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.