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>
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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.