SULLIVAN JUSFTI REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIV. Tho "scramble lor Africa" goes steadily on among the European Pow ers. Arizona is looming up as a honey producing Territory. The shipments this season will, it is estimated, bo not less than 123 tons. Tho remarkable growth of business is steadily illustrated by tho uctivity of tho railroads, especially iu tho South, West and Southwest sections. Chief Justice Fuller, of tho Uuitcd States Supreme Court, said tho other day in tho course of an interview: "If we want to live to a groen old ago we should stnj- in harness. The dry rot of aimlossuoss eats out existence." France reports -II) centenarians, all except sixty-six being womon. They are generally ahead in the tables of longevity, a fact sometimes explained, tho New York Tribune states, by tho superior tranquility of their lives, but this docs not hold good in the case of the women of France. By act of tho Legislature of tho State of Ohio a clay-workers' school has been established iu tho Ohio State University, where the chemistry, mechanism aud manual work ot every thing connected with clay industries is taught. Professor Orton is tho di rector of this school. Two rnoro slabs of stono inscribod with words and music havo been found in the Treasury of tho Athen ians at Delphiu by tho French. By using some of tho fragments previous ly discovered, a second Hymn to Apol lo, with its notes, has been put to gether. Tho dute is after tho con quest of Greece by tho Romans. Tho Creeks seem to havo used twenty-ono notes in their musicul notution, whero modern musicians use only twelve, A congregation iu Kansas seems to havo found a new way of raising funds for their church work, relates tho New York Independent. They have agreed to sow IGO acres of land with wheat, uud, ufter deducting a certain sum for rent, devoto the rest to pay ing church expenses. The members furnish teams, plows, laborers and seed, and expect to bo able to provido preaching for ovcry Sabbath from tho proceeds. It is claimed that the first trolley lino ever operated in America was opened at Richmond, Vu., in Febru ury, 1888. "Since then," says a writer iu the Eugiuoeriug Magazine, "'there have been putin operation iu England, Franco, Germany, Italy and the United States not loss than 700 electric railways, covering 7000 miles." This is a good beginning, but it is only a beginning. Tho capi tul a'ready invested in such roads is likely to bo doubled in the next twelve months, prediots tho New York World. Tho number of tho pioneer mission aries of tho early part of this century is fast diminishing, obsorves tho Now York Independent. Ono of tho latest togo is tho venorablo Dr. Dean, who sailod for Siam among the early Bap tist missionaries in 1831. Ho labored for many years at Bangkok and after ward at Hongkong, then again at Bangkok until 1881, when he returned to his nativo land. Dr. Dean gavo much attention to translation both of tho Bible and other books, and to tho writing of commentaries. Notwith standing his moro than fourseoro years, ho has boon well until within a fow weeks, when ho sufferod an ao oidont at tho ago of eighty-eight. This was more serious than had ho been a younger man; and ho died at San Diego, Cal. The Bureau of Animal Industry of tlio United States Department of Agrioulturo has, for the last fivo or six years, been experimenting upon the oonneotion botwoon tioks and tho Texan oattlo fever. In tbo blood of cattle affected by this disease thero is an infuiorian which quickly destroys tho red blood-oorpusolos, and tho samo infasorlan has also been deteoted in tho body of the tiok. It has boon repeatedly transferred from dlsoased animals to liealtky ones by moans of tbo tiok. Tho presence of this in fusorian is regarded as diagnostic oi tbo disoase, and, adds a writer in Nature, tho ofleot of its oorpusclc destroying powers is scon all over tho body, as well as iu tho rod-colored urine, giving tho name of "rod-water" to tho disease. Tho "louping-ill" or "trembling," of the north of Britain, has been traced by sorno directly to tho prosenoo of ticks upon the shocp; and tho samo may bo stud of a disease called "heart water" at tho Capo of Good Hope. It is quito |>onuiblo that certain other obsenrs eattlo diseases In different parti of tho world aro caused by tioks. HOPE. Wo sailed and sailed upon tho desert soa, Where for whole days we alone seemed to bo. At last we Haw a dim, vague Hue arise Between the lonely billows aud tho skies, Thut grew nnd grew until it wore the shape Of cove and inlet, promontory aud cape; Then hills and valleys, rivers, llelds and woods, Bteeples aud roofs, and village neighbor hoods. And then I thought, "Some tiuio I shall om bark Upon a sea more desert and more dark Than everthis was, aud between the sklos Aud lonely billows I shall seo arise Another world out of that waste and lapse, Like voudor land. Perhaps—perhaps— perhaps!" —W. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine. ABBIE COLEMAN'S NEPHEW -v—r 15BIE COLEMAN 112 'f\'\ was struugoly des // \\ titutoofkithorlciu. I \ \ *" r ,iU know f/L A A thcro was only one t,A V\ person iu tho world r " , A V whose veins ran red | with enough gon u'no Coleman blood eiititlo him to be it called a relative of rhcrs, and that was a half-unclo of her father's, who had l V >V — lon S sinoo passed » the allotted ago oi three score and ten and who was still lighting daily battles with his chronic aches aud pains for tho solo reason that Providence had never seen lit to let him die. On tho morning when she was thirty two Miss Coleman thought sorrowfully of the unmerited plaguo that had swept away her kinfolk, aud more thau one tear rolled off tho end of h3r nose and plashed iu tho cup of lukewarm tea that stood on tho table before her. Sho liuully swallowed tho last drop of tho concootion of Oolong and waters of Mnrab, at tho same time drying her eyes with tho corner of her white linen handkerchief, that she might make Nurc of tho identity of the messenger boy wbo came slowly up tho walk and round the corner of tho house to the door of tho dining room, wbich oc cupied tho front portion of the north L. 110 had a telegram for Miss Abbie. That worthy lady had learned to look upon telographio communications us the most potent disturbers of tho pub lic peaco that wero allowed unbridled circulation throughout the land; per haps she had well grounded reasons for BO regarding them when it was taken in consideration that every ouo sho had ever received had notified her of tho death of another Coloaiau. So that day she let fho yellow envelope lie on the tublo whero tho boy had put it and eyed it suspiciously for soveral minutes after he had gouo. Consol iug herself at last, however, with tho thought that there was only one more Coleman to die except herself, sho opened it aud read : "Dear Aunt—Will arrive at 10.30 over tho Wabash roud. Your loving nephew, "TOM COLEMAN." Sho pinched herself as sho had been wont to do in childhood days to as suro herself that she wat not drcamiug and then she read it again. A second reading necessitated a second pinch ing. That reviving process having been brought to a satisfactory ter mination, sho called in tho man-of-all work, who was trimming roso bushos just outsido tho window and proooeded to lay tho matter before him, iu the hope that both bruius in conjunction might evolve somo plausible solution of the strange message. "John," she said, holding tho tele gram out for inspection, "I havo just hearl from my nephew Tom." John laid down Lis pruning knife, which ho had unwittingly carried into tho houso, and removed his hat. "Havoyou, ma'am?" ho said quiot b'- "Yes, " sho returned, "he will be here this morning at half-past ten." John shifted his hut quickly from ono hand to auother and looked at MiHtj Abbio woiuleriugly. "I didu't kuow you had such a thing as a nephew," ho said at lougth, his curiosity gettiu K tho best of hiiu. "1 vo been hero fiftu un years come next month and duriu K that timo I havo sceu cvorybody dio oft that was any known rclution to yju. NVhuro's ho from." Miss Abbio guvo vent to her emo tion iu a shrill little laugh. "You Uuow as much about him us I ilo, Johu," she said, confidentially. "I never heard of him before in my lifo. Of course, I liuva uo uophew, never did have 11 uophew and never can have a uophew, but what um Ito do? There is uo other Abbio Colo man within 11ftv miles of here, so, of course, the telegram is mcaut for no. In soiuo way this young fellow has githered up u scrap of my history, aud the only way I can get oven is to iuvostiguto his pedigree in return. Anyway, it will bo n comfort to shake hands with a young man who has for a tiino supposed to bo my bona-llde relative. Let '.ho rose bushes alono this inorniug, .T\ho, aud got ready to drive down to the Ration aud moot him." \ The 10.20 traiu over tho x Wabash road was three miuutes nbead\| tj mo that day aud when Miss Ool<y nu ' 8 man, who was five miuutes later lie had intended to be, drove upV Iho uupaiutcd wooden station, thai only persona left in sight were tho sta tion master uud a middle-aged gentle man, who seemed to be harassing that crusly olHcial with numerous unwel come questions about the topography of the country thereabouts aud the menus of reaching uuy desired djsti uatiuu. 'There's Miss Colemau's man now," »ni<l tho station master, locking the door aud throwing tho mail saok LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1895. across his slioulder. "He can toll you whatever you want to know," liocalled back, as he started down the road toward tho village, "and maybe give you a lift iu tho bargain." | John drew the horses up besido the platform, where the stranger sat,lean ing against tho wall 'of tho station, and clambered out of the wagon. "Aro you Mr. Tom Coleman?" ho naked, producing tho tolegram as ho would a letter of introduction aud handing it to tho other as an evidence of good faith on his part. The man took off his hat, brushed back his grayish-brown hair and nod ded. Then, as if fearing that that silent acknowledgment of his identity was insutlicient demonstration, he added: "Yes, I am. Who aro you?" "I'm the general manager of Mies Abbie's place," John answered, with a touch of resentment at the brusquo ness of the speakor. "She sent mo down to meet you. Aro you roody !" For answer the gontleman climbed up to tho seat besido the driver, uud twenty minutes Inter ho followed John up the path to the hall door; it was as a gravo dignified exponent of an old-school politeness that he met Miss Abbio on the threshold. "My dear aunt," ho said, taking both her hands in his and drawing her toward him. "I um glad to seo you. Cun you honestly say as much?" Thut clannish little wjman's lonely heart was lillod to overllowiug with tho joy of having some one who called V self by tho family name come into her lifo and greet her uffectionately, and her ever-ready tears trickled down on his strong white hand. "Ah," she cried, forecottiug that she had no nephew, never did have a nephew and never could have a nephew. "You are welcome, indeed. I am more than glad to seo you." At dinner, when Tom Coleman sat opposite his new found aunt, he had au opportunity to study her mi nutely. "JJj you know, Auut Abbie," he said, ruefully, "it makes me feel like an overgrown schoolboy to adlress you so. I had you all pictured c in my mind. You were to bo at least tifteen years my senior, and I am forty. Yet here I find you still in tho thirties, and as pretty aud fresh look ing as a girl iu her teens. 1 can't ac count for it. Had I not already known that you wero much youngor thau my father, and only a half-sister, I would think 1 had made a mistake and got switched off on a eido some where." Miss Abbie's face flushod and slio was on tho point of making a confes sion of her povorty]strioken condition, so far as blood relations were con cerned, but tho delusion of fancying herself communing with some one bound to her by ties of naturo wast sweet aud she hugged it to her heart and let tho inistuko drift on for future reparation. "There are many things I want to know about my father's family," he said to her that ovoning, "and you, of course, are tho one I look to to straighten out tho tangle of circum stances that has been voxing me for several mouths. When are you ready that each of us should turn biogra pher?" "Not yet," she said, hastily. "If there arc any unpleasant aud unan swerable questions troubling you put them aside aud let thiugs tako their own course for a time. We will con sider them by-and-by." "I bow to your superior judgment, my dear aunt," he said, with mock humility. "When, iu your opiuion, the proper time has arrived, lot mo know." 11 was two weoks before ho broached the subject again. "I ought togo away to-myrrow or tho next day,"he commenced abrupt ly one evening, when they sat ou tho stops watching John at work among tho rose bushes, "and before I leavo I think it only just thut you enlighton mo ou the family history in general, but perhaps I ask that you will con sider it a poiut of honor that I take the initiative and toll you what I know of my father after his family lost sight of him. I should have done this in tho beginning, but you willromomber that my attempts to lead up to any such u conversation wore discouraged by you." lie paused. "Yes," she murmured, "I remom metnber. do on." "I liavobut little to toll, audi filial any tliut without auy attempts at rhe torical embulishment. I was bora in l ho far West. When I wus less than a yen old my father died. My mothor lived but u short timo uftor that and I was brought up—if bringing up you could call It—by hor people, who had moved to a neighboring town the year before. From somebody, 1 presumo it was my fatlier, I had inherited con siderable iudependuuoo uud ambition, and as soon as I was old enough I commenced to try to m*ke for myself a way in tho world. How far I have succeeded you oan perhaps bo the best aiul most impartial judge. It was ouiy within the lait few years that I auy auy active interest iu lilk father's family. One day I asked ite old woman who had been my noighbor aud closest friend if Vo had ever heard either of my paruutWty auy thing about hittlifo before lie eiVi West, and who told IUO that just proVWj to his death ho had spoken to of a Judge in St. Louis to wlrv\ ahe could write if W>ho ever found or oxpo >tjut to make auyV about his l' a \ There was hope that tho V,a g o was if e0 he could J™ fo *;d, but relying V that slight bit of Vuformatiou, 1 at work. Strange K gtl y ( ij 0 was stfl-'\>ll known iu St. liutys, although retirod from activi iij e . All ho cJuj tell me was that niWathcr hud liv\ iu tho southern p»n<>f this State ; \at ho had been had run aw\f roni home when only a boy. His father married again after several years and they had issue—a daughter named Abbie. I followed up branch after branch of tho Coleman family, but nowhere could I find a woman with such a praenomen. At last I heard of you and straightway started to soe you. Guided by somo strange and perhaps unpardouablo impulse I tele graphed you tho news of my oxpocted arrival withot. taking time to notify you in a more formal manner of my existence and discovery of your where abouts. So here I am, your wayward nephow, ready to atone, so far as it is pof"''ilo, for my own transgressions a' uoso of my fnthorß." >hn had fnushod his work, aud for sf oral minutes after Torn ceased talk it g they looked out in silence over the garden of rose bushes and tho fruit orchards boyond. "I thank you for your confidence," she said at length, catching her breath betweou words, as if choking with somo sudden emotion. "You havo made a mistake. I knew it from tho first, but for my own sake I did not like to undecoivo you. My father and mother both died when quito young, as did my two little brothers. I never had a relative who could possibly havo boon connected in any way with your people. I know it when your telegram came, but I told John wo would find out who you really wore. Then after you came it seomed very hard to set tho mutter straight. You seo, I havo been so lonely sometimes," she said in a tone of self justification, "and you cannot know what a comfort it was to me cvou to claim relation ship with scmo ono who only funciod I was his aunt. I am very sorry I let you drift on and on in your false im pression so long. Of course, I saw it would all havo to corno out sc" time. Pray forgive mo." "My dear aunt," ho said with a laugh, "for so I shall continue to call you iu spit 3 of tho absurdity of tho title wheu applied to you by me, I cunnot blamo you. I should not have plunged into tho mat ter headfirst as I did. In spite of tho mistake, I do not seo why our rela tionship should be counted a thing of the past. I shall leave to-morrow, but is it necessary that I stay away?" "Certainly not," she answered. "You will always be welcome." Ilia interests demanded his presonoo iu many places and John was trim ming the rose bushos tho next summer wheu ho came agaiu. "I found out the truth of tho case during my absence," ho explained, when ho again brought up tho old sub ject of their relationship. v My father's sister Abbio died wheu only a little child. The samo scythe that has laid your own house low seems to havo reaped a rich harvest in mine as well. Wo aro tho only Colomans loft in which either of us has any interest. Do you think it well that we should spend our livos apart?" Sho looked at John, who was toiling patiently over a refractory trailing roso bush, and then sho glanced up at him. "I don't know," sho said, naively. "How can it bo helped?" He laugliod agaiu. "By marrying your loviug nephew, Tom," was tho prompt reply.—Chi cago News. A II ll man Autograph Album. A singular modical fruak has boon exhibited before the Clevclaud (Ohio) Modical Society. Tho subject, whoso uuiuo is Brokaw, aud who works iu a steel mill, is tweuty-four years of ago and fiuoly developed physically. He went to Dr. Aldrich a few days ago to have his lungs examined, aad as the pliysiciau tapped and hammered ou his brawny chost he presently noticed that little elevations and ridges were appearing everywhere ho struck. Amazement succeeded interost as tho doctor discovered iu a few minutes that tho man's whole breast was swol len and angry looking. Uo was in formed that that oonditiou had long existed and that tho effects of irritut ing tho skin in like manner lasted sometimes for hours. Whou tho pa tient was placed on exhibition before tho socioty a letter, which had been impressed upon his arm during the afternoon, was still visible. Homo of tho physioiaus experi mented with match sticks until tho man's back was a veritable autograph album in ombossed letters. Brokaw said ho was in perfect health and that this peculiar sensitiveness caused him no troublo, the only sonuation boing a slight burning. Letters and words written upon him during tho time tho society was in session appeared witb distinctness whou ho retired from tho room.—Philadelphia Record. Wantuil to Steal Cam ot Steel Bails. A Chicago man undertook to steal eight car loads of steel rails, which wero stacked up at Grand Island, Nob. lie chartered tho curs uud began to load tbo rails in tho night, but the station agent soon found what was go ing on, uud tbo game was up. If tho man had succeeded in getting tho rails away from Grand Island he would huvo had an elephant ou his bauds, tor ho nover could have found a purchas er, and would have certainly been caught. Such things are too easy to trace. One can hardly believe that Chicago has such a fool.—Now Or leans Picayune. Stone Sawing. Did you know that stone can bo cut with a taw, and marble, too? Tho saws look very liko tho big saws used iu steam saw mills, but uro heavier. Perhaps whou you know that it takes ouo hour to out through eight iuchos of stone you will roulizo what a hard substance it is. A man iu Philadel phia has invented a saw which roooutly out through a stone ten foot long and two feet thiok iu forty-live minutes, so that a great gain has boon made iu stono aawiug, -—The Outlook. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Strayed—A Veteran—The Mother ot Invention—Misunderstood—Possi bility of Itoostcrs, Ktc., Etc. Mf ry liiul u llltlo lßmb, It followed her ennh duy, Till Mary put the liloomers on • And thou it run iiwny. —Louisiana Times. A VETERAN. Lawyer—"The cross-examination Jidn't seom to worry you a little bit. Have you bail any previous experi ence?" Client —' 'Six children." —BrookJyn Life. • THE MOTHER OP INVENTION. "What yo be pullin' off tho pig's tail fer, Maudy?" "Well, you seo tho dinner horn'n broke, and my voice ain't Btroug enough to reach where tho hands are, so I hit on this .idea."— Harper's Ba zar. MISUNDERSTOOD. Boarder (suspiciously)- "There is no foreign substance in this coflee, is there?" Landlady—"Um—or —well, _ I'm afraid there is, sir. The spoon it is a souvenir from Indio, I believe."— Detroit Freo l'ress. POSSIBILITY OF ROOSTEIH. At tho gardener's: Lady—"What are these little green plants?" Gardener—"Eggplants, muni." Lady—"Well, now, if I should buy some and set them out aro you sura they'll lay?"— Chicago Record. Ills DEEP-SEATED TROVBLE. "Doctor, kin yer prescribe for a sick feller fer nothin'?" "What's the matter with you?" "Indigestion." "Overeating?" "Naw; nothin' in me utuinick to digest!"— Chicago Record. THOSE SENSELESS YUESTIONS. •'Whoso funeral is that?" "Charley Hockcrsmith's." "What! Is Charley deal?" "Oh, no! It is his twin brother who is dead, but as Charley is a bach elor and his brothor has a wifo and four small children, Charley prevailod upon them to bury him in his broth cr'u stead.Nov Yoiii World. NOT A BOM II AHUM EST. Kissam—"Has her papa over tired you?" Higgins—"He has never resorted to bombarilment. His tactics are more iu tho nature of a passive blockade." "How is that?" "When I call to seo his daughter, ho remains in tho parlor during the whole of tao interview." —Detroit Froo Press. WOMAN'S PEEKS. Tho new woman prisoner looked jver the jury of gentlemen in the box. ".May it pleaso the court," sho said with great hauteur, "I desire to bo tried by a jury of my peors." "That is impossible, madam, I am sorry to say," replied tho gallant judge. "This court hasn't tho power to summons angels to serve on juries. —Detroit Freo I'ress. HE COULD BE TRUSTED. "Do you think, sir," said tho ftirl's mother, "that you have tho patienco and forbearance to bo a kind hus band?" "Madam," ropliod tho young man, in oarnest tones, "I can put a four teen and a half stand-up collar on a number flftoeu shirt without saying a single strong word." And sho consented to tho match at once* —Household Words. ONE OF THE UNITED STATED. Miss" . Upid—"How many States aro thei , Mr. Jester?" Mr. Jester—"Forty-four, I think, without couutiug matrimony." Miss St. Upid—"Matrimony?" Mr. Jestor—"Yes; it's ono of the unitod states, you know." Miss St. Upid—"No-u, I didn't know, but they've admitted so many lately that 1 never can romomber ali thoir names."—Harper's Bazar. IT STOOD THE TEST. A public writer had a partition wall fixed up in his study, aud ordered tho carpentor to made it in such a way that no sound could jienetrate through it. "The best thing will bo to 1111 it iu with shavings," said the muu, and set to work. When ho had finished his employer went aud stood on ouo sido ot the par tition and called out to the man, who was on the other side : "Do you hear me, Jautke?" "No, sir!" was tho prompt reply. MR. BIOOL'S ACCUSTOMED AWAKENINO. "How do you mauago to wake up so early every uioruing?" inquired Hoggs of his friond Biggs, who goes to work at 0. "Alarm clock," replied Biggs. "I have one, too, but I never hear it go off." "I never hoar mine, either," de clared Biggs. "Then how in tho world do you wake upt" "My wifo wakes mo up every morn ing saving: 'For goodnosu' sake, get up anil stop the alarm on that clock I It will arousj the neighborhood.' By the time I am awake it has stopped. ' -Ban Francisco Post. Terms—9l.oo in Advance; $1.25 after Three Months. j. CAI'IUJIIHtt TIIE MARKETS OF TIIE WOULD. IB9M- 1895 iTlcKinley TdriJJ' THEORY SMASHER. FACTS OK TRADK DISPROVE DEMOCRATIC ASSERTIONS. Larger Imports Consist Entirely of Ooods Wo Can Manufacture— Fewer Goods In Crude Condition to Help Hoine Industry—Decrease Iu Our Purchasing Power. Comparing tho 1895 year's imports, during which tho Gormnn tariff was in forco for ten months, with tho full twelvo months' imports of 1892 aud 1893, the Gormau tariff imports are iu somo cases larger thau thoso for 1892, and in other instances larger than tho imports for 1893, and some times greater than the figures given for both of thoso two MoKinley pro tection years. When considering tho effect of tho present lower tariff, it should be remembered that in 1892 aud eurly in 1893 tho bulk of tho peoplo were far more prosperous thau they are to-day and consequently wero hotter able to pay for the luxury of foreign goodt.. Now the lower tarifl permits the larger quantities of im ports at such low prices as enable keen competition with our own manufac turers and interference with thoir business in our home market, the people not being able to afford to purchase BO many articles of voluntary uso aud luxury as they did in 1892 aud 1893. This fact is very evident from ft comparison of such imports as fol lows : MROUIS OK AHTICI.ES OF VOLONTAII* USE, IjUXUBItH, ETC. 1892. 1893. IS!>5. Valuo $104,704,252 (>125,855,541 $93,255,730 Diiriug the year just ended, to Juno 30, 1895, wo bought over $11,500,000 worth loss of articless of voluntary use, luxuries, eto., than in 1892, and $32,000,000 less than in 1893. Turning next to our imports of nr ticles manufactured and ready for consumption, articles that enter di rectly iuto competition with tho prod ucts of our own factories, we find that we bought $5,300,000 worth more in 1895 than in 1893, an increaso of 2.32 per cent, of all imports, while the in crease was 2.97 per cent, ovor tho 1893 figures. If wo look at those imports of ar ticles in a crude condition, or which wore wholly or partly manufactured for use in our mechanic arts, we fiud that in both cases they were less in 1895 than in 1893 and 1892, tho exact Qguroß being: In orude condition in 1892, $204,- 093,990; for use in mechanic arts in 1892, $83,200,471; in orudo condition in 1893, $220,711,989 ; for use in inc chauio arts in 1893, $98,753,902; in crude condition iu 1895, $191,119,810; for use in mechanic arts in 1895, $73,- 650,655. In 1895 wo imported nearly $13,- 000,000 worth less of articles in a crudo condition than wo did in 1892 and $35,000,000 worth less thau in 1893, Of artlclos for uso iu the me chanic arts wo imported to tho oxteut of $9,550,000 less in 1895 thau iu 1892 and over $25,000,000 less thau ill 1893. These values show that tho Gormau tariff has been a hindrance to our manufacturers in supplying them with an abundance of cheap raw or partly finished material, and it has been a hindrance to thein in supplying the demands of the-homo market because our imports ot articles, manufactured and ready for oonsutnptior, have been of greater valuo eveu than they were in 1892, whon our übility to puroli**) them was so much greater. Mar Yet Succeed. Tho last change iu tho law was evi dently inteuded to lift wooleu goods out of tho rango of politics by com pletely annihilating tho domestic in dustries.--Textile Manufacturer*' Jou rnal. Projection lor Cotton. One of tho Now Eugland cot to a mills has not useiT a pound of Ameri can ootton within tro year*. It is not surprising that our cotton planters •ro beginning to bestir themselves for yruteotioa NO. 1. Vlhy Times Are Belter. Republicans rejoice in all evidences of returning prosperity. Tho busi ness interests of the country were strickod down by tho success of Mr. Cleveland on a platform demanding tlio immediate overthrow of the pro tcctivo system, and at the head of a party which had shown its friendship iu every way to freo silver coinage. The Democrats of tho House of Repre sentatives, as soon as called togother by Mr. Cleveland, began work on a bill under the supervision of Mr. Wilson designod to carry out thoir platform. It was passod by tho House, but the Senato substituted another bill for it, which, under the lead of Mr. Gorman, tho Democratic manager in that body, changed tho Wilson bill into an irregular and unsysteuiatio protection measure. Business did not revive after that bill was passed be cause the froe trade and ruling clo inent in the Democratio party de nounced it as a base botrayal of prin ciple, and declared that at the lirst opportunity further steps would be taken toward free trade. Last Novem ber the people had a chauce to ex press their opiuion, and they did so iu a way that showed that there would be no more free trade legislation for a long time to coirc. Then manufac turers add other business men felt safe in making some calculations for the future, and business began to revive. The indications aro that we will have good orops and iair prices, and good crops and fair prices help the revival that the Republican victories started. The Republicans promised last fall that times would begin to improve if their causo was indorsed by the people, and tho promise has been carried out. Times aro better, but they are not wholly good, and will not bo until Republicans aro putin full charge of the administration If Government allairs.—Louisville Com mercial. Increase the Home Market. Under tho systom of diversified labor whioh Andrew Jackson, who was at heart a sound protectionist, would promote, the country might regard good crops with moro complacency and satisfaction. When farmers hear of the immense com and spring wheat crops that nro expected they wonder what the price will be. The mere chance circumstance of a shortage in the European yield alone prevents wheat from falling to tho low prices thut wero current last winter and spring. Tho prices would be still moro ruiuous had not home industries provided that home market which the founders of tho Republic BO earnestly desired. If we produood at homo tho products whioh we needlessly buy abroad, corn, wheat and moat would command better aud steadier prices than under tho free trade policy whioh would iuako this country so de pendent upon tho European markets. Those Markets in llaugcr. The establishment of a cottou mill in China, and tho fact that it is prob* ably tho precursor of mauy othors, indicates the possibility that the manu facture of cottou goods will be greatly shifted in a few years by cuttiug off tho markets in mauy parts of tho world that have hitherto bceu dependout on the product of English aud American mills.—Boston llorald. Free Trade Means No Work.
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