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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. -v| 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.