron hue:
Dishes splashei with villa* blue.
You iu trailing silk were dressed.
1 wore grandpa's figured vest,
Up gnrret.
S» wo stood up. hushed and grand,
And were married, hand in hand,
While ihe tall-cased clock l>eheld,
As it doubtless did of old.
When at great-Krandfnther's side
Slood his blushing Quaker bride.
Furnished realy to our hand
Was the cozy home we planned
Up gnrret.
Chairs that any modern belle
Would pronounce "antique and swell;®
Chests and dresses that would vie
With the grandest you could buy.
All! they didn't know it then-
Save the little maids ani men.
All dny long in childish wiso
We spun out life's mysteries,
Up garret.
Iu the fragrant, splcv gloom
Of that ilenr old raftered room.
Oh, that life in very truth
Wero but sweet, protracted youth,
And we nil might play our parts
With unwearied, happy hearts!
—Harper's Bazar.
HOMER GILBERTS LUCK.
» jfS N the littlo town of
I I >nen *°> Cal., lives
I I Homer Gilbert, a
j l '. ' I I queer old man, who
X \ ekes out a living
YQSJ by growing garden
truck for Los An
geles. No man in
that section lives a
jjj 'j more modest, quiet
1 than he, and
iffhardly anybody
who 6ces him
among his cabbage and parsnips, on
the outskirts of the town, would im
agine that forty years ago ho was fa
mous among the gold eeekers and for
tune makers in tho Eldorado in cen
tral California for his luok and riches.
In those days ho was known among
miners in that State as Hobnail Gil
bert.
Homer Gilbert camo to tho Pacific
coast from Brooklyn in 1851. ne was
a young man, full of vigor and vim,
but bad not a dollar to his namo and
no trade or profession. For soverol
weeks he knocked about San Fran
cisco at odd jobe, blacking shoes, ped
dling fruit, working in eating bouses
and along the docks in the city. Every
body was wild over tho news ot the
wonderful wealth that was washed
from the earth in the canons and
mountains. All who could get away
to the mines had left the city, and
there was a great demand for mechan
ics, especially carpenters. Gilbert
had no money for mining, so he be
came a carpenter without n day's pre
vious experience. In a few days he
had got so far in his new trade ns to
buy tools, and in a month ho was
earning sl2 a day as a woodwalk
builder among tho sand hills, which is
now tho centre of business iu San
Francisco.
One morning Gilbert road in a news
paper of the arrival at San Francisco
of an Euglish ship with a cargo of
miners' tools and general hardware,
which was to be sold at auction on tho
wharves. He decided to speculate a
little, and he attended the auction for
several drys. The pickaxes, shovels,
and washpans were bought quickly by
the hardware dealers and speculators
at prices that discouraged Gilbert
from making a bid. Finally a great
quantity of hobnails was put up. Tho
speculators did not seem to want
them, and the bidding was low. Gil
bert thought he saw his opportunity
and he bid off 300 pounds of tho nails
for S6OO. When he had paid for the
nails he bad about S4OO left. With
this money he bought two mules, a
camp outfit, and some provisions.
Packing the nails and tho other stuff
on one of the mules, he started for
the mountains.
The Sierras were alivo with prospec
tors and at tho end of the first week
oat Gilbert rode into a camp kuown
as Little Jim. Gilbert joinod the
camp, and offered to sole and heel the
miners' boots with imported nails.
For each nail he got one bit or 12}
cents. Money was easier to get at
Little Jim than shoes those days, and,
as the nails protected tho soles of the
boots from the gravel, the miners
readily fell in with Gilbert's plan.
For a mouth he had all tho work ho
could do, and at the end of that time
he found he had accumulated gold
dust worth S2OOO. He still had more
thau 200 pounds of nails, and, satis
fied with the Bchcmo he adopted, he
moved his oobbling outtit to another
oamp, where the same prosperity at
tended him. It was eight months be
fore Gilbert's nails gave cut. Asthoy
grew soaroe he iucreasod the price uu
til during the last month the miners
were paying 50 cents each for hob
nails. In eight months Gilbert had
$25,000. By this time he had become
thoroughly imbued with the gold
fever, and in company with a prospec
tor named Hcndrioks he set out ou a
prospecting tour, going over into the
western edge of Alpine County. Ilon
drioka WM • youug Englishman who
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1895.
bad reached the mountains with con
siderable money in hi* pockets, but
bad met with bard lack, and when
picked up by Gilbert be waa dead
broke.
For eiz months the men prospected
tbe gulclies with bnt little success.
They finally palled np stakes and
moved into Nevada County, where
they mined with good lack. Early in
the fall of 1853 Oilbert fell ill of fever.
Hendricks had studied medicine, but
before completing his medical educa
tion he hod got the gold craze and
came to California. He nursed Gil
bert ns best he could, but the man
grew worse steadily. Hendricks knew
an herb that he had noticed growing
a couple of miles up the ravino that,
if steeped, would perhaps help the
sick man. Gne morning he left the
cabin to get some of this herb. While
away a terrific' thundor storm came up
and tho little stream that ran through
the gulch began to rise. Knowing
how rapidly theso mountain streams
riso in a storm, and fearing for
tho safety of Gilbert, as the cabin
stood on tho bank of the creek,
Hendricks hurried bock. Tho
water rose very rapidly, and,
though Hendricks ran as fast as tho
natnre of the ground would permit,
the flood outstripped him. When he
came within sight of the cabin it was
half under water, and the torrent
threatened every instant to carry it
away. One end of tho building stood
against an immense oak tree with
spreading limbs. By climbing an
other tree Hendricks got into the oak.
About two feet above the roof of the
cabin a strong limb grew out. From
this limb Hendricks descended to the
roof, and as it was composed of brash
and dirt, he quickly (tamped a hole
through it. The water had risen in
tho house nearly to tho bottom oE tho
bunk in which Gilbert lay. Hen
dricks dropped inside, anil, with tho
water np to his armpits, wrapped Gil
bert in blankets, fastened a rope se
curely around his body, threw the
other end over tho limb, and haulod
him np. Ho was a strong man, and
as Gilbert had beou greatly emaciated
by tho fever, it was not hard to haul
him up to the limb and secure him at
a safe height in a fork of the tree.
Lushed to the tree, tho sick man
faced the storm. The cabin, protected
by the trunk of the oak, stood fast,
but a boulder, set loose by the tlood,
rolled down the gulch and crashed
through the side of the building.
When tho storm had exhausted its
force, tho creek fell to its normal pro
portions, and Hendricks got Gilbert
to the ground, where he made him as
comfortable as possible.
Contrary to Hendrick's expecta
tions, tho sick mau soon showed signu
of mending, and in two weeks he wa
once more on bis feet. The hob
knocked in the side of the cabin bj
the boulder had let iu sand and gravel
and tho building was half full o
wreckage whon tho water subsided.
Many tools, cooking utensils auc
other things were covered by tho sand
aud when Gilbert was well enough th(
men began tho work of digging oui
their property. The peculiar appear
ance of tho iMrt attracted Gilbert's at
tention, an 1 be washed out somo o)
it. It proved to bo rich with gold,
aud from the dirt iu the cabin several
thousand dollars' worth of dust was
taken, besides a nugget of gold quart?
that weighed more thau twenty-thre:'
ounces. Gilbert concluded that there
must be a rich spot up the gulch some
where, and he set out prospecting for
it. In three days he uncovered the
placer that became well known as the
Big Pay and was sold for SIOO,OOO,
Gilbert and Hendricks dividing tho
money equally.
With bis share Gilbert went bock to
San Franoisco at the ago of twenty
eight, worth about SSO,OJO. Ho grub
staked four meu in anew and unknown
mining region of Placer County, and
invested his wealth iu real estate in
San Francisco. Oao of the men whom
ho had grubstaked struck it rioh in
about a year, aud he and Gilbert sold
out for SIO,OOO. In less than a month
moro further developments ou tho
mine proved that its wealth had been
exhausted audit was valueless. In
tho summer of 1853, when Gilbert was
thirty years old, Gilbort turned his
property into mouoy and deposited in
D. O. Mills's bank $123,000. Ho had
decided togo buok to his home in
Brooklyn with that sum and astonish
his relatives and friends with his
wonderfnl fortune. As ho was about
to sail from Panama he met a man
from Australia who persuaded him to
go back to.Brooklyn by sailing around
tho world in order to impross his
family moro with his wealth and tho
extent of his travels.
Gilbert got as far asAustrlia, where
he remained several months. He be
came infatuated with tho gambling
games of that new country, and did
not givo up playing until ho was penni
less. In a few years he got back to
Californin, but airairs had changed so
much and business had become so
established that he found he had no
opportunity to pile up auothor for
tune. He went out into the mount
ains of Contra Costa County an 1 lived
there alono for years. Theu he drifted
down to Southern California. He has
not mentioned mines or gambling iu
thirty years. Oo?asionally he is
visited by somebody who knew him
in tlie fifties, but he never will say a
word about tho old times.— New York
Sun.
j l'«l ; *!! »Vay of Expressing Urn'Minlc.
Iu Bufialo, N. Y., the oth-'r day, a
Pole whoso life was saved,by Alderman
| Jonu Sheehaii expressed his grateful
-1 nen tc tho Alderman by calling at hi*
I placd of business aud offering his r >■-
cuer one of his baby sons. Tho .V.
mau declined the proffered gift with
; thanks. The Pole said that was tbe
ouly way ho could fittingly oxprust
his gratitude, but tne Alderman was
I firm, aud the grateful man returned
home with his infant sou.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
•TORIES THAT ABB TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEM OF THB PBESS.
A Pastoral—A Victim of Clrcum •
stances—An Unpardonable Error
—1995, A. D. t Kte., Ktc.
Tho fishing season safely yields
A joyful, restful calm
And the city dog takes tc th» fields
To catch a mess of lamb.
—Cloveland l'lnln Dealer.
AN UNPARDONABLE ERBOIt.
Miss Gotham—"l believesho is very
highly educated."
Miss Backbay—"She can't be ; why,
she pronounces the 1 in golf."—Brook
lyn Eagle.
EXPLAINED.
Sympathetic Friend—"How did
you come to be so horribly mangled?"
Victim—"Tho trolley car that hit
mo was equipped with tho very latest
improvement in fenders.
A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
Mrs. Jones —"It is strange that a
strong man like you cannot get work."
The Tramp—"Well, yor tee, mum,
people wants reference from me last
employer, an' he's been dead twenty
years."—Puck.
A LONELY WOOD SURE THING.
Jonesloy—"Where do you think
this 'ere new well yon want me to dig
ought to be, anyhow?"
Mr. Commuter (confidently)—"ln
the cellar. I know we can strike water
there."—Judge.
1995, A. v.
Visitor—"Got anythin' worth seem'
in your show?"
Museum Managor—"Wo got the
man what never rode a bicyclo."
Visitor (with excitoment) —"Gimmo
a ticket!"— Chicago Record.
NOT FREE ENOUGH.
Wobbloy Wiggles--"Do you belicvo
in free silver?"
Wiggloy Waggles—"Yos, but I
don't sec mucfi of it; whenever I make
a brace on do street do most I ever
gets is a nickel." —Brooklyn Eagle.
TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD.
Brace— "I like a joke, but printing
a fellow's death notice is carrying a
joke too far."
Bagley—"Didn't you say you would
pay me Saturday night that live you
borrowed, if you were alive?"— Pack.
THE DIFFERENCE.
Mistress (to her domestic) —"I sup
pose you girls talk about each other
just tho same as we ladies do about
persons in our set?"
Domestic—"No, mam, we mostly
talks about tho mistresses."—Boston
Transcript.
WHAT SHE NEEDED.
Madam—"No, we do no cooking in
tho house here. I only drink milk. I
take a cup of milk every two hours."
The Newly Hired Servant—"Well,
madam, I do not see why you need
mo. What madam requires is a cow."
—La Vio l'arisionne.
NO LONGER A CRIME.
Tourist (in Oklahoma) —"Horses are
pretty cheap here nowadays, aren't
they ?"
Alkali Ike—"Cheap? They are so
blamed cheap that when wo capture n
horse thief we send him to tho lunatic
asylum instead of.lynohin' him."—
Puok.
COULDN'T BLOW IT OUT.
"I am the Cheerful Idiot," remarked
the nenr arrival.
"I am sorry, sir," said tho hotel
clerk ; "but we are lighted with eleo
tricity throughout."
"Neyer mind," rejoinod tho other,
as he registered; "I shall manage
some way."—Puok.
UNFL ATTEBIN 3,
Littlo Johnny—"Mrs. TalkemdowL
paid a big compliment to me to-day."
"Mother —"Did she really? Well,
there's no denying that woman has
sense. What did she say?"
Littlo Johnny—"She said she didn't
see how yon oame to havo such a nice
littlo boy as I was."—Good Nows.
A RETURN FIRE.
Conceited Dude—"l am looking for
Farmer Huckleberry's- Have you
senso enough to tell mo where he
lives?"
Irish Boy—"lt's mesilf who has
sinoo enuff ter tell yez; bat it's
moighty doubtful I bo whether yez
have sinoe enufF ter understhand."—
Harper's Weekly.
A OHANCE FOR A DARK HORSE.
Sister May—"l think if you should
propose to Grace she would accept
yon."
Brother Jack (eagerly)--"Do you?
Has she said anything?"
Sister May—"No; but I know she
was deeply in love with Harry Max
well, and his engagement lias just been
announced.Brooklyn Life.
UNABLE TO OBLIGE.
"Excuse me, sir," said tho man in
the row behind, "but would you mind
asking your wifo to remove her hat?
I assure you that I cannot see a thing
on the stage."
"I'd like to oblige you, sir, but it
is impossible," said the man ad
dressed. "We live out of town, and
wo must get home to-night."
"What has that got to do with it?"
"What has that got to do with it?
Why, our train goes twenty minute*
after the end of the pcrformnnoe, and
it ukt'« hrr an hour to ; t that list
vu." —littrpir'n Hn*;nr,
SCIENTIFIC AUD INDUSTRIAL,
The Yerkos telescope will bring tho
moon with fifty miles of Chicago.
It is estimated that 90,000 conver
sations take placo daily over tho tele
phones in New York City.
Tho "dumb piano" is a now inven
tion on which young ladies oan learn
musio without making any sound.
The common toad catches its insect
food by darting out its tonguo so
rapidly that the eye cannot follow tho
movement.
Two fine cobras, tho first over
brought alive to this country, have ar
rived at tho Philadelphia Zoological
Garden from India.
In nn experiment with electrioity
as a motive power on tho Nantasket
(Mass.) Beach Boad a speed of eighty
miles an hoar is said to have been at
tained.
The hygienic congress at Buda-Pesth
brought out tho fact that thero are
four times as many men who stammer
as there are women who are so af
flicted.
A Boston philanthropist has pur
chased 5000 acres of land on which ho
will erect 500 cottages for consump
tives, who will bo furnished easy em
ployment.
Tho Manchester (England) health
officer says that he finds tho death
rate of the Hebrews living in the
slums there ns low as in the healthiest
towns of England. This he attributes
to their cleanliness.
About eight miles from Benson,
Arizona, are vast ledges of silica,
which supply tho Bisbee works with
several carloads a week. They use it
for ' -.»Qg the converters. Tho ledges
aro forty feet high and sixty feet wide,
anil tho quantity seems inexhaustible.
A new invention has been designed
to prevent collisions at sea. At a re
cent test the forco from electro-mag
ncctic coils stationed ou board a ves
sel successfully influenced a chemi
cally preparod compass stationed some
six miles away, oausing it to set up au
instnntaneous peal of bells.
Belladonna is a preparation from
the deadly nightshade, a plant familiar
to most persons from being frequently
seen as uu ornamental shrub in the
flower garden. All parts of the plant
are actively poisonous, anil many fa
talities have resulted from tbo leaves
or berries being incautiously chewed
or eaten by children or even adults.
A blast of 1100 pounds of dvna
mito in twenty-£>even holes was
made recently at a quarry near Pro
vidence, B. 1., blowing off the face of
a cliff and dislodging about ton thou
sand tons of stone, some of the blocks
weighiug nearly twenty-five tons. Tho
holes woro twenty feet deop and tho
work of drilling is said to have cost
SIOOO, with $250 moro for tho ox
plosive.
A Dog Protector.
People who arc habitual dog hators
should read with some carc an incident
of lifo in Newark, where a pet dog led
a distracted mother to her littlo two
year-old, which had strayed from
home. Tho dog had kopt near the
child until the stupid individual into
whose hands tho child had fallen
started a crowd of boys off with it to
drown it, ou account of its strange ac
tions. The mother came up just in
time to rescue tho dog and then it iu
turu took her to whero the child was.
Tho only thing tho matter with the
dog was that it wanto.l to protect its
littlo mistress. Nine-tenths of tho
timo dogs that are simply overhoated,
fatigued or thirsty are set upon by a
wild crowd of human beiugs, who go
into a panic every time a dog pants
and are ready to kill every innocent
animal ou general suspicion. Hydro
phobia is bad enough, but it is a rare
disease, while the ignorant dog hater
is ever with us. Give the dogs a
chanoe.—Philadelphia Press.
The Bicycle Lamp.
'Thero is a fortuno awaiting the
mau who cau invent a really good bi
cycle lamp," said the instructor. "Tho
best one made is the searchlight,
which cannot bo bought for loss thau
$5 ; it is tho only ono in which kero
sene cau be burned, sperm oil being
used in the others. The groat a Ivant
ago of the searohlight is that it is less
liable togo out in running across oar
tracks, ruts or rough places, but a
sudden jerk often extinguishes the
light in this, as well as in the cheaper
aud less ingenious lamps. Tho truth
of tho business is if cyclists could buy
a woll perfected lamp thero would be
none of theso arrests of persons for
riding without lamps. Limps oost all
tho way from $1.50 up to $7, anil will
hold enough oil to burn aboat tour
hours."—Scientific American.
Future Singers From America.
"Within twenty-five yoars America
will bo furnishing the singers of tho
world," said an enthusiastic follower
of tho divino art, with whom I was
talking, the other day. "Singers aro
growing up all around us," she added,
"and tho schools aro full of really
wonderful voioes. Our ohief weak
ness is in tho way of tenors. We do
not seom to get great tenor voices.
Perhaps it needs a mountainous coun
try to produce them—a country like
Switzerland, which has brought out so
manv phenomenal tenors."—New York
World.
lluflalo Unused Willi Galloway Cattle.
In crossing the baflalo with the
Galloway cattle, a splendid coat is
produced. The hides of Galloway
cattlo of pure breed ate excellent for
all purposes for whioh buffalo hides
were aforetime used, but some breed
ers are of the opinion that by careful
selootion and breeding an infinitely
better grade cau be produced than
even tho primitive buffalo at his best
estate was able to furnish.—Now York
I*dger.
Terms—9l.oo in AdTanoe; t1.25 after Three Month*.
HEN OF THE SOUTR
HOW THKY HAVE DRIKTEF
FROM TKUK DEMOCRATIC
DOCTRINES.
Leaders Do Not Occupy the Old Solid
Ground of Their Fathers—Tliej
Favor Local, but Not National
Protection Tariff for Revenut
Only Not a True Doctrine.
The chasm between protection for
home industry and true Democracy is
not as wide or deep as many erron
eously suppose it to be. Tho fact i«,
too many men in the South of the
younger generation have been lot!
astray. Leaders in the South do not
occupy the solid ground which either
the old Whigs or the Union or Jack
son Democracy did years ago.
A "tariff for revenue only" is a new
theory comparatively. Many pretend
to favor, but fail to vote for, it in
Congress whenever a bill contaiuing
that idea is pr' onted that would op
erate harshly on somo product in their
own State, liko coal and iron in Ala
bama, marble in Tennessee or sugar
and rice in Louisiana. In other words,
it is a doctrine good enough in theory
but not in practice; liko Mark Twain's
lightuing rod, they wanted it put a
good ways off so as not to attract a
fluid that impoverishes, paralyzes and
destroys. As was well said, nearly
sixty years ago, by a very ably con
stituted committeo on "agriculture"
in Congress:
"We would respectfully insist that
when the soil, climate nnd other cir
cumstances will enable the people of
this country to ptoduco by their own
labor on their own soil any article
which is extensivoly consumed among
us, it is tho duty of the Government
to facilitate by all reasonable encour
agement tho production of that arti
cle. This course has ever boen pur
sued by our own Natiou aud by every
enlightened country ou tho face of
the globe I It is true that this policy
may for a short timo add something
to tho price; but this will bo much
more than compensated for by tho in
troduction of a new article of indus
try and its subsequent abuudance and
cheapness."
That has the ring of the true Ameri
can doctrine of protection.
Mr. Louis McLane, a Democrat and
President Jackson's Secretary of tho
Treasury, in his report December,
1831, favored a tariff that would dis
criminate so as "to encourage aud
protect tho labor of tho people of the
United States from the advantages of
superior skill and capital and the rival
preferences of foreign countries."
And he further said: "The various
opinions by which tho people of tho
United States nre divided upon this
subject concern tho peaco and har
mony of the country, and I recom
mend an adjustment on practical
principles rather than with reterence
to any abstract theories."
We find nothing in that about a
"tariff for revenuo ouly." Not ouly
Jackson nnd his friends, but the
Southern Whigs saw nothiug patriotic
nor sound in the theory of a "tariff
for revenue only." No true American
can. It is because modern Democracy
has deserted the true doctrine that we
find it split into factious North and
3outb, unable to agree either iu con
ventions or in Congress, aud drifting
ovor to tbe British iloctriue of Tree
trade.
How He Paid Ilis Debt,
Owing to tho exlromo depros lop in
business, during the past two yoirs I
was so unfortunate as to be compelled
to make au assignment, and thus pay
the debt of gratitude wo owe to Do
mocracy. For tho past mouth, once
a week, as I piiss from ray residence
daily to the office in which I found
employment after ray hard luck (and
in which I am seeking to study law),
I am confronted with that sacred em
blem wbioh Democracy flaunts iu my
face, aud over the door whero ray name
stood out in bold lotters during 1891-
92, denoting that I was iu tho busi
ness to stay and was prosperous, to
day the cry of the auctioneer is heard,
and my former effects bring about
eight to ten cents ou tho dollar. This
is tho history of my case, and thou
sands of others cau testify to tho same
story. Thank God, Democracy is not
perpetual. That the reign of Cleve
land is reaching its close, aud that the
honest yeomanry of our couutry have
recovered from tho delusions of 1892
and will continue hereafter to support
the party of progress aud patriotism!
CuAS. A. HAUEU.
Harrisonburg, V«.
John Bull Killed Out.
The last reports from Canada an
not satisfactory reading for English
manufacturers. It is stated that
"boiler plate, tank plato and sheet
steel, until lately imported solely from
England, is now imported from the
United States with almost as little ex
ceptionthat "galvanized iron is an
other artiolo in which tho imports
from the United States continue to
grow," and that "iron pipes come
from tho United States in increasing
quantities, several carloals oomiug iu
now almost daily." It looks, indeed,
on if the Araerioans had captured our
Canadian market, just as theGermaus
aud the Belgians have oaptareil the
markets of ludia aud our Australa
sian colonies.—London Iron aud Coai
Trades Beview.
USP the H.IIII? l'r.itiup!*.
No matter what kind of currency
ne have, it will not rekindle furuace:
and employ idle men HO loug as we go
abroad for our products which cau be
made at home beor.uso of the cheaper
labor prevailing there. -»> Governor
William McKitiley.
NO. 45.
Leave the Drammer Alone.
The American drummer has been a
snbjeet of discussion in the Honso of
Commons recently, and the sugges
tion was made that all commercial
travelers doing business in the United
Kingdom should be taxed. The Pres
ident of the "ritish Board of Trade,
however, thougnt it would be imprac
ticable as well as impolitic to do.this.
It certainly would have been. We now
permit the representatives of foreign
industries to do business in our States
without contributing to the expenses
of their Government. American man
ufacturers are taxed upon the value
of their land, buildings and factories,
besides which they pay much higßer
wages to their employes. The foreign
er, on the other hand, while paying
lower wages contributes nothing to
our State or municipal Government,
and would, if the free traders could
only have their way, be allowed to
sell his goods in our markets without
paying any customs duties. It would
certainly not be politio for the Brit
ish Government to tax Amerioan
drummers.
A Free Trade Front.
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Protection's Object Lesson?,
Protectionists throughout tlio whole
Country should oncourage industrial
exhibitions. Large or small, such
displays, when well arrauged, aro ob
ject lessons that demonstrate the wis
dom and expediency of diversifying
home industries and of establishing
them all over the land. They show
more dearly than books can do the
close, harmonious relations that bind
American producers, agricultural as
well as mechanical, together by the
bond of common interest.
From the modest New York exhibi
tion of 1854 to the great World's Fait
at Chicago, in 1893, each industrial
display has served to inspire pride in
American skill and labor. Persons
*ho have read the practical lesson
rightly have gone away from such
places steadfast protectionists, fully re
solved to insure fair play for homo in
dustries, despite the sophistries of
tarilF reformers and the like. They
have been able to observe the several
stages by the raw material, bo
it mineral or vegetable, has been ad
vanced until it appeared in all tho
fullness and beauty of tho finished
product—bearing irrosistiblo testi
mony to tho excellence of American
labor when placed under favorable
conditions.
Tho coming Atlanta exhibition or
Cotton States Fair oucht to bo a pow
erful agency in winning tho South
and Southwest over to tho side of pro
tectionists. Tho enterprise merits
hearty encouragement from Northern
and Western manufacturers. They
should aend to it the choieost pro
ducts of their factories, with such in
formation as will enable tho farmer
and the merchant to comprehend the
which they derive from tho de
velopment of home manufactures
under a tariff that will avowedly pro
rido protection as well as ample rev
anue.
Wl'sin's Well
Tho Treasury Department statistics
show that under the first eight mouth*
of tho Gorman tariff wo havo imported
$700,000 worth moro foreign mado
china, porcelain, pariau and bisque
ware, earthen, stone and crockery waro
than we did during tho tirst eight
months after tho McKinley tariff bo
came law. By more than this amouut
of money has the output of the Amer
ioan potteries been diminished, and
Americau manufacturers aud American
labor have been compelled to pay for
the gift mado by the free traders to
their foreign friend. As Professor
Wilson says, wo are "doing very
well," at least for his friends abroai
tho foreign manufacturers.
Patronize the American Seamstress.
n. !
Krec Tr« Ir, Mori I r.ixt?,
Tho plate glass triv«t has been
organized with a capital of leu mlilio i
dollars. Still the Drtmocratt ivv.it} I
tin- tariff lea* thin a year ago >» 1 >'>■' '
pleilge t.> thi' people thnt tin r • *ii ».|l-l
he n«> moro trusts. Cleveland (Oa;oJ
I .<•« ler.