SULLIVAN JSFTS REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIII. Oui oxport trade is rapidly increas ing. _ It is estimated that, on an average, gold in circulation woars out in 240 years. The London Engineer announces that it will give 1000 guineas in prizes for the best forms of horseless vehi cles. Tho new Salisbury Government has gone into power in England absolute ly untrammelod. It published no platform aud stated no issues. And now a chap out in Kansas in sists that the Russian thistle is good fodder for milch COWF, aud declines to desist from raising a nice patch for the purpose. Tho system of kindergartens estab lished on some of tho Indian reserva tions Las proved to successful that it is to bo widely extended, especially in tho Southwest, where tho Indian chil dren are extromely shy. For sorao remarkable reason not mado apparent to the New York Sun, Portland, chief commercial city of the Pine Tree State of Maine, is buying clapboards in tho State of Washing ton, 3000 miles away. Thero aro botween GOO and 1000 deaf mutes scattered through tho city of Chicago, and, according to tho De troit Free Tress, they aro all indus trious and fairly prosperous, earning their living honestly and uncomplain ingly. _____________ Texas still does things in a bigway, or not all, admits tho New York Mail and Express. For instanoe, ouo wo man owns 2000 square milos, embrac ing au entiro Congressional District, and, as sho controls tho votes of all her employes, sho practically selects the Congressman. There's a new woman and a half. A new street railway company iD Detroit, which has just begun to op erate its lines, is obligod by tho con ditions of its franchise to sell eight tickets for twenty-five cents. These tickets aro good only up to 8 p. m., af ter which time night tickets, sold six for twenty-fivo cents, aro accepted. The holder of a ticket is entitled to general transfer privileges. Tho com pany's franchise runs for thirty years, the city reserving tho right to pur chase tho property at tho end of that time. The English idea of speed has been so often illustrated by somewhat dis concerting tho examples of American progress in various departments of human endeavor, that it is not sur prising to tho Washington Star to lenru from a London technical journal that it was considered feat for certain engineers to replaco a sec tion of a great English railway bridge with new materials inside of thirty days. Commenting on this declara tion tho Engineering Record, pub lished on this 6ide, declares that American railway managers would have had the job done in a few hours and would have considered the loss of a day's traffic as inadmissible. Says tho New York Times: It would probably puzzle most people to tell, off hand, in what shape the Arctio regions have supplied even a quarter of"the products worth $1,200,000,- 000" which General Greely told the geographers assembled in London had come out of the frozen North during the past two centuries, and upon which he based his appeal for a vigorous continuance of Aretio exploration. Voyages in that direction are usually regarded as leading to frightful tragedies, rather than to any practical benefit for mankind. Theso tragedies, indeed, havo developed and served to display heroism nevei surpassed and perhaps never equaled in other parts 'of the world, but that cannot be measured in money, valuable a pos session as it is, and, of course, does not count in the twelve hundred millions. First among the things that do, no doubt, are tho whales, vast numbers of which have been captured in the icy seas since the hardy ex plorers proved that thoso waters were not impassable; other Arctic products are fossil ivory, the mineral cryolite, rioh in aluminium; the furs of seals, bear*, foxes and a few other animals; small quantities of gold—and about there the list begins to become diffi cult to lengthen, though specialists could probably continuo it through a line or two more. Some day tho North Pole—an object no less, or more, worthy of respect than tho equator will be added, but even then the enor mous sum mentioned by General Greely will seem quite beyond the average statistician's power to acejunt for. LONO AGO. TOien opal tint* and gray invtuls Tho crimson of the west— When daylight's lingering trnoos fade. And song birds seek tho nest— Whon shadows fall o'or hill aud plain, And stars iu heaven glow, Wo live in memory once again Tho days of leng ago. And friends of days forever o'or Around us closely stand, We feel tho kindly grnsp once more Of many a "vanished hand;" And though fond, loyal, brave nud true May bo the friends we know, No friends eau match tho friends we know And loved long, long ago. Though smiling fortuno on us shower Hor gifts with right good will — Though every passing day aud hour Be illled with sunshine still — Though joys and pleasures deep abound Upon tho way wo go, We sigh and dream o'or joys we found In days of long ago. And though wo form now friends, now ties, Now joys, now pleasures try. And though now hopes liko phantoms riso As in the days gone by, Whon comes tho holy calm of ovo Our tears unbidden flow; We love, wo hope, wo plan and griovo Again in Long Ago. —Chamber's Journal. DOWN THE* CHIMNEY. BY JAMES O. FUItDY. 112 AGGIE MILLS came out of tho woods with hor bauds full of tho pretty things she had gathered there, and rau sing ing across tho field. Sue Murry saw her coming and ran to meet her, with her apron full of dais ies. Then for a few minutes they wero very busy compar lu g and dividing their treasures. "Whore's Polly?" Maggio asked suddenly, remembering her little sis ter, who ought to bo claiming her share in all this. "Why, sho stayed in tho woods wfth you." "No, sho didn't; she went with you after tho daisies." "I haven't seo her sinco I came out of tho woods." "Neither have I. Oh, dear! Polly ! Polly Mills! Polly-c-e-er!" The two girls beginning to bo really frightened now, droppod their flowers aud hurried back among tho trees. They run this way and that, calling all the timo to tho lost baby, but no answer came to their calls. The region was wild, tho woods reached far over rocky hills and deep ravines, and lit tle Polly was only four years old ; al together the troublo was a pretty ser ious ono. "Suo Murray, you run as fast as you can to the village and find some men to como and hunt for my little sister. I'll stay here and look all through tho woods and all over tho field while you are gone. Don't como back without some meu 1" Without a word Sue started away iu prompt obodienco toward tho village. Suo ran ou as fast as sho could go, and Maggie resumed her almost hope less search. At first she ran back and forth through the woods, calling, but presently sho realized that no good could como of that. Thon she sat down aud studied the situation. She had a clear brain, and was fairly in working order by this time. She could reason things out, and sho could form somo sort of plan for tho work that had to be done. Recalling tho timo that Suo left her in tho woods and went out into the field to gather daisies, she was sure that little Polly had gone into the field also. Sho remembered hearing tho child call to Suo to wait for her, and seeing her run in that direction. Polly had not como back, and Maggie had seen and heard nothing of hor since; the field, therefore, was the placo to look for her. It was a rough placo, as many of the fields about there. Like most of the land in that region, it bolonged to "The Conpany," and the company made uso of it at present. All the valuable land was away in another direotion, the mines at this side of tho villago had been worked out and abandoned so long ago that not many people remembered anything about them. But Maggio thought nothing about mines or anything connected with mines; she thought only of her lost sister, and of the most likely place in which to look for her. The only clue that she could think of at first was tho daisies. Polly had gone there to pick daisies, and when sho could not overtake Sue she was likely togo where tho daisies grew thiokest. Over yonder, by that groat clump of weeds and bushes, was a placo that looked liko a snow drift, it was so thickly strewn by the pretty white flowers. Maggie went there, and looked and called and listeuod. Once she thought sho heard an an swer to her calls, but it appeared she bad only disturbed a meadow lark at rest in tho clump of bushes. She was about leaving tho place when she made a littlo discovery—sho found some plucked daisios lying scattered in tho grass. Somebody had been there then I Was it Sue or was it Polly ? Sue had como to meet Maggio from an entirely different di rection ; it must have been Polly that picked those scattered flowers. Yes! there amoug the fallen daisies was tbo crushed fern that Maggie had given to the baby in the woods. Suo had brought no fern out with her. Polly had been here. But where was she now? Maggie called again, and only the LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1895. meadow lark Answered her; she searched among tbo high grass, hop ing to find the tired child asleep on tbo ground ; she went close and peered in among tlio thickly growing weeds and bushes of the clump. It was a forbidding place in there; Polly was enterprising but alio would hardly cboose such a placets that to explore. More likely sho had followed on after Sue. Maggie wont in tho direction Sno had come from, calling as she went. She stopped running just in time to savo herself from falling iuto a great, ragged hole in the ground. A second look showed her that the hole was not very deep, but it was quite deep enough. At the bottom and all about the sides, wero fragments of rough and broken rock mingled with the earth. It was evident that the ground had caved in there, forming a danger ous trap for an incautious rambler. Maggie trombled to think what must have happened if poor little Polly had fallen into it. Very carefully sho examined the edges and sides of the holo ; there was no signs that even a baby footstep had disturbed tho ground there recently. Slio mado her way cautiously down the side of tho opening, and then she saw that tho holo was deeper than it seemed, Rocks and earth had choked it some distance above the bottom, but narrow openings hero nnd thero revealed greater depths below. It was not a safe place to stay, aud Maggio climbod back to the solid ground. "Polly isn't iu that place; that's a comfort," sho said to herself. "The company ought to be sued for having such holes about for folks to tumblo into!" That last thought brought another. It's tho company's old mine, that's what it is!" sho cried out. "And this is a cave in. Part of tho mino is down thero under thoso stones, and I might havo tumbled to the bottom of it. Oh, suppose Polly has fallen iuto it!" Tho only way to find out was to get in thero and search, but sho could not do that alone. Tho minute Sue brought thoso men they must find tho eutraiieo to tho mino and explore every nook and cranny of it. At that moment sho hoard the same faint cry that she had hoard back hero among the daisies. It was fainter this timo and seemed to come from tho depths of that holo in tho ground. It was not the note of o meadow lark ; how could sho over have thought that? It was the faint cry of a child ! It was little Polly calling, aud Polly was somewhero close at hand! Heedless of all danger, Maggie clambered down into tho hole once more and began to toss about the stones that lay there. In a few sec onds she had moved enough of them to make an opening iuto tho passage below. Peering down iuto this she saw that the passage appearod to lead back in tho direction of tho patch of daisios. "Pollyl Whero aro you, Polly?" she cried. Sho heard u faint answor, audit seemed to come along tho buried pas sage from tho diroctiou of tho daisios. That clump of weeds and bushes beside tho daisies—that was the possiblo hid ing placo of the mystery. It must be explored at ouce. Maggie got safely out of the hole aud ran at full speed buck along tho way that sho had late ly come. As sho rau sho heard auother voice; Sue had come back aud was calling to hor from the woods. "Hero I am! Here! Come quick all of you." Crying out these words at tho top of her voice, Maggie plunged out of sight into the hoart of the clump of bushes. Suo had heard hor answer and came ruuning out of the woods, followed by two men. The two meu wero old and decrepit, past their working prime; but they woro tho only ones that Sue had been able to find. Tho others wore all away at their work in tho mines. Tho three new comers stopped and looked about tho field for Maggie. Her voico had sounded near, put now sho was nowhoro to bo seen. Suo called, but thero was no answor. "Where in tho world can sho havo gono to?" Sue cried in amazemont. "I thought she was right hero!" At that instant th'ey wero all startled by hearing Maggio's voice again. It sounded farther away this time, and was different from the clear, ringing cry that they that they had first heard. "That's Maggie," said Sue, "but she sounds underground ?" "An' good reason sho havo," Reubon Jessup remarked solemnly. "For she is underground. David, it's my belief as the two childers has somehow fell into tho old mine hereabouts." "But she was right here only a min uto ago," Sue urged, in great alarm. "How could she fall into a mine just in a minute, that way?" "Reuben's right," said David. "Ther's pits an' ther's cavo-ins an' thor's the chimuoy. The ohimney's the likeliest placo eh, ltoubon?" "She couldn't fall into a chimney without climbing up to the top of it first, and sho hasn't had timo for that. And besides, there isn't any chiuiuey anywhere about hero." "Just the shaft o' tho old mine, child," Reubon explained. "Meu fell to calling it the chimnoy after tramps set firo to timbers in tho idle workin's an' the smoko rose from tho shaft days aud nights. Whoro would tho chim ney be, David? I'vo lost uiy bearin's through all tho changes that has como over the ploco." Tho two old mon bogan to compare recollections, and to recall one landmark after anothor in the effort to locate "the chimnoy," and impatient Sue was driven to distraotion by their deliberation. Sho startod away from thom, following as well as she could tho direotion of Maggie's ory. The cry was repeated, louder this time, followed by urgent words. Suo ran • eagerly forward, followed by the two old men, who also heard the loud call. It was a timely warning for Sae. Without it, in the darkness of the dismal plaoe sho had entered, she might h&ve plunged headlong into the pit that yawned almost under her feet. As it was she checked herself jast in tirto to keep from falling. She held on by ono of the bushes and loaned over the opening. She oould see nothing but darkness. "It's here," Reuben declared, com ing to the edge of tho olump. "I re member now, David. Tho chimney's here, on' not over yon where you would have if." "For goodness sake, don't arguo any more about tho chimney!" Sao cried impatiently. "What differenoo docs it make? Maggie and Polly are down in this hole, whether it's tho chimney or not. Now, how aro we going to got them out? That's the question." "No such haste, lass," said old Reu ben, solemnly. "It's tho chimney, suro enough, thoy'vo fell into, an' ther's no way to get 'em from tho bot tom o' that but by diggin'. Rescue parties must be brought from tho mines. An' then I doubt if wo can get to them in time, poor things!" "Nonsense, Mr. Jessup!" Tho words came with startling force and clearness from somewhere in tho chimney, and thoy secmod not to come from tlio bottom of it. The voice was Maggie's, and it was strong and in good condition. "Just bring tho ladder from our house, that's all you need," Maggie went on."The timbers and planks have fallen in and lodged crosswise, so as to make a sort of platform down here. We're so far down that we can't climb out without help, that's all. Neither of us is hurt a bit. Hurry with tho ladder, please, for we don't find it pleasant here !" "If tho ladder will serve, thon we'll waste no time with ladders." This was slew croaking old Reubon. He seomod to havo grown young and activo within tho minute. "Lay yourself down just there, David," ho commandod. "Put ono arm about tho end o' that timber for steadiness, an' hold hold fast to mo with the other hand. So, I reoollect now tho lay o' theso timbers after they foil down tho chimney. An' you, lass," to Sue, "you stand by to tako the baby from my baud when I lift her up thore." Holding fast by tho band of his old friend, the miner went slowly down into the darkness of the pit. A mis step as he put his foot now on one and then ou auothor of the fallen timbers, would have meant grave disaster to all of them; but thore was no misstep. And there was no lo< sening of the withered baud that held him. For tho rescue of tho two imporiled chil dren. the two old mou were strong again with tho strength of their prime. They know, as Maggio never knew, what peril thero was in every moment ou that rickety platform of rotton wood. Happily, as Maggio had said, tho platform was not for down. Iu a few minutes old Reubou climbed a littlo way up again, and delivered littlo Polly iuto tho outstretched hands of waiting Sue. Next ho loaned far down aud caught the upreaching arms of Maggie. He pulled hor up to tho timber ho stood upon aud from there sho nimbly made hor way to safety without further help. Not too soon. Younger hands wore needed now for what had to bo done. David's old hand was trembling piti fully, and Reuben's weight was heavier upon it thau it ha 1 been. Maggie and Sue caught the hand of Reuben and pulled with all thoir strength. Very slowly, and with foot that had lost all the firm confidence they so recently had, the old mau came again to tho top of tho chimney. "They say we're no moro fit for work, David," ho chuckled, feebly, as ho sunk down upon the ground to rest. "It took but littlo timo to provo that a mistake," David remarked, as ho sat down besido him. And tho children sat with them and held their hands until tho old mon wero able to tottor homo.—Philadel phia Times. A Remarkable ludiaua Family. Isaac Martz contributes an artiolo to tho New Arcadia in which ho givos somo history of a romarkablo family. Ho and Mosos Martz are twin brothers, eighty-threo years old. They woro born May 27, 1812, in Piokaway County, Ohio. Thoy married twiu sisters, Levina and Tabitha McCar mick, who wero born noar Conners villo, Ind., in 181 C, also ou tho 27th day of tho mouth. They wero mar ried on tho 27th day of November, 1831, and each brother reared a fam ily of twelve children, there being sovou boys aud five girls in eaoh fam ily. Thero wero but four days' dif ference between tho birth of thoir first children and six days between the last children born to each family.—ln dianapolis News. Kucw What lie Didn't Want, Charley went out to an afternoou party tho other day, says tho Boston Record. His mother hal enjoined ou him to bo very polite. Sho went with him, aud all tho mothers of the other boys wero interested in tho success of their sons. The oako was passed to Charley. "Will you have somo cako, Char ley?" "No," was his short and prompt response. "No what?" said Charley's mother. "No cake," replied ho, quickly. The Largest Check Ever Brawn. It is said that the largest oheok was drawn on the Cape of Good Hope Bank on July 18, 1839, in settlement of the amalgamation of tho Kimberley dTJ mond mines. It was for £3,333,65 ft, or about $25,000,000. —Trenton (tf, J.) Amerioan. THE MERRY" SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARK TOLD BT THE FUNKY MEN OP THE PRESS. The Ideal and the Real— A Fashion able Physician—Likely to Win— Anti-Paradoxical, Etc., Kte. Years aud years he spent at college. Filling up his head with knowledge, Learning Hebrew. Latin, Greek, Growing wiser week by week, But one thing he did net learn—• llow his dully bread to oarn. Now his time he does employ Hunting for u job, poor boy. —Kansas City Journal. OBVIOUSLY TRUE. He—"They say there's no end to Mrs. De Smyth's jewelry." She—"l guess that's true —she has two rings and a bracelet."—Chicago Record. rLACINd THE RESPONSIBILITY. He— "Will you bo my wife?" She—"Oh, this is such a surprise'' He—"l can't help that. It isn't my fault that you've nover hoard anything liko it before. "—Life. A FASHIONABLE PHYSICIAN, Carson—"What makes Dr. Crum mer so popular?" " Volses—"He considors laziness a disease and treats it with palatable medicines and European trips."— Puok. LIKELY TO WIN. Dimo Museum Manager—"Wantn position here, oh V Huh ! W hat are pou remarkable for ?" Hungry Tramp—"l'd liko to take part in au oatin' match."—New York Weekly. Ms SPECIALTY. Farmor Hayrake—"Did your sou team anything at college?" Farmer Oatttraw —"Yes; I gave him a hammer to mond tho barn with, aud be threw it so far I hain't boon able to Qnd it."—Puck. ANTI-PAHAIJOXr'.VU Frizzer—"That young doctor Fow jalls is a remarkably patient man, isn't he?" Sizzer —"For a person who has no patients at all, ho is."—Browning, King & Co.'s Magazine. CASH WANTED. Mr. Citiraan (who has brought hi 3 family to board at a farm house for the summer, as ho comos down stairs af ter his arrival) "But lam usually never asked to pay my board iu al vance. Are you afrut ito trust me?" Mr. Meddors—"No, but the store keepers round hero bo 'fraid to trust me."—Puck. Ms INVESTMENT. "Mister," said tho mau with thn suspicious side glance, "can you tell mo whore tho nearest trolley roa I is?" "Certainly," was tho reply. "For a dollar aud a half 1 ought to bo able to rido about throe dozen times, oughtn't I'" "Yes." "Well, I guess that'll do. Some thing is bound to happen within that spaco of time." "You look liko a kind-hearted mm, *nd I'll tako you iuto my confidence. Ml I've got is au accident iusuranco policy, aud this dollar and a half. My once chance is to cash that policy, And, as thero hasn't been a smash up of any kind for several dayn, I feel purtysure that I'm due to draw a div idend."- -Washington Star. KEEPINtI BABY (jtTIET. "flood gracious," roared tho police man, springing upstairs three stops at a jump aud dashing with uplifted truncheon into the photograplisr's studio, "what uro you fightiug about ap hero? Aro you all iu this row?" Grandpa und Uncle Johu and Auut Sarah and pa and ma and Cousiu Bes sio and youug Mr. Thinlogs, her young man, and tho two oousius fro.u Birmingham and Undo Charley aud grandma, all lookod kiud of silly aud were quiet, but tho photographer said: "Oh, that's all right, ollieer, there's no row ; we're just tryiug to koep the baby quiet while we tako its picture, bless it." Exit policemau. Chorus—Ram, bang, smash, jiaglo, whistle, crash, slam, toot to toot, bang, bang, smash! Picture is taken. -Tit-Bits. SHE KNEW THE DIfPEIiEMCE. When he came around to the bask of the house he foaud one lono woman shelling peas oa the door-step—no other person iu sight; no dog. Clear ly, this was a time to act boldly. "Madam," he said, "1 don't look it, but I could fed an ox with ouo blow." "My goodness!" she exclaimod , "you must bo quite a blower —I moan, you must be quito a foilor." "I'm a whirlwiud, woman!" "I s'pose you are sometimes blowiu' in one quarter, an I sometimes an other," sho romarko.l t without ap parent agitation ; "but I don't think you'll fiud any quarters around hero to blow in, nor any niokols, nor uny hot coffee. No,'' she continued : "I know tho differenoo between a whirl wind and a nasty littlo fre3b bree/.j from the fertilizer factory, and I'd a littlo rather you'd move along. I'm afraid somethin' *ll blow off froua you into these peas." He thought he'd made a mistako and mumbled that ho meant nothing by what he'd said, aud BO forth ; but she remarked emphatically that she meant nothing by what said, too; and, as he walked towaid the street, she might possibly have been shelling peas a little faster than be fore, but not much.—Puck. Terms—Sl.oo in Advance ; 81.25 after Three Month*. "JAPAN AS A MARKET FOR US." The New York Herald of recent dato had a two-column illustrated article with the above heading. Out of tho ontire foity-one inches of spaco occu pied, exaotly two inohos, less than five per cent, of the whole, is devoted to the subject of "Japan as a Market for Us." We quote this portion of tho article as follows: "Throughout the dinner the con versation turned mainly upon tho do sire of Japanese merchants and busi ness men to not only incroaso tho traffic between Japan and tho United States, but to make,Tf possible, Japan a better customer of theUnited States. All present admittod. that our country was not only the best friend senti mentally that Japan had, but tho bast friend commercially. Every gentle man who cpuld speak English con voyed to mo personally his apprecia tion of the just and fair courso of tho Herald toward Japan, and tho advan tage it was to havo iu tho United States a journal so influential to ad vocate Japan's interests. Some of them expressed tho hopo that tho Her ald would advocato a policy that would enable our manufacturers to place their goods iu Japanese markets iu competition with tho manufactures of Europe, aud which would opon up our cotton field especially to the Japaneso manufacturers." The forogoiug impression of Colonel Cooker ill's, it would appear, was ar rivod u't after dinner when ho had been tho recipient of a banquet ac corded him by some Japauese ladies aud gentlemen. Before the diuner the gallant Colonol was presented with o souvenir which ho desoribes as a "rare beauty." Wo should mention that the "rare beauty" was not a Japanese maidon, as some of tho Colonel's friends might perhaps imagine. We await with interest, iu a subse quent lotter, tho details aud particu lars that will show how tho Policy ol Idiocy advocated by tho Herald "would enable our manufacturers tc place their goods iu the Japanese markets." Lot us havo something more than two inches of balderdash, so that tho next articlo may bo worthy of its caption. Cookoil Their (loose. During eleven months of the las' fiscal year, up to May 31, 1895, w< imported almost 81,500,000 worth o crude feathers and dowuH. Under the McKinl ey tariff a protection of 50 pel ceut. ad valorom was accorded tc American foatheis and downs. The free trade slaughtorcrj abolished thii protection, plaoingcrudo feathers and downs upon tho free list. The largest gooso growiug Statu iu this country is Missouri, where Sena tor Vest comes froin. Iu Missouri two Fronch breeds of geese, known as the Emdeu and Toulouse, have been imported aud improved upon. The States of Kentucky aud Teunosseo are the two next largest producers, aud tho three best markets for gooso feath ers are at St. Louis, Nashville and Louisville, thoso three cities receiv ing and distributing fully two-thirds of all our domestic gooso feathers that Are grown iu the United States. Tho protection giveu to this South - cru industry under tho McKiuley tariff largely stimulated au increase in the number of geose, but not eveu the boss freo trade gauder, Senator Vest, raised his voice for protection to a Southern industry, but he was content to pluck tho last feather from tbo goose that lays so many golden oggs for his fellow citizens iu his own State. Their Bad Memory. While the free trade papors jubilate over tho restorations voluntarily made iu tho wage schedules of somo fac tories, thoy invariably forget to state that such inorease does not make the rate of pay now received by tho wage earners equivalent to thoir earnings in 1892. Another point to which they fail to refer is that, whore wages have been advancod, it is very olteu the caso that such an advance was made to far fewer people than wero em ployed in 1892. A firm may thee have been employing 500 bauds, and oven if tho same rato of wages should now be paid it is often the case that only 350 hands are employed. What then has become of tho other 1591 Has somo other industry made such marked progress under tariff reform as to be able to absorb these idlers? If so, why have not tho free trade oditors recorded the fact? It is most likely that the 150 have either loft the country or are tramping around still looking for that job whioh they had before they voted for President Cleve land and tariff reform. Ilard Times on tho t'ow. An exohange tolls of a man out iti the western part of tho State who went into his cow stable the other night and by mistake mixed tho oow up a nice mash in a box full of sawdust instead of bran. The oow merely supposed the hard times were tho oauso of the economy, meekly ate her suppor, and the man never discovered his mistake until tho next morning, when he milked tho oow and she let down half a gallon of turpentine, a quart of shoe pegs and a bundle of lath.—Middle burgh (N. Y.) News. Free Trade in Eiw. Freo egga aro of a great assistance to the British farmers. Tho imports of 4ggs into tho Unltod Kingdom dar ing 1894 were worth $18,420,118. With a proteotfve tariff upon oggs most of tnis money wonld have been retained in the British Isles instead of being sent to Franoe, Germany, Bel ginm, Denmark and Basel*. NO. 4V). FREE WOOL'S WORK. i A MANUFACTURER PREDICTS A SKHIOI'S STOPPAGE OB" MACHINERY. An- English Correspondent's Statis tics Confirm the Gloomy Fore boding:—Kreo Wool Gives No Protection to habor In the Mills —Foreign Factories Reap a Great Harvest. Au illustration of the manner in .vhich American woolen manufactur fcra are faring with froo wool, we have !>een advised by a manufacturer at Franklin, Mass., that "had I thought Qrovcr would have allowed suoh a bill (tho Gorman tariff) to become law, I would havo stopped and retired. Thero is nothing in the business to day for tho worsted maker." This manufacturer was in reoeipt, July 22, of a letter from Bradford, accompanied by samples of and fancy worsteds. Tho serge is sold in Rreaao from tho loom by tho manu facturer at twonty-eight cents per yard. It is woven, burled and sewn and ready to dye. It is sixty-four inches wide. The Amerioan manu facturer oannot buy yarn, or stook, necessary to mako similar goods and placo it in hia loom at the same price, twenty-eight cents per yard, at which, tho Bradford sergo is sold, the stock alone costing hero thirty-fivo cents; yet tho Bradford manufacturer can buy his yarn, woavo it, sell it at twenty-eight cents per yard and fig ure out a profit. Tho eamo is the case with fancy worsteds, selling at fifty-ono cents by tho Bradford maker. As wo havo freo wool and the Eng lish manufacturers havo free wool, tho mills in both countries can Start upon nearly tho samo footing as far as their raw material is conoerned. What, then, is the differodce? It is in tho labor of spinning and mauufaoturing, which in weaviug is 112 per cent, higher in tho United States than in Bradford. This simply confirms the argument of protectionists that tho bulk of the cost, in this case fully ninety per cent., of a manufactured article is the labor employed in making it. Freo wool affords no protection to Ameri can labor in the woolen mills. Our Franklin correspondent states that one importing house has sold for a Bradford firm, this season, to the extent of 10,000 pieces of fino worsted cloth at 81 a yard, and he anticipates that "in less than eighteen months there will be more machinery stopped than in 1893, unless the tariff is ad vanced." Confirming this opinion of tho manufacturer at Franklin, we append, without any comment, a letter re ceived from a correspondent at Brad ford, Euglaud: "BRADFORD, July 13, 1895. "The great manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, but more especially Bradford, are fall steam ahead. Work is pleutiful, competition is keen, wages low. That may seem to be a paradox to some readers of the Econo mist, but it is nevertheless so and must continue. On overy hand, our merchant princes and the press claim, us one of our leading daily papers said last week, that our manufacturers have taken your market by storm. Whether that be so or not I will leavo your readers to settle, but it does ap pear to me that whon I consider the amount of exports that aro leaving these shores destined to your market, tho English operators must be receiv ing a fair share of patronage, whioh patronage your own operators and employed havo a just right to do mand. Tho fow returns whioh I havo hurriedly gathered and put together, showing what we sent across to your sido in Juno only, is indoed a splendid object lesson to all truehoarted Ameri cans. It should promoto thought and "FOREIGN IMPORTS ABE RAPIDLY RISING.' reflection in all those who havo the power to think, and especially among your own responsible parties. The following are tho increased shipments when compared with the correspond ing month of July, 1891: BriidforJ £393.531 12 7 Glasgow 3ti,56< 3 l'l Shefilold 41,91(1 6 i Leeds 41,169 a { Manchester 85,737 13 ( £497,923 3 1( "The exports from Bradford alone during the half year reached £2,169,- 265 12s. 9d. more than daring the tame period in 1894. Farther re marks just now are needless. Con sidei these figures soberly and ration ally. My aketoh speaks loudly the faot that foreign imports aro rapidly rising. How long is this to continue!" Stmndrl Hturteon s hot. A sturgeon weighing 200 pounds and meas uring eight feet in length was shot recently by the ferryman at Bust Windsor. Conn. The fish was stranded on a sand bar. Klchent state In Proportion to Mir. Rhode Island. In proportion to slie and population, is among the rieheat of the coti | mouwoalthe, being assessed at t3&i,586,<73.
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