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.