SULLIVAN JSMk REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. Chicago expects soon to monopolizo tho industry of making car wheel tires. A London physician is now recom monding tho bicycle as a preventive and cure for asthma. r Statistics show that in Germany's population of 50,000,000 the females outnumber the mnles by nearly a mil lion. The tax on bicycles paid France about SIOO,OOO this year. There are nearly 200,000 machines in use in that country. Massillon, Ohio, lias granted a pen sion of $330 a year to a school ma'am, who has been assisting its young ideas to shoot for the past lifty years. Andrew Carnegie has got Great Britain down on him by comparing the equipment of their railroads un favorably with that of tho American roads. American railway engines are more favored in Japan than English ones. But the Japs will build their own right away, laments the New York Re corder. In the horsos of the United States at $078,000,000. At present theyare $570,000,000, though there are a mil lion more of them. In tho high schools of Japan the English language is placed on the same footing as tho Japanese and its study is compulsory. Tho Japs are as good at looking after tho future as they are in keeping up to date in current af fairs. Max Edel, a German bacteriologist, recently took a bath and then exam ined the water for microbes. Ho found that it contained 5,850,000,000 ! After a bath of one foot only ho esti mated the number of microbes at 180,- 000,000. A report to the English Parliament shows that from 1877 to 1893, in clusive, 353 English convicts woro sentenced to bo flogged under laws which allow this punishment to be in flicted in certain gross cases of assault. It is said that such crimes have not diminished in frequency as a result of the severity of tho punishment. Miss Edith Sessions Tupper says tho new man us seen in New York City has a vacuut stare in his eyes. No wonder, observes tho Chicago Times- Herald, the new woman is crowding him out of nearly every channel of activity, and ho has boon hunting for ft vacancy for so long he can be ex cused if ho has a vacant look about the eye. Fish-hatchiug in China is sometimes conducted with the aid of a ben. The spawn ip collected from the water's edge and placed in an empty ogg-shell. Tho egg is then sealed with wax and placed under a sitting hen. After soino days the egg is carefully broken and the spawn empted into water well warmed by the sun. There the littlo fish are nursed until they are strong enough to be turned into a lake or stream. Paris has now 81,201 "houses," 835 "woritshops" and 1807 buildings which ure designated as "a mixture of houses and workshops"—representing a value of 82,200,000,000. The value of real estate has doubled since 1862, As especially notable in connection with these statistics, the Petit Journal mentions that, just as tho residence in the richer quarters must have horse etables convenient, so, now in the con struction of new buildings nearly everywhere provision is being made for properiy "stabling the steel horses"—the all-pervading bicycle. The New York Sun says: At last it is beginning to be realized that the case of the English grain raisers is permanently hopeless. The fact was practically admitted at the confer ence on the question of National bread supply held this week. The comforting notion had been clung to for several years past that there is such a thing as a limit to tho depres sion, and when that has been reached matters will necessarily begin to mend. Last year it was thought that British corn had reached such a point, and that as the framer could not pos sibly do worse he was bound to do better. This cheerful calculation has been upset. In the coming season England will import a larger propor tion of meat and flour even than last year. As matters stand wheat can only be grown at considerable loss, and though the lsrge farmers may continue to produoeit at a loss for the Bake of collateral advantages, the small ones cannot afford to do so, and moro arable land is bound togo out of cul tivation. THE REAPERS. The long day'-s toll was over- A bird sang in a tree; The Hunshlnc kissed the clover Oood-by, and—she kissed me! Then lovelier seemed the sunshine, And sweeter sang the bird; And if the olover listened My throbbing heart it heard. For all day long, a-reaping In fields of silver-shine, I felt her heart a-sreeping And cuddling close to mine. And lighter seemed the labor, And winsomer the wheat That spread its golden tresses For the falling of her feet. And when the toil was over A bird sang in a tree; Tbi sunshine kissed the clover Good night, and—she kisse 1 me! —Frank L. Stanton. A MODEL EXISTENCE. fMRS. DEWSFORD sat iu her own room employed in fastening but terflies on a sheet of pasteboard, with an "Ency clopedia of Ety mology" lying on the table be 8h e was a spare, prim, hard-f eaturod matron—one who believed in \V[/imen's Rights, and thought woman generally k «nrmh abused personage, deposed from her proper sphere and trampled on by the tyrant Man! Mrs. Dewsford had como very near being a man herself—what with a deep voice and bearded chin, and a figure quite innocent of all uupertluous curves or graces! But Lizzy Dewsford was quito dif ferent—Lizzy Dewsford who stood be side her mother with cheeks round and ripe as a fall peach, deep blue eyes made mystic and shady by their long lashes, and brown hair wound round her pretty head in shining coils. You wondered, as you gazed at her, how they could both bo women, and yet so unlike. "Nonsense, child!" said Mrs. Dews forJ, critically examining a butterfly with pale yellow wings, sprinkled with carmiue. "But, mamma," pleaded Lizzy, "it isn't nonsense. He really does want to marry me." "Marriage is all a mistake, Eliza beth," said Mrs. Dewsford, laying down her magnifying glass. "I don't mean you shall marry at all." "Mamma!" "A woman who marries," went on strong-minded matron, "is a woman enslaved. If I bad known as much about life when I was eighteen as I do noW, I would never have married. From the standpoint of a grand mis take committed in my own life, I can rectify yours, Elizabeth." "But, mamma!" cried poor Lizzy, "what shall I do?" "Do, child! do!" cjaoulated the mother. "That is a pretty question for my daughter to ask ! Why, read —study—improve your mind. De vote all the energies of your nature to the solving of the great social pro blems that surround you." "I don't care a piu for the sooial problems, mamma," remonstrated Lizzy. "I like Charley Everett, and I'm going to marry him." "Sever with my cocsent." "Ob, mamma,"cried Lizzie, aghast, "surely you would not—" "Elizabeth," said Mrs. Dewsford, in a tone of judicial calmness, "don't you see what a confusion you are cre ating among these inseots which I have so carefully claseiticd. I beg you will interrupt my studies no longer. Go and read that 'Report of the Eng lish Convention for the Amelioration of Womankind.' What are you cry ing for? A well-regulated woman never cries." "1 wish I wasn't a woman," sobbed poor Lizzy. "I wish I wasn't some thing that had to be elevated and im proved and cultivated! Ob, mamma, darling, you weren't in earnest when you said you wouldn't consent to my marrying Charley! We shall be so happy together; and he says he will be miserable without me, and—" "Elizabeth, I am astonished at you. Of oouree I was in earnest! I have neither gold nor jewels to lay on the Bhrine of the cause; but I have a daujgliter, and I intend to show the world what a woman unshackled and unfettered can be capable of! You, Elizabeth, should glory in thus be coming an offering." But Lizzy, apparently unapprccia tive of the great lot in store for her, cried more piteously than ever. "Tears will not melt me," said Mrs. Dewsforil, calmly resuming the encyclopedia. "I only regret to be the mother of so degenerate a daugh ter!'' X "Mamma," ventnreaVoor Lizzy, after a few miuutes of silvM; grieving. "I—l promised Charley tK. ride out with him this afternoonb" \ "ion must give him up, Elizabeth. On such a subject I cau ucceV QQ compromise. \ "But I promised, mammal" Mrs. Dewsford gravely rubbed tV end of her nose. \ "A promise is a promise, Elizabeth; nor shall I require you to broak it." (Hero Lizzy visibly brightened.) "But I shall accompany you." (The pretty face beoame clouded and over cast once more.) "Where are you go ing?" "To the woods beyond tho glen, mamma. Charley is going to get some wood sorrel for my herbarium." "Nor will the expedition prove un profitable tome," said Mrs. Dewsford, grcvely. "There are many ohoies LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1895. rieties of Adiantum and Asplenium to be found in those woods, ami my col lection of ferns is as yet incomplete." And Lizzie went away in great con sternation—not to read reports, nor to study paleontology, but to slip out in the garden where a great Michigan rose carpeted the velvet grass with showers of soft pink petals at every passing breath of air, and tfhere Charley Everett was busied in whit tling out stakes for carnations! "Ob, Charley, Charley! I am bo miserable!" "Lizzy, what is the matter?" He dropped knife, and all, in dis may at her woeful countenance, and Lizzy told him io the best of her abil ity what "the matter" was! "Is that all,"he asked quietly, when the recital was eoncluded. "Isn't that enough," she rejoined, piteously. "When we were going to have such a nice drive all by our selves, and come home by moonlight, and—" "'Don't fret, cara mia, it will be all right. 80 she won't consent to our marriage, th?" "She says most positively that she will not." "What shill we do, Lizzy? Shall we elope quietly?" "Oh, Charley, yon know I would never marry without her consent!" "And are two lives to be made mis erable just because 6he thinks matri mony a mistake?" he asked gravely. "I suppose so, Charley!" Lizzy Dewsford's pretty head dropped like a rose in the rain. Charley watched her quivering lip and tear-wet eyelashes, and said no more! Mrs. Dewsford was ready, with a preposterous drab umbrella to keep off the sun, «„tin case to put ferns in, and an extra pair 01* Jmots, in the event of swampy walking, when Ju't JVerett's little light wagon drove up to the dooY: The springs creaked ominously as she stepped id, and Lizzy, meekly follow ing, was nearly overwhelmed by her mother's voluminous drapories. "I had better sit in tho middle—it preserves the equilibrium of the ve hicle better," said Mrs. Dewsford, wedging herself in between Lizzy and Mr. Everett with a smile of great com placency. And she immediately began dis coursing on the properties and habits of the fern, with unpausing volubility, while Lizzie, perched on the extreme outer edge of the seat, had all she could do to keep in tho wagon, and Mr. Everett's eyes were in extreme danger with the points of the drab umbrella, which veered to and fro like a ship in a storm, as Mrs. Dews ford's tale waxed in interest. Suddenly she checked herself, as her eye caught a cluster of green wav ing vegetation on the crest like point of a rock which overhung the road. "Charles! Charles!" she cried, "stop a minute! Can't you reach that Asplenium Ebenum?" "Is this it, ma'am?" said Mr. Ev erett, making a divo at a tall mullein ■talk. "No, no; not that—the littlo greon thing with the black stem!" "This, ma'am?" hazarded Charley, clutching at a fat-leavod clover of weedy growth. "Oh, dear, dear, Charles, how stu pid you are!" sighed Mrs. Dewsford. "I'll jump out and get it myself!" "Mamma!" remonstrated Lizzy. "Oh, I'll help her!" nodded Charley, springing nimbly on the cliff, and pulling Mrs. Dewsford by main force up the steep aide of the rock. "Here you are, ma'am 1" "Yes," panted Mrs. Dewsford; "but —but it wac very steep. I really think women should devote more attention to gymnastios. Ob, here's the Asplen ium—very choice specimens, too. Charles, where are you going?" For Mr. Everett had sprung back into the wagon. "Only for a littlo turn, ma'am, while you are collecting your botani cal treasures." "Yes; but, Charles—" Mrs. Dewsford's words of remon strance were drowned in the rattle of the wheel?, as Mr. Everett drove briskly away, with Lizzy nestling up at his side. One long lingering glance she gave after the departing pair, and then returned to her tin case and um brella. "They'll be baok presently," she said. But the afternoon sunlight faded oft from the cliff, and tho red orb of day sank majestically down behind the evergreen glens that bounded the wostern horizon, and Mrs. Dewsford grew tired and cross and rheumatic, and still, like the character of ro mance, "they came not." ' Something has happened 1" cried the prophetic soul ot Mrs. Dewsford. "It can't be possible that I shall have to stay here all night I" She looked nervously round. It was a tall, steep cliff whereon she stood, cut off from the woods beyond by the rush and roar of a wide and by no means shallow stream on one side, while on the other three it was almost perpendicular, rising some twenty -f<;et up from the road. Mrs. Dews ford began to feel, aa she surveyed it, very much like St. Simon Stylites on his column in the wilderness. "If they . shouldn't come," she thought. But at the samo instant a weloome rumbling of wheels broke the hushed stillness of the seldom traveled moun tain road, and Mrs. Dewsford's .strained eyes caught sight of Mr. *fVerett's spirited grays flashing round •Vo curve of the hill. VVell," she cried, "I never was morVthankful for anything in my life IV m tired to death waiting." "A#~V°u?" said Charles Everett, »she <svV-od the horses in the mid dle of \ad. "Yes.' vVhy don't you drive closer?" demanded Mrs. Dewsford. "Oh, did yt ,viy?t to drive home with us?" \ "Why, of course I did. I'd ha' been homo long ago if I could got off this place." "Well, rVam," eaid Charley, in ac cents of the coolest deliberation,while Lizzj clung, frightened and yet smil ing, to his side, "I shall be very happy to help you off the cliff on ono condition." "Condition! Charles Everett!" ex claimed the astonished and indignant matron; "what do you mean?" "Simply this, Mrs. Dewsford; I want to marry your danghtor. But Lizzy, like a too dutiful child, will not become my wife without your con sent." "Which she shall never have!" said Mrs. Dewsford, emphatically. "Very well, ma'am! Got up, Whitey," and he shook the reins. "You're not goinr «.u leave mo here?" shrieked Mrs. Dewsford, in a panic of trror. "Unless you comply with my condi tion, ma'am, I most certainly shall, " j "And that condition is—" "Your consent to my marriage with your daughter." "Elizabeth!" cried Mrs. Dewsford, "will you be a witness to this —this atrocious conduct and not inter fere?" "Charley won't let me have a voice in the matter, mamma, at all," said Lizzy, demurely. "He says he don't believe in women's rights." Mrs. Dewsford gave a hollow groan. Mr. Everett touched his horse slight ly with the whip. "Stop!" cried Mrs. Dewsford. "I consent —but it is under protest!" "You can protest all you like, "'said Mr. Everett, driving closer to the rook, and standing up to assist his mother-in-law-elect into the wagon. Silently Mrs. Dewsford entered the vehicle—silently she rode home— silentlv she crossed the threshold of her house, as became jTVconquered party. "To think," sho said in a hollow voice, as she sat down to a woman's universal solace, tea, "that after all my precepts and example Elizabeth should end her career by getting mar ried !" "Mamma," said Lizzy, timidly, "I don't think it is so very terrible, after all!"; "To think," sighed Mrs. Dewsford, paying no attention to hor daughter's reply, "that you should meet the fate of any ordinary woman !" "But, mamma, I never had any am bition to be an extraordinary wo man." Anil BO was brought to a termina tion the plots anil plans fdr a "model existence" which had bc<s>t formed for Mrs. DovsfordVdaughtor!—Now York News. Mysterious Thirteen Trees. Over a century ago, on tho upper West Side, in Now York City, at a spot known as Fort Goorge, but now a part of Harlem, Alexander Hamil ton, whoso breath was stopped by Aaron Burr's bullet, planted thirteen trees within a radius of thirteen squat e feet. Now they are sturily oaks, and a splendid object lesson in forestry. Although planted in tho knoll of an obscure hill, this bunch of timber attracts the attention of all who pass that way, whether they knaw its history or not. Like Ham ilton was, these trees are now—name ly, eccentric. One may face them from any angle, or range of vision, and count them, but by some hocus focus oue is sure to miscalculate their number, invariably falling short at least oue tree, a round dozen alone being visible. In order to accurately count the treeß in this big trunked maze one must scale the dilapidated fence sur rounding the oaks and count them ono by one, marking them in order to avoid a second error. You will then find that tho unlucky number is there. Hariemites who are acquaint ed with tho mystery frequently lay wagers with tho uninitiated. After rousing a Btranger's curiosity, they eagerly bet him liquid refreshments or money that he cannot count the Hamilton oaks correctly. They al ways win, of course. Then they take pride in telling tho loser how to play the game on others and get even. The thirteen trees were planted by Alex ander Hamilton to commemorate the original thirteen States.—Pittsburg Dispatch. "Insolent." From Paris comes an excellent story, though the flavor (as the Morning re marks) seems ancient. The other day a heavy rain storm converted the Rue Vivienne into a good-sized stream, to the despair of a great lady who was unable to oross the street. A power fully built young Englishman was passing at the time, and, seeing the embarassment of the lady, uncere moniously lifted her in his arms and set her down in safety on the other side. He saluted her, but the lady only thanked him by exclaiming "In solent 1" Whereupon the young Eng lishman, without saying a word, took the lady onoe more in his arms, car ried her to the pavement where he found her, re-saluted her, and walked off.—New York Journal. A Blind Mathematician, Professor John A. Simpson, of Ra leigb, N. C., blind from birth, has mastered mathematics "from addition to quaternions" mentally, has learned anoient and modern languages, and (ike many other blind people is a good muaioian. His blindness is without doubt the canse of his extraordinary mental development. It is thought that the too great use of pen and pa per or of slate and pencil to relieve the memory has a marked effect in cheoking mental growth. The indus trious blind, relieved of this check, often accomplish what the seeing re gard aa miracles.—New York World. Protection For Farmera. v> l/alue'ofsheep fmifc Ojmted Slates *\ jTeJffWuarg . 1892 oSS I99S' 1M 1 &onui)i«?T ; 'ioomitl«m • Ooliors;: xOollors - : ;;DoHors :Dollar Free Trade For Farmers. The South Not Sollrf. The South was not always "solid"— not always Democratic. It was bro ken on the tariff question, and will be again. Time was when the Sonth re fused to regard a "tariff for revenuo only" as its political Koran. A great upheaval, reaching beyond the silver agitation, is going on among a people who have passed through a fiery fur nace that soems to hava Vftjen required to make them even wiser, better and greater than they were before the war. Thirty years have sufficed move all old prejudices. Reconstruc tion is a thing of the past. The feai of "negro domination," which astute aspirants for office BO long held up ag tho "bogie" man to frighten and con solidate the people, has departed, and upon tho apex of all this gone and forgotten political lore we find agri cultural acd mineral development, aud a commercial impetus which will, ere long, astonish the North and the whole world with its effects and re sults. When tho issue of slavery came to dominate parties all else of politicf and economics iu the South departed, and for at least ten years before the war, and ever since, those things which have grown out of it have made the South "solid." There is a break ing up in North Carolina, in Soutb Carolina, in Louisiana, in Alabama, in Kentucky, iu Tennessee, and the whole South is on the brink of a po 1 itical volcano. This is not inexpli cable. The South desires to advan tage itself of progress, to share in th< Nation's development, and it "canno' hope to do that under the policy of * :! iarifl for revenue only." That pol icy has struck at sugar and rice, coa.' aud iron, and these products, agricul turai and mineral, are so powerful that their ramifications extend throughout almost every State and iota banking and business circles. Protection is a policy too broad to be limited by sectional lines, and its ad vocates are too liberal, just and gen erous to withhold its beneficent ef fects from any part of the country desirous of embracing tho advantages of that policy. Sveugall Mesmerizes Trilby, jnmes Buchanan's Idea. Speaking in 1812 in the Honso in favor of an increased duty on hemp to keep out foreign hemp and enoour age our Kentucky farmers, James Buchanan said that the inoreaned im port duty on hemp demonstrated that: "An additional duty was absolutely necessary to okeok its further prog ress, unless yon wish to give the grow ers of the article in Russia an exclu sive monopoly in preference to onr own farmers. The additional dnty is mod erate; it is no moie than a protective duty in favor of our own agriculture." There waa not a word said about plaoing dnty on agricultural prodnota for revenue, nor for "revenue only." Quite tbo reverse. Term■•••S 1.00 in Advance ; 11.25 after Three Months. The Cost ot Democracy. There have been already three bond Bales tinder the Cleveland Administra tion, amounting to over $160,000,000, ranging from nine and a half years to thirty years in length of time, when they will fall due, and bearing inter est at 4 and 5 per cent. The ehargo thus saddled upon the country by taking away the duties on imports which would have made the bond sales unnecessary-makes the fol lowing startling aggregate: Total Principal. Interest. ♦50,000,000 at 5 per ct., 10 years. $25,000,000 50,000,000 at 5 per ct.. years.. 23,000,000 62,815,400 at 4 per ct., 30 years.. 74,778,480 $162,315,400 $128,528,480 This makes a total oi principal and interest of $285,843,880, representing lees tbnn three years of Democratio meddling with the finances of the country, and immediately following an Administration under which tho National debt was being steadily re duced, the National reservo fund aug mented and unprecedented prosperity prevailing throughout the land.— The Irinh World. Tliey Know It Now. When the Republican party gets control again, as it will next year, with some Republican for President such as Reed or McKinley or some other man, we will take up that tariff yet and go over it item by item and make suoh amendments to it as will give reasonable protection to American labor and American industries as against foreign labor and foreign in dustries. The people of this never knew they wanted that sort of protection—they were never oertain'of it—until the Democrats, by mistake, got possession of this country two years ago.—Senator Cullom. Will Win as We Did Belore. Next year we will go before the peo ple as we did before. We will unfurl the banner of Republicanism, em blazoned with gold and silver, on which there shall be the words "Pro tection to American Industry and Pro tection to American Labor." Let us stand on the platform of tho Republi can party, and wo will again see the grand and magnificent State of Lin coln and of Qrant and of Logan wrest ed from Democratio misrule.—Gen eral Horace Clark. Follow This Example. Tho Consumption of home products and manufactures has been very effec tively agitated by the Manufacturers and Produoers' Association of Califor nia. This association has 850 State faotories affiliated with it, employing about 34,000 working people, and it believes in protection in its strongest form. Will Free Traders Explain 1 The open markets of the world seem to be oheoking the sales of Amerioan cattle, as we sold 1,870,000 head less last May than in May, 1894. A Chapter on Cheapness, Free trade does ohoapen the cost o' living by compelling cheapness in th< mode of living. A Kvsitun VoliMat: in Eruption. Tho Collmn voluano, Mexico, Is uga!n in A Mate of eruption, ami parties wlio arrived fron that district report that the inhabitants at tho foot of the mountain are fleeing for safety, as the molten lava Is pouring down Hie sides of the mountain and threatens to completely destroy all ihe crops and homes lu the rich valley below. NO. 52. GETTING TANGLED. SOMK FRIKNDS OK PROTKCTI JW I.KD FROM TIIK RIGHT TRACK. An Impracticable Idea That Cannot Pcneflt tlie American Farmer— Forests, Mines and Factories Must lie Included—Protection Has Kn« allied tlie Construction of Ameri can Steamers. Representatives of the Atlantic coast shipping interests met inPhila- 1 delpliia to take action toward "secur ing equitable protection, through National legislation, for ngriculture and shipping." the resolu tions passed was the following: Resolved, That sluce neither of the two great unprotected industries can derive any benefit from n tariff on imports, we call upon Congress to equalize the protection system by extending to agricultural staples and American shipping in the foreign trade that just measure of protection to which they are entitled, as long as protection is the controlling and public policy of this Nation, and that this he done by an export bounty on the staplesof agriculture and to Ameri can shipping in thn foreign trade, either by a bounty 011 tonage or a differential duty which shall discriminate in favor of American and against foreign ships, all to the end that a restoration may be brought about of our merchant marine and that the independent land-owning farmers of the Nation may not be driven into bankruptcy and ruin by the competition of the cheap land and iabor countries of the world. This resolution is incorrect. Both the agricultural and shipping indus tries can derive benefit from a tariff on imports. It was by a tar iff An,im ports, a diserirQi'i.«tLg tariff, that the American interests were once By a similar tariff, on imports, a discriminating tariff, Ameri can shipping interests can again be re stored. And we aro heartily in fa vor of the renewal of this policy, which is so simple and so thoroughly effective. To say that the agricultural indus tries of the country derive no boncflt from a tariff on imports is equally un true. What has been the experience of farmers who grow wool or hops, for instance? The necessity for a protec tive tariff on foreign farm products will become more and more apparent with each coming yenr as the farm supplies of India, Australia, South America and Russia increase in quan tity and seek markets for their surplus. We believe in p.iving both to agri culture and to shipping "that just measure of protection to which they ore entitled," but wo do not believo in doing so to the exclusion of the products of our forests, our mines or our factories, all of which were totally ignored by the shipping and agricul tural representatives at Philadelphia. But where would tho money come from to pay such a bounty? Our farm products are the finest in the world, as are the products of our shipyards, the manufactures of our shipbuilders. Mr. Charles H. Cramp, the great ship manufacturer of Phila delphia. does not believe it would be A good thing if tho United States wero a manufacturing country alone. We quite agree with Mr. Cramp and we aro glad that wo are able to produce almost every articlo of consumption that is a necessity and a comfort to our daily life. As Mr. Cramp well knows, we cau build in this country steamships second to none iu tho world. It is equally true of our sailing vessels. Tho idea that wo'cannot build iron vessels is rubbish. We have the iron and we havo the steel in abundance and of the best quality. It was not so much the superiority of the iron and steel vessels that caused tho English ship yards to give up building wooden ves sels as it was their inability to secure an abundant supply of tho proper kind of timber needed in shipbuilding at as low a cost as they could procure the iron and the steel. The English ship builders were looking for cheapness in construction. That was the gen eral reason why they abandoned wooden ships and gave the preference to those built of iron and steel. With out protection to our iron and steel interests Mr. Cramp would not to-day be able to manufacture tho splendid specimens of naval architecture o( which his shipping yards are capable. GOLD AND COAL IN ALASKA. ■'Eesir.t of (lie Kxum'natloii of the Field* by Covfriunent Geulofifits. He fleorgo P. Bwker, geologi.'t in cliargo if iv tii vision of tho Uti it till ftuitt's Geologic.il Survey, has returned from Alaska, where bo has linen making a survey ot t!i 1 gold and coal fields along the shore line. He was ac oo:npaniel by l)r. William 11. D.ihl, who went to make a special report <>n the coal fields. This is the first work that has ever been ilone by the Geological Survey im Alaska. Dr Becker says there is no doubt that Alaska is going to be an active mining re gion, but he does not believe it will rival tho California mining belt. The veins are not so large an I well developed as they are in that State. There has heen quite an excitement this summer among the placers at tho head of Cook's Inlet, but the amount or success thi& far achieved hardly warrants tha amount of interest exhibitoj. The profitable washings thus far aro confined to a few miles on Bear Creek which empties into Tumagan Arm. As to the coal deposits, the only coal found that seems likely to be of commercial value was at Cook's Inlet. It takes about twenty tons to do the work of one ton of Vancouver Island coal. Coal could be economically mined If the work was done on a large scale and with as much system as the coai mines of Western Pennsylvania are worked. The World'* Wheat. The Hungarian Government has Issued Its annual statement concerning the wheat trop of the world, which statement Is based On consular and other reports. The esti mated production of wheat importing coun tries is 749,422.000 bushels, and of exporting Sountries 1,651,701,000 bushels. Tha total fstlmated production Is 232.0W.000 busheld fess than the amended estimate of 189L A Itic.rcTe for a Princess. A bloycle manufacturing firm in New Mn™- laml Is constructing a machine for the PrlDCess Sfaud, of Wales, that is to be one of tho handsomest products of the wheeling craze. It will bo silver mounted and the appointments will he of the richest charac ter. A special messenger will accompany the bicycle to England whoso duty It will be to see to it thai {he Princosj reooivo3 tho ma chine nnlejiirod.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers